The Lovers Of Avignon (Spain) by Manuel Fernández Ferro

The Lovers of Avignon" is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.

Running time: 00:02:33

Intermission (Canada) by Ace Chou

Lily, a hardworking and dedicated individual with a busy schedule, finds herself unable to go home for the holidays. Through a string of missed calls and voice-messages between her and her mother, Lily comes to realize where her priorities lie.

Running time: 00:07:31

The Birthday (Ukraine) by Nataliya Bek-Gergard

Separated by war and distance, she holds onto her dreams. A fragile longing for the future. 

Running time: 00:04:40

Alitisal (Canada) by Sabine Kahwaji

*** 25th Beverly Hills Film Festival®, Beirut Shorts International Film Festival

As a deadly explosion shatters their hometown of Beirut, three  siblings living abroad confront their mental health struggles amid uncertainty about their parents' fate.

Running time: 00:18:49

The Core (Romania) by Robert Obert

This short animated film illustrates a common consciousness from which materialized instances of feminine and masculine emerge, only to morph again into a single core. It is a metaphor of a love connection between two partners, fueled from the same source, but also for the power of creation that consciousness holds. This  also collects and shows sections of each partner’s transformation process, revealing and underlining that everything begins and ends from and into a single point, it shows the nucleus of narratives from each individual,  their symbiosis and eventually their exit. The author considers this animation a meta frame where we can be spectators to a process of creation and emotion.

Running time: 00:01:11

Safari (Italy) by Leonardo Balestrieri

Inspired by real instances of violence against LGBT+ people, Safari follows Elia, a member of a "hunting" group,  who serves as an example of the dissonance felt when one is forced to suppress themselves. Emerging from this annihilation will be lacerating, but ineludible.

Running time: 00:15:00

Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud

When we discuss and depict the body, we refer to something both tangible and imagined, with unclear boundaries and a complex relationship to the 'self'. This portrait of non-binary model Venus Baginski, the second episode of Fragments, takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their body. 

Running time: 00:03:00

All About My State (Poland) by Piotr Jacoń

*** Brussels Independent Film Festival, Doc.Berlin

In Poland, transgender people have to take their parents to court to have their gender designation corrected on their documents. Formally, this is the only way. In addition to tremendous stress and the humiliation of taking the testimony, the family faces uncertainty, because in Poland there are no clear regulations on how such a hearing should look. The court has a lot of freedom, and the prosecutor can join the proceedings at any stage, as it happened in the case of 20-year-old transgender Florian and his mother Agata, the protagonists of Piotr Jacon's documentary. 

Running time: 00:40:32