Finding Shelter
Finding Shelter follows Hanna, a 10-year-old girl, who is about to be smuggled out of her war-torn country with her father on a boat. Despite her dad's instructions to leave her beloved dog behind, Hanna secretly clears her backpack and hides him in it instead.
For Every Apricot
For Every Apricot drifts through the shifting terrain of memory, illustrating a grandmother’s journey in search of a “miracle drug” to cure her father’s illness. What begins as a simple family story unfurls into a meditation on aging, fragility, and the circinate patterns that shape life.
Heart to Sole
Luigi Del Guercio—affectionately known by his friends as “the mayor of Cherry Hill Mall?—has worked as a shoe repairer there for 50 years.
John van Nostrand: The Long View
At a moment when equitable housing feels impossible, John van Nostrand offers a vision in which everyday people shape the places they call home. Inviting us into his studio, we explore John’s multidisciplinary career in urban planning, architecture, and design, spanning fifty years.
Loved Ones
A poignant slice of life tale at Airport Arrivals. A senior waits with joyful anticipation for his wife, a young man eagerly awaits his partner’s arrival while entangled in a tender skirmish with his mom as she prepares to meet her son’s partner for the first time and a daughter frantic to find her missing father.
The Liars of Black Mountain
When Ethan and Abbie hit a dog on a remote mountain road, they stop the car and begin to
quietly test each other’s moral fiber. Shame and fear widen the gap between what they say,
what they think, and what they do.
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