A sampler of films with diverse subjects, including the pandemic, divorce, and puppetry, but similar themes.

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.

Alone Together

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?

Liberté

Two show-business partners have a heated conversation when they must confront the fact that one of them is a puppet.

Frank & Emmet

Denis is anxious to pick up his children at his ex-in-laws' house on Christmas Eve.

Like the Ones I Used to Know

A mother and daughter grapple with their racial self-hatred through their love of Pippi Longstocking.

Pippi

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.

Mass Ave

Two sisters try to get their story straight about a fateful encounter at a party the night before.

Attest

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.

Wild Seed

Afissatou learns that the party on Thursday is a celebration of her marriage.

It Happened One Thursday

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