Negra Fest short film selection. Screening with panel discussion
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Format: In-person
Location: Teatro MAMM
Film screening and post-screening conversation
Negra Fest 2024 Short Film Selection
Various / 2023 / Colombia / 75 min.
These 4 short films explore the way the Afro-Colombian community sees itself and portrays itself through struggles to reclaim its diversity in terms of sexuality and gender identity, its customs, and its relationship with the environment and its care for it
Short Film Program
PENSAR SINTIENDO
Claudia Marcela Angulo / 2023 / Colombia / 23 min.
Pensar Sintiendo speaks about Afro identity in a reflective and poetic key. Six Afro people from different sectors, origins, and influences will share the feelings and thoughts that spring from their being when they answer the question of what it means to be Afro-Colombian. Their stories, claims, diagnoses, and different expressions will lead viewers through a conversation that allows them, through poetic and sensory images, to experience the pride, discomfort, joy, pain, difficulties, and modes of overcoming and resistance of being Black.
MI CORO
Morena Espiritual / 2023 / Colombia-Mexico-Puerto Rico / 13 min.
Set in a surrealist and hyperbolist reality, ‘Mi Coro’ presents interviews with a variety of Voguerxs from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. They detail their failed attempts at communication with a new alien species known as cis-heterosexuals, and the different ways this has resulted in ostracism and violence for them. With the help of a dear friend and anthropologist, they come to the conclusion that Voguing has been the tool they always needed to communicate with this alien species. We follow them on their journey of practicing this dance form before a great celebration. Communication with the alien species takes some unexpected turns, and the dancers themselves are transformed in the process.
AGUAS
Mili Pardo / 2023 / Colombia / 18 min.
In the central and southern Cesar, there is a wetland complex that extends from Chimichagua to Terraplen. This 200 km expanse comprises floodplains, channels, marshes, and rivers where Black fishing communities and other inhabitants coexist with a vast biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems.
EL SECRETO DEL RASTRO
Reyson Velasquez / 2023 / Colombia / 16 min.
A young healer from Choco, Yaira, has the mission of confronting a sorcerer who has been casting spells on people in several hamlets to take their gold. When the girl is close to catching him, the sorcerer surprises her and puts a malicious curse on her eyes. Her friend Elkin comes to her aid and takes her to the wise ones of the forest, both Afro and Indigenous, who help her penetrate the deep world of dreams so she can face the sorcerer once and for all.
After the screening, Claudia Marcela Angulo, director of the short film Pensar sintiendo, will converse with Fredy Andrade, organizer of Negra Fest