A sampler of films with diverse subjects, including the pandemic, divorce, and puppetry, but similar themes.
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Alone Together
Directed by
c. Craig
Isolated in an assisted-living facility with only her caretaker, a grandmother, portrayed by Marla Gibbs, battles her loneliness and fading memory as she searches for human connection through a series of family Zoom calls.
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Attest
Directed by
Andi Behring
Two sisters try to get their story straight about a fateful encounter at a party the night before.
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Frank & Emmet
Directed by
Carlos F. Puertolas
Two show-business partners have a heated conversation when they must confront the fact that one of them is a puppet.
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It Happened One Thursday
Directed by
Irene Tassembedo
Afissatou learns that the party on Thursday is a celebration of her marriage.

Liberté
Directed by
Christopher Hanvey
Can Britain’s first Muslim war heroine face her brutal Nazi captors and hold onto London's secret plans as the Allied forces finally start advancing through France?
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Like the Ones I Used to Know
Directed by
Annie St-Pierre
Denis is anxious to pick up his children at his ex-in-laws' house on Christmas Eve.
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Mass Ave
Directed by
Omar S. Kamara
Over a day of landscaping work, a first-generation African American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.
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Pippi
Directed by
Mia Walker
A mother and daughter grapple with their racial self-hatred through their love of Pippi Longstocking.
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Wild Seed
Directed by
Sunyin Zhang
During the period of the One-Child Policy, an illegally pregnant mother escapes from her home to avoid getting arrested by the family-planning committee and forced to have an abortion.
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