Moviemento 01.06.2025 – 18:00

This program highlights the act of imagining, speculating, projecting, and bringing forward our queer knowledge, ancestry, desires, and presence. NO!!! opens with a video call between a young lesbian couple, interrupted by a mother – and tradition. Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way follows a Chamorro queer costume designer revisiting their hometown in Guam, engaging with local children and reconnecting with their distant parents. Similarly, in Water Hazard, a young girl playfully explores femininity and gender while embracing her love for rock music and understanding of (un)changing body. Mishaps in Spacetime sees the universe as a playground of queer possibilities, documenting Cosmo and their spaceship’s journey onto new horizons and discovering change, trust, and loss of control. Finally, Oceania closes the session as an ode to new voices echoing the legacies of those before them. Through Najib’s accidental access to their late Lebanese neighbor’s memories, we uncover connections that transcend time and biological kinship. These visions invite us, as an audience, to reimagine ourselves anew. “I wanna go, you around it, with somebody new.”

NO!!!

‘I pronounce you wife and wife.’ A young couple design their perfect wedding online, but then mom dials in.

Content Notes:
homophobia, family conflict
Oktania Hamdani & Winner Wijaya

Indonesia, 2024

Indonesian. Subtitles in English

8 min

Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way

Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre while reconnecting with distant parents.

Content Notes:
none
Hao Zhou

U.S., 2024

English. Subtitles in English

21 min

Water Hazard

A pre-adolescent kid spends a family summer holiday at a golf village. A newly built lake on a golf course becomes the backdrop to a mysterious encounter. And the discovery of an unknown other becomes the discovery of the unknown self.

Content Notes:
none
Alexander David

Portugal, France, 2024

Portuguese. Subtitles in English

23 min

Mishaps in Spacetime

Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.

Content Notes:
none
Caio Amado Soares

Germany / Portugal, 2025

English. Subtitles in English, German

12 min

OCEANIA

During the summer, 16-year-old Najib spends his days gaming until his mother, Asma, informs him of their old neighbor's passing. Intrigued, Najib takes the keys to the neighbor's apartment, uncovering an unexpected world within.

Content Notes:
none
Valentin Noujaïm

France, 2024

French. Subtitles in English

24 min