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(East Coast Premiere)(North America Premiere)(Philadelphia Premiere)(Best Short Documentary Nominee)ExperimentalShort DocumentaryShort NarrativeShorts Program

Framed Shorts

A film still from Another One shows a Black man in a dark room. There are highlights only on his forehead, nose, and mouth. Only the top of his red t-shirt is visible. He stares at something beyond the screen with no emotion.

Films about films, filmmakers, and filmmaking.

Thank you to our screening partners: Scribe Video Center, cinéSPEAK



Films in this Program

A film still from Another One shows a Black man in a dark room. There are highlights only on his forehead, nose, and mouth. Only the top of his red t-shirt is visible. He stares at something beyond the screen with no emotion.
North America PremiereExperimental

Another Other

A Black police officer and university president are interrogated by multiple white state officials after their failures ...

A film still from Black Glass shows an open field, presumably atop a mountain, with algae speckled rocks covered in yellow grass. There is a blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. In the foreground a pole stands planted between the rocks, draped with hats, shirts, and other articles of clothing.
Philadelphia PremiereExperimental

Black Glass

Black Glass examines the entangled histories of visual technology and the genocide and expropriation of Indigenous popul...

A film still from The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing shows a hand holding up a stem sprouting magenta flowers. The flowers are framed within a gap between trees, revealing a clear blue sky in the background.
Philadelphia PremiereShort Documentary

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, ...

A film still from The Nile Shows a man in red lighting holding a film camera up to his eye. A light fog is casted from a spotlight on his side.
North America PremiereShort Documentary

Two Niles (Dois Nilos)

A journey through the memories of Brazilian filmmaker Afranio Vital. Between dreams and ruins, a cinematic life doesn’t ...

A film still from We Were the Scenery shows an Asian woman smiling as she is captured in motion in a door frame. Behind her, two Asian children rest. One child looks at the other, who is lying on a small swing and focused on a TV screen.
Philadelphia PremiereShort Documentary

We Were The Scenery

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Phili...

A film still from all the love i could handle shows the side profile of a young Black girl curiously staring at something off screen.
East Coast PremiereShort Narrative

all the love i could handle

all the love i could handle is a re-imagining of the filmmaker’s mother’s young diary, unraveling the raw complexities o...

Tickets

In Person

7:30PM EDTThe Wilma Theater
7:30PM EDTThe Wilma Theater

Virtual

10:30AM EDT

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