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ENCORE: Queer Families Belong

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August and Ebony
In August & Ebony, Ebony finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a U-Haul marriage and has to navigate between her new wife August, her best friend-turned-child’s father Justin, and her own footing as a mother-to-be.
At Home
At Home pairs two voices: a 29-year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist. Through jam sessions, shared gatherings, and the legacy of the Brick Hut Cafe and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, this experimental documentary explores queer friendship as a way of life, across fifty years of difference and everything they share.
Enjoy the View
Enjoy The View is a recollection of memory in honor of caretakers everywhere.
If only you knew
In If Only You Knew, a woman confronts her father about his absence, and the pain of growing up without a parent and never fully knowing why.
Home Visit
In Home Visit, a queer couple prepares lunch for one of their mothers, hoping the meal might change her mind about their relationship.
Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family
Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family follows Indian Pakistani American Khalid Quraishi and his daughter Zunaira, who is about to marry the love of her life, a woman. Khalid has lived through Partition, persecution, and the near-loss of Zunaira to illness. None of it shook what his Muslim faith taught him matters most: his love for his family.
Filmmaker Q&A - Queer Families Belong
Queer Families Belong post-screening Filmmaker Q&A
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Watch anytime between September 11-21. A pregnancy that rewrites the household. A 29- year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist building something together. A daughter asking her father why he left. A queer couple cooking lunch for a skeptical mother. A father whose love never once flinched. These films are about the families we’re born into, the ones we build, and the work it takes to hold any of them together.

Four-month pregnant EBONY isn’t ready for this baby and a podcast about wild childbirth stories only heightens her anxieties. Her wife of 3-months, AUGUST, comforts and reassures her...and it almost works until JUSTIN, her best friend and hook-up-turned-father of her child, bursts into the house, armed with his binder of research. Determined to save these two wholly unprepared mothers-to-be, he invites himself to stay over—much to August’s dismay.

Reviewing Justin’s research only leads Ebony to a crisis of confidence, worsened when August and Justin clash. When Ebony asks for their help to create a birth plan, she’s ignored. She finally scolds August and Justin to work together for her and the baby. The two rivals sheepishly put their rivalries aside to build a plan to get Ebony to the hospital and the throuple form a united front, choosing to weather this lifelong co-parenting journey together.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    0:12:50
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Genre
    Narrative, Narrative/Comedy
  • Subtitle Language
    English Open Captions
  • Content Warning
    Swearing
  • Director
    Sunyin Zhang
  • Screenwriter
    A. Cooper
  • Producer
    Pinar Binay
  • Executive Producer
    Joyce Liu-Countryman
  • Co-Producer
    N/A
  • Cast
    Rejena J. Taylor, Ayesha Harris, John Clarence Stewart
  • Cinematographer
    Garland McLaurin
  • Editor
    Luqi Zhao
  • Production Design
    Jolien Louis
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