A sampler of films with diverse subjects, including the pandemic, divorce, and puppetry, but similar themes.
In this program
![Alone Together](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/AloneTogether3.jpg?itok=QmKA5nE9)
Alone Together
Directed by
c. Craig
U.S.
2021
14 minutes
English
Isolated in an assisted-living facility with only her caretaker, a grandmother, portrayed by Marla Gibbs, battles her loneliness and fading memory as she searches for human connection through a series of family Zoom calls.
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![Attest](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/Attest%20Still%201.png?itok=SMJnGlSs)
Attest
Directed by
Andi Behring
U.S.
2021
7 minutes
English
Two sisters try to get their story straight about a fateful encounter at a party the night before.
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![Frank and Emmit](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/Frank_Emmet3.jpg?itok=rfqonhX8)
Frank & Emmet
Directed by
Carlos F. Puertolas
U.S.
2021
12 minutes
English
Two show-business partners have a heated conversation when they must confront the fact that one of them is a puppet.
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It Happened One Thursday
Directed by
Irene Tassembedo
Burkina Faso
2020
22 minutes
French
Afissatou learns that the party on Thursday is a celebration of her marriage.
![Liberte](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/LIBERTE%CC%811.jpg?itok=oY3RsK2j)
Liberté
Directed by
Christopher Hanvey
U.K.
2020
17 minutes
English & French
Can Britain’s first Muslim war heroine face her brutal Nazi captors and hold onto London's secret plans as the Allied forces finally start advancing through France?
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![Like the ones I used to Know](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/like%20the%20ones%20i%20used%20to%20know.jpg?itok=H1lonrwO)
Like the Ones I Used to Know
Directed by
Annie St-Pierre
Canada
2020
18 minutes
French
Denis is anxious to pick up his children at his ex-in-laws' house on Christmas Eve.
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![Mass Ave](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/MASS%20AVE%20Still%204.jpg?itok=viKsPt0i)
Mass Ave
Directed by
Omar S. Kamara
U.S.
2021
21 minutes
English
Over a day of landscaping work, a first-generation African American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.
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![Pippi](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/pippi.jpg?itok=dscMTDj4)
Pippi
Directed by
Mia Walker
U.S.
2021
7 minutes
English & Swedish
A mother and daughter grapple with their racial self-hatred through their love of Pippi Longstocking.
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![Wild Seed](/sites/default/files/styles/film_image_large/public/2021-10/wild%20seed.jpg?itok=ijb9iuGo)
Wild Seed
Directed by
Sunyin Zhang
China
U.S.
2020
14 minutes
Chinese
During the period of the One-Child Policy, an illegally pregnant mother escapes from her home to avoid getting arrested by the family-planning committee and forced to have an abortion.
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