Name: Narrative Shorts, Program One: Growing Up is Hard
Start: 2026-04-18
End: 2026-05-03
Location: a/perture cinema #2

On a journey across Central Park, an introspective high school senior develops unexpected feelings for her cha...

15 min | Maggie Brill | USA | North Carolina | English

It’s the Eid holiday. We’re in an apartment building that is owned and lived in by three generations of a ...

15 min | Ahmed ElZogbhy | Egypt | North Carolina | Arabic

The search for her lost cat changes the path of a Hasidic girl’s world....

12 min | Sarah Meital Benjamin | Israel | North Carolina | Hebrew

Nora is caught shoplifting, sparking a major argument with her parents about family values. But she isn't the ...

20 min | Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad | Norway | U.S. | Norwegian

Eric lives in a juvenile center and hopes to live with his mother again when he turns 18. When she doesn’t s...

19 min | Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat | Spain | North Carolina | Spanish

Over the course of a day, 12-year-old Agnes goes apartment hunting in Brooklyn with her dad Peter and struggle...

12 min | Beatrix Chu | USA | North Carolina | English

In this dark comedy, an eight-year-old girl has to grow up quickly during a tense car ride. Set in the 1980s....

9 min | Christy Chan | USA | North Carolina | English, Mandarin

After a Catholic confirmation class, Teresa, a devilish teen, pretends to be a nun, but things go sideways whe...

16 min | Karina Lomelin Ripper | USA | North Carolina | English, Spanish

Narrative Shorts, Program One: Growing Up is Hard

Presented in Multiple Parts