2024 15 Narratives 10 Countries
A Red Negligee in a White Vanity Case
A Red Negligee in a White Vanity Case
0:02:23
Ireland
Fiona Aryan, Director, Producer
Lani O'Hanlon, Writer
When her love affair with another man is discovered, a mother leaves her family for a time.
Cloister
Cloister (Mindamadam)
0:06:57
India
Jerin Louis, Director
Vargheese Antony, Writer
Jacob Mathew, Producer
A young girl who lived in Kerala,India in 1970's wanted to make her choice to join Cloister. (Mindamadam) Her Dad and Brother was totally against it. Her other four sisters did not say a word but continued to stay in their home rest of their lives. Mom is the only one was not surprised with her choice and wished her best in her choice. This poem shows the strength of a women to make her choice even though when the culture, belief system and her own famliy not supporting. This beautiful poem showcase the beauty of silence, importance of personal choices in our own lives.
Mother's Milk
Mother's Milk
0:04:10
South Africa
Amy Brown Hendrickse, Director, writer, Producer
Lady D BYTHELETTER, Director, Writer, Producer, Spoken Word
Alexander Devon Dyers, Post
KK Reddy, Post
Hip Hop scribe, Amy Brown Hendrickse and sonic story teller, Lady D_BYTHELETTER’s artistic synergy began in 2021, drawing from a collective decade in the Cape Town film and creative arts industry. Every BrownLETTER experience is a celebration of the unique truth that is their queer, South African reality. Original musical compositions and poetry are intrinsic to the duo’s imaginative expression, priding themselves in creating experimental offerings.
On The Blue Summer Evenings
On The Blue Summer Evenings.
0:10:00
Spain
Xavier Guàrdia, Director, Writer, Producer
Roser A. KleeProducer
The quiet and deep world of nature contrasts sharply with the hectic and noisy pace of the big city. Two different worlds merged by a piano suite and a poem by Arthur Rimbaud recited in four different languages.
Oot Here Mae Lane
Oot Here Mae Lane
0:05:17
Ireland
Tristan Crowe, Director
Charlie Gillen, Poet, Writer
Liam Logan, Producer
Michael Crossey, Assistant Director
Based around an Ulster-Scots poem by Charlie Gillen, this horse ploughing drama follows an old farmer and his old mare as they both struggle with old age. Both horse and man have been through tough times together and, even though they have seen the progress of man and machinery, they have stuck to their old fashioned ways. As they come to the end of their journey the farmer questions whether he should keep going or let both of them retire.
I pye't richt an' dear
For a three year oul mere'
But she's walkin in front o’ me yet,
At thirteen I wus hir’t,
It’s gyely time I retir't,
sixty years hae's flew by far ower shane,
But whut wud I dae
For tae pit in mae day,
Damn' it I wud miss bein oot here mae lane.
RE: Growth
RE: GROWTH
0:03:16
United States
Douglas Seth RIdloffDirector
Douglas RidloffPoem
Phlip WilsonOriginal Music
Adrean Mangiardi
The hearing community has, through the course of history, treated the Deaf community as a particularly undesirable species of weed. Hearing aids, cochlear implants, speech education, the marginalization of signed languages, sterilization programs, and now even the use of CRISPR gene splicing technology, are all attempts to remove or correct the Deaf weeds in humanity’s garden. Crab theory is a major and ongoing discussion in the Deaf community due to the intensity of the internalized oppression felt by group insiders who have often been intentionally isolated from their peers and language models. This poem uses the metaphor of unwanted weeds as a way to process that history and reframe the community as a stubbornly resilient population, capable of growth and beauty.
Sonnet
SONNET
0:04:44
Belgium
Jan Peeters, Director
Paul Bogaert, Director
Paul Bogaert, Writer
Mieke Verdin, Key Cast
Simon Shrimpton-Smith, Key Cast
How useful is good advice if you’re too stressed to focus? Can a couple of rhymes prevent one from falling?
