Q&A after the screening

Entropia

Flóra Anna Buda

Hungary / 2018, 10 min

Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle! In the animated film Entropia by Hungarian artist Flóra Anna Buda, colours explode and sensually unleash new possibilities: Thanks to the fly, all that is abstract comes to life and sexuality plays an integral role.

Mr. Mare

Luca Toth

Hungary, France / 2019, 20 min

Fifty-year-old Boris, balding and big-bellied, is madly in love with the young and beautiful Cezar. He leads a clandestine life entirely devoted to he who is both his progenitor and the object of his affection. Everything shifts dramatically the day when Cezar, who is unaware of Boris's existence, brings a woman back to their love nest.

Adorable

Cheng-Hsu Chung

United Kingdom / 2018, 6 min

A short film that directly gazes at lives and the society with observation and imagination. It is queer and it is here.

Bay of Plenty

Milva Stutz

Switzerland / 2018, 12 min

The tiny island in the ocean becomes a meeting place for two strange yellow figures. They shake their bums and stretch their breasts, sexual characteristics shift, dissolve, re-grow. A continuous transformation that also seems to produce new creatures.

Récit de Soi

Géraldine Charpentier

Belgium / 2018, 5 min

While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.

Reach the Sky

Shaun Brodie

Canada / 2018, 6 min

On the open road, three queer friends in three queer cars are separated by an unexpected queer fork in the road. Reach the Sky is a stop-motion short with heart, fantasy, and a lot of yarn.

Slug Life

Sophie Koko Gate

United Kingdom / 2018, 6 min

Tanya has finally created the perfect partner, a beautiful giant slug.

They say: sign the petition.
They offer: create an NGO.
They assure: this is not Paris, we are all off city in May.
Petitions don't work, NGOs follow the red tape, and precisely no one cares, especially in May.
Today, only artistic resistance, tomorrow is a r...

I Signed the Petition

Mahdi Fleifel

United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland / 2018, 11 min

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.

3 Stolen Cameras

Filmmakers Collective

Sweden / 2017, 18 min

The members of video activist group Equipe Media, from Western Sahara, fight to keep their cameras. This is a story about breaking an absolute censorship with unique footage from an area where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a near total media blockade.

White Riot: London

Rubika Shah

United Kingdom / 2017, 9 min

In 1977, immigration divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo?

KG

Cynthia Madansky

Greece / 2019, 11 min

KG ruminates through performance and a portrait of Athens, on excerpts from poems in a book of poetry by Katerina Gogou entitled Three Clicks Left. Super 8mm, 10 min. Performer, Kleoni Manousakis Music, Zeena Parkins

Raw and Cooked / Roh und Gekocht

Rainer Binz, Thomas Leboeg

Germany / 2018, 11 min

The G20 summit held in Hamburg in 2017 provided the opportunity for this film based on reduction, in which image and sound interact as equals. Field audio recordings were edited in an essayistic way and shift between documentation and abstraction.

Primeiro Ato

Matheus Parizi

Brazil / 2018, 20 min

"Stop the world, I want to get off". Two theatre students try to convince their colleagues to leave their classroom and join them in the protests against the dismantling of culture policies that take over Brazil.

Skies are not just blue

Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay

Canada / 2018, 26 min

Yara, A. and brothers Monib & Tariq claim their identities as Muslims from diverse backgrounds by negotiating a space in the LGBTQ+ community and reflecting on their personal beliefs and experiences.

Four Quartets

Marco Alessi

UK / 2018, 11 min

Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf struggles to find his place among the crowd. Moving to the film’s rhythmic pulse and the intoxicating music in the queer club, we dance with Raf and cast off all inhibitions.

Yulia & Juliet

Zara Dwinger

Netherlands / 2018, 12 min

Yulia & Juliet is contemporary love story based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Yulia and Juliet, both 16, are locked up in a closed juvenile detention centre. Despite their circumstances, they feel like they can take on anything together. They’re in love with each other. Nothing can hurt them when they’re together. But then Juliet is released. Her time in the institution is over. Yulia doesn’t know what to do. She can’t live without Juliet. When they see each other again, they look at each other with love in their eyes. Then everything goes black.

Welcome to the Ball

Adam Vincent Wright

USA / 2018, 5 min

A child learns sign language in hopes of making a new friend.

Haus

Joseph Amenta

Canada / 2018, 15 min

A displaced queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene.

Johnny

Jérome Casanova

France / 2018, 26 min

Johnny is an alchoolic, Johnny is fatalistic, Johnny is tormented, Johnny isn’t able to behave, Johnny is impetuous, Johnny is moody, Johnny believes in nothing, Johnny is footloose, Johnny isn’t brave. But Aurélien doesn’t care because first and foremost Johnny is radiant.