by Sekiya Dorsett • 22 mins • Short • United States • English • 2024
Caribbean Queen is an inspiring short film that follows the journey of Q – a young Caribbean boy, who wants to become the Queen of the West Indian Day Carnival Parade. However, prejudice from family and the community threatens this dream and celebration of Caribbean culture. But with determination and the help of their bestie, they may just make it to the Parkway!
by Emma-Lee Amponsah • 18 mins • Experimental • Short • Futurism • Surrealism • Black narratives, Poetic • Queer • Netherlands • 2024
Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.
