OPENING NIGHT: Kindred Queers

From a young girl's magical waltz with the moon, to a mother-daughter tango of fear and acceptance, to the quick turns of a dyke couple on a mission to conceive, these films will shake you in a samba of spirit and determination.

When her mother leaves the Philippines to find work in the U.S., Magic waltzes around doubt and fear to find love in MAGIC & THE MOON. Moving to the 1-2 count of history and immigration, given and chosen names, a Hapa woman claims BOTH/AND for herself. A queer Korean adoptee uses her breath and rhythm to sing to JAGADAMBA, MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE and heal her own spirit. A visual prayer and cumbia of earth, ancestors and ceremony leads to the RENACIMIENTO DE UNA BRUJA. Family and friends energetically declare YO SOY/I AM in this heartfelt homage to love and caring. A young woman twists away from self-destruction and comes out in SEEING GOLDA. A mother-daughter tango of shame and acceptance leads to mutual understanding in QUEERING MY MOTHER. A lesbian couple trying to get pregnant does a quick cha cha chase for that ONE IN A MILLION.

OPENING NIGHT AFTER PARTY

PANEL & RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING: Pratibha Parmar
Panel Discussion: Representations of Queer API Women in the Media

Internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar has deeply influenced mixed-genre filmmaking since the 80's and continues to bring fresh representations of queer women of color to the screen. Our Retrospective Screening highlights three influential films: Khush, Bhangra Jig and Wavelengths.

Join us as we explore what it means to represent queer API women in the media. Moderated by award-winning author and journalist Helen Zia.

VIEW BIOS

Retrospective & Panel: $10-$20    [tickets]
Running Time: 90 minutes
Followed by Featured Q&A Panel with Pratibha Parmar

SPONSOR
NCLR

COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Trikone

FEATURED SCREENING: From Queer API Women With Love

From a tricky tap dance with immigration agents, to lyrical interpretations of grief, to the dynamic strut of a queer secret agent, these powerhouse combinations are a vibrant groove of heritage, humor and insight.

When Kelly's work visa runs out, her partner does a tricky tap dance with government agents and compels us all to LOOK AGAIN at queer couples and immigration. In LESBIANS TRYING 2 CONCEIVE, a loving and playful couple pivot between hope and uncertainty. PIECES OF YOU is an experimental pas de deux of injustice and family history. A young woman experiences grief and redemption in IF YOU KNEW. The poetic freestyle of social change breaks onto the screen and becomes VISIBLE VOICE. It's JUST ANOTHER DAY for three Asian women who rock different sports. Follow the Bay Area's first API drag king troupe as they lead you through their boogie woogie in ALL OF ME. The dynamic swagger of 007 Secret Agent J. Wong clashes with the brazen jiggle of her nemesis in LABELS ARE FOREVER.

FEATURED SCREENING: From Queer API Women With Love

CENTERPIECE SCREENING: Sexily Subversive

From a 12-year-old who tiptoes around her boyish desires, to the visual legacies embodied by Black women, to the fierce shimmy of big bodacious babes, these films will spin, sway and swing you on the streets and between the sheets. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers. Contains sexually explicit content.

As young Shane deftly swivels between expectations for Chinese girls and a suave embrace of masculinity, S/HE claims a true self. A bike kid wakes from dancing dreams of body modification in THE WINK &THE PUCKER. The hard lines and flexible curves of Black female bodies are quietly traced in HOKUM. A funky and haunting groove challenges the historical representations of the HOT/N/TOT and other Black women. Everyone wants a piece of Cheyenne and her fierce fandango in CAUSE SHE GOT IT LIKE THAT. Tales of passion and self-discovery glide through sinuous waves in SHE EJACULATES. At a BDSM play party, a novice claims the syncopated beats of her desire in PLAY WITH ME. A Black femme reveals the inspiration for her kink/fetish desires in a tantalizing burlesque of CUT &PASTE.

CLOSING NIGHT: Delectably Yours

From a yummy chance encounter over Pho noodles, to a rebellious zapateado against green tortillas, to tasty platanos from the lands of merengue, salsa and calypso, these delectable films will move you while they satisfy your hunger for community and connection. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers.

Scrumptious adventures and a romantic rumba lay ahead for two strangers who meet OVER PHO. When Elaine brings her partner home for dinner in FRIED CHICKEN FEET, they find themselves in a tense quickstep of judgment and tenderness. Could TOO MUCH PLAID be the reason she performs a breakaway with all of her partners? YOURS, ANONYMOUS reaches for human connection in a clattering composition of dishes, traffic and daydreams. NO STINKIN' GREEN TORTILLAS kicks back against gentrification. Inspired by Japanese Noh Theater, lesbian bananas BANADY & BANARIA leap out to take revenge against humans. THE COCK: LESBIAN OWNED & OPERATED is a moving corrido about the Mexican lesbian owned Cock-a-Doodle Café in Oakland. The flexible platano in MASHED, BOILED & FRIED inspires our communities to move and love.

SPONSOR
Harrison Team

COMMUNITY PARTNER
And Castro For All

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY