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BACCS Cinema promotes Asian diasporic cinema through curated screenings and discussions, fostering cultural dialogue and community engagement in the San Francisco Bay Area.

BACCS | Indie Artist Film Screening 在民间播放

RAINBOW CHINATOWN SHORT FILM SERIES这是一组关于中国酷儿经验的影像 BACCS Cinema is coming to San Francisco Chinatown.To celebrate the opening of OUT Museum, we&#39;re bringing a short film series: from Beijing to the Bay Area, 1995 to now, about love, visibility, and the stubborn joy of showing one&rsquo;s true self. Plus a live panel with the queer filmmakers from local and beyond after.&nbsp; 🎬Lineup我们在这里 / WE ARE HERE 1995 &middot; 58 min &middot; Mandarin | English SubtitlesBeijing, 1995. Somewhere outside the UN World Conference on Women, a small tent appears. Inside it, lesbians from across the world find each other &mdash; some for the first time.A hidden chapter. A beginning that almost wasn&#39;t recorded.─新前门大街 / NEW BEIJING, NEW MARRIAGE&nbsp;Dir. Popo Fan &amp; David Zheng &middot; 18 min &middot; Mandarin | English SubtitlesValentine&#39;s Day. Two same-sex couples in wedding gowns walk into Beijing&#39;s most crowded tourist street. No manifesto &mdash; just presence. The camera holds every stare, every pause, every silence that follows.One of the earliest documents of Chinese queer street activism.─LIVING IN THE SHADOWS OF EXCLUSION Dir. Anna Eng &middot; 60 min &middot; EnglishFour Asian American same-sex couples. Deportation orders. Family silence. A state that keeps changing the rules. Set in the Bay Area &mdash; these streets, these families, this fight.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1779492200/wysiwyg/mm5xgvcwurnurbtxwr9a.jpg" style="width: 415px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 415px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">📢Filmmaker Panel DiscussionAfter the screening, stay for a conversation with the people who made these images and kept these stories alive:- 石头 / Shi Tou &mdash; artist, activist, queer film curator; star of Fish and Elephant, China&#39;s first lesbian film (Venice &amp; Berlin Film Festivals)- Dr. Anna Eng&nbsp;&mdash; director of Living in the Shadows of Exclusion; historian and lecturer at UC Berkeley- 吴漫 / Jenny Man Wu &mdash; curator, filmmaker; co-organiser of the Beijing Queer Film Festival; founder of The Living Archive of Queer Films in Chinese Context 1995年的北京，世界妇女大会召开。在宏大而正式的国际会议之外，一顶小小的帐篷出现里，聚集着来自世界各地的女同性恋者。有人第一次说出自己的身份，有人第一次意识到自己并不孤单。《我们在这里》记录的不只是一个起点，而是一段被长期忽略的地下历史：夜晚的大巴、地下俱乐部、笨拙却真实的连接，以及尚未被命名的人生。&ldquo;我们在这里&rdquo;本身，就是一种回答。在缺乏可见性的时代，被看见、被记录、彼此确认存在，本身就是一件珍贵而危险的事情。 2001年起，北京酷儿影展开始在不稳定的空间中持续发生，并在十余年间不断迁移：从城市到乡村，从公开到隐秘，从允许到不可见。《我们的故事&mdash;&mdash;北京酷儿影展十年游击战》记录的正是这种流动状态。放映本身成为需要策略的事情，空间、时间与路径都必须被重新设计。这不是一段稳定的历史，而是一种持续的生存方式：如何在不确定的环境中继续组织、观看与存在。 2009年的北京，前门大街仍然带着&ldquo;新北京，新奥运&rdquo;的余温。两对&ldquo;假&rdquo;同性情侣穿上婚纱，在游客、路人与围观者之间拍摄结婚照。有人好奇，有人笑，有人沉默。镜头没有高声宣告什么，只是把那些目光、停顿与空气里的迟疑留了下来。《新前门大街》像一封来自早期中国酷儿行动主义的影像信件：当&ldquo;同性恋&rdquo;仍然难以被公开谈论时，有人已经走上街头，在最热闹、最日常的地方预演被看见。 《Living in the Shadows of Exclusion》则将镜头转向更持续的边缘状态。它不以事件为中心，而是以日常为中心：等待、沉默、遮蔽身份，以及在缝隙中维持生活的方式。影片不解释阴影从何而来，而是让阴影本身被看见。在不断被分类与忽略的世界里，这种持续的存在本身，就是一种缓慢的抵抗。 这些影像并不完整，也不试图构成单一结论。它们只是不断留下痕迹：关于爱、身份、被看见，以及在不可见的结构中，如何继续说出&ldquo;我们在这里&rdquo;。 📅 &nbsp;Screening Info:Date: 2026/06/06, 1:30-5:00pmVenue: The Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133 Hosted by:BACCS CinemaIn Collaboration with:OUT | 出 | Museum About Us:BACCS Cinema (Bay Area Collective for Culture and Society) is a San Francisco Bay Area curation and screening platform dedicated to Asian diasporic cinema&mdash;on screen and in conversation.&nbsp; See our programs:&nbsp;https://baccscinema.org/Stay tuned for our incoming programs: Ins @baccscinema If you enjoyed this event and want to see more like it, consider buying us a coffee to help keep BACCS Cinema running and bring more programs to life:<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/thank-you-for-supporting-baccs-cinema-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">support us</a>

