Shorts Programmes

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Named after the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet, Abjad Ḥawaz embodies each letter through Salma Zahore's dancing body in the ruins of Barcelona. Fashion, music, poetry and performance reclaim a language often feared, transforming it into a celebration of identity and freedom.

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When their housemate moves out, Tendai faces accessibility barriers alone for the first time. Haunted by stereotypes about how a wheelchair user should be, they eventually decide to take action and free themselves from the narrative imposed upon them.

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Nonbinary Austrian-Kosovar rapper Dacid Go8lin leads a wild queer gang in an anarchic takeover of the patriarchal government. Claiming space, freedom and queer joy, they subvert hip-hop gender roles and cis-patriarchal imagery in a battle cry for protest and civil disobedience.

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Adeline, who identifies as nonbinary, tries to tie a tie for the first time. What begins as a simple act of gender-affirming care turns into satin-polyester chaos when a YouTube tutorial misgenders them.

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Back home after a night on stage, Kim strips away the remnants of her drag persona. As each layer of performance disappears, painful memories resurface, forcing her to confront what she has been trying to leave behind.

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Through repeated analog and digital video manipulation, Peripheral Vision explores the relationship between optical and social aberrations through a transsexual and neurodivergent lens, expressing the artist's anxieties about the rise of surveillance and fascism in Canada.

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After surviving a sexual assault, Quinn, a young person exploring their identity, decides to track down their attacker.

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In the early nineteenth century, a tailor makes a dress for themselves. Through the careful process of constructing the garment, the act of creation also becomes a way to affirm their identity and prepare to come out to their family.

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Esther returns to her rural Utah hometown with one goal: break into her parents' house and retrieve her identifying documents. She desperately needs them to legally change her name and gender before doing so becomes illegal.

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Gael visits their family in Puerto Rico at the height of summer, and soon meets Mateo, a handsome local who changes their life forever.

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A young Swiss-Tunisian tries to reconnect with his parents, despite the tensions and taboos associated with his homosexuality.

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In the Shatila Palestinian camp in Lebanon, two friends, Omar and Omar, find moments of joy amid hardship until sudden violence forces them to confront loss and survival.

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A photojournalist retreats to a small seaside town in Sicily to grieve and remember a former lover. There, an unexpected friendship with a neighbour across the balcony develops into a playful exchange that gradually exposes vulnerability and hidden truths.

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At 3AM in Skopje, seventeen-year-old Nikola sneaks out to meet a forty-year-old man he has been messaging online. When their car becomes stuck in remote woods, isolation strips away fantasy and forces Nikola to confront power, desire and possible danger.

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In Rotterdam, a city rebuilt from memory and shaped by modernity, local architect Daniel guides Emre, a visitor from Istanbul, through the city. As the day unfolds, their professional tour gradually reveals differences in freedom, identity and belonging between them.

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Andy, a young Chinese newcomer, arrives in London's gay scene without understanding its slang or unwritten rules. Over three sex-dates, he stumbles through the unspoken vocabulary of desire, love and belonging while navigating racism, cultural difference and connection.

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Queer photographer Jill Posener's lifelong compulsion to document offers intimate glimpses of radical feminist London, 1990s Bay Area lesbian culture, and contemporary unhoused communities. A lifelong rebel, she now considers where she might belong in the final chapter of her life.

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At 63, Ricky Lee leaves Texas behind and moves to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. After spending much of his life hiding his sexuality to survive, he finally discovers a sense of home, belonging, and the freedom to live openly as himself.

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As rising waters wash away Toronto's historic queer beach, its community turns to art, archives, and memory to keep its legacy alive.

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An intergenerational documentary that explores contemporary forms of discrimination related to sexual diversity and examines, through different voices and perspectives, possible paths toward a return to balance and fundamental human values.

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As Ema embraces their non-binary identity, they become a driving force in Port-Alfred's renewal. Reviving a workers' tavern and co-founding a microbrewery and performance venue, their personal transformation becomes intertwined with that of an entire neighbourhood.

