EITR
Grinding away at the inherited family business, Mohamed works tirelessly making sales of knock-off perfume while living as a knock-off version of his true self. Grappling with the recent loss of his father, his mother’s anxious attempts to get him married and the shadow of his hidden Queer identity, Mohamed finds solace and connection in a day spent with a beautiful stranger who lives in self-acceptance and sees Mohamed for who he truly is under the many layers of polo-sport-adjacent cologne.

Canada 2022 by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, 15 min, engl., arabic original version with engl. subs.

ANESTHETIC (original: ANESTEZIC)
Renata and Carina are in a relationship. For some time now, Carina has been feeling unwell, with nausea and vomiting, and Renata, a gynecologist, begins to have suspicions. She convinces Carina to come for a consultation, and her suspicion is confirmed: her partner is pregnant.

Romania 2024 by Daiana StÄ?nu?oi, 20 min., rom. original version with engl. subs

SEAHORSE PARENTS
Did you know there is only one male species on Earth that can get pregnant? In the short documentary »Seahorse Parents» four (soon to be) transgender parents share their personal stories of what carrying their future children as transgender males has been like. The short documentary explores social themes like gender and identity and confronts us with our rigid ideas of what constitutes female and what constitutes male. What is a pregnant body supposed to look like? How do these pregnant trans bodies move in a prejudiced world? And what are their hopes and dreams for their future children?

Netherlands 2023 by Miriam Guttman, engl., dutsch original version with engl. subs.

BOYSGIRLSMIX
Wen Long is nine years old. At birth it was not clear whether she was a girl or a boy. Many such children are operated on at a very young age, in order to ’make’ them a boy or a girl. Wen Long did not undergo such surgery. Her parents felt their child had to decide herself what sex she wants to be. Wen Long is very happy that that she can choose. But nevertheless it is not easy. Because, if you are both a boy and a girl, where do you belong? What is your position in a binary male/female world?

Netherlands 2020 by Lara Aerts, 6 min., dutsch original version with engl. subs.

FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER GARDEN
In northern Colombia, a group of queer activists use their extravagance to denounce the disastrous exploitation of the largest coal mine in Colombia through performative actions.

Switzerland 2022 by Jorge Cadena, 15 min., spanish orgiginal version with engl. subs.

BLUE BOY
Seven young men alone in a deserted bar with a film crew and the sound of their own voices as their only companions. This device allows the spectator to scrutinise the micro-movements that cross their faces, and it is all too tempting: what is one of the boys thinking when he hears the playback of how he touts his clients? What does another feel listening to his own account of meeting an older man when he was only sixteen? The scenes recounted by these escort boys plunge us into their secret reality, but once again, nothing is more intimate than the faces themselves.

Germany, Argentina 2019 by Manuel Abramovich, 19 min., rumanian, italian original version with english subs.

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