Adapted from a short story by John Boyne, the award-winning author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, The Telegram Man tells the story of how war inexorably spreads beyond the battlefield.
COMRADES
Fourth-graders Ronald and Diego are best friends and comrades in a roleplaying war-game until Lieutenant Diego betrays General Ronald, blurring the line between friendship and fantasy.
A FLICKER IN ETERNITY
Based on the true story of Stanley Hayami, a talented Japanese-American teenager caught between his dream of becoming an artist and his duty to his country during WWII.
BLEACHED
Swayed by the prospect of attention from both her image-obsessive mother and a cute boy, Lenny, a Filipino-American girl, concedes to using a skin-lightening cream at the price of her identity.
ODIUM
In Al-Zubayr, Iraq, a bloodthirsty American soldier must come to terms with his own humanity when he is forced to face off against an enemy who stands to lose all that he has already lost.
THE HOMECOMING QUEEN
In her oppressively small Korean-American community, 17-year-old Grace’s affair with the father of her classmate Stella cuts too close to home.
ONCE
Spanning 10 years, this is a story of the first love between two teen lesbians in Beijing, like everyone who fall in love, like everyone who has to grow up.
INVOKING JUSTICE
A group of women in Southern India attempt to reform a profoundly corrupt and discriminatory judicial system.
A LOT LIKE YOU
Tender, intellectual, and reflective, director/writer Eliaichi Kimaro explores her intricate identity as a Tanzanian-Korean mixed-race, first-generation American in her award-winning documentary.