Cousins

[Plays March 2-6 at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival; for more information, log on to https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/nsf-2022/.] Mandy Marcus' award-winning, down-to-earth, low-key, coming-of-age, realistic, 14-minute, 2020 film in which a Brooklyn teenager (Victoria N. Alcala) hangs out in Queens for the day with her Guyanese cousin (Mickalia Forrester Ewen) buying snacks, talking about boys and life, and contemplating the future before attending the last day in a seven-day wake and funeral of an uncle.
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