Diomysus | The Many Faces of Love | 2023 Through Women's Eyes International Film Festival

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An experimental comedy-documentary fusion exploring polyamory with puppets! Diomysus asks how open are we, the audience, to potentially challenging ideas if our unconscious biases are taken away?

What our screening reviewers said: "Loved this brilliant, quirky film that explores a difficult subject using fuzzy puppets. The experimental documentary/comedy asks how open we are to new, potentially challenging idea."

This film is a part of The Many Faces of Love:

THE RADIO

MAUREEN

HIGHLY FUNCTIONING

DIOMYSUS

#NANAROCKS

LABOR OF LOVE

Year
2022
Runtime
5 minutes
Language
English
Country
Wales, United Kingdom
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Director
Emily Morus-Jones
Screenwriter
Emily Morus-Jones
Producer
Sara Allen
Executive Producer
Grant Black, Stephen James Yeoman
Cast
Ruby Rare & members of the Great British Polyamorous Public
Cinematographer
Lindsay Walker
Editor
Lindsay Walker, Hywel Griffith

7 films in package

The Radio

An elderly widower depends on his radio to keep a foothold in his daily routine. What happens when the radio breaks?

Maureen

Who they hell steals ashes? Ok, not just ashes, but, well, ashes that used to be someone's mom. And why? Find out for yourself.

Highly Functioning

How do you prepare a special child for an ever-changing world? Maggie Tombelli is a witty and intelligent 15-year-old with high-functioning autism. With the support of her father, she hopes to get a scholarship to a school for gifted children. Highly Functioning shows the love, frustrations, and heartbreak that goes along with being on the spectrum in a harsh and judgmental world.

Diomysus

An experimental comedy-documentary fusion exploring polyamory with puppets!

Closed captions available

#NanaRocks

Nana is cared for by her two granddaughters. She enjoys Rachel’s disrupting visits the most and has come to take Rosie’s hard-working quiet nature for granted. When Rosie falls ill, and Rachel only manages a quick drive-by visit, Nana has no food and a broken telly. Moved by seeing the very last Tupperware meal left by Rosie, Nana embarks on an epic cross-country journey on her mobility scooter.

Labor of Love

Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years old when she was freed. She stayed in Black Mountain and became a midwife, delivering several hundred babies including her own grandchildren. Then one day her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, to honor the family matriarch. Share this family story.

USED

A young math prodigy, Becky, is offered the opportunity to work on a groundbreaking government project in exchange for the release of her mother from prison.