From one's intimate relationships – with their mothers, and their own bodies – to their communities or society at large – these shorts explore nuanced and multifaceted experiences of womanhood, gender, identity, and expression.
🎤 Films are screened in their original language, with Ukrainian and English SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) and audio description using the Podyv app
💬 Screening will be followed by an online Q&A session with the filmmakers.
❗ These films may contain potentially triggering or disturbing elements, such as depictions of war, blood, violence, gunshots, death, nudity, and the russian language.
🔞 Age restrictions:16+
This program is supported by the British Council Ukraine and Heinrich Boell Foundation, Kyiv Office - Ukraine.
Program partner of the screening: Reclaim the Frame (UK)
Curator: Melanie Iredale
Other screenings of the program: September 4, 20:25, KINO42, and September 9, 13:55, KINO42
THREE MEALS
Director: Pelin Keskin
Country: UK
Duration: 14
Set in one location and segmented across three meals over the course of a day, THREE MEALS, a mother and daughter drama, charts the chasm between them, despite their intimate connection, and navigates towards a resolution that could save their relationship.
MADE IN THAMESMEAD
Director: Mary Martins
Country: UK
Duration: 13
With a focus on the sense of belonging, MADE IN THAMESMEAD, intertwines the testimonies of local residents of Thamesmead and the surrounding area of Abbey Wood, located in South East London. Reflecting on their lived experiences of past racial tensions, this film also celebrates how Thamesmead is now one of the most diverse areas of the UK.
QUANTISED BITS OF LIGHT TILL IT ADDED TO A WHOLE
Director: Riley Tu
Country: UK
Duration: 6
Critiquing gender construction in digital technology, QUANTISISTED BITS OF LIGHT TILL IT ADDED TO A WHOLE reimagines cyborg bodies, investigating the intersections of technology, gender, and resilience. Drawing from feminist theories and speculative fiction, this animation examines the complexities of rendering identity in virtual spaces.
ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW
Director: Lipa Hussain
Country: UK
Duration: 10
Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. ‘Alice In Wonderland’ syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control; ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW explores the idea of utilising AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past.
DÉDÉ (ANCESTOR)
Director: Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume
Country: UK
Duration: 3
DÉDÉ (ANCESTOR) delves into diasporic female identity through an exploration of Director/Animator's Bété ancestry, a tribe in central Ivory Coast. The film is a journey into the region’s feminine cosmology and folkloric traditions, guided by feminine icons such as tribal fertility carvings, masks, sculptures, mythological fables and deities.
ROBERT AND GEORGIE
Director: Clare Richards
Country: UK
Duration: 16
Robert George Sanders is a fashion design graduate who is in a constant battle to both artistically define himself yet remain label free. He creates flamboyant and fantastical costumes that challenge our perception of gender, while exploring his identity as an artist, a trans woman and a son.