Tonight's program explores the myriad ways in which society has shaped the family and how individuals are transformed by the "families" they choose to identify with. Lily Mariye's The Shangri-La Cafe (1999, 19 mins, Color, 35mm) illustrates a mother's courageous decision that deeply affects her daughter, and provides a rare glimpse into Asian and black relations in the late 1950s. Dolissa Medina's experimental documentary Grounds (2000, 10 mins, Color, 16mm) is a meditation on the recovery of lost family history and the organic texture of migratory memory. The struggle to comprehend the choices made by the father in an impoverished family is hauntingly depicted in Joy Dietrich's Surplus (2000, 22 mins, B&W, Video). A senile lady crosses paths with a hysterical woman in Veena Sud's One Night (1999, 12 mins, B&W, 16mm), a gripping story of trust that explores how two loners become each other's family for one night of captivity. In Subrosa (Canada, 2000, 22 mins, Color, 35mm), a young woman searches for clues to why her mother gave her up for adoption. Filmmaker Helen Lee lyrically reminds us that to know your family is to come closer to knowing yourself.-Linda Charmaraman