Powerful films making strong statements comprise this collection of dramatic shorts.
In this program
![Broken Bird](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/Broken%20Bird.png?itok=esWgdoZZ)
Broken Bird
Directed by
Rachel Harrison Gordon
U.S.
2020
10 minutes
English
Birdie, a biracial girl raised by her Jewish mom, spends a rare visitation day with her father while preparing for her bat mitzvah.
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![Circus Person](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/Circus%20Person.jpg?itok=b3XQ2UJW)
Circus Person
Directed by
Britt Lower
U.S.
2020
17 minutes
English
Inspired by the woman her fiancé left her for, a grieving painter joins a one-ring circus to reclaim her forgotten wildness.
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![Class](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/Class.jpeg?itok=1OYc7G3b)
Class
Directed by
Enzo Cellucci & Ash McNair
U.S.
2020
18 minutes
English
When Max attends his first-ever acting class, he soon discovers that the lines between class and cult begin to blur.
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![It's Nothing](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/It_s%20Nothing.jpg?itok=2SvrcK3k)
It's Nothing
Directed by
Anna Maguire
U.K.
2019
16 minutes
English
Encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl, a recent graduate who has returned to her parents’ house obsessively starts to dig a hole and heads further down a path of self-destruction.
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![Josiah](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/Josiah.jpeg?itok=h4PQlcvI)
Josiah
Directed by
Kyle Laursen
U.S.
2019
20 minutes
English
Best of Fest Short. A Black actor auditions for a part in a period television series.
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![Post Rock](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/Post%20Rock.jpeg?itok=MRGl36_2)
Post Rock
Directed by
Jason Affolder
U.S.
2020
13 minutes
English
Tensions erupt between the members of a struggling rock band after the best show of their cross-country tour.
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![The Speech](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2020-10/The%20Speech.jpeg?itok=FBI2MeF4)
The Speech
Directed by
Haohao Yan
U.S.
2019
25 minutes
Chinese
When Beijing goes under lockdown during the SARS outbreak in 2003, three 8-year-old girls inside a private boarding school have to find a way to make sense of the world.
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