Wicked Queer 39
US PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Wicked Trans
People Living
Sunday
Apr 2
@
3:30 pm
Wicked Queer 39
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Wicked Trans
People Living
Sunday
,
Apr 2
@
3:30 pm
Wicked Queer 39
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
Wicked Trans
People Living
Sunday
Apr 2
@
3:30 pm
ArtsEmerson Paramount Center
With
in person.
Content warning:
These words are the first you hear in this year's Trans program; “I don’t want to tell this fin’ story any more – this fin’ Trans trauma. We know that story. It’s always there. Like, where’s the story of the people who are really living life?” – Lisa Stephen Friday. Here is a set of short films about people living life.
Diane Griffin
Programmer
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This short film program includes the following films:
Transmission: Lisa Stephen Friday
7
min
Content warning:
A transgender glam rocker must overcome her struggle of self-acceptance to share her story, a story of hard fought, hard won self-actualization and power in order to preserve an important part of transgender history.
DIRECTOR
Emma Underwood
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
Here, Hopefully
11
min
Content warning:
Zee, a nonbinary aspiring nurse from China, strives to build a gender-affirming life in rural Iowa, US. After graduating from nursing school, they work tirelessly to pass their licensure exam in hopes of obtaining a work visa.
DIRECTOR
Hao Zhou
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
Chinese, English
That Dark Day
30
min
Content warning:
City councilor Victor mysteriously disappears in Sao Paulo during a day that turns night because of meteorological phenomena and smoke from forest fires. Weeks go by, and Fabio grows closer to Louise. He is a trans man and a caregiver for the elderly. She is ill and living far from her family in France. While aiding Louise (a cis woman), Fabio's relationship with her matures into understanding, affection, and exchange. He becomes her rock.
DIRECTOR
Daniel Guarda
COUNTRY
Brazil
LANGUAGE
Portuguese
Dilating For Maximum Results
14
min
Content warning:
A whack, irrelevant comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.
DIRECTOR
Nyala Moon
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
Hedgehog
15
min
Content warning:
Brig Huang, a headstrong trans teenager, is propelled into their hangover when a reckless decision to have sex without a condom triggers an urgent determination for the ‘morning after’ pill.
DIRECTOR
Jasper Caverly
COUNTRY
Australia
LANGUAGE
English
Aban
16
min
Content warning:
Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
DIRECTOR
Abbas Taheri, Mahdieh Toosi
COUNTRY
France
LANGUAGE
Persian
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
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