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SHORT FILM PROGRAM
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FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
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Latinx Shorts
Friday
Apr 22, 2022
@
12:00 am
Wicked Queer 38
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This short film program includes the following films:
How to breathe out of water
On the way back home from swimming practice, Janaina is violently stopped by the police. Later, safe back home, she faces her relationship with her father Julio, who is a policeman, with different eyes.
Ezra
A queer dancer battling a chronic illness goes on a camping trip with their boyfriend and finds peace in the outdoors.
autoethnography
By looking into my nonbinary trans identity, I review my personal and film archives in order to understand the path that has led me to where I am. As a queer artist and through voice, body and image experimentations, I wonder about my films and my life: what is my place in this world?
Chaac and Yum
Inspired by the sacred and ancient relationship between Chaac, the Mayan deity of Rain, and Yum, the Mayan deity of corn, this short erotic drama tells a story about two queer, Mayan-descended Two Spirits who meet at a queer San Francisco bar. Upon touching and dancing with one another they realize their connection is ancient. Starring performance artists Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Yaqui), this film examines the queer, de-colonial, ancestral rituals in our contemporary QTPOC love, dating, and kink practices.
Victor's Body
A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach a person with a disability. Victor makes himself the canvas in a universe of absent painters.
August Sky
As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church.