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Dir. A. Stephen Lee

Manila, July 7, 2009. As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout The Philippines despite terrorist attacks in the south, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to impress his father. 

Dir. Barbara Cigarroa

Living in hidden America, Paula, a Mexican farmworker, struggles to raise two children on her own. When a new caravan arrives on the cramped lot they live on, Paula allows herself, and her children, to imagine the home is theirs—a fantasy highlighting the fragility of her reality and her family.

Dir. A. Stephen Lee

A young boy comes to comes to understand that his enigmatic father is a gambling drifter who loiters in laundromats listening to coin change machines that sound like casino slots.

Dir. Lena Tsodykovskaya

When Mags, a former NASCAR wife, doesn’t get a call from her deadbeat son on Mother’s Day, she must search for him amidst his troubles with a gang of teen dune buggy racers in the desert. Mags must enter the lion’s den to rescue her son and set things straight once and for all.

Dir. Yudho Aditya

A gay Muslim teen living in rural Indonesia struggles between the traditions of his upbringing and his romantic idealization of the freedom of the west.

Dir. Yudho Aditya

Peter Epstein-Takahashi is popular with a certain female classmate, but he’s concerned about his, er, endowment. Who else to turn to for advice but his two gay dads? They may not be quite prepared to handle the situation Peter presents.

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Dir. Mica Coburn

An introvert tries to enjoy her friend's surprise party as she is forced into social situations which make her turn into a literal fish out of water.

Dir. Mica Coburn

After the pressure to perform ruins a musician's big break, he returns to his roots in the subway to get re-inspired.