195 Lewis
A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.
45'
USA
IFFR 2017
Intimate portrait of Bayard Rustin, black civil-rights activist, organiser of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, and gay. Back then Bayard, who is now dead, chose the civil rights movement rather than gay liberation. His partner, Walter Naegle, describes how, despite the impossibility of same-sex marriage, they rebelliously managed to tie the knot legally.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
Chlorophyl
Young woman wrestles with her identity and failed relationship, reflected in the city of Miami. A cinematographic exploration of change as a natural process, the way chlorophyll makes photosynthesis possible in leaves.
17'
USA
IFFR 2017
My Josephine
Two Arab immigrants work in a launderette where, just after 9/11, American flags are washed free of charge. While they fold flags meticulously, true love unfolds.
9'
USA
IFFR 2017
Reluctantly Queer
Hushed monologue in black-and-white in which a young Ghanaian immigrant confesses in a warm, openhearted letter to his mother that his love for men was the reason he left for America.
8'
Ghana
IFFR 2017
- Director
- Matt Wolf
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- USA
- Production Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Brendan Doyle / C41 Media
- Production Company
- C41 Media
- Sales
- Super Deluxe
- Cinematography
- Pete Sillen
- Editor
- Conor McBride
- Sound Design
- Mark Henry Phillips
- Music
- Mark Henry Phillips
- Website
- http://www.mattwolf.info
Programme
Black Rebels
Read more about this programme195 Lewis
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