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TIES THAT BIND - SHORTS SCREENING

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Mamoon
Told entirely using projected animation onto polystyrene film sets, Mamoon follows the story of a mother and her infant child who are forced to leave their home when mysterious, dark shadows envelop the light in which they exist. As her own light begins to fade, she is forced to use a strange red light to save her child.

Paper Roof
Two young sisters, Pamela and Abigail, decide to run away from trouble at home to build a cardboard house together. However, reality soon catches up with them and threatens to put an end to their escapade.

JIEJIE
1997. Los Angeles. Fresh off the boat. Single mom. Clingy sister. FEN navigates her first Sunday at a Chinese-American church alongside her worrisome mom and clingy younger sister. Fen's hope of making new friends is soon lost upon the embarrassing discovery of hair lice in her sister's hair. Turning her frustration towards the young Ann, Fen brings the family's underlying tension to a boiling point.

Call Me Alvy
When Bar Mitzvah boy Brian Silver becomes obsessed with Woody Allen, his mother Judith goes to great lengths to make sure the big day goes smoothly.

Silvia in the waves
The course of mourning carries Silvia, a 40 years old trans woman, and her family through the waves of memory and rebirth, death and survival.

Warriors of Sanita
What happens when two street kids from a slum of southern Italy believe they have found a mutant with magic powers? Francesco and Vincenzo are about to find out soon. A mysterious figure has been wandering through their neighborhood and the two kids have convinced him to go home with them, confident that he's hiding something. But what if they are right?

BONBONE
A Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.

Sampaguita
While Annie readies for her religious father's return from deployment, she develops an impossible crush on her classmate June.