Not for Kids
SHORT FILM PROGRAM / 96 min
THE EATING OF AN ORANGE
May Kindred-Boothby / UK, France / 2025 / 7 min / No dialogue
In a large manor, all humans look, eat, and act the same. Everything changes for one woman when she encounters something she’s never seen before: an orange. The fruit guides her into a new, sensuous world. Now, she must choose: abandon discovery, or step into a new way of being.
HOW A RIVER IS BORN
Luma Flôres / Brazil / 2025 / 9 min / No dialogue
Ayla wakes in a mountainous landscape of dense greens and running water. Driven by curiosity, she sets out to explore. As she discovers the world, she begins to discover herself — a poetic, dreamlike journey into sexual self-discovery and the acceptance of one’s own desires.
HEY DAD
Wei-fan Wang / Taiwan, UK / 2024 / 5 min / Mandarin with English subtitles
He has practised saying these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid with his dad isn’t the best idea. He might decide to stop, starting the countdown again for another 20 years. Maybe it will be the right time by then?
BREAKING WALLS
Jan-Dirk Bouw / Netherlands, Belgium, Norway / 2026 / 23 min / Dutch, English, Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
An autobiographical fiction of journalist and activist ‘Hoi Yi’ highlights the global rise of censorship and surveillance. He vocalises a desire for democratic values, but hides his identity from his family. His personal repression juxtaposes his dedication to others’ freedom.
MY NAME IS LILITH
Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur / Belgium, France / 2025 / 14 min / French with English subtitles
Banished from Eden, Lilith falls into the dark Underworld. Nearby, Eve is born in blood to Adam. Lost at first, Lilith finds her way through strange encounters, accepting her many identities. Transformed and strong, Eve and Lilith finally unite with fiery eyes.
!! Content warnings !!
Strobe or flashing lightning, blood
FRIED!
Lizzie Watts / UK / 2025 / 10 min / English with no subtitles
As Dev drives home from a mysterious, ageing nuclear facility, he becomes stranded at an isolated emu farm run by old, mystic lesbians. Suspicious of their intentions, Dev fears they will sacrifice him at the local stone circle.
We’re bringing you a selection of exciting queer animations in clay, 3D, ink, and everything in between.
Unlike the usual belief that animation is just cartoons for kids, these films prove animation can be a tool for expressing queerness in new ways, pushing boundaries further and conveying feelings that cannot be put into words.
Rather than softening or diminishing our desires, they sharpen them — embracing sexuality, perversity and transformation. We’re breaking out of kindergarten and into the queer adult world — animation has never been rawer!
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04/11 - 19:30
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IMMATURE
Eddy Wu / Taiwan, Netherlands / 2025 / 6 min / Mandarin with English subtitles
Catch a glimpse of ethereal 3D animation and whimsical body imagery. This animated documentary delves deep into the evolving perceptions of a trans gay man, highlighting the fluidity and complexity of gender identity.
COSMONAUTS
Leo Černic / Slovenia, Italy / 2026 / 14 min / English with English subtitles
On board a phallic, intergalactic cruise for singles in search of sex and pleasure, travels a naïve romantic in head-to-toe leather; an ageing cleaner nobody notices; and a cynical scientist there for research. A colourful collision of desire, longing, humour, and absurdity.
SKIN FLICK
Louise Bailly, Daniela Del Castello, Alice Levy, Bruno De Mendoça, Elifsu Meriç, Joey Quoc Tran / France / 2025 / 8 min / English with English subtitles
A porn actress stars in the Devil’s cannibalistic snuff movies in exchange for beautiful, bombshell skin. But when she lures a runaway bride to the studio to devour on camera, she develops feelings that disrupt the Devil’s scenario.
