While commuting between her working class neighborhood and elite private school, a biracial teen forms a friendship that challenges the version of herself her mother believes will keep her safe - leading her toward self-acceptance.

A young woman working at a lake resort in Southern Oregon faces the uncomfortable reality of being sexualized for the first time, forcing her to confront her sense of self, autonomy, and innocence in a world that wants to define her.

Sending love letters can't be easy when the writer you like never writes back.

A daughter turns her lens on her fathers meticulous lawn ritual, uncovering the quiet philosophy and zen behind his obsession with the perfect blade of grass.

After her 21st birthday, an overwhelmed college student loses touch with reality by becoming a princess and ignoring her school work, until that magic solution also becomes problem.

While visiting her daughter, Noreen is left alone in the apartment for the night. But when her daughter’s boyfriend comes to the door, she decides to spend the evening with him.

After a college student returns to China and his grandparents, he begins exploring the idea of death in an introspective journey to understand what it means to exist.

Levi, a devout member of his church’s youth group, yearns for the respect and recognition of his minister. Yet at every turn he is outshone by a fellow member of his youth group, a girl for whom winning new converts comes easy. Anxious to prove himself during the church’s meals-on-wheels program, he presses a lonely woman with a sickly father to accept one of their spare meals—in hopes of signing up the pair for the youth group’s route and bringing their names back to his minister. The woman is charmed by his insistence, and invites Levi in to feed her deteriorating father… but inside her apartment, Levi quickly finds himself confronted with a side of life his minister’s teachings have hardly prepared him for.

A man wakes up in the middle of nowhere and gets explained the secrets of the universe, or at least the most important parts.

An unsung teen activist fights to overturn Disneyland’s ban on same-sex dancing in the early 1980s.

Jing He grew up in America with her Family, until one day, her father brings back a kid and said it’s her cousin. But after seeing her mother’s face and hearing their argument, she realizes that kid is her father's illegitimate child. She’s worried, and mad at the kids until she hears that the mother of the kid passed away, and he had nowhere to go.

JIA is a tender and emotionally charged short film exploring the inner world of a 14-year-old Black girl navigating desire, vulnerability, and friendship. Set against the heat and haziness of a Southern California summer, the film follows Jia and her best friend Nina as their bond begins to fracture, blurred by jealousy, betrayal, and unspoken longing. Jia is a tender coming of age film about the intimacy of adolescent female friendship, and the heartbreaking consequences of trying to fit in.

For as long as she can remember, Poppy Blane has visited her father in jail under the pretense that he is at work. After gathering signatures that she believes can get him a day off of work, she is crestfallen to learn that he is incarcerated and on Death Row. Armed with this information, Poppy must learn to forgive her father and reconcile his death.

A young man coming to terms with his bipolar diagnosis.

After the death of his father, Joe struggles to heal despite his mother's insistence on therapy. When he discovers a box of his father's old music at his uncle’s record shop, he begins to find comfort in the memories it evokes. Seeing the positive impact spending time with his uncle has on Joe, his therapist allows him to skip appointments, a decision that deepens the rift between mother and son. In the end, they both come to realize that they are two people mourning the same loss in different ways.