8:00 PM
PROGRAM
Our Kaleidoscope: Cinefilmu Short Films
A dynamic kaleidoscope of eight short films painting colorful brilliant reflections of visions from filmmakers in our communities. These stories represent the official Cinefilmu selected films for this year’s festival. Join us for Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.
1) Leonidas
dir. Mikah Amani
- 7:55 min
Mikah Amani explores the identities of Black/trans masculine folks living in Florida by combining vibrant interviews and experimental editing.
2) Angelita
dir. Amira Stone
- 16:27 min
With intimate attention to transformation in body and culture endured across oceans and time, “Angelita” poses a question from granddaughter to grandmother: what lives and dies at the other end of sacrifice?
3) Dana + Char
dir. Alan Tracy
- 24:00 min
The story of when Dana met Char
4) REVERIE
dir. Liqing Xu
- 3:56 min
A meditation on gender and desire.
5) CHOPSTICK
dir. Leah Rathe
- 3:10 min
A chopstick, adopted from one country and raised in one filled with forks, goes on a journey of self discovery and identity.
6) Quand la terre respire
dir. Sarah Andel-Jelil
- 9:52 min
An invitation for soft focus, this kaleidoscopic film draws from the artist’s nomadic upbringing, fractal geometry, Islamic art and design, pattern, dance, repetition, and the oscillation between personal and geological time.
7) witness
dir. yordi samson
- 10:00 min
an experimental stream of consciousness that uses fragmented memory, archives to witnesses the violence, dismemory & change as a result of displacement in Ethiopia
8) Mercadito de Anhelo
dir. Esmeralda Galicia-Arellano
-11:01 min
Yearning for a safe place to call home, a lost young woman begins her search for belonging as she reflects with two immigrant mothers on identity & resistance.
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