Toprak
Onur Yağız | 2017
France | 11 min | 8+ years | French, Turkish with English subtitles

Eight-year-old Toprak translates for his parents who can’t speak French. Today, at the hospital, he will be the first one to know if his mother’s twin babies will be his brothers or sisters.

Adam
Maryam Touzani | 2019
France, Morocco | 98 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles | Closed CaptionsSubtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF20

A moving study of motherhood, sisterhood, and the position of women in Moroccan society.

Elders
Tony Briggs | 2019
Australia | 10 min | 8+ years | English | Closed Captions

Screened as part of TOAFF20

In this award-winning drama based on a true story, a young boy must find his way back to his elders in the midst of the Australian bush.

Black Sheep
Ed Perkins | 2018
United Kingdom | 27 min | 15+ years | English with English subtitles | Subtitles

Black Sheep blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction to pose difficult and highly topical questions about race and identity. Who decides what makes us who we are? And what compromises are we prepared to make in order to fit in?

SWAMP
Juan Sebastián Mesa | 2017
Colombia | 17 min | 12+ years | Spanish

Screened as part of TOAFF18

When Oscar’s family home is threatened by a hydroelectric project, his grandparents decide to end it all.

Gold
Abbe Hassan | 2017
Sweden | 20 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF18

An unexpected discovery splinters three sisters’ fragile existence.

Listen
Hamy Ramezan and Rungano Nyoni | 2015
Denmark, Finland | 13 min | Arabic, Danish with English subtitles | Subtitles

A foreign woman in a burqa is seeking help, but her translator is not willing to report exactly what she is saying.

Mossane
Safi Faye | 1996
Senegal | 115 min

In this stunning Senegalese drama, a beautiful village girl finds herself torn between potential husbands, and between tradition and modernity.