Spotlight: Fight For Your Rights
Things You Know But Cannot Explain
- Animation
Directed by: Michelle Hernandez & Chantal Jung
Country: United States
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The Man Who Made Marks - Documentary
Directed by: Nanette Kelley
Country: United States
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NILO - Documentary
Directed by: Zahra Mojahed
Country: Afghanistan
Total Runtime: 12:26
The life of an Afghan Muslim girl who was forced to leave her homeland due to her interest in dance
Letters to Lost Loved Ones - Experimental
Directed by: Jose Luis Benavides
Country: United States
Total Runtime: 17:57
Letters to Lost Loved Ones is a documentary short created in collaboration with the Illinois Deaths in Custody Project and several incarcerated people in Illinois prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic. Compiled from many correspondences, this short film traces nine incarcerated individuals’ experience of the lockdown, untimely deaths, and institutional neglect. Animations and archival footage transform their letters, journal entries, poems and reflections into a somber reprieve on injustice, mourning, loss and healing.
Neon Phantom - Narrative/Experimental
Directed by: Leonardo Martinelli
Country: Brazil
Total Runtime: 20:00
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
You Know His Name - Narrative
Directed by: Clarke Phillips
Country: United States
Total Runtime: 9:58
A day-in-the-life story of a black teenager in America, the film follows our nameless protagonist as he prepares for a photo shoot with his close friend Zoe. Dodging his mother’s requests and staying out later than he should, he and Zoe discuss their futures, their dreams and his insecurities, culminating in a dark and difficult drive home.
Thine Own Self - Animation/Experimental
Directed by: Evan Bode
Country: United States
Total Runtime: 5:55
Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful spirits struggle against a tyrannical binary in this surreal, wordless piece of mixed-media animation about the nature of authentic selfhood.