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From professional mourners to a withering town, this program invites you to embrace death with open arms. What are the rituals with which we honor our dead, mourn the movements of the past, and heal collectively? Let us find out in a line-up that merges fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel
Watch the artist conversation featuring the filmmakers in this program below, as we discuss their creative journeys behind making their films.
A devout woman’s lust for virtue thrusts her family into a sacrificial slaughter of biblical proportions.
Lily, an introverted teen, develops a crush on her classmate, Alex. Later she falls ill from a disease called Hanahaki, formed out of unrequited love.
A young Asian American struggles to balance their exploration of gender identity with the expectations of their immigrant mother.
Unable to return home to attend Grandma’s funeral, a young Singaporean girl new to America searches for Grandma’s reincarnation in a pet store turtle.
Using stop motion animation, the filmmaker interviews and questions her parents about jesa, a ritual tradition of Korea.
A haunting commemoration of the Tiananmen Square uprising made from fragments of censored archival imagery transferred onto film using razor blades and scotch tape.
The filmmaker interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief, and intergenerational trauma.
In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a few residents refuse to leave their beloved and now-abandoned village.
A mixed-media documentary short covering the story of professional funeral mourners in Taiwan known as “filial daughters.”