Vienna Shorts Online 2020 – Eyes on the Road
On a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally and takes them into uncharted territory.
Read MoreOn a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally and takes them into uncharted territory.
Read MoreIn San Francisco, where homelessness is rapidly growing, a young woman travels the streets in search of a home and independence but discovers that comfort is not always a place.
Read MoreWhen the chance you take could be your last.
Read MoreThroughout 2019, 19 International Baccalaureate Film students at St. Edward captured the stories of the homeless in Cleveland, Ohio.
Started as an extended introduction to the greater Cleveland Labre Project--which aims to not only to feed those who experience homelessness, but to stoke fellowship--this documentary traces the candid and sometimes surprising stories of those who do not live "inside", and moves from there to a fuller exploration of what social mechanics in the city complicate citizens' attempts to be free of poverty and homelessness.
Features a licensed cover of Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (featuring vocalist Teon Smith and saxophone player Steven Banks).
Read More‘Be the voice, not the victim’ - Ifrah Ahmed
A Girl from Mogadishu is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed. Fleeing war-torn Somalia in 2006, she is trafficked to Ireland where, as an asylum-seeking refugee, she undergoes a traumatic medical examination which reveals the extent of her mutilation as a child. Traumatized by the memory, she turns her experiences into a force for good, emerging as one of the world’s most foremost global activists against Female Genital Mutilation.
‘Silence may be the rust on the razor that threatened to cut my throat, but it was not my tongue they cut.’
On a road trip with her best friend, Valentina is finally given the space and support necessary to process the grief and guilt she carries in association with her boyfriend’s suicide.
Read MoreA 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary and clashes with the strict choirmaster.
Read MoreCárceles Bolleras (Dyke Jails) shows women’s gender discrimination in prisons and how lesbian desire could be a kind of resistance against the penitentiary institution. In prison, some women discover other forms of sexuality that represent a space of freedom.
Read MoreSeventeen-year-old Cleo survived a hit and run accident in which both her parents lost their lives. Her grandmother tries to offer Cleo and her brother a warm and comfortable home, but she ends up bearing the brunt of a rebellious teenager who searches for comfort with the mysterious Leos.
Read MoreAn American woman travels deep into the Amazon jungle discouraged with her marriage and on a quest for adventure, wild nature and a new sense of belonging. She unexpectedly meets Noe, an amazonian painter who teaches her what true belonging really means.
Read MoreA 13-year-old Afghan refugee hustles around in a refugee camp, trying to survive the harsh circumstances when she experiences her period.
Read MoreJulie and Yuval live in Paris, are in love and just had a baby. When Yuval needs to return to Israel to renew his visa, they start sharing their family routine via video call. Watching each other obsessively through a screen, however, begins to take its toll on their relationship. Will their love survive the perils of this new form of “interaction”?
Read MoreSet in Florida, a 12-year-old Puerto Rican girl’s perspective changes when she brings a popular dessert dish, Arroz con Leche, to a thanksgiving event at her school and no one eats it.
Read MoreWhen a woman grappling with the grief following her father’s death has a run-in with her Type-A boss, she finds comfort in the women in her grief group. When one of them suggests kidnapping the boss to show her some “real pain”, Josie gets carried away with the unwise decision in an effort to get any kind of emotional retribution.
Read MoreWhat happens when a nightmare and a beautiful dream meet in one night?
When Mathilde fulfills her dream to go to the greatest ball of the 19th century, she loses the diamond necklace she borrowed from her friend. Mathilde's life suddenly changes when she has to pay off with hard work the heavy debt burden.
Pacarrete is an old and crazy ballet dancer. Over the years, she works as the teacher for classic dance and ballet in Fortaleza with ambition. After retirement, she goes back to her hometown. However, still undaunted, she decides to give a dance performance, as a gift "to the people", on the eve of the city's 200-year anniversary party. But it seems nobody cares.
Read MoreA hand-drawn animation in Scottish Gaelic about the Iolaire disaster, in which 201 sailors lost their lives just yards from home, as they returned from WWI.
Read MoreWhen a magazine ad comes to life, a depressed English teacher (and her dog) embark on a wild ride through the wonders of the Sunshine State.
Read MoreA young brick mason comes to the big city to rebuild his relationship with the father he thought he knew.
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