Desync
Ana, a young Filipina filmmaker, shoots a re-enactment of a fight she once had with her mother. Embodying cultural pressure from her mother to work beyond her limits for the sake of perfection, Ana rewrites every painful exchange into a perfect one.
Minerva Navasca
Minerva Navasca is a Filipina filmmaker, immigrating from the Philippines at 9 years old. She focuses on narratives intimately reflecting her experiences with cultural dysphoria and girlhood. Navasca uses filmmaking as an outlet to confront internalized shame and anger, and hopes to stir self-compassion by sharing these narratives openly.
Silkworm
30 MINUTES | FARSI | CANADA
A used smartphone sends a boy in rural Iran on an unexpected journey of reconnecting an estranged couple.
Desync
12 MINUTES | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | CANADA
Ana, a young Filipina filmmaker, shoots a re-enactment of a fight she once had with her mother. Embodying cultural pressure from her mother to work beyond her limits for the sake of perfection, Ana rewrites every painful exchange into a perfect one.
You Ask Too Much
9 MINUTES | ENGLISH | CANADA
In "You Ask Too Much," a near-deaf 94-year-old Sikh woman seeking comfort in her final days is unexpectedly moved from her son's home to her daughter's, causing her to confront the distance her care creates within the family. Only after she falls one night does the family come back together.
Oversight
15 MINUTES | ENGLISH, FRENCH | CANADA
Erin, a white woman, and Farah a young woman of colour, cross paths in a laundromat. Erin realizes Farah had a questionable encounter in the bathroom of the laundromat earlier that night. She shares her wisdom with the young woman, only to later realize she is also linked to the bathroom events.
The Body Of My Name 名自字体
4 MINUTE | ENGLISH, MANDARIN, CANTONESE | CANADA
Five Chinese Canadians return to their elementary school to reclaim their names through dance.