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Short Documentary Program: Greenfield, Meet Me in Silence, Salt Marsh, A Song Between the Gardens & Entre Luz – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!

Friday, June 05, 2026 @ 7:00pm



NJ International Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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Screening at the New Jersey International Film Festival - available online for 24 hours starting at midnight with an in-person screening at 7:00pm

5 films in the package

Greenfield – Rob Herring. Greenfield is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield — one of the world’s most radical environmentalists. Known for his bold eco-experiments, including wearing a month’s worth of trash through Times Square, living a full year on only homegrown and foraged food, and giving up every possession, Robin challenges what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. As he walks barefoot from Canada to Mexico with nothing to his name, his radical simplicity invites us to question what we truly need to be free, fulfilled, and human. 2025; 34 min.



Entre Luz - Adelaida Tamayo, Gabriel Barrios (Queens, New York). Entre Luz is a short documentary made with survivors of police shootings who lost their eyes during the 2021 Colombian national strike. The film follows a popular-theater troupe of survivors as they carry their performance into the streets of Cali, where testimonies join the clamor of community kitchens, mothers demanding justice, and youth who refuse to be silent. Through disorienting imagery, Entre Luz proposes a new way of seeing structures of oppression. Spectators witness and join the groups mobilization. Produced with MOCAO (Movement in Resistance Against Ocular Aggressions), the film channels the power of popular cinema to invite you to join the battle for justice. In Spanish, subtitled. 2025; 18 min.



Meet Me in Silence – Lucy Mathews Heegaard (Minnetonka, Minnesota). A year-long experiment sitting in complete silence and darkness with strangers leads to an intimate contemplation on connection to self and others through silence. Could the surreal, human-engineered silence of an anechoic chamber be a pathway to healing and awareness? 2025; 14 min.



Salt Marsh - Tom Bell (Yarmouth, Maine). With a haunting, original score by Lee Ranaldo, Salt Marsh explores art, climate, and solitude through the reflections of Maine artist Mitchell Rasor. The 15-minute documentary is a poetic portrait of an artist and place. 2025; 15 min.



A Song Between The Gardens - Nastaran Bagheri (Buffalo, New York). Two international students at the University at Buffalo engage in a conversation reflecting on their student life, their memories from Iran, and their experiences as students back home, while also praising the progressive and vocal role of students during the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement. In Persian, subtitled. 2025; 10 min.




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EVENT PREVIEWS

Princeton

Princeton Summer Theater Announces 2026 Season

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Summer Theater has unveiled its 2026 subscription season which will run from June 11th to August 1st, featuring an exciting lineup of three mainstage pieces and a family-friendly musical. Productions include Barefoot in the Park, The 39 Steps, True West, and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.



Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Crossroads Theatre Company presents Sizwe Bansi Is Dead from May 19 - June 14, 2026 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. This is a powerful, funny, and deeply moving story about identity, survival, and the extraordinary ingenuity of ordinary people navigating an unjust system.



Zoopraxic

Zoopraxic presents "In the Devil's Hands" by Helen Banner

(LONG ISLAND, NY) -- In the Devil's Hands, Helen Banner's riveting new play will extend its run to 21 performances running between May 20 and June 14, 2026. Set in the Channel Islands in the 1940s, this intimate and immersive production will have its world premiere at the new micro theatre space Zoopraxic in Long Island City (first stop in Queens).



"Slanted

"Slanted Floors" returns to its Greenpoint Apartment

(NEW YORK, NY) -- Following critical acclaim and sold-out performances, Slanted Floors — hailed by the Daily Beast as "one of New York's most unique and exclusive pieces of theatre" — returns for a strictly limited five-week engagement in its original Greenpoint apartment setting. Performances will run May 26 through June 26, 2026, with 150 seats available.



Arden

Arden Theatre Company presents "Dear Evan Hansen"

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) -- Arden Theatre Company brings the Tony Award-winning musical, Dear Evan Hansen, to the F. Otto Haas Stage this spring. Featuring a book by Steven Levenson and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the production is directed by Terrence J. Nolen and co-conceived by Jorge Cousineau and Nolen. Performances begin May 21, the show opens May 27, and runs through July 5, 2026.






 

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