"Disparate Bonds"
"Diverse directors across cultures weave distinctive narratives where family members wrestle to align their sense of self with their hopes for each other."
*Content Warnings: Surgical footage, drug addiction, sexual assault, homophobic language, death, domestic violence, violence inflicted on animals
11/15/2024 4:00 PM
UC San Diego SME Theater
11/16/2024 11:00 AM
UC San Diego Suraj Israni Cinematic Center Mosaic Room 113
Vas Mar وسْمار
Directed by: Nima Tabandeh
Nowruz (Nowruz is the Iranian New Year) is near. The old man is busy doing things to welcome spring, but the old woman is desperate for life and keeps grumbling that she will die soon and why no one is with them and they are alone. But the old man says that they should live with hope as long as they are alive. In one of the mornings, when the old man was painting the fences of the porch, he had a stroke and died. Now the old woman has to decide whether to continue to live hopelessly or... she looks at the things in the house and the old man's finished and unfinished works and decides to finish the old man's unfinished works.
Fiction | 19 min | 2024 | Digital
Audio language: Persian
Subtitles language: English
Nima Tabandeh
Filmmaker
Nima Tabandeh was born in 1983 in Langrod city in Gilan province in Iran. Master of Cinema from Tehran University of Arts - Iran. Cinema and theater writer and director. Making more than ten short and half-length films. Public performance of 5 theater shows and participation in festivals. Shooting and editing more than 70 short films. Member of Iranian Youth Cinema Association - Lahijan Office.
Anesthesia
Directed by: Yuhan Wang
Anesthesia is about the inner relationship between mother and daughter under the culture
where women are obligated to endure pain silently. The daughter starts to discover herself as a
woman after her anesthesiologist mother gets into a hereditary illness. She finds that her mother
was deeply aware of the cruelty of life, yet as an adult, she learns to suffer mutely, as society
has taught her. At the edge of her girlhood, she is struggling with finding exit. Their fate is
entwined, their pain recurring in a cyclical loop. Their mother-daughter relationship is intertwined
with their physical and mental anguish.
Fiction | 15 min | 2024 | Digital, 8mm
Audio language: Chinese
Subtitles language: English
Yuhan Wang
Filmmaker
Yuhan Wang (she/they) is a Chinese writer/director, actor, producer and filmmaker. Yuhan holdsa BA in Fashion Communication from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. In 2022, shemoved to Los Angeles as an MFA candidate for the graduate Film Directing Program at Calarts.Yuhan’s practice focuses on the social dilemmas among people, especially womanhood. Storyfor her is a weapon to fight against all the cruelty and a shovel to dig the tenderness from life.
Sweet Dear Family (Merci la famille)
Directed by: Antoine Pinson
Paul is 15. At home, if Bambi, the dog, pees inside the house, each member of the family must correct him in turn. Everything would be fine if Gabriel, his older brother, had not decided to leave the house. One day, Paul decides to search for him and persuade him to reconnect with their parents. Paul knows they will do anything to help him heal from his homosexuality.
Fiction | 10 min | 2023 | Digital
Audio language: French
Subtitles language: English
Filmmaker
Antoine Pinson
Born in 1980 in Bordeaux, Antoine PINSON joined the ESRA Paris film school in 2001. Passionate about storytelling, he has since worked as a screenwriter, co-screenwriter or consultant for both cinema and TV. Since 2019, he has been the educational director of the School of the 7th Art, in Bordeaux, France. After writing and directing his first professional short film, SWEET, DEAR FAMILY, produced by Loin derrière l’Oural, Antoine is currently developing his first feature film, LA FÊTE DU CHEVAL.
Find Your Wild
Directed by: Leila Khalilzadeh
When a recently arrived Iranian immigrant in Montreal returns to her former profession as a beautician, her husband faces the challenge of adapting to a changing narrative around gender roles.
Fiction | 15 min | 2023 | Digital
Audio language: English-French
Subtitles language: English
Leila Khalilzadeh
Filmmaker
Leila Khalilzadeh is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. She has written, directed, and produced short fiction, animation, and documentary films that have been showcased at international festivals, including Berlinale and Festival du nouveau cinéma. A Berlinale Talents 2021 alumna, Leila holds an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University, Montreal, and an MA in Cinema from the University of Art, Tehran. She is currently developing her first feature film through a development fund from Telefilm Canada, a short documentary supported by the National Film Board of Canada, and a short fiction supported by Quebec's Société de développement des entreprises culturelles.