Shorts 3 – Contact

Whether it’s a bar or club, a street corner, an isolated cabin or somebody’s home; the feeling of yearning can get into gear anywhere. That is, if you are driven by longing – for intimacy and warmth, for the past and in the future, to be seen, wanted and loved. In this program, six short films will guide you through interactions full of desire and moments of reflection that might not bring forward any particular answers, but are led by the right questions.

Length: 84 min

Blonde Night
Pierre Brouillette-Hamelin

Nuit blonde
(Blond Night)

Victor is unhappy in his housing for autistic adults. To avoid the Friday disco, he goes out for a walk in the neighborhood and then he meets a young prostitute.

by Gabrielle Demers

Canada, 2022

French
(English subtitles)

17 min.

Narrative

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

Walking Through

Aonde Vão Os Pés
(Walking Through)

She walks the paths of adolescence with courage to live her desires. And in the encounter with the unexpected she runs, confident on her own feet.

by Débora Zanatta

Brazil, 2020

Portuguese
(English, Portuguese subtitles)

14 min.

Narrative

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

Kiss of Life

Kiss of Life

In Kiss of Life, two Black people living with HIV reflect on their experiences with the virus. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection and self love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes.

by Clifford Prince King

USA, 2021

English

7 min.

Essay
Performance

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

Jouissance

Jouissance

Arash and Rahi recently moved into a new house. However, their everyday routine is disrupted by the ghost of Rahi’s ex-boyfriend, who died six years ago and is now asking Rahi to continue living with him.

by Sadeq Es-haqi

Iran, 2022

Persian
(English subtitles)

23 min.

Narrative

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

Bigger on the Inside
Angelo Madsen Minax

Bigger on the Inside

From an isolated wooded cabin a trans man star-gazes, scruff chats with guys, watches youtube tutorials, takes drugs, and lies about taking drugs – feeling his way through a cosmology of embodiment.

Bigger on the Inside probes the boundaries between interior and exterior, the micro and macro, to consider bodily insides as passageway and portal, relative to the immensity of longing. Nudes and landscapes are equally erotic. Eros as an issue of boundaries: When I desire you, a part of me is gone. Land is surreal. Memory is porous.

by Angelo Madsen Minax

USA, 2022

English
(English subtitles)

12 min.

Experimental
Essay

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

How Not To Date While Trans

How Not To Date While Trans

How Not To Date While Trans is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.

by Nyala Moon

USA, 2022

English

14 min.

Narrative
Essay

Moviemento
16.06.2023 – 20:15

Le Bleu du Caftan (The Blue Caftan)
Mutt
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