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Taste Of Indigenous

Taste Of The Indigenous

Two Indigenous chefs take turns hosting a culinary experience allowing us to rediscover the tradition and culture behind their tribe’s ancestral food.

20 min. |  USA  |  Documentary Short

PSCC March 31, 1:30 pm

Josephine Lilla Bono

Terra Somnus

Terra Somnus: Dreamland

In a distant town a mysterious troubadour performs every night, soothing the daily heartache of the people. Nobody knows where he comes from, but he's the bearer of a unique art that turns dreams into a collective happening.

9 min. | SPAIN | Animation

PSCC April 1, 5:00 pm

Daniel Othon M. Gallardo

The Beatles Versus The Stones

The Beatles Vs. The Stones

Two bone-fide giants of music attempt to outdo each other with trickery, silliness and cake fights. With a specially made music track that takes from both bands to make something brand new. Why don't we do it in the road?

3 min. |  UK  |  Animation

PSCC March 31, 4:00 pm

Andrew Kelleher (Dog&Rabbit)

Taxing The Sun

Taxing The Sun

Why are Alabama's neighboring states so far ahead of Alabama when it comes to renewable energy? For decades Alabamians have “thanked God for Mississippi”, but that sentiment ends when we consider our right to choose our own sources of electricity.

24 min. |  USA  |  Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 6:30 pm

Gillian Harrill

The After

The After: A Chef's Wish

After Chef Fatima Ali - Fan Favourite Winner of 'Top Chef: Season 15' - faces a tragic turn of events in her life, her brother Mohammad must take up the mantle to continue her legacy of bridging cultures through food and providing the joy of it to the underprivileged in Pakistan.

26 min. | PAKISTAN | Documentary Short

PSCC March 31, 1:30 pm

Edward Frumkin

The Benefactors

The Benefactors

A weary young man thinks he found the perfect patrons for his rickshaw tours, but he soon finds out that his new customers can be very demanding.

9 min. |  SWITZERLAND | Animation

PSCC April 2, 2:00 pm

Christophe Lopez-Huici

Ten By Ten

Ten By Ten

With the help of her husband Dongseop, Jessica opened an American-style diner out of her home on Jeju Island, South Korea in 2018. But after being featured on one of the country’s most popular television shows, the couple must now adapt to the shock of their newfound TV fame.

29 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 30, 12:00 pm

Jami L. Bennett

The Bare You

The Bare You

An accomplished acrobat from Lisbon flies half way around the world to Yosemite Valley to take a nude photograph with an old homeless climbing photographer she's never met. Identity crisis? Or is she onto something?

11 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm

Eric Alexander Foss

The Bloom

The Bloom

In Beijing on March 4th 2022, Chinese artist Jody Xiong was invited by Chief Director Zhang Yimou to create a technologically-powered art installation called ‘The Bloom’.

3 min. | CHINA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 31, 2:00pm

Jody Xiong

The Clowns Are Coming

The Clowns Are Coming

Follow the efforts of the Chicago-based Hot Clown Company to put together a show under the bold -- and polarizing -- leadership of its head clown, Thirsty.

15 min. |  USA  |  Documentary Short

PSCC April 7, 1:30 pm

A. Kwa S. Boas T. Brewster V. Benefield

The Giant With A House 2

The Giant With A House 2

The journey of a big giant carrying a house with a small girl. This time they find a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, and a glowing modern metropolitan city in the wasteland.

 11 min.|  HK  | Animation

PSCC April 2, 11:30 am

Sin-hong Chan

The Island Of Us

The Island Of Us

"Seed" can’t get under the sun and the shadows and needs light to exist. "Seed" makes up her mind to find a way to be with the shadow and then to on an exploration of this strange world.

19 min. |  TAIWAN  |  Animation

PSCC March 31, 1:30 pm

Yu Yu

The Dark Frog Experiment

The Dark Frog Experiment

A woman's nightmare is turned reality when she is kidnapped by a mad scientist who plans to add her to his collection of monsters.

