Dancing, riding, skating, playing. Activated bodies generate activated communities moving through this shorts program. Accessibility: Closed captions available

The Wind Telephone is a journey into the fantastic world of a child and the profound longing and love she has for her mother.

The Wind Telephone

An abstract portrait of Black and Creole cowboys in Louisiana and their connection to horses, both horse and rider dancing their way to cultural preservation.

Footwork

Dominoes is a game that can be played in different ways. With different rules for different cultures. Solo and teams. Tournaments. For money on the table. Six dots, nine dots. But what is consistent is the loud trash talking across the tables, the slamming down of “bones,” the strategy of predicting what the next player has in their hand. Throwing Bones. Caribbean Chess. In an ever-changing digital world, where unscripted human interaction can feel limited, dominoes brings people together for games that take all night with friendships that last a lifetime.

Domino Days

This film profiles Rah Wiggins, coach of New York City’s most prolific street basketball team, the Sean Bell All-Stars, who’ve dominated the summer tournament scene for more than 20 years. After the NYPD’s infamous killing of Sean Bell in 2006, Coach Wiggins renamed the team after his fallen friend. In this short documentary, Coach Wiggins visits his former neighborhood in Queens, where his friendship with Sean Bell once blossomed. We also get a coach’s view inside a tournament game at Gersh Park in Brooklyn.

Bring Your Name – the Sean Bell All-Stars

Through the Storm follows the 2023 season of the Red Lake Nation (Ojibwe) high school football team. Despite dwindling interest and a two-decades-long losing record, a determined coach and group of young athletes fight to keep their football program alive. An exploration on overcoming loss, the film follows the personal triumphs and hardships of the players and their families and examines how football serves as a symbol of hope, unity and resilience for the people of Red Lake.

Through the Storm

The People Could Fly is a poetic documentary about the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, Kentucky, from the 1960s to mid 2000s. In this intimate video portrait, we delve into the ritual of roller skating and how roller rinks emerged as sanctuaries for Black culture. Through a charged combination of archival footage, still photos, newly shot material and newsreel footage, we explore the history of a segregated Louisville and the magic that its Black community has conjured as an act of resistance. Thank you to our screening partner: <a href="https://browngirlsdocmafia.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brown Girls Doc Mafia</a>

The People Could Fly

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