Schedule
Othelo, The Great
dir. by Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos
Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata, Grande Otelo, was one of Brazil’s greatest actors and comedians, using the spotlight to shape his own narrative and discuss the institutional racism that haunted him for eight decades, two dictatorships and over a hundred films.
- Open captions in-person
Nowhere Near
dir. by Miko Revereza
A poetic memoir through the lens of a stateless person returning to an estranged homeland.
- Open captions in-person
Statism (Shorts)
- Shorts Program
- John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center @ PAFA
Going head to head with repressive state apparatus, and who we become in the process of doing so. Creative, embodied, stubborn, and emergent.
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
Engines for a New American Narrative Co-presented by Color Congress
with Anurima Bhargava, Francis Cullado, Marángeli Mejia-Rabell, Nadine Patterson, moderated by Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress
- American Sign Language interpretation in-person
The Queen of My Dreams
dir. by Fawzia Mirza
Queer grad student Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.
- Open captions in-person
Dis-Ease
dir. by Mariam Ghani
Dis-Ease is about how we imagine disease and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors, treatments and disability in real life.
- Audio description in-person & online
- Open captions in-person
barrunto
dir. by Emilia Beatriz
From its deep vibration tracks to the nonlinear narrative, barrunto is a film that attempts to activate sensations and modes of being with the world and in connection beyond Western frameworks of knowledge, a sensorial translation meant to be felt more than understood.
- Open captions in-person
Black Girls
dir. by B. Monét
There are films that expand our emotional capacity and then there are some that move us from bystanders toward action. Black Girls aims to do both. Never Whisper Justice’s sophomore film arrives as a visual anthology on the expansiveness of Black womanhood and how the corners of intersectionality can bring us all closer to the edge of a new beginning.
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
Dreams in Nightmares
dir. by Shatara Michelle Ford
Three Black queer femmes in their mid 30s take a road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
- Open captions in-person
