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IRANIAN & MIDDLE EAST SHORT FILMS

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IRANIAN & MIDDLE EAST FEATURE

Amir Lashkari HUMANLIKE (Iran, 90 minutes)
The film was shot in Iran and featured a group of young, talented actors from Iranian theater as well as two famous film actors.
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Maria Lunardelli STEPS OF FEAR (Brazil, 2 minutes)
Olivia Hamilton THE CLOSET (USA, 5 minutes)
Richard Daniels SKIN SHOW / LIVE (USA, 12 minutes)
Lon Takiguchi THE WORLD OF JAMES GAGMY (USA, 15 minutes)

SHORT FILMS

Zach Shinske DENISE PRESENTS (USA, 5 minutes)
Jason Mizwa CLOWNDOWN (USA, 7 minutes)
Olivia Andrade REX (USA, 9 minutes)
Tenley  Eakin Raj BEFORE THE FREEZE (USA, 9 minutes)
Folashade Ojora THIS CAN’T BE (USA, 9 minutes)
George Carrillo T-DAY (USA 9 minutes)
Alec Palumbo THE GALLERY (USA, 10 minutes)
Ramona Parrotta MAURICE (USA, 14 minutes)
Alec Gutherz NOWHERE GOOD (USA, 15 minutes)
Mikheil Gabaidze VASOMOTOR RHINITIS (USA, 15 minutes)
Carlos Ospina A LAS 9 ES LA CITA (Columbia, 18 minutes)
John Fraser OLD TIMES IN TENNESSEE (USA, 43 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Adrienne Acquaye HOMECOMING: A JOURNEY TO GHANA (USA, 40 minutes)
Ambarien Alqadar LAND OF DREAMS (USA, 40 minutes)
Maciej Adamek UNSPOKEN (USA, 40 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Guillaume Mazille THE RIVER AT THE BOTTOM OF MY GARDEN (France, 86 minutes)
In a paradisiacal river in Southern France, a world-travelled cinematographer stranded by Covid films a poetic and introspective movie in relationship with the animal life around his home. But soon, a drought imperils the river source, threatening the very existence of the animals he has grown to love. Will formidable power of life conquer?

Sebastian Lasaosa Rogers FREEING JUANITA (Guatemala, 74 minutes)
Juanita has been unjustly detained in Reynosa, Mexico for over seven years, accused of a crime she didn’t commit and forced to confess in a language she didn’t understand. This intimate portrait follows Ana and Pedro, Juanita’s aunt and uncle, on their thousand-mile journey from the highlands of Guatemala.

James Evans BROWN & BONDED (USA, 87 minutes)
This film follows the struggle and triumph of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color [BIPOC]. Abandoned by Animal Welfare these families remain Brown and Bonded against the odds. Leslie, a retired Baltimore police officer, is a devoted Great Dane rescue mom with over 30 years experience with large dog breeds.

FEATURES

David Trevino ESTO ES TODO (Mexico, 78 minutes)
In 2009, a group of film students, stefy, ernesto, and henry, are working on a school project: a music video. the video is quite poorly produced, but during the edition, they realize they’ve inadvertently..
Rafa Duna ORO DE SOTIEL CORONADA (Spain, 120 minutes)
Staunch Moderates’ MISSION PEACE 2 picks up where MISSION PEACE 1 left off, at the beginning of 2021: chronicling the movement’s evolution from a pandemic-era news source into a producer of music, film and videos distributed across a wide range of platforms, earning the group more than 200 million views and streams.

Lenny Gaito LOVE LIVES ON (USA, 213 minutes)
An old-school Sicilian disowns his unwed daughter for getting pregnant. Twenty-three years later, his granddaughter reunites the family.