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IRANIAN & MIDDLE EAST SHORT FILMS

Sheida Kermani MY DOG’S NEEDS COME FIRST (Iran, 5 minutes)
Arash Nezhad UNINTERRUPTED (Iran, 6 minutes)

IRANIAN & MIDDLE EAST FEATURE

Hadi Ghazanfari THE CARD PLAYER (Iran, 100 minutes)
The Card Players is a film inspired by Paul Cézanne’s works, consisting of four episodes:
Venus (Diamonds) – A character with a deep connection to objects.
Grafting the Vine (Clubs) – A painter in a garden, focused on plants.
Grapes (Spades) – A young man surrounded by cats, involved in crime, seeking change.
Bitter Wine – A brief encounter between an art dealer and a woman from the previous episode.
Each episode explores different themes and symbols.

ALTFEST

Maria Lunardelli STEPS OF FEAR (Brazil, 2 minutes)
Richard Daniels SKIN SHOW / LIVE (USA, 12 minutes)

SHORT FILMS

Zach Shinske DENISE PRESENTS (USA, 5 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)
Alec Gutherz NOWHERE GOOD (USA, 15 minutes)
Mikheil Gabaidze VASOMOTOR RHINITIS (USA, 15 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

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

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

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.

FEATURE

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..