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Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Wilmington

NC

28401

Short Film

As Told by a Corpse

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

At a traditional naming ceremony, family members pray and swoon over the birth of an alleged baby girl, kicking off the demise of an entity resistant to it's imposed identity.

Short Film

Haint

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

When gentrifiers suddenly begin dying mysteriously, a Gullah Geechee handywoman who recently lost her home, must decide whether to use her ancestral knowledge to save them or leave them to their fate.

Short Film

Long's Lost Lost & Mini Mart

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation.

Short Film

Missing Rhythms

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity.

Short Film

Thomasville

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Trapped in a rainswept car, a young man and his ailing father confront their fractured history before it's too late.

Short Film

Thin Places

Fri

Nov

21

2025

7:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

The unique connection of two sisters as they navigate the liminal space of this world and the next.

Short Film

Climate Control

Sat

Nov

22

2025

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A metafictional comedy about the intersection of the climate crisis and generative AI.

Short Film

Kalamazoo Gals

Sat

Nov

22

2025

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

When music journalist John Thomas discovers a mysterious archival photo, the ensuing odyssey reveals a shameful chapter in the history of the iconic Gibson guitar company.During World War II, with in

Short Film

Pow!

Sat

Nov

22

2025

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.

Short Film

The Blind Reggaetonera

Sat

Nov

22

2025

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A blind reggaeton artist defies societal barriers to pursue her musical dreams, redefining disability perceptions, while mentoring young disabled students.

Short Film

The Buzz of St. Roch

Sat

Nov

22

2025

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Beekeeper Carl Harrison Jr.

Short Film

A nature documentary: Elements of Decomposition

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A nature documentary: elements of decomposition plays with transformations through redefinition of language: elements of composition are reinvented through slippage and sculptural activation as methods of meaning-maki

Short Film

8 Seconds at the Three Sisters

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A filmmaker canoes up North Carolina’s Black River to the Three Sisters Swamp, chasing light through ancient bald cypress groves.

Short Film

Busy Bodies

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing techniques.

Short Film

I Really Wanted To Love Today

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A parent and child’s camping trip to an uninhabited, seagull-ridden island turns into a tense, metaphysical journey.

Short Film

Guadalupe Maravilla's Mariposa Relámpago

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Glowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Mariposa Relámpago” was once an ordinary school bus, but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing.

Short Film

SKRFF

Sat

Nov

22

2025

1:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A 40-year old graffiti wall becomes an archaeological site and a sgraffito sculpture as long-gone layers of paint are uncovered and transformed into fireworks of color and shape.

Short Film

Dancing in Tomorrowland

Sat

Nov

22

2025

4:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

In this fantasia of a 1980s gay rights theme park documentary an unsung teen activist fights to overturn Disneyland’s ban on same-sex dancing.

Short Film

Magic Brown Artist

Sat

Nov

22

2025

4:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Visual artist, Victor Yañez-Lascano, makes work inspired by his experience as a Mexican American son of immigrants.

Short Film

Once Upon a Wetland

Sat

Nov

22

2025

4:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

As restrictions tighten across the country, Durham, North Carolina preps for the annual Beaver Queen Pageant.

Short Film

SHELL YEAH

Sat

Nov

22

2025

4:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

A musician, his shells, and the surprising sounds they create.

Short Film

The Conscience Files

Sat

Nov

22

2025

4:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

For some visitors to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, the temptation to smuggle out pieces of petrified wood as cherished keepsakes is irresistible.Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending o

Short Film

Elaine & Trina

Sat

Nov

22

2025

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Best friends learn to navigate adulthood together with a few plot twists along the way...

Short Film

HEADBANG

Sat

Nov

22

2025

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

An American perspective on the hijab and female empowerment that resonates with universal questions of selfhood and freedom.

Short Film

Mango

Sat

Nov

22

2025

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Zadie is an independent florist, privately suffering from fibroids, but determined to take her career to the next level.

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

Wilmington

NC

28401