Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Oct 11 & 12: Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Good Luck to You All
Cordell Barker, Canada (8 min)
Audio interviews with AI experts form the basis of this animated envisioning of what the future may bring.
The Glass Essays
River Yuhao Cao, UK/China (17 min)
Unable to sleep, a young man follows a mysterious sound across the river and through the forest.
My Comrade
Tathagata Ghosh, India (25 min)
A romantic spark between a villager and a wounded Naxalite insurgent emboldens their solidarity and threatens their safety.
A Metamorphosis
Lin Htet Aung, Myanmar (17 min)
Repurposed government propaganda footage and haunting folk lullabies are used to deconstruct Myanmar’s dictatorship and examine the suffering and resilience of the Burmese people.
Thanks to Meet You!
Richard Hunter, UK (14 min)
Five business people walk into a room…
Loynes
Dorian Jespers, Belgium (25 min)
Set in 19th-century Liverpool, a corpse with neither name nor past is on trial.
The 12 Inch Pianist
Lucas Ansel, USA (8 min)
Just a typical night at a NYC bar, where a genie with a hearing problem is granting wishes in the bathroom.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
Mixing documentary and reenactment, this film powerfully evokes the desperate attempts of the Red Crescent to rescue a six year old child trapped in a car under Israeli military fire. Oscar nominee: Best International Film
Turner & Constable
Filmed as a supplement to a blockbuster exhibition at Tate Britain happening right now, this doc in the popular Exhibition on Screen series allows us to view these competitive, complementary English landscape artists side by side.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
One of only a handful of live action children's films to capture the imaginations of generations, E.T. has a luminous warmth; it's a suburban symphony of emotion, and it's fascinating to revisit it in the light of The Fabelmans.
The President's Cake
Nine year old Lamia and her friend Saeed venture into the city to scrounge ingredients for a cake to celebrate Sadaam Hussein's birthday — a quest fraught with real peril in precarious times. Winner, Camera d'Or, Cannes.