Duration: 86 minutes
Cinematheque 2, Tel-Aviv
Monday, November 15, 2021, 16:00 – Tickets
MUTYA
Director & Script: Jon Cuyson
Producer: EVERYDAY PRODUCTIONS (Jon Cuyson)
Cast: Josh Serafin, Irma Adlawan
Philippines, 2021, 8 min, Filipino with English subtitles
MUTYA is an experimental short film that questions our understanding of physical, emotional, and psychological distance. Through a fictionalized conversation between a transgender resort worker and her seafarer boyfriend, the film investigates the complexities of intimacy and relationship entanglements amidst economic and personal challenges.
Girl Like Me
Director: April Maxey
Script: Peppermint
Producer: Rosa Costanza
Cast: Peppermint
USA, 2021, 20 min, English with no subtitles
“Girl Like Me” is a musical short set to original songs by Peppermint and tells the story of a one-night stand turned into unlikely love between a transgender woman and one of her suitors. As they navigate the rocky road of love, the threats to the relationship come in unexpected forms.
Veni Etiam (I shall come again)
Director: Alex Hai, Mahtab Mansour
Script: Alex Hai
Producer: Mahtab Mansour, Manelli Hosseini, Alex Hai
With: Alex Hai
Italy, France, 2021, 9 min, English with no subtitles
“Veni Etiam” is a moving and poetic transgender documentary film. It tells the story of a gondola and its gondolier navigating through the canals of Venice. The gondoliers’ journey is a metaphorical passage.
God’s Daughter Dances
Director & Script: Sungbin Byun
Producer: Suji Bong
Cast: Choi Haejun, Wookyum Kim, Hojun Lim
Republic of Korea, 2020, 25 min, Korean with English subtitles
A transgender female dancer, Shin-mi, gets a call from the Military Manpower Administration, to attend for the Military Service Examination. Shin-mi, with everything ready, takes her steps to the Military Manpower Administration.
A Pound of Flesh
Director: Oliwia Siem
Script: Bartek Swiderski
Producer: Oliwia Siem
Cast: Jonathan Hansler, Jack Archer, Yasser Kayani
United Kingdom 2021, 10 min, English with no subtitles
A desperate employee gambles a pound of their own flesh against a large sum of their boss’s cash, with life-altering consequences.
Memoirs of the (Non)Existent Me
Director & Script: Thiago Kistenmacker
Producer: Thiago Kistenmacker
Cast: Sanni Est, Gabriela Reis, Fernando Alves Pinto
Brazil, 2021, 15 min, Portuguese with English subtitles
Marina’s death transforms her past into heritage. Her memoirs and the portrait of her identity are hostage in a dispute to claim her gender.