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Competition Films : 2025 Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase

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Competition Films : 2025 Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase
Best of the fest! Including "Lullaby" by Chi Thai, winner of the 2025 Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase.
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Bittersweet Bittersweet

Bittersweet

BITTERSWEET is an immersive, non-linear look at a timeless love that is cut short by maternal mortality.
6 minutes
Lullaby Lullaby

Lullaby

A refugee is forced to confront her guilt.
15 minutes
Time Is Money Time Is Money

Time Is Money

Jace, a financially challenged writer/director and self-proclaimed graduate of the school of Mark Duplass, delivers packages to survive while struggling to secure funds for his first indie feature. A bonus for the top-ranked delivery driver could solve his problems.
12 minutes
Just Passing Just Passing

Just Passing

Del, a workaholic struggling with her mental health, wants to escape the numbness consuming her. Despite being surrounded by people, she feels alone and is more comfortable navigating London at night. After experiencing an attempted assault by her colleague, she has a chance encounter with Sami, a homeless undocumented man from Nigeria. Del begins to question what she stands for and starts to come to terms with her own immigrant roots. But hostility and distrust are never far away and Del is forced to question how she can really help Sami when she is just as lost herself.
13 minutes
How Do You Remember The Days Of Slavery? How Do You Remember The Days Of Slavery?

How Do You Remember The Days Of Slavery?

On the morning of April 8, 1760, in the parish of St. Mary, Jamaica, an enslaved African chief named Takyi led a bold and bloody revolt that shook the foundations of the British Empire. What began as a daring rebellion in Britain’s most lucrative colony soon grew into the largest slave uprising of the 18th-century British Atlantic world. Though brutally suppressed, Tacky's War—fueled by West African military strategies and anti-colonial resistance—ignited a chain reaction of uprisings across the Americas and helped lay the groundwork for Britain’s eventual abolition of slavery 70 years later.

For Professor Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, the story of Takyi is not just history—it is an urgent call to remember. After more than a decade of meticulous research across continents, Brown published Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War in 2020, a groundbreaking and award-winning book that reframes the rebellion not as a local disturbance but as part of a vast and interconnected struggle for Black liberation.

This 20-minute documentary, How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery, follows Professor Brown as he returns to Jamaica, invited by the Ministry of Culture to speak at the island’s second annual Chief Takyi Day. In St. Mary, he meets with local historians, politicians, and cultural advocates—including the irrepressible Derrick “Black X” Robinson, a grassroots activist who has made it his life’s mission to have Chief Takyi recognized as a Jamaican national hero.

Through acts of visceral protest—walking barefoot around the island and wearing a 30-pound chain to symbolize both bondage and resistance—Black X seeks to keep Takyi’s legacy alive in the hearts and minds of Jamaicans. “His activism is inspired and genuine,” says Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah, O.S.E., O.D., Cultural Liaison for the Ministry of Culture.

At once a journey through time and a meditation on memory, How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery asks how a forgotten war might shape the future—and what it means to honor those who dared to fight for freedom.
22 minutes
Last Hoorah at G-Baby's Last Hoorah at G-Baby's

Last Hoorah at G-Baby's

Last Hoorah at G-Baby’s is a coming-of-age dark comedy short film that centers an apathetic Naja who is grieving the death of her grandmother, with whom she was the caretaker for. After blowing through her cash inheritance, Naja owes five months of back rent on her grandmother’s rent controlled apartment in a gentrifying New York City. Facing eviction, Naja devises a plan with the help of her best friend, Val, to make enough money to make rent by the end of the week. When selling everything doesn’t work, she results in throwing the party of the year as a last ditch effort.
15 minutes
Re-Story Your Life Re-Story Your Life

Re-Story Your Life

From a childhood of horrific abuse to hilarious international speaker and revolution starter: how a handful of teachers transformed Jaz’s life and inspired a mission of hope.

10 minutes
Sally, Get the Potatoes Sally, Get the Potatoes

Sally, Get the Potatoes

It’s a few days before Christmas and six-year-old Sally longs for someone to play with. Unfortunately her family is too preoccupied with their own troubles to pay her any attention. After being sent on an impossible mission to collect the potatoes from the pantry, Sally accidentally embarks on an unexpected hidden ride in her wealthy family's rolling laundry cart. Behind the closed doors of each bedroom, Sally learns the secrets her family has been keeping from her, and from each other.
17 minutes
flick flick

flick

A lighter is purchased, then takes a trip around the block, adding the spark needed for those to make
a change. The flame it brings pulls some together, but pushes others apart. No matter where you are,
life can change with one FLICK.
11 minutes
Don't Hang Up Don't Hang Up

Don't Hang Up

In rural Hayti, Missouri, matriarch Elizabeth Holiday confronts her past when an unexpected call from her former student, Jeremy, disrupts her routine. As they navigate their shared history and the challenges of their community, they're forced to confront harsh realities, igniting a journey of reconciliation and redemption.
10 minutes
OUT OF TIME OUT OF TIME

OUT OF TIME

Hiep Tran, an 83-year-old octogenarian, is plunged into grief after the loss of his beloved wife, Nghia. Tested by her absence, he finds himself faced with unbearable pain which pushes him to consider the impossible: using his power to bring her back to life. But by opening Pandora's box of his desires, Hiep has no idea that he will unleash unexpected forces, leading to a cascade of events that will call into question not only his resilience, but also the very nature of memory and love.
2 minutes
FREEDOM FREEDOM

FREEDOM

'Freedom' is an enchanting experimental short film that weaves dance, poetry, music and mysticism into a historical mosaic of the black soul of America.
10 minutes

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