A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever Chinese Opera Singer to have performed Pingju Opera in English in late 1980's China.
As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.
The short film in a non-linear structure goes through the interpretation of timelines
A young painter attempts to create his magnum opus, struggling through weeks of mental torment and obliterating his sense of self. Day after day, he is faced with an uninvited guest.
Retalhos
After an experience of workplace sexual harassment, a woman wanders through empty streets like a ghost.
In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Angélica e Luciano
Just before a mysterious catastrophic event ends the human race, two very different individuals come together to discuss themselves, their lives and what the end of existence truly means to them, the planet, and everything on it.
“No Bruises” is a narrative short film that explores the cyclical nature of emotional abuse, played out in vignette-style glimpses into one man’s relationships with three different women over time.
A man attempts to operate a mysterious device, but with each attempt comes a new set of problems.
At My Mother's Age
Papel
Flo is sick of living with her father who is always on her back after flo did a bad unknown thing to a girl at school, so she hatches a plan to manipulate the people around her so she can live with her mother but is her mother who left her when flo was young the picture perfect person flo thinks she is.
After being kicked out her home for revealing a horrific family secret karma has no other choice but turning to the streets for survival!
Pepijn
A couple is stuck in an escape room, and a failing relationship, with no way out.
Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal
Gabriel Kahane's deeply personal feature debut chronicles a lawbreaking teenager (Justin Mark) forced to work at a wig shop for cancer patients owned by the warm-hearted Susan (Catherine Curtin), where he befriends a guarded woman (Holly Heiser) who irreversibly alters the course of his life. It's a film that gives an honest peek into the often bleak (albeit exceedingly human) Upstate existence of Benji, his drug addicted, alcoholic mother, absentee father, and the others in his orbit.
After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.