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(North America Premiere)(Philadelphia Premiere)(World Premiere)Short DocumentaryShort NarrativeShorts Program

Abolish! Shorts

A film still from A New Voice shows two Black women in conversation presumably in a dining room with wooden furniture. The older woman is wearing an orange floral dress and gold and orange pendant earrings. The other woman with her back to the camera has locs tied together with a blue hair band. There is an older Black man recording the women with a camcorder.

Post-carceral stories, from the individual to the systemic.

Thank you to our screening partners: Amistad Law Project, Alliance for a Just Philadelphia

Films in this Program

A film still from A New Voice shows two Black women in conversation presumably in a dining room with wooden furniture. The older woman is wearing an orange floral dress and gold and orange pendant earrings. The other woman with her back to the camera has locs tied together with a blue hair band. There is an older Black man recording the women with a camcorder.
World PremiereShort Documentary

A New Voice

A New Voice is a firsthand look into the upward journey of citizens returning to communities after incarceration. The fi...

A black-and-white film still from Exodus shows a woman wearing a winter coat with a fur lined hood pulled over her head. The view of the woman is through a gap between two unknown objects.
Philadelphia PremiereShort Documentary

Exodus

Exodus is an intimate portrait of two women who face unique challenges following decades of incarceration. The film bear...

A film still from Space to Breathe shows a Black woman sitting in the middle of two Black men. They are in a room lined with LED strips in various colors. The woman looks into the camera, wearing a purple and pink afro, thick gold necklace, and burgundy off the shoulder dress. The man to her left wears a knitted cap with a kente cloth top and gold jewelry. The other man has two-toned green hair and green jacket along with gold jewelry.
North America PremiereShort Narrative

Space to Breathe

Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, framed with a future where there are no prisons ...

Tickets

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3:00PM EDTPerelman Theater @ Kimmel
3:00PM EDTPerelman Theater @ Kimmel

Virtual

7:30PM EDT

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