#BraveFutures Collection

#BraveFutures Collection

12 Seasons
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Brave Futures is OTV’s global filmmaking initiative, challenging emerging filmmakers to create bold, intersectional short films within a limited timeframe. Through film races, artist commissions, and screenings, the program creates space for experimentation, collaboration, and new ways of storytelling.

Since 2019, Brave Futures has supported more than 400 artists across seven countries and four continents to create over 50 original short films exploring identity, culture, and our collective futures.

#BraveFutures Collection
  • LA ́ YÉNI

    Episode 1

    Two women try to heal the images of a trauma that repeat uncontrollably and find, in traditional Zapotec medicine, nature, and words, a path toward serenity.

  • Una hija de su puta madre que ha devuelto el golpe

    Episode 2

    Razzia is a trans woman from Mexico City who, together with her clan, ‘Las Mariposas Negras’, will face a lawsuit brought by the National Cineteca.

  • Uña x uña

    Episode 3

    CONTENT WARNING: Needles, body horror

    At a nail salon in the San Cosme Market, Lucero cleans the cuticles of a client with onychophagia. Amid the intimacy of acetone and a nail file, Lucero recalls one of the moments that marked their life. A trans body horror short film by Dano García.