WFA 2021 Film Guide

A Savannah Haunting centers around a family who moves to Savannah, Georgia to escape the memory of their young daughter's tragic drowning. Once in their new home, the mother begins to experience chilling phenomena that lead her to believe she is being haunted by her dead daughter. But an old African American voodoo priestess with ties to the home's slavery past warns there may be darker, more sinister forces dwelling beneath the house. The family is torn apart as the haunting turns each of them against the other. Will they discover what is inside their home before it's too late?

Goddess Snow and her close friends Ceara Lynch, Princess Rene, Astro Domina, Princess Meggerz and Sarah DiAvola have built a supportive underground punk scene of fetish content creators, empowering each other, their clients, fans and the rest of the adult population to engage in the fight for a shame-free, consensual, and safe exploration of one’s sexuality. Dancing between the worlds of online fetish content creation, and in-person domination sessions, Goddess Alexandra Snow has built a thriving empire which supports the empowerment of women, sex workers, and anyone who has ever felt like a misfit.

Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil must fulfill their destiny by putting humanity's happiness to test in a struggle that has each of us as winners and losers.

A doll faces her fears when a spider invades her dollhouse. However, something far more terrifying lies beneath the surface.

Millions of children are engaged in child labour in India, in an increasingly growing number every year. And with that, millions of childhood dreams are never realised as a result of a lack of education. Baitullah is the story of one such child, with a dream, surviving in the maddening metropolis of Mumbai waiting for someone to notice.

This is not another goddamn, fat girl self-esteem journey. Katie is a plus-size woman who loves herself despite living in our diet-obsessed culture. In this stand-alone episode, an homage to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, shopping for a party dress becomes a hero's journey of epic proportions for a plus-size woman in the city.

Three women are gathered for an act of vengeance. They spin a bottle to determine who should perform the deed. Their plan goes wrong and an unexpected threat appears.

In the midst of a global pandemic, a drag queen sends his ailing sister a surprising care package.

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.

Bibi is plagued by memories of the past, and her granddaughter Simran is starting to notice. In resolving to teach Simran how to make Cha, they are pulled into the past, to Bibi's memories of one fateful day in Delhi, 1984.

Racial profiling by police is a recurring problem in our society for people of color. Our documentary film shows two main characters, Demitrius and Niaja, who experienced racial profiling as young teenagers. Demitrius was followed, stopped and searched based on what he was wearing. While this experience affected Demitrius’ identity--how he dresses, walks and presents himself it also made him curious about black history and the roots of racial profiling.

Absurd comedy about a lonely man who lives inside a cuckoo clock. Every hour, he straps himself into his ejection seat and shoots through the doors of the clock. "Cuckoo!" he yells, "Cuckoo!" His work is of vital importance. The old lady who sits under the clock needs to take her medication exactly at the top of every hour. One day the man has the opportunity to win a substantial sum of money in a radio quiz. He loves gadgets and wants to buy a new computer. The only problem is that he can only dial in at the exact time he’s supposed to sit in his seat.

D-Lemma: The Hard Truth is a short mockumentary that flips the script on the male-dominated discussion on women’s healthcare.

Ga Setubal is a singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist musician from São Paulo, Brazil. He was a member of the band Pitanga in Pé de Amora and worked with Trupe Chá de Boldo, O Terno, Garotas Suecas and Rafael Castro. This music video is his first single.

When Doria welcomes a familiar guest, she plunges into a struggle for her art and sanity.

Araceli takes care of her lifetime partner Lulu. Julian, a teenager exploring his identity, lives under the watch of his conservative mother. A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between the old couple and Julian.

Moments before his funeral, a father’s dark past threatens the fragile peace between two brothers.

A news bulletin ushers in an other-worldly hootenanny of toe-tapping, alien, feel-good fun. At least until the authorities learn the truth .... Made for the WFA 2021 14-Day Film Challenge

When colorful birds from all over the world land at the border crossing of a fictitious country, they get hit with a slew of insults by the two nasty vulture guards, and are denied entry. Prejudice is in the air. A comedic parody on a serious subject.

Freedom (A New Jerusalem) is a historical snapshot, showing how the killing of American George Floyd became a global movement and focus for the anti-racism movement across the world. We see how the BLM sentiment has brought together all human beings, no matter their race, gender or nationality.

An experimental autoethnographic documentary about queer joy, resistance, and resilience in the face of abuse, trauma, and transphobia.

When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischief by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. But Hyoju doesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax.

Contemporary Shanghai, summer. Xia Qing, a boy who has been wearing hearing aids due to hearing loss, has a deep love for dancing. He gains so much joy just from copying Martha Graham’s hand gestures in a dance magazine. A kid with a precocious nature, he sometimes paints his pinky nail red just for that glimpse of beauty. Yet all these passionate pursuits are misunderstood and questioned by his single, deaf mother. Given the opportunity to audition for his favorite dance company once in a blue moon, he has no choice but to return to his body--He seeks his mother’s approval and longs to overcome this obscure self-identity crisis, through the silent language on his fingertips.

A young boy is trapped in a Gingerbread House which hides a gloomy world underneath, while his mother is desperately trying to find the gate that will take him out of there.

Sara has been captured by two neo nazis who hate her for being a lesbian. So, obviously, she is about to lose her temper…