SHORTS-HIWTHI | 1261FF21

SHOWTIME

Sun, Nov 7 | 5:00 PM (AST)

VARIOUS DIRECTORS

All titles playing as part of this programme are eligible for the Awards for best short doc/narrative.

THE PRICE OF CHEAP RENT

Amina Sutton, Maya Tanaka

United States | English
7 Minutes

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An aspiring artist discusses the challenges of finding affordable housing in a new city, and the compromises she has to make with her spooky new roommates.

CONCRETE ROSE

Khalid Sena

United States | English | 16 Minutes

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Marcus a recently released Ex con has difficulties integrating back into his ever-changing community. He quickly becomes enticed to return to his old life but meets an older woman who welcomes him to work in a garden where he finds redemption and peace.

PRETTY’S DAUGHTER

Siphokazi Mtila

South Africa | English | 24 Minutes

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After a failed move overseas with the woman who raised her and her mother’s ex-employer, Busi is forced to move back to the township to live with her domestic worker mother, Pretty. A self-deluded Busi struggles to accept her changed circumstances. This is further aggravated by her joining a new elite school and having to go up against It-girl, Amy, to win over the affections of the school’s golden boy, Matt. 

I LIKE IT HERE

Amartei Armar

Ghana | English, other| 15 Minutes

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A third culture Ghanaian-American youth takes the taxi ride of his life in an attempt to catch a flight out of Accra leaving his country, ailing Grandfather, and deep rooted feelings of cultural displacement behind..

ELENA

Michèle Stephenson

United States- Dominican Republic, Haiti | Spanish | 30 Minutes

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Because of their Haitian ancestry, Elena and her family have lost their Dominican citizenship. She must negotiate an opaque bureaucracy in a racist, hostile society, or else remain stateless in a country intent on deporting its darker-skinned citizens.