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This AI-generated film about AI filmmaking satirizes the idea of apolitical cinema. Featuring Slim Vaders, it examines power, pornography, deepfakes and technological domination, asking who controls artificial intelligence and whether those systems reproduce existing political and social hierarchies.

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Recently divorced, Warren retreats to a quiet lake house with his young son. When a stranger named David appears asking for help, an ordinary evening becomes a tense psychological confrontation, exposing secrets, shifting power, and an unexpected connection between them.

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When a rookie forest ranger flees into the Quebec wilderness to escape a brutal hazing ritual, he finds himself hunted not only by his peers, but by a towering creature of folklore stalking him through the woods.

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Nightmarish corporeal body horror with excessive violence.

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Blending horror and humour, Lethal Ethel is a mockumentary that follows the story of a Naskapi vampire who goes to murderous lengths to protect her land and culture.

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After two decades of creative repression, an artist descends into kaleidoscopic madness, turning her oppressive partner into a grotesque work of art.

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At summer camp, Syd is secretly transforming into a werewolf and struggling to act normal around new friends. When they discover those friends are werewolf hunters, Syd decides that fitting in may require removing everything that makes them inhuman.

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A slasher with a grudge meets his match when a group of queer friends on a weekend getaway turns his killing spree into a bloody night he never saw coming.

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A famed detective arrives at a remote mansion to find a murderer standing over his latest victim. As the detective presses him to confess his motive, the truth grows increasingly complicated, revealing that the two men's shared history may be central to the crime.

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The artist leads a procession of his infections (HIV, Parkinson's, spinal stenosis, and bedbugs) to the water in this ritual of co-existence.

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Set in a fractured world, Kimotiwin: The Act of Stealing follows Tiska and Nisa, a queer couple finding moments of joy amid ecological devastation. When Tiska discovers one flower remaining on the hill where their love began, she sets out to protect it from destruction.

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Blending horror and humour, Lethal Ethel is a mockumentary that follows the story of a Naskapi vampire who goes to murderous lengths to protect her land and culture.

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This work is a sensory and tactile immersion in a grandmother’s tipi. Through her memories of living in a tipi, this film captures the sweetness of everyday life, the joy of cooking and the passage of time.

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Rooted in six years of fieldwork in shíshálh territory, Nature Girl reimagines the nature documentary through listening, reciprocity and queer ecology, observing the relationships between humans, animals, plants and land as the rhythms of the forest shift across seasons.

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Inspired by a poem Kegan wrote for Dillon after their first romantic getaway, poem is a tender portrait of queer joy exploring memory, intimacy, and landscape through warm images filmed on the traditional territories of T'Sou-ke First Nation.

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An Indigenous trans man quits his abusive call centre job and ends up fighting an eviction, only to realize not everyone will survive his poverty.

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An enigmatic woman sets up a video dating agency, but love isn't the only thing she's after. Much like a bad pick-up line, some men are better off forgotten.

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After his mother's death, fourteen-year-old Mathis moves in with his estranged grandmother. Trying on his mother's chemotherapy wig, grief opens a tender path toward self-expression and connection.

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The existential musings of an anxious young intellectual unfold as he and the love of his life helplessly watch the demolition of the neighbourhood cinema where their love story began.

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This is a portrait of kimura byol - nathalie lemoine which draws a parallel between her own identity (r)evolution, her political behavior as an activist in three different continents.

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On a night in Ouagadougou, two young women in their twenties are having fun. They love each other. In the darkness of a bar, they share a kiss.

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Nicky Gee is a vibrant documentary portrait of the Queen of Quebec City's Lower Town. Through her music, Nicky expresses her emotions and speaks out against the discrimination and assaults experienced by her community.

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During a boozy girls' night celebrating Laurence and Marie's new purchase, a special guest comes along and disrupts the evening.

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The painful awakening of a couple after a night of fantasies.

