Cinema Eye Shorts – Program 2
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Run Time: 96 min. Format: Digital
Discover the best of this year’s nonfiction short films with Cinema Eye and Vidiots.
Including a conversation with filmmakers Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz, Sarah Garrahan, Sue Ding, Omer Sami, Ruth Hunduma, Tolu Stedford, and Lily Usher.
Love in the Time of Migration
Directed by Erin Semine Kökdil and Chelsea Abbas / LA Times / 21 min
Ronny and Suly are in love. The only problem is that Ronny is in the US, while Suly is in Guatemala. LOVE IN THE TIME OF MIGRATION illustrates the modern-day romance between two individuals from a community deeply impacted by migration, and asks the question: Can love conquer all?
The Medallion
Directed by Ruth Hunduma / New Yorker / 19 min
A single piece of jewelry holds the story of generations. Together, filmmaker Ruth and her mother go back to Ethiopia and explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide.
A Move
Directed by Elahe Esmaili / NY Times Op-Docs / 26 min
Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she’s also hoping for a bigger move beyond just a new apartment.
Eternal Father
Directed by Ömer Sami / New Yorker / 30 min
Having started a family late in life, Nasar fears he won’t live to see his children grow up. He decides to be cryonically frozen after death, hoping they can someday reunite. His family’s dilemma: follow suit or be left behind? As the future overshadows the present, Nasar must reassess what truly matters.
About Cinema Eye Honors:
Cinema Eye Honors recognize feature and short-length films and series with an emphasis on nonfiction work that is designed for public distribution, whether primarily theatrical, festival, broadcast or streaming. Cinema Eye seeks to encourage audiences to engage with nonfiction work that crosses all genres, whether observational, journalistic, activist, essayistic, light-hearted or provocative as well as those exciting works that blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction. Since its founding, Cinema Eye has sought to change the conversation that film critics, festivals and awards bodies have surrounding documentary film, shifting the emphasis from importance of topic to artistic craft.