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    God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance

    *This short film screens before FISH & MEN* God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance uncovers decades of religious…

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    Light House Studio Shorts Package

    Once again this year, the VAFF is proud to showcase the work of the students at…

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    Piccolino: An Adventure In The City

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Piccolino is a…

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    We Got This

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Marcus, an ethnically…

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    Pastalight

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* An eccentric Italian…

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    Inhale

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* INHALE documents the…

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    Bird’s Eye

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* When the perfect…

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    Onward Adeline

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* A young woman…

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    Anna

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Living in Eastern…

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    Meow, Meredith

    *Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* MEOW, MEREDITH is…

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    My Brother’s Keeper

    *Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* A former Guantánamo detainee and his…

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    Lipstick and Leather

    *Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* In a buttoned-up city like DC,…

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    Something In The Water: A Kinston Basketball Story

    *Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* An underdog tale about beautiful yet…

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    The Legacy Sessions

    *Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* Darby, a loner high school student…

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    Allan Ellen

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* Allan and Ellen are…

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    What If???

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* 2020. A scientist gets…

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    Classified

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* Will Gibbons is hired…

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    Memoirs

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* When a couple plays…

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    Alienated

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* An animated film about…

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    Progeny

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* This is a world…

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    Identity Crisis

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* A cyborg named Scott…

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    Before

    *Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* BEFORE follows a group…

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    But I Wanted to be a Cowboy

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* A teenaged kid dreams of being…

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    Strange Fruit: The Necroecology of Black Subsistence Farming

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* Given the blatant exploitation of Black…

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    Lolo Boy

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This story follows the life of…

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    The Koi And The Frog

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* A friendly rivalry between a Koi…

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    The First.

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* Abrar, a young Muslim American woman…

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    Myopia

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This film employs the act of…

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    January 13th, Richmond Va

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* *This short film also screens before FEELS…

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    Welcome Home

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This stop motion animated film follows…

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    The Quarantine Experience

    *Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* As the stay at home order…

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    Buck

    *This short film screens before PVT CHAT* Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young…

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    Reid’s Records

    *This short film screens before HEARD* An interview with David Reid, current owner and inheritor of…

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    Saul’s 108th Story

    *This short film screens before NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SERVINSON STORY* As a teenager in…

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    GraceLand

    *This short film screens before ELECTRIC JESUS* Anna Camp stars as a southern mom whose life…

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    The Beekeeper

    *This short film screens before FREELAND* A beekeeper on the island of Anglesey faces losing her…

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    Call Center Blues

    *This short film screens before HAMTRAMCK, USA* A character-driven, cinematic tale of deportation, migration, displacement and…

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    HBCU Storytellers: Confederate Monuments – Heritage or Hatred?

    *This short film screens before THE REUNITED STATES* HBCU students explore the question of Confederate monuments…

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    UNLADYLIKE2020: Maggie Lena Walker

    *This short film screens before WOMEN IN BLUE* A full 50 years before the Montgomery bus…

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    Maradona’s Legs

    *This short film screens before THE LAST OUT* During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian…

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    Moneybag Head

    *This short film screens before JUMBO* Dennis, a lonely sad sack with an unfortunate cranial deformity,…

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    The First and Last King of Haiti

    *This short film screens before THERE IS NO EVIL* In 1807, the country of Haiti was split into…

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    You Will Die at 20

    Soon after the birth of Sakina's son Muzamil, a traveling sheik prophecies that he will die…

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    Women in Blue

    Minneapolis’ first female police chief, Janeé Harteau, works to reform the Minneapolis Police Department by getting…

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    The Woman Who Ran

    Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at…

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    When My Time Comes

    After the death of her beloved husband John Rehm, Peabody-award winner Diane Rehm began to examine…

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    Twilight’s Kiss (Suk Suk)

    TWILIGHT’S KISS (SUK SUK) presents the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years.…

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    Tote Grandfather

    María Sojob, a Tsotsil filmmaker from Chiapas, in southern Mexico, spent her childhood growing up in…

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    They Ain’t Ready for Me

    Tamar Manasseh has become a well- known figure in Chicago, poised to become a national figure…

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    There is No Evil

    Banned from filmmaking in Iran, director Mohammad Rasoulof returns to cinema with another moving critique of…

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    Test Pattern

    After being sexually assaulted by a stranger, Renesha and her boyfriend Evan spend the day driving…

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    Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team

    The transition from the Cold War to the post-Cold War world in America is marked as…

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    The Reunited States

    As the 2020 election approaches, political divisions in the United States are at a near all-time…

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    PVT Chat

    While living in New York City, lonely internet gambler Jack becomes slowly fixated on Scarlet -…

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    Pier Kids

    Pier Kids documents three homeless queer black youth over five years as they navigate the streets,…

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    The Passing On

    Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker.…

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    The Passengers

    As Ethiopian Jews, Demoz and Gezi are members of a community of 9,000 individuals who speak…

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    Overland

    How can we connect to our natural, primal spirit when modern society threatens to erase it?…

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    The Outside Story

    Perceiving a betrayal of trust as a sign his girlfriend Isha is leaving him, Charles Young,…

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    One of These Days

    In a small southern town, twenty people compete to win a brand new pickup truck, a…

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    The Offensive

    Why are so many civilians angry?The Offensive looks for answers in the stories of the people…

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    Night of the Kings

    Following a pickpocketing charge, authorities send a young man to the Maca correctional facility in the…

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    New Order

    A lavish wedding between the indecently wealthy is thrust into turmoil when an uprising of class…

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    Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story

    After three decades as the colorful bandleader of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, legendary trumpet…

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    Negra

    At the age of seven, Filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano recounts her first experience of being called…

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    Nasir

    In the town Tamil Nadu exists Coimbatore, a small Muslim community lives alongside the Hindu population.…

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    Monsoon

    At just eight years old, Kit and his family were forced to flee Saigon during the…

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    Lucky Chan-Sil

    Chan-Sil, a film producer, finds herself abruptly unemployed after the film director's sudden death she's spent…

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    Lifeline

    Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker.” Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and…

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    The Last Out

    Three young Cuban baseball players, Happy, Carlos, and Victor have spent the past year training long…

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    Lapsis

    In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli struggles to support himself and his ailing younger…

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    Lago Gatún

    Lago Gatún (2021) is a journey traveling south to north through the Panama Canal. Introduction by…

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    Jumbo

    Jeanne is a shy young woman who works the graveyard shift as a janitor at an…

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    The Judge – Character, Cases, Courage

    After presiding over several historically significant cases during his nearly 31 years of service on the…

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    The Killing of Two Lovers

    After agreeing to separate from his wife Nikki, David frantically tries to keep his family of…

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    Jamaica y Tamarindo

    The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a…

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    Heard

    To many Americans, issues regarding public housing and urban poverty often remain out of sight and…

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    Hamtramck, USA

    Hamtramck, Michigan is a city built by immigrants. Once a town that was 90% Polish, Hamtramck…

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    The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

    Through audacious formal experimentation, filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials,…

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    Gather

    An indigenous chef embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient foodways on the Apache reservation.…

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