7 min.  | USA | Animation

PSCC March 31,  9:00 pm

Gabriel Caro

The Glove

The Glove

When a 14-year-old immigrant gets a job as a house cleaner, she is faced with the perplexing habits of her American employer.

4 min. | USA   | Animated Work

PSCC April 3, 2:00 pm

Mimi Chakarova

The Magical Crow

The Magical Crow

A poet's story of his upbringing and troubled relationship with his mother is set against fragmented imagery and one of the poet's written works, The Magical Crow.

13 min. | AUSTRALIA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 12:00 pm

Joseph Betros

The Egret River

The Egret River

Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begin to see mysterious illusions…

20 min.  | TAIWAN |  Animation

PSCC March 31, 9:00 pm

Wan-Ling Liu

The Healer

The Healer

Having been raised amongst a traditionally conservative Christian community, Dr. Ebtesam Islam, an American Muslim pulmonologist in Lubbock, Texas, leans on her faith and community to cope with stress and anxiety, while saving lives and staying hopeful.

10 min | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 7:30 pm

Justin Mashouf

The Man Of The Wind

The Man Of The Wind

Marco is a talented kite-surfing instructor who decides to leave everything behind in Venice, his home town, to live a simple life in the beautiful island of Sardinia, Italy.
In the movie he talks us through his struggles and inspiring motivations that led him where he is today.

9 min. | ITALY | Documentary Short

PSCC April 9, 1:30 pm

Bruno Santinoli

The Mels

The Mels

17 min. | COSTA RICA, USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 2, 4 pm

S. Kleiman, J. Harward, D. Lubezki

An artist recasts major changes in her life as deaths, seeking to change how
individuals think about their lives and the lives of others.

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The Recall

The Recall:  Reframed

20 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 7:30 pm

Rebecca Richman Cohen

The "Recall" came at the height of the #MeToo movement, some hailed it as a victory against rape culture, white privilege, and a system stacked against survivors of sexual violence. Who bears the burden when we demand harsher punishment for a privileged white defendant?

The Social Chameleon

The Social Chameleon

10 min. | USA | Animation

PSCC April 2, 11:30 am

Alex Ross

Cosmo the chameleon doesn't fit in with the other animals. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to find his place in the jungle. Then, everything changes when he meets another chameleon who shows him how to live by his own true colors!

The Sticklet Weaver

The Sticklet Weaver

8 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 30, 2:30 pm

Jim Hollenbaugh

Brent Brown is a self-taught artist with lifelong mental health challenges. Intuitive and deeply talented, in recent years he has started building complex, highly fanciful "puppets" constructed from dozens of cardboard elements with fully moveable joints.

This Is National Wake

This Is National Wake

66 min. | USA | Documentary Feature

PSCC April 2, 11:00 am

Mirissa Neff

Join us recounting the story of a multiracial South African punk band, dubbed "the band that defied apartheid," whose members risked everything to taste freedom—and documented themselves doing so on brilliant Super 8.

Two The Story Of Roman And Nyro

TWO: The Story Of Roman & Nyro

71 min. | USA | Documentary Feature

PSCC April 1, 2:00 pm

Heather Winters

Desmond Child and Curtis Shaw are a testament to the universal power and ultimate triumph of love– a love that makes a family, affirming modern families may be modern in their making, but timelessly human at their core. (accompanied with music.)

The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer

19 min. | CANADA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 31, 12:00 pm

Ross Munro

A filmmaker celebrates his inspiration for movies by recreating what it was like for his 9-year old self in 1972 when he journeyed downtown to spend a magical Saturday afternoon at the movies.

The Other Side

The Other Side

15 min.| CUBA, USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm

Gabriela Cavanagh, Grace McNally

Three of Cuba’s most celebrated dancers leave the national company to form their own trio.  A behind-the-scenes-look as the three test the boundaries of contemporary dance, friendship and art.

