Lazarus

USA, Malawi | 29 min.

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Long Story Shorts
Bijou by the Bay Wed, Jul 31, 2019 3:00 PM
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 socie
Film Info
Section:Short Films
Runtime:29 min.
Production Country:USA
Malawi
Original Language:Chichewa
English
Subtitles:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:David Darg

Description

Lazarus is a short documentary following Lazarus Chigwandali, a street musician with Albinism from Malawi as he teams up with a London-based music producer to record his debut album.