The Wednesday, June 18th screening at noon is free. Tickets will be available at the AFI Silver on the day of the screening.

ONE DAY
Ditte Haarlov Johnsen
Denmark, 2007, 30 minutes
Intimate close-ups conceal faces but reveal sordid circumstances in ONE DAY, a complex short about a West African woman working as a prostitute in Denmark. She finds both solace and sacrifice through her cell phone, connecting with the family and daughter she hasn’t seen in six years, yet always remaining available to clients.

TONGZHI IN LOVE
Ruby Yang
China/USA, 2008, 30 minutes
Oscar-winner Ruby Yang offers a riveting examination of repressed homosexuality in modern China. Torn between the lure of big-city life and the obligations of Confucian culture, three men must keep their desires secret and bear the burdens passing on the family name in China’s “one child per family” culture.

VIRTUAL FREEDOM
Gef Senz

Australia, 2006, 6 Minutes
The Internet may seem boundless, but geopolitics can always interfere with love. When a Burmese man living in Australia begins an online romance with a Burmese woman visiting Japan, he realizes that connectivity, though intimate, is not universal.