Sept. 2024 FAMILY Festival Highlights & Winners

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award:

Best Short: BIRD DRONE
Best Direction: BLACK RAIN IN MY EYES
Best Story: A MOTHERLY HARMONY

See info for each film:

BIRD DRONE, 9min., Australia
Directed by Radheya Jang Jegatheva
A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.

https://www.radheya.net/bird-drone

A MOTHERLY HARMONY, 14min., USA
Directed by Ara Torosian
“A Moment of Stillness” portrays a mother and son navigating a war-torn reality in their family home. Amidst the looming threat, the mother uses music and dance to create fleeting moments of joy for her son.

https://www.instagram.com/amotherlyharmonyshortfilm

BLACK RAIN IN MY EYES, 20min., Syrian
Directed by Amir Athar Soheili, Amir Masoud Soheili
Hessan is a Syrian poet and the father of four blind daughters. He hides the war from his kids. He calls the sound of bullets and explosions a celebration and dancing. Hessan has been invited to attend a poetry forum, but taking the girls out and confronting them with the effects of war is a challenge.

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