Best In Show Showcase
Best In Show Showcase
April 12, 6:00 PM – April 12, 9:00 PM
Boston University's George Sherman Union Auditorium
FREE
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?
Egúngún (Masquerade)
Seeking healing, a woman must return to Lagos, the city of her birth.
Directed by Olive Nwosu 14 m English Nigeria
For Love
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.
Directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor 13 m English UK
As I Live and Breathe
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.
Directed by William Hearle 14 m English United Kingdom
Miss Misery
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.
Directed by Keely Martin 18 m English USA
Apayauq
Apayauq Reitan's journey to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race.
Directed by Zeppelin Zeerip 14 m English USA
The Talk
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.
Directed by Jonathan Hughes 10 m English Ireland
Troy
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.
Directed by Mike Donahue 16 m English USA
Warsha
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.
Directed by "Dania Bdeir " 15 m Arabic Lebanon
After Sunset, Dawn Arrives
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.
Directed by Andy Yi Li 17 m English USA
Lying in Bed Alone, Breathing
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.
Directed by Tris Arthur 10 m English USA
The Quinceañeras
The colector Ravena brings the universe of 15-year-old girl parties to talk about dreams and belonging.CONTENT WARNING: RECOUNTING OF TRANSPHOBIA
Directed by Leão Neto 15 m Portuguese Brazil
(In)convenience
An unexpected love story develops over a box of tampons between Phoebe, a mini mart cashier, and Kirby, a guy in transition.
Directed by Alexandra Greenspan 12 m English USA