Fluent by Christmas
Nir Darom | Israel | 2015 | 17 m 38 s Hebrew with English Subtitles As he comes to America from Israel and starts learning English, a young boy also grapples with a cultural reality very different from his own. Cast Ben Darom
Hoda’s Story
Johan Eriksson | State of Palestine | 2015 | 57 m 39 s Arabic with English Subtitles Twelve years in the life of a girl in Gaza who was blinded by a bullet. On 1 March 2003, 12-year old Hoda Darwish is hit in the head by a bullet while sitting at her desk in an elementary school… Read more »
Into the Hinterlands
Julia Yezbick | United States | 2015 | 39 m 6 s Facebook The Hinterlands, a Detroit-based performance ensemble, practice a form of training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown – a space both physical and imaginary. Their practice is one of concentrated play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of… Read more »
My Dream
Abdullah Abudiak | Jordan | 2014 | 8 m 46 s “My Dream” is a short documentary film talking about the right to play for children in poor governorates in Jordan and showing the other side of the capital how kids they play there.
Oneida Soldier
Christian Garzone | United States | 2016 | 28 m It was nearly a 40-year slide with PTSD and alcohol abuse before Myron Webster decided to walk through the doors of the Milwaukee VA Medical Center for help. Distraught over the Veterans Affairs he knew and rejected in 1973 after returning from Vietnam, Myron was reluctant to ask for… Read more »
A Life Well Played
Rene Erickson | United States | 2016 | 29 m 53 s Facebook What would it be like to do exactly what you wanted with your life? Just ask Reynold Philipsek… Explore the life, music and motivation of eclectic guitarist and prolific composer Reynold Philipsek in this documentary portrait, A Life Well Played. Reynold shares stories… Read more »
Return To Rivne: A Holocaust Story
Wolfgang Els | Austria | 2015 | 22 m 30 s Shelly Weiner and Raya Kizhnerman live in Greensboro, NC. But these two kindly grandmothers were born in the bustling city of Rivne—then in Poland, now in Ukraine. In 1941 20,000 Jews lived in Rivne, but when the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS stormed into town, they… Read more »
Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction
Theresa DeSalvio | United States | 2016 | 17 m 17 s Facebook Through allegorical imagery and straightforward narration, this tale chronicles Pinocchio’s addiction to heroin and its consequences on his life.
The Opossum Begins
Rick Medina | United States | 2015 | 19 m 45 s Facebook The opossum, or “tlacuache” as many in the Rio Grande Valley know, is a misunderstood nocturnal animal, but for Brownsville, Texas native Aaron Moses it was a source of inspiration. Moses is the creator of a comic book entitled “The Opossum,” where its nocturnal superhero… Read more »
Waiting for the (T)rain
Simon Panay | France | 2015 | 24 m 59 s French with English Subtitles A small village lost in a dusty desert in Burkina’s bush. Two times a week passes the train. Various food items and water bottles thrown by the passengers while passing by constitute the main income of the village, and the only source of… Read more »