Short Film Program

These Final Hours

Directed by Lionel Coleman (USA, 2021, 11 min.)

Set against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests, Curtis is a young African American struggling through his days in America—but what you see isn’t necessarily the truth.

The Other

Directed by Nolan Hieu Trifunovic (USA, 2021, 14 min.)

Two combatants are trapped in a mysterious hotel where they can’t die and don’t know how to leave. Stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of violence, they must change their tactics and learn to understand one another in order to save themselves.

Color

Directed by Carly Rogers (USA, 2022, 8 min.)

A rookie police officer must decide where her loyalties lie when her partner pulls his weapon on a Black teen in her old neighborhood.

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Directed by Del Potter( USA, 2021, 12 min.)

On the brink of being evicted from his apartment, a young Black man battles personal trauma while taking care of his ailing mother. He begins to strip away his identity in preparation for a job interview that could change his life.

En Avant

Directed by Sarah Jean Williams (USA, 2021, 12 min.)

En Avant highlights a Black ballerina’s internal struggle with self-acceptance as she faces racism in a white-dominated art form. Through its black-and-white imagery, the film tells the story of battling with self-love.

18 Years: A Letter to Zora

Directed by Brianna Cox (USA, 2022, 29 min.)

This Afrofuturistic origin story follows Quasheba, on Earth in the year 2020 as she creates a homemade documentary for her infant daughter Zora, who is on the brink of a pivotal intergalactic journey that will lead her to fulfill her destiny using her matrilineal Empathic powers.

Jordan

Directed by Ebony Blanding (USA, 2021,19 min.)

When a tween mermaid enthusiast discovers an ailing water creature, she uses a magical wish to change the fate of their existence—and her own. Jordan engages the genre of fantasy and cli-fi (climate fiction) to shape a fairytale where everyone has agency and representation.

Festival Passes

If you wish to see multiple films in the Roxbury International Film Festival lineup, purchase a festival pass!

There are separate passes for in-person and online screenings. To access all in-person and online events, please purchase both passes.

In-Person Pass

$165; available through June 25, 5 pm

The In-Person Pass grants access to all events in the festival, including those at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hibernian Hall; the Boston Public Library’s Roxbury branch; and ArtsEmerson. See a full list of in-person screenings at roxfilmfest.com.

Note that additional venues will be listed on your pass purchase as Non-MFA screenings.

ROXFILM@Home Pass

$50; available through June 30, 11:59 pm

The ROXFILM@Home Pass grants access to all online screenings.