… the weight of time, the weight of power.

Gystere and Esperanza are going to the center of the Earth to confront the Intergalactic Colonizer, master of the Europe Normale officers and drinking all the water of the world!

Another Story (with esperanza spalding)

Huia dreams to be a principle ballerina for the countryâs top academy. During her audition, an unexpected visitor shows up during her final bid to impress. Only this time, her ancestors are the audience.

PIIKSI/HUIA (Bird)

Inspired by a popular American TV Show about a female jailhouse, a young Haitian girl galvanizes her friends to help women prisonerâs in Haiti.

Men Nan Men

The Fukumitsu ‘Ohana (family) of Hakipu’u are Native Hawaiian taro farmers and keepers of this generational practice. While much of O’ahu has become urbanized, Hakipu’u remains a kīpuka (oasis) of traditional knowledge where great chiefs once resided and their bones still remain.

Pili Ka Moʻo

In Golden Jubilee, Sanzgiri reconsiders ideas of freedom, loss and recovery in the wake of colonial and neo-colonial theft. The film asks us to consider “what is liberation when so much has been lost?” Nominated for Best Experimental Film.

Golden Jubilee

Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transformed. Director Charlotte Brathwaite in collaboration with Photographer Malick Welli imagine the dreams and nightmares of forcibly enslaved Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said. Transforming the darkness of captivity into the light of freedom and love. Nominated for Best Experimental Film.

FORGOTTEN PARADISE: DREAM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

Shorts: Withstand 

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