Dignity Short Film Selection
Regard Silence
Mexico, 2022, 30 minutes, Color, Mexican sign language; Turkish captioned
Director: Santiago Zermeño
Screenplay: Santiago Zermeño
Cinematography: Angel Jara Taboada
Editing: Santiago Zermeño
Production: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C.
Cast: Alex Gallardo, Socoro Castillo, Roberto De Loera, Berenice Falcón, Ian Alexis, Jesús Alexei, Isela Moreno, Farid Hakim Loaiza, Riako-Sama
A group of deaf people explore the Mexican sign language through a scenic lab of poetic creation. The film shows this unique creative process, while attempting to make explicit the distance from which we listeners (the audience) connect to the sensations proper to deafness: almost always failing to recognize them as a different way of naming and inhabiting the world.
Kubra
France, 2021, 12 minutes, Color, Dari, English, French; Turkish captioned
Director: Mélanie Trugeon
Screenplay: Mélanie Trugeon
Cinematography: Mathieu Kauffmann
Editing: Jeanne Fontaine, Marthe Poumeyrol
Producer: Amélie Quéret
Production: Respiro Production, Achab Films
Cast: Kubra Khademi
Kubra is an Afghan performing artist and a refugee based in Paris. Her body is the medium she's chosen to search for her own history. Her connection to the world and to the body is transformed by her current situation but her art remains condemned. Is fighting the only way for Kubra to be in this world?
Oasis
Canada, 2022, 15 minutes, Color, French; Turkish captioned, English subtitled
2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival; Documentary Short Grand Prize
Director: Justine Martin
Screenplay: Justine Martin
Cinematography: Myriam Payette
Editing: Félix Bouffard-Dumas
Music: Louis-Joseph Cliche
Producer: Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu
Cast: Raphaël Cormier, Rémi Cormier
At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fraternal attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked intellectual disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.