
The programming team is proud to bring you an additional six titles for the 27th Sidewalk Film Festival presented by Regions Bank (August 18 – 24)! These films are just a taste of our specialty programming that highlights our Black Lens and SHOUT tracks for this year’s festival!
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Every year, we screen thousands of movies to bring the best in independent cinema to the Sidewalk Film Festival. Read on to learn more about these six highlighted films:
SHOUT:
Fucktoys (Narrative Feature)
Directed by Annapurna Sriram • 1 hour 46 minutes • USA
Fucktoys is a lush, 16mm fever dream that reimagines the Major Arcana of the Tarot through the story of AP: a struggling pollyanna seeking salvation from a curse. AP is promised by not one but multiple psychics that for a cool $1000 -and the sacrifice of a baby lamb- it can be lifted. So she makes money the only way she knows how: scootering her way deeper into the night, and into the uncouth underbelly of Trashtown.
Two People Exchanging Saliva (Narrative Short)
Directed by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata • 35:00 • France
In a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, two women make a forbidden connection.
Order for Ben (Narrative Short)
Directed by Kristina Arjona, Adam Plant • 12:16 • USA
Ben, a trans man leading a full and happy life, agrees to meet his father for coffee after 7 years of estrangement.
Black Lens:
It Comes in Waves (Narrative Feature)
Directed by Fitch Jean • 1 hour 45 minutes • Canada
A family of four escapes the genocide in Rwanda and lands in Ottawa. They quickly learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
The Last Dance (Narrative Short)
Directed by Hayden Mclean • 16:39 • United Kingdom
A compulsory purchase order threatens a Caribbean family’s life in East London. In defiance and longing, a last dance ignites as renters’ rights take center stage.
Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner (Documentary Short)
Directed by Brad Bailey • 30:00 • USA
Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, channels her grief into a years’ long fight for justice that draws international attention so that his name isn’t forgotten.
These six titles (plus our previously announced Spotlight Shorts and Features) are a preview of what’s in store for the 27th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival, happening from August 18 – 24. Screening dates/times tbd.
Get VIP or Weekend Passes now at sidewalkfest.com/tix.
Our SHOUT screenings are sponsored by Birmingham AIDS Outreach.