S02E10: Global Affairs
September 15 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Shorts 10: Global Affairs
Short stories from around the world
Sun Sept 15, 430p, 84 min
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A Drowning Man
Mahdi Fleifel
Greece 15 min
Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.
Bonboné
Rakan Mayasi
State of Palestine 15 min
A Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.
Les Misérables
Ladj Ly
France 15 min
In the modern-day Parisian neighborhood of Victor Hugo’s novel, a new transfer cop learns abusive policing practices of two veterans. When a young boy records them going too far, the community threatens to explode.
On the Border
WEI Shujun
China 15 min
In a border village, a Chinese teenager of Korean roots aspires to join South Korea. He tries by all means to realize his dream.
Miracle
Bongi Ndaba
South Africa 24 min
It is a story that explores the week in a life of a struggling, desperate single mother, Sisonke, who goes on a quest of absolution. She travels from church to church seeking a miracle for her daughter who has a mysterious disability. She has been doing this for years, but now it is not driven by faith but by a kind of wrath towards God. Underneath all of this determined, inexhaustible self-sacrificing quest to heal her daughter, Sisonke is trying to escape her guilt.
