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Intimate and unapologetic stories of women and queer lives are uncovered through provocative and deeply personal accounts that examine memory, identity, and dignity.

 

Oct 3 & 11: Q&A

 

This short film program includes the following films:

Rezbotanik
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Portugal/Brazil/Spain (19 min)

After a night partying, Rezmorah sobers up in the botanical gardens of Lisbon, pondering what the plants can teach us about queerness.

 


Abortion Party
Julia Mellen, Spain (14 min)

Director Julia Mellen animates and celebrates the termination of her pregnancy with an unexpected array of guests.

 


It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave
Zhuoyun Chen, China/USA (19 min)

A young woman’s drifting consciousness traces the mystery of an elusive red car.

 


Daria’s Night Flower
Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK/France (16 min)

Daria has written her first manuscript about falling in love with a mysterious girl called Blue. The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.

 


Goodbye, Fishies
Jonathan Zhang, Australia (12 min)

Personal stories reinterpreted by the actors and director, depict a Thai mother consumed with deep regret for missing her grandmother’s last moments.

 


Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada (29 min)

Thirty years after his passing, filmmaker Lesley Chan re-examines Lloyd Wong’s uncompleted video art project about living with HIV.

 

Community Partner

     

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2024 & 2025

Language

Various

18+
109 min
Animation Art, Music & Photography Comedy Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Human Rights & Social Justice LGBTQIA2S+ Shorts Women Directors

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Meadowlarks

Dir. Tasha Hubbard
91 min

Fifty years after being separated during the Sixties Scoop, four Cree siblings reunite for the first time on a long weekend trip to Banff. Tasha Hubbard’s sensitive drama relates an emotional and life-affirming story of kinship and belonging.

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Jay Kelly

Dir. Noah Baumbach
130 min

In Noah Baumbach's wise and witty comedy, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, a world-famous movie star touring Europe with his friend and manager, Ron (Adam Sandler). Faced with nagging dissatisfaction, Jay starts to ask himself some tough questions.

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Mistress Dispeller

Dir. Elizabeth Lo
94 min

Sensing her husband has strayed, a Chinese woman hires a mistress dispeller to insinuate herself between the lovers and sow enough doubt to break up the liaison. A documentary.

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Peter Hujar's Day

Dir. Ira Sachs
76 min

Ben Whishaw is extraordinary in this conjuring trick of a movie from Ira Sachs (Passages), a minimalist masterpiece recreating a conversation between New York photographer Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? + The Soda Crackers

Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
107 min

Join us for a fun afternoon of bluegrass music with the Soda Crackers, followed by a special 25th anniversary screening of the Coen brothers' beloved Homeric comedy, O Brother, Where Art Thou? starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson.

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Left-Handed Girl

Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou
109 min

Co-written and edited by Sean Baker (Anora), Shi-Ching Tsou's heartwarming solo feature debut follows a single mom in Taipei who is too consumed with her noodle stand to keep tabs on her five-year-old daughter's burgeoning shoplifting habit.

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