Shorts: Staying with the Trouble

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Weaving threads across histories and through present crises, these three films speak of unexpected intimacies, of unlikely kinships, of community-building and a deep need for compassion across difference.
Flowers
Flores

José Cardoso / Ecuador, South Africa / 2024 / 29 / World Premiere
An Amazon ethnocide is justified by a war in Ukraine. It's streamed online by the filmmaker, while in the garden his three-year-old son marvels at the flowers.

One Night at Babes
Angelo Madsen Minax / USA / 2024 / 29 / World Premiere
When the ageing, conservative townsfolk of Bethel, Vermont, and the young queer newcomers begin sharing the same watering hole, a delicate allegiance flourishes.

Goodnight, Mister Stalin
Benjamin Kodboel / UK, Georgia / 2024 / 19 / European Premiere
In the Georgian town where Josef Stalin was born, two women become embroiled in an inter-generational struggle over their conflicting interpretations of a contested history.

In this show

Film Intro
5 mins
Flowers
29 mins
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One Night At Babes
29 mins
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Goodnight, Mister Stalin
19 mins
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Film Q&A
30 mins

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Shorts: Staying with the Trouble + Q&A
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Showroom - Screen 1
Q&A with directors Angelo Madsen Minax and Benjamin Kodboel. Moderated by Jamie Allan.
Shorts: Staying with the Trouble + Q&A
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Showroom - Bertha DocHouse Screen 3
Q&A with the director Benjamin Kodboel. Moderated by Frances Byrne.

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