SFFILM

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3 Nov
Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 1:00 pm PT
SFMOMA

Description

Four expertly crafted and distinctly expressed short films center around issues of community and place. Whether navigating a transition from North Korea to the UK, a release from prison, or a trip to the beach, the people documented in these non-fiction pieces—Little Pyongyang, Nuuca, Sister Hearts, and Skip Day—are each in their different way adjusting to the changing world in which they find themselves. 

Films listed in alphabetical order. Program order to be announced.  

Little Pyongyang
Roxy Rezvany, UK, 24 min
Joong-wha Choi, a former soldier in North Korea, lives today with his wife and children in New Malden—the south London suburb that is home to Europe’s biggest North Korean population. Despite enjoying the newfound comforts of his British life, he would like to return to his homeland. His reflections form a portrait of loss, longing, and the complexities of healing from trauma.  

Nuuca
Michelle Latimer, Canada/USA, 12 min  
Over the last decade, an oil boom in North Dakota has seen the state’s population double with primarily male workers flocking to the region. With this dramatic increase has come an influx of drugs, crime, and sexual violence. Juxtaposing the ravaged yet starkly beautiful landscape with personal testimony from young Indigenous women living on the reservation, Nuuca is an evocative meditation revealing the connections between violence perpetrated against the earth and against Indigenous women and girls.  

Sister Hearts
Mohammad Gorjestani, USA, 17 min
Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent 13 years in prison, six of which were in solitary confinement. After her release in 2013, she lived as a squatter on the streets of New Orleans and sold found items on the street to get by. That’s when Maryam’s journey to help other ex-offenders, especially women like herself, began.  

Skip Day
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan, USA, 17 min
For seniors in Pahokee—a small, mainly African American industrial town on Florida’s Lake Okeechoboee—the Monday after prom is “Skip Day.” Multitudes of long-time friends miss their lessons, instead driving 60 miles to hang, chill, and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline.