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shareIt’s V-day for the girls in these juicy shorts flirting with cinema lust, raging ambition, bff coaches, and play-family.
In this program
A Brighter Summer Day for The Lady Avenger
Directed by Birdy Weiting Hung
On a hot day in 1980s Taiwan, a teen girl is caught between the dark theater and celluloid dreams, their deadly delights as sweet as watermelon soaked in summer, sliced to a bloody red.
Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities
Directed by Aimee Pham, Kai Sampadian
A sex-positive friend coaches her bestie for a homerun hit.
Maybe It’s Just the Rain
Directed by Reina Bonta
It’s the first ever appearance for the Philippines women’s soccer team at the FIFA World Cup, and player-filmmaker Reina Bonta realizes that her family history all leads up to this.
Tara
Directed by Ashutosh S. Shankar
Tara is a Dalit trans woman who falls in love with an upper caste man, forcing her to confront the dissonance between love and identity.
you have no mother!
Directed by Yoonseo Lee
Three girls do cute girl things, be silly, laugh, frolic, play pretend husband, child, and wife. Maybe our friends are the true family we’ve made along the way.
NERVOUS ENERGY
Directed by Eve Liu
Fueled by feverish ambition, two best friends conspire to shed their boyfriends and pursue their filmmaking dreams without distraction.
Dates & Times
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Sat, Nov 8
12:40 pm
