#BraveFutures Collection
11 Seasons
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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05:21Episode 1Abjad Hawaz (أبجد هوز)
Episode 1
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
Episode 2
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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05:21Episode 4Mamá Susura
Episode 4
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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04:43Episode 5Rota dos Tubarões (Shark Route)
Episode 5
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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Tato 4.0
Episode 6
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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01:19Episode 7
Brave Futures: Barcelona - Trailer
Episode 7
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 ...