What will happen if we give ourselves the will and disregard the role imposed by society? If the weight of your imaginary duties before the imaginary "them" lifts off your shoulders for a bit? Why not try it? We promise you will enjoy it. KISFF continues to experiment and offers you to immerse in the magic world of queer animation.
Curated by Lena Syrbu and Sasha Prokopenko
MY DEAR LOVER
Milva Stutz
Switzerland / 2019, 10 min
The animated short film “My Dear Lover” tells of a figure's yearning for touch and the impossibility of bringing that about. While one hand is trying to get into contact with the surface of an amorphous body, a voice in the off is reading a love letter. The longed for lover might well stand for an imaginary body, upon which insecurities around human / non-human as well as digital / analogue relationships are played out.
TURNING
Linnéa Haviland
Sweden, UK / 2019, 2 min
Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions, microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape...
A short animation about the impact of homo- bi- and transphobia on young people, and how support and community can help us grow.
TAMOU
Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery
Israel / 2019, 10 min
Tamou, a lonely housewife, plunges into an internal exploration of gender and sexuality in 20th century Morocco.
Jewish families would name a daughter 'Tamou' (translated to 'ended' in hebrew), hoping that no more girls will be born and that the next child would be a boy.
Surrounded by the prying eyes of a patriarchal society, her - his true identity as a trans man begins to unfold.
PURPLEBOY
Alexandre Siqueira
Portugal / 2019, 14 min
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?
NEST
Eszter Jánka
Germany / 2019, 9 min
They wander through an infinite emptiness. A couple and she, the woman. They feel an inexplicable bound, in the night, in the world: outside. Their encounter can only occur in the empty room. One by one they can enter the space and find each other again. In their world, they are not completely alone, Pig is observing them. Three bodies, their existence doesn’t affect the sphere, their world was already complete. And empty. The nest bursts.
JE N'AI BESOIN DE PERSONNE EN HARLEY DAVIDSON
Scylia Poyer
France / 2019, 3 min
A little robot lands on an unknown planet and meets a society of pretty tough ladies.
TOOMAS BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE WILD WOLVES
Chintis Lundgren
Estonia / 2019, 18 min
Toomas, an exemplary office worker, has to support his family after losing his job, without telling his wife that he also works as a gigolo.
WINTER IN THE RAINFOREST
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Estonia / 2019, 9 min
Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and
death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers - fragile and resilient at
the same time. Time passes here in a strange way, moving in an unexpected pace. The unique combination of natural light, fast flowing time and subtle stop motion animation creates a unique poetic reality that makes us aware of the magic and materiality of our own living in this world.
EYES
Lily Ash Sakula
UK / 2019, 5 min
‘Eyes’ is a short mix-media animation about moving though the world when your gender doesn't conform to the binary. It explores the tension between being looked at and being seen, through a day in the life of Jig. A collaboration with the young people of Project Indigo, a queer youth group based in Hackney.
THE FABRIC OF YOU
Josephine Lohoar Self
UK, Scotland / 2019, 11 min
A tailor struggles to come to terms with the loss of his lover in an oppressive and unforgiving world where everybody wants to look the same.
SEASON
Giovanna Lopalco
France / 2019, 8 min
A procession of men in white clothing walk a young woman in a strange procession. In this obscure landscape, a perpetual biological universe will transform her body.