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When a person falls asleep, he immersed in another reality ,where anything can happen to him. He can fly above the ground in red slippers. Or he can be eaten by a green bear. Or he can see the blue house falling. And when a person wakes up, he can probably remember nothing. As if he did not exist all this time ...What do you feel when you are asleep?

Comfortable Position

A 13-year-old Afghan refugee hustles around in a refugee camp, trying to survive the harsh circumstances.

Ghazaal

In near-term future America, the word ‚Äúcitizen‚Äù has come to define a narrower portion of the population, and elite corruption goes unchecked. A luxury condo in Brooklyn begins the day staged for an open house to lure wealthy buyers, but by night becomes a brief refuge for a family targeted by immigration enforcement.

Gets Good Light

Mahmoud is a very very short man about one meter tall who wishes to play a two meter instrument like a Contrabass but neither nor reaches until...

Musician

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra‚Äôs intent and sexual orientation.

The Blue Bed

Logline: In the tiny hamlet of Tooleville, California, a small cadre of water warriors ‚Äì regular people living without access to clean water ‚Äì fight for their right to safe, clean drinking water, despite the unbelievable odds and a system stacked against them.Twenty minutes outside of Visalia, amidst the seemingly endless rows of citrus trees, Yolanda Cuevas packs enchiladas with shredded chicken for her husband Benjamin, their adult daughters and two teenaged grandchildren in her modest single-story home. Their house is the first one off the main drag, one of 83 lining the two crumbling roads that comprise the tiny town of Tooleville. Yolanda must wash the tomatoes for the salsa first in the sink and then again with a splash of clean water from a 5-gallon jug. The process is arduous, and though she‚Äôs resigned to do it, she‚Äôs not happy about it. Along with Tooleville‚Äôs several hundred other residents, Yolanda‚Äôs family has survived on bi-weekly delivery of water to their homes for the past 12 years. It‚Äôs an annoyance for the family, and it‚Äôs expensive for the State of California, which has been paying for the replacement water since the discovery of Chromium-6 (the same chemical featured in Erin Brokovich) in the water.The simpler solution would be to consolidate the town‚Äôs water system with that of its larger, affluent neighbor to the west, Exeter. And for this purpose, Yolanda has become a reluctant activist, attending community meetings in Tooleville and lobbying for consolidation at Exeter‚Äôs city council meetings under the expert guidance of Pedro Hernandez, an organizer with the Leadership Counsel. While Exeter has resisted the consolidation since it was first proposed, organizers like Pedro feel that this could be the year Exeter finally succumbs to the growing community pressure and brings Tooleville into the fold. The decision will echo around the Central Valley and across the state, as hundreds of similar community water systems find themselves in a nearly identical predicament.

The Great Divide

Hosted by his uncle in Turkey, a young Kurd from Syria decides to return to his country to bring back his young donkey to replace his uncle's old donkey recently "retired" by the municipality of the city.

The Heavy Burden

In an unknown universe, Adam goes through unnatural obstacles to find his way out until he meets Natalie, a fairly familiar face with a touch of warmth ; their chemistry creates a telepathic bond between their worlds.

Touch

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