AWARD SHORTS ENCORE: TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS

Streaming 11/17 – 11/30

Just in time for Thanksgiving, join us for a feast of sweet stories that center communication, caretaking, and surprising new connections. This charming collection of audience award and jury prize winners spotlights the power of letting down one’s guard and being open to vulnerability – including Brooklyn besties, curious neighbors, a potential hook up, and biological and chosen families.

Featuring shorts from QUEER TEEN POWER, ALL ABOUT THE T, and IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVERBOY programs from NewFest37, AWARD SHORTS: TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS is a human celebration of how we can learn and grow as individuals as we evolve together. Above all, this program will properly prepare you for the holiday season and melt away your winter worries.

 

Baba I’m Fine
Dir. Karina Dandashi, 13 min, USA
A teen battles heartbreak while spending Friday out with her unknowing father.

A Friend of Dorothy
Dir. Lee Knight, 22 min, UK
A lonely widow’s quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.

Flash Sale
Dir. Autumn Boxley, 12 min, USA
Two trans men living in Brooklyn call upon an unlikely audience to raise money for top surgery. CW: Misgendering

Lisbon
Dir. Matthew Jacobs Morgan 13 min, UK
A broke queer man, JASON, attends a hook up with an older man on the promise of cash, but finds himself pulled into a twisted request that forces him to confront deep questions of life, death, and the price of human connection in unexpected, darkly humorous ways.

Dandelion
Dir. Fiona Obertinca, 20 min, USA
In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen MARGARET gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who’s tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.