The Heart of Texas
Dallas is home to over 100,000 refugees, where more than half come to Vickery Meadow nicknamed a "Mini United Nations". In Vickery Meadow lies Heart House, an after-school program for refugee children specializing in Social Emotional Learning (SEL). "The Heart of Texas" provides an outline of the child refugee crisis, and how Heart House provides impactful support to refugee children.
American Hate
Based on a true story of an Asian Indian immigrant couple whose lives are shattered by an unexpected hate crime in Olathe, Kansas fueled by anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric after the 2016 election.
Full Film - Detras de Una Mirada
In this short documentary film, Édgar Gaytán shares their experience of discrimination as a transgender person living in Mexico and their journey to self-acceptance and self-love.
Full Film - Shh! It's a War Zone
A young filmmaker interviews her grandmother about escaping a war-torn homeland with her three-month-old sister. Shh! It's a War Zone journeys through a life in refuge via a grandmother's memories and a granddaughter's curious camera.
Full Film - Ofenheizung: Portrait of a Stove
In Berlin in the year 2020, there are still homes that rely on coal stoves for heating, despite their ban in 2015 by the Federal Emission Control Ordinance. This short film is a portrait of one of those stoves, the maintenance it requires of the inhabitant of the home it’s in, and what it means for its Kiez, Kreuzberg.
Full Film - Language
Three young adults living in different parts of the world share their relationship to language and how it affects their experience of community and connection to the people they know. The stories are accompanied by the sole visual of scrapbooked subtitles -- the words are clippings from magazine covers and online ads.
Full Film -Papa
In Eureka, California, a mother takes care of her father, who is living with dementia. During her short visit, she brings food and reminders to take his medicine, as well as medical documents. Tough times and difficult conversations are approached with care and compassion throughout this short film.
Full Film - Of Memory and Debris
Of Memory and Debris is a personal portrait of the director’s grandfather (Opa, 94) and his wife's grandfather (Ababo, 81) who stayed back in Venezuela after most of their family emigrated due to the economic crisis and violence in the country. Opa lives with his wife Oma, who has been suffering from Alzheimer's for the past ten years, as he tries to comfort her in her final days. An intimate character diptych, OF MEMORY AND DEBRIS tells the story of an unseen generation — the grandparents left behind by the largest exodus in Latin America's recent history.
Full Film - Dajla: cinema and oblivion
Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.
Full Film -Ale y Yose
Two undocumented friends struggle with the reality of an unknown future, reimagining what it means to be a teenage girl in the U.S.
Full Film -Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me
Central American mothers journey by bus through Mexico, searching for their children who migrated north towards the United States but disappeared en route.
Trailer - (t)here
Rhea, a young Indian girl living in the US, is struggling to make a decision that impacts her life and dreams - whether to stay in the US or go back to India due to visa circumstances - when a chance encounter with an immigrant grocery store manager leads to an unexpected bond between the two.