SHORTS BLOCK: JUST A DREAM, LIKE ALL OTHERS
May 30@ 10:00 am
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Blood ties are centered in these four films, fictional explorations of the often fraught relationships between kith and kin—and one non-fiction twist on the old pledge, til death do us part.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.
AFTER SUNDAY
By Omolola Ajao | 16 mins | 2024 | Canada
As a young woman takes a hard look into her family’s past, difficult truths begin to surface in the memories of their migrant journey. Within the fragments of differing perspectives, she must sort through past recollections to get to a place of her own fictioning.
THE TOBACCONIST
By Keifer Nyron Taylor | 22 mins | 2024 | United Kingdom
Tobias, an unemployed British-Jamaican personal trainer, sells counterfeit tobacco for his mother who is moving back to Jamaica after deportation threats. One violent encounter with a war veteran, Rough Sleeper, a spectral reminder of his father who also fought as a British subject, turns his quick cash scheme into a haunting odyssey across South London.
SERVICIO NECROLÓGICO PARA USTED (OBITUARY SERVICE FOR YOU)
By María Salafranca | 12 mins | 2024 | Cuba
On the side of the road, in a rural Cuban town, stands a funeral home in which Maurilio and Fidela, partners in work as in life, have been preparing corpses for the past seventeen years. With quietly affectionate humour, Servicio necrológico para usted takes us on an offbeat tour of this discreet establishment where death and love intertwine on a daily basis.
ST. ANDREWS
By Erin Ramirez | 16 mins | 2024 | Jamaica
Coming to terms with her family’s racial prejudice, a Chinese-Jamaican teenager is pushed to carry out a subtle act of defiance—one which may have permanent consequences.