STARFUCKERS

Antonio Marziale

USA | 2022, 15 min

An intimate evening between a Hollywood director and a callboy. "I'll make you a star". A queer revenge movie.

AT NIGHT WE FLY

Gert-Jan Verdeyen

Belgium | 2021, 17 min

A snapshot of three non-binary friends on dark, deserted streets where there’s space to be themselves – celebrating, crying, talking, enjoying.

WEST BY GOD

Scott Lazer

USA | 2022, 13 min

At a water park deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Nelly locks eyes with Dane. On an awkward date, they drive around their West Virginia town, and Dane shares a version of himself others don’t see.

A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE

Érica Sarmet

Brazil | 2021, 26 min

A middle-aged biker is faced with an unexpected but desired encounter with a group of young queer women. When they come together, their universes do not collide but create a timeless identification shared by a common language.

TOO ROUGH

Sean Lionadh

UK, Scotland | 2021, 17 min

After a night of intoxication, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.

TEDDY

Milda Baginskaite

UK | 2021, 13 min

Teddy is an identity-focused coming-of-age film, inspired by the cruel reality of teenage pressures to "fit in", whether in culture, class, style or sexuality, the film tells a story of a Lithuanian misfit searching for recognition amongst her British classmates. Its goal is to highlight the power of choice when shaping our own identity and join the conversation around the importance of liberating oneself from labels, especially at a young age.

BOOBS

Marie Valade

Canada, Quebec | 2021, 7 min

A young woman is confronted with the birth of paper breasts on her body and must learn to tame a strange love-hate relationship with her femininity.

FONTIS NYMPH

AIna López

France | 2021, 17 min

At Place de la Concorde, between the obelisk and the Eiffel Tower, where drops of water flow on the breasts of the nymphs caused by the jets of the Fountain of the Seas, conversation, depictions of fable art and ancient descriptions of vulva flow in this short experimental. We center in on Julie, who meets up with her friends and tells them how she first found out about female ejaculation. Creating her own fable.

CICATRICES

Hannah Rosselin

France | 2021, 8 min

C-sections, scoliosis, mastectomies, accidents, tortures… 11 women and trans people, bound by a significant trauma, speak openly, with no barriers.

GRANNY'S SEXUAL LIFE

Urška Djukić and Emilie Pigeard

UK, England | 2021, 13 min

Four old women, reflect on their memories of old times when they were young and how different the relationships between men and women were back then. Their voices merge into one single voice, that of the grandmother Vera, who tells her story in proper detail. A trip into grandmother’s youth and the memories of her intimate life illustrate the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.

Q&A with Urška Djukić, the director of the film GRANNY'S SEXUAL LIFE

IN THE SILENCE OF AN ABYSSAL SEA

Juliette Klinke

Belgium | 2021, 19 min

What's worth remembering? Who decides what is worthy of remembrance? Through images shot at the beginning of the 20th century by women filmmakers, the director questions her references. Between past and present, memories and omissions, the audience (re)discovers women who have made cinema what it is today. A sensorial and poetic journey questionning about our own knowledge and social constructions.

Q&A with Juliette Klinke, the director of the film IN THE SILENCE OF AN ABYSSAL SEA

PUTLER KAPUT!

Mykyta Lyskov

Ukraine | 2022, 10 min

After a full-scale russian invasion in Ukraine and escalation of the war animators from all over the world united to kill putin! At least on a screen.

IT IS QUIET HERE.

Olena Podolianko, Novruz Hikmet

Ukraine | 2022, 13 min

A young couple is torn from the world for one long night in a hotel room in a town near the border. That night they agreed not to talk about the war. Completely lost in each other' s small world, they don't realize when the morning comes and force them to go back to reality.

TEATRALNA STATION

Alina Panasenko

Ukraine | 2022, 16 min

Tymofii is a little pickpocket. He lives his normal life until he suddenly falls in love with the next on the lady station officer at the Teatralna station.

THE DIAPER CAKE

Anastasia Babenko

Ukraine | 2022, 18 min

After the celebratory night, an adolescent Vitya visits his wife Lena and their newborn son at the hospital in a small Ukrainian town. As the new parents are trying to wake their baby for feeding, they deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. In a tiny hospital room, they have no choice but to grow up. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.

I NEVER HAD DREAMS OF MY SON

Jason Blevins

Ukraine | 2022, 16 min

After five years of war, a Ukrainian father finds proof his missing son may still be alive in captivity.

TROY

Mike Donahue

USA || 2022, 16 min

Follows a darkly comedic tale about the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.

ASPIRATIONAL SLUT

Caroline Lindy

USA || 2022, 15 min

A newly heartbroken woman, on the advice of a pizza guy, learns to separate love from sex and over a series of wild random hookups, she learns to put them back together.

