These films should be considered some of the best from local filmmakers in a block that shouldn’t be missed! Amidst the chaos of her daughter’s 10th birthday party, Asha must face her estranged mom who shows up unannounced bearing the ultimate gift; Zora Head focuses on Valerie Boyd’s lifelong dedication to sharing Black women’s stories, and presents insights into her writing process, sites of memory, archival objects, and personal history narratives as told by Boyd’s closest collaborators; a wooden toy soldier is placed by a child into a dollhouse castle as a replacement for a porcelain princess figurine. The toy soldier struggles to dance with the princes and princesses of a world that was not built for them; when August finds shelter in an abandoned ranch home, he starts to go down memory lane of what his scientist mother did to him. Do you attack your morals to save humanity?; dealing with a sexual dysfunction, Eden, a GNC, bisexual AFAB, enlists the help of her lesbian best friend, Grace, but they quickly realize they know shockingly little about vaginas, vaginal dilators, and the limitations of coconut oil; when a broke birthday party clown finds out in the middle of the gig from hell that his mother is on her death bed, he must do whatever it takes to afford a flight home to say goodbye, all the while slowly losing his grip on reality; at the aftermath of a child’s birthday party, two estranged high school best friends unexpectedly reunite, but tensions arise as unspoken issues and trauma come bubbling to the surface.