Shorts Program Eight
Schedules and Screening Blocks are subject to changes.
GrownUp
Myth Taboo & Pleasure
BACKLOG
In 2006, Mallory Newell (all names changed) was brutally assaulted and date-raped on her 21st birthday. The next day, she underwent a painful scientific 4-6 hour medical examination to collect clinical evidence. But because of the bureaucracy of the justice system, the police shelved her evidence and evaded her for almost two years, claiming the case to be “unwinnable.” But Mallory continued to help survivors, working at a rape treatment crisis center, where she is asked to advocate to end the Rape Kit Backlogs.
Eventually, she finds insurmountable courage to become the key witness at the Senate Judiciary hearing in 2010.
Okusama
Houminvi (eng. sub)
Tell Me You Love Me
With Tamzin Outhwaite, Previous credits include: EastEnders, Death in Paradise, Ridley Road.
Danny Bayne, The Peripheral (Netflix) Hollyoaks,
Grease is the Word- Winner- BBC
Thirsty for Blood - Kat Redlus
Unbecoming
March Forth
GABRIELA
Film Synopsis: It's the summer after high-school graduation and Gabriela, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman, pursues her dream of swimming for an illustrious Country Club swim team. Despite her single-minded determination, she is soon confronted with her over-protective mother’s fears, limitations on her economic and legal status, and her own self-judgment. As she attempts to find a way around the systems that exclude her, Gabriela is propelled on a journey towards self-acceptance. Gabriela is a quiet and poetic coming-of-age story that explores themes of identity and class differences in the American South.
YATRA: The Journey
"Alice in Wonderland" meets Indian mythology.