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Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.

"An essential document of a moment in time for a story very much still unfolding, The Encampments is a thorough, engrossing portrait of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment." - The Film Stage

"The Encampments is not just critical in capturing the real-time makings of a movement, but in laying bare the consequences of this response." - The Hollywood Reporter

"The result is a historically conscious film that testifies to generations of occupational violence with a narrative that is just as much in service of Palestinian freedom as the movement it so thoroughly depicts is." - YES! Magazine ​

Nellie, Daisy and Lou attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island in 1954. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their friendship but this is challenged when the school's matron divides them.

"A hopeful — sometimes borderline exuberant — rallying cry for girls to stick together across the various divides that people use to disempower them." - IndieWire ​

"Effortlessly tackles dark subject matter with a light touch, making it surprisingly funny and inspiring." - Collider

"A soaring celebration of misfits and girlhood… tackling some dark parts of our history with a deftly light touch." - The Spinoff

From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza. Initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the project was born to give a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell the untold stories of the current war on film.

"For all its horror and sadness, this is one of the most hopeful films I've ever seen." - RogerEbert.com

"This film is history. It'll be watched in years to come, to help show the horrors and the hope." - Film Focus Online

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.

"Israelism takes apart that narrative, brick by brick, until nothing is left." - Jacobin

"Israelism tells a story which we all need to hear." - Al Jazeera

"Israelism uncovers how young American Jews are rethinking their support for Israel." - The New Arab