Winner of NOFF2020 Documentary Shorts Competition: Jury Award Available in the US only via NOFF Virtual Cinema. Despite all the many things Black folks have experienced throughout the centuries, we’ve still managed to keep our spirit alive and moving through time and space. There’s debate (including in the Black community as a whole) about what is appropriate and are traditional practices. Regardless of what negative connotations are placed, these rituals remain generation after generation. This film plays in the program: Two Gods that premieres on 11/14. Only Virtual Shorts Pass holders can watch this film separately from the mentioned program.Click on the feature-length film title to the right for the feature film synopsis for the title this short plays with.

Spirit Never Dies, Only Transitions

Despite all the many things Black folks have experienced throughout the centuries, we’ve still managed to keep our spirit alive and moving through time and space. There’s debate (including in the Black community as a whole) about what is appropriate and are traditional practices. Regardless of what negative connotations are placed, these rituals remain generation after generation.

Winner of NOFF2020 Documentary Features Competition: Jury Award Available in the US only via NOFF Virtual Cinema. Hanif, a Muslim man in Newark, works as a casket builder and mentors two at-risk boys. He works very hard to help them escape a system that depends on their subjugation while simultaneously struggling to move beyond his own past. Hanif is a complex figure. Flawed, compassionate, and committed to enduring despite societal pressures, he is doing his best to make change in whatever small way he can. Beautiful, meditative, and simple--and with reverence and a deep gratitude for the Black body rarely depicted in cinema--Two Gods considers how each person can forever alter the lives of those around them. Director Zeshawn Ali imagines a world where fellowship and ritual can be the way out. -Greta Hagen-Richardson

Two Gods

Hanif, a Muslim man in Newark, works as a casket builder and mentors two at-risk boys.

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