Director: Various Directors
Empire leaves long shadows, and this program follows four films into them. “Land of Cold” (dir. Hervé Demers; 17 min.) moves through icy Canadian landscapes alongside migrants from the Sub-Saharan African diaspora experiencing their first winter, presenting a sensory immersion in what it feels like to arrive somewhere utterly foreign. “Same Water” (dir. Martine Granby; 21 min.) digs into the forgotten history of Paradise Park, a recreation area created in 1949 as the “colored only” counterpart to Silver Springs in central Florida. “Páa’tenehu (Wait for Me)” (dir. Thiago Zanato; 11 min.) brings us to Southeast Mexico during a storm, where a family shelters in their butcher shop, listening to their grandmother tell stories and holding onto hope. Rounding things out, “An Impossible Address” (dir. Suneil Sanzgiri; 39 min.) is the product of more than four years of research into the solidarity that developed between India and Angola against the Portuguese empire.Â