MARCELA

Dina Lobo

Dina does not recall why she quit ballet at 12. To uncover the answer, she revisits her mother’s VHS archives and interviews her family, reconstructing her childhood through 200 hours of footage. However, the labyrinth of memory reveals more than expected. Marcela opens the door to vulnerable conversations about the past, exploring how Dina’s biracial identity was shaped by a hostile environment, where half of her identity was marginalized and lost.

Everyone wants a tight pussy, heal

Cassandra Myers

Everyone Wants a Tight Pussy, details the grief of living with chronic vaginal pain (Vulvodynia), talking back to claims about pain during sex and otherwise. Patient is a video that speaks to doctors about their non-compassionate presence while supporting their clients, calling for a decolonial approach to care.

in the whiteness, your land cries for you

Niya Ahmed Abdullahi

in the whiteness is a poetic exploration of identity through the eyes of a Harari-Ethiopian woman, displaced via war, now living in Canada. She uses poetry and movement as a meditative method of reconnecting with her roots and in doing so, establishes a magical bond with her ancestors.

Lost in a trance between conversations of the past, old worlds, and alternative realities. Marium is called for prayer along this journey home. Alas, she tries, to find, her place.