Long Story Shorts

Our favorite award-winning documentary shorts from around the world are packed into this exhilarating program. In Lazarus, we follow Lazarus Chigawandali, an inspiring Malawi street musician with Albinism, as he prepares to record his debut album. In Ghosts of Sugar Land, a group of young Muslim-American men question the disappearance of their friend who is suspected of joining ISIS. The Changing Same remembers the life of a 34 year-old African-American man who was brutally murdered by a mob of white men in 1934. And on the 70th anniversary of the lynching, Poet Lamar Wilson publicly commemorates the horrific act by running the 13-mile route over which the crime was committed. And finally in All On A Mardi Gras Day, a secret culture known as Mardi Gras Indians, a group of African-American men in gentrifying New Orleans, spend all year sewing feather suits in preparation for Mardi Gras. Each one of these shorts is a masterclass in empathetic filmmaking by giving voice to those who society continues to render voiceless, and reminds us why cinema can indeed save the world.