Within the Cambodian and Vietnamese communities in Southern California, queer individuals are coming to terms with their identities and carving out spaces for themselves in Between Us. La Pureza follows five children through their daily lives and dreams, while in Seahorse Parents, four pregnant trans men share their experiences. In Blue Ball, we dive into the interior of a ship through a role-play, and Giiwe πρό bizhiw/bizhiw πρό giiwe captures intimate moments in a personal home video. The documentary At Home sheds light on intergenerational queer friendship. In Visitations, we listen to a brief personal narrative, and in Our Joyful Endings, we gain insight into the diary of a trans man, which contains explicit sex.

La Pureza

A short documentary in which we get to know the everyday lives and dreams of five children. In a very personal way, we gradually gain a better understanding of who they are, what defines them as people, and what the most significant change in their lives might mean.
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giiwe πρό bizhiw/bizhiw πρό giiwe

A home video, dedicated to mystery byrd’s baby.
Made in the Winnipeg Film Group’s “Super 8 Special” film incubator. This picture was captured on super 8 film, drip dyed with a mixture of india ink and water collected from Lake Winnipeg,then digitized and captured on VHS.
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Seahorse Parents

Seahorses are the best-known animals in which the males carry the offspring. This short documentary profiles four pregnant trans men who share their perspectives on pregnancy, their hopes for their (unborn) child, and their respective queer family models.
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At Home

At Home is an intergenerational documentary exploring queer friendship as a way of life. Through the voices of a 29-year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist, the film weaves together stories of self-discovery, chosen family, and community building – from jam sessions and shared gatherings to the legacy of the Brick Hut Cafe and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives.
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Between Us

Between Us follows the multilayered stories of queer Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California as they contemplate the in-betweenness of belonging, healing, and carving out spaces of their own. 
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Blue Ball

In the heart of a ship bound for the ”New” World, Patience faces the consequences of her actions, until the Captain’s punishment is suddenly interrupted.
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Visitations

Visitations is a short autotheory that drifts through two 35mm film stills — one of marriage, one of family — unravelling how memory lingers, reshapes, and dissolves in the shifting light of gender transition. The film and its interventions act as invitations to the specters of the past to pass into the present so as to enact mutual transformation.
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Our Joyful Endings

Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition. Between desire, apprehension and questioning. From there, comfort grows with people who share this experience.
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