Page 23 - 2022 WHFF Offical Program

Saturday, July 30 through Saturday, August 6, 2022

SHORTS: Be The Change SHORTS: Conversations SHORTS: Art In Many Forms

Beauty Queen An Encounter 15 grains of sand
Set in the Philippines during World War II, a young Two improbable friends dodge school and freely wander The filmmaker explores her experience as one of only
woman struggles to find purpose after losing her father. through Dublin until an encounter with a stranger leaves a handful of people with Down syndrome in the world
Dramatic • Myra Aquino • Philippines • 2021 • 18 min. one of them utterly changed. to have earned a college degree, and how art can help
expand educational opportunities for others.
Burros Dramatic • Kelly Campbell, Claire McCabe • Ireland • 2021 • 21 min. Documentary • Rachel Handlin • USA • 2021 • 4 min
A young Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant Bounty
her age who has been separated from her father in the “We are citizens of the Penobscot Nation. For this film, Charlotte
beautiful but dangerous Sonoran desert. we bring our families to Boston to read our ancestors’ A pop song transforms the lives of an enigmatic folk
Dramatic • Jefferson Stein • USA • 2021 • 15 min. death warrant.” singer and her family.
Jill and Jack Documentary • Maulian Dana, Dawn Neptune Adams, Tracy Animation • Zach Dorn • USA • 2021 • 13 min.
Rector, Ben Pender-Cudlip, Adam Mazo • USA • 2021 • 9 min.
A love story that never was in a city that does not know DOPO YUMEmories
how to talk. When Jill dares to chat with stranger Jack, Desmond’s Not Here Anymore A short look back at Dopo Yume, a NYC-based rock
a spark ignites and he rises to the challenge. But is the Abigail battles moving her elderly mother with dementia band that gained traction in the late 90s, early 00s, but
city ready to converse? out from the family home. When her mother uncon- never quite took flight.
Comedy • Nick Calori • UK • 2021 • 11 min. sciously haunts her by continually questioning Desmond’s Documentary • Jordan Galland • USA • 2022 • 13 min.
whereabouts it forces her to finally face the question.
Stranger at the Gate Dramatic • Mmabatho Montsho • USA • 2021 • 16 min. Make Me A King
A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town After being shunned by their conservative parents, Ari
American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected Mold of Malachi pursues their dream of being a Jewish Drag King and
turn when he comes face to face with the people he In the suburbs of America, a Black man’s morning jog honouring Pepi Littman as they perform.
sets out to kill. nightmare exists as a game for others. Dramatic • Sofia Olins • UK • 2021 • 16 min.
Documentary • Joshua Seftel • USA • 2022 • 30 min. Dramatic • Mtume Gant • USA • 2022 • 9 min. Memento Mori
Superheroes Wear Hoodies The Stupid Boy Late one stormy night in Victorian Dublin, a post-mor-
A group of black youths from one of the most notori- In a London where there has been an increase in tem photographer receives his latest subject, a recently
ous estates in London rise together in support of their Christian white supremacists resorting to acts of terror- deceased young woman. And this encounter with the
community. In doing so, they challenge perceptions of a ism, two worlds collide when a neuro-diverse teenager dead young woman will be unforgettable.
community often wrongly associated with crime, to one encounters a man on a suicidal mission. Animation • Paul O’Flanagan • Ireland • 2021 • 9 min.
now associated with love – fuelled by food. Dramatic • Phil Dunn • UK • 2022 • 16 min.
Documentary • Jason Osborne • UK • 2021 • 10 min. Vigilant Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
The Recess When a woman is forced to walk home after car trouble In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s sophomore film,
Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver’s
Seventeen-year-old Sahar is determined to watch her at night, the inherent fear of being female raises confus- willingness to smuggle one of the world’s rarest and most
favorite soccer team play for the league championship. ing questions that spills into her world. controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean.
Barred from attending sports events as a woman, Sahar Dramatic • Sarah Day • UK • 2022 • 7 min. Documentary • Lewie & Noah Kloster • USA • 2021 • 10 min.
disguises herself as a boy with the help of her friends.
Dramatic • Navid Nikkhah Azad • Spain/Iran • 2021 • 12 min. Wailing Wall The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms
A first generation Ukrainian-American woman, is forced An intimate magical-realist documentary combining
to move her family back in with her immigrant mother paintings with live action footage to open a window on
when their lives become unmanageable-- but the a man’s experience living with a painful chronic illness
A Bringing Science to the Screen screening. stress of tight quarters and emotional triggers begin to called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
blur the lines between reality and fantasy.
This film/program screens live only. Comedy • Amy French • USA • 2022 • 9 min. Documentary • Lauryn Welch, Eloise Sherrid • USA • 2021
• 10 min.
Tiny Titanic
A Minnesota family discovers some surprising connec-
tions to the Titanic disaster. They decide to honor the
ship by building a miniature replica in their front yard.
Documentary • Mike Scholtz • USA • 2022 • 9 min.
Visions
A kaleidoscope portrait of three artists: A first-genera-
tion American Congolese illustrator, a Chicanx musician
ART of these creatives making their art.
and drummer and a Vietnamese visual and textile artist,
that explores their journeys and focuses on the elation
Documentary • Karina Lomelin Ripper • USA • 2022 • 10 min.

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