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Curatorial Statement:
The films selected this year in the Queer category formally and thematically question sexual orientation, gender identity, community, sexuality, and pleasure. Through their images and sounds, they present bold, necessary, and celebratory explorations of our lives and communities.
The eight short films selected from Lebanon, Chile, Czechia, the USA, Spain, and France move across different genres such as fiction, documentary, experimental, and animation and explore with rebellion and pride the worlds they portray. Within them, intersections emerge between the celebration of the Arabic alphabet, cruising, pleasure and complicity during transition, a fantasy of a t4t romance and the tenderness of adolescent love, shared intimacies on social media, the search for a lost lesbian activism, and clashes with family and tradition. Altogether, these films present joyful, provocative, and defiant visions of what Queer culture is and can be.
Ignacio Juricic
Lebanon, 5 min, director: Hadi Moussally
France, 6:07 min, director: La Fille Renne
USA, 5:30 min, director: Wyatt Carson
Chile, 16:41 min, director: Paloma Aguilera
Czechia, 9:40 min, director: Lucie Nour Zpevakova
USA, 12 min, director: Malic Amalya
Spain, 7 min, director: Isa Saéz Pérez
Chile, 17:45 min, director: Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira