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Shorts 6: Departures

  Various

  Kenya, U.S.     86 minutes

Synopsis

Unique perspectives and fresh stories drive this program of shorts by filmmakers new to the Festival who are reinventing cinema in ways both subtle and overt.

A young doctor has a series of strange experiences in Now, Be Still, a beguiling, unclassifiable and continually surprising film. In Transaction, as a 25th birthday present to herself, a woman decides to hire a male sex worker so she can lose her virginity. In The Non-Actor, a young woman travels to Los Angeles to treat her hearing loss and stays at her ex’s house with his new girlfriend. all the love I could handle tells the story of a mother struggling to balance her artistic career with parenthood.

 English, Kikuyu, Kiswahili 

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Screening

Sat, Oct 18 @ 12:00pm

at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 01
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