Ages 11+

• Can You See the Future?

  West Coast premiere and winner of the CFFS Plural+ Prize, for an international film by a filmmaker 25 years or younger!
  If you look closely, you can see that children are always dreaming of what they will be. This film encourages us all to support those dreams.

  (Ismet Kale, Turkey, live action and animation, 2017, 2 min, nonverbal)

• Acceptance

  In this stop motion animation, made entirely on post-it notes, we follow a figure who moves to a new place after losing their home and faces trouble finding their place in their new home.

  (Quinn Darce, New Zealand, animation, 2017, 1 min, Non-verbal)

• Child of All Nations

  West Coast premiere!
  After moving to the city for his education, Oki discovers that he is prejudiced against as a member of a Indonesian racial minority.

  (Hariz Ghifar, Indonesia, live-action, 2017, 3 min, Bahasa with English subtitles)

• Flowers to the Sea

  West Coast premiere!
  Gabriela, a seventeen year old from Sao Paulo, talks about her work helping Syrian refugees in Greece.

  (Bruno Tarpani, Brazil, live-action, 2017, 5 min, Portuguese with English subtitles)

• My Story

  A poetic rumination on the psychological effects of Islamophobia.

  ​(Moiz Khan, Breech Harani, Pakistan, live-action & animation, 2016, 4 min, English)

• My Father is Coming

  A young girl who’s father must live far away in Africa in order to work discusses the complexities of emotions when her grandfather’s illness means that she can see her father more often.

  (Nahyr, Sanjeeta, Kabir, Soumya, Devansh, Khushi, Thanmayee, Renusri, India, live-action & animation, 2017, 2 min, English)

• See Actions, Not Colors

  Although most people see dogs as nothing more than animals, we can learn a lot about humanity from the way they see the world.

  (Joana Vieira, Joana Maria Sousa, Rita Laranjeira, Portugal, live-action, 2017, 1 min, English)

• Reflections

  West Coast premiere!
  Based on the stories of six asylum seeker mothers in Finland, Reflections explores the difficulties these women have gone through and the beauty they are able to create in the world for the sake of their children.

  (Saara-Miira Kokkonen and Heta Laiho, Finland, 2017, live-action, 5 min, Finnish with English subtitles)

• Refugee

  Seattle Premiere!
  A mother and daughter use a viewfinder to look at family photos and hold onto the life they left behind when they were forced to flee their home because of the civil war in Syria.

  (Ramazzan Kilic, Turkey, 2017, live-action, 3 min, Turkish with English subtitles)

• River

  West Coast premiere!
  In this political and poetic documentary, two young Innu woman make a passionate plea to address the environmental dangers affecting Innu territory and protecting the rivers, the “ancestors’ highways,” which are so important to Aboriginal identity.​

  (Uapukun Mestokosho, Shanice Mollen-Picard, Canada, 2015, live-action, 6 min, French/Innu)

• Twighead

  West Coast premiere!
  A mother and daughter who are forced to flee their home face discrimination in their village because of their physical appearance and they endure many hardships before they learn to accept themselves.

  (Precious Mika Elnah Quilaton, Ace John Quintos, Reuben Perez, Lohan Povenyca, Philipines, 2017, animation, 5 min, English)

• We Are Human

  North American premiere
  Shot in response to a series of nationwide Afrophobic attacks in South Africa, Africans resist stereotypes and assert our shared humanity as neighbors and humans.

  (Stuart Williams, South Africa, 2017, live-action, 2 min, English)

• The True Impact

  When we commit acts of violence, who are we really hurting?

  (Babar Ali, Sarah Randolph, Nepal, 2016, live-action, 1 min, English)

• The Sisters of Manohara

  Living in poverty in Nepal, two young women aspire to gain an education and build a better lives for themselves.

  ​(Aditya Khadka, Nepal, 2017, live-action, 5 min, Nepali)

• The Five Senses Meaningless

  North American premiere!
  Our five sense make us see the beautiful vibrant world we live in, but they also show us the ugliness and hardships of life.

  (Sofia Marvizon Padilla, Spain, 2017, live-action, 1 min, Spanish)

• Hope

  In war torn Syria, a family tries to hold onto life, hope and happiness in the absence of peace.

  (Salih Hasnawi, Syria, 2016, live-action, 2 min, Arabic)

• I Am Limitless

  A young Muslim woman pushes back against reductive stereotypes and argues for more complex understandings of people.

  (Lina Abojaradeh, Jordan, 2017, live-action, 2 min, English)

Content Advisory: The directors of many of these films are exploring content that is sometimes disturbing, including discrimination, poverty, war, and the difficulties of migration. Still, these films are full of hope for a better world.