The setting is a kitchen at a family home. The ambience of the kitchen is filled with cold, slightly desaturated, contrasting colors of purple, red, green and blue. The kitchen table is a mess. The daughter (around age 10) has short straight dark brown hair with a pink clip, dark green shirt and dark blue pants. She is opening the door of the room that is looking into the kitchen with a sad look on her face. Behind her at the kitchen table is her mom (around age 35) looking away. She is wearing a dark yellow shirt, dark orange skirt and brown slippers and has long straight brown hair.

Hugs & Kisses

Alexandra Orr 2026 2:28 Min English, tagalog English Open Captions United States

A soon to be born daughter feels her mom give her hugs & kisses and reminisces on what their future life would be like together. Will this love and feeling last?

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Synopsis

A daughter in the womb hears her mother sing to her. She starts to wonder what their life would be like and creates scenarios like buying a toy at the store, making food together and her mother doing her hair. But as the memories replay, we find that those memories were not all hugs and kisses.

Screenings

Queer Asian World Cinema at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Eight films moving between memory, diaspora, and dream where identity flickers, stretches, and insists on being seen.

Friday, May 22, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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Satellite Screening Queer Asian World Cinema at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Content Warnings

Emotional distress Childhood parental neglect

Specific Themes

Families Healing Pregnancy

Credits

Director
Alexandra Orr
Screenwriter
Alexandra Orr
Producer
Mindie Armas, Tyler Muñoz
Executive Producer
Visual Communications
Cast
Marylou Orr, Morgan Crede,Caila Ting, Julia Wong, Alexandra Orr
Cinematographer
Alexandra Orr
Editor
Alexandra Orr
Composer
Miki Jimenez
Sound Design
cAMP Studio, Anthony Nguyen
Music
Jimenez

About Filmmaker(s)

Alexandra “Lexie” Orr is a filmmaker who explores her identity and cultural upbringing through her work. As a mixed-heritage, queer individual, she has often felt caught between worlds, struggling with questions of belonging. Through art and storytelling, she has begun to discover her true self and find her voice. Creating visual and auditory representations of who she is has been revolutionary, allowing her to assert her identity without external judgment.

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