Where Grief Settles Shorts Block

Where Grief Settles Shorts Block brings together two films that navigate loss as both personal terrain and shared geography.
In Mama Micra (Dir. Rebecca Blöcher), an animated reconstruction of a mother’s life traces a restless search for freedom, home, and belonging, where distance and memory blur into fragile traces of connection. An open field (Dir. Teboho Edkins) returns to the site of a plane crash in Ethiopia, where a family’s grief unfolds alongside collective mourning, ritual, and the slow, ongoing search for meaning and accountability. Together, the films hold grief as something lived with over time—shifting, unsettled, and quietly persistent. (13PG)