2023 19th Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival

19th Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Opening Night Screening
MAGIC AT THE ROOT

Friday, June 9, 2023
7 pm
TRT: 71 minutes

Grounded firmly in resourcefulness and strength, from habitats of healing anchored in the arts, and young queer people of color tending to their wellbeing, to community that dismantles and remediates the cishetero-capitalist-white supremacist-patriarchy, these films dive into networks of consciousness and nurture hope for our communities to flourish.

Doors open at 6:30pm.

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

Community Partners

BAVC Media

Castro LGBTQ Cultural District

Chinese Culture Center

Fresh Meat Productions

Lavender Phoenix

San Francisco Women Against Rape