A rural high school student Burul is interested in wrestling. The wrestling coach won't let her train at the boys' gym, so she trains at home alone. Burul’s father believes that wrestling is not for girls and forbids her to do it. One guy from a neighboring village kidnaps Burul...
Chikha – Queen
Fatine, a 17-year-old girl, lives with her mother, NADIA, a chikha,* in Azemmour, Morocco. Having just passed her baccalaureate exams, Fatine faces a difficult choice: follow her family's artistic tradition or choose a more conventional path with her boyfriend, who disapproves of her heritage. *A chikha is a singer and...
Contra-Monumento Cena #2
We have learned to look past the boundaries of the public domain and realized how the concept of a public archive in our city, Ouro Preto, resonates with our memories. Along the way, we find out the intersection between archiving and creation. And this is how we approach them —our...
Deixa a Boneca no Carro
João takes an old email from the director, expressing a wish not to be gay, as a starting point to create collages of his childhood pictures. Through these collages, João explores LGBTQIAP+ fantasies of dissident identities that challenge the conventions of conservative society. The realization that certain emotions resonate among...
Engole o choro
Anderson, a 17-year-old teenager, steals a motorcycle on the outskirts of São Paulo. He is determined to prove his manhood and escape from years of exclusion and rejection. Yet, he soon encounters a challenge he has never learned to confront: his own feelings.
Mother is a Natural Sinner
Hoda discovers she is pregnant, and the experience of involuntary motherhood as an Iranian refugee in exile in Germany, pushes her to confront her deepest desires. Her mother and her partner struggle to grasp the complex emotions of a woman who reclaims her body —often seen as sacred and miraculous—as...
53
The short film “53” features an ensemble narrative in Creole about the massacre of São Tomé and Príncipe, which took place in 1953, at the hands of Portuguese colonial troops. In this story, the tragic, the political and the magical intertwine during the encounter between a healer and the spirit...
Loving in Between
The cultural memory embedded in 20th-century films is revisited through a queer lens, celebrating eros and sexuality. Confronted with archival images, Langston Hughes' poem stands as a powerful reminder: between birth and death lies the ability to love and truly live. When political rules, religious doctrines, social norms, and cultural...
Solo la Luna Comprenderá
Narratives about the territory intertwined in a collective exercise of reminiscence and invention, exploring identity and the intricate experience of growing up in a small coastal town like Manzanillo, located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Magic, mystery, and monotony converge in an atmosphere that drifts between the dreamlike...
Los Cautiverios
If nature has long been used to confine women to certain social roles, let us embrace the role of the animal to strike back against patriarchy. In the face of violence, this spellbinding movie summons the art of escape. Camouflaged within images, we elude the male gaze. Through this alchemy,...