We live in a time where cinema and the internet coexist and our relationship to screens and the worlds, images and stories contained within them, has reached new heights. For this year’s opening shorts, it’s time to watch, feel and reflect at once. These films show how extending reality can facilitate catharsis, how these extensions can be canvases for our dreams and fears, how they can contain connection, relationships, entire worlds of emotion and maybe projection, how they make us process and analyze, but also distort and even disconnect from reality. We Will Be Who We Are tells the story of two queer friends marrying and thereby trying to escape society, while This is (Not) Your Ocean is a ritual of grief for a loved one, known only through the internet. JuJu vs The Possibilities of Life, Love and Death filters the potential implications of an encounter between two migrants at the box office of a cinema in Bangkok through different film genres. In the animation Luz Diabla, an overstimulated raver ends up in the middle of nowhere, and the protagonist of Tell Her What Happened to Me tries to find a new balance between reality and feelings after having a crush on a guy, and the queer (plus sized body) joy of being in love.