Simon TaufiQue

Frank Conolly is a man who finds himself shackled by the struggles of life, accentuated by a series of setbacks. Frank's tale of resilience unfolds against the backdrop of typical life circumstances. Frank grapples with his past, a journey marked by his father's passing, a broken relationship, and the loss of his job.

An ex-offender struggling with new freedom pursues redemption at all costs when given a job from his neighbor.

Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

An aspiring film editor receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her own life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face danger in their countries because of their affiliation with the US war effort. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives.

An impulsive millennial mensch who gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandma.

Frank Conolly is a man who finds himself shackled by the struggles of life, accentuated by a series of setbacks. Frank's tale of resilience unfolds against the backdrop of typical life circumstances. Frank grapples with his past, a journey marked by his father's passing, a broken relationship, and the loss of his job.

An ex-offender struggling with new freedom pursues redemption at all costs when given a job from his neighbor.

Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

An aspiring film editor receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her own life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face danger in their countries because of their affiliation with the US war effort. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives.

An impulsive millennial mensch who gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandma.

This compelling documentary portrait is a quiet ode to a woman whose approach to form and material are unmatched in the art world. Working primarily in cedar, von Rydingsvard creates monumental sculptures that play with texture and shape in ways that evoke surprising emotion. Born in Germany to Ukrainian-Polish parents, von Rydingsvard’s family was detained for five years in a post-WWII refugee camp before moving to America. The pain and trauma of this experience, coupled with the anger born from an abusive childhood, left indelible marks on Ursula. But her ability to channel this into her work and practice undoubtedly birthed an artist of singular determination and talent.

When truck driver Kiran hears pounding on a shipping container and finds a young Mexican-American girl inside, his already tumultuous life takes a drastic turn as he seeks to reunite her family.

Seconds after the wedding, a bride is stunned to learn that her new husband fudged nearly everything about his past, but his revelations force her to come clean about a few shocking secrets of her own.