Wicked Queer 39

US PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

Best In Show Showcase

Wednesday

Apr 12

@

6:00 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 39

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Best In Show Showcase

Wednesday

,

Apr 12

@

6:00 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 39

US PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

Best In Show Showcase

Wednesday

Apr 12

@

6:00 pm

GSU Auditorium at Boston University

With 
 in person.
Director
Year
Run Time
min
Country
Language
PROGRAM Time
minutes
Content warning:
This film is presented in
with English subtitles.
Come one, come all to view the finest of Queer short film storytelling chosen by You, The Wicked Queer audience. We have put together a selection of 12 films rated Best in Show. The film line up will be a secret until the day of this screening. Which will be your favorite? Who are you voting for?
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This short film program includes the following films:

Egúngún (Masquerade)

14
min 
Content warning:
Seeking healing, a woman must return to Lagos, the city of her birth.
DIRECTOR
Olive Nwosu
COUNTRY
Nigeria
LANGUAGE
English

For Love

13
min 
Content warning:
Nkechi, an illegal immigrant, who’s been hiding for three years, lives with her girlfriend Martha and their two other friends Dolapo and Tolu. When immigration does a random check on Dolapo, both Nkechi and Martha are forced to make decisions about their love and their future together.
DIRECTOR
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
COUNTRY
UK
LANGUAGE
English

As I Live and Breathe

14
min 
Content warning:
In a dystopian world where the air sends you to sleep, a timid romantic uses the only gas mask and her imagination to experience a fulfilling romance with an unconscious heartthrob.
DIRECTOR
William Hearle
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
LANGUAGE
English

Miss Misery

18
min 
Content warning:
After being broken up with by her girlfriend, a willful nineteen year old must recount her past mistakes during a visit with her estranged older sister.
DIRECTOR
Keely Martin
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

Apayauq

14
min 
Content warning:
Apayauq Reitan's journey to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race.
DIRECTOR
Zeppelin Zeerip
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

The Talk

10
min 
Content warning:
The life changing conversation that takes between father and son when staunchly unionist father DENNIS walks in on his son Barry in bed with a man.
DIRECTOR
Jonathan Hughes
COUNTRY
Ireland
LANGUAGE
English

Troy

16
min 
Content warning:
Troy has loud sex. Troy has loud sex 24-7. Troy shares a wall with Thea and Charlie. Troy is ruining their lives... or is he saving them? A darkly comedic tale of New York neighbors, the ways in which we become interwoven with the lives of strangers, and the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.
DIRECTOR
Mike Donahue
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

Warsha

15
min 
Content warning:
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.
DIRECTOR
"Dania Bdeir "
COUNTRY
Lebanon
LANGUAGE
Arabic

After Sunset, Dawn Arrives

17
min 
Content warning:
In the early 2000s, old China Town, Los Angeles, when introverted and unsociable sixty-five-year-old Chinese man, Wan falls in love with a man who is nearly 30 years younger than him, Wan struggles to embrace his homosexual identity which he has been suppressed for his entire life and simultaneously confronts his guilt towards his long deceased Chinese wife.
DIRECTOR
Andy Yi Li
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

Lying in Bed Alone, Breathing

10
min 
Content warning:
A documentation of and meditation on the internal and external worlds of gender dysphoria, as experienced by, shot by, narrated by, and written out by the subject at the film's core. Audio description and open captions are implemented throughout the film to create a conversation between the typically inaudible and ineligible voices of the queer body and mind.
DIRECTOR
Tris Arthur
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

The Quinceañeras

15
min 
Content warning:
RECOUNTING OF TRANSPHOBIA
The colector Ravena brings the universe of 15-year-old girl parties to talk about dreams and belonging.
DIRECTOR
Leão Neto
COUNTRY
Brazil
LANGUAGE
Portuguese

(In)convenience

12
min 
Content warning:
An unexpected love story develops over a box of tampons between Phoebe, a mini mart cashier, and Kirby, a guy in transition.
DIRECTOR
Alexandra Greenspan
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
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