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Visa

By Alan Ng | August 2026

It’s undeniable that people around the world would love to live in America…ok, not all, but most. Chi Tran’s short film, VISA,…

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It's undeniable that people around the world would love to live in America…ok, not all, but most. Chi Tran's short film, VISA, is the story of one young...

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Andy Warhol made a career out of turning ordinary things into art, and director Lubomir Slivka's Andy Warhol: American Dream pulls off the same trick by...

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In writer-director Sally Lomidze's short film, Behind the Pose, Masha (Ksena Samborska) is a 16-year-old model from Eastern Europe living in a cramped New...

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We've seen hopeful renditions of the fortunate pilgrim's journey, the immigrant who comes to the land of milk and honey, and in it, washing away the...

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There Was, There Was Not, the feature-length debut of writer-director Emily Mkrtichian, abruptly shifts its focus halfway, or so, through. The first part...

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Exiled to a remote fishing town in Taiwan because of her parents' pending divorce, a young American girl, Anna (Hana Lee), dreams of returning home to the...

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