Sister Salad Days
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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Directed by Adesola Thomas | 17 mins | 2025
Magical realism ripples through Adesola Thomas’s debut short, a Black Southern gothic tale in which the prospect of an unwanted marriage begets new dimensions in the relationship between two sisters.
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Electrodomestica
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 23 mins | 2005
Afternoon in a middle-class apartment in Recife: the laundry goes round and round in the machine much as a roast chicken does in the microwave. Appliances augment drudgery and relaxation alike in this humorous domestic symphony, which builds to a... -
Green Vinyl
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 17 mins | 2014
A mother’s gift of a box of old records to her young daughter comes with one proviso: never listen to the green one! Adapted from a Russian folktale, this lo-fi stop-motion short—a Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection—offers an off-kilter blend ...
