All festival films in alphabetical order

All films are available online, for free, during the period of November 23 — December 7. All films can be watched without any geographical restrictions.

All films are screened in the original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles (SDH).

AnOther Love $tory: Women & AIDS

Canada, 30 minutes, 1990, fiction

Directors: Debbie Douglas, Gabrielle Micallef

AnOther Love $tory was produced to dispel the myths around HIV & AIDS for women in general, lesbians in particular.

Dear Lou Sullivan

USA, 6 minutes, 2014, experimental

Director: Rhys Ernst

This work by LA-based artist Rhys Ernst invokes the story of Lou Sullivan, trans man and AIDS activist largely responsible for establishing the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation.

Every Document Of Civilization

Argentina, 90 minutes, 2024, experimental documentary

Director: Tatiana Mazú González

This film is a process of excavation. Or the dissection of the landscape where, fifteen years ago, the State disappeared Luciano Arruga.

Flare

Cripping, Living, Loving Audio description

Germany, 27 minutes, 2023, experimental documentary

Director: Kit Blamire

Flare is a personal and poetic experimental documentary film. Flare explores landscapes of autoimmunity and searching for autonomy in the face of the medical system.

Me Cuido

Chile, 6 minutes, 2020, experimental

Authors: Las Indetectables, Macarena Rodríguez, Osvaldo Guzmán

Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization of people living with HIV in the context of Chile’s capitalist and neoliberal regime.

Offside: An Unequal Game

Switzerland, 14 minutes, 2024, documentary

Director: Katja Stirnemann

The filmmaker is fed up; she questions gender codes in sports. Material from her personal family archives meets found footage. As old codes are dismantled, the remaining pieces are formed into new questions.

Our Joyful Endings

France, 6 minutes, 2025, documentary, experimental

Directors: Levon Babayan, La Fille Renne

Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition.

Pharma Infinity Dance

Cripping, Living, Loving Audio description

United States, 2 minutes, 2022, experimental

Director: Chanika Svetvilas

In this video, the filmmaker, Chanika Svetvilas has threaded her collection of prescription bottles with galvanized wire to create the shape of a large infinity loop sculpture. She dances through the aisles of a CVS pharmacy with her Infinity sculpture to reflect on side effects, the intersections of treatment, access to healthcare, and stigma as well as their contradictions.

Recipe for an Elder

Canada, 6 minutes, 2024, experimental/hybrid fiction

Director: JL Whitecrow

A dedication to First Nations women and Two-spirit people that are living with AIDS/HIV and the community organizations that offer Indigenous cultural programs as a means of healing.

Resistance Meditation

Cripping, Living, Loving Audio description

Canada, 5 minutes, 2024, documentary

Director: Sara Wylie

A meditation on crip time and resistance by a chronically ill filmmaker, shot on Super 8 and eco-processed by hand.

Sisters

Italy, 67 minutes, 2023, documentary

Director: Marianna Fumai

Sisters explores the situation of abortion access in Italy, Poland, and Malta, highlighting the solidarity response provided by national and international collectives and organizations, working together to ensure the right to self-determination and reproductive health for those in need.

Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)

Cripping, Living, Loving Audio description

United Kingdom, 26 minutes, 2023, experimental

Director: Jamila Prowse

Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard), (2023) is a moving image work based upon Spoons Theory, which uses spoons as a visualisation of the disparity in energy reserves between disabled and abled people.

That Child with AID$

Brazil, 11 minutes, 2023, documentary

Directors: Lili Nascimento, Hiura Fernandes

Between archives, delusions, and memories, "That Child with AID$" revisits the forbidden memories of childhoods lived and still lived with HIV in Brazil. Inspired by the life and research of Lili Nascimento (stage name of Lírio Nascimento), the film is a ritual of collective healing where pain becomes language and forgetting, resistance.

The Repressed

Ukraine, 26 minutes, 2025, documentary essay

Directors: Maryna Ya, Kostiantyn Maleonyuk

For homeless people, urban space becomes a place to live. They live in parks, squares, manholes, and abandoned buildings. The city becomes a home. A bench becomes a bed, a dumpster a source of food, and fountains a shower. “The Repressed” is a compilation of stories from homeless people in Odesa about their dreams, fears, hopes, and anxieties.

There’s Not Much We Can Do

Cripping, Living, Loving Audio description

UK, 19 minutes, 2022, documentary

Director: Erica Monde

A meditation on the unlikely bond between endometriosis and Japanese knotweed.