Kinemastik International Short Film Festival

Curator’s statement: In a time of forced mass migration and rising xenophobia worldwide this classic of early Film history offers (besides it’s marvellous comedic style) a basic thought to always remember: arts and culture are universal, forced migration produced some of the most valuable products of humankinds’ ability for creation. Chaplin’s Tram

The last in this edition of Film Klub focusing on films by Black film makers and Black issues. Finally the unmissable I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript ‘Remember This House’ by James Baldwin, the film moves through the history of racism in The United States.

Our third film in our Black Cinema Film Klub is all at once a mesmerising visual poem, an open documentary and a love letter to an island and its people. ‘Part film, part baptism, in Black Mother director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica.

Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina—former West African slaves who carried on many […]

‘Premised as a historical survey that maps the genetic link between slavery and today’s prison-industrial complex, 13th explodes the “mythology of black criminality” as The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb at one point in the film refers to the successive and successful measures undertaken by political authorities to disempower African Americans over the l