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The Record

9 min. | USA | Animation

PSCC April 2, 11:00 am

Jonathan Laskar

Obsessed by this endless record, an antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories reemerge until one last and most painful memory is revealed: how he got separated from his mother on the Swiss border during World War II.

The Source Of Life

The Source Of Life

10 min. | SPAIN | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 5:00 pm

Eduardo Soutullo

An international supercomputer installed in a satellite, was programmed to put an end to a virus that is destroying life on Earth. Its success starts a new era of perfect ecological balance for the planet, but with unsuspected consequences for the human species.

The Stolen de Koonig

The Stolen De Kooning

8 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 30, 2:30 pm

Christopher Sprinkle

Cut from its frame, ripped from its backing, rolled up, and stolen from a museum in Arizona, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre has been through a lot. When the painting was discovered in an antique store in Silver City, New Mexico 30 years later, it needed extensive repairs. In 2017 conservators at Getty got to work mending the torn canvas, and painstakingly restoring the composition.

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Titration: Radioactive Waste

10 min. |  USA  | Animation

PSCC April 1, 11:30 am

michael q ceballos

Radioactive Waste, Princeton, and the Navajo Nation examining how Princeton directly and indirectly contributed to the destructive consequences of nuclear research on Native communities.

The Old Man And The River

The Old Man And The River

16 min. | USA, BRAIZIL  | Documentary Short

PSCC April 2, 1:30 pm

Robert Soucy, Arkus N. Rodrigues

After living on his boat in the Amazon Rainforest for over a decade, a wise man prepares to reunite with his daughter and shares what he`s learned from his time on the river.

The Rail Way Home

The Rail Way Home

11 min.| UKRAINE | Animation

PSCC April 3, 2:00 pm

Theo Michael Alexei Sharp Kourkov

Our hero pushes himself along a railway leading to the meeting place of his friends. An observer follows the journey and helps the traveler face what he is to leave behind and what he can take away.

The Ruth Brinker Story

The Ruth Brinker Story

23 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 2, 1:30 pm

Apo Bazidi

At the age of 63, retired food-service worker Ruth Brinker became a pioneer
of HIV care in her community and would become a legend among San
Franciscans. Providing meals with love became the hallmark of her mission.
Her goal was to not only provide meals.

The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us

6 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm

Gabriel Diamond

A radical experiment in the power of bearing witness, inviting vulnerability, and sharing movement, in a time of social distancing and racial reckoning.

The World Of Mama Butterfly

The World Of Mama Butterfly

4 min. | CHINA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 30, 2:30 pm

Yuqian Cao

A minor ethnic group, Miao, in Guizhou, China, holds the butterfly as their totem and applies the symbol in their embroidery.  

Two Worlds

Two Worlds

16 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 11:30 am

Zackary Rayner

The story of the Salton Sea, its past as a resort to its current dilapidated state, and why it should be saved, all told through the eyes of its visitors and residents.

Txotxongiloa

Txotxongiloa

A female puppet appears locked in a room, prostrate on the floor and immobile. After several experiences, ropes are attached to her body and her movements begin to be more and more fluid.

10 min. | SPAIN | Animation

PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm

Sonia Estévez

Vicious Circle

Vicious Circle

My grandmother's lack of love for my mother resulted in my mothers exerting extreme control over me. This vicious cycle was a result of actions brought about by the family between three generations.

11 min. | CHINA  | Animation

PSCC April 1 , 5:00 pm

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Ukrainians In Exile

Ukrainians In Exile

Listen to Anya, who while still in Ukraine after the invasion, ponders how other counties will receive incoming refugees from her home country. 

7 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC April 1, 7:30 pm

Janek Ambros

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Unconfined

Unconfined

Confined to his room during Covid and on a breathing machine 24 hours a day, Victor Pineda, filmmaker, urban planner, internationally renowned activist, UC Berkeley professor, and a two-time presidential appointee in the Obama Administration, searches for what makes a life worth living.

38 min. | USA | Documentary Short

PSCC March 31, 2:00 pm

Victor Pineda

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