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Alex Munoz was brought up in East San Jose and knows what he is talking about in Por Vida when he portrays the life of an innocent Latino youth who tries to find his roots in the persona of his missing father in Mexico. On the way, he finds love and comfort in the arms of a gold-hearted prostitute. --Hayet Ennabli
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Francine Mc Dougall's two-minute short Pig shows that big comedy can come in small packages when two people meet on the road. --Matthew Aquino
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When reality is too hard to face, imagination seems to be one of the primary ways in which children escape. In Paul McCall, a comedy by Benjamin Hershleder, to evade the harshness and dangers of real life, Paul escapes into an eccentric, imaginary world where he always prevails. --Hayet Ennabli
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James Frisa has created an experimental comedy/drama where life imitates art and dream imitates film. Out of Sync follows a man who examines his life out of step with the universe. --Matthew Aquino
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Meeting Daria, a coming of age fable by Joelle Ehre, tells the story of Aggie, a high school freshman whose secret body brace isolates her from other teens. Will Daria, a young girl murdered in Central Park, help Aggie overcome distress? --Hayet Ennabli
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Marriage a la Mode is a fish-out-of-water comedy by Rick Hays. Our mail-order bride heroine, Svetlana, comes to America to her new husband, who promptly dies. The resulting hunt for a husband spins out of control. --Matthew Aquino
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In Laura of Albania, Margret Run depicts the life of a nine-year-old Albanian girl who sought asylum in Germany. Laura resorts to a creative, somewhat nightmarish, imaginary world to balance the lack of beauty her everyday life. --Hayet Ennabli
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David McLennan's Kismet is a black comedy about a group of strangers who learn the importance of karma and avoiding people with guns. --Matthew Aquino
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Jan Krawitz' In Harm's Way juxtaposes the filmmaker's own childhood in the late 50's with family values of that era and her actual adult encounter's with anonymous violence. This poignant document expresses her own unheard cries but also echoes those cries of victims everywhere. --Hayet Ennabli
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Roslyn Schwartz's I'm Your Man..., set to Leonard Cohen's song of the same name, offers a playful meditation on romance and the clich?s that go with it. --Matthew Aquino