WET

Lauriane Montpert, Mélina Mandon, Elvira Taussac, Marianne Bergeonneau

France || 2022, 6 min

A lady attempts to seduce her masseur, leading them both into a maze of sensation, flesh, and steam.

SAUNA

Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren

Switzerland || 2021, 4 min

Ava enters the Sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat, Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.

CHLOE CHERRY LIKES HER MEN LIKE HER TEA

Max Sherman

USA || 2022, 2 min

Chloe Cherry likes her tea hot, but not, like, burning hot.

EATING IN THE DARK

Inari Sirola

UK || 2022, 9 min

Through snakey dildos, setting boundaries and a journey through a mind bending forest, we follow Siro’s quest for self discovery.

SALMON MEN

EISPRUNG, Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Joel Hofmann

Switzerland || 2020, 6 min

The salmon want to reproduce.
While the salmon men are swimming upstream in a testosterone-driven race, at the source the women indulge themselves in a fertility dance. But the roles aren’t set as clearly as the men expect.

RE-RECORD

Kyrylo Zemlyanyi

Ukraine | 2022, 6 min

A family celebrates the birthday of their son. After a warm birthday greeting, their usual feast takes place.

KHARKIV MUSIC FEST DID HAPPEN

Vyacheslav Turyanytsya

Ukraine | 2022, 14 min

On February 24, 2022, a full-scale war was launched against Ukraine by the Russian Federation. All willing men and women joined the Armed Forces and Territorial Defense, the volunteer movement was mobilized, and refugee assistance centers were set up. The protagonist, student Serhiy, volunteers daily at a humanitarian hub for IDPs in Uzhhorod, but feels guilty for not doing enough to win the war. Meanwhile, Serhiy's friend, who has nowhere to live, comes to town.

UKRAINIAN QUEER FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM

Rebel Queers

Ukraine | 2022, 29 min

On February 24 at 6.31am my partner called me and said "please don't panic, but they started bombing Kyiv." At that moment a new reality started. The reality full of horror and pain. This documentary is about the experiences of queer people during the war.

LITURGY OF ANTI-TANK OBSTACLES

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Ukraine | 2022, 12 min

The reality in Ukraine split into before and after the war. Every citizen is trying to contribute to the nationwide resistance. Many people retrained for the needs of the military. Sculptors and metalworkers now make anti-tank obstacles. In the art workshops, among the artwork, anti-tank obstacles are being produced. The artists make the anti-tank obstacles, surrounded by the sculptures of angels, Cossacks, and famous Ukrainian personalities. Statues stand in the corners like a silent army. Multiple copies of Jesus Christ, like a terracotta army, froze in various poses and waiting. Masters weld metal for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

THE ANALOGY OF SPACE

Oleksandr Hoisan

Ukraine | 2022, 12 min

Due to long-term observation of the NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) the player witnesses certain documentary events that take place in different parts of the in-game world. However, these events are permeated by common cross-cutting themes: excessive cruelty and human indifference. To some extent the constant movement (which also accompanies the player-observer throughout the in-game space) is the only salvation from arbitrariness on the streets but not always.

YOU CAN'T SHOW MY FACE

Knutte Wester

Sweden | 2021, 20 min

The sound of the streets of Teheran are transformed in to forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government and about a vision of a utopia within creativity. Street salesmen and pedestrians form an imaginary choir of the streets, backing up the youth, suggesting the public space should belong to the public. The narrative is captured in a circular chronology, in a single day from dawn to dawn, embodying a situation. The project was illegally recorded in the streets of Teheran by a few young artists and filmmaker Knutte Wester.

BESTIA

Hugo Covarrubias

Chile | 2021, 15 min

Based on true events, "Bestia" explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveals a grim fracture of her mind and of the country.

GODS OF THE SUPERMARKET

Alberto Gonzalez Morales

Switzerland | 2022, 8 min

In times of the body positivity movement, this film pays tribute to the male body with which the director has a love-hate relationship. Both obsessed and frustrated by it, this ideal body represents an unreachable fantasy. Through a montage made from net footage, content collected online, he sends it a message imbued with sincerity.

THE WATER MURMURS

Story Chen

China | 2022, 15 min

When an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small riverside town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend. Her memories of the town start to become clearer and clearer in her mind on this journey.

CHERRIES

Vytautas Katkus

Lithuania | 2022, 15 min

A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.

BLUE LIPS

Philippe Hamelin

Canada || 2020, 7 min

Using synthetic images, the gorgeous animation, Lèvres bleues (Blue Lips) reconstructs the memory of a loving moment.

FALENA

Nancy Pettinicchio

Canada || 2021, 16 min

Intrigued and inspired by an unexpected encounter with an older neighbour, Leila spends her last days in the suburbs exploring her identity through nude photography. As she faces her transition to adulthood, Leila is confronted with her changing relationship to her best friend Cassy.

