IF/Then Presents
12 Episodes
Dedicated to supporting documentary storytellers whose voices have long been marginalized within the film industry, IF/Then Shorts breaks down barriers to access, exposure, and funding in the media landscape. To date, IF/Then has been instrumental in bringing more than fifty projects from across the globe to the screen, including an intimate window into an evolving trans relationship (A PLACE ON THE EDGE OF BREATH), a poignant rumination on incarceration and alienation (BLUE ROOM), and a timely look at the Muslim community’s response to rising hate crimes in New York City (EVERYBODY’S WATCHING).
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10:04Episode 2The Body Is a House of Familiar Rooms
Episode 2
Directed by Eloise Sherrid and Lauryn Welch • 2022 • United States
Samuel Geiger has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective-tissue disorder that causes severe chronic pain. This short magical-realist documentary about life and love with a chronic illness combines paintings and live-action footage ...
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29:31Episode 3A Place on the Edge of Breath
Episode 3
Directed by Veronica Rutledge • 2022 • United States
A PLACE ON THE EDGE OF BREATH is a moving window into the relationship between Ava Fiadh and Shaawan Francis as they share some of their most intimate moments during life and gender transitions over the course of a year.
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09:56Episode 4When It’s Good, It’s Good
Episode 4
Directed by Alejandra Vasquez • 2023 • United States
In this intimate look at family, memory, and economy, the filmmaker returns to her hometown in West Texas to document the effects of the boom-and-bust nature of the oil industry.
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21:57Episode 5Madulu, the Seaman
Episode 5
Directed by Akley Olton • 2023 • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, United States
Omari’s young life in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines revolves around playing football, and through the sport he sees the world. That all changes when his grandfather, the last of the Barrouallie whalers, teaches h...
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18:55Episode 6Everybody’s Watching
Episode 6
Directed by Omar Al Dakheel • 2023 • United States
In New York City, a group of volunteers launch the first Muslim Patrol to combat the rising hate crimes in their community while also solving issues of their own.
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Mizuko
Episode 7
Directed by Kira Dane and Katelyn Rebelo • 2019 • United States
In Japan, there is a special way to grieve after having an abortion. Inspired by these Buddhist rituals, MIZUKO is an intimate look at how a half-Japanese American woman reevaluates the controversial drawing of “the line” in abortio...
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18:51Episode 8Stay Close
Episode 8
Directed by Luther Clement and Shuhan Fan • 2019 • United States, China
Mixing documentary and animation, this creatively told underdog story follows a fencer from Brooklyn who must overcome a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics.
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Queenie
Episode 9
Directed by Cai Thomas • 2020 • United States
Queenie is a seventy-three-years-young Black lesbian who has called the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn home since 1988, but she is ready to move to a building that better meets her mobility, safety, and social needs as an aging elder. She applies to Ston...
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15:53Episode 10Flatbush! Flatbush!
Episode 10
Directed by Alex Ramírez-Mallis • 2021 • United States
A fleet of minibuses race up and down Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, providing commuters a familiar, if occasionally harrowing, alternative to the subway for only $2 a ride.
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Nonstop
Episode 11
Directed by Zac Manuel and Marta Rodriguez Maleck • 2021 • United States
The interconnected daily journeys of bus riders and operators on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority bus lines illuminate why the Black community there has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. While the bus ...
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13:20Episode 12Life Without Dreams
Episode 12
Directed by Jessica Bardsley • 2022 • United States
LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS is set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness due to light pollution.
