A queer Black aspiring Baltimore rapper must outwit his vengeful day-job boss in order to avoid getting fired after accidentally eating an edible.

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A queer Black aspiring Baltimore rapper must outwit his vengeful day-job boss in order to avoid getting fired after accidentally eating an edible.

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabriela impulsively drops into an old job, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

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Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabriela impulsively drops into an old job, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabriela impulsively drops into an old job, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

Another day at the office for Jay means navigating his impulse to write rhymes/chase dreams, while working as a handyman maintaining a brand new luxury apartment building on his rapidly gentrifying Bed-Stuy block. That is until Isabella arrives. Navigating similar obstacles, she works as a cleaner to help support her family, shelving her passion as a painter in the interim. But as fate would have it, a blackout brings them both together to spend a night imagining...'what if?' Until the lights come on, and reality returns with a bang.

Post No Bills

A late-night encounter in a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn penthouse during a blackout leads to a profound connection between the young handyman and a deaf cleaner.

Few years back, Sudhir and Vinod- two brothers- put up a Business together, '7 Star Dinosor Entertainment'. Dressed as giant dinosaurs they would dance to Bollywood songs at weddings, birthday parties and mall events. They would practise dinosaur moves and enact scenes from their all time favourite Jurassic Park movies. They enjoyed peeking through windows and chasing screaming kids through corridors. Life was good. But today we find them two years deep into the pandemic. No public functions are allowed anymore. We find the brothers jobless and hungry. The giant dinosaurs cramped with them in a single tiny room of the shoddy tenement. The food is running out and so is the patience. When it comes down to the last morsel, will they split it in half or will they come to blows- one brother against the other?

7 Star Dinosor Entertainment

Two dinosaurs who earned their living dancing in weddings and parties, are now stuck indoors thanks to the pandemic. As unemployment cripples them, the cramped space suffocates them, and hunger angers them, will the behemoths resort to their primal instincts?

Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings.

Khadiga

Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city.

Nelly lives alone with her elderly father. The only way she makes ends meet is by working as a street vendor from dawn to dusk. She has learned not to trust anyone until one day she is forced to take a leap of faith or be resigned in her position forever.

El Carrito

After a harrowing event, an untrusting and isolated street vendor discovers the embrace of community.

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