#BraveFutures Barcelona
#BraveFutures is an intersectional film competition and program brought to you by award-winning streaming platform and media incubator Open Television (OTV), challenging filmmakers of all skill levels to create an entire short film in a constrained amount of time using their city as the canvas.
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Rota dos Tubarões (Shark Route)
An ancestral artificial intelligence guides a poetic journey through the waters of time, linking the violence of the transatlantic slave route, today’s migration crisis, and technology’s insatiable hunger.
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Abjad Hawaz (أبجد هوز)
Abjad Ḥawaz (أبجد هوز) takes its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet. Through the body of Salma Zahore, each letter is danced and embodied in the ruins of Barcelona. Blending fashion, music, poetry, and performance, the film reclaims a language often feared and misunderstood, tu...
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DIALED IN
Dialed In is a 5-minute experimental film where AI becomes a spiritual portal. A young woman moves from screen to cosmos, dissolving into light, water, and stars. Surreal imagery, poetry, and sound trace her transformation as she sheds identity, embodying ancestral wisdom and divine flow. Visuall...
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Mamá Susura
In a future where machines replicate and surveil every trace of women’s lives, a hidden resistance rises through lullabies—ancestral songs that carry secret codes, forming a living intelligence older and stronger than any artificial one.
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Tato 4.0
After the end of the world, AI rises in power, but with a twist: it is modeled after a grandmother. Instead of control, she offers lullabies, rituals, and stories, dissolving borders, hunger, and war. Tato 4.0 reimagines AI as ancestral intelligence, a caretaker shaped by love and memory. At its ...
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#BraveFutures Barcelona - Trailer
Brave Futures is an experimental platform that challenges emerging filmmakers to create bold, intersectional short films within a constrained timeframe. At MozFest 2025, six commissioned artists responded to the theme of Unlearning through the prompts Cultivating a Protopia and Reimagining AI as ...