Shorts that examine the impact of the most significant current events facing our modern world.

Shaista, newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul, struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family.

Three Songs for Benazir

After being estranged from his family for his homosexuality, a young Arab man navigates his solitude while attempting to reconnect with his mother.

Faraway

A quarter-century after the Rwandan genocide took nearly a million lives, the orphans left behind have become the symbol of the country's reconstruction.

Generation 94

When a young Cameroonian man attempts to pursue the dream of a better life in post-apartheid South Africa, he instead finds himself trapped as a slave in Angola.

Digging for Life

Two women healthcare workers fight to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war in Yemen.

Hunger Ward

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