Helen, an American-born Chinese nanny working in a Chinese household, finds a collection of old Chinese workbooks tracking Helen’s failure to learn Mandarin in her late mother’s things. She becomes consumed by the idea that her mother was resentful of her and begins to lose sight of the person her mother truly was to a cruel nightmare version of her. At the same time, her position within the household grows more tenuous, putting the relationship she has with her young ward, Xiao Shao, at risk.
Fifteen year-old Honest Cardamom hasn’t seen her mother since she was four, but at a crowded family party she begins to feel her presence in ways she can’t explain. When Honest senses the presence of her mother she finds the courage to ask her uncle about the woman she barely remembers and, in doing so, begins to uncover pieces of herself. Set in the space between Honest and her Uncle O, Tell Me When You Get Home unfolds as a long conversation between two people who have both lost a loved one. This short animated film is a testament to love and a testament to family.
Five Black musicians from Austin, reflect on art, identity and the need to create in a world that is quick to silence black men. The film features members of: Fuck Money, Urban Heat, Black Mercy and Chief and TheDoomsDayDevice.
The film replicates one of the 7cm Mountain Gun which were used during Japan's 'Pacification' campaign against Indigenous peoples. During this trip, Kao invites Atayal youth to return to the original mountain location shelled by Japanese police in 1906. They fire towards a distant hotel, now located on the site of a village once occupied by the Japanese. With a tone of playfulness and irony, the film subverts colonial aggression while exploring the possibilities of artistic action.
2 Years after killing The Bandits and avenging the death of Lola Brently, Mack Coker's life on the run takes a deep turn when a girl named Morgan Brassil recruits him to take down Travis Ramos, a coke addicted leader of a cult that's looking to summon a drug lord.
The tragic killing of a Norwegian man in urgent need of psychiatric help is recounted in a film that uses his own tape recordings as a guide to ask what happened and how it could have been avoided.
When a tidemark of poisoned crabs & lobsters devastate a small North East fishing town veteran fisherman Stan Rennie becomes the unlikeliest of activists. A wry David and Goliath story,told with gallows humour, about the grief of navigating a world which has suddenly, inexplicably changed forever.