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Best of Anime and Animation
This is the best of Japanese anime and animation.
Supernatural Sci-FI Shorts
In this program we combine supernatural, eerie and sci-fi elements to bring you an enjoyable popcorn filled experience!
Best of Philip K Dick Science Fiction Shorts
Here is a selection of indie-scifi shorts inspired by the themes running thru PKD's works. One of the shorts The Crystal Crypt is based on a short PKD story
I am living
The campaign's purpose is to expand understanding, and address community anxiety and some of the fears around the deterioration of health, dying, death, loss and grief.
Over two years, we followed eleven people across Australia, who knew they had 12 months or less to live, and asked them to share their story.
The campaign purpose is to expand understanding, and address community anxiety and some of the fears around deterioration of health, dying, death, loss and grief.
The campaign objectives are:- To promote, encourage and nurture positive conversations about dying, end-of-life care and death;- To offer a positive discourse to shape the community’s understanding of approaching and reaching the end of life;- To provide credible information about quality end of life care based on assessed need;- To learn from people who have found life, hope and healing as they approach the end-of-life; and- To communicate that each and every person matters to the last moment of their life.
Thanks to the courage, honesty and generosity of eleven persons with advanced life-limiting disease, their loved ones and caregivers, the campaign shares with you eleven highly intimate, authentic and educative encounters.
Our campaign participants elected to live an empowered and dignified life, as defined by themselves, their families and carers.
The Peru Church (175 Years)
Established back in 1848, this small Congregational Church has served as the spiritual cornerstone of this small Vermont community, attracting an interfaith congregation of diverse ages and interests. It's 175 year anniversary story is told entirely through their eyes and in their words and music.
Baena Santa
For the town of Baena (Córdoba, Spain), Holy Week is the most important celebration not only on an emotional level but also on a touristic and economic level. This promotional video shows some of the particularities of this town's cofrade fervour and focuses on highlighting its spectacular cinematography. Andalusian folklore, popular tradition and religiosity go hand in hand in this ancient celebration.
The Abiding Nail
Ness soared to stardom in the glitzy world of Hollywood, adopting the persona of Kara Linney. Her life seemed like a fairy tale come true, until a harrowing public breakdown, fueled by drugs, shattered her career and compelled her to return to her quaint hometown, Willow Falls.
Back in her roots, Ness rekindled her connection with her past, reuniting with old friends, and rediscovering her faith, thanks to her supportive father. Little did she anticipate that the townspeople would be so moved by her journey that they decided to create their own film, with Ness as their leading lady.
In the midst of this heartfelt tale, comedy, tragedy, and the power of forgiveness enveloped the small-town girl who had been concealed beneath the glamorous facade of a Hollywood starlet.
Technologies of the Soul: Ancient Wisdom in the Smart Nation
We have become entangled with technology more than ever. The distinctions between work and home, between leisure and labor, and between focus and distraction, are progressively blurring. How should we respond to this crisis and from where might we find the wisdom to regulate ourselves from the onslaught of digital creep? One source of wisdom is to be found with the world’s ancient faith traditions. This film engages the practices and habits of community leaders and practitioners of Singapore’s major faith groups, in one of the world’s most technologically advanced nations. Technologies of the Soul shows us how Asia’s ancient traditions have adapted rituals, sacrifices, prayers, and sabbaticals – and other techniques of the self – to create space outside of time to maintain peace and serenity.
How to Master Mario Kart 64
Test
Through The Looking Glass
Join us for psychedelic shorts
BMORE SHORTS: Amor, The Ballad of Mecca Graves, Gas Money, Homecoming, Just A Kid From Baltimore / Feature: Black America Is...
United States (2022) - Director: Loria King
MARYLAND PREMIERE
Reclaiming our narratives from monolithic stereotypes, Black America Is... defies the idea that there is a singular experience of being Black in America. Instead, highlighting diverse Black stories, we explore the richness and complexity of our culture to create a more authentic portrait of Black identity.
Black America Is… highlights the complexity of Blackness, allowing audiences to engage with the uniqueness that comes with our shared yet individual experience. Black identity has no limitations. There is power in the freedom of knowing that anything we do or experience as Black people is Black. As the nation currently grapples with white supremacy, its racist past, and how it has vilified and criminalized the image of Black people, this documentary explores a broader mosaic of what it means to be Black in America.
