18th annual international Queer Women of Color Film Festival

18th annual international Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Films

Opening Night Screening

An Asian teenage girl determinedly glares at unseen opponents through the wires of a hockey helmet.
Toe the Line
Jay Wu

A Vietnamese father and young daughter embrace with joyful smiles, next to a vase with branches of yellow blossoms, fake firecrackers, and red envelopes.
Waiting for Dad
Tracy Nguyen

Perched on the edge of a bathtub, a South Asian woman cradles a weeping Japanese woman between her knees and strokes her hair with loving concern.
Bath Bomb
Priya Mishra

A genderfluid Filipinx-American with bleached hair tilts their head down while a gender nonconforming Filipinx-Samoan friend dyes it red.
Close Quarters
Maggie de Guzman

A young Black Muslim femme with dark brown skin wearing in a purple djellaba crosses her arms and glowers while her lighter skinned Arab Muslim friend in a grey & silver hijab stares intently at her cell phone.
Aisha & Khadija
Safae Lahgazi Alaoui

A mixed-Black butch lesbian and young nonbinary Afro-Latine teen contemplate each other while strolling down a path surrounded by lush green plants and flowers.
From X to Z
Florencia Manovil

A Trans Filipina and a Trans Yoruba and Igbo Black person lovingly embrace beneath twinkling lights illuminating the night.
Pink & Blue
Carmen LoBue

Saturday Featured Screening

A Black Native Femme elder with close-cropped curly blonde-white hair laughs joyfully while looking across a warmly lit bookstore. Her red sweater sets off her beaded necklace while her dangly silver earrings look like they’re in on the laugh.
Jewelle: A Just Vision
Madeleine Lim

Saturday Centerpiece Screening

An Asian woman who ignores the racism of her “liberal” white boyfriend holds his gaze and hands while a super-smart Filipina with blue hair rolls her eyes.
Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy!
Luann Algoso & Christian Henry

A Latina smirks like a greedy capitalist salesperson at the camera in the shade of beautiful towering redwood trees.
Coastal Redwood Grove
Hannah Vernot

A Black woman wearing sunglasses poses with her phone with the screen revealing WhatsApp messages.
App Rap
Dominique Gelin

A fat brown South Asian woman outstretches her arms and throws her head back to the sky in delight.
Punchline
Rea Kapur

A Vietnamese woman is mesmerized while her genderqueer roommate watches listlessly.
Luv, Me
Yen Dinh & Nicolas Jara

An Asian woman wearing safety goggles and a hazmat suit meticulously drops chemicals from a pipette into a funnel.
Queer Science
Nicole De Meneses

Lounging in a meadow, a fat Tamil-American woman wearing a glamorous ruby gown and South-Indian gold jewelry caresses a white transgender woman.
Sapphic Sunday
Sarah Drepaul

A Latina and West Indian couple nuzzle and rest their foreheads together with lidded eyes.
Work
April Maxey

A Black queer and trans couple kiss tenderly, overlaid by lush green trees bearing brightly plumed parrots.
Soul Travels
BEYONDEEP Productions

A Black trans woman sensually exhales a cloud of smoke from her mouth and simultaneously inhales through her nose.
Snack Time
House of Huitlacooch

A Zoom video call with a queer choir who perform with playful enthusiasm, including a Chinese-American masculine of center woman, a mixed race Asian lesbian, a queer South Asian woman, a white masculine of center woman, and four queer white women.
Lynette
Mandy Hu

Sunday Centerpiece Screening

An Afro-Indigenous Two Spirit person wearing a red hat and Seminole sport jacket pensively inspects a letter.
Re]Counting [Wo]Man
Jennifer Lisa Vest

A small circular mirror partially reflects a Black agender face with dark brown skin, a wide nose, and full lips.
Black Femme Remains
Tiara Jackson

A mysterious woman in a lab coat arranges equipment on a medical tray. The image is washed with a speckled overlay.
Ever Wanting (For Margaret Chung)
TT Takemoto

Two queer trans Taiwanese and Chinese artists pose for selfie, wearing extravagant, brightly colored makeup and Chinese jewelry.
for the Chinese Ladies
LOTUS BOY

A Filipinx femme with feather earrings and Medicine-Wheel inspired nails dances gracefully in the woods, looking up toward the sky and listening with a reverent look on their face.
Hinga
Sammay Dizon

Sunday Closing Night Screening

A Filipina with a serene expression dances gracefully on Baker Beach in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, wearing traditional ruby Filipino clothing and gold earrings and janggay.
Day & Night
Nix Guirre

Two Afro-Indigenous femmes pray with tranquil expressions upturned to the sun, amidst sand dunes and sea oats.
Holy Reflection
dezi solèy & Ev Marquee

On a barnacle-encrusted rock, a Black person gently fills brown rolling paper with delicate rose petals and lavender.
Cycles
CJ Spears

A young Black girl kneels in an overgrown backyard, gently holding a tomato plant with a soft, earnest smile.
The Remembering Time
Tierra Allen

A Black grandmother grasps her one-year old granddaughter’s elbow while watering a lush backyard garden.
When the Garden Comes
Jay Gash

A Korean woman and man lean against each other, laughing cheerfully. Both wear white chef jackets and aprons.
Joomak
Julissa Carbajal

A Filipinx muralist working on the Frisco Rise mural in Clarion Alley carefully steps down a ladder while holding a plastic cup of blue paint.
in transit
Nhi Nguyễn

A Chinese nonbinary person gracefully outstretches their arms so that their long, draped shirt sleeves billow in the breeze.
to breathe
Ada Zhang & Jules Evans-Anfom

A nonbinary Latinx woman habitually scrolls through their phone while resting in bed.
My Eyelids
Danielle Cosmes

A group of people celebrate intersex community and protest for intersex rights, wrapped in rainbow flags and holding handmade signs and a megaphone.
The Side Effects of Normal
Mari Wrobi

A trans Xicanx deftly lights a tea candle at the heart of an altar, circled by concentric rings of glass testosterone vials and unlit tea candles.
You Are My Divine
StormMiguel Florez