Boarding the Midnight Train

A Different Tree(en)

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Seasick(en)

Ferry deckhand Sadie is in disarray as she tries to delete a love-confessing text to her coworker.

PK(en)

The local pastor’s daughter escapes youth group to go to her first high school party.

Dao(en)

Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man she barely knows in a strange country with foreign tastes, scents and habits makes Dao feel rootless. Does she realizes only now what she has started?

The Prime Time of Your Life(es)

A phone call turns an evening at home into a nightmare.

The Painter(en)

When an aspiring painter grapples with self-doubt in his artistic journey, his father must learn to love and accept him for who he is.

Moving On(en)

Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.

Hymn(en)

As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.

Listen(en)

Alice and Emmett reflect on their fraying relationship. A hazy tapestry of summer memories recollected through voice recordings.

My Father’s Badger(fi)

After her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand. On the day of the departure, she finds her mother Sylvi and her father’s taxidermy badger in a bar and Sylvi makes a revelation that may change Maarit’s departure plans.

The Anderson Family Breakfast(en)

While a seemingly picture-perfect suburban family enjoys breakfast together, an omniscient narrator reveals their repressed inner thoughts and secrets…all just moments before a nuclear bomb is dropped on the family.

Stranger In The City(hi)

When life brings Suhas, a corporate trainer, to a new city, he comes across a lively young man and a mysterious traveller girl who make him ruminate about his life choices and aspirations.

Switched Shifts(cs)

A story about a girl, a foreign worker employed at a printing house. A boy and several men long for the girl, but they do not meet even the girl’s low demands. Her current boyfriend (and superior) is cheating on her, her new admirer at work is currently homeless, and the third man is probably a liar.

Merenguito(es)

Merenguito, a little piñata boy, wakes up on a school table after being put together by a group of primary school children. Soon they discover his gift: dispensing candy at will. When the children become absorbed by their greed for candy, Merenguito finds comfort in his friendship with Bruno, a gentle child outcast from his peers due to his delicate health condition. Chaos soon erupts and Merenguito becomes a victim of merciless bullying that spirals him into a choice with terrible consequences.

Through Me(hr)

A short portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.

Pond, Fish(cn)

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.

Úsvit(cs)

Two, Mississippi(en)

Two friends resort to playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, flipping a coin, and detailed, yet petty analyzation of their friendship to determine which of them will call the mother of their recently deceased best friend, informing her of his demise.

Trading Favors(en)

A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.

The Handmaid's Tale Scene Recreation: "Offred"(en)

A recreation of the opening scene from the pilot episode of The Handmaid's Tale, "Offred." Originally directed by Reed Morano, ASC. Original cinematography by Colin Watkinson, ASC, BSC. Original teleplay written by Bruce Miller. Made in Misael Sanchez's "Filmmaking: Visualizing and Creating Moving Images for the Screen" at Sarah Lawrence College.