LGBTQ+
films
by Amélie Hardy
Director Statement
I met Cooper 2 years ago while working on a documentary series project. Cooper was asked to answer the following question: What lie do you tell yourself most often? Her answer was: the lie I tell myself most often is that I'll never be considered a woman as long as I have a male voice. After this too-brief encounter, I was convinced that there was a powerful story to be shared through cinema. While I don't share the reality of being a trans woman, Cooper's quest for her own identity moves me. Her struggle is a universal one, since Cooper's story is one of self-acceptance. The film certainly emerges from my own reflections on gender in the broadest sense. What makes us women? Men? How can we uncover these social codes and expectations to prevent them from restraining us?
by Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes
Director Statement
As film directors, "Paradise Europe" holds deep personal significance as it is rooted in the Queer culture and reflects real events from our lives as immigrant artists in Berlin. The film explores the pressing issue of the city's housing crisis, which becomes even more complex and chaotic when experienced by a gay immigrant artist without a European passport.
Drawing inspiration from the "Third Cinema" movement, which traditionally addresses socio-political issues in the developing world, our film reinterprets this approach in the context of the "First world." By doing so, we aim to shed light on contemporary challenges that persist in a post-pandemic society still tied to its hetero-patriarchal colonialist past.
by Krzysztof Grudziński
The tender and human fiction short film "The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World" directed by the Brazilian Renato Sircilli. The film combines the director's previous research into the ways technology mediates relationships with a desire to work with characters much older than himself. The film "makes love" to bodies that are usually not given the possibility of libido or love. Far from being exotic, they are common, close, able to create attraction for each other
by Uriya Hertz
At the end of the night at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron can't find his bag. Without the bag he cannot return home. Sefi, the bartender, tries to help him. Their fates will be linked tonight.
by 憲和 小田
Rinka Asano is a social media influencer. Daily streaming and posting tie up posts with corporations. She is asked her type by male fans in daily streams, and when she posts her outing photos, her fans assert that she went out with a man. However, in contrast to that, Rinka had a girlfriend named Sae Maruyama.