2021 Damn These Heels Queer Festival

SHORTS PROGRAM 2: MISSED CONNECTIONS

Expired July 19, 2021 5:59 AM
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10 films in package
BABYDYKE
A heartbroken teenager goes to a queer techno party to win back her first love.
A VOICEMAIL TO TRY AND MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER
Weeks after a brutal breakup, Sam, receives a voicemail from his ex-boyfriend, Aaron, reading a poem he has written him.
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DUET
An unspoken romance inevitably resurfaces when a high school music teacher meets an old colleague again and decides to perform together for the first time as piano duet partners after they’ve long since drifted apart from each other.
CYNTHIA
A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid. An emotionally bold and uplifting story about truth, love and finding the strength to move on.
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TALK SOON
During the course of an overnight visit, Sasha and Rae grapple to return to an emotional place that’s just beyond reach.
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WHILE WE STAYED HOME
Boy meets Girl meets Covid-19.
FRANKIE
Frankie, a non-binary trans person, crashes their ex-partne's men-only 12 step meeting, determined to be heard... no matter the cost.
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OF HEARTS AND CASTLES
Marcus has recently broken up with his boyfriend. One night out he meets Angel, an attractive and attentive man, who will make Marcus live an emotional experience that will spark a break through, and set him in the right path to get over the breakup.
MARLON BRANDO
In the last weeks of being high school students, Cas and Naomi, both out of the closet, prefer to spend their days together. As "brother and sister" of other parents, they experience a security and love that they cannot find elsewhere.
MISSED CONNECTIONS - Post-Film Q&A
Director of Programming Ash Hoyles Q&A with the filmmakers from Frankie, Talk Soon, A Voicemail to Make Yourself Feel Better, Duet, While We Stayed Home, Of Hearts and Castles, and Babydyke
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Missed Connections makes a home for stories about rupture, failure, longing, and accident. Heartbreak as well as hope permeates these short films that each exist in the space between people, space that is sometimes bridged and sometimes not, but always present. While the relationships in these stories perhaps miss the mark, triumph finds its way into the program through self discovery, independence, boldness, empathy, music, and kindness.

A pianist struggles in her heterosexual relationship. When she and another woman, an old piano student, make music together after a long time apart the film gently, yet scintillatingly alludes to a greater history between them. With tension and passion sung out through stellar piano performances and a gorgeous black and white pallet, Duet is lovely to watch and to listen to. Any music lover will find this film delightful.


Duet premiered at the Columbia University Film Festival.


– Cat Palmer, Damn These Heels programming committee member

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Language
    Chinese
  • Country
    US
  • Premiere
    Intermountain West Premiere
  • Rating
    Not Rated
  • Director
    Shae Xu
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