SF Asian Queer Film Festival | Short Film Series w/ Filmmaker Panels

San Francisco Asian Queer Film Series | 我们的故事：从游击放映到活档案这是一组关于中国酷儿经验的影像 2026年，北京酷儿影展迎来第25年。二十五年间，它在审查、取消与流亡中存活&mdash;&mdash;没有固定的家，没有稳定的资金，只靠信任、友谊与口耳相传，从一双手传到另一双手。本场活动以放映短片《我们的故事&mdash;&mdash;北京酷儿影展十年游击战》（2011）开始，记录影展第一个十年的草根生存与即兴抵抗。映后活动，我们邀请到影人与策展人吴漫&mdash;&mdash;影展2013年起的值班导演与委员会成员&mdash;&mdash;分享影展的第二个十年：当公开变得困难，影展如何继续；当失败成为方法，放映如何成为聚集本身。她也将介绍正在进行中的「华语酷儿电影活档案计划」，延续北京酷儿影展的核心信念：放映即归档，归档即放映。在限制之下，保存一部电影，也是在为它的下一次相遇留出空间。将这些影像带到海外，是为了让脆弱的记忆继续旅行&mdash;&mdash;继续聚集，继续抵抗消失。 🎬Lineup我们的故事Our Story: The Beijing Queer Film Festival&rsquo;s 10 Years of &ldquo;Guerrilla Warfare&rdquo;2011 | 42 min | 中文北京酷儿影展2001年缘起于发生在北大的一场由青年学生，知识分子和独立酷儿影人发起的影像运动，到如今已艰难举办了五届。作为中国大陆持续举办历史最久的民间电影活动，它也是该地区目前唯一一个持续通过电影放映、交流活动来展开性与性别身份探讨的主题影展。在并不轻松的国内社会政治环境下，北京酷儿影展历经诸多波折。十年来，迫于各级官方的干预，影展从北京城的西边搬到东边，从城市搬到乡村， 2011年第五届影展又回到城市里，以游击战的方式&ldquo;成功&rdquo;举办。本片基于影展组委会多年来纪录并收集的现场影像、图片资料，通过当事人自己的讲述，将影展背后不为人知的我们的故事对世人娓娓道来。 📢映后嘉宾吴漫 / Jenny Man Wu 是策展人、电影制片人、剧场创作者及研究者，长期从事华语酷儿电影、独立影像与档案实践。她曾长期参与北京酷儿影展的组织与策划，并持续开展跨地域放映、论坛与社群文化项目。作为电影制片人，她参与制作的作品曾在国际影展获得关注；作为剧场实践者，她在伦敦大学金匠学院完成应用戏剧硕士研究，并发展以口述、记忆与情感为核心的方法论实践。她是志奋领奖学金获得者，近年发起&ldquo;活档案计划&rdquo;（The Living Archive of Queer Films in Chinese Context），尝试保存、整理并重新激活在审查、流散与历史断裂中面临消失风险的华语酷儿影像与记忆。 📅 &nbsp;Screening Info:此次活动免费Date: 2026/06/05, 周五 7:15-8:30pmVenue: EVGR B, 144, 735 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 Hosted by:BACCS Cinema About Us:BACCS Cinema (Bay Area Collective for Culture and Society) is a San Francisco Bay Area curation and screening platform dedicated to Asian diasporic cinema&mdash;on screen and in conversation.&nbsp; See our programs:&nbsp;https://baccscinema.org/Stay tuned for our incoming programs: Ins @baccscinema If you enjoyed this event and want to see more like it, consider buying us a coffee to help keep BACCS Cinema running and bring more programs to life:<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/thank-you-for-supporting-baccs-cinema-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">support us</a>

