Plenum in The Faggot House / Plenum im Tutenhaus
Germany, Sweden, genre, 2024, 13’
Director: Lasse Långström
Screenplay: Lasse Långström
Editing: Lasse Långström
Cinematography: Ethan Folk, Kim Ekberg
Sound: Maja Darkest Karlsson
Scenography: Kent Grundberg
Cast: Monika Långström, Brigitte Oytoy, Flora Griebel, Nik Persson
Production: Billy Naum
The district administration has cut down trees and put up lights in the cruising area in Volkspark Hasenheide. The antifa faggots plan to fight back against this heterosexist attack. But is the text in their campaign poster too academic? It's going to be a long plenum...
*Tutenhaus in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg is a housing project for homosexuals. It is part of a former residential building on Kastanienallee 86,
Archeology of Lesbian desire / Arqueologia del deseo lesbico
Spain, France, documentary, experimental, 2024, 14’
Director: Camille Zéhenne
Screenplay: Camille Zéhenne
Editing: Camille Zéhenne
Cinematography: Camille Zéhenne
Sound: Nana Benamer
Music: Nana Benamer
Scenography: Camille Zéhenne
Cast: Laura Chazel, Nana Benamer, Laure Julien, Manon Delarue, Sarai Mendoza
Production: Camille Zéhenne
Through the feminist and queer gaze, this experimental essayistic reflection returns to the poetics of memory and desire. With its 16-mm framing in colour and explicitly dreamy rhythm, the film explores lesbian erotica – from the sensual presence of a statue to those gentle, sometimes suppressed, gestures between women.
Ecstasy
Mexico, fiction, experimental, 2023, 8’
Director: Carolina Costa
Screenplay: Carolina Costa
Editing: Monica Salazar
Cinematography: Carolina Costa
Music: Carlos Gualda
Cast: Mabel Cadena, Natalia Solián
Production: Arsalan D. Asli
Mystical sci-fi inspired by the manuscripts of St Teresa of Ávila. A black hole affects the nuns in a mysterious mausoleum, which is both a relic of the past and the future. Ecstasy is an eerie exploration of pleasure.
Paris Model
Canada, experimental, 2021, 6’
Director: Brittney Appleby
Paris Model is composed of found footage of striptease that has been edited using experimental analogue film techniques. A combination of experimental techniques creates frightening images that urge the audience to consider mortality and transience.
Shame / عيب
Lebanon, experimental, 2024, 4’
Director: Hadi Moussally
Screenplay: Hadi Moussally
Editing: Olivier Pagny
Cinematography: Olivier Pagny
Music: Rasheed Jalloul
Cast: Salma Zahore, Hadi Moussally
Production: Hadi Moussally
Exquisite costumes and elaborate soundscape take us on a visually and sensually extravagant journey that subtly yet fiercely examines social expectations and colonial views on the Arab world.
The Archive: Queer Nigerians
UK, Nigeria, experimental, 2023, 25’
Director: Simisolaoluwa Akande
Screenplay: Simisolaoluwa Akande, Maureen Onwunali
Editing: Simisolaoluwa Akande, Joseph Bushell
Cinematography: Bea Macdonald
Music: Tope Olufemi, Tori Daniels
Scenography: Andrea Greenwood, Glow-ann Crawford
Cast: Chima, Alex, Timinepre, Morayo, Tomkola
Production: Maxine Gordon
Exquisite costumes and an elaborate soundscape take us on a visually and sensually extravagant journey that subtly yet fiercely questions social expectations and colonial views on the Arab world.