A Single Mom – Farhad Ali and Peyman Soheili ( Toronto , Ontario , Canada ) A single mom and her teenage daughter communicate with sticky notes . 2020 ; 8 min . Ironrite – Clayton Combe ( Tappan , New York ) A 1950s housewife struggles to accept her place in the world , while hiding herself and her young son from an aggressive door-to-door salesman . 2019 ; 9 min . Turtle Island - Orko Mukherjee ( Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) A beautiful coming of age drama which revolves around Irene , an orphaned teen raised by her Native American guardian , who falls in with the wrong crowd and runs away . Irene returns after 10 years , now with her daughter , and follows a better path . Along with a focus on domestic trafficking , the story also makes an attempt to bring up the treatment of indigenous community in this country . The hardship the community had to go through in the past and , which is still relevant . 2020 ; 58 min .