• Home Is Where the Heart Is

Home is so much more than a dwelling. As this program shows, home is our ancestors, our memories, our loved ones and our shared future.

Short Films

Ayo Nene

Alassane, a 30-year-old French Senegalese man, lives alone with his 9-year-old son, Yanis, in a shabby studio in the suburbs of Bordeaux. Unemployed, Alassane does his best to keep his small family together. The day a juvenile court judge decides to place Yanis in a foster home, Alassane takes every risk to keep his son with him.

Nights and Days in America

A day like any other for Jennifer, a 17-year-old Chinese girl attending a boarding school in New York, takes a turn when she receives the news of her grandfather’s death.

Homebird

Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.

Further and Further Away

A young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life. While her brother is excited for the move, she feels a quiet desire to return to their long-gone village that was lost to the development of a nearby hydroelectric dam a few years earlier.

Calabaza

A last-minute change to a pumpkin carving date sends a young Latinx man reeling and forces him to confront the realities of living at home with his father.

Don't Get too Comfortable

Constructed as a heartfelt introspective letter to the filmmaker's deceased grandfather, the film questions the continuous pattern of movement among Yemenis in diaspora.

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