A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada Director: Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Fiction.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia Director: Annelise Hickey
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A. Director: Quinne Larsen
A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria / U.S.A. Director: Roberto Fatal
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Fiction.
A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Fiction.