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Athena Film Festival

Athena Film Festival

March 2 - 5, 2023

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2020

Nefertiti {NY Premiere}

Despite being blind and uniquely vulnerable, Nefertiti is determined to follow her desires and live her life on her own terms, with or without the help of her sister.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always {NY Premiere}

Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.

Objector {NY Premiere}

Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military, and becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage.

Personhood

This film tells the story of Tamara Loertscher, a rural Wisconsin mother who was jailed after telling her doctor about her occasional drug use before she knew she was pregnant and her fight to overturn Wisconsin’s ‘Unborn Child Protection Act.’

PICK

A young girl wears her Afro to school and must deal with the unexpected consequences.

Power Meri {NY Premiere}

Power Meri follows the PNG Orchids, Papua New Guinea’s first national women’s rugby team, on their journey to the 2017 World Cup in Australia.

Queering the Script

Queering the Script examines the rising power of the fans and audience shaping representation on TV.

Radioactive

From the 1870s through our 21st century, RADIOACTIVE tells the story of pioneering scientist  Marie Curie through her extraordinary life and her enduring legacies – the passionate partnerships, her shining scientific breakthroughs, and the darker consequences that followed.

Rocks {Closing Film}

Shola, known as “Rocks” after protecting her childhood friend from bullies, has big dreams but one day she returns home from school to discover her mother has left and she is responsible for younger brother Emmanuel.

Sanctuary

Amanda Morales, a Guatemalan mother of three U.S.-born children is the first immigrant to claim sanctuary in New York since President Trump took office.

Sea Fever {NY Premiere}

Siobhán’s a marine biology student who prefers to work alone in the lab. But while on a research expedition on a ragged fishing trawler, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat and Siobhán must overcome her alienation, before everyone is lost.

Shorts Program I

Shorts Program I – Abortion Helpline: This is Lisa, Welcome Back, A Sister, Bodies Like Oceans, Couper Was Here

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