As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most authentic existence.
Yet these bodies of ours are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifetime voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our very being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation.
Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint to remembering, to healing, to blooming.
A boy faces his past when he remembers that time he tried to drink his drink and it didn't go the way he had suspected.
Based on the creepypasta by Brinker X. You'd think that nightmares are nothing but your imagination, but for Alex they were very real. Now as an adult, Alex reminisces on his childhood trauma with a psychiatrist to get to the bottom of what terrorized his youth.
Psychological Horror short film directed by Elena Coletta.
After her sister's suicide, Carey starts experiencing bizarre dreams, leading her to believe there is more to her sibling's death than she thought.
After many years, a young girl revisits her childhood home - with consequences.
Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must first confront her trauma before it consumes her.
A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too foreign.
Robby Miller (Bralyn Stokes), a former army soldier leaves the military after his wife's sudden death to raise his son JJ (Jackson Hammer). As the pressures of single fatherhood and his wife's death start to build, Robby finds himself in a place he never thought he'd be.
Once upon a time, there was a girl... She loved Elvis Presley, but she went out with a Marilyn Monroe impersonator. And while she had a passion for the shining stars of bygone times, she was also drawn to the gutter. She would climb into history and immerse herself in the horrors of humanity. She liked bad things...
A musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.
Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew they could have.
Manon, a young woman who has just left a cult, faces the everyday uses with apprehension. She feels the gap with the people around her, who don't know how to react to her past. Despite a desire to move forward and the support of those around her, the influence of a cult remains tenacious, hence the possible need for help.
When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.