Are you ready to experience something extraordinary? This collection of festival shorts was curated to push your boundaries and take you to the next level of cinematic storytelling.
ABOUT THE FILMS
AutoErotica: We Buy Gay Stuff by Claire Timothy
17 min | United States
Behind an unassuming “We Buy Gay Stuff” sign in San Francisco’s Castro district – complete with a striking leather daddy illustration – lies an unexpected treasure trove of queer history.
Clementine by Sally Tran
15 min | United States
A late-blooming trans woman grapples with a life-altering, assigned-male-at-birth Trans specific dilemma, and with the help of her besties, navigates the complexities of this debacle as she defines her womanhood on her own terms.
Everything You Want by Mariana Machado
20 min | Belgium, Brazil
Everything You Want comes from my experience as a Latin American migrant in Brussels and as part of a young generation of filmmakers creating art in response to our frustrations, anger, needs, desires, hopes, and dreams. Inspired by migrants from the Global South in Europe, the film portrays them not as fragile beings but as powerful and creative forces.
KOKUHAKU by Adrià Guxens
10 min | Spain
During an interview, Tadashi, a young Spanish-Japanese actor who plays female characters in a theatrical practice similar to kabuki, will return to the past to relive his most intimate memories.
La Máscara de Emiliano (Emiliano’s Mask) by Adrià Guxens
13 min | United States
MEXICO, 1914. The revolutionary, Emiliano Zapata, seizes explosives from Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, his enemy’s vain son-in-law, rekindling a past romance that transcends political divides.
Marrow of my Bones by Karly McCloskey
2 min | Canada
Marrow of my Bones is a short experimental film that has been created through a mixture of digital special effects, compositing, frame by frame animation, and 16mm hand processed film. Through material-based exploration, this film plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner.
MY ENDLESS ECLIPSE by Bijan Aarabi
14 min | Canada, Iran
A transgender woman has hidden her gender identity all her life. To escape a forced marriage, she is forced to flee her country. But she falls into the hands of human traffickers.
PIETRA by Cynthia Levitan
13 min | Portugal
In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower – as delicate as it is revolutionary – represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese neighborhood.
The Eating of an Orange by May Kindred-Boothby
7 min | United Kingdom, France
Unconventional rituals and explorations of sexuality involve slugs and the symbolic consumption of an orange.