#BraveFutures Collection

#BraveFutures Collection

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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.

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6 Episodes

  • Where Do We Go From Here?
    06:59
    Where Do We Go From Here?
    Episode 1

    Where Do We Go From Here?

    Episode 1

    Team Name: Santos Schwarze (Nasheeka Nedsreal, Ze de Paiva, Kathleen Kunath, Chinedum Muotto, Danielle Bullock, Khadijah Gray)

    Film Synopsis: When the original cast fails to show up for a film shooting, 4 actors and 2 videographers spontaneously come together to create a film. With only three ...

  • Here Is Where You'll Find Me
    04:39
    Here Is Where You'll Find Me
    Episode 2

    Here Is Where You'll Find Me

    Episode 2

    Team Name: Sunlight (Jacob Lefton, Betty Kaplan, Thabo Thindi, Pussy Ranz, Joris Dragoman, Henriette Abitz, Minuit De Lacroix)

    Film Synopsis: A wanderer looks for his past but a present stranger interrupts him.

  • When Rivers Run Into The Ocean
    04:01
    When Rivers Run Into The Ocean
    Episode 3

    When Rivers Run Into The Ocean

    Episode 3

    Team Name: When Rivers Run Into the Ocean (Daniele Caetano, Natasha Vergilio)

    Film Synopsis: Experimental film about the time, collective consciousness and the confusion of our individual actions.

  • Seven of Tentacles
    06:56
    Seven of Tentacles
    Episode 4

    Seven of Tentacles

    Episode 4

    Team Name: OKTOPUS (Melanie Lyn, Lydia Sarges, Miriam Chebaibai Koch, Sarah Mounia Kachiri, Elsa Klée, Aureille, Klara Mohammadi)

    Film Synopsis: The Oktopus can rapidly alter its shape and colour to adapt to any situation, communicate emotions or escape from danger. When self care becomes syn...

  • Dickes Fell (Thick Skin)
    07:26
    Dickes Fell (Thick Skin)
    Episode 5

    Dickes Fell (Thick Skin)

    Episode 5

    Created by: Angelika Kim: Director, Protagonist & Writer; Tanja Wassiljev: Director, Sound and Writer; Michelle Martin: Director& Protagonist; Phuong Thanh Nguyen: Director, DOP & Editor; Konstantin Grimm: Director & Protagonist; Bao Ngoc Le: Director, Writer& Editor; Viviane Grünberger: Director...

  • Freedom Ticket
    03:48
    Freedom Ticket
    Episode 6

    Freedom Ticket

    Episode 6

    Team Name: Emotional Labour (Lorraine Yakubu, Alexander Chigbue, Jacqueline Loaiza, Alexander Chigbue, Esther Makalo, Edem Nutakor)

    Film Synopsis: Freedom ticket is a short film that questions government funded security and safety in public places, in particular in Berlin public transportation....

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