Deserter
Aidan Lesser - 22
A desperate woman takes her elderly mother with dementia on one last drive through the snow-covered countryside.
New Lives
Joey Schweitzer - 24
A Holocaust survivor navigates the pressures of assimilation with the trauma of her past in 1950s Brooklyn.
Terra Natal
Lucas Manuel-Scheibe - 20
A literary translator moves from Sao Paulo to New York to work on the novel of a dying author. Adrift in the unfamiliar city, she seeks solace by consuming soil from her homeland.
The Third Ear
Nathan Ginter - 23
After seeing a botched depiction of himself, Sammy, a nude drawing model, sprouts an ear from the back of his head, spiraling his sense of self-image and life out of control.
the river that never ends
JT Trinidad
Along a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to disappear, she realizes that she has been left behind in a stagnating city.