All in the Family (Narrative Shorts #4)
- Shorts Programs
- 86 mins
Family: the source of our greatest joys and deepest frustrations. This collection of narrative short films explores the beautifully complex dynamics and fragility of the bonds we make.
In this program
Tingum
Tingum, a young Bahamian female mixed-race vampire on the sun-drenched island of Eleuthera, Bahamas, desperately tries to save her vampire parents’ crumbling marriage.
Cartes
Directed by Rhym Guissé
Embattled immigrant Aliyah just wants to do good, and she believes she’s found a way through the Environmental Justice Society (EJS). During her first week of volunteering, Aliyah finds she is an outlier within the trendy environmental activism world. As all her coworkers use this to satiate their ego-driven activism, Aliyah feels pulled to action for more personal reasons: EJS was the organization that helped her family’s village in Mali.
Her dreams of giving back are turned on its head when her boss, Amanda, asks for her proof of employment documents. Panicked, Aliyah tries to find a way to come up with proof of her citizenship. Consequently, she may jeopardize her and her family’s discretion, safety, and everything they’ve fought to maintain.
Any Sign at All
Directed by Faryl Amadeus
Clutching at straws and running on fumes, a desperate young woman’s indecision about the future of her unborn child has her looking for signs from the universe. Stranded at a crossroads, will the future finally reveal its plan?
HARLEM FRAGMENTS
Directed by Cameron Carr
An Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family’s beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can’t look away from the tragedy. Based on true events—
Forbidden Fruit
A black eleven-year-old navigates a day in his life of rural poverty while his mother is stuck at work.
Superman Doesn’t Steal
Based on a true story & set in the 70’s during the Atlanta Child Murders, a young brother and sister with a love of comics, face a series of impactful events which cause them to question the meaning of heroes, villains, superman and themselves.