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shareWhether twisted like tea or fingers entwined, these stories snag, warp, and unravel around messy visceral, lingual, or hairy yearnings.
This screening is part of our FREE Films at 4 series.
Post-screening Q&A scheduled with filmmakers.
In this program
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue
Directed by Vea Mafile'o
A speech therapist far removed from her Tongan heritage, must treat a jaded aphasia patient who only knows Tongan… and hates her guts.
Fidel
Directed by Luke Lace
Mistaken as his Nanay’s ex-husband Fidel, Rome reluctantly becomes her primary caretaker, unable to forget the trauma she caused him.
For those with dads who were hard on them
Directed by Macey Keung
A father and daughter’s series of tense conversations to unpack past wounds strain against carefree childhood home videos from long ago.
Saigon Kiss
Directed by Hồng Anh Nguyễn
Yearning stretches like a cat between two women on the bustling Saigon streets when a motorbike breaks down and a phone call is continuously sent to voicemail.
All Quiet on the Westlake
Directed by Wei Zishuo
An older couple from Deqing County, China — one deaf and one deafblind— navigate the world together through places that are meant for them and places that aren’t, into an unknown future.
Mānoa Valley
Directed by Emily May Jampel
First loves, gas station rice buns, clouds rolling over the slow suburbia– the things that define home seem insignificant until they are left behind in Mānoa Valley.
The Inescapable Desire of Roots
Directed by Lam Li Shuen, Mark Chua
Hair sprouts wildly from unusual places on a figure that careens wildly in response. As body, city, and performance shape each other, how many ways can hair contort, disturb, invade, flirt, harass and accuse?
Desync
Directed by Minerva Navasca
A young Filipina filmmaker attempts to rewrite memories of a strained relationship with her mother, longing for a version where love isn’t lost in translation.
