ENCORE: Queer Families Belong
Watch anytime between September 11-21. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it. A pregnancy that rewrites the household. A 29- year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist building something together. A daughter asking her father why he left. A queer couple cooking lunch for a skeptical mother. A father whose love never […]
Watch anytime between September 11-21. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it. A pregnancy that rewrites the household. A 29- year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist building something together. A daughter asking her father why he left. A queer couple cooking lunch for a skeptical mother. A father whose love never once flinched. These films are about the families we’re born into, the ones we build, and the work it takes to hold any of them together.
The family is the one place where most of us are taught that we ought to belong. We love that queer and trans folx choose and ferociously protect family configurations where we can all belong. QWOCMAP regularly programs screenings where we can explore, imagine, and create what kin, community, and family means to each of us.
The Films
August and Ebony
In August & Ebony, Ebony finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a U-Haul marriage and has to navigate between her new wife August, her best friend-turned-child’s father Justin, and her own footing as a mother-to-be.
At Home
At Home pairs two voices: a 29-year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist. Through jam sessions, shared gatherings, and the legacy of the Brick Hut Cafe and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, this experimental documentary explores queer friendship as a way of life, across fifty years of difference and everything they share.
Enjoy the View
Enjoy The View is a recollection of memory in honor of caretakers everywhere.
If only you knew
In If Only You Knew, a woman confronts her father about his absence, and the pain of growing up without a parent and never fully knowing why.
Home Visit
In Home Visit, a queer couple prepares lunch for one of their mothers, hoping the meal might change her mind about their relationship.
Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family
Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family follows Indian Pakistani American Khalid Quraishi and his daughter Zunaira, who is about to marry the love of her life, a woman. Khalid has lived through Partition, persecution, and the near-loss of Zunaira to illness. None of it shook what his Muslim faith taught him matters most: his love for his family.
