What happens to a dream deferred?
Welcome to Celibacy Club
Campbell Moore / USA / 2023 / 16 min / English without subtitles
A coming-of-age short film about identifying as asexual in a world of sex and sensuality.
My Heart Is Going to Explode
Jung In-hyuk / South Korea / 2023 / 20 min / Korean with English subtitles
Soojin is taken on a chaotic journey that tests the strength of her heart. In this B-grade humour short full of invading aliens, sci-fi, action-romance, and clichés, a UFO appears in the sky over Seoul. Together with the green-lit girl she met last night, she strives to save the city.
Beach
Anisha Sharma/ India / 2023 / 15 min / Hindi with English subtitles
Karan is a trans man who has recently undergone gender-affirming surgery, and going to the beach shirtless has been a dream and act of liberation for him. His supportive cis friend Aditya, who always stands up for him, accompanies him on this journey. Will Karan have the courage to go shirtless on the beach? Will he achieve his dream and feel liberated?
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Apartment 605
Bianca Catbagan / The Philippines / 2023 / 7 min / English, French and Tagalog with subtitles for the Tagalog
Mika packs up their late father’s apartment when they are interrupted by the buzzer. Over the course of a conversation separated by the building’s intercom, we learn of the visitor's connection with the apartment's owner, Mika’s estranged father.
MnM
Twiggy Pucci Garçon / USA / 2023 / 22 min / English without subtitles
MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being non-binary in a community that prizes gender ‘realness’.
Unless We Dance
Hanz Rippe Gabriele, Fernanda Pineda Palencia / Colombia / 2023 / 15 min / Spanish with English subtitles
In Quibdó, Columbia, Bonays and hundreds of young people come together through dance as their act of resilience to the violence of the city.
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
From finding ourselves in our youth to getting out in the “real world” we are always exploring new ways of being - alone and together, especially in an unwelcoming or violent society. Existence is always interlinked and communal; we don't make it alone. Complete strangers, lovers, friends, entire neighborhoods, or even people who stay with us beyond life; we come together to walk further, to support, to witness, to belong. This program comprised of different QTIBIPOC stories is for you, for building with us.
+ QTIBIPOC stands for "Queer, Trans, Intersex / Black, Indigenous, People of Colour".
