Love is Love

Directed by Yueqi Cheng (China 2022, 20 mins)

Captures the deeply buried and so often unsaid feelings, emotions and love in the hearts of Asian people who are raised to behave in a “decent manner” and to never express themselves fully and passionately as we see through the eyes of a gay Chinese couple.

Breathing Black

Directed by Tina Canady (USA 2022, 46 mins)

Breathing Black follows nine Black Baltimoreans as they find joy amidst the global COVID-19 Pandemic and a summer of reckoning with the continued genocide of the Black body after the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

The Big Idea: Birth Without Bias

Directed by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason (USA 2023. 24 mins)

Motivated by her own harrowing birth experience, journalist Kimberly Seals Allers is disrupting the hospital system to transform Black maternal health outcomes in the U.S. Her app turns reviews from Black and Brown birthers into a powerful tool for hospitals to change their practices -- but are they ready to listen?

Team Dream

Directed by Luchina Fisher (USA 2022, 17 mins)

TEAM DREAM follows friends Ann and Madeline on their journey to the National Senior Games, where they compete in the swim events, and nothing -- not age, race or history -- will stand in their way.

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Co-Presented with Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival and Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF).