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A window into the world of infertility: From hearts on honeymoon to the darker reality of married life and the toll it takes to make your dreams come true.
Directed by Rebecca Wallen and James Stevenson (UK)

We look through a young blue-collar’s eyes to observe a mysterious period of history of an old blue-collar and his daughter as a theater actress.
Directed by Xun Zhuo (USA)

As the little girl grows up, she starts to sense about a secret in her family.
Directed by Xun Zhuo (China)

Predatory industry hijacked the US regulatory system in 2019, placing ancient food systems and a fifth of the world’s freshwater in imminent danger. LN3 features indigenous firebrands Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, and poet-hip hop artist ThomasX, as they lead an alliance to take on Big Oil and their enablers at the institutional level, and on the frontlines. This is the battle for Earth.
Directed by Suez Taylor (USA)

Four storylines set in the hours before a black hole swallows earth, play out with varying congruence.
Directed by Holly Pilcavage (USA)

This film journeys to the shores of Turkey, Greece, and Croatia, to document architectural projects that have withstood the test of time – not by remaining the same, but rather by continually transforming and continually reinventing themselves to the dynamic conditions of the present. Too often, a building’s preservation is achieved through a complete disconnection from the very cultures that gave it significance. This is the death of the architecture. In contrast, this film celebrates buildings that achieve preservation through a more meaningful connection to the society in which it lives.
Directed by Simon McKenzi and Nigel Goodwin (USA)

This winter tale about a dead girl and her murderer is inspired by Georg Trakl’s poem “De profundis”.
Directed by Chantal Lorang (Luxembourg)

In a country where the only guarantee women have is their own solitude, a woman living in extreme poverty starts the most heart-wrenching journey of her life, where she will have to find out that in order to move forward she will have to bury her past.
Directed by Ronald Hernández (Mexico)

Directed by Yudi Zhang (USA)

A journey of a young aspiring Indian comedian in London, “One Night Stand Up” is a short film portraying the internal conflicts ripened with cultural significance and how Kabir must shed this weight to succeed as a stand-up comedian.
Directed by Dimple Chawla (UK)