SHORTS: Conversations

Shorts in Program:

An Encounter

Dramatic Short by Kelly Campbell, Claire McCabe • Ireland • 2021 • 21 mins.

Two improbable friends dodge school and freely wander through Dublin until an encounter with a stranger leaves one of them utterly changed.

Bounty

Documentary Short by Maulian Dana, Dawn Neptune Adams, Tracy Rector, Ben Pender-Cudlip, Adam Mazo • USA • 2021 • 9 mins.

“We are citizens of the Penobscot Nation. For this film, we bring our families to Boston to read our ancestors’ death warrant.”

Desmond’s Not Here Anymore

Dramatic Short by Mmabatho Montsho • USA • 2021 • 16 mins.

Abigail battles moving her elderly mother with dementia out from the family home. When her mother unconsciously haunts her by continually questioning Desmond’s whereabouts it forces her to finally face the question.

Mold of Malachi

Dramatic Short by Mtume Gant • USA • 2022 • 9 mins.

In the suburbs of America, a Black man’s morning jog nightmare

exists as a game for others.

The Stupid Boy

Dramatic Short by Phil Dunn • UK • 2022 • 16 mins.

In a London where there has been an increase in Christian white supremacists resorting to acts of terrorism, two worlds collide when a neuro-diverse teenager encounters a man on a suicidal mission.

Vigilant

Dramatic Short by Sarah Day • UK • 2022 • 7 mins.

When a woman is forced to walk home after car trouble at night, the inherent fear of being female raises confusing questions that spills into her world.

Wailing Wall

Comedy Short by Amy French • USA • 2022 • 9 mins.

A first generation Ukrainian-American woman, is forced to move her family back in with her immigrant mother when their lives become unmanageable– but the stress of tight quarters and emotional triggers begin to blur the lines between reality and fantasy.