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. |