Liberte

Narrative Shorts: Drama 1

132 minutes 9 Films

A sampler of films with diverse subjects, including the pandemic, divorce, and puppetry, but similar themes.
In this program
Alone Together

Alone Together

Directed by
c. Craig
U.S.
2021
14 minutes
English
Isolated in an assisted-living facility with only her caretaker, a grandmother, portrayed by Marla Gibbs, battles her loneliness and fading memory as she searches for human connection through a series of family Zoom calls.
Attest

Attest

Directed by
Andi Behring
U.S.
2021
7 minutes
English
Two sisters try to get their story straight about a fateful encounter at a party the night before.
Frank and Emmit

Frank & Emmet

Directed by
Carlos F. Puertolas
U.S.
2021
12 minutes
English
Two show-business partners have a heated conversation when they must confront the fact that one of them is a puppet.

It Happened One Thursday

Directed by
Irene Tassembedo
Burkina Faso
2020
22 minutes
French
Afissatou learns that the party on Thursday is a celebration of her marriage.
Liberte

Liberté

Directed by
Christopher Hanvey
U.K.
2020
17 minutes
English & French
Can Britain’s first Muslim war heroine face her brutal Nazi captors and hold onto London's secret plans as the Allied forces finally start advancing through France?
Like the ones I used to Know

Like the Ones I Used to Know

Directed by
Annie St-Pierre
Canada
2020
18 minutes
French
Denis is anxious to pick up his children at his ex-in-laws' house on Christmas Eve.
Mass Ave

Mass Ave

Directed by
Omar S. Kamara
U.S.
2021
21 minutes
English
Over a day of landscaping work, a first-generation African American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.
Pippi

Pippi

Directed by
Mia Walker
U.S.
2021
7 minutes
English & Swedish
A mother and daughter grapple with their racial self-hatred through their love of Pippi Longstocking.
Wild Seed

Wild Seed

Directed by
Sunyin Zhang
China
U.S.
2020
14 minutes
Chinese
During the period of the One-Child Policy, an illegally pregnant mother escapes from her home to avoid getting arrested by the family-planning committee and forced to have an abortion.