8:00 PM
PROGRAM
Our Kaleidoscope: Cinefilmu Short Films
A dynamic kaleidoscope of ten short films painting colorful brilliant reflections 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.
9) BLACK FRIDAY
dir. Christine Yasmine-Widad Harb
-7:12 min
See what Capitalism has in store for you this BLACK FRIDAY.
10) Portraiture of a grandfather
dir.Genie hiền trần
-5:29 min
Interview with the artist's father about their grandfather's imprisonment at Con Dao Prison. Built in 1861 by the French colonists and later run by the American-backed imperialist government, Con Dao prison jailed political revolutionaries considered especially dangerous. While brutal violence drenched the island for over a century, this dark history was hidden to promote tourism to this "greatest hidden gem" of untamed beauty.
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