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(East Coast Premiere)(North America Premiere)(World Premiere)(Best Experimental Film Nominee)(Best Short Narrative Nominee)ExperimentalShort NarrativeShorts Program

In Memoriam Shorts

A film still from A LUTA CONTINUA // ATARAXY 44 shows the eyes and nose of an older Black man who is staring at something off screen. He is wearing black circle glasses with dark lenses. In the reflection of the lenses there is a window with items placed along the window sill.

Posthumous meditations on the departed.

Thank you to our screening partners: Twelve Gates Arts, Vox Populi, Black Girls in Art Spaces, African American Museum in Philadelphia

Films in this Program

A film still from A LUTA CONTINUA // ATARAXY 44 shows the eyes and nose of an older Black man who is staring at something off screen. He is wearing black circle glasses with dark lenses. In the reflection of the lenses there is a window with items placed along the window sill.
World PremiereExperimental

A Luta Continua // Ataraxy 44

A Luta Continua // Ataraxy 44 tells the poignant story of Hif Belowi Anga, a Congolese saxophonist who once played in Pr...

A film still from Dooni shows the silhouette of a person’s head in front of a wall illuminated by an unknown light source. On the wall is the shadow of another head.
World PremiereExperimental

Dooni

Dooni is the eulogy, voiced by actor Timothy Johnson, of the American soul singer and disco legend Sylvester (1947-1988)...

A film still from Highway to the Moon shows a young Black man in an astronaut suit standing in a room with blue walls. He holds his helmet in his hands, which emits a glowing light purple light that softly illuminates his body.
North America PremiereShort Narrative

Highway to the Moon

Highway to the Moon is a coming-of-age fantasy drama that unravels the mysterious aftermath of young boys whose lives ha...

A film still from Natimorto shows the side profile of a Brazilian man. There is white netting that wraps around his head and body.
World PremiereExperimental

Natimorto

In Bahia, Brazil, Benicio is born into silence, loss and ancestral grief. Haunted by inherited pain, he turns inward, re...

A film still from Oceania shows a dark, seemingly boundless room. A spotlight illuminates a platform holding two bodies, lying face up, covered from the chest down with a sheet. At the head of the platform stands a small group of people dressed in black suits and dresses, each holding a flower. A short distance away, another man in a suit faces them. He stands between two hollowed three-dimensional rectangles that sink into the ground.
East Coast PremiereShort Narrative

Oceania

During the summer, 16-year-old Najib spends his days gaming until his mother, Asma, informs him of their old neighbor&#8...

Tickets

In Person

2:00PM EDTPerelman Theater @ Kimmel
2:00PM EDTPerelman Theater @ Kimmel

Virtual

3:30PM EDT

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