2022 Athena Film Festival

Virtual Event: Shorts Program II with Q&A

Expired March 21, 2022 3:59 AM
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8 films in package
Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me
Central American mothers journey by bus through Mexico, searching for their children who migrated north towards the United States but disappeared en route.
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My Grandmother Is An Egg
“As a child,” says the filmmaker, “my grandmother was given to be raised as a future daughter-in-law.” The film reflects upon women’s oppression and struggles for freedom.
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Rebyrth
A Black doula fights to save the lives of Black mothers as they journey through childbirth into parenthood.
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In Accordance With
A short science fiction film about the reality of access to abortion in the U.S.
Not The Science Type: Ciara
Dr. Ciara Sivels is a nuclear engineer with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and the first black woman to earn a Ph. D from the University of Michigan in nuclear engineering. It was her high school science teacher who first identified her ability in science and encouraged her to apply to MIT.
The Hairdresser
In this short, poetic documentary Kathleen reflects upon her 31 years as a hairdresser for the terminally ill in palliative care.
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Cold Beds
After getting locked out, Mona, a young seasonal worker of Italian origin, tries to fight off the cold while looking for shelter.
Shorts II Q&A
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In Accordance With

New York Premiere


On a wintery evening, two women drive up to a border checkpoint where one of them is seeking an abortion. Never leaving their car, they are forced to endure invasive and emotionally abusive measures in order to get past the checkpoint to the procedure. The dialogue in this film is taken verbatim from State-mandated anti-choice materials and imagines a world in which the territory of the body and the territory of the nation are collapsed into one space. Ultimately, the film explores whether this fictional world is really that different from the one we live in now.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    07:00
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States of America
  • Note
    Narrative
  • Director
    Sarah Ema Friedland, Alessandra Lacorazza
  • Screenwriter
    Sarah Ema Friedland
  • Producer
    Sarah Ema Friedland, Alessandra Lacorazza
  • Executive Producer
    Meerkat Media
  • Cast
    Brittany Henry, Claire Jamison, Rebecca Lovett, Samuel Dunning, Joe L. Hunt, John Jarusiewicz, Clarence C. Williams
  • Cinematographer
    Sean Hanley
  • Editor
    Samin Pogoff, Alex Mallis, Alessandra Lacorazza, and Sarah Ema Friedland
  • Composer
    Alexis Powell, William Tyler
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