Asli Baykal’s Darkroom, created with the young participants of the Sirkhane Darkroom Workshop in a border town between Turkey and Syria, opens the screening program. In it, children roam the area, looking at the world through the viewfinders of analog cameras, in an intimate vision of the medium as a form of play and a way to forge an alternate reality in a conflict zone.
A short film based on the book FAIRY TALES by Petra Collins & Alexa Demie.
Deadbeat dad Budd takes his ten-year-old son Joey on a gambling spree at the horse races in the hopes of winning a new bike for the kid’s birthday.
