Silk Road International Film Festival Programme 2020

The Way To Snow
Director: Fong WIn
China // Live Action // 15mins
An orphan called Run Lin in the village is taking charge of the
orange garden left by his mother. He is full of yearning for
the outside world at eighteen or nineteen years of age, while
the villagers do not have much requirement for life, feeling
nothing uncomfortable with repeating their quotidian life.
However, Run Lin wants to go and see the snow.
When Planets Mate
Director: Riley Thompson
USA // Animation // 11mins
Explore the origins of life and humanity’s quest for
transcendental knowledge while voyaging through a
psychonautic world melded from biology and Hindu myth.
A Family
Director: Ryan Weldon
Ireland // Live Action // 10mins
A tense, late-night fight in a suburban home takes a
turn for the worse but as we observe the aftermath and
attempts to reconcile, we realize something far more
sinister is occurring.
Segregated By Design
Director: Mark Lopez
USA // Animation // 17mins
Richard Rothstein, author of ‘The Color of Law’, narrates
a fast-paced motion design film that illustrates the forgotten
history of how all of the nation’s metropolitan areas
became segregated by “de jure” segregation, racially
explicit policy on the part of the federal, state and local
governments. ‘Segregated By Design’ explores different
subjects pertaining to residential segregation like many
New Deal policies, racial zoning techniques like Redlining,
the creation of slums, blockbusting, slum clearance,
state-sponsored violence, the immense wealth gap
between white families and African-American families,
the effects of segregation and the constitutional remedy
for the unconstitutional segregation.