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The issue of coming out to your family is not so easy to many of us, especially if you are from a traditional culture where you don't even have the right translation for "gay". What are the consequences of coming out to your family and friends? This is a documentary of 21 individuals sharing their own experiences.

There is No Healing in Silence (2020) interrogates how deep self-reflection and intergenerational platonic intimacy can be used as a way of reckoning with the violence of the world. It explores how nature facilitates a space for connection, love and release.

A teen throws up blood and pulls hair out of his drain.

The mayor is dead. The pandemic has worsened, and a crooked science organization is attempting to regain its bearings as the FBI have arrived the beloved city of Sanford Florida. The missing person's cases continue to climb, and a group of friends are about to be reminded that they are center in this unfortunate triangle of death. The race continues for Senator Preston Conrad, who's former opponent is now rotting away after committing murder. But the election is all but over. As Conrad faces his new republican opponent, politics in America are all about one thing: blood.

An American globe trotter painter talking about her life.

As several missing persons cases sprout like weeds in a small town, a group of coworkers realize that this human trafficking problem is starting to hit home for them. With the likes of a strange science organization, and a mystery man by many names, things begin to go terribly wrong in Sanford. As the missing persons cases begin to get drowned out by the election, Senator Preston Conrad is posed to return to his hometown in hopes of winning re-election. All the while Mayor Anastasia Harlan prepares the 2020 Florida Senator Debate, so long as a respiratory virus doesn't destroy everything she has been working so hard towards.

An assembly of collected memories shatter the interior and open portals to the outside. Completed during shelter-in-place in Northern California. Commissioned by Small Press Traffic.

As Botswana awaits a possible landmark judgment from its high court, seeking to decriminalize same sex relations, Chantel, a 27-year-old lesbian who's both a theologian and a queer rights activist, attempts to start her journey to get ordained as a reverend in Botswana's religiously conservative and homophobic society.

A girl searches for an unwanted presence in her house.

As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India.

If there is no timeline, where is the future? Where am I going?

With Há ouro em todo o lado (There is gold everywhere, 2023) we enter in the subterranean world of ruina montium – a technique used during the Roman Empire for gold extraction, largely explored in the Iberian Peninsula. In a movement passing from within towards the world, one senses a multiplicity of subjectivities that re-inhabit the large territory of the ancient mine. Há ouro em todo o lado is the first segment of the she-wolf trilogy, a series of films that trace the attribution of an industrial gaze in relation to nature, shaped by a movement towards forms of life that emerge within, despite and against that same context.

The only commendable reaction is rebellion.

The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel (from 1896 to 1948) and highlights the responsibility of the Western World.

There's a lot of things I'd like to tell you now that there's time. — Now there is time, I dream at night with many things that I would like to be living and that stick to me for the rest of the day inside these four walls. Now there's time, I see more telebesura than ever and I look more at my phone than ever before. Now there's time, I do a lot fewer things than before. Now that there's time, I think of all the things I would have told you before if I'd known I wasn't going to be able to now. Now that there's time, I'm testing the audios I'd like to send you in front of the mirror. Now there's time, I'm letting my hair grow. Now that there's time, I get things we talked about someday, even if you probably don't remember. Now that there's time, I listen to a lot more sad music. Now there's time, I like to look at the works out the window. Now there's time, I miss it.

Mirinda, a French sex worker, lives day by day in the outskirts of Phnom Penh. His meeting with Panna, a young abandoned girl, left to her own devices, will shatter his equilibrium and give him the courage to change his life.

A story about Pashka, a really decent, honest guy, even though he lies a lot, who is looking for happiness and love.

Xun, a Chinese migrant worker, falls in love with Chong, a Malaysian colleague at her warehouse job. Their relationship is like an endless dance of two jellyfish in the ocean, making ends meet with no end in sight. Until one day, Xun announces she is pregnant, which is a deportable offense, and the fates of Xun and Chong are altered forever.

Keir Dullea, interspersed with archive clips of Arthur C. Clarke, discusses the probability of extraterrestrial life.

No hay olvido, composed of three parts, each directed by a young Chilean filmmaker forced to flee his country, is about the difficult condition of exiles in a specific political and social context, in this case, Quebec. The first part, entitled J'explique certaines choses, is in Spanish with French subtitles, and shows us more precisely the lifestyle of a group of Chileans. In Slowly, which forms the second part, we are asked, through Lucia, a young Chilean exile, the problem of integration into a new social environment. Finally, Jours de fer (Steel Blues), the third and only part available in English, is a cruel reminder of the harsh condition of the uprooted man who must find work at all costs to ensure his survival.