2 characters + 1 dialogue + 1 monologue + 8 lines here + 6 lines there = 1 sonnet
The Climate Change Volumes: Spring
The Climate Change Volumes: Spring
0:05:57
United States
Hugo Sindelar, Director
Travis Truax, Writer
Andie Madsen, Editor
The Climate Change Volumes are a series of four short poetic films that follow the changing seasons of the Mountain West. A collaboration between filmmakers Hugo Sindelar and Andie Madsen, and poet Travis Truax, the films ponder the transformations we are seeing in the mountains and their surrounding ecosystems as our climate warms. This film, Climate Change Volumes: Spring, laments the changes in our spring season as glaciers recede and snow – our summer water source – melts faster than it ever has before.
Things you have forgotten to take with you
Things You Have Forgotten to Take With You
0:03:20
Italy
Elena Baucke, Director, Writer
Tania Petroni, Key Cast
Leonardo Fallucca, Cinematographer
A woman alone in her house finds her ex's shirt. Its scent brings back painful memories as she gets carried away by the tangible thought of an impossible reunion.
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Thinking 'bout You
Thinking 'bout You
0:03:51
Kenya
Edward John Okoth, Director, Writer, Producer
Perpentual Wangari, Key Cast
Timothy Wachira, Key Cast
Thinking 'bout you is an acceptance of what has been lost, while still experiencing pockets of beautiful memories that seem a lot more profound after the loss of love.
Ver Gekomen
Ver Gekomen
0:06:33
Netherlands
Desiree Brands, Director
Joris Weerts, Director
Jessie Tiemeijer, Write
Tamar van Waning, Key Cast
Bram Klappe, Key Cast
Frouke Verheijde, Key Cast
Ayoub, Key Cast"
Daniel Dow, Producer
Jimi Visser, Production Crew
Floor Geleijns, Production Crew
Stef Kwinten, Directer of Photography
The sounds of spray cans mix with a dull low beat and a cacophony of conversation. Lou (19) is a regular at home in the community center in Zaandam, Jiro (22) is the dreamy withdrawn boy in the corner, Do (16) is the battered one, bleeding from boxing lessons and Jo (13), the gabber, who lives in her one relaxed on the sofa.
Lou speaks from the heart. Jiro, Do and Jo listen with theirs.
ZHUYKA (CUD)
ZHUYKA (CUD)
0:05:00
United States
Anne Ciecko, Director, Writer, Producer, Poet,
Cinematography & Photography, Editing, Voiceover Narration, Music Score (original composition & performance)
Almost one year after the start of the war, cows are among the victims of the devastation, but their remaining kin, their fabled primordial bovine ancestors, and the tenacious humans point to miraculous possibilities for cultural survival.
This Isn't a Requiem, It's a Seance.
This Isn't a Requiem, It's a Seance.
0:04:00
United States
Ryan SchwennDirector
Soufia AliDirector
Ryan SchwennWriter
Soufia AliProducer
Ryan SchwennProducer
Lucy VoKey Cast
Taylor ChildressKey Cast
Jordan GeelhoedKey Cast
Through poetry, a young woman ventures through a trail of memories full of nostalgia and uncertainty.
Las Marimacha Fragments
Last Marimacha Fragments
0:14:53
United States
Lourdes Figueroa, Director, Writer, Producer
Peggy Peralta, Director, Producer
It is a poetry film that is an homage to the brown SF lesbians that migrated to San Pancho, made the body of San Pancho & continue to make San Pancho: a story of our journey made into fragments of poem & moving image. It is a love poem that peers into the life of two brown dykes, highlighting our joy, our loves, our work, our struggles--pedacitos de carne that formed this beautiful city.
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Keep Moving - Chalet Red
Keep Moving / Chalet Reh
0:03:40
India
Vivek Jangid, Director
"There is a kid in every classroom who is interested in everything but academics. I was one. Drawing, sports and photography kept me positive about life in those days.
In 2010, my teacher caught me daydreaming and doodling on the borders of my textbook and asked me to stand on the desk as a punishment. She also told me something that changed my life—she told me about the National Institute of Design in India."( Vivek went there and kept going to become a filmmaker) "In September 2021, I came to RCA for an MA in Visual Communication. Studying and working in London brought a research based approach and a confidence to discover my own methods of creative practice. "