The South Is My Sister's Skin Short Narrative United States, 2019, 2 min. East Coast Premiere Told through a series of vignettes, a Black woman recounts her coming-of-age story with the American South as her backdrop. Dir. Zenzele Ojore WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, AT 2:00 PM EDT Program: Symbiosis
Tallahassee Short Narrative United States, 2021, 22 min. World Premiere On the day of her release from a psychiatric facility, Mira, an Arab American woman, returns to her mother’s home in Brooklyn to attend her grandmother’s 90th birthday — only to discover that her sister Lara has lied to the family that she was on a trip to Florida. Dir. Darine Hotait WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, AT 2:00 PM EDT Program: Symbiosis
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