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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

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