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When an unexpected setback derails the production of his first short film, Sasha improvises a Plan B: stepping in front of the camera himself. What begins as a last-minute creative solution turns into a funny, vulnerable, and deeply personal confession. Between dreams of becoming James Bond, struggles with his body, and a lifetime of searching for trans representation on screen, Sasha confronts an unexpected realization: he is a trans man who has internalized transphobia himself. Blending humor and self-reflection, Plan B explores identity, gender dysphoria, and the courage it takes to finally become the leading man in your own story.

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A Russian woman in a Russian house.

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Alexandra and Timofeya have a serious problem. A woman lies dead on the living room floor. When they discover that she is Eva and Sveta Kalaschnikova's wife (the local Russian Mafia boss), and that Alex has been having an affair with Eva, the possibility of three dead women becomes a reality.

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Maxence is the last crystal glassblower in the glass factory. Obsessed with the disappearance of crystals, she relentlessly searches for the last blue crystal. Lana, a newcomer to the village, disrupts her daily life. A slow-burning desire grows between the two women, and their encounter leads them to uncover a long-buried legend.

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Beneath the pulsing waves of a club carved in shadow, two gazes lock. Music replaces words; movement becomes voice. In this nocturnal vertigo, their bodies draw close, magnetic and elusive. Yet does this intimate approach belong to reality, or to the lens of their imagination?

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Helena, deeply immersed in her book, imagines a grandiose love story.

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A trans woman, forcibly detained in a dark room, undergoes an inner journey of reconciliation, coming to understand the inevitability of her own existence.

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A young man named Tomáš tries to seduce his ex-partner's illicit lover in an attempt to regain control of his own shame. As he learns more about Matěj's relationship with Jakub, he begins to unravel the truth behind the beauty of crops that have been left out to dry.

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In the fall of 2024, I returned to my childhood home in Hangzhou, China, to celebrate my mother's retirement. In this same old apartment with its walls peeling and tiles cracked, I started noticing changes in her...

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During a Christmas dinner, Nelly discovers the strange pictures her daughter is taking.

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Three transgender individuals share their perspectives on their birth names and chosen names.

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A passionate teenager receives a message from a woman whose head is a tooth.

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An animated copy of Fifty Shades of Grey takes us through an unsanitized journey of human sexuality.

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When two ball girls lock eyes on the court of a prestigious tennis tournament, their initial rivalry slowly transforms into a magnetic passion.

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Two women in their mid-fifties reunite on a boat in the Oslofjord. Beneath the apparent calm, desire, longing and unresolved love surface in a tender celebration of queer intimacy, ageing and the freedom that can emerge after midlife.

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Expecting Paradise is a dramedy in which a dispirited queer Eastern European at an underground post-punk concert in Berlin must face personal shortcomings as their best friend prepares to move back to Lithuania.

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A video epigraph bringing together Bound and passages mentioning "femme" from Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, alongside excerpts from decades of lesboqueer music, in an affectionate tribute to these works, their makers, and queer cultural memory.

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Charlie and Mere navigate co-parenting their dog, Archie, after their relationship falls apart.

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Alix, 16, rules the field at her school. Until one day, under the gaze of the only person who unsettles her, her body decides to stop playing by the rules

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Carmen walks out on her partner, convinced she finally needs to put herself first. But the clean breakup she imagined becomes a surreal showdown of pseudo-therapy wisdom, twisted logic and uncomfortable truths, pushing contemporary self-care rhetoric to its most absurd extreme.

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A grey-haired Gen-X butch lesbian and a graceful Gen-Z stripper take on pole dancing, side by side each as a queer meditation on radical self-acceptance, sisterhood and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

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During happy hour at the only bar in town, a newlywed couple's quarrel collides with a belligerent bigot — until a strange girl by the jukebox decides that last will come early tonight.

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Legendary Julie d'Aubigny Maupin retells her own extraordinary life. A queer, gender-nonconforming seventeenth-century opera singer, skilled sword fighter and duellist, she revisits the sensational—and sometimes uncertain—stories that have shaped her enduring legend.

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Merging Super 8 and hand-inked 16mm, _Marked_ observes two shirtless men embracing and dancing. Their bodies become alternately visible and obscured, reflecting on how queer intimacy is shaped, celebrated, erased and scarred by the society surrounding it.

