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The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival won a grant from the Academy that will help fund a program highlighting minority female documentary filmmakers. 

I really wish i could be there and see how Americans respond to the film!

The Perfect Soda will be screened on Sunday and Tuesday as part of the "Short Block - Tricks and Treats"

A bleak tale of lost Lebanese souls in Greece unfolds over the course of a telephone conversation between friends. Stranded in a country gripped by economic catastrophe, refugees have resorted to desperate measures to buy hard drugs for fleeting solace.

One cold December night, Israeli soldiers come up to the al-Haddad family home in a Palestinian neighborhood of Hebron and knock on the door. They've come to search the house. Diaa, the teenage son, reaches for the family’s video camera. As the search unfolds, a strange power struggle evolves, pitting gun against camera. The night grows colder, and the soldiers take Diaa outside and order him to face the wall. They won’t leave until he stops smiling.

A surreal study of a simulated terrorist attack in middle America. Composed frames observe the meticulous care taken to stage a hyperreal terrorist event. Once the bomb goes off, hundreds of volunteers deliver a convincing performance as stunned and mutilated blast victims.

The documentary One-Way Ticket tells the story of a young man and a woman, abused and persecuted due to their sexuality, who abandon their home countries in order to apply for asylum in the United States. The film portrays all the drama that surrounds the characters decisions and the reason their choices are made in the first place.