Short Attention Span Cinema: Blueberry Diplomacy
Friday, May 16 - Thursday, May 22, 2025
As part of our ongoing Short Attention Span Cinema program, IFC Center is proud to share The Moth’s “Blueberry Diplomacy” before our regular feature presentations.
“Blueberry Diplomacy” (6:27) | As an introvert, Sufian Zhemukhov has a strict rule about interacting with strangers: Don’t. However, when his extroverted girlfriend accepts an invitation to pick blueberries with someone they just met, he has to gather fruit alongside people very different from him.
About The Moth
The Moth is a nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since 1997, The Moth has presented tens of thousands of true personal stories, told live, without notes, to standing-room-only audiences and virtually around the globe. Renowned for showcasing a broad range of human experiences, The Moth produces approximately six hundred live and virtual shows each year and has an ongoing presence in 28 cities worldwide. Additionally, The Moth runs storytelling workshops for students, teachers, adults, advocates, and professionals from around the world through its Education, Global Community, Community Engagement, and MothWorks Programs. The Moth Podcast, presented by Audacy, is downloaded tens of millions of times a year and won the People’s Voice Webby for Best Podcast Series.
Each week, the Peabody-Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Atlantic Public Media and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, is heard on 560+ public radio stations. The Moth has released a card deck, A Game of Storytelling (Clarkson Potter), and its second podcast, the Webby Award-Winning, Grown, is available on all major streaming platforms. To date, The Moth has published five critically acclaimed books: New York Times bestseller The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hachette Books); All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown; and New York Times bestsellers: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible (Crown), How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth (Crown), and A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go (Crown). Learn more at themoth.org.