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Black-and-white close up of Michèle Firk, a woman with a dark pixie cut with defined eyebrows gazing at the camera. She wears a knowing expression, lips slightly parted, in defining lighting.

September 17, 2026

Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of

May 1966. Michèle Firk, a French film critic and contemporary of Jean-Luc Godard, becomes increasingly political, joining the anti-colonialist movements of the time and attending Havana’s Tricontinental Conference—a first-of-its-kind international meeting of anti-imperialist leaders and activists...

September 17, 2026

Black Perspectives Shorts: Love with No Place to Go

Crashing into the Montreal jazz scene, newly immigrated Koffi must navigate a new city and his father’s legacy in Jazz Infernal. In Speechless, a man spirals over his place in the family after his best-man speech gets stolen. Tell Me When You Get Home unearths poignant family lore using bold, col...

A man viewed from behind watches a dimly lit live band perform in a crowded jazz club. A man stands next to him watching as well.

September 17, 2026

Jazz Infernal

After a stressful arrival at Immigration and Customs, Koffi gets a crash course in Montreal’s nightlife straight off the plane from Côte d'Ivoire. An attempt to charge his phone and take the bus to his aunt’s house leads to hijinks, performances and personal realizations at a busy jazz club. T...

September 17, 2026

Animation Shorts: Altered States

The End of the End’s striking style, reminiscent of paper cutouts and puppet shows, mythologizes the journey of a recently deceased woman through her final moments with the five senses she used in life. In two ice creams please, inky 2D animation bleeds into stop motion as two increasingly fever...

In claymation, a pink hand holding an ice cream scoop takes a scoop out of the middle of an ice cream tub with the text "two ice creams please" in red, now partially missing.

September 17, 2026

two ice creams please

When two Belgian tourists follow a monkey into a dense rainforest, their subpar survival instincts leave them feverish, frightened, and lost. With charming stop motion animation that gives way to hallucinatory 2D digital drawings, this darkly funny short treats themes of friendship, impulsivity, ...

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