Minorities in Film returns with a message for the future visionaries. What will you create next?

Directed by Jordan St. James

In retro-future LA, Andrea, a lonely roboticist, neglects her life to finish her masterpiece – IRIS. While teaching IRIS the ropes of being sentient, she realizes she must patch things up with her father. By giving birth to artificial life, Andrea learns how to live a real organic life.

Directed by Christopher Guerrero

In a dystopian future, citizens live and work in Company towers a thousand stories tall, bound by a strict contract to build robotics for a far-off war. Unsanctioned vices, especially relationships with the androids they build, are severely punished. When Conor watches the vice police arrest his neighbor, he fears he and Dosso, the hacked android he loves, will be next. As they attempt to flee the tower, Max, the head of the Vice Department, sets a plan in motion that will tear Conor and Dosso apart — and introduce Conor to a renegade group called the Friends of Sophia. 

Directed by Alden Peters

What happens when the world is completely barren? Eve Shields will find a way to recreate human life even if it means risking her last egg. 

Directed by B. Monet

Friction (2024) is a short experimental documentary uncovering the social erasure and segregation of trans identities, the ‘friction’ in body conceptualization. The film features Yuqi Zhang, a closeted transgender woman in her 30s living in mainland China, as she navigates these challenges firsthand. Yuqi faces a harrowing choice: risk social abandonment by embracing her true self or endure the mental strain of remaining invisible to stay safe. She strives to balance familial expectations, societal constraints imposed on her body and choices, her growing gender dysphoria and depressive symptoms, and her pursuit of a happy and fulfilling life.

Directed by Xiona Li

Struggling to climb the corporate ladder, a Latina office worker finally lands a leadership training seminar, only to realize that to be successful, trainees must become clones of the "nepo baby" boss.

Director Chloe Caudillo

When their mothers' health deteriorates, estranged brothers, RAJESH and SHIVA are unexpectedly reunited to decide how to move forward. Meanwhile, society has turned to BREATHE, an app that allows its users to erase their painful memories and live in eternal bliss. Rajesh, a realist, struggles with his brother Shiva, the optimist and BREATHE addict. Their differing perspectives on how to cope creates a strife between them that may be irreconcilable. Against the backdrop of a society seduced by memory erasure, their battle is a poignant exploration of family, culture, technology, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Directed by Anvita Gattani