Grâce
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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13m
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 14 mins | 2022
An 8-year-old girl—and frustrated cheerleader—believes that the sky is no limit as she seeks to join her father in space in Makabi’s wondrous portrait in imaginative self-determination.
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Notre mémoire
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 12 mins | 2021
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, the underrecognized star of Ousmane Sembene’s masterpiece "Black Girl," reflects on the challenges and realities of her role in an epochal moment in cinema, at home in her Paris apartment. -
A Laundry Day
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 4 mins | 2022
Serendipity strikes at a Harlem laundromat where Fatou, a French African woman, meets a handsome stranger, in this homage to the French New Wave tinged with political meditations on American society. -
Paulette the Clown
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 2 mins | 2021
Paulette Nardal, Martinique-born pioneer of the Négritude movement, introduces herself and her critique, with a surprise visitor, in this elegantly staged visit to the past. Nardal is played by artist Christelle Oyiri.
