Tiger mom Cúc aspires to the perfect traditional Vietnamese family. But when her daughter Mai develops psychological issues and her son Quang comes out as gay, the dream shatters. The unexpected arrival of Mai’s baby upsets the family’s fragile balance and prompts Quang to create a time capsule – the film itself.

He documents the family’s journey towards a new cycle of motherhood, while opening a door to the past. The trio looks back over diaries and family photographs in an attempt to mend their broken bonds.

In his first feature film, Nông Nhật Quang draws on all his courage, talent and queerness in his effort to piece the family mosaic back together, untangling the knots created by years of silence. It is through each of their precious archives, and by unsettling the established order, that he gradually comes to understand what lives within those closest to him.

Perhaps, in so doing, they will come to accept one another and build a loving home, so that baby Guava can love and be loved as they themselves so yearned to be?

This penetrating coming-of-age personal essay on love and what it means to become human in the context of race explores the memories and experiences of Milisuthando Bongela, who grew up within apartheid without knowing it was happening until it was over.

Bongela was born to a loving middle-class Xhosa community in the Transkei — an unrecognized state that was formulated out of the separate development dream of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Transkei was designed to raise some denizens on a diet of suggestions that they did not experience the ills of apartheid, and though it was dissolved after the fall of apartheid, it left behind bewildered memories in those who built their lives inside the regime’s sordid social experiment.

Milisuthando elucidates that apartheid was something that was done to all of us. Bongela invites the audience in as she plumbs the anatomy of race as bequeathed to us by our ancestors and explores what roles our ancestors play in how we create our personhood.

African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe was the first black tennis player to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. This short film explores the legacy he paved during apartheid South Africa, and its modern-day impact on a tennis centre he erected in the Soweto township. We are introduced to Amu, a young tennis player from the centre, who wins a prestigious tennis scholarship to one of the wealthiest private schools in the country.

Erik and Elmer Eklund live a quiet, secluded life in Porkkala, Finland. After almost eighty years together as brothers, they speak about youth, building boats, and death.