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shareInspired by Fadwa Tuqan’s poem Hamza, stories that evoke a land whose heart endures, as secret-keeper, accomplice, healer, receiver of our dead, and midwife of unruly entropies.
In this program
Lǎo Lǎo
Directed by Yang Hu
Charcoal drawing and erasure on a single sheet of paper capture grandma in a series of family portraits over time.
The Forest is a Spirit that Beckons Me
Directed by Jacob Cruz-Rine
With a curse spreading across her stomach, a young CHamoru woman seeks answers from an enthralling forest and a spirit whose hands guide her own.
How to Bury Your Father
Directed by Ammar Keshodia
A young man returns home to piece together what he can over the course of one night to fulfill his father’s dying wish for a proper burial.
Yú Cì (Fish Bones)
Directed by Kevin Xian Ming Yu
A poisonous fish bite brings together Bowen, a nonbinary Asian American from Queens, with their estranged parents and reveals the unspoken waters between them.
Deluge
Directed by Meejin Hong
In this infinite animation, curious creatures sprout, burst, and plop in cyclic motion. A universe of chaos blooms and decays. Entropy as the way of life and a collapsing mind.
Green Grey Black Brown
Directed by Yuyan Wang
With the epic grandeur of science-techno-industry, petroleum culture terraforms in a propulsive montage of home-movie surrealism, planetary views, and the seductive, corrosive ooze of petro-capitalism.
Water Sports
Directed by Whammy Alcazaren
A waterless Philippines leaves an all-boys prep school thirsty and in heat, dependent on the joys of water sports to quench the climate emergency.
Dates & Times
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Fri, Nov 14
4:00 pm
