In China a lesbian has to fake a relationship with a gay man, meetings in museums and on trains turn into love stories, a search for a beloved sex toy, a daughter’s dilemma of how to come out to her mother and also, eggs.
Lesbian stories from China, Mexico, Spain, UK and Ukraine.
Duration: 80 minutes
Director: Hao Zhou
Script: Hao Zhou
Producer: Hao Zhou, Bella Tarr, Tyler Hill
With: Yasan Zhang, Wenbo Liu
China, 10 minutes, 2022, Chinese with English subtitles
Festivals:
LesGaiCineMad Madrid LGBTI Film Festival 2023
Beijing Queer Film Festival 2023
Wicked Queer- Boston Film Festival 2023
Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival, Calgary 2023
A sham-married queer woman and queer man live together but have entirely separate lives. Yet, their schedules are linked by a propagandistic program that nudges them toward a single goal.
Director: Adolfo Vico
Script: Allie Moss
Producer: Mo Abdelkhalek
With: Katie Griffiths, MJ Lee, Maxine Howard
UK, 12 minutes, 2023, English with Hebrew subtitles
The story follows a couple who spend one night turning their house upside down trying to find a special possession that they think will spice things up in bed bringing them closer again.
As they search around their house and belongings, they reflect on their relationship and realise that what they are really looking for has been there all along, in the beautiful moments between them.
“Mr Strappy” is about that spark that sometimes goes missing in a relationship – when life’s distractions seem to get in the way of what’s important – and asks where it can be found again.
Hint: it’s not the cutlery drawer.
Director: Karla Enriqueta Noriega, Maria Jose Noriega
Script: Karla Enriquta Noriega, Maria Jose Noriega
Producer: Lucky Twins
With: Maria Jose Noriega, Blanca Navarro, Alejandra Hernandez- Yeo, Camila Rodriguez, Michael Olivera
Mexico, 15 minutes, 2023, Spanish with English subtitles
Makos, a full grown adult, is visited by her mother from Mexico. She has to decide if it is time to come out of the closet, after almost 30 years in secrecy.
Director: Phaedra Vokali
Script: Phaedra Vokali
Producer: Phaedra Vokali, Orestis Plakias
With: Margarita Tasi, Froso Papadopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki
Greece, 19 minutes, 2021, Greek and Albanian with English subtitles
Anna is a gifted but insecure 17-year-old girl who is desperate to belong. During an aquarium school trip, her jockey boyfriend pressures Anna into entrapping his go-to target, tough Albanian classmate Jo, so that they can bully them later on. Anna accepts the mission only to find herself perplexed by her own feelings for Jo. Now Anna needs to decide if she’s brave enough to follow her inner voice or succumb to the need to be accepted.
Director: Yolanda Moreno Torrado
Script: Yolanda Moreno Torrado
Producer: Yolanda Moreno Torrado
Spain, 3 minutes, 2020, No dialogue
Festivals:
Indian World Film Festival 2020
FEMALE SHORTS Barcelona 2021
Jumpstart International Womens Film Festival, India 2021
A surprise visit reveals the loving relationship between two mature women at the stage of life when they begin to be invisible by younger generations. The short film is about normalizing LGBT people.
Creators in attendance. Q&A session after the screening.
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