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DEFUND (2021) | Slate

DEFUND

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Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other's, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.

Released: 2021
Runtime: 14m
Country: Canada

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Khadijah Roberts-AbdullahDirector, Writer

Araya MengeshaDirector, Writer

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Araya MengeshaBrother
Khadijah Roberts-AbdullahSister

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