October 4, 2017

BABE, I HATE TO GO

Delroy, a migrant worker, has spent half his life working in the Ontario tobacco belt to support his family in Jamaica. Goodbyes have become ritual but Delroy harbours a secret – he has cancer. Though his health declines, Delroy continues to work while shielding his family from the inevitable. A story of acceptance and perseverance, […]

October 4, 2017

BEATRICE

Beatrice Vio has been fencing since she was five; she used to do it standing and now she does it sitting. When she was twelve, she had her four limbs amputated due to complications from meningitis, which didn’t stop her in pursuing the sport she loves and becoming the world champion at the age of […]

October 4, 2017

BLOOD AND INK (DUGO AT TINTA)

Where is the line between country and ancestry? Blood + Ink (Dugo at Tinta) is a short essay documentary meditating on personal and cultural identity through the story of Apo Whang Od, an indigenous tribal tattooist in the northern Philippines, the stories of the travellers from the Philippine diaspora who come to see her, and the […]

October 4, 2017

FINDING HOME

Finding Home follows Brandon, a Shanghainese lawyer, who left his family and country due to his sexual orientation, as he navigates his new life as a gay immigrant in Los Angeles. 

October 4, 2017

INSIGHT

InSight sheds light on the stunning extra-sensory abilities manifest in children who practice a groundbreaking meditation technique taught at a holistic medical center in Bogotá, Colombia. Santiago Aviles teaches Extra Ocular Vision (EOV) which creates new synaptic connections and re-wires the brain. It enables individuals to enhance their creative output, foster mindfulness, and become more […]

October 4, 2017

LITTLE FIEL

Little Fiel is a short documentary with stop motion animation about unending civil war. It is based on childhood memories of a renowned Mozambican artist Fiel dos Santos who grew up during the 16-year civil war – another proxy war sustained by conflicting foreign powers. Fiel created eight figures representing his father, mother, five brothers […]

October 4, 2017

OUR NEW PRESIDENT

Our New President explores the cult of Trump through fake news, showing Russia’s fawning appreciation.    

October 4, 2017

SEARCHING FOR WIVES

Patha, a truck driver from South India embarks on his search for love in Singapore through the use of a portrait of himself.

October 4, 2017

SKULL FRACTURE OR ‘AREN’T YOU RATHER YOUNG TO BE WRITING YOUR MEMOIRS?’

A story which emerges and crashes within the narrow, inventive, and organic confines of the memory. A story about a skull that brakes and needs healing. Like the past which has to be patched back together, both for the young and the old. How do we see an experience in the light of another? How […]

October 4, 2017

THE CARTEL MURDER THAT EXPOSED A ROGUE U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT

When a headless body washed up in the calm waters of the Texas gulf coast, investigators began to unravel a crime that led first to a drug cartel assassin, then to a locked safe containing​ more than a kilo of cocaine, methamphetamine, a gold-plated pistol— and U.S. Border Patrol agent Joel Luna’s badge.