Shorts: In Place | 35th New Orleans Film Festival

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Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
333 Canal St.

What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding contentment wherever we are.

 

Summon. A dancer living in Miami embarks on a spiritual journey to his homeland of Jamaica to reconnect with his Maroon ancestry.

Futuro. Daniel and Adrian are two friends who like to frequent a place in ruins located on the Havana seafront. As Daniel is about to leave the country, they decide to spend one last time together in this place.

Window Treatment. The long-standing American military occupation of Okinawa is poetically explored in this essay film about an elderly man receiving new windows.

Motor Motor Blue. Motor Motor Blue chases the sounds and rhythms of an Appalachian community after grief, following a rising spirit from an old mine shaft, through a frantic car race, to high above the mountains.

Between Delicate and Violent. Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? Between Delicate and Violent imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.

Sandcastles. As Singapore reclaims land to expand urban development, a town bearing its name on the other side of the world lies buried under sand.

Querido Pequeño Haiti (Dear Little Haiti). Dear Little Haiti (Querido Pequeño Haiti) is a farewell letter to a vanishing neighborhood: from the gaze of a Peruvian resident to the Haitian and Latinx communities who are homesick but try to find themselves in every other culture in hopes of belonging to a place and making it home.