Ayiti: The Awakening

Sage Love / Haiti and USA / 2019 / 26mins

In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, a young man questions failed relief efforts, seeks out the stories of survivors, is driven to find his ancestral roots, and unearths Ayiti’s troubled but inspiring history.

Life on the Road

Shakirudeen Akinyemi / Ghana / 2019 / 24mins

For two decades, the late Awudu Tijani voluntarily took on the arduous task of directing traffic in some of Accra’s most knotty and unmonitored intersections.

Virtually Free

André Robert Lee / USA / 2020 / 40mins

Families, officers, judges, and advocates unite as unlikely allies confronting over-policing and mass incarceration of youth in Richmond, Virginia.

Ruthan (An Arabi-Juba Word Meaning Language)

Abul Ajak / South Sudan, Uganda and South Africa / 2019 / 12mins

A meditation on migration, loss of language, and the transcendence of reimagined forms of communication. Through her relationship with her grandmothers, filmmaker Abul Ajak explores how cultural identities are not fixed, but always in transition.

Joy

Nour Gharbi / Italy / 2020 / 13mins

When disputed presidential elections spur violence against Togo’s citizens in 2005, Joy, a man whose wife and father were killed in the attacks, flees the country.

Raft of Medusa

Alexis Peskine / France / 2016 / 5mins

Drawing parallels between Théodore Géricault’s evocative 1819 painting Raft of Medusa and the contemporary stories of Africans who endured grueling journeys towards the west, this short considers the role of colonialism in migration.