BACCS Cinema | 《我们的故事》未完待续：从游击放映到酷儿影像活档案

When the chains of tradition meet the longing to be true to oneself, a quiet reckoning over face, family, and love unfolds in New York&#39;s Chinatown in the 2000s. Rooted in a vibrant Chinese community, Saving Face contrasts the deep-seated East Asian obsession with &ldquo;honor&rdquo; against modern ideals of self-fulfillment. Two generations of Chinese-American women carry secrets the world would judge, torn between family reputation and inner truth. To avoid gossip, they hide their hearts, endure compromise, and let &ldquo;face&rdquo; box them into lives others expect for them. Nearly 20 years on, Saving Face remains a groundbreaking classic: the first mainstream rom-com centering queer Asian women. It won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Taipei Golden Horse, and, in 2025, was inducted into the Criterion Collection.The film delivers a timeless truth: true dignity is not pleasing others, but dropping the mask, facing your heart, and embracing your authentic self, finding freedom and forgiveness in love and acceptance. This May, as the opening film of the San Francisco Asian Queer Film Festival, celebrating BACCS Cinema&rsquo;s Pride Series and OUT | 出 | Museum&#39;s grand opening, join us for a film about breaking free, courage, and self-redemption.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1778807970/wysiwyg/xvttqdn1f6vy9dprggeg.jpg" style="width: 427px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 427px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">About Alice WuDirector Alice Wu is an award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker. Born to Taiwanese immigrant parents, she grew up navigating both Eastern and Western cultures. She earned a master&rsquo;s degree in computer science from Stanford University and worked as a software engineer at Microsoft before pivoting to filmmaking.&nbsp; While snoring through a tech job in Seattle, Alice used her downtime to work on fiction. Then she used a creative-writing class to turn her novel into a film script. When her teacher liked it, &ldquo;I gave myself five years to make the movie.&rdquo; She quit her high-paying gig, moved to New York, picked up film editing, fended off other directors, and made Saving Face, an uncompromising, devoted to her own experience. 🎬 Screening Info:Film: Saving FaceDate: 2026/05/31, 7:00 PMVenue: Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94133 Hosted by:BACCS CinemaIn Collaboration with:OUT | 出 | Museum About Us:BACCS Cinema (Bay Area Collective for Culture and Society) is a San Francisco Bay Area curation and screening platform dedicated to Asian diasporic cinema&mdash;on screen and in conversation.&nbsp; See our programs:&nbsp;https://baccscinema.org/Stay tuned for our incoming programs: Ins @baccscinema If you enjoyed this event and want to see more like it, consider buying us a coffee to help keep BACCS Cinema running and bring more programs to life:<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/thank-you-for-supporting-baccs-cinema-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">support us</a>

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BACCS | Indie Artist Film Screening 在民间播放

SF Asian Queer Film Festival | Short Film Series w/ Filmmaker Panels

BACCS Cinema | 《我们的故事》未完待续：从游击放映到酷儿影像活档案

Saving Face | In-Person Q&A with Award-Winning Dir. Alice Wu

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