
Travelin’ Thru
Running Time: 95′
Often the road is rugged and hard to travel but eventually all roads come to an end. These films are tales and accounts of physical, emotional and spiritual journeys, as their protagonists search for redemption, acceptance, or a new home. Regardless of what they will find in the end, nothing will be the same as before.
Emkhatsini (Between)
Swaziland, UK | Toa Stappard | 14 min
A woman finds herself, lost in the deserted Swazi outback when she tries to locate an elusive community leader.
Towards The Sun
UK | Monica Santis | 20 min
A 12 year old girl is placed at an immigrant children’s shelter for unaccompanied minors in Texas. As her future hangs in limbo, she embarks on a healing journey to recover her own sense of power through her artwork.
Harvest
UK | Mohammad Munir Malik | 10 min
After their car is forced off the roads, three friends face a danger in a terrifying incorporeal form.
Leo
UK | Julian Alexander | 15 min
Desperate to make money, Léo accepts a job smuggling a refugee couple through France.
The Pianist of Yarmouk
UK, Germany | Vikram Ahluwalia | 13 min
The real-life story of Aeham Ahmad: a classically-trained musician attempting to escape the war in Syria.
Via
UK | Izzy Burton | 3 min
Life shows us how we should open our eyes to the good things that happen every day, to the experiences we share with the people we love, and that we should find the silver linings, or the lessons to be learnt, in even the lowest times.
Release
UK | Hero Mackenzie | 19 min
A young man who is released from prison ten years on for his crime seeks redemption from his victim’s daughter.
