Fiction feature

79 min

Director: Hannes Hirsch

Country: Germany

Language: German

Year: 2023

Moritz follows his boyfriend to Berlin and is soon abandoned by him. Alone in the big city, he embarks on a journey through gay affairs and different lifestyles.

Director: ess DiPierro Obert

Country: Haiti

Language: Haitian Creole

Year: 2023

LOUVRI POU MWEN, which means "Open for Me" in Haitian Creole, is a short film that tells the intimate stories of two young women from neighborhoods at conflict in Port- au-Prince, Haiti, and the enduring plight for peace despite their own physical and mental traumas.

Fiction feature

68 min

Director: Hannes Hirsch

Country: Chad

Language: Chandian Arabic

Year: 2023

In the canton of Boutefil at the gateway to the Chadian desert, unmarried women are accused by the Iman of being the source of the divine wrath on the village. The village chiefs decide to hold a traditional ceremony, the Amchilini, which consists in forcing all unmarried women to choose a husband. But there are voices, especially among young girls, against what they see as an attack to their dignity and freedom. They claim equal rights and autonomy as men.

Fiction feature

65 min

Director: Luis Alejandro Yero

Country: Cuba/ Germany

Language: Spanish/Englsih/German

Year: 2023

The film captures the city’s unlikely inhabitants, four queer men running away from the homophobic regime in Cuba.Some of them want to stay in Moscow while others use it as their entryway to The Game – a route where immigrants and refugees go from Moscow to the Balkans to safter countries like Germany. Depending on their final destination, Moscow is the most sedate of all. All these subjects do is look out their windows or lie on the couch of the apartment that all of them will use during their stay. None of these men meet.

Shorts

19 min

Director: Lea Marie Lembk

Country: Germany/Aus tria

Language: German/French

Year: 2023

Anouk’s objective while training is to take down her opponent. But with a glance from fellow wrestler Theo, and a moment of tender physical contact, she, the only girl on the team, starts seeing the sparring sessions in a different light. Relationships between bodies, gazes and feelings are negotiated anew in this quietly intimate study of a young woman discovering and boldly embracing a new sense of her own and others’ physicality.

Short animation

14 min

Director: Marko Dješka

Country: Croatia, Portugal

Year: 2020

While transitioning from male gender to female, Matia struggles with finding a sincere intimate relationship with a heterosexual male.

Short Documentary

24 min

Director: Hoda Taheri

Country:Germany

Language: Iranian/German

Year: 2022

Confused between German bureaucracy and questions about sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin, finds herself emotionally and sexually hooked on Magdalena, who promised to grant her asylum by marrying her. Due to changes in Magdalena's private life, the decision of marrying Hoda becomes more complex for her.

Short animation

5 min

Director:Tomer Eshed

Country:Germany

Language: no dialogues

Year:2011/12

Frustrated at being the only straight flamingo in a gay flock, our hero falls in love with a lady stork who flies by. Unable to convince her of his serious intentions, he isolates himself and endures an identity crisis. An intensive encounter inspires him to make a bold move.

Short animation

4 min

Director:Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, and Sujanth Ravichandran

Country:Switzerland

Language: no dialogues

Year:2022

Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.

Short

20 min

Director:Kim Allamand

Country:Switzerland

Language:Swiss-German

Year:2022

City people set off into a warm late summer night. Glances meet in a library. Discussions about where to buy love. No sooner has he finished a match than a better offer calls. She chews her egg so loud that he freezes in disgust. Those looks in the library lose their power. Only the dance makes them forget who they are and what will happen tomorrow.

Short

17 min

Director:Simon Maria Kubiena

Country:Austria, Germany

Language:German

Year:2022

A young apprentice craftsman is not only dazed by the noise at work. In a chaotic world, among dominant colleagues, an inaccessible father as well as a demanding girlfriend, the young man searches for the sense of closeness. He crosses a boundary and gets to know himself a bit.

Short

19 min

Director:Maissa Lihedheb

Country:Germany

Language:German

Year:2022

Hundefreund explores the nuances of race in Germany through the lens of an intimate evening between two queer lovers.

82 min

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The intimate dialogue between to fathers who trace back the last four years of the growth of their twins. They remember how their children coped with, in different ages, living in a family with two fathers, answering their companions’ questions about the mother or playing on names and roles. Relive the strenuous battle of senator Cirinnà to give Italy a law on civil unions. As they cultivate the affectionate relationship with the American families of the “dede” and the “dona” who allowed the birth of the children as they too participate in the celebration of the civil union of the couple. They seek, among different sensitivities, the names to be given to people of extended families created with assisted procreation techniques.

92 min

An evening of readings by Souvik Biswas and Priyanka Kali

Kim de l'horizon's novel Blutbuch (Bloodbook) follows the semi autobiographical pattern of documenting the present and the pastness of Kim's life in a retrospective manner of capturing the lives of their mother and grandmother. The huge beech tree (die Buche) in the grandmother's garden is the central foreboding character that casts the shadows over the generations in the family. Kim explores the beautiful and ugly realities of growing up as a non binary person and their relationship with family. The queering space of love, friendship, sex, traumas, disappointments, loneliness, choices, desires, chosen bodies and performances are all extensively covered not only in the story of Kim, but also demonstrates through their super narrative structure of the book. This qualitative dissociation of the conventional oeuvre characterises the revolution that Blutbuch artfully and psychologically prepares for its readers.

Documentary

92 min

Director:Ramdas Kadavallur

Country:India

Language:Malayalam

Year:2023

In the times of authoritarian, patriarchal interventions that stifle democratic voices, constitutional rights and personal freedom, this documentary is about the resistance of people through songs and lyrics. As eloquently put forth by Maya Angelou, these are ballads of those who raised their voices against the power-wielding forces who spread hatred and animosity. This film is a collage of non-hierarchical spaces that exist around us.

Documentary

75 min

Director:Jay Bedwani

Country:UK, France

Language:English

Year:2022

An intimate and candid portrait of the inspiring trans activist, artist and performer Donna Personna. It follows her journey to live authentically as herself and to reconnect with her family.

Documentary

94 min

Director:Hendrik Schäfer

Country:Germany

Language:Hebrew, English, Spanish

Year:2019

An Israeli gay couple's journey in pursuing their dream to become parents.

Feature

90 min

Director:Phil Connell

Country:Canada

Language:English

Year:2020

A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline but desperate to avoid the local nursing home.

Feature

96 min

Director:Joanna Reposi Garibaldi

Country:Chile, Colombia

Language:Spanish

Year:2019

Writer, Visual Artist and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in the last eight years of his life in a film he was never able to see finished. In an intimate and poetic journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, "Lemebel" portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.

Documentary

72 min

Director:Merle Grimme

Country:Germany

Language:German

Year:2023

Rebellion is in the air when a group of queer and BIPOC women are gathered by a white feminist organization in a clumsy attempt to diversify their upcoming conference.

Short

20 min

Director:Tirthankar Guha Thakurta

Country:India

Language:Bangla

Year:2023

Three popular mainstream writings in Bangla literature is relod through a queer lens.

Session with Ektara Collective

Feature

88 min

Director:Ektara Collective

Country:India

Language:Hindi

Year:2022

Laila and Roshni are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society.