Director
Alicia K. Harris
Production
Hayley Brown, Jeff Chiu
Language
No Dialogue
Year
2024
9 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
A young Black girl navigates exclusion in her all-white ballet class, reclaiming her beauty and power in an ethereal and jubilant celebration of Blackness.
On a Sunday at Eleven follows the Sunday routine of a young ballerina. Angel arrives at ballet class to discover she is the only Black girl in her class. Feeling isolated, she escapes to a dream world where ballerinas with elaborate hairstyles dance around her, in this jubilant celebration of Black women’s unique beauty and sorority.
Writing: Alicia K. Harris
Cinematography: Jeremy Cox
Sound Recording: Amanda Ann-Min Wong
Editing: Ashley Gilmour
Sound Design: Paul Lucien Col
Sound Mix: Jeremy Fong
Color Grading: Ana Escorse
Music: Chief Adjuah, Keep in Touch
Starring: Zoë Peak
Alicia K. Harris
Alicia K. Harris is a filmmaker from Scarborough, ON. She is best known for her Oscar-qualified short film Pick, which won Best Live Action Short at the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards and Best Short Film. Her latest short film about Black ballerinas, On a Sunday at Eleven, premiered at TIFF 2024 and Berlinale 2025. Alicia is known for her poetic visual style and is dedicated to celebrating the Black experience in her work, with a focus on authenticity, beauty, and spirituality.
On a Sunday at Eleven, 9 min, Fiction, 2024
only light will touch us, 3 min, Fiction, 2021
Pick, 11 min, Fiction, 2019
Maybe if it were a nice room, 2 min, Fiction, 2016
Love Stinks, 11 min, Fiction, 2016