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Directed by Birdy Hung | 12 mins | 2024
Giallo meets Edward Yang in Birdy Wei-Ting Hung’s oneiric, gorgeously photographed short, which filters a schoolgirl’s sexual awakening in 1980s Taiwan through a series of potent, cinema-induced daydreams.
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A Well for the Thirsty
Directed by Yuri Illienko | 73 mins | 1965
Though Yuri Illienko completed his feature debut in the same year as Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors—on which he’d served as cinematographer—"A Well for the Thirsty", one of Ukrainian cinema’s most formally audacious films, was not rele... -
Budget Paradise
Directed by LaTajh Simmons-Weaver | 14 mins | 2025
Their easel and paints in tow, Chester roves Oakland in search of a spot to put brush to canvas undisturbed. LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s vibrant vérité short is a city symphony in miniature and a reflection on an artist’s need for support. -
Christmas at Moose Factory
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin | 13 mins | 1971
A legendary figure in First Nations filmmaking, Alanis Obomsawin made her documentary debut with this charming, crayon-drawn portrait of a Cree community at Christmastime, as illustrated and narrated by a number of the local children.
