SHORT FILMS

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Filtering by: “water”

TWO KINDS OF WATER
Oct
29

TWO KINDS OF WATER

Screens with: The Power of Activism

‘Two Kinds of Water’, explores the lives of a family living in the Guet Ndar fishing community on Senegal’s north coast – a country whose name literally means ‘our boat’. The 5,500km coastline of West Africa, is home to some of the most diverse and dangerous fishing grounds in the world. It provides a livelihood to eight million people as skills are handed down from generation to generation, yet climate change, over-fishing and contested waters are producing new and deadly threats every day.

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Silence
Oct
27

Silence

Screens with: Savage Waters

Adryen is an amateur apneist. Far from clichés about this discipline, he tells us about his sensations and takes us into deep immersion, in search of his first 60 meters.

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Gone With The Wing
Oct
23

Gone With The Wing

Screens With: The Endless Summer

Andrew Englisch attempts a world first - crossing the treacherous Bass Strait on his Wing Foil. Gone With The Wing is both an inspiring portrait of an ‘Old Bugger’ who pushed himself to the limits mentally and physically and an epic adventure in one of the world’s most rugged, wild and beautiful regions. The result is an inspiring triumph of the human spirit.

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Momento
Oct
22

Momento

Screens with: The Birth of The Endless Summer

Momento is a short surf film inspired by reflection, womanhood and Mother Nature.

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Luck Is Alive
Oct
22

Luck Is Alive

Screens with: The Birth of The Endless Summer

One of the distinctive characteristics of African surf culture, particularly in West Africa, is a belief in animism. It’s a touchpoint that makes surf culture in Africa different from surf cultures elsewhere in the world.

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