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shareFilmmakers 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 | 15 mins
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 | 16 mins
An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.
FLIGHT 182
Directed by: Rippin Sindher | 17 mins
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 | 12 mins
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 | 12 mins
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 | 18 mins
It’s about a middle aged woman who wants to try another shape of life but she is a mother.
