BIPOC Filmmakers

Films by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers.

The Tongues

During a blizzard on the tundra, a Sami woman is herding her reindeer when she is attacked by a man. Her sister senses that something is wrong and starts looking for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both women will unite in their fight for revenge.

WINNER: Best International Short Read More

Running Time: 15

Umbilical

A mother’s abusive relationship with her husband shapes the daughter’s experiences in a boarding school in China.

In competition for Best Student Animated Short and Best Student Documentary Short Read More

Running Time: 7

The Visit

After six months, Elahe is finally allowed to visit her husband, a political prisoner. Elaheh and her little daughter Tara have one single day to prepare for this important meeting.

In competition for the Best of the Festival Award Read More

Running Time: 14

Wade

In an imagined future where Kolkata is rendered unlivable by rising sea level, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger in the flooded streets.

In competition for the Best of the Festival Award and Best Animated Short Read More

Running Time: 11

Wanted: Strong Woman

Nadege lacks the confidence to get what she wants from life... until the day she discovers a new passion that awakens the beast inside her.

In competition for Best International Short Read More

Running Time: 15

Waters of March

March, who upon losing the matriarch of his family, his grandmother, becomes physically and emotionally devastated. Without much space or attention to grieve, March creates liminal mental spaces where he searches for traces of his grandmother amidst darkness and uncertainty.

In competition for Best U.S. Short Read More

Running Time: 17

The Water Will Carry Us

An elegy to the countryside, an aging carpenter carries a hand-made mirror over and across the hills and streams of Zhejiang in search of a lost client.

In competition for Best International Short Read More

Running Time: 30

Wednesday

Recently homeless and living in a car with her mother, a teenage girl commits a reckless act, desperate to rescue a vestige of their former life.

In competition for Best U.S. Short Read More

Running Time: 14

What Did You Dream?

It’s the summer school holidays in 1990 South Africa, and 11-year-old Boipelo is back at her grandmother Koko’s four-roomed house in the Pretoria township, Atteridgeville. It’s a point of uncertainty for a country on the brink of democracy, but also for Boipelo, who will be attending a multiracial school soon. In competition... Read More

Running Time: 20

White Eye

A man finds his stolen bicycle, but now it belongs to a stranger. How much will he lose of himself to get it back.

In competition for the Bridging the Borders Award Read More

Running Time: 20

Zoe and Hanh

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges.

In competition for Best Comedy Short Read More

Running Time: 9

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