A visual ode to the Mexican worker in shades of gray, ‘My Dear Escandón’ follows the story of Omar Rodríguez “Ori” who inherited his trade par excellence, blacksmithing, after the death of his father.On board a bike-taxi restored by Ori as a personal vehicle, he and Pogo take us on a nostalgic tour of the historic Escandón neighborhood In Mexico City. A journey through the eyes of a grieving son, who refuses to let himself be overcome by adversity.

Two Filipinx cousins, three years apart, meet in a rural Florida cemetery, and grapple with what remains of their hometown dreams after the loss of one of their fathers during the pandemic. “Malditas'' is a short documentary that combines interviews, archive and verite footage to explore the tension between losing a parent in a highly Catholic Filipino community, the foreverness of childhood and the possibilities of growing deeper in faith through grief while in the most conservative county in North Florida.