Maya De La Rosa-Cohen
The First Three
Three queer trailblazers take on an unprecedented legal battle in 1990’s San Francisco. What will they give up to gain guardianship over their daughter?
Hasti Jafari
Homing Pigeons & Co
Two friends develop a weekly ritual of attending the Iranian diaspora protests in San Francisco every weekend, to try to prevent their countrymen from being executed in the Islamic Republic prisons. But their differences become more disastrous with each passing day, and as activism takes a toll on them, it takes everything they got to not murder each other.
Christina Li
Clay Street, Chinatown
A newly arrived Chinese woman learns that all forms of freedom come at a cost in 1870s San Francisco.
Ashley S Raggs
Bay Dreaming
A young African American girl from San Francisco’s dreams of being an actress become a distant memory when she loses her mother.
Edith Castorena
Named For My Mother
The impact of fathers and lovers on three generations of women linked by their magic, San Francisco fog, and one name.