Standing Our Ground
SHORT FILM PROGRAM / 107 min
Alice
Gabriel Novis / Brazil / 2025 / 17 min / Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles
Alice, a trans woman, finds solace in surfing. After losing her father, she distances herself from the sport that helped her feel closer to him, until she finds her community, her peace, a sense of freedom — and the joy of surfing once again.
!! Content Warnings !!
Talk of suicide, talk of transphobia
Coyotes
Said Zagha / Palestine, France, Jordan, UK / 2025 / 20 min / Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
What happens when one’s humanity is pushed into an impossible corner? 'Coyotes' is a cinematic response to a system built on layers of injustice and double standards. Set over one night, this neo-noir thriller explores the inevitable outcome of impunity and domination.
Fight!, Fight!, Fight!, Fight!...
Juan Pablo Villavicencio Borges / Mexico / 2025 / 7 min / Spanish with English subtitles
In a schoolyard, a fight breaks out between three boys. Although two of them did not start it, they are quickly blamed as the culprits. The reasons behind the conflict, and the consequences they face, reveal something much deeper than a simple dispute.
!! Content Warning !!
Visible blood
Flight Risk
Mohammad Awad / Australia / 2025 / 16 min / English with no subtitles
In this story based on real events, Muhammad’s fruity holiday plans are derailed when he is stopped by airport security and accused of intending to join ISIS. He’s desperate to catch his flight, but he’d still like to have some fun along the way.
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Chheangkea / Cambodia, France, USA / 2025 / 19 min / Khmer with English subtitles
During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman. At the karaoke bar, her presence is felt, and it assures her grandson that everything will be okay.
Today & Tmrw
Mariales Diaz / USA / 2026 / 12 min / English with English subtitles
A tender and humorous coming of age story of two New York City high school girls, masculine-presenting Mariah and her femme best friend, Kimberly, that offers a glimpse into how trans and queer youth exist and hold one another.
This year’s QTIBIPOC Short Film Programme explores how we can live, love, and thrive for and among ourselves. From refusing to succumb to blackmail and standing up for yourselves against school bullies, when the bully IS the school, to not letting airport interrogation get in the way of your gaycation.
QTIBIPOC people continue to carve out our own space in the world, to make it more liveable, whether it is by laughing, together in tears, or quietly tracing the beloved.
04/11 - 19.45
@Community Screening
07/11 - 14.00
@Cinemateket
We Will Be Who We Are
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda / Sierra Leone / 2025 / 16 min / Krio with English subtitles
Best friends Bɔi and Aya made a promise to one another that they would marry to reach their own freedom. This film explores love, what happens when we give up on who we are, and why we should continuously become who we should always have been.
