UNYIELDING SPIRIT SHORT If you can’t 昀氀y then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Iredell Arts Council • Saturday 9/9 • 10:15AM - 11:45AM MINE MINE MINE FILM Director: Duncan Ragg Australia • 2023 • Short Narrative • 0:20:29 A bed-bound man reflects on his childhood with Peter Pan, and how sometimes everyone grows up without you. GABRIELA SES Director: Evelyn Lorena United States • 2023 • Short Narrative • 0:16:01 A young undocumented Guatemalan woman dreams SIONS of joining a Country Club swim team in the American South. THINGS UNHEARD OF Director: Ramazan Kilic Turkey • 2023 • Short Narrative • 0:15:36 A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world. MID IRIS Directors: McCready Brothers United States • 2023 • Short Narrative • 0:25:45 A goth highschooler tries to maintain his will to live in the face of the terrible awkwardness and pain of adolescence. 25

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