Short Films Package

Total Duration: 68 min

Dignity, Pride, Love and Families are at the core of these real life stories coming from Cambodia, USA, Belize, India, Kenya, Seychelles, Singapore, and United Kingdom – in the second part of Documentary Short Films in Competition. Their sentiments are as tangible as their struggles!

A BETTER PLACE

33 min | 2022 | UK | English, Hindi, Swahili | Mumbai Premiere

A Better Place is an in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetrators of sexual violence to go unpunished. More than 70 countries still criminalise gay sex. In over 30, rape within marriage is still legal. Behind these statistics are the people whose lives are paralysed by these archaic laws.

18 min | 2022 | Cambodia, USA | Central Khmer, English | Asian Premiere

Forty years after the Khmer Rouge regime, a transgender man returns to the village where he survived the genocide and miraculously found queer and trans community, including the love of his life.

10 SAT

4.00 PM cond.

Alliance Francaise

HOLDING MOSES

Dir: Rivkah Beth Medow

17 min | 2022 | USA | English | International Premiere

A Broadway performer becomes a mother, braiding rhythm and grief and time and joy on her path to connect with her profoundly disabled son. Randi is visually striking and presents as very masculine of center, which defies most people’s image of a mother. Her story blends parenting, family, queerness and disability; it is one rarely told in our culture.

Preceded

By

(Promessa de um Amor Selvagem)

Dir: Davi Mello

23 min | 2022 | Brazil | Portuguese | Narrative Short | Asian Premiere

After crashing into a party, a young man discovers that this will be his last night.