On the eve of her thirteenth birthday, Esther Weary must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman through her clueless grandfather and his pet pug. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me is a coming-of-age comedy about a young woman’s exploration of...
Awkward 11-year-old, Nesma, is at odds with the world around her since she began caring for her father’s pigeons after his death. Already facing pressure from her mother to get rid of the birds and continuing a bitter rivalry with the boy across t...
A sleepwalker’s sense of identity is turned inside out after tracking her nighttime journey with surveillance cameras.
Screening in Shorts Program: After Words
Fifteen-year-old Tsi-An has fallen in love with her ping pong coach, who happens to be her best friend's father. She asks for private lessons with the hope of getting close to him.
Alone in a brightly lit studio, a ballerina recalls her old choreography, leaping and spinning in front of an invisible audience in Prima.
Screening as part of the Shorts: Escape Clause program.
Why did The New York Times, a Jewish-owned newspaper, bury reports of The Holocaust during World War II? Through interviews with historians, journalists and a Holocaust survivor, this film encourages audiences to re-evaluate America’s role as “The...