In 1970's Apartheid South Africa, a white teenage skateboarder befriends two township kids and discovers the ugly truth of the world that he is living in.
● Brent Harris
● 13'
● USA
6 short films for ages 13+ with a total duration of 75 '
● 75'
Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.
● Ethosheia Hylton
● 15'
● United Kingdom
Yves is the sole target of his bullying classmates. His only refuge is in synchronized swimming, which he practices nightly in secret. But when Charlotte, a fellow classmate and member of the team spies him at the pool, he will no longer be able to hide...
● Matthieu Ruyssen
● 22'
● France
In an interestingly subliminal way, many young girls are taught how to watch and not how to do. Girls are led on to think that they are more fragile and weak. Stoke Chasers aims to get women to stand up and fight this notion of just watching and to break the connection between being feminine and being fragile.
● Jo Anna Edmison
● 8'
● USA
Yolanda Morgan recalls her experiences with racism and the impact it has had on her.
● Hanna Adams, Cole Bacani, Max Edmeier, Dariel Filomeno, Alexandra Gottlieb, NamQuyen “Q” Le, Yolanda Morgan, Victoria Perez, Benjamin Ragasa, Josie Stocks, John Stover, Jinghan Tian
● 4'
● USA
The Corkscrew is a poetic coming-of-age story set in a wintry Oslo landscape. Lucas (12) faces a moral trilemma on a school trip: loyalty to his friend, trust in a teacher — or revealing a secret he's desperate to protect.
● Torfinn Iversen
● 18'
● Norway