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While trying to go viral, queer content creator Taylor accidentally archives a devastating breakup. To cope with the shame, they turn failed relationships into videos, avoid responsibility at every turn and increasingly frustrate their best friend and roommate, Monica.

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Muna, a timid nonbinary teen who communes with spirits through dreams, is haunted by their recently deceased father and decides never to sleep again. Overwhelmed by grief and gendered funeral rituals, a visit from an estranged relative leads them toward self-discovery.

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Millions celebrate Pride, but fewer know how it began. Through interviews with participants in the Stonewall Uprising and organizers of the first Pride march, the film revisits the resistance, struggles, and hopes that helped launch the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement.

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During summer break, Marco enrolls in lifeguard training and becomes captivated by his opposite, Xavier. Paired for CPR and swimming drills, their connection grows, leaving Marco to decide whether to act on his feelings or let a moment of queer joy pass by.

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Blending Super 8, 16mm film, digital animation, and personal reflection, A decade revisits the artist's life through the 1980s. Moving between punk rebellion, gay discos, friendship, and loss, it becomes a poetic elegy to a transformative era.

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Fleeing from their biggest heist gone wrong, Anna and Ruth, outlaws and lovers, must find solace in each other when unable to outrun their grim consequences: Ruth's fatal wound and the authorities determined to hang them.

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Janet insists she is completely over any romantic feelings for Anna, making their plan to become roommates perfectly reasonable. Her childhood friends remain unconvinced, however, turning a visit home into an increasingly awkward examination of sapphic friendship, desire, and denial.

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Half-Naked is a light-hearted comedy about a trans man who must summon his courage when undertaking his first experience shirtless in public.

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In the heat of August, thousands of sandpipers pause their migration in the Bay of Fundy. Nearby, Tom's quiet country life is interrupted by Nancy, a friend he hasn't seen in months. Under watchful hawks and rural masculinity, the two trans friends recharge together.

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Combining digital effects, frame-by-frame animation and hand-processed 16mm film, this experimental self-portrait explores hybridity, embodiment and otherness. A love letter to queerness and connection, it imagines nature and the body as entangled forces that contaminate and transform one another.

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Set in 1990, _Starman_ follows Bowie Madison, a hot-headed young Black woman one year into her Canadian Air Force service. After fighting another trainee, memories of the previous year resurface, forcing Bowie to remember why she enlisted in the first place.

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A queer little space alien crashes to Earth and looks to television for survival advice, finding a guide to twentieth-century conformity. Her journey unfolds alongside the true history of Canada's "Fruit Machine," developed in the 1960s to identify homosexuality.

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On their seventh birthday, a child living with their “perfect family” in a “dollhouse” feels suffocated by traditional expectations and conventional gender norms. Their only escape is to make a magical birthday wish before blowing out the candle on the cake.

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Muhammad's fruity holiday plans hit a roadblock when airport security stops him and accuses him of running off to join ISIS. Desperate to catch his flight, he still tries to have some fun along the way in this comedy based on a true story.

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While waiting for the Molodist Film Festival selection results, queer filmmaker and recent graduate Tim moves through Kyiv, encountering friends, relatives and colleagues who also became part of his thirty-minute thesis film.

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Pillow talk becomes increasingly anxious between emotionally constipated Sophie and her lover Val, who has the opposite problem: she lets absolutely everything out.

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A throuple of elderly queer men confronts mortality as Zito develops dementia. While dream and reality blur into a Brazilian samba musical extravaganza, his two lovers, Morpheus and Charon, care for him through the progression of his illness and their final farewell.

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When he receives a mysterious love note, a teenage Sherlock Holmes must step outside of his comfort zone in order to uncover the identity of his secret admirer.

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Carmen walks out on her partner, convinced she finally needs to put herself first. But the clean breakup she imagined becomes a surreal showdown of pseudo-therapy wisdom, twisted logic and uncomfortable truths, pushing contemporary self-care rhetoric to its most absurd extreme.

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While trying to go viral, queer content creator Taylor accidentally archives a devastating breakup. To cope with the shame, they turn failed relationships into videos, avoid responsibility at every turn and increasingly frustrate their best friend and roommate, Monica.

