Concourse Film Festival: BLOCK 1

Bomba y Plena

Bomba y Plena, a short film about Afro-Puerto Rican traditional music and dance.

Andi & Jess & Adrian

Sisters Andi and Jess planned the perfect New Year’s vacation. And then Jess brought her boyfriend. Over the course of an awkward weekend together, the trio uncovers the truth about their relationships with each other, and themselves.

Finding Dohi

FINDING DOHI is an intimate portrait of a woman separated by culture, language, and thousands of miles from a family she has never met. Daphne, a 3rd generation Japanese-American, holds on to letters sent to her mother long ago. The contents of the letters are a mystery, as they are written in Japanese - and she cannot read or understand the language. Thus begins her decades-long pursuit to fill in the scant details she knows about her Grandfather Dohi, who immigrated to Hawai'i from a rural Japanese village in 1891.

Documented by her daughter, their journey from Hawai‘i to Japan explores the themes of language and culture loss, identity, honoring ancestors, and reconnection, and reminds us that some family bonds cannot be broken no matter the time or distance.

Thoughts & Prayers

To do today: Eat breakfast, go to work/school, get shot. Yawn.

About Colonia

Colonia is a nineteen-year-old Dominican-American nursing student who lives in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn with her eccentric and religiously conservative mother.