HOSANNA SHORTS: Finding Ubuntu, Pretty Boy, Things That Remain, Wolf and Cub / Feature: HUSH
Kenya, Malawi (2022) - Director: Annette King and Ishmael Azeli
MID-ATLANTIC PREMIERE
"Finding Ubuntu" is a documentary spotlighting a Congolese hero, Maick Mutej, who emerges as a human rights advocate helping thousands of refugees in Malawi while in the midst of his own crisis.
DMV SHORTS: Black Icarus, Do You Trust Me?, The Legacy of Lee's Flower Shop, Outside Line / For All Have Sinned
United States (2022) - Jimmie Thomas Jr.
In the Deep South, a father battles his drug and alcohol addiction while trying to be a father to his son.
DIASPORA SHORTS: The Molt, Partly Cloudy & Hot, Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl, The Anniversary / FEATURE: Finding Freedom on The Sixteen
France (2021) - Director: Willy Orr
MARYLAND PREMIERE
Ashille lost his dad a few months ago. He locked up in the little house he just inherited. He founds out some bedbugs are in the house and eat him every night. It makes his older brother Steve very angry, since he wants to sell the house as quickly as possible. Yet, Ashille would like to stay a bit longer. The brothers are gonna have to take care of the bedbugs. It will bring them closer than ever.
REEL UNITY PAIR: Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster / Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story
United States (2019) - Director: Riley Hanlon
MARYLAND PREMIERE
A documentary chronicling the incredible life of wrestling legend Lee Kemp, from his endless battles against adversity all the way to the revocation of his lifelong Olympic gold medal dream.Imagine working your entire life for one single goal, to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Along the way, you become the world's best wrestler. And then, due to circumstances playing out on a global stage, your dream is suddenly snatched from you...changing your life forever.SGL SHORTS: Wonders, Final Sale, Eating Papaw on the Seashore, 7 Minutes of Heaven?, Flamingos on the Field, DogFriend (Hundefreund)
United States (2023) - Director: Huriyyah Muhammad
MID-ATLANTIC PREMIERE
Hardworking moms, Teeni and Cherice don’t ask for much. Like everyone else, they are on the grind, just trying to make a better life for themselves and their toddler. Struggling financially, things get worse when they come home to find an eviction notice plastered on their door.
While WONDERS is a response to the eviction crisis across the country, at its heart is a celebration of the wisdom of our elders and the magic of our babies. It speaks to community, personal power and legacy presented with humor and imagination.
REEL UNITY PAIR: Blue Hour / Greater Than Ourselves: The Legacy of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
United States (2023) - J.D. Shields
Two personal journeys intersect when a struggling young photographer is hired for a cheap last minute portrait gig. The unfolding photo session, while transient, leaves an indelible mark on both women.
BOKEH SHORTS: Mutual Feelings, 15 Minutes, In My Garden, Jahleel & Star
United States (2022) - Director: LaQuin Alexander
WORLD PREMIERE
What starts as a casual night of beers, music and catching up leaves two longtime best friends at a crossroads which they may not make it past together.
MUTUAL FEELINGS is a short film that explores the changing dynamics of friendship as we enter our 30s. Meant to honor the real-life nature of best friend convos-turned-arguments, and the struggles of navigating platonic relationships as we get older, the project adopts an intimate approach to storytelling.
BLM SHORTS: Finding Us, AT ALL COSTS, The Conscious Subconscious of A Black American, The Kalunga Line, Are We Still / Feature: The Carnival: 125 Years of the Penn Relays
United States (2022) - Kathryn Carlson
BALTIMORE PREMIERE
Georgetown University sold hundreds of enslaved people to stave off bankruptcy, scattering them across the South, never to see each other again. With the help of DNA databases, their descendants are reconnecting six generations later. FINDING US is a portrait of four descendants who are using their unique talents to regrow the family trees felled nearly two centuries ago.
BLACK MEN UNIFYING BLACK MEN SHORTS: The Black Mr. Rodgers, Momma, Joe Barry Carroll, Erlkönig, Man Pants: A Game of Chance
United States (2023) - Director: Gerald Hamilton
MID-ATLANTIC PREMIERE
The Black Mr. Rodgers is a documentary film that follows the work of Joseph Williams, who is the Founder and Executive Director of a Chicago based organization called Mr. Dad's Father's Club. Joseph's organization aims to keep fathers active in their children's lives by going into the classrooms and having fathers from the community read to the kids. Often seen reading books to the children in a red cardigan, he was given the nickname "The Black Mr. Rodgers".
This film documents Joseph's journey to enrich his community while also highlighting his rough upbringing, and current struggle to keep his program alive.