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An Egyptian teen-ager, living in the suburbs of Montreal with his brother and father, confronts the sting of racism at home, in the writer and director Aziz Zoromba’s film “Simo.”

The filmmakers Ben Wolin and Michael Minahan’s documentary short follows Daniel Kish, who uses clicks and echoes to listen his way through the world.

Khalil Sahragard’s documentary short follows an amputee in Kurdistan who carves prosthetics for others who, like him, have lost limbs to explosives after the Iran-Iraq War.

In Samantha Sanders’s documentary short, a group of Chicago women find pandemic solace, in a death-defying winter ritual.

In María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse’s short film, addresses suggest an alternative understanding of space and time.

Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions, and cost a lawmaker his career.

Sharon Liese and Catherine Hoffman’s short film follows three close-knit generations through the process of changing their last name and unravelling some family history.

In Lasse Lyskjær Noer’s short film, two widowers lean on each other for emotional support.

In Jessica Bishopp’s meditative short film, teen-agers in Iceland make it their mission to rescue lost puffins.

In “The Night Doctrine,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral, the experiences of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces soldiers, and of the civilians they targeted, come together in an intimate portrait of national trauma.

Philipp Schaeffer’s film is a glimpse at the overlap of play and perception.

Yahav Winner’s final work captures the dissonance of life along the Israel-Gaza border.

Enrique Pedráza-Botero and Faye Tsakas’s short documentary follows a group of friends in suburban Texas who make their living in the world of “findom” on OnlyFans.

In Pratham Khurana’s short film, about a young man working as a home health aide, resentment and tenderness exist side by side.

In Billy Miossi’s short documentary, a cover-band front man brings music and exuberance to a quieter audience.