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LGBTQ+ Shorts

Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women

13m

Directed by Ayoka Chenzira • 1992 • United States
Starring Aziza, Sondra Loring, Renee Redding-Jones

Directors Ayoka Chenzira and David Rousseve poetically entwine two tales of generational trauma as a young gay man expounds on his experience of the AIDS epidemic while his grandmother reflects on life in the Jim Crow–era South.

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