Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo • 2020 • Puerto Rico
An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post–Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL traces collective recovery in the wake of the devastating storm while exposing the island’s deepening economic and environmental crises and its fraught colonial relationship with the United States. Moving between intimate conversations and public protests, Cecilia Aldarondo’s documentary reveals how catastrophe laid bare existing structures of inequality as investors arrived in search of profit. Refusing both spectacle and sentimentality, LANDFALL centers the strength and solidarity of those rebuilding, revealing that catastrophe does not create crisis so much as expose the structures that sustain it.
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Fire Through Dry Grass
Directed by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides • 2023 • United States
FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS tracks the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Centered on Jay and the Reality Poets, largely a group of gun-violence survivors, ...
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The Passion of Remembrance
Directed by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien • 1986 • United Kingdom
Starring Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles, Carlton ChanceOne of the major works of the revolutionary Sankofa Film and Video Collective, this radically innovative film explores issues of Black British culture, gender, and sexuali...
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Faya dayi
Directed by Jessica Beshir • 2021 • Ethiopia, United States, Qatar
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