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in love, in memory

Cucalorus Film Festival

Fri

Nov

20

2026

6:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Producers
Nandini Sikand, Drew Swedberg, Shalon Buskirk
Directors
Shalon Buskirk, Drew Swedberg
Screenwriters
Cast
After losing her firstborn son to gun violence, a mother gathers cherished memories and erased histories to connect his death to her city’s haunting legacy of racism. Refusing the carceral frameworks of true crime, this impressionistic counter-narrative refracts quiet scenes of artistic intervention, community storytelling and tender remembrance through a prism of passing time.
RUNTIME:
90:00
Cucalorus 32

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Jengo’s Playhouse

Thu
Nov
19
9:00 pm
815 Princess St
Wilmington
NC
28401

Hot Wieners and Coffee Milk

On the night before Halloween in a small New England town, a local hot wiener delivery driver attempts to get out of work on time for a holiday tradition he’s kept since childhood.

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Jengo’s Playhouse

Thu
Nov
19
11:15 pm
815 Princess St
Wilmington
NC
28401

CAPE FOUR

An ex-convict stalks a family through four mashed together retellings of Cape Fear, where 1962, 1991, 1993 and 2026 remix into a glitchy casserole of vengeance and vibes.

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Jengo’s Playhouse

Fri
Nov
20
10:15 am
815 Princess St
Wilmington
NC
28401

Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage

An athlete, artist, and activist, Romare Bearden defied boundaries placed on Black men of his generation.

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Aloft Coastline Center – Main

Fri
Nov
20
1:00 pm
501 Nutt St
Wilmington
NC
28401

CAITY

Along with her newly sober father Paul, 16-year-old Caity prepares for the new Halloween season of their family-owned haunted house.

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Aloft Coastline Center – Blue

Fri
Nov
20
1:15 pm
501 Nutt St
Wilmington
NC
28401

Under a Million Stars

Experts and homeless neighbors alike bust myths about Seattle’s homelessness crisis in a deeply reported, humanistic dispatch from the front lines. Homelessness was declared a civil state of emergency in Seattle in 2015.

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Aloft Coastline Center – Blue

Fri
Nov
20
4:00 pm
501 Nutt St
Wilmington
NC
28401

Daughters of the Forest

Deep in Mexico’s mushroom-rich forests, two women from indigenous communities have become mycologists.

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