{"id":2383,"date":"2026-10-13T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:12:11","slug":"ancestral-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/ancestral-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"ANCESTRAL FUTURES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2025\u20132026, France, USA, Brazil, 76 min.
In Various languages with English subtitles | Format: Digital<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

November 12<\/strong> | ANCESTRAL FUTURES traces a lineage of Black speculative cinema that reaches backward as much as it imagines forward. Rooted in ritual, folklore, spirituality, mythology, and cosmology, these films reject the notion that the future exists apart from the past. Instead, they position ancestral knowledge as a living technology capable of preserving cultural memory, sustaining communities, and imagining liberated futures. Through mythic storytelling, sacred practice, and ceremonial imagination, the program affirms that Black speculative traditions have always been sites of innovation, resistance, transformation, and world-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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CAF\u00c9 ?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2025, dir. Bamar Kane, France, 25 min., In French with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>A diasporic meditation on memory, ritual, and human connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANANSE AND THE DIVINE JOURNEY<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Bathsch\u00e8ba Duronvil, USA, 11 min., In English and Twi with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>Ananse the trickster seeks out elemental gods to restore peace to a troubled earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE MEMORY OF MOTHER CLEO<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dirs. M\u00e1rcio Ferreira, Rafa Beck, Brazil, 17 min., In Portuguese with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>An ax\u00e9 family keeps a fading elder’s spiritual legacy and cultural memory alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OR\u00cdK\u00cc OSHUN<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2025, dir. Elena Herminia Guzman, USA, 15 min., In English, Yoruba, Spanish, and Portuguese \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>Sacred drumming and ritual invoke the divine spirit of Oshun in an experimental visual praise poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MAKTOOB<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Thoraia Hussein, USA, 8 min., In English \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>A late-night medical shift takes a surreal turn when a mysterious glowing presence follows a doctor home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6:00 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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