Experimental animation artist Rose Ansari renders the work of Forough Farrokhzad (1934 – 1967), noted as the first Iranian poet to promote the culture of women in poetry. Ansari shares, “Expressing her thoughts on discrimination and inequality, Forough described Iranian women’s untold suffering. ...

An uncommon view in these difficult times,18 year-old, Caribbean-American filmmaker Khai J Umstead delivers a manifesto of gratitude, YVONNE is inspired by and named after Umstead’s grandmother, Yvonne, who is blind in one eye “yet still finds gratitude and joy in life,” Umstead writes. “No matte...

Filmmaker and writer Hannah Villanueva offers a fleeting, nearly silent portrayal of the slow, draining nature of longing. With poetic text-on-screen unfurling like a prayer flag across wintry landscapes, an intimate harvesting of pomegranate seeds, and an exhausted snow angel, the residue of Res...

Inspired by newsprint, poetry, and an urgency to preserve the stories of his sovereign island country, filmmaker Leang Ren Ong serves up Singapore’s final day of hardcopy news in Morning Times—an audiovisual time capsule of anthropological research and age-old breakfast routines blended with radi...