Focus On: Celebrate Diversity

Join us as we celebrate diversity month with a selection go 6 short films that celebrate our differences. Natives – Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita’s parents on the Seneca Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Hole – A daring portrait of a disabled man yearning for intimacy in a world that would rather ignore him. Nahiin Nuu – A Triqui Indian teen wrestles spiritual visions that awaken appreciation for her grandmother and culture. The Bravest, The Boldest – Two Army Casualty Notification Officers arrive at a Harlem housing project to deliver some news to a woman about her son serving in the war in the Middle East. But whatever it is they have to say, she ain’t trying to hear it. Home – Lao Tian is an elderly migrant caretaker of an abandoned construction site. On his last day of work, he encounters a five-year-old city girl who has run away from home. Bie Pu explores the concept of homelessness across the social classes of modern day Beijing. Mast Qalandar – Montek wants to do something for his thirteenth birthday. If he tells his mother what, she won’t let him.