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APT: Advanced Parenting Too

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

Relationships with parents are varied and each one unique. -A mom whose support can be counted on no matter what. -Parents who show their son the double edged sword that is the model minority myth. -A father torn between his mom back in India and his family in Canada. There’s plenty of stories to tell about the journey that is parenthood.

In this program


A Hurt Like Mine

Directed by Kahea Kiwaha

A young boy, haunted by a child-like apparition, struggles to support his mom and baby sister as they start a new life in a women’s shelter.

Daly City

Directed by Nick Hartanto

An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.

FLIGHT 182

Directed by Rippin Sindher

Amid rising political tensions, a devoted wife fights to protect her husband from boarding a flight that could end his life and shatter their family forever.

ONLY IN THIS WORLD

Directed by Dorothy Xiao

When an empty nester loses her ability to summon her daughter back from the afterlife, she is forced to find help from the person she resents the most: her ex-husband’s mistress.

Prematho

Directed by Harshith S. Kotni

When a perfectionist teenage Bharatanatyam dancer is denied her Arangayram (recital), she must realize that impeccable technique alone is insufficient, for only a lesson in gratitude and a reevaluation of her relationship with her mother will bring her dance to new heights.

U-turn

Directed by Mahin Sadri

It’s about a middle aged woman who wants to try another shape of life but she is a mother.

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