students' program III

One day, I lost my mother. Slowly, I am trac­ing my steps back to her. This film is an attempt to under­stand moth­er­hood for women of West Indian descent in France through my own rela­tion­ship with my mother. What is moth­er­hood in terms of rela­tion­ships, inti­ma­cy, and sorrow? What tools and sup­port were moth­ers pro­vid­ed with? Where were the fathers? Was there a stable and reli­able com­mu­ni­ty - and if not, how could one be built amid geo­graph­ic dis­place­ment and dias­poric family ties?

Allyson Félic­ité is a multi-dis­ci­pli­nary, non-binary cre­ator born in Nor­mandy to par­ents from Mar­tinique, Sene­gal, and Mali. They stud­ied Rhetor­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Gender at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Long Beach, worked with Vice France, and after grad­u­at­ing from La Fémis in 2020, direct­ed their first short film LANMÈ during the Ate­lier Varan workshops.

Win­ston-Salem, North Car­oli­na, embod­ies the con­trasts of a typ­i­cal Amer­i­can sub­ur­ban city—where wealth and pover­ty, priv­i­lege and strug­gle, mobil­i­ty and depen­dence on public trans­port create a divide that feels insur­mount­able. … read more

Lost in an unfa­mil­iar dig­i­tal realm, Samuel’s soul search­es for a way home, guided only by a mys­te­ri­ous voice from the sky. As he nav­i­gates this vir­tu­al land­scape, the film … read more