All Films

Locked in the Whirlwind

2014 • 27 min • Switzerland

“Tell me that story again." "Story? What story, honey?” This playful montage film focuses on the motif of the hat to take us on a short excursion through classic film history. At once, it is also the self-portrait of a cinephile and all that he keeps under his hat: a desire for love, passion, romance.

Mardistan

2014 • 28 min

A documentary by Harjant Gill about four different Punjabi men and their perceptions of masculinity in India.

Afterimage Selves

2014 • 4 min • Canada

animation by Sabrina Ratté

L'alpinista

2014 • 49 min • Italy

Agostino Gazzera, "Gustin", was a worker at a Fiat factory in the fifties. Son of an Italian proletariat who was left battered by World War II but full of hope for the future. A young Gustin, dreams to walk the roads of legendary mountain climbers such as Cassin, Boccalatte and Gervasutti.

Crétacé Parc

2014 • 51 min

A movie director, a jurist and a boho writer are invited to visit a zoo to create a promotional event. Out there, they discover that the owner of this park mixed genetically different species to create real life dinosaurs. The first enclosures are really disappointing until an electrical failure happens in front of the T-Rex pen, which forces them to run away across the jungle and fight for their survival.

Dzisiaj

2014 • 50 min

Garçon boucher

2014 • 49 min

Miguel, 17, becomes a butcher's boy after failing at school. The son of Portuguese immigrants - short, dressed in an urban style - he is the opposite of the image that butchers try to convey.

Project Gelb

2014 • 43 min

Director Francis Luta's revealing documentary, 'Project Gelb' goes inside the minds of gay Asian males as they talk openly about the misconceptions and stereotypes they confront with the gay dating community.

Overcast

2014 • 50 min

Zugar Zombie

2014 • 15 min • Colombia

In a film that is counted from the end and it moves progressively backward, with the main purpose and reason to discover the origin of the events leading up to an event, Zugar Zombie tells a story that from irony portrays a reflection of how things work in a small Latin American society.

I'm Black, I'm Queer and I'm a Whore

2014 • 21 min

In 2012, old friends Cas van der Pas and Hugo Meijer decided to travel to Colombia to find stories that inspired them. They contacted Diana, a transgender prostitute, lawyer and human rights activist. From there they began to develop a film that runs a year in the life of this brave trans woman from Colombia that combines prostitution, human rights activism and her career as a lawyer to turn the world around her into a better one.

Keepsake

2014 • 15 min

An intimate story of a bitter relationship between Naomi and her emotionally distant father who is dying. Naomi has stopped talking to him for years. Her partner Linda must find a way to help them say goodbye before it's too late.

Man's Game

2014 • 10 min

Billy Tompkins, a gay, professional football player, intends to wrap up his 17th-year in the league by leading his team to the playoffs while continuing to keep his sexuality a secret.

Adonis

2014 • 18 min

A non-narrative story about two twin brothers and the danger one of them puts everyone in by pursuing the sport of bodybuilding by any means necessary.

Life of Silence

2014 • 27 min • Taiwan

Tensions between society’s expectations and true happiness are explored in this compelling short film that tells the story of three gay men who are entangled in doomed romances.

Painted Parakeets

2014 • 13 min

This short film tells the story of love as it is filtered through the lens of an irreparable dilemma. What remains of what was once most important to two women can never be the same. If love is not lost but cannot be fulfilled, what becomes of it?

Lily in the Grinder

2014 • 14 min

Ryan struggles to find meaning in his provisional existence, exploring sex and death and the idea of 'becoming something.'

A Proud Woman

2014 • 10 min

Mei, a transgender caretaker living in Singapore, is forced to fight for her job when, Xue Mei, the daughter of the woman she cares for threatens to expose her.

Sonderkommando

2014 • 19 min

A train, a trip, a destination. Two strangers start to look each other while travelling in a couch of a train. Cold, pain, farewell. Arrived at the destination one of them is chosen to be a labourer of the Death in a Nazi concentration camp, a Sonderkommando.

Veil of Silence

2014 • 36 min

On the brink of an impending law that could re-write their destinies,young group of sexual minorities in Nigeria defy all odds in the pursuit of happiness.

Strings

2014 • 14 min

Convinced his dad is a spy, Luke embarks on a journey that leads him to discover the awkward truth.

The Rapture

2014 • 5 min • Netherlands

A pulsating bombardment of images about our insatiable pursuit of perpetual happiness and freedom from fear. A frame by frame hand manipulated 35mm celluloid collage film, the found footage is augmented by stills that were taken from various magazines, then distorted and deformed.

Damaged Goods

2014 • 5 min

A college freshman's emotional torture has pushed him to a suicidal breaking point, having lost all hope of fully living his ideal life in peace.

Martyrs: Fire

2014 • 7 min

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of a natural force. The experiences of the four individuals are orchestrated together to form a coherent whole. The overriding theme is martyrdom for deep-seated beliefs, with the physical suffering of the body made dramatically evident through the cardinal element