Sean Weiner

Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amid the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.

A hybrid short documentary exploring the fracture between a queer daughter and her mother, featuring the filmmaker’s own personal archive. The film blends documentary and narrative elements to depict the filmmaker’s mother’s rigid vision for her daughter’s life, set against the reality unfolding through archival footage dating back to 1995. Through directing an actor to play her mother and fill in the widening gaps over time, O’Connor now attempts to sculpt her mother.

Kai, a genderqueer Chinese-American, and their mother, Li, deal with the effects of a heavy storm on their basement apartment in Queens. Zhou, Kai’s grandfather, is dying in Northeast China. During this sleepless night, a familiar spirit visits Kai and mistakes them for Li.

The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real-time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.

In this stop-motion animated comedy, a young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap.

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.

Three interconnected stories about not having it all figured out in your early thirties - and not necessarily caring.

After being diagnosed with ALS, Sol visits the hospital with his partner Ben to record a voice bank of phrases and words before he loses the ability to speak. But speaking openly in front of medical professionals doesn't come easy to Sol. This isn't so much a case of coming out as of trying to stay in.

A single woman's emotions begin to stir when an eccentric African couple moves in next door to her.

Bowen, a nonbinary Asian-American from Queens, tries to connect with their estranged father and help him deal with a poisonous fish bite.

An artist moves to an island to focus on her work. Quickly, she becomes obsessed with one of her projects.

After months of isolation during a global pandemic, Zora must adjust to new neighbors moving in, taking away her access to the downstairs garden. As her romantic relationship deteriorates, her obsession with the new tenants and the garden increases. Her denial dissipates, and her new purpose becomes clear: she wants what little of her’s is left in that garden.

Following the birth of her niece, Jing returns to Singapore for the newborn’s full month celebration. Here she is forced to confront her contentious relationship with her estranged mother and a traditional family politic—the causes of her departure a decade prior.

Over the course of one year, a sustainable salmon fisherman struggles to stay afloat at sea and on land as the demands of her small salmon business mount.

Caro Comes Out is a queer torture experiment, but also a comedy, but also a short film about coming out to your entire Cuban family.

Fang Lin is a teenager who does not want to exist. Between a stifling environment and a falling out with her best friend, she feels utterly trapped in ennui. Meanwhile, the magic of Singapore’s natural world begins to rumble, threatening to break the leevee.

A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.

The intimate moments between a Chinese nail tech and her Black client in a Brooklyn nail salon.

Three snapshots of black life in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a place where the racial injustices of the past continue into the present.

A hybrid documentary about two estranged trans men who used to date in middle school reconnecting over a long weekend to develop a film about their past.