Terra Mater
Kantarama Gahigiri | 2023
United Kingdom | 10 min | 8+ years | English, Swahili with English subtitles | Closed Captions

An Afrofuturist visual poem on colonial extractivism; a message of anger delivered from atop a rubbish heap.

TR333
April Lin | 2021
United Kingdom | 10 min | 8+ years | English | Closed Captions

A sensorial and speculative dialogue with a new species of climate-resilient tree, developed by April Lin 林森 in conversation with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni.

(Tending) (to) (Ta)
April Lin | 2021
Canada, United Kingdom | 64 min | 12+ years | English, Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles | Closed CaptionsSubtitles

A narrative-led speculative fiction film which follows an exchange of internal letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions.

Ãgawaraitá: Amazonian Stories
Priscila Tapajowara | 2021
Brazil | 39 min | 8+ years | Portuguese with English subtitles | Closed CaptionsSubtitles

Priscila Tapajowara weaves together documentary and mythology in two gentle portraits of indigenous and riverine people from the Amazon.

The Roots Weaver
Fernando Saldivia Yáñez | 2020
Chile | 16 min | 5+ years | No dialogue | Closed Captions

Screened as part of TOAFF21

A poetic observation of the indigenous Yaghan art of grass-weaving as developed in Chile, The Roots Weaver embeds this intergenerational process into the aural and visual textures that sustain it. […]

Material Bodies
Dorothy Allen-Pickard | 2020
United Kingdom | 7 min | 5+ years | English | Closed Captions

A sensual and cinematic exploration of the relationship between amputees and their limbs, through interwoven dance and dialogue.

Affirmation #6
Lisa Fannen, Monika Smekot, Alison Smith | 2021
Scotland | 7 min | 8+ years | English, British Sign Language with English subtitles | Closed CaptionsSubtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF21

Traversing poetry, dance, movement, sign language and film, Affirmation #6 considers what it means to respond to, and be part of, swelling movements for transformation.

Crackdown
Manuel Succi | 2012
United Kingdom | 3 min | 12+ years | Arabic

Screened as part of TOAFF14

Arthouse mash-up of secret and CCTV footage from the frontlines of the Syrian conflict.