In the quiet hours before dawn, an elderly substitute driver moves through the sleeping city of Seoul. As she encounters subtle moments of indifference and discrimination, the film quietly reveals the fragile realities of aging labor and loneliness in contemporary society. “Broken Dawn” is a contemplative portrait of dignity, silence, and survival at the edge of daybreak.
Nominee
Before The Sun
Between night and dawn, a 200-year-old vampire’s confession unfolds. Through handcrafted performance, haunted production design, and shifting light, Before the Sun explores the moment self-awareness becomes unavoidable, a quiet reckoning with the past, and a choice to step into the light.
A Cree Approach – nêhiyawîhtwâwin
A Cree Approach follows Tristin Greyeyes to understand why Cree was not her first language, unraveling the story of her late grandmother, Freda Ahenakew. Freda, a single mother of 12 and a high school dropout, witnessed a generational divide in her family—half of her children learned Cree as their first language, while the rest grew up without it. Through interviews, archival footage, and personal reflection, Tristin delves into Freda’s legacy, uncovering the complex history behind her work and
The Human Under the Bed
AJ, a little monster awake past their bedtime, has found a human under their bed! But humans, it turns out, aren’t actually all that scary. The two become fast friends, and while they have very different perspectives, they may have more in common than they think.
The Light in the Dark
This story is about climate disaster survivor and his comforter . I lived in Taiwan this small island, there were many typhoons and floods in my memory, earthquakes were also often happened in my dairy life. My works always focus on the survivors, including the comfort women and earthquakes survivors and the poor rains and flood survivors in many places because of the climate changing.
Okurimono
Noriko Oi returns to Japan, her native land, in the hopes of reviving her mother’s memories, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, while preparing for her childhood home’s sale.