With Care – 2026

Tuesday, April 14, 5:15 PM

Sin Luces
Director: Shahriar Shafiani, Narrative, USA, 19 min
A man struggles to feel at home in a changing hometown. Through fleeting moments of friendship, he faces the hardships of holding onto identity in a world that feels increasingly distant.

Reliefs
Director: Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez, Narrative, Mexico, 18 min
Carlos is approaching midlife trapped in a personal crisis that has lingered too long. His mother, suffers from disabling pain that is only mitigated by the warm waters of hydrotherapy. One night, she offers to make the ultimate sacrifice so that they can both transit to a better place.

Stale Air
Director: Sarah Liebman, Narrative, USA, 19 min
A reclusive woman’s husband dies suddenly at their family beach house. Left alone, she begins to believe she has become a living corpse.

No One Knows I Disappeared
Director: Hanxiong Bo, Narrative, China, 17 min
In the shadow of China’s growing erasure of marginalized lives and the tightening state surveillance, a sudden disappearance of an elderly woman in the frigid winter propels her caregiver, Lin, on a relentless search.

The Curfew
Director: Shehrezad Maher, Narrative, USA, 20 min
When Ayaan becomes a temporary caregiver for his grandmother, they find themselves adrift in the gulf of a language barrier. In the silence, specters of a colonial past shift how he sees strangers and himself.