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Black Perspectives Shorts: Love with No Place to Go

  Various  |  Canada, Cuba, U.K., U.S.

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, colorful animation. When They’re Gone follows an unlikely pair who meet during their early morning visits to the cemetery. A delivery ward nurse stays busy while praying her abortion was successful in Gill. Extraterrestrial activity meets the rural North Carolina pulpit in Jesus is Coming (to take the Church away).

 Various 

 93 minutes

Screenings & Events

Screening

Fri, Oct 16 @ 7:15pm

at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Screening

Sun, Oct 18 @ 6:00pm

at Logan Center, Screening Room
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Animation Shorts: Altered States

Various | Belgium, Denmark, France, South Korea, Sweden, U.K., U.S.

Envisioning the disturbing and delightful possibilities that exist beyond our fleshy forms, this program of animated shorts features different takes on death rendered in stop …

In a small home, two people sit at a distant dining table, the lighting is dark with a singular fluorescent bulb, a bucket sits on the floor.

i saw you in the flood

K. Xian Ming Yu | U.S.

A non-binary Chinese American finds connection with their mother when their flooding apartment is visited by the spirit of an old relative. An impressive balance …

A young black woman wearing a blue t-shirt and a name tag carries mutliple VHS tapes in her arms inside a video store. The videos behind her are blurry and grainy in the distance with colorful covers.

The Watermelon Woman

Cheryl Dunye | U.S.

A video clerk unearths the hidden history of a 1930s Black actress in Cheryl Dunye’s landmark queer comedy.

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