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LESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES

LESBOQUEER : SAPPHIC STORIES brings sapphic perspectives to the screen in all their complexity. These shorts explore desire, identity, intimacy, and autonomy with humour, irreverence, and a healthy dose of defiance. Unapologetic and unpredictable, they challenge conventions and make room for the messy, funny, and deeply human realities of queer women’s lives.

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2:LOVE11 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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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CONVERSATIONS ON A BOAT (Samtaler på en båt)15 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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 PARADISE19 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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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HIGH FEMME LABRYS3 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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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HOW'S ARCHIE?17 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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

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LES PREMIÈRES (ONE OF THE GIRLS)8 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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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MY TURN (PRIORIZARSE)7 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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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POLE ARE OPPOSITES5 minutesNOV 21 / 16:00This programme includes 8 filmsLESBOQUEER: SAPPHIC STORIES85 minutes

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.