Rafe Scobey-Thal

In a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, a reclusive pigeon keeper is tasked with caring for his estranged daughter for a day, but is blindsided by a revelation that could mean losing her for good.

Sentenced to life in prison at 15, musician JJ'88 finds hope by writing songs during solitary confinement in this award-winning documentary visual album.

The self-proclaimed "genre-queer” band, Sons of an Illustrious Father release their salacious cover of the Pussycat Doll's 2005 hit, Don't Cha, directed by Rafe Scobey-Thal and choreographed by Bobbie Jene Smith. As the band commented on their release in an interview, this song takes a "destructive, dated, distinctly heterosexual male perspective on women and discourses of desire" and transformed it into a "celebration of queerness".

A young woman watches the war in Lebanon through her phone, from her bed in Paris. Through digital images, family voices, and silences, the film explores the dissociation of a generation condemned to witness the destruction of the world from afar. An intimate essay on exile, screens, and the exhaustion of being a witness.

After putting it off for twenty years, filmmaker Sol Guy finally confronts the six tapes his father recorded before dying. Using those tapes as a framework, Guy recounts his family’s story—and his own—for his two teenage kids.