ALEX

Jean-Pierre Huot

Canada || 2022, 18 min

A prostitute becomes friends with an old woman who is his complete opposite. This friendship deeply transforms the young man. However, she keeps a grave secret that will upset their relationship.

ABUNDANCE

Justine Rivard

Canada || 2022, 6 min

The movements of the water unite with those of the dance, moving the filmmaker to finally recognize himself in it.

NUIT BLONDE

Gabrielle Demers

Canada || 2022, 16 min

At night, Victor walks without supervision to live his life.

COEXHISTENCE

Youri Létourneau-Langlois

Canada || 2022, 14 min

Sophie lives as a recluse and increasingly feels herself in a dissociated state. While trying to escape through poetry, a strange presence heightens her anguish, making her speech more and more irrational.

NOT THE 80S

Marleen Valien

Germany | 2022, 17 min

Two people, one restaurant, some preconceptions and a bit of fish.

SAVING SOME RANDOM INSIGNIFICANT STORIES

Anna Vasof

Austria, Greece | 2022, 14 min

“Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories” is a goodbye film to my parents’ house. One night in December 2021, after an unusually extreme weather event, my parents’ house flooded, and they had to be rescued by a boat. They lost almost everything that night, including their dog and their cat. Two days after the flood, when the water level went down and I could finally enter the house, I tried to extract as many objects as possible, and for the rest, I made this film.

SNOW IN SEPTEMBER

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

Mongolia, France | 2022, 20 min

Davka is a teenager who lives in the decaying Soviet buildings in Ulaanbaatar. With his classmate, Anuka, they talk about manga and tease each other about sex. When Davka encounters an older woman, his ideas about intimacy and his view of relationships are forced to change.

SAME OLD

Lloyd Lee Choi

USA | 2022, 15 min

One bad night for a New York City delivery driver.

FIRE ROOM

Ka Ki Wong

Hong Kong | 2021, 14 min

In a staggered time and space, a pair of siblings, one an arsonist, the other a firefighter — an unusual relationship unfolds.

COMMUNITY GARDENS

Vytautas Katkus

Lithuania | 2019, 15 min

It is a story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.

GUARD OF HONOUR

Edmunds Jansons

Latvia | 2021, 6 min

A natural disaster interferes with the honour guard ritual. Only one of the guards, seemingly pointlessly, chooses to remain in his post.

COLLECTIVE.ME

Adriāna Roze

Latvia | 2018, 21 min

“Collective.ME” is an ironic comedy about lies and the loss of faith. In a small village, a paper mill is expecting a visit from the Ministry. While the director and his team is looking for a creative tools to subvert official’s attention, something much more important slips by unnoticed.

DUMMY

Laurynas Bareiša

Lithuania | 2020, 13 min

Using a faceless doll, a criminal re-enacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group.

SIERRA

Sander Joon

Estonia | 2022, 15 min

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.

81 METERS

Janis Abele

Latvia | 2022, 14 min

Spring, 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay shot on super 8mm opens the locked doors to the cinema houses during perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space. They are closed for public but sometimes we can feel they are alive.

THE SOWER OF STARS

Lois Patiño

Spain, Japan | 2022, 25 min

Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid.
The stars’ sower wakes them up and they travel through the city, talking about this and that, while saying goodbye to everything.

SOFT ANIMALS

Renee Zhan

UK | 2021, 3 min

Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.

LOVE, DEATH AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Soham Kundu

UK | 2022, 24 min

Experiencing their son’s life after his unnatural death while navigating their failing marriage; mourning parents Mira and Pradeep cannot overcome their grief but start to build their lives around it.

AMOK

Balázs Turai

Hungary | 2022, 14 min

After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident, Clyde must confront his inner demon.

WARSHA

Dania Bdeir

Lebanon | 2021, 16 min

A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.

STOZHARS

Ivan Kavaleridze

Ukraine | 1939, 31 min

A tractor driver Andrii Stozhar decides to go to the Far East instead of his brother Maksym, who was kiiled on the border.

KYIV FRESCOES

Serhii Parajanov

Ukraine | 1966, 15 min

Parajanov assembled this “film collage” from the rushes and tests that remained unscathed after the Soviet authorities halted the production of "Kyiv Frescoes" and ordered the negative to be destroyed.

The director himself said, "Time has turned our ideas into a film, and I want you to see it."

THE WORLD OF PARASKA HORYTSVIT

Pavlo Fareniuk

Ukraine | 1992, 30 min

A short documentary about the Hutsul artist Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit. She personally experienced the horror of Soviet oppression, but despite this, her work became one of the leading symbols of the region.