British Film Institute

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    Documentary Elizabeth Lo & R.J. Lozada

    Mother's Day

    The impact of mass incarceration on a generation of youth is explored through an annual Mother’s Day charity bus that takes children from across California to visit their mothers in prison.

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    Sci‑Fi Axel Ricke

    D-I-M, Deus in Machina

    In a bleak future, a lost soul seeks desperate measures to escape his luck. The punishment if caught? Years spent locked up in his own personal nightmare.

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    Drama Jared Anderson
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    Unremarkable

    A woman is shot and killed. What happens to her next is extraordinary in its ordinariness

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    Poem Juan Delcan

    The Spider

    This chillingly simple animation of Gabor Barabas poem “The Spider” cracks into the depths of the human cycle in a sharp three minutes. The Spider shows us the contradictions of life—love and death, beauty and indifference.

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    Experimental Jerry Carlsson

    Skuggdjur (Shadow Animals)

    Marall follows her parents to a party and they want her to behave. As the evening progresses she finds the adults’ behaviour increasingly strange.

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    Dramedy Greg Brunkalla

    God

    Submersed in "bro" culture, a fraternity brother's obsession with a poem and its poetess begin to inform him more about himself than he is ready to accept.

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    Drama Olivia Hang Zhou

    Apart, Together

    Yiru, a Chinese teenager travels to Los Angeles with her mom Jia in search of her long lost sister who was given up for adoption due to the one child policy. As the search intensifies, Yiru grapples with feelings of isolation and longing for her mothers love .

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    Dark Comedy Jacob Streilein

    There’s a Man in the Woods

    A teacher's life quickly spirals out of control after young Sid claims to have seen a man in the woods.

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    Documentary Jay Bedwani

    Stretch

    Sebastién lives for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he knows this trip could be his last.

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    Documentary Sean Mullan

    Inhale

    Through horses, a man feels an irrepressible duty to move in harmony with his pain. A film exploring the infinite momentum of life via an energy never destroyed, only transformed.

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