‘True Colors’
From the USA to around the world come 5 short fantastic films that differ from unexpected encounters to mental health free falls to mystical forest spirits to childhood dreams and being what it means to show your True Colors in a word that wasn’t expecting you.
This Shorts Program Features the Following Films:
ROSIE | Directed by Paula Cajiao | 2020 |USA | 9 Minutes
After a long day at work a man walks into an after hours bar for his last drink before heading home, there he meets someone that is not who he expects to be.
BIG BABY | Directed by Sam Meier, Christopher Jarvis | 2021 | USA | 16 Minutes
Based on real events: A young gay man ends his relationship with his religious mother after years of her emotional abuse. With his mental health in freefall, he copes by becoming an adult baby.
LIGHT ON A PATH, FOLLOW | Directed by Elliot Montague | 2020 | USA | 15 Minutes
Joaquín, a transgender person living in rural 1990s New England, is 8-months pregnant. After encountering a mysterious spirit in the forest, Joaquín goes into labor early. Is this spirit haunting or guiding Joaquín as they await their midwife?
IMELDA & LUIS | Directed by Leonel Chee | 2020 | Mexico | 16 Minutes
Young twins, Imelda and Luis, live a neglected life with their drug dealing mom and jerk-off drug addict older brother. They only have each other to fulfill their dreams, she wants to be a nun and he wants to be a girl, neither of which seems possible.
BEING SASCHA | Directed by Manuel Gübeli | 2020 | Switzerland | 35 minutes
Sascha’s name wasn’t always Sascha. But now it is. Sascha doesn’t identify as a man or as a woman, but as trans non-binary. A story about what it means to live in a society that wasn’t expecting you.
