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SHORTS BLOCK 3: Salem Film Fest
These shorts will be on show at the National Park Service Visitor Center for Salem Film Fest
AMPE: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl
Set in the sister cities of Accra, Ghana and Columbus, Ohio, “Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl” is a rhythmic love letter to Black girlhood across the African diaspora. Through the lens of the Ghanaian traditional jumping and clapping game, Ampe, the film takes us on a journey of sisterhood, loyalty, and nostalgia in a space created for us, by us.
SWIMMING THROUGH
Three women forge a friendship by swimming through the winter in Lake Michigan as a way to cope with the pandemic.
HER SCENTS OF PU ER
Master Tseng, the first woman tea master in China’s history, takes us on a sensorial journey steeped in history. We travel though her delicate and timeless world as she unveils the secrets of Pu Er tea.
ON THE MOVE
Bassam, a Syrian artist in exile, negotiates his relationship between fraught migratory systems and his own artistic practice. As legal statuses threaten family structures, a poetic narrative unfolds: one that transcends borders and catalyzes the creative possibilities of displacement.
HANDBOOK
In the director’s room in Berlin, a part of Belarusian reality is being created – a cinematic guide through the systematic suppression of protests which took place in August 2020.