Movies: Jess X. Snow

Tomás, a gay teenager from a small beach town in Chile, lives daydreaming at the beat of pop-music. During a summer day he sees his crush again, Benjamín, and encouraged by his music he jumps forward to the adventure of burgeoning first love, facing ...

An Indigenous man takes a Happy Thanksgiving wish very very personally....

After a hurricane ravages his hometown, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery to rescue the lost remains of his brother in order to give him a proper burial....

In 1975, soon after the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che fled the country on a small boat. After nine days at sea, they docked in the Philippines, where they were utilized as background extras for “Apocalypse Now.”...

A queer Chinese-American woman struggles to tell her immigrant mother and partner the reason why she left school. Using her powers, she teleports into her own galaxy where no violence can touch her....

After her mother's traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties....

What seems to be a burgeoning romance between two Indigenous people takes an unexpected turn in this bold and thrilling blend of the satirical and the sinister by writer-director ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby....

In a dark bedroom, when Hollis uses breath work to soothe herself, she suddenly is transported to a desert where she encounters her wounded inner child. Over the course of a sunset, they reconcile their lost relationship....

Chronicles the extraordinary journey of the legendary Nobuko Miyamoto – a dancer, singer, and activist driven by a lifelong passion for social justice and community engagement....

Suki Terada Ports is an unstoppable Japanese American NYC elder who has been a tireless activist for the AAPI Community for decades. She has fought for Civil Rights in the 1960s, school integration, prison reform, female healthcare equality, LGBTQ+ r...

In the rural south, a Black boy tries to fly....

A non-binary Chinese-American drag queen returns to their home town to confront their estranged father about the childhood memories that continues to haunt them....

An African-American girl, obsessed with her hair, seeks guidance in a small fish when her mother forces her to go underwater....

RETRIEVAL is a lyrical short film that explores the process of a soul retrieval in the aftermath of sexual assault - the spiritual undertaking of bringing back a part of your soul that has been traumatically separated. Holding the line between magic...

As rising sealevels threaten locations touched by the Pacific Ocean in Hawaiʻi, the Philippines, China, and North America, four women give offerings of music, poetry and heartfelt testimonial to preserve the volcano, ocean, air and land for future ge...

When Sky, an emo wannabe artist visits the studio of a charismatic artist to get her first tattoo, she is forced to confront a shared cultural secret that awakens the burgeoning force inside of her....

About the relationship between a queer Vietnamese-American teen and their Vietnamese refugee mother....

On an overdue return to their industrializing Southern China homeland, Rain, a rebellious Chinese-American escapes their overprotective maternal family to find the truth about their estranged father–whose legacy was entangled with the Baiji dolphin d...

In a post-apocalyptic future, a migrant latinx man is on life support from the last plant on Earth. With only memories of his mother to guide him, he must find a way to preserve life on Earth....

In a San Francisco restaurant; the young lives of Grace an undocumented Chinese kitchen worker and Itzel, an AfroIndigenous server, become irreversibly entwined when they discover they have time travelling abilities they cannot yet control. A genre-...