Aisha Amin
Simone
How can a mother navigate New York’s architecture when it is in direct conflict with her?
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Katie Colosimo
Something You’ve Never Told Me
Long-time friends face escalating tensions and rivalry during a weekend getaway at a secluded vacation home, culminating in a competitive, booze-fueled night after bringing a local barback home.
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Caroline Creaghead
Relationship to Patient
A woman arrives at the hospital to visit the man she’s dating, but in navigating her way to his bedside she begins to question whether she really belongs there.
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Kayla Abuda Galang
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
Walker Kalan & Mauricio Sierra
CIELA
An impressionistic fable, seen through the eyes of a young outcast (Ciela) with a vivid imagination, who forms a secret friendship with an octopus.
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Kiubon Kokko
Holding On To Water
In 1973, my father escaped the Chinese Cultural Revolution by swimming to Hong Kong. Through two long conversations, I finally learned his story.
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István Kovács
A Siege (Ostrom)
1994, Sarajevo. No water, no electricity nor food in the town under siege.
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Lucy Knox
Hot Mother
A mother and her daughter are going through a very stressful time together.
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John Lee
First Night
A newly immigrated Korean father goes into a deli trying to order food for his family.
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Linh Trần
Video Funeral
Lam, a Vietnamese international student, welcomes her younger sister, Phuong, to her Chicago apartment. Phuong brings a DVD of their father’s funeral, which Lam could not attend.
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