Call Her Ganda

Apr 19, 2018

1h 33m

★ 5.4

How one life galvanized a nation

Overview

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Genres

Documentary

Crime

Production Companies

Breaking Glass Pictures

Unraval Pictures

Naked Edge Films

Sundance Institute

JustFilms / Ford Foundation

Fork Films

Tribeca Film Institute

Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)

The Bertha Foundation

Firelight Media

GUCCI

Independent Film Producers (IFP)

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Cast

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Naomi Fontanos

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Julita Laude

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Virginia Lacsa Suarez

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Meredith Talusan

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Jennifer Laude

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba

4.8

Mrs. Fang

Jun 13, 2018

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced symptoms and ineffective treatment, she was sent back home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, as they witness and accompany her through her last days.

7.5

Key Largo

Jul 16, 1948

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

7.5

Diana, 7 Days

Aug 27, 2017

In August 1997, the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, stunned her family and catapulted the British public into one of the most extraordinary weeks in modern history. What was it about Diana that resulted in such an outpouring of grief? And what does that week reveal about Britain's relationship with the monarchy, then and now?

6.0

Double Barrel

Aug 9, 2017

A young couple who are so poor that they have to work as hired killers.

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6.0

Thugs of Ramaghada

Jan 5, 2023

No overview available.

6.3

High Crimes

Apr 5, 2002

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

2.7

The Parallel Corpses

Mar 5, 1982

About a businessman who murders his stepdaughter after having an affair with her. A crematorium worker who secretly sells coffins to an undertaker discovers two bodies in one of the coffins one day. He suspects what has happened and tries to blackmail the murderer for money.

6.3

Very Bad Things

Sep 11, 1998

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...

4.8

Kelet

Jan 29, 2020

Kelet is a twentysomething black trans woman, whose greatest dream is to be on the cover of Vogue magazine. For the Finnish-born and Manchester-raised Kelet, such models as Naomi Campbell and Iman served as role models giving her strength – and during the darkest times, kept her alive. After coming out, then 19-year-old Kelet was cut off from her family and she moved back to Finland on her own.

10.0

Death of a Salesman: A DELTARUNE Short FIlm

Mar 3, 2024

What happens when a deal gone wrong turns into a matter of life and death? Can bygones stay by-gone, or will they go up in flames?

6.1

Lowlife

Jul 21, 2017

The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

7.5

In Bruges

Feb 8, 2008

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

5.9

15 Minutes

Mar 1, 2001

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

6.2

Bloody Crayons

Jul 12, 2017

A group of friends goes to an island for a short film project when they are attacked by a mysterious killer after playing a game of bloody crayons.

5.7

Wake

Jul 12, 2012

The ripple effect of a brother and sister's past catches up to them at the funeral of their father.

5.0

maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

Jan 26, 2020

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death.

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