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Aquarius Shorts

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A film still from Ixquic shows two Indigenous children and an older Indigenous woman sitting on two beds in a wooden room. The room is illuminated by candles. The younger child is holding a candle while the older woman whispers to the other child, a young girl in a pink shirt.

Placemaking through water.

Films in this Program

A film still from Ixquic shows two Indigenous children and an older Indigenous woman sitting on two beds in a wooden room. The room is illuminated by candles. The younger child is holding a candle while the older woman whispers to the other child, a young girl in a pink shirt.
United States PremiereShort Narrative

Ixquic

Ixquic, an Indigenous teenager, rejects her mother’s fight to protect a threatened river. When the river begins to…

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A film still from Same Water shows a black-and-white photo of five young Black women standing outdoors in poofy, patterned dresses beneath a large sign that reads, “See Silver Springs from…Paradise Park for Colored People.” The image is overlaid with a scan of a plant leaf painted in orange, green, and red.
Philadelphia PremiereExperimental

Same Water

Same Water is a lyrical nonfiction film that weaves memory with archive to examine Black leisure, freedom and exclusion…

A film still from Charip: Lightning in the River shows an older Wampís man holding a mirror shard that reflects his eye.
United States PremiereShort Documentary

Charip: Lightning in the River (Charip: el relámpago del río)

When a new wave of gold mining threatens their ancestral territory in the Peruvian Amazon, the Wampis Nation rises to…

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A film still from Communion shows two older Black woman sitting around a round table and smiling. The woman on the left wears a black cap and red shirt and the woman on the right is wearing a denim jacket and pink pants. The woman on the right is looking at the woman on the left.
East Coast PremiereShort Documentary

Communion (Comunhão)

A group of lesbian friends over 50 travel together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, their…

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