Birthday Blues
2024
United States
10 mins
World Premiere
Short Film Competition
Zinha Morgan-Bennett | |
Amani Jiu | |
Tristão Darius Azor (Tony), Satchel Eden Bell (Joy), Kai Naima Williams |
Tony has just turned 26 and is feeling blue … that is until he follows his mysterious neighbors through a mystical closet and onto a dance floor where you never have to grow up.

About the Director
Zinha Morgan-Bennett is a writer/director, a film programmer, and author. Through her narratives, Zinha questions our understandings of apocalypse, kinship, and lives lived in the margins of society. After winning the prestigious Marshall Scholarship in 2020, Zinha trained as a director at Goldsmiths University of London and she’s currently developing a number of immersive film and narrative short film projects.