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.

Discussions of gender identities and the right to them are still active in the media. Joan Rowling's transphobic posts, denial of access to women's restrooms, and the aggression of trans-exclusive radical feminists towards transgender people repeatedly raise questions about the concept of "femininity" and its limits.

How inclusive are feminist spaces for transgender people? Is "femininity" being undermined by queer theory and practice? And, in fact, what is a "woman" - the topic of conversation in the film of the same name and the core issue of the whole program.

Self-injurious behavior, Violence

WHAT IS A WOMAN? | HVA ER EN KVINNE?

Marin Håskjold

Norway | 2020, 14 min

A discussion occurs in a women's locker room when someone asks a transgender woman to leave. One in the locker room means that woman is something that you are born as and not something you can become. The discussion escalates continuously as more people interfere. Everyone with different thoughts about what a woman is.

QUEER CARRIERS: DOUBLE AND REPETITION | PORTADORAS QUEER: EL DOBLE Y LA REPETICIÓN

Ana Laura Aláez

USA, Spain, Japan | 2020, 15 min

With Queer Carriers, Aláez explores the degrees of rebelliousness in a given representation of plural femaleness via the use of image repetition in parallel with musical repetition. The video is based on a specific track produced in partnership with the electronic music project of the German musician Daniel Holc / Ascii.Disko.

POISON

Louve Dubuc Babinet

Belgium | 2020, 19 min

The world of work is increasingly uncertain because of technological disruption and labour reforms. The labour system is running out of steam. Poison is a queer BDSM porn actress. Far removed from the world of work, the monetary system and the lifestyle of an employee, she uses her stage performances to champion her causes, vent her anger and claim the right to decide what happens to her own body.

CAUSE OF DEATH

Jyoti Mistry

South Africa | 2020, 19 min

Women’s bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.

CENTAURESS

Deniz Şimşek

Germany, Turkey | 2020, 8 min

Year 2003, footage from TV archives, the future president of Turkey speaks to his folk. An everlasting catchy tune from a juice commercial. In an instant of remembrance your memory gets you to fall through its own time and space.

What will happen if we give ourselves the will and disregard the role imposed by society? If the weight of your imaginary duties before the imaginary "them" lifts off your shoulders for a bit? Why not try it? We promise you will enjoy it. KISFF continues to experiment and offers you to immerse in the magic world of queer animation.

Tortures

GENIUS LOCI

Adrien Mérigeau

France | 2019, 16 min

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees the urban chaos as a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

POLYAMORY | AMOURS LIBRES

Emily Worms

Belgium | 2020, 5 min

Two friends talk about their relationships.
Polyamory and politics, they only let their love decide.

IN NATURE | DANS LA NATURE

Marcel Barelli

Switzerland | 2021, 5 min

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees the urban chaos as a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

SASA AND PETRE | SAȘA ȘI PETRE

Luca Istodor

Romania, USA | 2019, 10 min

1957, communist Romania. Sașa talks about his 45 year long relationship with Petre, in a time when homosexuality was criminalized.

LUSHFULNESS | CIAŁOŚĆ

Weronika Szyma

Poland | 2020, 6 min

When a girl meets her mirror reflection, unexpectedly her fears and insecurities about her body turn into a passionate and free self-exploration. Her fantasies come to life. But there’s also a darker side to this game. Is it possible to become united with your own self?

EMBRACES | ÉTREINTES

Alain Escalle

France | 2020, 13 min

From the space left empty of embraces, only the frantic circle of memories remains. A dance, Bodies stretch, tear and entwine ... Persecutions, War perhaps, as the breath of absence sounds and the weight of loneliness sounds. A man wakes up naked in the ruins of a past conflict. Then comes the embrace of the memory of the loved one.

FLORA BOREALIS

Casey Friedman

USA | 2020, 10 min

Flora Borealis is an animated short about two gay men struggling with depression in a ruined environment, and a botanical glassblower mourning his wife. Composed of 17,000 hand-drawn frames, the film also uses 3d scans of the Harvard Glass Flowers that inspired the story.

LÈVRES BLEUES (BLUE LIPS)

Philippe Hamelin

Canada | 2020, 7 min