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SHORT FILMS
Parallels
Lena is a teenage girl living in the suburbs of Russia. She's been fighting with her working-class parents to follow her dream: to attend theater school in Los Angeles and become an actor. But Lena's mother Anastasia in particular opposes Lena leaving the country, having worked hard to build a good life herself.
As the pair fight, Anastasia thinks back to her struggles in 1970s U.S.S.R., where Anastasia faced bullies, couldn't fit in and found her own dreams of an athletic career often thwarted by her circumstances and her mother. As Lena pursues her dreams despite opposition, Anastasia soon faces challenges of her own.
As the pair fight, Anastasia thinks back to her struggles in 1970s U.S.S.R., where Anastasia faced bullies, couldn't fit in and found her own dreams of an athletic career often thwarted by her circumstances and her mother. As Lena pursues her dreams despite opposition, Anastasia soon faces challenges of her own.
You Are My Son
An African-American single mother works day on end to support her teenage son. She works during the tail-end of the COVID lockdowns, and the height of the Black Lives Matter protests and riots. On an average day, her son lies to her about where he's going, and what he's planning to do.
The Jim Crow Holocaust
A young Muslim boy carries his heritage in the form of a item of clothing that he doesn't want. He is ridiculed and attacked for wearing it, which then gets ripped from him and desecrated. A Jewish classmate witnesses his trials and she is moved to help him. The boy decides to burn this cloth that he believes poisons his chance of being otherwise accepted by his classmates. But the girl saves it before it is totally destroyed. She is able to repair it, and surprises him when she hands it back to him. A new friendship begins.
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the narrator's actions result in hearing a thumping sound, which the narrator interprets as the dead man's beating heart.
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