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.
Shorts
Films in this category aren’t full-length, an hour or more, movies, but shorts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