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When her girlfriend dumps her for being an unreliable mess, Lucie agrees to pet-sit a “Princess,” only to discover she’s a nippy, Fox News-watching pig. What begins as an inconvenience becomes a chaotic lesson in responsibility—and an unexpected push toward self-improvement.

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A 2-minute video essay that playfully uses performance-based methods of re-enactment to attempt to enter the frame and material conditions of anti-aging cream commercials and other beauty ads to critique their construction while showcasing their artifice.

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Camille, a teenager with Down syndrome, dreams of dancing in a semi-professional dance troupe. On the day of the audition, her sister Agathe witnesses how the world still stumbles over difference. Love and rage find their own choreography.

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Constructed like a cadavre exquis, the film unfolds in fragments, between dream and reality, revealing the many facets of a fractured identity. A posthumous coming-out where a man's death becomes the birth of his truth.

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In a Moroccan riad, El Mehdi transforms a mint tea ceremony into a ritual of queer self-reclamation. Moving between Arabic, French, and English, _El Film_ explores identity, belonging, masculinity, the sacred, and the freedom to exist beyond restrictive binaries.

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When his rising-actor boyfriend leaves him for his own stand-in, Jean spirals into doubt and obsession. On a chaotic film set where dream and reality blur, he wonders whether he must reinvent himself—or risk losing himself entirely.

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Blending horror and humour, Lethal Ethel is a mockumentary that follows the story of a Naskapi vampire who goes to murderous lengths to protect her land and culture.

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A Muay Thai fighter falls in love with his next opponent. The only way to win his heart is to defeat him in the ring.

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Three friends embark on a journey back to their hometown while Sasha, recovering from his gender-affirming surgery, dreams of swimming shirtless at his childhood beach.

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For his 18th birthday, Édouard celebrates at a chalet with friends, but buried tensions and the arrival of his brother Max force them to confront unsettling truths about trust, boundaries, and consent.

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Glint is an exploration of fleeting moments and fractured realities. Through a collage of transient visuals and disjointed sounds, the video tries to capture the elusive shimmer of memory.

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When Marie considers handing over the spare key to her boyfriend, her mind spirals into a vertiginous labyrinth where doubt takes on unfathomable depths. An absurd and psychedelic odyssey, unfolding entirely within the confines of her own consciousness.

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When surrogate Marise unexpectedly goes into labor during an apéritif, expectant dads Jean-Luc and Patrick see their carefully planned evening unravel into joyful chaos. Between panic, misunderstandings and an unlikely hostage situation, they discover that parenthood is unpredictable, messy—and ultimately guided by love.

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After accidentally drunk-texting her ex, anxious Jane Austen devotee Lucy spirals into panic with only her imaginary companion, Mr. Darcy, for support. When her ex unexpectedly arrives, Lucy must confront unresolved feelings and finally choose whether to move forward.

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Through site-specific performances, queer bodies return to the living world. Water, grasses and landscapes blur the boundaries between skin and earth, desire and survival, in a sensual exploration of queer ecology, transformation and new ways of relating.

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Haunted by violence and prejudice, Nereu dials 145 and slips anonymously into the charged intimacy of Brazil's notorious hotline. Between desire and dread, pleasure and pain, his experience gradually dissolves the fragile boundaries separating reality, fantasy and dream.

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On their seventh birthday, a child living with their "perfect family" in a "dollhouse" feels suffocated by traditional expectations and conventional gender norms. Their only escape is to make a magical birthday wish before blowing out the candle on the cake.

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In a future where no one can be free, a man travels back in time to relive the party where he first kissed another boy. Arriving in the wrong year, he discovers that freedom may not be found in his memories after all.

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A throuple of elderly queer men confronts mortality as Zito develops dementia. While dream and reality blur into a Brazilian samba musical extravaganza, his two lovers, Morpheus and Charon, care for him through the progression of his illness and their final farewell.

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Elisa, a worker from São Paulo, decides to skip work to go to the beach.