The topic of sexuality has long ceased to be a private matter. It's fun to talk about sex, and the Midnight Sexy Shorts program will show you it is possible in any form. Get ready to glimpse at the most remote corners of your consciousness, where the nature of your understanding of sexuality lies. Here, body language, unveiled human fantasies, and sensuality, fuse in real ecstasy.

No taboos or forbidden grounds. This is a case when ethical concerns and moral contemplations are better left behind the cinema doors.

Simbiosis Carnal

Rocío Álvarez

Belgium / 2017, 10 min

A poetic journey through the history of desire and sexuality where the female pleasure, long ignored and repressed, takes pride of place.

LOVEBOX

Ivan Turkovi Krnjak

Croatia / 2018, 15 min

Summer day in Zagreb. It's boring and hot. Miro is lonely. Andrea needs love. The two of them don't know each other, but they're using the same dating app. Could this be their lucky day?

CYCLISTS

Veljko Popovic

Croatia / 2018, 7 min

The cycling season is nearing its grand finale. During the final race, the two men in the lead are competing for more than the Grand Trophy; they are fi ghting for the affection of a lady and fulfilment of their erotic fantasies. Meanwhile, the small port town prepares for the arrival of a large ocean liner and its dashing captain.

THE ORGY

Sam Baron

UK / 2018, 15 min

A romantic comedy about a heartbroken man who goes to his first orgy.

Morning Dew

Julie Colly

France / 2018, 9 min

It grew during a moist summer night, this strange outgrowth in the middle of Nanni’s face. Maybe the answer lies in the park with sweet flowers surrounding him? Or unless it's under the skirt of Alouette, which shudders with mystery... Between these two teenagers, the attraction begins.

Sara's Intimate Confession

Emilie Blichfeldt

Norway / 2018, 22 min

After being confronted with her fear of being too big, Sara, who’s 181 cm tall and heavily built, begins to explore her perception of femininity, with her talking vulva.

Hot Dog

Alma Buddecke, Marleen Valin

Germany / 2019, 8 min

Hannah, in a love-hate relationship with her vagina, chronicles how her feelings toward her sexuality have changed over time. Like that one moment when she discovered the vibration function of her PlayStation controller.

Take a carrot, preferably a toxic one. Chop it and feed it to a duck. To the one who is friends with a cat. Invite scientists from the Brazilian Research Center to keep track of the nutritional value of our upcoming meal. Throw social pressure into the boiling water, add gender stereotypes, and a hair from the head of a teenager who's realized their homosexuality.

Boil it on low heat and do not forget to use dental floss after the meal, as something may get stuck between your teeth.

*No animals were harmed during the making of this cinematic meal.

Obsession

Lucia Zhai

USA / 2018, 13 min

Though a little girl, Meg is attracted to Dr. Webber, who wears a dentist's perfect smile. After becoming infatuated with the seemingly perfect Joe, she feels compelled to make her dream a reality. However, Meg's mother Anna is an opponent of dentistry, despite her own terribly bad teeth. So naive Meg secretly decides to take matters into her own hands...

UTKA

Andrew Todd & Johnny Hall

New Zealand / 2018, 5 min

Once upon a time, there was a sad little duck named Utka. This is the tale of how he gained everything he ever wanted - and lost so much more.

The Popular Touch

Paul Tarragó

United Kingdom / 2018, 23 min

Work, film, work, film, work - day to day - week to week. This is a home movie domestic comedy experimental film drama. Autobiography too. It’s also part four of an ever-growing trilogy.
Starting in 2003 I decided to make a series of pieces alongside my regular films, a strand that would constitute an ongoing fictional autobiography. But as all creative work is, to some extent, autobiographical, and as I appear in most of my films, and all the people in these films are who they say they are, then what made this different from the rest - or from real life, really - became kind of blurred. Fuzzy even.
So this is fuzzy fiction - latest in the line. Suitable for All.

A Low-Budget Film

Paulo Leierer

Brazil / 2018, 13 min

A mixture of corporate film, archive footage, documentary and making of, the film is an attempt of the scientists from the "Brazilian Institute of Alternative and Secondary Importance Research" to fight the lack of funding, the closure of the institute and to keep their dreams alive.

HELSINKI MANSPLAINING MASSACRE

Ilja Rautsi

Finland / 2018, 15 min

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre is a horror comedy about one woman’s desperate struggle to survive a pack of men who just want to explain everything to her.

IS YOUR TEEN A HOMOSEXUAL?

Tamara Scherbak

Canada / 2018, 6 min

'Is Your Teen A Homosexual?' is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump's America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.

"Do not look for the logic of what you are about to see" is an unofficial slogan of our Animation Madness program. These cartoons that reload consciousness and open up new horizons of understanding animated films.
No more talking - true madness can not be described, it can only be seen and experienced.

And, as practice shows, it's best to do it in a friendly company of the same crazy like-minded people at KISFF.

Is a festival even possible without a comedy program? This time we have prepared a special comedy selection that will show humor throughout its international versatility.
Humor from around the world in a short format is a real weapon against the seriousness that our cinematographers bring to the silver screens of the "Kyiv" cinema.

To plant a flag

Bobbie Peers

Norway, Iceland / 2018, 15 min

In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronaut to the lunar landscapes of Iceland. Their hi-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer.

Deportation

Arjun Talwar, Sandro Wysocki

Poland / 2018, 21 min

After witnessing the ‘lucky’ deportation of a friend, Halim attempts to commit an offence in order to be repatriated. He hadn’t counted on meeting a pretty Slav policewoman…

THE TRAFFIC SEPARATING DEVICE

Johan Palmgren

Sweden / 2018, 15 min

During a romantic escapade, Alan and Beverly cause a fatal accident. This crime will not go unpunished.

WILD LOVE

Maryka Laudet

France / 2018, 5 min

In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street. The ensuing chaos gives rise to a tragi-comic societal satire no one saw coming.

Vihta

François Bierry

France, Belgium / 2017, 22 min

Serge and his four colleagues work in a small company that has just been brought out by a large corporation. As a welcoming gift, they are invited by their new employer to spend a day of relaxation at a spa.