Ethics at the Movies: SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT

From the venue:

FREE Screening at Emory University — SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT
Thursday, March 19, 2026 7:00 PM EDT
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102

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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of SISTER SALAD DAYS and Q&A with writer/director Adesola Thomas. Plus THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT.

SISTER SALAD DAYS Short Synopsis:
Sister Salad Days is a magical realist narrative short that explores Black sisterhood, gendered and religious ideas of marital obligation, and the interpersonal harm that is caused in the pursuit of piety. This is a film about promise-keeping among Black women, living vestiges of the past, and one woman’s desire to build a self-determined life in the Atlanta ethnoburbs.

THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT Short Synopsis:
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.

Ethics at the Movies is a documentary screening series presented by the Center for Ethics at Emory University, featuring in-person post-film conversations with members of creative teams. Ethics at the Movies has screened over 40 films and hosted such distinguished guest artists as Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand; photographer and filmmaker Ansley West; Regina Kelly, the inspiration behind the film American Violet; and Foreign Press Association Journalist of the Year Award and Peabody Award winner Saeed Kamali Dehghan, among others.