{"id":2507,"date":"2026-10-16T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:10:21","slug":"where-do-we-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/where-do-we-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color\" style=\"color:#63bc4b;background-color:#29361b\"><thead><tr><th><strong><strong>BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM<\/strong><\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2025\u20132026, Switzerland, France, UK, USA, Uganda, 98 min.<br>In English and various languages with English subtitles | Format: Digital<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>November 7 &amp; 11<\/strong> | <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? brings together stories of lives in transition, where personal decisions, unexpected encounters, and moments of reckoning reshape the future. Moving through questions of family obligation, migration, coming of age, reproductive choice, cultural inheritance, and belonging, these films consider the uncertainty and possibility that accompany profound change. Together, they reveal the crossroads not as a single destination, but as an ongoing process of becoming, where identity is forged through courage, vulnerability, and the choices that define who we are.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>TAXI MOTO<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026, dir. Ga\u00ebl Kamilindi, Switzerland, France, 20 min., In French with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>A director reinvents his unmappable film elsewhere with another actor, turning cinema into an act of love and poetic resistance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WE&#8217;RE ALL BLACK DOWN HERE<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2025, dir. James William Mellors, UK, 16 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>In a racially divided 1950s Britain, a Black miner fights for acceptance above ground.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>BOY NO FEAR<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2025, dir. Jonathan Curtiss, USA, Uganda, 15 min., In English and Luganda with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>A village boy burdened by his own fearlessness journeys into a haunted land to break a fatal curse.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>IN THIS FOG WITH YOU<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026, dir. Savannah Ren\u00e9e Toney, USA, 20 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>Racing against Florida&#8217;s six-week abortion ban, a young writer confronts hard choices during a restless night in Miami.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>IKU AKA (KNOCKING ON THE DOOR)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2025, dir. Tiffany Lotanna Onyejekwe, USA, 12 min., In English and Igbo with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>On the eve of her traditional Igbo marriage ceremony, a bride-to-be must decide whether custom will protect her or confine her.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THROUGH GLASS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026, dir. Benae Beamon, USA, 15 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em><br>Exhausted and exploited, a woman turns to ritual to reclaim her peace and uncover overlooked solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. 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