Innocence Echoing Its Defeat In Memories Damaged Retina Skin Contact Body Torn Twisted Twice Blessed In Blissful Anemia Condemned Unholy By The Formless Controller Of Traumas Burning Kingdom Punctured Cut Drained Of Love Drained Beaten Revoked Of Hope Revoked Renounced Reborn Deathly And Afraid Breath Seared And Agonized Walking Alongside Its Own Mirrored Safety Unreachable Behind The Glass Veil Of Deliverance Falsely Martyred Screaming Yesterdays Promises Into The Supreme Mouths Of Contempt Returned And Realized Pain Constant And Relieved Teeth Torn From Youths Hunger Left Starved And Ruptured Dreams Drowned Down In Blood Blessed Blindly But Unforgiven.
Wendy has learned that the bank is coming to foreclose on the diner unless they get their books in order, which she doesn’t know how to do. While Milius urges her to stand up to the bank “goons”, two volcanologists complain about the slow service. Their whining is cut short by a one-in-a-million volcanic eruption.
A bilingual Ecuadorian-American redhead living in Los Angeles enters a seemingly innocuous interaction with a Spanish-speaking stranger, but her anxieties around her Latin identity and relationship to speaking Spanish quickly prove that navigating this exchange is anything but simple. With every possible interaction having run through her mind, one is left rooting for the possibility that the two might share a moment of human connection.
A young boy who is a victim of bullying hopes his mother's magic potion will make him a war hero like his father, but in the end discovers that all he needed was to believe in himself. Not your typical coming of age story, Sgt. Fruit Fly shows what happens when a boy can just be a boy.
A gap year girl returns to see her best friend, the one she used to dream with, and soon realizes that the hardest thing is keeping their relationship while chasing her own dreams.
Jelly, a young executive girl, is determined to prove to her father that she can support herself. She has to show her father within 6 months, or else she will have to go back to help him work in her hometown. She decides to take up piano teaching, which is where she meets her first student, Jay, a very annoying young man. Jelly has to find different teaching methods to get him to play the piano and prove herself.
Two strangers, both connected to one another through a mutual past with the same girl, meet for the first time at that girl's grave. Over her headstone, and through violence, and love, unspoken secrets are brought to light, which none of the parties involved could've ever possibly predicted.
On the brink of their thirties, five longtime friends reunite for a farewell getaway, but their idyllic retreat turns sour when they lose their beloved dogs in the woods.
In A Freedom Struggle: Looking for Lucrecia Pérez, artist and filmmaker Génesis Valenzuela proposes the challenge of investigating the colonial wound and its echoes in the present through the human body. As part of the process of developing a feature-length documentary based on the case of the murder of Lucrecia Pérez, she expands her exploration into the performative gesture, choosing the market space—through pictorial representations from the colonial era and images and sounds of the present—as a crucible from which to reflect on identity, race, and representation in the Antilles.