
Max Asaf
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Bad Hostage
After being held hostage, the filmmaker’s grandmother shocked her small town by declaring she felt more threatened by the police than by her captors—a sentiment shared by other women that year. This investigation into the roots of Stockholm Syndrome intertwines a thrilling piece of family lore with the infamous kidnapping of Patty Hearst and a dramatic Swedish bank heist.

The Last Strike
The true story of the '81 PATCO strike when Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 Air Traffic Controllers, changing the American workplace forever

Within the Box
Eight decades after being smuggled out of Poland, a box of photographs sparks a filmmaker’s journey to confront his family’s past and the haunted silence that lingers in their present.
Confronting the pervasiveness of intergenerational trauma, cultural taboos around mental illness, and the ever expanding shadow of the Holocaust, Within the Box explores how a family and its identity can persist by holding onto the repressed and fragmented stories of the past and telling new and joyous ones of the future.

The Last Drop
A young woman links minds with her boyfriend, using a device that lets couples relive shared memories— but when she spots overlooked signs of abuse, she must escape before he can manipulate her memories in his favor.



