FSU College of Motion Picture Arts 2022 MFA Thesis Screenings - Parts 1 and 2

The Part 1 screening starts at 3pm and features the following films:
Pas de Deux: After his romantic dance partner’s life is cut short, ballet dancer Quentin Jones struggles to perform the dance of a lifetime with someone new.
Our Terminal: A true story about how desire sparked a teenage romance made only more reckless by parents who tried to keep the lovestruck girls apart.
Joy: While traveling at night, Rachel agrees to give an unnamed woman a ride, but as they drive, Rachel questions the woman’s true intentions.
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down: On the verge of divorce, Eddy discovers he’s been manipulated into a virtual beach vacation by his cheating husband Vince.
Vardo: Vardo quietly explores his gender identity with the swipe of a lipstick in an ultra-traditional Bahamian household.
Beautiful Dark: Haunted by a series of vivid dreams, Theo struggles to reconcile with the tragic loss of his youngest daughter.
Finding Jordan: On a mission to restore the relationship between her pious parents and gay older sister, thirteen-year-old Madison receives a lesson in acceptance instead.
Mi Hija: Young Isabela must persuade her father that she is being haunted by the ghost of La Llorona before she is doomed to a watery grave.
The Part 2 screening starts at 7pm and features the following films:
Dream City: Melissa to takes sliding down a pole to fund her dream salon, but after befriending the wrong newbie at work, she discovers mo’ money, mo’ problems.
Shooting Blanks: Listen, Joe. To get Harvey to stop effing with you at work, you take him aside and teach him a lesson. Wait, not like that!
Creeker: After moving back home to live with her grandmother, Maggie McCall’s homecoming take’s an eerie turn when an old family tale bleeds into the present.
Wet Things: Determined to revive her unhappy marriage, Andrea experiments with a voodoo love recipe to rekindle the romance with her cheating husband.
The Sunlight From Your Tongue: Wanting to help her depressed lover, a woman agrees to be present while her partner commits suicide, accepting a tragedy that will ruin her forever.
Melancholic Beauty: Years after his father’s death, George returns to his childhood home, where he is overwhelmed by bittersweet memories, spurred by videotapes he thought long gone.
The Taste of Pomegranate: Following the Iranian revolution, a lonely Iranian man, a trapped Persian woman, and a power-hungry American mobster collide in 1980 Miami.
They Flew Like Blackbirds: In the old American South, Belle — a misplaced black teen with a white adoptive family — becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.