across the tracks

Across the Tracks is an African Movie Academy Award–winning short film set in racially charged 1960s Georgia. The story follows two African American sisters whose lives diverge when one, born with fair skin, chooses to pass as white during school integration a decision that fractures their family for decades.

Years later, the sisters reunite in their hometown following their mother’s death, forcing the past to resurface. Through memory and reckoning, the film examines identity, colorism, and the lasting consequences of a single moment that reshapes an entire life.