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Defiant and Playful: Flaherty at 70 and Cinema Tropical at 25

  • Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

The Flaherty Film Seminar and Cinema Tropical join forces to present a special screening celebrating the organizations' 70th and 25th anniversaries, respectively. Curated by Zaina Bseiso and Carlos A. Gutiérrez,  this incisive and defiant program of short films originated from their collaboration at the 70th Flaherty Film Seminar and features artists from across the Global South—Palestine, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Yemen, Lebanon, and Latinx USA—who reclaim humor, popular culture, and aesthetics as spaces of resistance and resilience amid the ominous threat of colonial forces. Timely and resonant, this collection of shorts offers a poignant yet playful polyphony of voices grappling with an increasingly nonsensical geopolitical world.

Program (TRT: 87 min. approx.)
Día de la Independencia (Alex Rivera, USA, 1997, 2 min.)
Life on the CAPS 2": Guided Tour of a Spill (Meriem Bennani, Morocco, 2020, 15 min.)
Bethlehem Bandolero (Larissa Sansour, Palestine, 2004, 6 min.)
Red Chewing Gum (Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, 2000, 11 min.)
1941 (Asim Aziz, Yemen, 2021, 4 min.)
The Envoy (Even If It's Not More Than a Truce) (Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Puerto Rico, 2022, 24 min.)
Trokas Duras (Jazmin Garcia, USA, 2025, 17 min.)

Wednesday, March 18, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives

Source:: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2026#showing-60938
Earlier Event: March 12
World Premiere of MICKEY at SXSW
 

 
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Cinema Tropical's programs are made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
They are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
in partnership with the City Council, the Color Congress, and the Vilcek Foundation.