Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of DOC Shorts Fest
For Aysia, 7min., Canada
Directed by Dani Alexandria
Aysia-May has a grandmother she will never meet and a family that won’t talk about her. When the family finally opens up, years of trauma begins to unravel.
https://instagram.com/DaniAlexandriaMusic
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-for-aysia
Wings, 10min., USA
Directed by Jia Xu
A young girl gets inner growth through the accidental death of her pet.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-wings
Only Human - Fairness and Justice, 2min., UK
Directed Yasmin Godo
Many communities are alienated by and distrustful of advances in genetics. It's only human to fear, distrust and hesitate when scientists say they are working for your benefit - how do you know? The Only Human film tells Brenda's experience of having sickle cell disease and uses this to ask scientists working on inherited disease to question whether they are really serving the patients they claim to support. The film pushes for a closer connection between science and society.
https://www.instagram.com/kcespcambridge/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-only-human
A Letter to Mom, 12min., Maynmar
Directed by Hung Ra
Hting, a Burmese immigrant, full-time sushi chef, and film student, shares a letter to his mom in which he describes the challenges, sacrifices, and experiences that shaped his education — including moving away from home and adapting to new environments — as he navigated the journey from a small village in Burma to becoming a film student in Philadelphia.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-letter-to-mom
Ask an Iranian, 15min., USA
Directed by Elliot Feld, Jonny Pottins
In this fast-paced piece, Iranian-Americans will speak to camera and reveal what life is truly like under the Iranian regime.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-ask-an-iranian