SHORTS PROGRAM | 86 MINS

The Dyke Delicious screening series that ran for many years at Chicago Filmmakers makes a welcome come-back for Reeling’s 40th anniversary edition. The four programs in the series are curated by Dyke Delicious founder Sharon Zurek. This globe-hopping program, with films from Canada, Tunisia, France, Australia, and the U.S., features works that deal with finding one’s place in the world–physically and emotionally. Leila spends her last day in the suburbs exploring her identity through nude photography as she faces adulthood in FALENA; lonely Zoe meets a young rebellious gypsy who helps her deal with a painful loss in ENLIGHTENED; a young gay Tunisian seeks asylum in the Netherlands in the animation/live-action hybrid documentary NIDHAL; Cary wants his friends to tell him what they hate about him for his 25th birthday in TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW; after coming out as non-binary to their parents, Grace materializes at their future selves’ birthday party in RIGHT HERE.