The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.

The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.

The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.

The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.

Remember Caroline from Vampire Diaries? Well, now she’s The Suitcase Killer, allegedly. 

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

Life may find a way, but is it worth testing its fierceness and how far it will go?

In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.

What makes a person different, and who is considered normal? Based on a true story, The Unbreakable Boy follows the life of Austin LeRette, a young boy with autism and osteogenesis imperfecta, as he navigates daily life with optimism and resilience.

The Franke kids seemingly lived a normal life, until their mom met the infamous Jodi Hilderbrandt.

The one-way journey went to the desert that refused to offer an answer or a transcendence.

Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.