The Humsafar Trust presents
One World International Queer Film Festival
Supported by U.S. Consulate General Mumbai
in collaboration with
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
PROGRAM
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OPENING FILM - FRIDAY JUNE 18th 6.00PM
Dir: Lisa Donato / 95 min / Narrative Feature
In 1986, ten-year-old Tate Millikin (Jackson Robert Scott) is uprooted from the big city and unwillingly moved to the suburbs of Kansas City, where he is forced to spend a lonely summer bearing witness to his parents’ disintegrating marriage. Tate ends up befriending his new next-door neighbors - recently retired English professor, Edward Bryant and his transgender daughter, Gossamer (Transparent fame Alexandra Grey). Despite his father’s knee-jerk transphobia, and his mother’s misplaced protectiveness, Tate forms a deep friendship with fellow misfit Gossamer, that changes his life and the lives of their families.
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SATURDAY JUNE 19th 2.00PM
Dir: Cindy Abel / 80 min / Documentary Feature
In 1992, Colonel Pat Thompson was a decorated army nurse, only two years away from retirement. She was asked to preside over the military review board that eventually dismissed Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer for admitting she was a lesbian. Although Thompson had been in tough spots over the course of her 28-year service, this was the toughest. In that moment, she had to protect her own life secret: that she too was a lesbian and living privately with her life partner Barbara Brass for many years. Surviving the Silence is a coming out story like no other, deeply moving, troubling, revealing of unknown, policy-changing history - and powerfully inspirational.
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SATURDAY JUNE 19th 4.00PM
Short Films Package (5 films/ 64 min)
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Dir: Sakshi Gurnani / 10 min / Narrative Short
In suburban New Jersey when a 6-year old Indian boy really wants a Barbie doll for his collection of rugged toys, this makes his mother think that something might be really 'wrong' with him.
Dir: Erik Gernand / 11 min / Narrative Short
An elderly man gets a visit from his childhood best friend, who appears to him as a teenager.
Dir: Anthony Chapman / 19 min / Narrative Short
A teenage home health care worker in the deep South forms a special bond with her first client, a trans man in the final months of his life.
Dir: Isaac Knopf / 22 min / Narrative Short
Ezra is volunteered by her mother to drive a widowed 70-year-old neighbor, Louise, to visit her husband's out-of-state grave. On the road, Ezra's newfound insecurity with sexual identity builds while Louise silently recalls a hidden relationship with a woman fifty years before.
Dir: Thomas Pardoe / 12 min / Narrative Short
A septuagenarian mother admits her 45 year old son to an assisted living center hoping that something triggers him back to reality. A story of Inspiration and hope!
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SUNDAY JUNE 20th 2.00PM
Dir: Aaron Alon / 60 min / Narrative Feature
Bully is a dramatic musical about Sam Bradley, a young man who commits suicide after being repeatedly bullied in school. The story follows Sam and the lives of those around him in the days leading up to and following his suicide.
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SUNDAY JUNE 20th 4.00PM
UNSETTLED
Dir: Tom Shepard / 81 min / Documentary Feature
Unsettled follows stories of the four LGBTQ refugees who flee their homelands to the safety of the United States. While Syrian emigrant Subhi becomes a voice for the queer refugee movement, Angolan lesbians Cheyenne and Mari, along with Junior, a gender-nonconforming gay man from the Congo, have a more difficult time navigating the labyrinths of the American bureaucracy. Director Tom Shepard takes a compassionate look at the American dream as it exists before and after the 2016 elections.
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Contacts:
The Humsafar Trust
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U.S. Consulate General Mumbai
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KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
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