Carino (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this three-minute short, we get an innocent and adorable showing of the lengths someone will go through for a crush.
Short
Films in this category aren’t full-length, an hour or more, movies, but shorts.
Stigma, Style (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
As a young girl comes of age, she finds herself idolizing one of her friend’s older sister.
Be Good (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Be Good hyper focuses on the experience of having an eating disorder while making its character solely a vehicle for the depiction.
Americanized (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Americanized explores that longing for community, especially when you don’t perfectly fit in with any you identify with.
Swimsuit (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A young girl of Islamic faith has a growing interest in wearing a bikini to her swim meet and decides she isn’t going to ask her mother’s permission.
Footsteps On The Wind (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this music video, you get a sad, animated story that illuminates the lyrics of Sting’s “Inshallah.”
Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Someone call Nickelodeon, Disney, some children’s network because they need to make Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) a series – STAT!
Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’ (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’ gives you the vibe Black & Sexy TV gave in the early 2010s.
Apart, Together (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Apart, Together is a touching story focused on a woman looking for the daughter she was forced to give up.
The Black Disquision (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In The Black Disquisition, a young man recaps the moment his parents had to tell him what it means to be Black, and the journey to find Black to be beautiful
Pollux (2018) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In a town plagued by the closure of a major factory employer, a handful of boys are trying to make money to maintain some sense of normalcy.
Gameboy (2014) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Four boys steal their school exam papers and make a business from selling the tests, but how will they deal with karma biting them in the ass?
The Last Day of School (2019) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
What does one do when in need of money, and an old friend offers an illegal but easy way to get it? Which would help your family and relationship immensely?
Gotta (2015) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
No matter how old you get, change is difficult. However, when it is sprung up on you, is it wrong for you to get mad?
Do You Also Feel A Tingle? – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Your first anything is always a magical moment, but only if with the right person.
She Dreams At Sunrise (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
I hope you’ve been drinking enough water for She Dreams At Sunrise will not only make you cry but ugly cry.
Girl With A Thermal Gun (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it real life, or was it all a fantasy? That is the question you’re left with after watching Girl With A Thermal Gun
Cupids (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
3 children, worried about bus driver over the summer, contemplate who they know to pair them up within an adorable 10 minute short.
Magnolia Bloom (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In what appears to be one of the final moments of a long movie, we watch as a young woman integrates a room to share a highlight of her life with her people.
Esther In Wonderland (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Esther In Wonderland is a reminder that Hip-Hop has fans across all cultures and worlds, and they will find what they need one way or another.
Blush (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In 11 minutes, you get one of the cutest animated sci-fi love stories since Wall-E.
Cherry Lemonade (2021 Tribeca Film Festival) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
After a certain point, you get tired of having to ask someone to take you to the store, so a young girl decides it is time to go on her own.
Waves (2021 – Tribeca Film Festival) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
With the opportunity to go to prom, a young man wants to look nice, but with an afro and a desire for waves, he can’t just go anywhere, so to an unfamiliar barbershop he goes.
LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS: All Through The House – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
All Through the House presents the idea Santa’s Little Helpers may not be cuddly and friendly reindeer, and naughty kids may not just deal with coal.
Love, Death + Robots: The Tall Grass – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
You may feel like you’re getting flashbacks from In The Tall Grass, while watching The Tall Grass, but it’s not the same and gets out before it can get bad.
Love, Death + Robots: Snow In The Desert – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
So, what video game were these cut scenes from, when is it out, and for what platforms?
Love, Death & Robots: Pop Squad – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Imagine living in a world where you could live forever if you forego having children. Is this a tradeoff you could accept? Especially knowing the price to pay if you had kids?
Love, Death and Robots: Ice – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Two brothers, separated by one having modifications and the other not, have a night out where they bond and could potentially lose their lives.
Love, Death & Robots: Automated Customer Service – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While buying robots makes almost all of your daily chores easier, can you imagine if the company behind them installed some special features to kill you?
Two Distant Strangers – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this 30-minute horror story, a young man is caught in the loop of a cop killing him in a multitude of ways.
Bambirak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Who of us didn’t want to spend more time with our parents, specifically see what they did when we weren’t around? That’s what Kati gets to do in Bambirak.
White Wedding (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
An absent father finds himself working the wedding of the daughter he never got to know.
Bruiser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
When your father is the epitome of masculinity, what does it say about you if you aren’t a spitting image of that?
BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The 16 minutes of Jason Park’s BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop will leave you demanding a full-length feature film, featuring Johnnyboy Tellem before 2021 is over.
Ava From My Class (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Ava From My Class pushes you to wonder where the line between admiration and a crush is for its young lead.
The Criminals – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Many young adults worldwide take advantage of privacy, which isn’t legally available to our two leads. But will they risk getting arrested to get it?
Doublespeak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Doublespeak, you are sorely reminded how Human Resources is more focused on protecting the company’s assets than your dignity or sense of safety.
You Wouldn’t Understand – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Living up to its title a bit, You Wouldn’t Understand presents a story that leaves you wanting to rewatch for you swear you might have missed something.
No Strings – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Perhaps saving the best for last, No Strings delivers a sense of longing that reminds you how much we’re willing to compromise or settle for the sake of company.
