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Gym Classes
Siblings Clara and Pietro aren’t close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she’s recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.
dancing on the soft knife
Braiding together videos from their phone storage into a cut scene, april forrest lin 林森 experiments with the visual novel video game form as autofictive vessel. Created in response to OHYUNG’s song “dancing on the soft knife”, the film coalesces both artists’ journeys in rehoming their bodies, of claiming transness as theirs, into one.
Tiwa
Tiwa is a spacey chronically online 25 year old, resisting change as it surrounds her from all directions. Her present life is dissociative, her circle growing distant and unfamiliar, her favorite diner losing its charm, and her love life seems pathetic. At a houseparty, her friends give her a holistic potion hand-labeled “The Palace” that promises to set her free from all her blues… if she is willing to listen to and accept inner truth. Meow.
Chi(le)na
The child of a Chinese immigrant in Chile revisits the relationship with their absent father, while exploring the progenitor’s restaurants and reflecting on their own self identity and relationship with masculinity.
A Bird Called Memory
A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.
ANADROMOUS
anadromous [ uh-NAD-ruh-muhs ] adjective: (of fish) migrating from fresh water to sea water to spawn.
Goodbye, Mr. Night
In an old dance hall, three women live separate and struggling lives, looking for an escape and trying to find themselves. When the shackles of reality tighten, they decide not to compromise. After an absurd wedding, they step out of the familiar world of chaos, searching for a light that has never been seen before.
Las Amigas De Dora
Dora, a trans woman, returns to her hometown to attend her grandmother’s funeral, accompanied by her two best friends from Barcelona, Manuela and Sol.
The World Stood Still
Young trans woman Myrsky has run away from her transphobic parents and lives on her grandfather Tapio’s couch. On the verge of huge life decisions, the concern of Myrsky’s loved ones makes her second guess herself and rethink the meaning of home. Maybe there could be a new life still in the city that used to feel poisoned?
