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IDENTITIES: SHORTS
Saturday, October 21, 2:00pm
NW Film Forum

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Variety is the spice of life, and that’s just what this six-pack of queer women of color shorts offers. Women of all ages, identifications and ethnicities give us a sneak peak into their families, relationships and communities.
 
VIERNES GIRL; Aurora Guerrero; 2005; US; 3 min; video
A young Salvadorian girl interferes with her older brother’s romantic liaisons.
 
RELATIVE DISTANCE; C. Begien; 2005; US; 14 min; video; (in English and Vietnamese)
A San Francisco dyke is juxtaposed against her family in this experimental video.
 
YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE A LESBIAN; Su Yon Sohn; 2006; Canada; 11 min; video
What does a lesbian look like? Find out in this experimental video diary of a non-butch, Korean woman.
 
BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE TO JORDAN; Tina Mabry; 2005; US; 20 min; video
Choose sides as a woman fights to rebuild her relationship with her deceased partner’s estranged son while trying to keep him from her partner's intolerant brother.

LONG DISTANCE; Seline Hsieh; 2005; US; 8 min; video (in Japanese with English subtitles)
A young Japanese woman finds freedom living in the US while pressures of traditional life surface in her mother's phone calls from home.

SARANG SONG; Tamika Miller; 2006; US; 23 min; video
The cause or the woman? In the socially turbulent 1970s, a woman is forced to choose between her involvement in a student protest movement and the woman she loves.

Total Running Time: 82 minutes

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