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Program 32
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 16, 4:00PM 

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Red

China / Drama / 24 mins

Director/Writer: Yichi

Producer: Joyce Yueyi Xing

Cast: Yichi, Liping Yan, Huanzhang Zhang

Zhuang, a young woman who longs to be a poet, is coerced by her auditor mother into a soul-sucking accountant job. She develops an odd vision of the color red after the death of her grandmother, the only person who believes in Zhuang’s poetic gifts. Drifting into a dream-like state, Zhuang writes more poems and jeopardizes her work performance.

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Venus

France / Experimental / 10 mins

Director: Victoria Mezquita

Writer: Victoria Mezquita, Santiago Ligorria

Producer: Victoria Mezquita

Cast: Olivia Jubin, Jacques Martin

Through the ages, women have been objectified and oppressed in a neverending cycle of desire, admiration, and exploitation, perpetuated by an imposed aesthetic standard.

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Ugly Child

United States / Drama / 14 mins

Director/Writer: Lola June

Producer: Lola June

Cast: Eva Scott, Bee Broadway, Lola June

Going home, being lost, and getting shocked by your surroundings. Ugly Child follows two teenage girls on the adventure to find the elusive house of one of their fathers.

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No Funny Business

United States / Drama / 10 mins

Director/Writer: Bobby Decker

Producer: Bobby Decker, Aaron Bartuska

Cast: Katie Prael, James Proctor, Rommel Genciana

Someone stole his watch and she does not know why.

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Last Summer Day

United States / Drama / 14 mins

Director/Writer: Flora Fei, Shintaro Ochiai

Producer: Flora Fei

Cast: Yen Wen Chen, Tianna Wang

A Chinese immigrant single mother who desperately wants to be close to her daughter, her only family, takes it to the extreme after discovering her daughter’s secret move-out plan. A portrait of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship.

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Screentime

Australia / Drama / 7 mins

Director/Writer: Alexandrena Parker

Producer: Alexandrena Parker

Cast: Ruby Riseley, Maayan Tamir, Ethan Swann

‘Screentime’ is a social commentary narrative illustrating the contrast between digital screens and the tactile world in childhood, demonstrating how boredom acts as a catalyst for imaginative play and engagement with one's environment.

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A New York Covid Story

United States / Documentary / 3 mins

Director: Tal S. Shamir

With rare footage of the New York City COVID-19 lockdown, the film evokes the feeling, experience & atmosphere of one of the most dramatic moments of the beginning of the 21st century. As the COVID-19 storm hits the great city, the film shifts from shock, hollowness, hope, and fear of the future.

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