A young, Jamaican American woman, looking straight ahead in her seat. She is wearing a grey hoodie.

If only you knew

Safiyah Chiniere 2025 0:20:28 Min English English Open Captions United States

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.

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Screenings

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…

Friday, September 11, 2026

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Online Encore ENCORE: Queer Families Belong

Queer Families Belong

Six films. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it.

Sunday, June 14, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Content Warnings

Emotional distress

Specific Themes

Families

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Credits

Director: Safiyah Chiniere
Screenwriter: Safiyah Chiniere
Producer: Rox
Cast: Ashley Hernandez, Adriana Luke

About Filmmaker(s)

"Safiyah Chiniere has a deep love for storytelling and filming. She uses film to amplify the stories and the voices of people of color, women, and femmes. The specific space of Safiyah’s subject matter gives a firm footing to develop a visual style necessary to operate within the fertile interior spaces of these communities. It presents a stimulating and refreshing approach to capturing the faces, bodies, and various expressions of intimacy, slowing down the pacing and magnifying spaces to highlight that which is so often overlooked, dismissed, or delegitimized, all while maintaining wholehearted and sincere storytelling."

Griffin Jing (she/her) looking at her reflection in her bathroom mirror, blow drying her long, dark brown hair.

Short film

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.

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.