Set in a remote community in Guatemala. Entirely spoken in the K’iche’ Mayan language, the film follows Iq’, a curious and playful spirit who listens to the sound of an old invocation that summons him to the world of the living. At the other end of that prayer is Saq Nikté, an 11-year-old Mayan Kʼicheʼ girl with vitiligo who forges a mask as an offering to the spirit.

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Saq Nikté and the Spirit of the Mask

In a forgotten community, an artisan girl puts an old K'iche' invocation to the test and summons a curious spirit into our world.

A man fervently seeks the truth behind his partner’s disappearance after his mysterious return.

Palindrome

A man fervently seeks the truth behind his partner’s disappearance after his mysterious return.

In this literal “coming” of age story, an Indian daughter gives her mom “the talk.”

Giving Mom the Talk

In this literal coming-of-age story, an Indian woman has to give her mom 'the talk'

When the wrong dinner arrives 3 hours late, Ava coaches her reluctant best friend Claire through a grueling phone call for a refund. In a fight for the self-respect of women everywhere, Ava’s worldview is challenged as she pushes Claire to stand up for her basic right to the hummus she ordered.

Sorry

Two women attempt to call a restaurant for a refund without apologizing.

Dana Tiger was just five years old when her father, legendary Muscogee Creek artist Jerome Tiger, passed away. She turned to his art as a way to know him, the richness of her culture, and the bounty of her family’s artistic tradition.In memory of Jerome’s art and to support their family, Dana’s mother and uncle started a booming t-shirt printing business in the 1980s. Then, tragedy struck their family once more. Dana’s younger brother, Chris Tiger, was relentlessly murdered and their business was brought to a halt.Dana and her family have been working for nearly 30 years to revitalize the iconic Tiger t-shirt company, through immense grief and suffering from Parkinson’s. Now, everybody wants their hands on a Tiger T-shirt.

Tiger

After losing her iconic artist father and brother, Dana Tiger reconnects with her heritage and familt legacy by reviving their famed t-shirt business admists personal and health struggles, turning tragedy into a coveted cultural revival.

Kusi, a Quechua teenager, gets triggered by joining a traditional family gathering in the Andes of Ayacucho, Peru. Unable to sing since her mom passed away, Kusi is confronted by her grief and embarks on a path of healing among sisterhood, community, and connecting with the land.

Kusi Sonríe (Kusi Smiles)

Kusi, a Quechua teenager, gets triggered by joining a traditional family gathering in the Andes of Ayacucho, Peru. Unable to sing since her mom passed away Kusi is confronted by her grief and embarks on a path of healing among sisterhood, community, and connecting with the land.

In 1910, one year before the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty, Cambridge-educated Dr. Wu Lien-teh returns to his old country – then pre-modern China – to investigate a deadly, mysterious epidemic that has ravaged its Northeastern colonized region of Manchuria. Amidst chaos and despair, he must fight more than just the disease, but also ignorance, racism, and the population’s distrust in modern science. Defying the prejudices of both the Eastern and the Western societies, Dr. Wu embarks on a perilous, relentless quest to prove his radical hypothesis that the pathogen behind the epidemic – Yersinia pestis – has evolved into an airborne disease and advocates for the progressive measure of wearing face masks as the only way to save them. A tale filled with grief, hope, and sacrifice, Neither Donkey Nor Horse is at once a historical epic and a contemporary fable: The film honors the spirit of scientific inquiry amidst humanity’s worst crises while shedding light on what must be done to confront similar disasters today and in the future.

Neither Donkey Nor Horse ( 非驴非马 )

Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory about the disease - and seek the truth that will heal it.

JD McPherson and Bloodshot Bill play the set of their lives.

I Can't Go Anywhere With You – JD McPherson

JD and Bloodshot Bill play the set of their lives

The Making of Together Together is an intimate short documentary that follows Oklahoma artist Joe Slack over the course of a year as he brings to life his towering steel sculpture, Together Together. Blending observational footage with thoughtful reflection, the film captures the creative process behind the 26-foot structure – from early sketches to the final installation.

The Making of Together Together

In rural New Zealand, fifteen-year-old Baby Teeth fights to keep her place among the pack of boys she has grown up with. As day turns to night, she falls into a power game with the pack’s alpha, Louie. With each dare, tensions and dangers grow – but it is the wrestle within herself that proves to be Baby Teeth’s hardest challenge.

Pack Rat

In rural New Zealand, a fifteen-year-old girl fights to keep her place among the pack of boys she has grown up with. As day turns to night, she falls into a power game with the pack's alpha - but it is the wrestle within herself that proves to be her hardest challenge.

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