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shareDiasporous. When diaspora is not a straight line, but a skin. Permeable, breathing, living, flowing with the exchange of membranes and memory.
Post-screening Q&A scheduled with filmmakers.
In this program
Myself When I Am Real
Directed by Angeline Gragasin
The highs, lows, and ambient pleasures of a teenager arm-twisted to join her single mom trying to make new friends at a Filipino Christmas party in suburban Wisconsin.
typhoon diary
Directed by Grace Zhang
Compiling footage and audio from Hong Kong, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and NYC, in a sensory exploration of rain, dissociation and transness.
Swimming Lessons
Directed by Meloddy Gao
A dead cousin and a feverish summer visit to her grandparents in China prompt a young girl’s search for the lessons she never learned.
Chan is Fishing
Directed by Jacqueline Chan
Like a dream folded into postcards or grainy digicam footage of a home lost to time, a middle-aged Hong Kong immigrant searches for his identity and destiny in the last fish in the Salton Sea.
Au Revoir Siam
Directed by Domenico Singha Pedroli
Thai refugees in France reflect on the fluid nature of time, borders, and identity in this contemplative and immersive split-screen short.
