Maria Luisa is ready to escape immigration limbo, but when her green card interview takes an unexpected turn, she faces the anxiety of losing the life she had planned.

I Have No Tears, and I Must Cry

Maria Luisa is ready to escape immigration limbo, but when her green card interview takes an unexpected turn, she faces the anxiety of losing the life she had planned.

CliffsNotes on an existence. Tiny pieces that, when cobbled together, hint at a much larger picture. The larger picture being a woman’s life. Observed through the decades. Centuries, even. You know. A comedy.

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Gold and Mud

A sprawling story of love and loss, as reflected on a single face.

Trier and Blaise have watched their parents’ marriage fall apart. Now, they must lean on each other to make sense of their new situation. In WHERE THE TIME GOES, writer &amp; director Justin Tyler Close gives audiences an intimate look at the way children cope with dysfunction in their own families.

Where the Time Goes

Two young brothers navigate the challenges of their parents’ failed marriage.

Filip works as a professional movie extra and he always plays roles of dead bodies. On the set of a historical film, he meets Lucy, who happens to be also an extra, playing a role of a dead woman. When laying on top of each other during long film making hours a bittersweet relationship develops between them in the unusual circumstances.

A Dead Marriage

Filip is a professional extra, specialized in playing dead bodies on movie sets. One day he meets Lucy - their relationship leads him to try and experience life again.

A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their deceased transgender daughter. Shrouding is an Islamic religious practice that is deemed obligatory to carry out upon death. But when no one agrees to wash her and shame falls onto the family, how far is the father willing to go to make sure his "son" is washed?

Our Males and Females

How far is a father willing to go to wash his deceased transgender daughter?

On a snowy Christmas Eve, Paul drunkenly crashes his car into the neighbor’s yard and flees the scene. His parents, Bill and Linh, send Paul to bed and debate whether or not they should call the police. John, their eldest son, offers to take the blame in order to keep his brother out of jail. With the plan set, Bill and John return to the accident scene. A gruff Cop arrives and soon grows suspicious of their story and asks to use their restroom. Once inside their home, tensions rise as the panicked family tries to keep their lies afloat.

The Family Circus

A Vietnamese-American family's plan to cover up a drunk driving accident unravels when their emotional baggage begins to spill out in front of the police.

When an amateur ornithologist is out on his usual bird-watching trip, he sees a man and woman making love. He takes advantage of this situation and records it. Later he comes in a confectionery where he finds out that the man on the video is the confectioner but the woman not his wife.&nbsp;

Creamy

An amateur ornithologist confronts a blithe confectioner. A tale of adultery, blackmail and violence unfolds in a small countryside pastry shop.

United States of America

Marriage Stories

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