2023 Indie Memphis Film Festival Virtual

Kinship - National Shorts

Expired October 30, 2023 4:59 AM
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6 films in package
FUNNY FACE
Director Jude Hope Harris recreates the time her brother and girlfriend first met in this autobiographical dramedy where her family plays versions of themselves. Sophie arrives home from 10 hours of facial feminization surgery in a haze of pain and anesthesia. Waiting for her are Morgan, her queer actor girlfriend, and Randy, her country singer brother – both just starting to get to know each other. As Sophie recovers, Morgan and Randy unite against a tragically unhelpful home nurse Donna, their common enemy on a difficult night made bearable with humor, love, music, and weed.
WHAT DO WE CALL THIS?
After the sudden death of her husband, Julia is left a single mother and forms an unexpected kinship with the only other person who can truly understand her grief.
MAMÁ
On a road trip gone off course, an immigrant single mother and her son are forced to confront their strained relationship when they are stranded in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
LAN'S GARDEN
A matriarch has become old so now her children come to help her, but she does not accept this reversal of care.
FIREFLIES SAVE THE NIGHT
Hiding in a bedroom closet, an embattled teenager comforts his younger sister and discusses the purpose of fireflies before finding a solution to his family's misery.
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WHEN YOU LEFT ME ON THAT BOULEVARD
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006.

Director Jude Hope Harris recreates the time her brother and girlfriend first met in this autobiographical dramedy where her family plays versions of themselves. Sophie arrives home from 10 hours of facial feminization surgery in a haze of pain and anesthesia. Waiting for her are Morgan, her queer actor girlfriend, and Randy, her country singer brother – both just starting to get to know each other. As Sophie recovers, Morgan and Randy unite against a tragically unhelpful home nurse Donna, their common enemy on a difficult night made bearable with humor, love, music, and weed.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Memphis
  • Director
    Jude Hope Harris
  • Screenwriter
    Krista Fatka, Jude Hope Harris
  • Producer
    Genevieve Jones, Nick Vitale
  • Cast
    Charlie Harrison, Krista Fatka, Jude Hope Harris, Marieve Herrington, Sharon Zhang
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