'Surface' - Ciara Zoe

In the near future as Earth has increasingly become uninhabitable, Lumi, a former ballet dancer from Los Angeles, is left behind to discover that the end is only the beginning through a mysterious entity living among her

A young Vietnamese-American girl idolizes her mother and acts as her shadow – until one day, her mother gets an unexpected surgery

On a journey of self-exploration to find himself in Los Angeles, a young man goes around visiting cornerstones of the Black community: the barbershop, the farmers market, Leimert Park. Underneath we hear a poem about how this world has shaped his internal identity.

Inspired by a 19th-century folktale, a young father chases a ghost around his home in search of his daughter.

In the near future, an unprecedented general labor strike sweeps Los Angeles. A Korean immigrant truck driver clashes with his teenage daughter over whether to participate

All is fine and dandy on Jo and Rashaad’s first day living together until a condom breaks

As a young Black man prepares to start his freshman year at Stanford University, he must first say goodbye to his community and close the door on his childhood

A habitual liar afraid of disclosing his sexuality is slowly killed by the lies he tells his friends

On the eve of her move out of LA, a second generation Chinese American woman learns how to let go

After adopting Los Angeles as her new home, a young Egyptian woman struggles with maintaining the facade of the lifestyles her conservative father dictates versus the ones she desires to explore