Sunday November 13th, 2016
Raising Awareness Block – 12:30pm @ SIFF Film Center This collection of shorts highlights issues around the world, from racism to illness. These films will make you feel all types of emotions.
| Last Night in Edinburgh When two teen sisters discover that their family holiday abroad is really a plan by their parents to deliver them both into forced marriages, the girls flee home.
Seattle Premiere! |
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| Trapped
A short portrait on Brooklyn Sabado Buenaventura who identifies as a transgender girl. |
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| Venom Therapy
A young family struggles with the debilitating effects of Multiple Sclerosis to Clara, wife and mother. |
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| Creased
KAYLA, an Asian American high school senior at a predominately white high school is considering getting double eyelid surgery in an effort to better fit in. |
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| Piece of Cake After a year of dating paradise, things go awry when Jessie’s parents, who are unaware that Alex is a girl, arrive to town for their anniversary.
Seattle Premiere! |
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| Bunee: The Boy from Constanta
After spending the first six years of his life in the dreadful Romanian orphanage system of the 1980’s and 1990’s, a young boy searches for something to drive him in his new world. |
