Local Sightings Film Festival 2024

Next of Kin

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4 films in package
100 Days
During a ten-course, Chinese banquet-style dinner, an extended family deals with an unexpected guest who shows up to their baby’s 100-day celebration: their matriarch’s new boyfriend. Long-simmering family grievances come to a head in this quippy family dramedy.
CHICKEN
A down-on-her-luck, recently single 30-something is forced to move back into her childhood home. As she struggles to reconnect with her brother who has Down syndrome, will their differences drive them apart? Or will they see they’re more similar than either of them thought?
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Donut Boy
A young Cambodian-American man is determined to make it into the next tier of amateur boxing, but obligations to work at the donut shop with his refugee mother and his cousin’s turbulent lifestyle threatens to keep him out of the ring.
Closed captions available
Color Theories
A coming-of-age story that follows thirteen-year-old Charlotte, who feels adrift while processing the complexities of her mother's stroke the summer she gets her first period. Charlotte navigates her changing body and perspective through a symbolic exploration of the visible light spectrum ROYGBIV.
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Laugh and cry along with these relatable shorts about the tumultuous ups-and-downs of family life. Heartwarming and heartrending in equal measure, these shorts feature multiple generations of immigrant, multicultural, and neuro-diverse families.



Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 21 at 4:30pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!

During a ten-course, Chinese banquet-style dinner, an extended family deals with an unexpected guest who shows up to their baby's 100-day celebration: their matriarch's new boyfriend. Long-simmering family grievances come to a head in this quippy family dramedy.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Language
    English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    US
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Note
    (Derek Kwan, Canada, 2023, 14 min, in English & Cantonese with English subtitles) US premiere!
  • Director
    Derek Kwan
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