Stream this year's Audience Award winners — voted by you — for an additional 48 hours! This block is restricted to viewers in the United States due to requirements from the distributors and/or filmmakers of these works. Favorite Short NarrativeBurnt Milkdir.&nbsp;Joseph Douglas Elmhirst Favorite Short DocumentaryA Symphony of Tiny Lightsdirs.&nbsp;Nadia Gill &amp; Dominic Gill Favorite Experimental FilmTwo Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)dir.&nbsp;Suneil Sanzgiri Favorite Feature NarrativeInky Pinky Ponky - the Odd One Outdirs. Damon Fepule'ai &amp; Ramon Te Wake Favorite Feature DocumentaryYou Don't Have to Go Home, But...dir. Aidan Un

Una, an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, works as a nurse on a maternity ward. As she takes a moment of solace to make her traditional condensed milk pudding, burnt milk, she is flooded with visions that take her home.

Burnt Milk

After witnessing the 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis is determined to travel across America on foot — and in silence.

A Symphony of Tiny Lights

Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to prevent Vasco de Gama from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations in India and Africa. Watch the Q&amp;A conversation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/mJ605vzjb-M?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)

It’s ball season, and hormones are on the rise at St. Valentines High. The new arrival of the fabulous fakaleiti Lisa causes a stir, and particularly with First XV Captain Mose. A web of entanglements are woven, and Lisa soon realizes that behind every Prince Charming is a hater in the midst.

Inky Pinky Ponky - the Odd One Out

You Don’t Have to Go Home, but . . . is an ode to dancing bodies, a grimy love letter to Philadelphia, a story about what to do when the DJ has played the last song, the club’s lights have come on and you gotta go . . . somewhere. Following three dancers at different stages of their lives, with legendary Philly dance party Second Sundae as backdrop, this documentary film examines the possibility of spiritual fulfillment in a socioeconomic configuration that ultimately doesn’t value the practices that make us free. Thank you to our screening partners: <a href="https://admin.eventive.org/collectiveclimb.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Collective Climb</a> and <a href="https://paaff.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival</a> and <a href="www.urbanmovementarts.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">urban movement arts</a> and <a href="https://philadanco.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philadelphia Dance Company (philadanco)</a> Watch the Q&amp;A conversation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDOiHySLlgs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

You Don't Have to Go Home, but...

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