As I see it, I undo my memories.
Searching to purge a bad memory, Joana decides to return to the place where she suffered an act of violence in 2013 to free herself of the last trigger that bounds her to this incident from the past - a wardrobe. In this self-portrait, the director appropriates the essayist traits of the documentary as a process to deal with inner ghosts. Through a ritual established by a recollection of facts, she confronts her own expectations facing the charges she endures as a woman.

Deliverance

This story follows Reesa Crawford, a queer black woman from South Carolina who is having her first child with her wife, Khari. During this pregnancy, remnants of her past begin to torment her via the old urban legend of the boo hag. As this creature takes a toll on her mental and physical health and night terrors keep her from sleeping, we begin to wonder whether this monster is truly real or all in her head.

Hag.

After years of abuse, a homeless Black teenage boy navigates the dangerous world of survival sex on the streets of St. Louis.

Pretty Boy

A coming of age queer love story about two teenage girls who unexpectedly fall in love catapulting them to freely express their sexual identity, in the limited time they have.

Butterfly

A coming of age queer love story about two teenage girls who unexpectedly fall in love catapulting them to freely express their sexual identity, in the limited time they have.

Mikey is one of only two black boys at his elementary school. He tries to befriend the other boy, Louie, at the lunch table. He comes up with a fun childish hypothetical: “what if the school blew up?”
He tells louie how he could bring a bomb into school the next day and blow up the school so they can hang out. They laugh it off, but the next day Mikey is pulled away from class by his favorite teacher, Ms. Bristol.
She takes him to “The Quiet Room,” a solitary confinement room the school places bad kids in. 
Mikey is left in there for hours before Ms. Bristol comes in to talk with him. At first she expresses concern for Mikey’s wellbeing, which makes Mikey more comfortable, but she soon switches into interrogation mode, treating him like a potential threat and scaring him away. Mikey is then placed in front of the school principal, Ms. Young.
She tries to threaten, humiliate, and belittle Mikey until he cracks. All this does is make him an emotional wreck. Thankfully, his mother arrives and cusses out the school for their torturous behavior toward Mikey. As she takes Mikey back to her car to go home, Mikey sees Louie standing alongside Ms. Bristol. It was betrayal on all sides.

Cry of a Dreamer

The Mind is A Prison: "Deliverance" | "Pretty Boy" | "Butterfly" | "Cry of a Dreamer"

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