DEFUND
no matter what the next step is let it be forward let it be action
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Summary
Defund is a Canadian 2021 short drama film, directed by Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha and released in 2021.
The film stars Roberts-Abdullah and Mengesha as a sister and brother who have been in isolation in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, and must confront the complexities of political activism when they are motivated to get out into the streets during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
The film’s cast also includes Karen Robinson, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Getenesh Berhe, Nickeshia Garrick, Richard Lam and Anand Rajaram.
The film premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, and was subsequently screened at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival.
The film was named to TIFF’s annual year-end Canada’s Top Ten list for 2021.
Plot
Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script,
the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other’s, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.
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- Original title: Defund
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