Autokar
Synopsis
As eight-year-old Agata boards a full bus from Poland to Belgium by herself, she notices that those around her seem different. The magical realism of Autokar authentically recalls how strange and inscrutable the adult world can seem to children, lending the story a subtle humor and nostalgia.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.
Media
Film Credits
- Christophe Beaujean, Jérémie Mazurek
- Sylwia Szkiłądź
- Jérôme Erhart
- Natalia Wolska, Anna Seniuk, Henryk Niebudek, Elżbieta Gaertner
- Barbara Drazkov
- Ozù Productions, Amopix, Vivi Film & Novanima
- https://www.miyu.fr/distribution/en/autokar-2/
Shorts 4: City & State
Synopsis
Chicago and Illinois-based filmmakers experiment with genre, topic, and form in this eclectic program by students, upcoming artists, and established directors.
In Bailey’s Blues, a Chicago-born musician turns up the heat in a confrontational interview. An ugly Christmas dinner leaves a young woman with one worthwhile family member in Madrina. The ever-mounting pressure of high school debate brings out the best and worst of its overachieving students and wise-cracking judges in Debaters. Your Tomorrow Will Be My Song is a vulnerable re-telling by Suni and Alondra, a real-life couple contemplating their trip back home to the Andes. In Chasing the Party, teenage exploration takes an unexpected turn when suburban best friends Melissa and Stephanie make their way into a bar with the fakest of IDs. The usual anxieties plague upcoming artist Anisa as she dodges gossip from art scene contemporaries, questions the value of her work, and navigates flaring tensions in It’s Just a Fucking Opening. In Make No Mistake: These Are the Glory Days, we witness moments of clarity, belonging, and acceptance as the band HOME IS WHERE tours the U.S. as an openly trans group with an openly trans audience.
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Bailey’s Blues
Synopsis
When a French journalist attempts to interview a Chicago-born blues musician, all of the bitter racial resentment of the 1960s bubbles up to the surface. What starts off as a generic interview becomes a chance for actual truth telling about the music business and society at-large.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 4: City & State.
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Film Credits
- Shiloh Tumo Washington, Fabiola Auxila
- Shiloh Tumo Washington
- Shiloh Tumo Washington
- Corey Joon Clark
- Namir Smallwood, Pierre Lucas
- Adam Zanolini
- Candice Abioye, Alex Breland, Melissa Canon-Johnson, Amir George, Damon Jones, Hugh McIntyre, Amy McIntyre, Ifeoma Nkemdi, Messejah Washington
- Tumo Works, Blank Gaze Filmworks
- https://tumoworks.com/baileys-blues-2025
It’s Just a Fucking Opening
Synopsis
Up-and-coming artist Anisa is woefully unprepared for the pettiness and performative antics taking place at the gallery opening for her latest pieces. Everything but the artwork seems to take center stage. With an absent girlfriend and career-oriented bestie focused on their own priorities, Anisa is left to spiral alone at the end of the night.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 4: City & State.
Film Credits
- Tala Gallery, Kin Marie
- Josh Brainin, Youssef Boucetta
- Josh Brainin, Youssef Boucetta
- Jim Zhang
- Ireon Roach, Camille Bacon
- Brandon Tong
- Jupiter Magazine, Camille Bacon, Barel Dove
Shorts 10: Outré
Synopsis
The creators of these shorts unabashedly follow their own singular visions into wildly new and weird territories. Filled with fantastic imagery, oddball production design, and both animated and live-action storytelling, this program showcases the boundless possibilities of short film as a uniquely innovative art form.
Water Sports transports us to a hyper-stylized world ravaged by climate change where two students discover that emotional rather than physical strength offers their best chance of survival. In Arguments in Favor of Love, two animated ghosts revisit the conflicts and emotions that populated the landscapes of their previous shared life. A filmmaker narrates the events surrounding her abortion with poignance and irreverence while MS-paint style animation depicts the titular Abortion Party. A single woman navigates the difficult world of contemporary dating in Manakin by building a life-sized stuffed companion onto which she projects the images and words of a litany of single men. A young queer man on his way to a rave in the Argentine Pampas finds himself stranded in a rural tavern with a secret in the strikingly animated Luz Diabla. In a fantastical world suffused with eroticism, Once in a Full Moon follows a young vampire as he embarks on a quest that promises to grant him his heart’s truest desire: to consummate his love for the moon.
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