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Saturday, May 6 at 12:00pm | With themes of music, politics, ice cream and friends, this collection of eight breakout shorts showcases fresh local and international voices. Program: MARGIE SOUDEK'S SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS (2023, dir. Meredith Moore, 12 min.), DUST AWAY (2022, dir. Tanita Rahmani, Dea Gjinovci, 12 min.), BLACK STRINGS (2023, Marquise Mays, 12 min.), HERE, HOPEFULLY (2023, dir. Hao Zhou, 11 min.), TWERK FOR YEMEN (2023, dir. Tanja Holm, 10 min.), BEFORE IT BREAKS (pictured, 2022, dir. Swetha Regunathan, 7 min.), LIFETIMES (2023, dir. Amber Love, 14 min.) and YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM (2023, dir. Ashley Brandon, 9 min.) Select filmmakers scheduled to attend.


Doc10 Film Festival: Doc10 is Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival and provides an engaging experience for its audiences, reaching thousands of local cinephiles over the last seven years. Now in its 8th year, Doc10 has firmly set its place in Chicago’s cultural scene. Each year over three days and evenings, the Festival screens the 10 best documentaries culled from Sundance, Tribeca, Hot Docs, DOC NYC and other top-tier festivals across the nation. This is the first, and often exclusive, opportunity for Chicagoans to see extraordinary films. Twenty of the 50+ films we’ve premiered have been shortlisted or nominated for Academy Awards. doc10.org


More Doc10 at the Film Center: UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS (Sat. May 6, 12:00pm), GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (Sat. May 6, 8:00pm), SUBJECT (Sun. May 7, 1:00pm).


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