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.

An immersive journey shows us the memories of a 7-year-old boy, far from screens and connected to the rural world.

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022

"Grass Patch" created by Team Bagels: Yen-Jung (Roni) Niu and Patrick Carlo Bangit.

This short film is a deep dive that converses with the self - it is the crystallization of all our thoughts, revelations, and traces of our steps in the big city....

MOST BRAVE FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022
THE TIME IS NOW AWARD | LONDON 2022

"Wings" created by Rohan Sudan and Sangeetha Veluru

The story follows a young South Asian woman, as she reflects on two conversations with the two most important people in life; her mother and her boyfriend. Both expect...

MOST INTERSECTIONAL FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022

"64 Squares" created by Team Tornadoes: Terunesh Tafari, Suhur Yousouf and Miro Alleyne-Mccarthy.

Omar is being held in captivity by shadow government agents. Their aim is to prevent further political dissent by capturing leaders involved in the rec...

MOST JOYFUL FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022

"I Am the Impossible" created by Tulsi Behl, Brendan Harvey, Recel Wynsley Tonelada, Catalina Curbishley, Rebecca Chan and Atom Inions Morton

An experimental film takes a dancer on a journey of self-discovery and acceptance. Using an original remixed versio...

MOST INNOVATIVE FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022

"London is the Place for Me" created by Aliyah Qayum, Dani Chukwuezi, Sophie Gouk, Charlie Benjamin and Téa Anya Earle

The film centres on the duality of mundanity in both routine and escape. The film centres on an Alien litter picker who roams London c...

MOST UNAPOLOGETIC FILM AWARD | LONDON 2022

"Wanted" created by Team 4sight: Deborah Igunma, Samuel Fashakin, Ade Balogun, and Joel Weller.

The police are looking for a suspect who they begin to profile. During the interrogation, the suspect is scrutinized because of their ""Britishness"", thei...

Espanol:
En el otoño, mientras las naranjas caen por montones y las orugas se preparan para habitar sus capullos, Sofia y Ana viven juntas el mar de emociones de su transición.

English:
In the fall, as the oranges fall in piles and the caterpillars prepare to inhabit their cocoons, Sofia and A...

Espanol
En medio de un espacio interior de reflexión, un hombre se pregunta sobre la masculinidad y lo que significa ser hombre, ¿hay posibilidad de que en el futuro la categoría hombre no sea violenta consigo misma y con las demás?

English
In the middle of an interior space for reflection, a ...

ESPA˜NOL: Cuerpos que se fragmentan, cuerpos que quieren dejar de ser cuerpos. Cuerpos que reclaman su lugar en una fiesta. Cuerpos que reclaman su lugar.

ENGLISH:
Bodies that are fragmented, bodies that want to stop being bodies. Bodies that claim their place at a party. Bodies that claim the...

A Seeker meets with an Oracle, looking for answers. Their meeting spurs a trance, revealing spirits, creatures, visions and other deep downloads from the 5th dimension.

Created by: #TeamBayAgenda (Chibueze Crouch, GG Torres, Naomi Le, KaliMa Amilak, Gabriel Christian)
Location: Oakland, Californ...

A young musician turns to a self-help podcast for support but soon learns it may be doing more harm than good.

Created by: #TeamLuxeBunny (Oliver Morrow, Randall Morris, Syan Rose)
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Awards: Most International Film Award // The Time Is Now Award

Calen, a queer black woman, navigates her inner turmoil, anxiety and worldly external forces while receiving guidance from her ancestor Dula to seek and find her fearlessness. She realizes she's always had the power within to conquer her fears, and find her brave future.

Created by: #TeamCalend...

Tune in as Saturn Risin9 activates the pop-star in all of us at the 2020 #BraveFutures Awards Show.

Tune in as Miss Boogie manifests fem queen joy at the 2020 #BraveFutures Awards Show. )

Tune in as Taylor Alxndr reminds us how to fall in love at the 2020 #BraveFutures Awards Show.

Tune in as Demetruest teleports to a lush fantasy at the 2020 #BraveFutures Awards Show.

Das Leben lehrt uns: „Du brauchst ein dickes Fell, wenn du überleben willst!“ Jeder Nieder-/Schlag, eine weitere Schicht. Je dicker, desto safer. Doch was ist, wenn ich nicht nur überleben will? Wenn das Fell zu schwer, der Schutz zur Last wird, und der Drang nach Ich-Sein schreit. Wo kann ich na...

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 ...