SHORT BLOCK 10
FEATURING THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
A GUEST IN MY COUNTRY
Iowa Premier
An immigrant Uber driver takes an upscale couple across town, and the drama that unfolds among them reveals truths they all would have preferred stayed hidden.
Starring: Bayo Akinfemi
Directed by: John Gray
Produced by: Melissa Jo Peltier
Runtime (minutes): 16
Language: English
Country: USA
Rating:
Subtitles: YES
JEAN & I
Michelle, a 10-year-old survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, attempts to escape both her past and her new home when she learns that her "new" family is not what they seem.
Starring: Naya Desir-Johnson, Cree-Silver Darrieux Corley, Alex Emanuel
Directed by: Mirta Desir
Produced by: Mirta Desir
Runtime (minutes): 13
Language: English
Country: USA
Rating: GA
Subtitles: YES
JUST KIM
USA Premier
Rose Kim is a trans teenager. Although they long for it, they've never expressed their gender identity and navigate life in their assigned female body. Maybe because they're alone in a country migrated to illegally. But mainly because they fear losing the only emotional connection that ties them to the world: Camila, a baby girl they care for daily.
Directed by: Kim Cabral, Nausicaa Bonnin, Mihai Smarandache
Produced by: Esther Cabrero, Diego Herrero
Runtime (minutes): 20
Language: Catalan
Country: Spain
Rating: GA
Subtitles: YES
KIKI
Iowa Premier
When Adamma and her father, Jide, seek refuge in an asylum centre in Ireland they are greeted by angry protestors, but a dangerous situation threatens to become explosive when Adamma ventures out into the neighbourhood alone in search of her missing cuddly toy, Kiki.
Starring: Derek Ugochukwu, Graeme Coughlan, Saoirse Azwihangwisi O'Connor
Directed by: Naomi Sheridan
Produced by: Lindsay Campbell
Runtime (minutes): 14
Language: English
Country: Ireland
Rating: F
Subtitles: YES
NEITHER DONKEY NOR HORSE
Iowa Premier
Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory of the disease and seek the truth that will heal it.
Starring: Chris Pang, Jim Lau, Michael Monasterio
Directed by: Robin Wang
Produced by: Ellen Eliasoph, Aslan Dalgic, Lilith Mo
Runtime (minutes): 29
Language: English
Country: USA
Rating: F
Subtitles: YES
STORAGE FEES
World Premier
Based on a poem by Nicholas Michael Buck, STORAGE FEES follows a young man as he finds temporary shelter in a storage unit, while he mourns the death of his mother and questions the limited choices before him.
Starring: Parker Wierling, Makaila McColley
Directed by: Nicholas Michael Buck
Produced by: Norman Buckley, Alyssa Lewis, David Dewar
Runtime (minutes): 15
Language: English
Country: USA
Rating: GA
Subtitles: YES
THE INVITE
World Premier
Having quit his job to pursue his passion—and alienating his father in the process—a struggling first generation immigrant photographer must visit his parents to convince them to attend his first major solo show.
Starring: Yuriy Sardarov, Oleg Stefan, Irina Dvorovendko
Directed by: Max Chopovsky
Produced by: Daniele Bernstein
Runtime (minutes): 19
Language: English, Russian
Country: USA
Rating: GA
Subtitles: YES
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