Film Screening: I Can Only Talk To You While Dreaming

Afro-Caribbean and Latinx short films use water, movement, memory and spirituality to explore identity, transformation and imagined futures. Presented by Masisi, the screening takes place Thursday, September 3 at Coral Gables Art Cinema, with a program of recent shorts that move between surrealism, Afrofuturism and embodied Caribbean experience. The evening includes two U.S. premieres and is presented with support from Third Horizon and the Internationalist Law Center.

The lineup includes Notes on a Siren, Justice Jamal Jones’ reworking of siren mythology through Black queer, trans and African spiritual themes, and Nos Îles, Aliha Thalien’s Martinique-set story about a group of young friends confronting life on an island marked by disappearance. The program also features the U.S. premiere of Sara J. Aspirilla’s Kanekalon, following a trans girl through Quibdó, Colombia on her way to a new school.

Additional selections include Kim Torres’ Solo la luna comprenderá (The Moon Will Contain Us), set among young people in coastal Costa Rica as they imagine new possibilities amid ruins, and the U.S. premiere of Eleggua Luna Laverde’s Danzan Las Luciérnagas (Dancing Fireflies), a speculative Colombian story about a trans knowledge keeper weighing love, science and migration beyond Earth.

Masisi is a Miami-based Black queer Afro-Caribbean collective founded by artist, organizer and DJ Akia Dorsainvil, also known as Pressure Point. Through events, performance and Masisi Radio, the collective highlights Black, queer and trans DJs, artists and musicians while tracing Afro-Caribbean influence across Miami’s sound and cultural landscape. Admission is free, with an optional $10 donation ticket supporting Colombian earthquake relief in Chocó.