Propitiate (Shorts)
A shorts program about parenting, reparenting, and being parented, and the transitions that take place when we leave (behind) our parents’ ideals and make sense of the world on our own terms.
Accessibility: Closed captions available
Films in this Program
Do You See Me
A love story about loss and never letting go. While wrestling with trauma, a boy finds solace in waking dreams.
Bloomed in the Water
Bloomed in the Water portrays a Korean immigrant single mother who misinterprets school picture day, resulting in…
So That Tonight We Might See
With gaps in her personal history, a filmmaker assembles fragments of her family’s archive in an attempt to see more…
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Having built a colorful queer life in Iowa, an aspiring costume designer visits their homeland of Guam to make costumes…
Run Like We
It’s the 2012 London Olympics, and the whole world is going crazy for the most famous athlete in the world: Usain Bolt…