dir. by Erik Jasaň I 14' I Romania, Slovakia

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Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.

dir. by Dwayne LeBlanc I 15' I United States

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After hosting a party in his new home abroad, a musician explores his sense of community and, in exile, rediscovers his voice.

dir. by Joseph Couturier I 20' I France

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On a beach in the south of France, after a failed firework, Philippe, a 65-year-old pyrotechnician, gets frustrated. He attacks his daughter, Mélodie, 30 years old, returned to work two years earlier for the family business. The father-daughter confrontation leads to heavy fires, literally and figuratively.

dir. by Lin Htet Aung I 16' I Myanmar

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In A Metamorphosis, Lin Htet Aung transforms the uncanny and absurd experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a kind of counter-broadcast, redefining the compositions and narratives that defined them. This distorted, eerie broadcast explores the daily experiences of living in a dictatorship and the imagery you get accustomed to as a child, accompanied by a lullaby that will haunt you afterwards: Yee, lé-lé! Yee, lé-lé-

dir. by Pier-Philippe Chevigny I 15' I Canada

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Hired at a pig slaughterhouse through a social reintegration program, an ex-convict desperately tries to find another job while repressing his inner violence.

dir. by Kaitlyn Mikayla I 14' I United States

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A twelve year old motocross racer spends what seems like an average race weekend at the track with her father. But as the weekend unfolds, she’s faced with her identity, her deafness, and what it means to be a girl.