Explore the limitless ways of loving yourself and others, breaking free from conventional frames and boundaries. Join us in celebrating the beauty of fluidity, self-discovery, and the freedom to live and love beyond expectations.
WISH YOU WERE EAR
Director: Mirjána Balogh
Country: Hungary
Duration: 10
In a world where, after each break-up, ex-partners must exchange a chosen body part, Wish You Were Ear explores the lasting impact of relationships. People not only lose a literal piece of themselves with each split, but also carry visible reminders of every past love.
The protagonist, feeling fragmented and deformed, yearns for their original, whole form. Yet, when they unexpectedly see their former ear on someone else, it sparks a journey of self-acceptance, revealing that these parts are what truly shape their identity.
CARROTICA
Director: Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Country: Germany
Duration: 13
In the suburbs somewhere in Canada, 16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica in private. His mother, Shari, is a fertility botanist studying the mating patterns of carrots and becomes fascinated and aroused by the particularly seductive Femme Carrot. Through fantasy, music, and tango, the two find themselves overwhelmed with their lust and forced to confront their inner selves.
IN YOUR EYES
Director: Hélia Gillon
Country: France
Duration: 3
An explorer, is meeting the life of a woman through her eyes.
DRAGFOX
Director: Lisa Ott
Country: UK
Duration: 8
Sam's search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.
GRAVITY
Director: Robotina
Country: Italy, Mexico
Duration: 8
Gravity tells the story of an ordinary individual in a dystopian world, in which gravity is inverted. We are in the year two thousandSomething. The Earth is a boundless bare and desolate expanse. It seems undergone an inexorable apocalypse, but the real reason is that the force of gravity has decided to change direction: instead of pointing to the ground, it pushes toward the sky. Along a paved road, X (30, non-binary, tall, long-faced, long-necked, dark circles under their eyes) seems to take no notice. The deep dark circles under their eyes and the trickle of drool that protrudes to the sky are evidence of how much more they could sleep, but the alarm clock on their smartphone reminds them that he cannot afford to. So, after one last yawn, they laboriously move their legs – one after the other – along the street. With a disinterested gaze and dogged determination, X covers miles of distance. X has only one goal in their head, and no one will stop them.
IS THIS THE MANSION I WILL LIVE IN?
Director: Rafaelle Fillastre
Country: Belgium
Duration: 6
The safest LGBTQ+ countries in Europe' into Google, and Belgium pops up at the top. For many queers who are about to be forcedly displaced from their country of origin, this becomes a determinant in the decision-making of where to go. However, contrary to the internet portrayal, the reality for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Belgium often starts with discrimination and oppression, sometimes even more severe than what they had been experiencing before. This animated short tries to shed light on the incomprehension of queer identities within migration systems and the abuse of power by its frontline workers. It depicts only the first few hours of a lengthy, 18-24 months long asylum process, where queer asylum seekers are met with mistreatment, hunger, and homelessness instead of the promised equality and safe space.
SOMEONE SPECIAL (MỘT NGƯỜI ĐẶC BIỆT)
Director: Alice Gervat
Country: France
Duration: 7
Lisa matched with Xuân through a dating app, and she is to meet her for the first time. But there is a problem : to appeal to Xuân, Lisa lied and told her that she is fluent in Vietnamese, her native language, despite not understanding a single word. Getting deeper into her own lies, there is only one week left before the date for Lisa to actually learn vietnamese. Otherwise, Xuân will find out she’s a fraud…
INKWO FOR WHEN THE STARVING RETURN
Director: Amanda Strong
Country: Canada
Duration: 18
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.