Director Joseph Braude
United States
Runtime 6:22
Completion Date: November 1, 2024

Hussein El Hajj Hassan, a young Shi’ite in Lebanon, grew up immersed in Hezbollah propaganda that demonized Israel and Jews as “zombies … spreading and growing, who aim to conquer the entire Arab region from the Nile to the Euphrates.” Then, as a college student, he participated in a series of exchange programs in the U.S. and Europe, where he met Israeli students. The deep friendships he formed changed his understanding of the world. Returning to Lebanon, he began advocating—at great risk—among his fellow Shi’ites for peace with Israel.

​Director Helena Giersz
United States
Runtime 2:22
Completion Date: May 1, 2024

Girls dreams of becoming ballerina cannot come true because of the war

Director Joseph Braude
United States
Runtime 6:39
Completion Date:

To feed his family amid the hardships of civil war, a young Syrian man takes a job with Hezbollah as a courier. He soon discovers that the packages he is transporting contain the drug Captagon — and his associates have been slipping crushed tablets into his tea.

Director Joseph Braude
United States
Runtime 6:36
Completion Date: September 23, 2024

his animated sequence features the actual recorded voice of a Syrian victim of Hezbollah's sex trafficking network, who gave us an unprecedented interview in Syria on condition of anonymity. She describes the circumstances of her abduction, rape, six-month enslavement, and ultimate escape, and asks other women who have faced a similar ordeal to come forward and share their stories with the world.

Director Joseph Braude
United States
Runtime 10:57
Completion Date: September 14, 2024

"The Combatant," an animated documentary short, tells the true story of a Lebanese Shi’ite boy transfixed by American action movies who is lured into combat by Hezbollah during its entry into the Syrian civil war. The fables he was told about the thrill of combat turn into bitter reality on the battlefield. He undergoes a profound change of heart and mind that leads him to an improbable new life.

Directors Ursula Echeverria, Brenda Kleiman
United States
Runtime 15:05
Completion Date: August 1, 2024

​Director Rudolf Šmíd
Czech Republic
Runtime 29:45
Completion Date: December 24, 2023

The animated film Our Gift to the World deals with world-renowned personalities who were born in the Czechia, and one indecent graffiti unknown in the world except the Czechia, which only Czechs know. They have been passing it on conspiratorially for five hundred years. In the twentieth century, this symbol of a woman's lap got out of enclosures and walls and into the top of Czech culture.

Director Peter Wood
United Kingdom
Runtime 6:08
Completion Date: June 20, 2024

A mother, father and child exist in their own simple abstracted world. However, that world is one day shattered by outside forces. After the violent loss of the mother, the father and child have to adapt to a new, harsh reality together.

​Director XiaoJun Tan
China
Runtime 11:01
Completion Date: July 10, 2023

This is a poignant tale about home as belonging, which explores the profound metaphorical significance of father and mountain. A father and his son reside in the mountains, where the father works as a stonemason, shouldering the weight of their family's needs through arduous labor.