We Are Strangers

After being diagnosed with ALS, Sol visits the hospital with his partner Ben to record a voice bank of phrases and words before he loses the ability to speak. But speaking openly in front of medical professionals doesn't come easy to Sol. This isn't so much a case of coming out as of trying to stay in.

Ninety-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Inge Ginsberg attempts to break out as a death metal singer by entering America's Got Talent.

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.

A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.

In this stop-motion animated comedy, a young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap.

Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amid the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.

Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.

Over the course of one year, a sustainable salmon fisherman struggles to stay afloat at sea and on land as the demands of her small salmon business mount.

After months of isolation during a global pandemic, Zora must adjust to new neighbors moving in, taking away her access to the downstairs garden. As her romantic relationship deteriorates, her obsession with the new tenants and the garden increases. Her denial dissipates, and her new purpose becomes clear: she wants what little of her’s is left in that garden.

Following the birth of her niece, Jing returns to Singapore for the newborn’s full month celebration. Here she is forced to confront her contentious relationship with her estranged mother and a traditional family politic—the causes of her departure a decade prior.

The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real-time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.

Standing Above the Clouds follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.

The intimate moments between a Chinese nail tech and her Black client in a Brooklyn nail salon.

An artist moves to a mysterious island to focus on her work. Quickly, she becomes obsessed with one of her projects.

Bowen, a nonbinary Asian-American from Queens, tries to connect with their estranged father and help him deal with a poisonous fish bite.

Caro Comes Out is a queer torture experiment, but also a comedy, but also a short film about coming out to your entire Cuban family.