6pm BLACK PLANET

Stone Mansion
JJ Goldberger VHS 14'
Dedicated to the victims of the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, OK, this intense short recounts the last hours of an African American couple in their estate.

Herbert III
Rebecca Abbott beta 37'
Herbert the third is the youngest son of his worried mother, Marguerite. The film finds her up late, waiting for Herbert to get in after a night out with friends. As she obsesses about all the bad things that might have happened to him, she forces her sleepy husband to recount with her their courtship and marriage, with bittersweet results.

The Memo
Daheli Hall beta 9'
FINALLY word of the revolution has arrived, via memo, and our protagonist is ready to incite and take over her office building and then some...

Nigel's Fingerprint
Amy McConnell Canada beta 16'
Nigel's Fingerprint portrays the tensions within a young bi-racial family in the 1970s and the difficulties that arise when little Nigel learns a new word at school.

First We Pray
Ayana Haaruun Chicago miniDV 25'
A visually stunning docu-drama about broken souls and the power of redemption in a search for African-American history.

8pm TELL ME THE TRUTH

Tribe Of One
Canada beta 39'
A riveting documentary from Canada about a complicated First Nation identity and the struggle to uncover and overturn the lies of history. The subject of Tribe of One is brought up to believe that her mother is Chinese-Canadian in an area in British Columbia where a fierce racism towards Native peoples exists. Only as an adult and through much difficult searching does she uncover the truth about her heritage and come to be a leader of the tribe prominent in her home city, rebuilding a story of the past for First Nation peoples in the area that was previously kept hidden.

Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial
Christine Cynn & Harriet Hirshorn beta 56'
Especially poignant within the present context of political and social unrest in Haiti, this harrowing and gripping documentary about the military massacre at Raboteau, a city 90 miles outside of Porte-au-Prince in Haiti and the subsequent trial that engaged and implicated an entire community.

10pm WHILE YOU WERE OUT
Co-sponsored by Video Mundi

Happy Hour
Marty Mericka beta 10'
Two ladies meet at the local bar to unwind after their day and let loose about the men in their lives. Telling the tallest tale becomes the goal.

Sparks
Virginie Danglades 35mm on beta 15'
Every day a dancing sanitary engineer in a local hospital has fabulous new steps to try out for an audience of unconscious life-support recipients. But why do they keep dying?

Unsynchables at Any Age
Victoria Foster beta 26'
An envigorating documentary about a group of elderly competitive synchronized swimmers who reflect on the changing times and their changing bodies with wit and humor.

Stewardessenclip
Sabine Marte Germany beta 4'
Repeated motion in abstract space. A sensation of falling toward a liquid surface. A face, reminiscent of Dreyer's Joan of Arc, emerges from abstraction.

Underground
Aimee Lagos & Kristin C. Dehnert 35mm on beta 11'
This technically stunning action thriller offers a heart-racing game of cat-and-mouse guaranteed to have you on the seat's edge. Set in the subway of an anonymous city, a woman is being chased. What lies ahead is not what you expect and will leave you thinking.

Un Peu Beaucoup
Marie Kreutzer Austria 35mm on vhs 34'
A gorgeous and beautifully paced filmed about a 16-year-old girl's first love experience, her family and the choices she makes.