The five short documentaries selected for this year’s Bethesda Film Fest look at street kids in Congo, two brothers growing up without their father in Washington, D.C., the first women-only mosque in the U.S., women in Mexican wrestling and civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer.
The event, presented by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, will include two screenings of the films March 18 and another screening of the films March 19 at Imagination Stage in Bethesda. Tickets are $10 per person.
A three-person jury selected the five films, which range in length from six to 26 minutes and were all made by locally based filmmakers.
Chop My Money, from Baltimore resident Theo Anthony, looks at a day in the life of three impoverished children in Eastern Congo.
In the Path of My Father, from Washington, D.C., filmmakers and siblings RaSeph, 14, and Sia Wright, 11, used an all-youth production crew to tell the story of two brothers growing up without their father and how their family and the arts helped them cope.
Los Angeles Call to Prayer, made by Alexandria’s Omer Bayrakdar, looks at The Women’s Mosque of America in Los Angeles, the first women-only mosque in the U.S. that’s providing a place for Muslim women to feel welcome and engaged in their religion.
Washington, D.C., resident River Finlay will present Luchadora, a look at a woman making her way in Lucha Libre—Mexican professional wrestling—despite resistance from men in the popular sport.
Silver Spring resident Robin Hamilton will present This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, about the civil rights heroine.
