Shorts Program:

Exodus

Post-Screening Discussion with filmmakers Kate Levy (NOTES ON COURTWATCH); James Paul Dallas (DIVISION); Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin, Co-directors (ROOM OF THE ABSOLUTE); Ricardo Betancourt (SUDAKAS); Emma V.F. (WATER COOLER); and Zachary Garmoe (GHOST LANDS). Moderated by writer for Screen Comment, Eric Althoff.

EXODUS traces stories of displacement—forced, chosen, inherited, and imagined—asking what it means to leave, be removed, or remain in the aftermath. From immigration courts and fractured families to wartime exile and the lingering geographies of historical escape, these works frame movement as both political condition and personal reckoning. Across borders, generations, and histories, they bear witness to systems that uproot lives while revealing the resilience of those navigating rupture.