The 8th Annual Baltimore International Black Film Festival

BMORE SHORTS II: Dreams Of My Father / The Steward / Baltimore Boys / The Purgatory of Ghosts and Grief / Children Of Paris / Twenty

Film(s) To Be Screened

Children Of Paris

Why do Black LGBTQ+ voices still struggle to obtain mainstream fame and notoriety in the Hip Hop and Pop industry? Three Baltimore Hip Hop/Pop artist get candid about their music and being gay in the industry.


Dreams Of My Father

En route to an audition, aspiring actress Leila stops at a motel and hooks up with one of the locals. After swallowing a weed edible, she is flooded with paranoia and insecurity about her physical appearance as a transwoman. To make matters worse, everywhere she turns she sees the apparition of her biggest tormentor. 

Will she summon the courage to vanquish the demons of her past once and for all?


Twenty

Keem, a young man who has to deal with the illness of his community, and the pandemic effecting the way in which he lives.


The Purgatory of Ghosts and Grief

The Purgatory of Ghosts and Grief is an exploration of grief between a Black and Chinese-American interracial couple, and how their respective cultures deal with loss, love and acceptance. In the story, a bereaved man is visited by the ghost of his wife, and in doing so she hinders his healing and ability to process his loss.


The Steward

Maxwell Clinton lives a perfect life, but maybe it's too perfect...


Baltimore Boys

Jamal West is a Baltimore-based youth worker on a mission to break the cycles of poverty and incarceration that afflict his neighborhood.

Jamal and the young men in his case load are a timely reminder that the best work requires, as Jamal would say, "giving away a piece of your heart."


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Screening Location

SNF Parkway Theatre

5 West North Avenue

Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore, MD 21201

Viewing Time

  • October 9, 2021, 5:55 pm

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