Once again, OUT & PROUD invites you to challenge binary, gender roles and talk openly about sexuality, identity and the ongoing civil rights fight of the LGBTQIA+ community.
BABYDYKE | BABYLEBBE
Tone Ottilie Frederiksen
Denmark | 2019, 20 min
While navigating the codes of the queer community, 16-year-old Frede follows her older sister to a party to try and win back her ex-girlfriend.
TRACING UTOPIA
Catarina de Sousa, Nick Tyson
Portugal, USA | 2021, 27 min
A group of teenagers discuss their ideas of a queer utopia. They build online safe spaces within a popular video game and create a manifesto for a more equal and just world where everyone can be their true self. In this moving short documentary, directors Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson prove there is much to learn from Generation Z. With humour and kindness, they illustrate the power of a community of love.
FARAWAY | LOINTAIN
Aziz Zoromba
Canada | 2020, 18 min
After being estranged from his family for his homosexuality, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and from far away as he navigates his solitude - all the while attempting to reconnect with his mother.
ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANET | ΑΠΌΔΡΑΣΗ ΑΠΌ ΤΟΝ ΕΎΘΡΑΥΣΤΟ ΠΛΑΝΉΤΗ
Thanasis Tsimpinis
Greece | 2020, 17 min
A few hours before the world ends, two men have an unexpected encounter, while a strange pink fog is spreading throughout the city.
TRANS*GAZE
Rosa Wiesauer, Andrea B. Braidt
Austria | 2021, 20 min
The "gaze" is as elemental to film theory as salt is to soup. So when Rosa Wiesauer promises an "alternative regime of the gaze" (Robin McRuer) in her film title, the stakes are high! The so-called "male gaze" implies a paradigm that divides the pleasure of watching into an active masculine dimension of looking and a passive feminine dimension of being looked at. In order to establish this binary logic, traditional cinema initially hides the fact of the camera's gaze. Entirely in line with the tradition of feminist filmmaking, TRANS*GAZE breaks with this convention from the start: We see backstage lighting, stage markings and accessories. The subjects speak expressively and convincingly about what Jack Halberstam describes as "queer time and space" as they look directly into the camera: trans*gaze.
NONBINARY
Jeanne L'Homer
France | 2020, 6 min
During this pandemic, performers have had to reinvent themselves to adapt to our new virtual existences. How can we create immersive pieces for an audience of avatars on the Internet? With theatres, clubs and venues being closed in France, this issue has been prevalent in my work for the last few months. Last December, I was asked to create a piece to be performed live on Instagram. I decided to exploit the platform in itself, using its codes and tools to tell a story, a nonbinary manifesto. This work is part of a journey of analyzing the way we as human beings interact with the virtual world, and how feelings of immersion can be recreated by hijacking or following its codes.