MY DEAR LOVER

Milva Stutz

Switzerland / 2019, 10 min

The animated short film “My Dear Lover” tells of a figure's yearning for touch and the impossibility of bringing that about. While one hand is trying to get into contact with the surface of an amorphous body, a voice in the off is reading a love letter. The longed for lover might well stand for an imaginary body, upon which insecurities around human / non-human as well as digital / analogue relationships are played out.

TURNING

Linnéa Haviland

Sweden, UK / 2019, 2 min

Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions, microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape...
A short animation about the impact of homo- bi- and transphobia on young people, and how support and community can help us grow.

TAMOU

Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery

Israel / 2019, 10 min

Tamou, a lonely housewife, plunges into an internal exploration of gender and sexuality in 20th century Morocco.
Jewish families would name a daughter 'Tamou' (translated to 'ended' in hebrew), hoping that no more girls will be born and that the next child would be a boy.
Surrounded by the prying eyes of a patriarchal society, her - his true identity as a trans man begins to unfold.

PURPLEBOY

Alexandre Siqueira

Portugal / 2019, 14 min

Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?

NEST

Eszter Jánka

Germany / 2019, 9 min

They wander through an infinite emptiness. A couple and she, the woman. They feel an inexplicable bound, in the night, in the world: outside. Their encounter can only occur in the empty room. One by one they can enter the space and find each other again. In their world, they are not completely alone, Pig is observing them. Three bodies, their existence doesn’t affect the sphere, their world was already complete. And empty. The nest bursts.

JE N'AI BESOIN DE PERSONNE EN HARLEY DAVIDSON

Scylia Poyer

France / 2019, 3 min

A little robot lands on an unknown planet and meets a society of pretty tough ladies.

TOOMAS BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE WILD WOLVES

Chintis Lundgren

Estonia / 2019, 18 min

Toomas, an exemplary office worker, has to support his family after losing his job, without telling his wife that he also works as a gigolo.

WINTER IN THE RAINFOREST

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Estonia / 2019, 9 min

Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and
death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers - fragile and resilient at
the same time. Time passes here in a strange way, moving in an unexpected pace. The unique combination of natural light, fast flowing time and subtle stop motion animation creates a unique poetic reality that makes us aware of the magic and materiality of our own living in this world.

EYES

Lily Ash Sakula

UK / 2019, 5 min

‘Eyes’ is a short mix-media animation about moving though the world when your gender doesn't conform to the binary. It explores the tension between being looked at and being seen, through a day in the life of Jig. A collaboration with the young people of Project Indigo, a queer youth group based in Hackney.

THE FABRIC OF YOU

Josephine Lohoar Self

UK, Scotland / 2019, 11 min

A tailor struggles to come to terms with the loss of his lover in an oppressive and unforgiving world where everybody wants to look the same.

SEASON

Giovanna Lopalco

France / 2019, 8 min

A procession of men in white clothing walk a young woman in a strange procession. In this obscure landscape, a perpetual biological universe will transform her body.

A CAT IS ALWAYS FEMALE

Martina Mestrovic, Tanja Vujasinovic

Croatia / 2019, 16 min

Through a feminist lens, the filmmakers pay homage to their professor Marija Ujevic Galetovic – one of Croatia’s most important sculptors. Marija's life story and views are told through a combination of video footage and animation of her feminine sculptures.

PANTHERS

Erika Sánchez

Spain / 2020, 22 min

Joana and Nina are two 13-year-old friends in the midst of puberty. The first one, bubbly and brazen, has vital questions about female gender. Both are young women of their time and condition: social networks, immediacy and excesses. Today, Joana has decided to put an end to her existential anxiety. At that moment a macabre game devised by Joana begins. That decisive moment of puberty will cause something in each of them to change forever.

ROUGE

Kostis Theodosopoulos

Greece / 2019, 18 min

A sexist violence incident fires tension in Danai's friendship with Ilona and Toufa. Torn between theory and practice, the three friends realize that patriarchy won't die with bottles (only), and they now have marks to prove it.

WHERE WE USED TO SWIM

Daniel Asadi Faezi

Germany / 2019, 8 min

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the largest lake in the Middle East. But human influence set its course, and brought upon a devastating drought that the lake could not withstand. Today, just 5% of the original lake remains. The majority of the land is now barren and covered by salt. Lake Urmia’s ruin has become a political symbol all over the country. This cinematic essay observes the places of present and past and weaves a new narration with fragments of identity and memory.

CRACKING SOUND

Hanna Kaihlanen

Finland / 2019, 11 min

A dreamlike ride through an apocalyptic northern landscape. A man is tracking an elk by the side of a field. In the distance, a harvester is gliding among the trees like a great "iron beast". The landscape awakens as we ride through it half asleep. CRACKING SOUND is a frenzied journey to the heart of the end of times, through the struggle between Man and Nature.

MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN

Paul-Louis Léger

France / 2019, 7 min

In an infinite cluster of inanimate bodies floating aimlessly, a woman and a man evoke the time when the Earth was still beautiful. What did they do to prevent the disaster?

SUNDAY

Gaël Kyriakidis, Fanny Dreyer

Switzerland / 2017, 10 min

Expelled from the machine-week for incompetence, Sunday meets a mysterious alter ego that takes him on a contemplative stroll. At the end of a dreamlike inner journey, Sunday returns to the machine to reinvent it.

ETERNITY

Anastasia Melikhova

Denmark / 2018, 3 min

Abstractions transform into nature, creating a new world.

TIME AND TIDE

Marleen van der Werf

Netherlands / 2018, 29 min

This unconventional nature documentary is a personal statement against the 'pornofication' of nature in film.

VADER (FATHER)

Isabel Lamberti

Netherlands / 2019, 24 min

The film explores the relationship of a dad and son who haven’t been in touch in the last years. While he tries to reconnect with his son in the present, he reflects with his girlfriend on the past.

BLESSED LAND

Pham Ngoc Lan

Vietnam / 2019, 19 min

A middle-aged woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave - situated in a former fishing village she hasn’t been to in decades. In the cemetery on the sandy dunes, they wander around for a long time without finding the headstone. Has her memory eroded, or has the grave been concealed somewhere underneath the green grass of the new golf courses? It’s true, for the nouveau riche, land for the living to play on is better than land for the dead to rest at.

FAVOURITES

Martin Monk

Austria / 2019, 18 min

After falling out with her mother, rebellious Sofia wants to hitchhike to Italy in search of her biological father. In haste, she stuffs a few things in her backpack and sets off in the early hours of a Viennese summer morning. When she meets middle-aged Michael, who reluctantly agrees to give her a lift, the two strangers develop an unlikely friendship on their shared journey through the Austrian south.

AN ARABIAN NIGHT

Pierre Mouzannar

UK, England, Lebanon / 2019, 33 min

Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night.