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  Review by Leonora Anne Mint ★★★★

  Part of me wishes this had been a bit longer, but it also feels like the perfect length. Starring a nonbinary actor and feeling achingly true-to-life, there were two things that really grabbed me about this impressive short:

  1. The structure: This is a film about a queer person where the focal point of the film remains on them and their expression of their inner world and lived experience. The longest and most focused scene is a heart-outpouring of the kind I don't see often enough in a landscape where queer films often focus on the feelings of the cishet people orbiting around the cipher-like centerpiece of a queer protagonist. Here, the parental voice is secondary, eventually unavoidable. The words…

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  Review by driana ★★★★★

  ‪“my body should be like air, I should not have to claim it, or showcase it.”‬

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  Review by Cate ★★★

  I cannot split myself, masculine world... My land, my home, my body should be like air. I should not have to claim it, or showcase it.

  Allergic to slam poetry, but this is nice.
  (on vimeo)

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  Queer Film Challenge (2022): #17: A film with a non-binary character
  https://boxd.it/e7hSg

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  Review by Zoey Rose ★★★½

  "Just call me your kid."

  The perfect button for this type of film and a message to parents of transgender children.

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  Review by casey 💜 ★★★½

  Queer Film Challenge 2022

  18/40 - A film with a non-binary character - ✓

  pride month 2022 #3

  i loved their poem. 🥺

  this was really sweet. not a lot to it as a result of the short's length (and i wouldn't have minded more, obviously) but everything already here is nice.

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  Review by DANIEL HUNTLEY ★★★

  vimeo.com/146870232

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  Review by ángel ★★★★★

  I love being they/them.

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  Review by Camilo Cárdenas ★★★½

  Just call me your kid

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  Review by vinegar

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  — I don’t know what to even call you. What even you are. Son, daughter....

  — What’s it matter?

  Short and not exactly sweet, but quaky and real. Unasked and unanswered—>provoking the asking and withholding the answer, demanding oneself not be written over, just this once, while also decrying the necessity of making such assertions. “‘I[dentity],’ at best, is a pratfall in slow motion.” That vibrant moment when, seeing their father and knowing that the jig is up, knowing that the consequences are already falling into place, they push on, chin up, defiant. That rare bit of freedom we get right before the trap snaps back shut and the props go back in the bag.