Veena Rao

'Fill your Heart with French Fries' is a sad comedy short - telling the tale of a young woman who gets dumped by her girlfriend at a fast food joint, and, too sad to leave, just stays there for a week.

Unjustly stuck behind bars for more than 20 years, Moath al Alwi builds elaborately detailed ships out of scrap materials from Guantanamo Bay.

An Iraqi refugee bides his time in immigration limbo by creating obsessively detailed dioramas.

THE ART OF EXILE is a series of three intimate and visually powerful short films celebrating the transformative power of art by showcasing exiled, censored, and imprisoned artists and their resilience against oppression through creativity. It features: Yemeni sculptor Moath al-Alwi (A SHIP FROM GUANTÁNAMO); Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji (THE EX-CRIMINAL); and Vietnamese pop star Mai Khoi (MAI KHOI: I SING WHAT I SEE).