Afronauts
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Afro Future
Combined Programme
IFFR 2017
Historical overviews are often painful for people of colour. Looking to the future keeps hope alive, but the present always has roots in the past.
In this combined programme
The Golden Chain
Yetunde is the only crew aboard the Nigerian space station Eko and witnesses the recreation of the origins of the universe. A futuristic reinterpretation of the Yoruba story of creation.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation
Self-portrait of Sondra Perry's avatar investigating its own identity. A problematic software process that leads to a fatal error mode: the blue screen of death.
7'
USA
IFFR 2017
Remigration
A future San Francisco is inhabited only by affluent people. The authorities lure others into the city to do manual labour in exchange for free education.
19'
USA
IFFR 2017
They Charge for the Sun
In a dystopian future, people live in darkness to protect themselves from the harmful rays of the sun. Except for a naughty little black girl.
16'
USA
IFFR 2017
Programme IFFR 2017
Black Rebels
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A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.
45'
USA
IFFR 2017
Afronauts
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Atlanta
Earn (Donald Glover) is the inexperienced manager of his cousin, rapper Paper Boi. All they have in common is their struggle for a better life and earning more money. This hilarious, intelligent series, also aired by television channel FOX, offers an idiosyncratic, experimental narrative style but also a critical glimpse of the spirit of our times.
300'
USA
IFFR 2017