{"id":1250,"date":"2026-04-30T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/tricofilmfest\/?page_id=1250"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:50:25","slug":"2026-tri-co-film-festival-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/tricofilmfest\/2026-tri-co-film-festival-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Festival Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Film Selection (in presentation order):<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Flaneur<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dilahan Cavusoglu \u201828 (Swarthmore College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A traveler zips through Paris by herself. Slowly, friends join her to wander and enjoy the streets of Paris as flaneurs together.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jianchuan Courtyard Gardens<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CJ Chen, \u201828 (Haverford College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardening enthusiast and retired truck driver Zhang Canbao lives in the countryside of Jianchuan in Yunnan Province, China. Mr. Zhang is part of the Bai ethnic minority, a community that makes up much of Jianchuan\u2019s population. He walks into the gardens of neighbors and friends to showcase elements of a good courtyard garden and the bonsai within it, reflecting popular Chinese beliefs and symbolism in the plants, ornamentation, and larger environment around Jianchuan.\u00a0
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May\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eliana Haah \u201826 and Quinn Brady \u201826 (Bryn Mawr College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May Kim, a Korean American tailor, has run her own shop in Wayne, PA for the past 31 years. This film showcases her quiet courage and resilience as she faces an 11-year threat to her livelihood in a rapidly digitizing world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Let It Stew\/\u7096\u5427\u7096\u5427<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Qingyao (Grace) Li \u201827 (Haverford College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing the stew of geopolitical tensions, an international student carves out their own space through cooking, as a way to cope, resist, and eat their feelings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Blood<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tova Gordon \u201827 (Haverford College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tova has known she was conceived of sperm donation from a very young age, but at 20, she decides to go through the donor identity release process. Connecting with her donor provides an additional connection: her biological half sister via sperm donation. Serendipitously, Tova has a trip planned to visit friends near Poughkeepsie, and is able to dedicate one day of the trip to meeting her biological half sister. This process has led her into a period of introspection: rethinking her definition of family, reshaping her convictions about inherited traits, and broadening her outlook on conceiving a child through sperm donation on her own someday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m Just Thinking About the Baby:\u201d The Lies of Crisis Pregnancy Centers<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Isabella Otterbein \u201826 (Haverford College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple Google search for pregnancy help takes a deceptive turn, revealing how Crisis Pregnancy Centers use kindness and misinformation to influence vulnerable callers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A Call for Madness<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anquon Neely \u201826 (Haverford College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An essay about the madness experienced by a black man in college.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Just My Luck<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Iz Lee \u201827 (Swarthmore College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say that everything in your life happens for a reason but sometimes you\u2019re just damn unlucky. Michael Kim is convinced his lifetime of bad luck came from a fortune telling ritual gone wrong. The only way to fix it? Killing God.
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Operation Paperbag<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Fayyaz \u201827 (Swarthmore College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two office workers find themselves trapped in an endless loop of hallways after trying to leave for the day, as the building around them begins to behave in unsettling, intentional ways. Realizing they are being watched and controlled by an unseen system, they must outthink it to escape. Their solution turns out to be as absurd as it is effective.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Un-Birthday<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Emily McClung \u201826 (Swarthmore College)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.” – Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n<\/div>

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