Beyond Unstoppable
Atlanta, GA
November 2025
Director: Korstiaan Vandiver
In the heart of DeKalb County, Georgia, a young Somali refugee struggles with grief and anger after losing his father and sister back home. His mother, working two jobs to keep them afloat, longs to be present for her son but is too overworked to be the steady presence he needs. On long train rides to escape his circumstances, he glimpses a soccer field — a flash of hope in a life overshadowed by loss. When a fellow Somali teen notices him staring at the field, she invites him to join her team. As he rises to become their star player, she battles her own isolation at home with her emotionally absent father, still broken by the loss of his wife and son in Somalia. Their lives intertwine on and off the field until a fight forces her father to hear her truth about their home life. On the night of the big game, both parents show up for the children they’ve been failing, and a long-buried secret is revealed: they are each other’s lost spouses, and the teens are not just teammates but siblings. In a single, transformative moment, soccer shifts from being an escape to becoming the force that heals grief, reunites a shattered family, and makes them beyond unstoppable.
Saltwater Psalms
Ocho Rios, Jamaica
February 2026
Director: Devin Nikki Thomas
Saltwater Psalms is a six minute visual poem built from fragments of the natural world. Instead of a linear story, the film moves through a living collage of water, shoreline, foliage, animals, food, and sunlight. Each image becomes its own reminder that the body knows how to come home when it is given space to breathe.
A Pretty Pass
Darlington, MD
August 2025
Director: Chelsea Smith Hall
Mixed-race Izzie sees her new camp friends’ true colors when she discovers she has been unknowingly passing for White all summer.
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Best in Class: Blenda J. Wilson, Jon Onye Lockard, and the Portrait that Connected Them
Dearborn, MI
February 2026
Director: Rick Morrone
A portrait of the University of Michigan's first Black woman chancellor, Blenda J. Wilson and the artist, Jon Onye Lockard, who painted it
The Missing Piece
Boston, MA
August 2025
Director: Emanuel Fidalgo
Clarence tries to recreate his late mother's signature dish from a recipe she left him, but the last ingredient is an illegible smudge. Drifting through dual crises of grief and identity, he meets Emi, a bodega store owner insistent on helping with the dish but focused on mending his spirit.