Shorts Program

In a town in Turkey, a young couple looking for some privacy are rejected from the hotels because they do not have a marriage certificate.

A former Guantánamo detainee and his American prison guard reunite in Mauritania, rekindling an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives forever.

When a desperate father discovers his daughter’s favorite cake decoration is illegal, he descends into a confectionary black market and must choose between breaking the law or breaking a birthday promise.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter Yasmine set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift, but their shopping trip is derailed by soldiers, checkpoints, and segregated roads.

After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls into a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father as he races to his daughter’s dance recital.

On March 4, 1977, an earthquake in Romania destroyed 80% of the city of Zimnicea…or at least that’s what everybody believed until the truth emerged in 2012 that the true “fault” was Communism.