Social Justice Film Festival - Shorts Program: Refuge and Recovery
Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 8pm
Provocative shorts on language differences, overcoming climate disaster, the legacy of apartheid, the refugee crisis, and LGBTQ rights.
Children in Gold
This short documentary poem forms part of the “Iphigenia Project,” a transmedia collaboration with playwright Lisa Schlesinger. To date, more than 4.8 million refugees have fled Syria alone. A third of them are children.
(Irina Patkanian, 6 min, Greece)
Les Cloys
Four young men in Paris speak their own version of French that brings them closer together, even as they sometimes feel separated from the rest of Parisian society.
(Julia Hechler, 10 min, USA/France)
Nation
Nation records a marginalized community’s response to the devastating monsoon floods of 2010 in Pakistan. Investigative in scope and poetic in style, the film charts dramatic experiences of escape, survival and political mobilization.
(Ali Nobil Ahmad, 22 min, Pakistan/Germany)
Exile Incessant
Set in London in the present day, this short film examines the relationship between two South African families living in self-imposed exile.
(James Reynolds, 23 min, United Kingdom)
Transit Zone
Set in the mysterious murky confines of the ‘jungle’ in Calais, Transit Zone follows Teefa, a young man who fled the regime in Sudan with big dreams of a new life in the UK.
(Frederik Subei, 32 min, Scotland/UK)
Counter Act
A jukebox diner. The usual homogeneous crowd. Two unwelcome visitors sit at the counter. Past and present collide as we wonder: Have we seen this play out before?
(Steven T. Gottlieb, 4 min, USA)
