Aidan Lesser - 22

A desperate woman takes her elderly mother with dementia on one last drive through the snow-covered countryside.

Closing Night

Joey Schweitzer - 24

A Holocaust survivor navigates the pressures of assimilation with the trauma of her past in 1950s Brooklyn.

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Lucas Manuel-Scheibe - 20

A literary translator moves from Sao Paulo to New York to work on the novel of a dying author. Adrift in the unfamiliar city, she seeks solace by consuming soil from her homeland.

Closing Night

Nathan Ginter - 23

After seeing a botched depiction of himself, Sammy, a nude drawing model, sprouts an ear from the back of his head, spiraling his sense of self-image and life out of control.

Centerpiece

JT Trinidad

Along a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to disappear, she realizes that she has been left behind in a stagnating city.

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