Queens World Film Festival
In Person Screenings
Presented by BENEDICT REALTY GROUP
Venue: The Local
1302 44th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
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5:45pm – BLAME IT ON THE PANDEMIC
13 short films about being cooped up, fed up and ready for %$#@?!!!! (There will be chocolate!)
7:00pm – THERAPY THIS
6 films that take therapy to a new low high…
Venue: The United Sherpa Association
41-01 75th Street Elmhurst, NY 11373
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1:00pm – SARITA
A feature film that follows the story of Sarita, a 13-year-old girl born in Khudunabari, a refugee camp in Nepal where over 100,000 Bhutanese exiles live
4:00pm – BASENJI
After his father is fired for writing an investigative report on Nepal’s agricultural industry, a young man has his life spiral into a nightmare as a series of mysterious and increasingly disturbing events plunges him deeper and deeper into the horrifying secrets of his past.
Venue: Queens Theatre
14 United Nations Ave South, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368
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1:00pm – COLORING OUTSIDE OF THE LINES
6 films that remind us to Do! BE! Create! Imagine!
4:00pm – WHAT’S SO HARD ABOUT GROWING UP?
7 Short films that encourage us to value our youth.
7:00pm – IT’S NOT THE YEARS, IT’S THE MILES
7 short films to remind us that endurance counts.
Venue: The Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
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4:00pm – MOTHER’S DAY
A feature that will invite you to take a look at mental illness, from the inside.
Virtual Screenings
Hosted by FILM FESTIVAL FLIX
Virtual screenings are shown online through our festival partner Film Festival Flix. Clicking the Buy Tickets button will take you to the Film Festival Flix website where you will purchase tickets for the film block that features the films listed to the left.
4:00pm – Angst R’ US
9 shorts to remind us that everything is juuuuust…fine.
5:00pm – LOVE
A mid-life crisis brings a man right back to the start.
6:00pm – BATTERED HUSBAND
Can love be judged as doomed?
8:00pm – WOMEN!
7 Short films about events women endure. (Trigger Warning)
9:00pm – THE FORBIDDEN STRINGS
An Afghani band takes a dangerous journey to perform.
10:00pm – REMEMBRANCES
5 Short films that reflect on what came before.
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1,974 films screened from 98 nations including 31 films by NYC school children….15 years and counting! Will you be a part of it?
