BlackStar Film Festival

Press & Industry: Aquarius Shorts

Available in 09d 13h 20m 59s
Available August 3, 2026 12:00 PM UTC
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4 films in package
Ixquic
Ixquic, an Indigenous teenager, rejects her mother’s fight to protect a threatened river. When the river begins to bleed and ancestral forces awaken, she must reconcile her identity with the legacy she denied in order to defend her territory.
Same Water
Same Water is a lyrical nonfiction film that weaves memory with archive to examine Black leisure, freedom and exclusion at Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Florida.
Charip: Lightning in the River (Charip: el relámpago del río)
When a new wave of gold mining threatens their ancestral territory in the Peruvian Amazon, the Wampis Nation rises to defend their land, rivers and sovereignty, confronting global extractivism with their own systems of resistance, self-defense and territorial control.
Communion (Comunhão)
A group of lesbian friends over 50 travel together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, their desire and their freedom. Over the weekend, they fully experience the richness of a reality they already carry within themselves, strengthening the bonds that unite them.
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Thank you to our screening partners: Philly VC and Undocumented Filmmakers Collective.

A group of lesbian friends over 50 travel together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, their desire and their freedom. Over the weekend, they fully experience the richness of a reality they already carry within themselves, strengthening the bonds that unite them.

  • Year
    2026
  • Runtime
    23 minutes
  • Language
    Portuguese
  • Country
    Brazil
  • Premiere
    East Coast
  • Genre
    Short Documentary
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Pétala Lopes
  • Screenwriter
    Pétala Lopes, Ana Squilanti, Juliana Munhoz
  • Producer
    Ana Squilanti
  • Executive Producer
    Ana Squilanti
  • Cast
    Adriana Rodrigues de Freitas, Angela Fontes, Selma Almeida (Cecel), Cenia Borges, Elaine Amarante, Fabiana Ribeiro, Giselia de Moura, Juciara Ramalho, Laura de Jesus, Márcia Regina Borges, Mari Machado, Marta Rodrigues, Rosalina Aparecida da Silva, Solange Schiavon, Valdirene Amorim, Willman da Rocha Defacio
  • Cinematographer
    Mariana Campos
  • Editor
    Juliana Munhoz
  • Composer
    Telheiras Audio, Elis Menezes, Raissa Spada
  • Sound Design
    Thaís Rizzo
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