All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing.
Director, screenwriter : Fyzal Boulifa Cast : Zehra Zorba, Leo Hatton, James Pierce, Terry Noble, Rytis Sadauskas, Zoe Price, Ellie Gardner, Clark Curran, Robert J Francis, Cecilia Noble, Debra Marie Mawdsley, George Welton, Demilade Adesanya, Natalie Callaghan, Zoie Smith, Saskia Chohan, Alex Morrison, Ava Sabrine Rosenthal DOP : Taina Galis Sound : Anna Bertmark Editing : Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Set Designer: Tilly Shiner Costumes : Clare Rose Music: Felicita Producers : Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Distribution: La Distributrice de Films Contact: info@ladistributrice.ca
FESTIVALS
Cannes, Quinzaine / Cannes, Director's Fortnight - Cannes, France, 2015 Guanajuato International Film Festival - Guanajuato, Mexico, 2015 Kratkofil International short Film Festival - Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015 20th Sarajevo Film Festival - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival - Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2015 BFI London Film Festival - London, UK, 2015 Encounters Shot Film Festival - Bristol, UK, 2015 Hamptons International Film Fetsival - Hamptons, USA, 2015 Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2015 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival - Batumi, Georgia, 2015 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinema - Montreal, Canada, 2015 51st Chicago International Film Festival - Chicago, USA, 2015 34th Uppsala International Short Film Festival - Uppsala, Sweeden 19th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - Winterthur, Switzerland, 2015 38th Denver Film Festival - Denver, USA, 2015 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival - Minneapolis, USA 44th AFI Film Fest - Los Angeles, USA Leeds International Film Festival - UK, 2015 Geo Saizescu International Film Festival - Roumania, 2015 Zagreb Film Fest - Croatia, 2015 Leuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015 London Short Film Fest - UK, 2016 Sundance - USA, 2016 Solothum Film Festival - Switzerland, 2016 Las Palmas International Film Festival - Spain, 2016 Mecal Barcelona - Spain, 2016 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival - Romania, 2016 Vilnius Film Festival- Lithuania, 2016 Madrid Film circle - Spain, 2016 Atlanta Film Festival - USA, 2016 Go Shorts - Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2016 Dallas Film Festival - Dallas, USA 2016 Indielisboa International Independent Film Festival - Lisbon, Portugal 2016 Kiev International Film Festival - Kiev, Ukraine 2016 Halifax Independent Filmmakers' Festival - Halifax, Canada Palm Springs Short Film Festival - Palm Springs, USA 2016 New Zeland International Film Festival - Wellington, New Zeland 2016 Lago International Film Festival - Lago, Italy 2016 Kinemastik International Short Film Festival - Malta 2016 DC Shorts Film Festival - Washington, USA 2016 Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vlasdivostock, Russia 2016
AWARDS
Best British Short at Leeds International Film Fetsival - UK, 2015 Live Action Short Special Mention for Innovative Storytelling au AFI Film Fest - USA, Los Angeles 2015 Honorable mention for Best International Short at Festival du nouveau cinéma, 2015 Honorable mention for Best International Short at TIFF, 2015 Illy Award, Directors' Fortnight - Cannes Films Festival, 2015
Ancora cadrà la pioggia sui tuoi dolci selciati, una pioggia leggera come un alito o un passo. Ancora la brezza e l'alba fioriranno leggere come sotto il tuo passo, quando tu rientrerai. Tra fiori e davanzali i gatti lo sapranno.
Ci saranno altri giorni, ci saranno altre voci. Sorriderai da sola. I gatti lo sapranno. Udrai parole antiche, parole stanche e vane come i costumi smessi delle feste di ieri.
Farai gesti anche tu. Risponderai parole- viso di primavera; farai gesti anche tu.
I gatti lo sapranno, viso di primavera; e la pioggia leggera, l'alba color giacinto, che dilaniano il cuore di chi più non ti spera, sono il triste sorriso che sorridi da sola.
Ci saranno altri giorni, altre voci e risvegli. Soffriremo nell'alba, viso di primavera.
Rain will fall again on your smooth pavement, a light rain like a breath or a step. The breeze and the dawn will flourish again when you return, as if beneath your step. Between flowers and sills the cats will know.
There will be other days, there will be other voices. You will smile alone. The cats will know. You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
You too will make gestures. You’ll answer with words— face of springtime, you too will make gestures.
The cats will know, face of springtime; and the light rain and the hyacinth dawn that wrench the heart of him who hopes no more for you— they are the sad smile you smile by yourself.
There will be other days, other voices and renewals. Face of springtime, We will suffer at daybreak.
Bayard & Me is a short doc about how the openly gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King, adopted his partner Walter Naegle in the 1980s for legal protections. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and how they had to work around the system in an era when gay marriage was inconceivable. He also reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement.
Matt Wolf is an award-winning filmmaker in New York. His film include Wild Combination about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell and Teenage about the birth of youth culture. His most recent shorts include HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary and The Face of AIDS for TIME Magazine.
Super Deluxe is an omni-platform entertainment company committed to amplifying unconventional creative voices. With online video for social feeds, television series, documentaries, interactive live experiences, and consumer-facing tech products, Super Deluxe talks to a generation of insatiably curious viewers who grew up clutching smartphones. Super Deluxe is a division of Turner, but it operates independently in Downtown LA.
Director: Matt Wolf Producer: Brendan Doyle DP: Pete Sillen Editor: Conor McBride Produced by SuperDeluxe and C41 Media