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After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward.

Directed By

Liz Sargent

Written By

Liz Sargent

Talent

Anna Sargent, Jeena Yi. Joan Sargent

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On a school day, a precocious seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.

Directed By

Lloyd Lee Choi

Written By

Lloyd Lee Choi

Talent

Milinka Winata, Eleven Lee, Allen Chen

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S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

Directed By

S. Leo Chiang

Written By

S. Leo Chiang & David Teague

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A personal love letter from director Sean Wang to his Nai Nai and Wài Pó, a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away.

Directed By

Sean Wang

Talent

Yi Yan Fuei & Zhang Li Hua

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Mehrdad, now an old man, reflects on his time in Tokyo as a boy through the help of his old sketchbook. He recalls his encounter with an old woman named Chiyo whom he met at a graveyard near his elementary school. He investigates her sudden disappearance the following day.

Directed By

Liam LoPinto

Written By

Liam LoPinto

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An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories by going through the folds and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she’s nothing but a female and explores the roots of this idea in her school years. This film is a social satire about the clothing conventions imposed on young children.

Directed By

Yegane Moghaddam

Written By

Mirkarimi and Mohammad Davoud

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Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. He follows a structured everyday life and dedicates his free time to his passion for music and books. Hirayama also has a fondness for trees and photographs them. More of his past is gradually revealed through a series of unexpected encounters.

Directed By

Wim Wenders

Written By

Takuma Takasaki, Wim Wenders

Cast

Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano

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When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.

Directed By

Kore-eda Hirokazu

Written By
Yuji Sakamoto

Cast

Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa

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As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai’i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a courageous stand against the provisional government. Inspired by real-life events.

Directed By

David L. Cunningham

Written By

John Fusco

Talent

Lindsay Watson, Lance Kerwin, Johnathon Schaech, Henry Ian Cusick

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Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends’ help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Directed By

Nida Manzoor

Written By

Nida Manzoor

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