US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Stories From Africa And The Diaspora
Saturday
Apr 16, 2022
@
12:30 pm
Wicked Queer 38
Africa has a vibrant storytelling history and we are pleased to showcase three modern short films that live up to that rich legacy.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
Unsaid
It's a visual adaptation of poems from the book Words In My Head, which explore emotions surrounding, gender, sexual orientation, blackness and feminism through the eye of a gay director from an homophobic African country Nigeria
Ìfé
A love story about ìfé and Adaora, two Nigerian women who fall in love over a three-day date, but their love is soon tested by the realities of being lesbian in Nigeria.
Kapana
In the first gay love story out of Namibia, George, a middle class insurance broker, lives openly and with acceptance from his family, while his new boyfriend — working-class food vendor Simeon — remains in the closet, gnawed at by traditional notions of masculinity and the desire for acceptance from his peers. In a country where same-sex relationships are still criminalized, these two men begin a romance that challenges both of them to shed societal expectations and stigma to truly flourish