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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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Wisdom of Happiness

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An audience with the Dalia Lama, who, at 90, looks back on his life and shares the tenets of Buddhism as a practical guide to surviving the 21st Century with joy and compassion.

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Köln 75

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The true story behind the greatest solo concert in jazz history, this is Keith Jarrett's legendary 1975 Köln Concert — as organized by 18-year-old rebel music promoter Vera Brandes. Fun, inventive and feminist, it's the Bend It Like Beckham of jazz films.

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Urchin

Dir. Harris Dickinson
99 min

This impressive, award-winning debut as writer-director from actor Harris Dickinson is a probing portrait of a troubled street kid trying to get his life back on track before it's too late.

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Train Dreams

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104 min

A lovely, ruminative movie set in the Pacific Northwest in the first half of the last century. Robert (Joel Edgerton) is a lumberjack, a taciturn man who comes to appreciate the life slipping between his fingers.

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Orwell: 2+2=5

Dir. Raoul Peck
119 min

Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck reimagines 1984 in this urgent essay on power, language, and control. With narration by Damian Lewis, it’s a chilling portrait of how Orwell’s warnings became our reality.

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