Opening Night Screening: MULTIPLE BORDERS

Our Featured Screening features transplanted family dreams, delightful disco-balls, and uprooted lovers traversing the intimate contours of immigration and migration.

TWO EMBRACE is an animated voyage to the beginnings of colonization as Two-Spirit people encounter the first immigrants. MI CASA ES MI CASA rhythmically maps the gentrification of the Mission District. A daughter of the Iranian Revolution travels to find her mother's lost stories and sends A LETTER HOME. In a lyrical exploration of forced assimilation, a Korean adoptee transforms her HOMESCHOOL lessons. A father's wanderlust and a daughter's relocation create A GENEALOGY OF DREAMS. The dancing spirit of the 70's crosses from a queer Pinoy to his younger sister in PASSPORTS, LOVE & DISCO. Stereotypes follow a queer Jamaican woman when her mother arrives for THE VISIT. A civil war uproots two lovers who join the LUCHA. A daughter chronicles the history of her family through her life as a SOLIDARITY BABY. In barrios and on borders crosscut by barbed wire and chain-link, surveillance cameras are really a COLOR WATCH.

FREE
Running Time: 73 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

Opening Night Party: Bollyhood Café

Community Convening: QUEER IMMIGRATION

A special Community Convening kicks off a national campaign where films spark vital dialogue to build dynamic coalitions that bridge our "Multiple Borders." Join us as immigrant, LGBTQI, and people of color organizations come together to build grassroots coalitions that will reframe contentious national debates about our human rights.

PANELISTS

• Noemi Calonje, National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Philip Hwang, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights
• Madeleine Lim, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
• Laura Rivas, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

CONVENING CO-PRESENTERS

FREE
At the Brava Theater, 2789 24th Street, San Francisco, CA
Running Time: 39 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

Centerpiece Screening: QUEERLY IRREVERENT

Reggaetonic migrating fingers, campy sci-fi adventures, and quests for identity take off in surprisingly danceable directions.

Clearly GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK, despite The Advocate's vainglorious quest to be en vogue. No one is QUEERER THAN THOU in this fun and fabulous jaunt through the maze of identity and community. MR. & MRS. SINGH are full of surprises as a star-crossed couple traversing duty and desire. Sometimes its better to get a move on, especially if you're CHILLIN LIKE A VILLAIN. On the feisty and fantastic voyage to the DIMENSION OF IS: A SPECTACULAR FUTURE, time tick-tocks and never stops. FROM THE DIARIES OF TWO BREASTS comes the animated comedy and daily adventures of co-habitation. Rhythmic dexterity and deft navigation lead a TORTILLERA to power, politics and self-love. A treasure trove of intimacy leaves a group wondering in WHAT TO DO AFTER THE BREAK UP…WITH THE S#X T@YS.

FREE
Running Time: 61 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

After Party & Fundraiser: Burning Bush @ The Vibe Lounge

Afternoon Screening: CRAZYSEXYLIFE

Alluring accidental encounters, joyous deliveries and deceptive wanderlust collide in these dramatic stories.

Boas make an unexpected arrival when a labor & delivery nurse assists a lesbian couple with A FAMILY DELIVERY. A courageous young girl searches hither and yon when her sense of self is LOST & FOUND. For a butch dyke, the possibility of love leads to MY-GRATIONS across seemingly impossible distances. Four quirky friends recount SISTA CHRONICLES: THE BEGINNING of a rousing expedition to retrieve a prized possession. Chance meetings shift into meaningful connection and tantalizing possibilities in WHEN LEAST EXPECTED. A singer's sexy saunter is pursued across a rooftop by a SECRET ADMIRER. Displacement is served at a dinner party when a couple encounters a supposed stranger and ponders WHAT IF?

FREE
Running Time: 71 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

Closing Night Screening: ARTISTIC JUSTICE

PERFORMANCE BY LAS KRUDAS CUBENSI

Filmmakers tracing their creative journeys, dream-stirring poetry, and a hip-hop trio's trailblazing flight intersect in a celebration of the power of art.

Carrying a dream and a camera, four queer women of color retrace their passage into the world of filmmaking and inspire THE STORIES WE TELL. While performing under bright stage lights, girls are transformed from GLASS TO DIAMONDS. A shamanic and artistic journey forges new paintings, performances and a piece of CONFUSION. A young queer woman of color cycles through busy city streets and her visions of community in ON MY WAY. While yearning for family and homeland, each member of an Afro-Cuban hip-hop trio blazes radical trails to artistic and social freedom as a NON-RESIDENT ALIEN.

FREE
Running Time: 62 minutes
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers

Closing Night Party: The Monkey Club