What does it mean to call a place home when the world around you is falling apart?

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🎬 Weekend Watch: Making Peace

This week, I put together three short films that ended up sharing something I didn't initially expect.

They’re all about people going through difficult moments: a dream that didn't work out, a life that feels confining, or a situation that could have ended much worse.

But none of these films is really about staying in that moment.

They're about finding a way to make peace with what happened and keep going.

🎬 Disco Obu — Anand Kishore

🏆 Winner: Special Jury Mention
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017

Official Selection
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2017

A former child actor who once had a chance at the life he dreamed of now drives an auto-rickshaw.

This is my favorite of the three.

What stayed with me is how quietly the film deals with letting go.

🌾 The Field — Sandhya Suri

🏆 Winner: Best Short Film
Toronto International Film Festival 2018

Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival 2019

There's something beautiful and heartbreaking about how temporary that happiness feels.

The harvest is coming, and so is the end of their little world.

🏨 The Criminals — Serhat Karaaslan

🏆 Winner: Special Jury Award for Screenwriting
Sundance Film Festival 2021

Shortlisted: Best Live-Action Short Film
Academy Awards 2022

What I loved most is what happens after they finally get out.

Three films. Three very different stories. One feeling.

If you have about an hour this weekend, give these three a try.

3 films · 64 minutes · One anthology

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A quiet Clermont-Ferrand selected film about sight, superstition, and who decides what a person is worth.

Counterfeit Kunkoo by Reema Sengupta is the kind of film that takes you somewhere new for the cheapest ticket there is. In 15 minutes, you're inside another part of the world, seeing the lives, challenges and traditions people are tied to. There's very little dialogue, but it says so much.

Her story. Her way.
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You could scroll for 15 minutes… or watch a short film that might stay with you much longer.

We put together a collection of award winning short films, all 15 minutes or less.

Perfect for a quick movie night, lunch break, or when you just don't have time for a feature.

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There's a version of yourself you keep in reserve for certain rooms. Not a lie, exactly — just the parts of you that get folded away because the room wasn't built to hold them.

Kado sits inside that quiet negotiation: what we shed and what we keep when we want to belong somewhere, and what it costs to keep shedding. It asks a harder question underneath the gentle one — is a gift really a gift if part of what you're giving is your own disappearance?

Worth sitting with afterward: which rooms are you still folding yourself smaller to enter?

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There's a particular kind of violence in being turned into a story. Not physical violence but narrative violence. Someone decides who you are before they've even met you, and then goes looking for the version of you that confirms it.

Disco Obu sits inside that discomfort. It's about the gap between a person and the character other people need them to be and about how the camera, which claims to just observe, is actually one of the most powerful tools we have for deciding in advance what we're going to find.

Worth sitting with afterward: how often do we do this to the people around us, minus the camera?

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Ivalu (2023) 🐦‍⬛, directed by Anders Walter & Pipaluk K. Jørgensen, a 17-minute Greenlandic drama, Academy Award nominee 🎬 for Best Live Action Short Film. Ivalu has vanished, and her father won't look for her, so her little sister goes searching herself, chasing a raven she believes might be carrying Ivalu's message, and holding onto every memory of the two of them like it might lead her home. 🎟️ Watch Ivalu on Ray35, free for a limited time ⏳

I'm gonna go with The Feast (Virundhu) 🍲, directed by Rishi Chandna, a 25-minute Tamil-language drama from India that won the Special Jury Prize 🏆 in International Competition at Clermont-Ferrand. The main character is a woman who seems to be struggling and poor, yet she goes around the village 🌾 gathering ingredients for one secret dish, something she believes can get her what she desperately needs. 🎟️ Watch The Feast on Ray35, free for a limited time ⏳

Not necessarily a film that won a major award. Not necessarily something with millions of views.

I mean a film you watched and thought:

“How does this not have more attention?”

I'd love to discover some hidden gems from different countries — especially films that had a festival run but disappeared afterward.

Drop the title below and tell us why you think people should watch it. 🎬