Documentary Short Films / Cannes International Film Week

Documentary Short Films / Cannes International Film Week

The Cannes International Film Week is an online streaming film festival meant to showcase innovative world cinema from around the world by up-and-coming artists.

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Documentary Short Films / Cannes International Film Week
  • Hayastan (Armenia) by Silvia Sarsano

    In October 2023, I attended an artist residency in Yerevan, arriving less than two weeks after the most recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. This conflict had forced 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee the enclave of Artsakh within Azerbaijan, leading to a significant humanitarian crisis. I stayed a...

  • Voices to Inception (Norway) by Becky Beamer

    Voices of Inception is a poetic documentary short film that tells the story of a remarkable process and place that led to the creation and design of the Tougaloo Center for Racial Justice and Equity, a unique partnership between the Episcopal Church and the Jackson, Mississippi-based Tougaloo Col...

  • Maybe We Can Whisper (United Kingdom) by Alexandre Amaral, Aoife Mandeville

    During a journey to the Isle of Skye, two lovers question if the new relationship they are building can hold again the weight of the traumas they carry from their past. While they might not be able to speak their worst fears out loud, perhaps if they are brave enough to whisper them in the presen...

  • Holding On (United Kingdom) by Emma Croft

    Holding on tight, learning to let go. Through intimate diary footage filmed over a period of 10 years a single mother records her son’s transition into manhood whilst struggling to keep a connection with him through his love of skateboarding. The result is a raw and uniquely powerful portrait of ...

  • Irpinia (United Kingdom) by Jameisha Prescod

    Irpinia is the story of black British hope from the perspective of the Windrush generation. At the age of 24, Dudley Porteous boarded a ship called the Irpinia in search of a better life in England, the so-called mother country. Now 86 years old, Dudley reflects on his exciting journey to sea and...