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Female Filmmaker Shorts Block Reclaim Your Water: Natasha Smith Breaking barriers and making her own waves, Natasha Smith is a core member of the Ebony Beach Club. She shares her own story in hopes of increasing representation in surf, skate, and any other sport or activity that has historically been exclusive and can give such …
Friday Night Shorts Split Ends A bald girl and a young boy with long hair whose car has been confiscated due to lack of proper hijab are trying to solve their problem with the Tehran Morality Police without having to pay a fine. Police surveillance cameras have mistaken the boy for a woman because …
I’m Coming From That Crowded City Director: Mina Salimi Runtime: 12:04 min Genre: Drama, Foreign, Iranian Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2:30pm Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater Screening Info Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2:30pm Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater Address: 201 Washington St. Reading, PA Tickets: $10
Karma Latte: The Lenin Gutierrez Story Director: Ozz Gomez Runtime: 35 minutes Karma strikes when a barista finds himself the subject of a public social media shaming attempt that totally backfires. website Screening Info Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 5:30pm Venue: Reading IMAX Theater Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading Tickets: $10
Voice of Selma Director: Roya Iravani Runtime: 30 minutes The Voice of Selma (Moghaddam Museum) Project is a feature-length documentary film that guides us through the treasures collected over a lifetime of work by Selma Moghaddam and her husband Mohsen. Against a backdrop of government hostility toward Persian works of art that predate the Islamic …
Goodbye Olympic Director: Mojtaba poorbakhsh Runtime: 18:37 minutes Maria is a girl whom she is a champion of Kayak; she is waiting for dispatching to the Olympics Qualification which held in France. The schedule of dispatching the kayaking team will be called off because of some troubles. Synthesis Director: Mohammad Towrivarian Runtime: 15 minutes A …
Our Feet are Rooted Director: Krista Imbesi Runtime: 29:54 minutes “Our Feet Are Rooted” is a documentary about government sponsored land grabbing in Northern Uganda and the non-violent techniques community members are using to fight for their ancestral land. watch trailer Buddha’s Shame Director: Morteza Atashzamzam Runtime: 30 minutes Bangladeshi local reporter Tamna travels to …
Simin Director: Morteza Atash Zamzam Runtime: 78 minutes Simin is a film about the cause of the drying up of the Zayandehrood (a river placed in Esfehan city in Iran) and its effects on the people life, especially farmers. The story is told in a metaphorical space and the mother character it is a symbol …
Original Sin Director: Jean Lee Runtime: 75 minutes After moving to Spain for her husband, Eva, a Paraguayan woman of class and elegance who always behaves in an appropriate way, finds herself bored, unhappy, and sexually frustrated. After Eva compulsively buys a provocative and offensive piece of art the painter shows up to hand-deliver his …
Outside Time (Afuera Del Tiempo) Director: Marco Velez Esquivia Runtime: 90 minutes A man returns to the past to stop his girlfriend from ending their relationship before he can propose to her but every time he comes back she breaks up with him giving him a different excuse. Now he has to change according to …
