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Co-presented as part of Cinefest Latino with the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Roxbury International Film Festival, and GlobeDocs Directed by Celina Escher, Documentary, Spanish with English subtitles, El Salvador, 88 minutes, 2021. After serving ten years behind bars for her miscarriage, considered by her government to be an act of aggravated murder, Teodora Vásquez becomes a spokesperson for the other 16 Salvadoran women behind bars for the same “crime”…
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Co-presented with Wicked Queer, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Boston Asian American Film Festival, and the Office of Alumni Relations Directed by Mari Walker, Drama, English, US, 74 minutes, 2021. A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition. Over a night of intimate and vulnerable conversations, a shocking truth is revealed. Discussion with director…
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Co-presented with the Boston Women’s Film Festival and GlobeDocs Directed by Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, Documentary, English, US, 97 minutes, 2022. Subject focuses on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking. It examines well-known documentaries of the past decade and reveals the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen subjects. Discussion with director Jennifer Tiexera and subject Ahmed Hassan from The Square following the screening….
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Co-presented as part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival with the Boston Women’s Film Festival and the Roxbury International Film Festival Directed by Hanadi Elyan, Drama/Comedy, Arabic with English subtitles, Jordan, 95 minutes, 2022. Three Arab women living in modern day Jordan must put their differences aside and work together in order to survive. Tangled in a family drama after Bakri dies, his two wives and his adopted daughter navigate his inheritance,…
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Co-presented as part of the Boston Asian American Film Festival with the Roxbury International Film Festival Directed by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, Documentary, English and Korean with English subtitles, US, 83 minutes, 2021. In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case,…
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Co-presented with the Roxbury International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, Globe Docs, and the Office of Alumni Relations. Directed by Julian Higgins, Drama, English, US, 103 minutes, 2022. Based on a short story by acclaimed author James Lee Burke, God’s Country is a character-driven thriller set in the snowy wilderness of the American West. Sandra Guidry is a Black professor living and working in a rural college town. She’s…
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Co-presented with Wicked Queer, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, Globe Docs, and the Roxbury International Film Festival Directed by Dareshi Kyi, Documentary, English, 90 minutes, 2021. Mama Bears explores the many ways in which the lives of conservative, Christian mothers are impacted and utterly transformed when they decide to affirm and advocate on behalf of their LGBTQ children. As members of a private Facebook group—which they call the “mama bears” because…
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Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival, the Boston SciFi Film Festival, WickedQueer, and the Roxbury International Film Festival. Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, SciFi/Fantasy, English, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, and French with English subtitles, 105 minutes, 2021. A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime that’s exploiting the region’s natural resources —…
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