2023 19th Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival

19th Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Films

Opening Night Screening

An Asian person with black framed glasses carefully holds up an origami crane by its wings and inspects it closely.
The Perfect Paper Crane
Eli Sueyoshi

A Black person with large curly hair shares a meal and lively conversation with their friend, an Indigenous Chicana with dyed hair. They sit across from each other at a table with a red runner, a bouquet of flowers, and a pitcher of orange juice.
Good Listener
Judy Tsegaye

A Filipina-American woman rubs her temples and squeezes her eyes shut in distress.
Can I Tell You Something?
Nathalie Pajarillo

An Indigenous Chicana girl with bleached and blue-dyed hair gazes pensively at her reflection in a bathroom mirror.
Puke
Luna Bautista

Drawing of a Filipinx femme reaching across her body to hold her upper arm. A lamp illuminates the concerned set of her mouth.
Inner Wound Real
Carrie Hawks

A Chinese nonbinary person carefully hangs an illustrated poster on an empty wall. In the poster, a young girl with brown skin sits cross-legged amid flowers, pointing up at the sun.
Where I Unpack
Chey Yen

Wide brown eyes fixed straight ahead, illuminated by red light and overlaid with a lush eucalyptus forest.
x-VR
Karen Frazier

An Iranian woman and a Peruvian Latina lovingly embrace and nuzzle with big smiles.
Para Vivir
Jackelyn Santiago

In a dance studio, an older Black man leads three multiracial dancers through a movement, with their arms up in the air and bent in different directions.
Liberating Movement: Black, Brown, & Queer All Over
Helen Aldana & Megan Martinez Goltz

With gleeful smiles and arms around each other, a supernatural entity skips down a flight of stairs with a South Asian trans man in a cheetah-print top and bright orange shorts.
A Cunt Full of Dollars
Sathya Baskaran

A Black Bruix snarls and smirks in the face of fascism, balancing strength and softness with a sparkling black lip and purple pearls and sequins.
Femme Rage
Sarah Taborga & Aïma Paule

Saturday Featured Screening

A hearing Japanese woman cautiously glances over at the Deaf Japanese person beside her, both wearing face masks pulled below their chins.
Ginger & Honey Milk
Mika Imai

Saturday Featured Screening

A man with glasses, gray beret, and light-colored shirt looks out at an out-of-focus, daytime scenery.
unseen
Set Hernandez

Saturday Centerpiece Screening

Between kisses, two Black women laugh together in a loving embrace. One woman wears blue scrubs, while her partner wears a denim shirt and a colorful printed head wrap.
Sia
Ashlei Shyne

Softly illuminated by candlelight, a Black woman with a shaved head relaxes in a bathtub, draping her arms over the side and resting her chin on her hands.
Such is Taking a Bath
Aliyah Curry

A mixed race woman glances off to the left and smiles hopefully, as purple neon lights dance across her face and illuminate her heart-shaped turquoise earrings.
Potion 999
Tierra Frost

An African American nonbinary person with long braids sits up in bed and gazes off into the distance with a dreamy, bewildered expression.
Moon and the Brightest Star
Kendra D. Lee

A Black mother laughs and holds a vibrant bouquet, while her two daughters grin beside her with twinkles of joy in their eyes.
Love Letter to Chicago's Black Womxn
Sarah Oberholtzer

A young Latina with curly hair poses beside a red metal gate and brightly colored mural of the Virgen surrounded by thorny, flowering rosebushes.
#LaGaybie
Alma Herrera-Pazmino

A South Asian woman and a Persian nonbinary person lovingly embrace, touching foreheads with gently, adoring smiles. They stand in a vibrant garden, with a pink flower tucked behind the South Asian woman’s ear.
Lavender: A Lesbian Love Story
Jordana Allen-Shim

Sunday Centerpiece Screening

An elder Japanese transgender woman with white hair smiles, nestled in the embrace of her Mexican wife as they sit side-by-side on a couch.
Mia's Mission
Jireh Deng

A Cambodian woman and transgender man embrace, dressed in matching golden suits, rainbow krama scarves, and seated side by side on a rainbow blanket in a golden field.
GOLDEN VOICE
Mars Verrone

Gazing off with a small smile, a woman in a white dress and red belt lays back with her arm resting across her stomach.
Ocean of Interiors
Alexis McCrimmon

An Asian girl in a yellow knit beanie and the grey and white dog on her back gaze out at the pinkish red cliffs and bristlecone trees of Bryce Canyon National Park
hey there
Kitty Hu

A Latina rests her hands on the shoulders of a distressed Afro-Latina, hoping to calm her down as the sun shines between them.
La Salida
Charlene Carruthers

An Asian person holds a hand mirror that partially hides their enigmatic expression. White eyeliner curves up from the outer corner of their eyes and down from the inner corner to their nose. Their black dress is printed with white eyes.
Mirror Image
Tara Liu

Four people of color lounge on the beach amid colorful blankets, fruits, flowers, and drums.
A Generous Departure
Tiara Amar

For the first time in many years, a South Asian mother gazes at her young son with a gentle, hopeful smile.
Look Like You
Snigdha Kapoor

Sunday Closing Night Screening

In a kitchen filled with traditional Oaxacan cookware, two Indigenous women laugh with each other while the woman on the right serves tejate in small red bowls.
Historias de Cultura: Oaxaca en Santa Cruz (Comida)
Megan Martinez Goltz

A person in a denim jacket and beaded necklaces holds a paint roller and looks out across a vast expanse of dry land with low green shrubs.
Powerlands
Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso