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Atopia
by Olivier De Vos • 2021 • Belgium
An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.
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This Day Won't Last
by Mouaad el Salem • 2020 • Belgium, Tunisia
In this authentic and urgent diary film about longing for freedom and community, the filmmaker reflects on the individual and yet collective experience of being young and queer in Tunisia.
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I Am Good At Karate
by Jess Dadds • 2021 • United Kingdom
Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon made of football shirts.
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Mother Prays All Day Long
by Hoda Taheri • 2022 • Germany
Confused about German bureaucracy and questioning her sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin, finds herself hooked on Magdalena, who promised to ensure her asylum by marrying her. Due to changes in Magdalena’s private life, her decision to marry Hoda ...
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À Gis
by Thiago Carvalhaes • 2017 • Portugal, Brazil, Belgium
The Brazilian trans woman Gisberta lived as an immigrant in Portugal. After she was brutally murdered, she became an icon for the transgender rights cause. Piece by piece, this documentary offers a delicate portrait of a woman torn apart by...
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Pirate Boys
by Pol Merchan • 2018 • Germany
Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s. This hybrid mix of documentary, fiction, photography, and literature aims to portray th...
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Scum Mutation
by Ov • 2020 • France
In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.
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Herman@s (Les Adelphes)
by Hélène Alix Mourrier • 2021 • France
Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. A manifesto is written, and a first appearance occurs in a French queer club. But Cuco is not just a night owl. In confronting transphobia and the current st...
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Swollen Stigma
by Sarah Pucill • 1998 • United Kingdom
Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of ...