Exploring the ways we grieve and heal. Films: Mr. Wild; Seahorse, R.I.P. T-Shirts; death. everything. nothing.; Still Processing; Raspberry; Pops *Note: Audience Choice voting can only be completed via Internet browser.

Mr. Wild tracks the journey of two different generations trying to make since of a close person they've lost. Heartland Film Alumni: Cycle (High School Section), 2017 In English, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Caleb Wildcalebwild22@gmail.com

Mr. Wild

An intimate conversation with my grandfather’s friend in Florida, a year after he passed away.

The seahorse is a powerful animal. It stands upright in the water and cannot sink, the swimming instructor encourages the children. A place in the human brain is named after it, the hippocampus, where all memory begins. There we archive what we cannot forget. It is the seahorse in the brain where the terror and beauty of life meet – and for Hanan it is where she stores her memories of the ocean. When the young Yezidi crossed the Mediterranean Sea with her family in a small rubber dinghy, she could not swim. The images of the deep blue sea and the fear of drowning are irrevocably burned into her memory. To reconcile her past she learned how to swim. But the waters still await her with haunting images of the ocean. »Seahorse« poetically explores the contradictions and unpredictabilities of remembrance. Student Film: The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany In German, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Christine Duttlingerchristine.duttlinger@filmakademie.de

Seahorse

Against the prosaic background of a swimming course, a young Yezidi wrestles quietly with her fearsome memories of the Mediterranean Sea.

R.I.P. T-SHIRTS portrays urban gun violence through the eyes of Jonathan Robinson, a T-shirt shop owner just outside Washington, D.C. The film follows young teens who come to the shop to design R.I.P. Tees in memory of friends who have just been gunned down on the streets.The film score features co-producer/musician Anwan 'Big G' Glover. Anwan was shot 13 times in D.C., and his Gogo music underscores the film with and it's anti-gun-violence message. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Cinetic Mediaemilie@cineticmedia.com&nbsp;

R.I.P.  T-Shirts

R.I.P. T-SHIRTS portrays urban gun violence through the eyes of Jonathan Robinson, a T-shirt shop owner just outside Washington, D.C. The film follows young teens who come to the shop to design R.I.P. Tees in memory of friends who have just been gunned down on the streets.

How does one confront the imminent death of a parent as a global pandemic wedges distance between kin? In death. everything. nothing., LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant uses impending maternal loss to capture the heartache, uncertainty, and inevitability of death’s grip on human life.

death. everything. nothing.

Separated by distance, time, and a pandemic, a daughter wrestles with her mother’s impending death.

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Filmmaker Sophy Romvari documents her first-hand experience as an exploration into cinema as therapy in this nonfiction short. Student Film: York University, Canada In English, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Square Eyesinfo@squareeyesfilm.com

Still Processing

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

A Korean-American family watches their father take his final breaths. When undertakers come to remove the body, the family, and one son in particular, struggle with their last chance to say goodbye. In English, Korean, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Julian Doanraspberryshortfilm@gmail.com

Raspberry

Undertakers wait on a family's final farewells, as one son struggles to say goodbye to his dead father.

How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey. In English, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Salaud Morissetfestival@salaudmorisset.com

Pops

How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.

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