Those We Care About
Care can look like many things; gestures of concern, meeting someone’s needs, protecting those we love at the expense of something sacred. Depicting the ways we attempt to find and expose healthy and unhealthy approaches to expressing interest, love and care, these films are sure to provoke vital conversations about human rights and human connection.
Themes: LGBTQ+, gender identity, Black experience, Indigenous dance and tradition, consent, sexual assault, whiteness friendship, politcal theory and practice
Length: 1h28
Advisory: contains mature themes and images
Recommended for grades 8-12
Note that the following films feature non-English dialogue with subtitles: Pulling in the Belt, Drifting

Ribadit (pulling in the belt) was a tradition in the sámi village Guovdageaidnu. Two elders from the community explain what the tradition was and what it meant to them as young people. Orchestrating this fun and lighthearted ritual of flirtation, director Elle Sofe brings this bygone tradition to life with sámi youth and dancers wearing traditional clothing.

China’s one-child policy left many devastating effects. To protect their son, Yan’s family hid his sister in the countryside and disguised Yan as a girl. Later in life, Yan is treated as an outcast by the townspeople and struggles in a conservative world in which his gender is thought to be confusing. He longs to see his sister and the only escape from this suffocating social order is drifting in his father’s old taxi.

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