GRFF is honoured to partner with Grand River Pride for the second year as part of their Pride Week celebrations in Cambridge during June 2024. GRFF believes in their mission of building community through events that are inclusive and celebrate all types of love.
As part of GRFF’s ongoing work towards highlighting diversity in filmmaking, this opportunity to present films with strong, positive, and optimistic visions of 2SLGBTQ+ characters to the community was in perfect alignment with our mission. GRFF and Grand River Pride will be screening a film on Tuesday June 4th, free of charge.
Shiva Baby
FREE ADMISSION
2020 USA Comedy, 78 mins.
6pm Doors open, 6:30pm film begins.
University of Waterloo School of Architecture, 7 Melville St S, Cambridge.
Since premiering at TIFF in 2020, multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Shiva Baby is considered by many to be the first entry in true Gen-Z cinema, with writer/director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott heralded as voices of their generation. A “tightly choregraphed farce” that blends Jewish and Queer identity with feminism and the neuroticism of youth. This film is a celebration of not having your shit together.
A near college graduate, Danielle, gets paid by her sugar daddy and rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a family shiva. Upon arrival, she is accosted by various estranged relatives about her appearance and lack of post-grad plans, while her confident ex-girlfriend, Maya, is applauded by everyone for getting into law school. Danielle’s day takes an unexpected turn when her sugar daddy, Max, arrives at the shiva with his accomplished wife, Kim, and crying baby. As the day unfolds, Danielle struggles to keep up different versions of herself, fend off pressures from her family and confront her insecurities without completely losing it.
Written and directed by Emma Seligman (Bottoms). Starring Rachel Sennott (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies; Bottoms), Molly Gordon (Booksmart; The Bear), Polly Draper (Thirtysomething; Stella’s Last Weekend), Danny Deferrari (Blue Bloods; Oppenheimer), Fred Melamed (In A World…; Hail, Caesar!)
Learn more about Grand River Pride, get involved, or participate in the events and work they are doing in Cambridge to empower and give visibility to our Queer community.