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BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice In View

BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice In View

Virtual Screening

October 7-11, 2021

BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice In View

Documentary, experimental, video essays and narrative shorts that shine a light on race, (de)colonialism, and inequity in the United States, Canada and sovereign Indigenous Nations.

Hustle

Xavier Cousens (Dir), 10 minutes, USA, WNY Premiere

This verité documentary chronicles a day in the life of Anthony Johnson, a work release recipient, who spends his days as a courier in New York City and his nights incarcerated.


Shoulders Deep

John Fiege (Dir), 8 minutes, USA, WNY Premiere

Aniya Wingate is a radiant and talented 17-year-old dancer from Houston, who was displaced from her home for half a year by Hurricane Harvey. Shoulders Deep translates her experience of displacement through dance, poetry, and performance.


Big Touch

Christopher Tenzis (Dir), 3 minutes, USA, NY Premiere

Afro-surrealist fable about the transformative power of touch.


Graffica!

Yogi Dada (Dir), 15 minutes, USA, NY Premiere

Needing to find a place to feel safe in the time of covid, Dada creates a visual world where the fundamentals of being true to herself are unearthed and celebrated in this innovative, animated documentary.


Ego of a Nation

Wes Day (Dir), 3 minutes, Canada, Special Presentation

This video poem performed by Janet Rogers reacts to centuries of judiciary injustice experienced by Indigenous peoples, more specifically the acquittal of Colten Bouchie's murderer in February 2018.


Monologue Harmonic

Yuma Dean Hester (Dir), 7 minutes, Canada, Special Presentation

Weaving together legend, despotic visions, collective cultural analysis and individual repeal is a dialogical visual and sonic experience.


Superstar

Jordan Hidalgo (Dir), 16 minutes, USA, WNY Premiere

A day in the life of Martin (Jamad Mays), a homeless man attempting to keep his individuality despite being dehumanized by everyday society.


Hallowed Ground

Catherine Rafferty (Dir), 13 minutes, WNY Short Film, USA, Buffalo Premiere

Two Rochester student orators, Tian Stephens and Anastajia Charley, learn the stories behind Fredrick Douglas’ words as they navigate issues of racism similar to thoser that shaped Douglass’s life and work.


The Ascendants (Episode 2)

Ladan Osman (Dir), 9 minutes, USA, Special Presentation

At 22, singer Christian has already won the respect of Chance the Rapper, but it hasn’t been an easy road. On the South Side, she dealt with redlining; in Freeport, she faced open racism. Now the preacher’s daughter is taking on the music industry.

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Hustle

Still from Hustle

Directed by: Xavier Cousens

Shoulders Deep

Still from Shoulders Deep

Directed by: John Fiege

Video from Big Touch

Directed by: Christopher Tenzis

Video from Graffica!

Directed by: Yogi Dada

Ego of a Nation

Still from Ego of a Nation

Directed by: Wes Da

Video from Monologue Harmonic

Directed by: Yuma Dean Hester

Video from Superstar

Directed by: Jordan Hidalgo

Video from Hallowed Ground

Directed by: Catherine Rafferty

Video from The Ascendants (Episode 2)

Directed by: Ladan Osman

No Visible Trauma w/ Hello Sunshine

No Visible Trauma w/ Hello Sunshine

Virtual Screening

The story of the deeply troubled Calgary Police Service told in the midst of a global uprising against police violence and systemic racism.

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We Burn Like This

We Burn Like This

7:00 PM Monday Oct 11, 2021

North Park Theatre

When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes tangible.

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Catch The Fair One

Catch The Fair One

Virtual Screening

A boxer retraces the steps of her kid sister after she disappears in this Western New York lensed revenge thriller.

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