Short Film Competition: Ties that Bind

Have you ever had a relationship that you can’t quite explain?

Or an odd way of connecting to other people and your community? These eight shorts explore the gamut of human relationships: from struggling to understand why, all of a sudden, your son is determined to become a fish (Go Fishboy); to a journey through the land of the dead to rejoin your ancestors (Willkawiwa (The sacred fire of the dead)); to simply being high at a family event and doing everything possible to stop your parents finding out (When You Left Me on That Boulevard).

FILMS

Go Fishboy
(dir: Denise Cirone, Sebastian Doringer, Andrey Kolesov , Chiayu Liu, Zhen Tian and Lan Zhou, France 2022, 5 mins)

Sisters
(dir: Marisa Hoicka, Canada 2022, 2 mins)

Red Shoes
(dir: Diyala Muir, UK 2023, 8 mins)

Willkawiwa
(The sacred fire of the dead) (dir: Pável Quevedo Ullauri, Ecuador 2022, 15 mins)

Onfim
(dir: Damien Tran, France 2022, 4 mins)

Against All Odds
(dir Laurenz Otto, Germany 2022, 15 mins)

Outlets
(dir: Duncan Cowles, UK 2022, 19 mins)

When You Left Me on That Boulevard
(dir: Kayla Abuda Galang, USA 2022, 13 mins)