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(North America Premiere)(Philadelphia Premiere)(Best Short Documentary Nominee)ExperimentalShort DocumentaryShorts Program

Revel Shorts

A film still from Boil That Cabbage Down shows a group of Black people posed together in a field with a clear light blue sky. At the center is a man wearing a blue blazer over a white collared shirt. Next to him is a woman wearing a white shirt with a frilly collar. Behind them stand three Black men also in blazers. The man on the left stands out, wearing a red blazer and an afro. He is the only person without a white scarf tied on their head.

Communing in music.

Thank you to our screening partners: Comfrey Films

Films in this Program

A film still from Boil That Cabbage Down shows a group of Black people posed together in a field with a clear light blue sky. At the center is a man wearing a blue blazer over a white collared shirt. Next to him is a woman wearing a white shirt with a frilly collar. Behind them stand three Black men also in blazers. The man on the left stands out, wearing a red blazer and an afro. He is the only person without a white scarf tied on their head.
Philadelphia PremiereShort Documentary

Boil That Cabbage Down

In this documentary, a novice banjoist embarks on a transformative journey to uncover the forgotten Black roots of the b...

A film still from Bubbling Baby shows two women in a crowd. The woman on the left is wearing a white knitted off the shoulder top. She has her hands on the waist of the other woman who is bent over in front of her. The other woman is wearing a silk tank top tied in the back and jean shorts.
North America PremiereShort Documentary

Bubbling Baby

Bubbling Baby celebrates a heritage often overlooked, reframing and reclaiming the Caribbean-Dutch bubbling culture. ...

A film still from Speaking in Tongues: Take One shows a white background with a thinly outlined faced black circle. Inside the circle, four black right angled pieces make up a plus sign.
Philadelphia PremiereExperimental

Speaking in Tongues: Take One

A film about Black ecstasy and the carceral forces arrayed against it. ...

A film still from Tessitura shows a Black woman standing on the stage of a grand room, presumably singing. Her elbows are bent with hands in front of her. She wears a black sheer long-sleeved top and a black floor length skirt with a gold pattern.
Philadelphia PremiereShort Documentary

Tessitura

Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those w...

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11:00AM EDTThe Wilma Theater
11:00AM EDTThe Wilma Theater

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1:30PM EDT

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