BlackStar Film Festival

Shorts: Concomitance

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6 films in package
A Mother's Body (En Mammas Kropp)
A Mother's Body is an intimate portrayal of two women hotel cleaners from a daughter's perspective. While the women perform their daily work, the daughter reflects on how their profession affects their bodies and relationship to time. Meanwhile, the women navigate and negotiate the demands of the strenuous labour with experience, preciseness, and beauty.
This is Forever
With dreams of being the best ancestor she can be for her teenage son, an Indigenous Bolivian single mother applies for a Visa to remain in the UK while embarking on a journey of healing the wounds of her past.
Totems
A post-apocalyptic film about two indigenous men existing in the aftermath of colonial America. Totems represents a slice of the sub-conscience mind of the modern day indigenous man. The Id (Ben Dupris) and the Ego (Ajuawak Kapashesit), must find a new way of existing in America 2019.
Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical
Junkanoo, a celebration in the Bahamas, is a culture with innovative costume designs. Aesthetic and political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the year-long production of costumes. Here is Black radical imagination, a resistance, a uniquely Bahamian identity.
Dear Philadelphia
With the help of their family, friends, and faith, three fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community in North Philly. While walking through the intimate truths of life that can sometimes become a barrier, the film is a reminder that hope can be found in all situations.
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Relational poetics.

Junkanoo, a celebration in the Bahamas, is a culture with innovative costume designs. The aesthetic and the political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the yearlong production of costumes. Here is Black radical imagination, a resistance, a uniquely Bahamian identity.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Country
    Bahamas, United Kingdom
  • Premiere
    Philadelphia
  • Director
    Rhea Storr