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If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an exploration of my maternal family history from the perspective of Molly and the woman she was before she became my lovely grandma.

The film tells the story of a love story between a female killer and a small photographer who happened to meet each other. Xie Miao subverts the image of the former cool and savvy master, and in this drama has become an ordinary small photographer who wants to hold a personal film festival.

Zena is a young woman who faces painful childhood memories after the death of her father. She sets out to find liberation and acceptance from this torturous time in her life.

What began as a grassroots, interpretive film class at a Manhattan senior community center soon blossomed into a shortened spin on New York’s story of love and the passing of time, Annie Hall. Created by artists and filmmakers Ellie Sachs and Matt Starr, the project was a way to engage seniors in a meaningful way while exercising memory skills.

Two brothers witness the murder of their parents and grow up dealing with the tragedy in very different ways. As one brother struggles with mental illness and sleep paralysis, the other finds success in the unique world of found object art.

Chicago, May 2008

Chicago 2010

Premise unknown.

Short about an Evil Twin

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an experience that inspired his novel The Naked and the Dead. But, disappointed by post-war America, he grew to despise the fifties.

Producer and director Mark Lotfy’s ongoing project, This Is a National Dialogue, concerns itself with five Egyptian political figures from different parties. The project presents their personal experience, wisdom, models and values, as well as the unfolding interactions with the filmmaker.

A look at the taboo surrounding adult breastfeeding, exploring a growing underground scene that ranges from women producing milk for their partners to the lucrative lactation porn industry.

Photographer Paul Sanders has a passion for beauty - especially beautiful women. But in his spiritual blindness, he admires only the creation and not the creator. When Paul becomes physically blinded in a freak accident, he is forced to reconsider what true beauty means - and where it comes from. With the help of Abigail, a recovering alcoholic and down-on-her-luck singer, Paul realizes the meaning of love and the power of the Gospel to change people's lives. Although he can no longer see, for the first time in his life, his eyes are open. A film of faith and forgiveness, "Open My Eyes" proves that even the hardest hearts can be turned and that broken lives can be healed if only we are willing to believe.

My Louisiana Love follows a young Native American woman, Monique Verdin, as she returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. But soon she sees that her people’s traditional way of life- fishing, trapping, and hunting these fragile wetlands– is threatened by a cycle of man-made environmental crises. As Louisiana is devastated by Hurricane Katrina and Rita and then the BP oil leak, Monique finds herself turning to environmental activism. She documents her family’s struggle to stay close to the land despite the cycle of disasters and the rapidly disappearing coastline. The film looks at the complex and uneven relationship between the oil industry and the indigenous community of the Mississippi Delta. In this intimate documentary portrait, Monique must overcome the loss of her house, her father, and her partner – and redefine the meaning of home. Her story is both unique and frighteningly familiar.

After their Valentines day date, Elsie and Brett break down in an unknown area. They soon find out that isn't their only worry as a crazed man is on the hunt for his own Valentine.

After an unorthodox painting of Jesus goes viral, the artist and his muse discuss its significance in the wake of BLM protests in Richmond, Virginia.

Weijia Ma was working on an animation film in Strasbourg when COVID descends on France. She very quickly fled to Lyon before returning to Shanghai.