All festival films in alphabetical order
All films are available online, for free, during the period of November 23 — December 8. Most films can be watched without any geographical restrictions.
The films "Avantdrag!" and "The Silence of Reason" are available within the territory of Ukraine.
All films are screened in the original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles (SDH).
Audio description in Ukrainian is available for the films "2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com", "Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil", "Criminal Queers", "Trans Kasmir", "You Think That The Earth Is a Dead Thing", and "zong" .
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
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Director: Theo Jean Cuthand
Canada, 5 minutes, 2017, fiction
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements.
Amarandos
Director: Iokasti Mantzog
Greece, Germany, 28 minutes, 2024, experimental documentary
Amarandos - a messy vase of memory and affection, is a celebration of life, dealing with Alzheimer disease and grief through shared songs and dances.
Avant-Drag!
Director: Fil Ieropoulos
Greece, 92 minutes, 2024, documentary, experimental
Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism.
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
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Director: Karolina Uskakovych
Ukraine, Netherlands, United Kingdom, 15, 2024, documentary
An exploration of human connectedness to landscape, the role of gardening during war, and the complexities of food systems—all mixed up in a borshch of family love.
Can A Mountain Recall
Director: Delfina Carlota Vazquez
Argentina, Mexico, 20 minutes, 2021, experimental documentary
A personal diary of a period living in Mexico and a portrait of the Popocatepetl, an active volcano.
Criminal Queers
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Directors: Chris E. Vargas, Eric A. Stanley
USA, 64 minutes, 2009, fiction
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls.
Dead As A Dodo
Director: Leena Habiballa
Sudan, 5 minutes, 2022, experimental
Dead As A Dodo lays bare the settler colonial mythology at the heart of the popular narrative of the Dodo’s extinction.
Homotopia
Directors: Chris E. Vargas, Eric A. Stanley
USA, 27 min, 2006, fiction
Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles- a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce.
Silence of Reason
Director: Kumjana Novakova
North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 63 minutes, 2023, documentary
Forensic video essay constructed as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for war-time rape as a form of torture and sexual enslavement as a crime against humanity.
Terror Nullius
Directors: Soda Jerk
Australia, 54 minutes, 2018, experimental, narrative fiction
Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, Terror Nullius is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema canon.
Trans Kasmir
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Directors: Surbhi Dewan, S.A. Hanan
India, 61 minutes, 2022, documentary
A documentary film about the extreme hardships, resilience, and beauty of Kashmir’s transgender community and their growing movement for basic human rights.
Uýra – The Rising Forest
Director: Juliana Curi
Brazil, USA, 72 minutes, 2022, documentary
Uýra – The Rising Forest is a documentary feature film that tells the story of Uýra, an enchanted being from the Amazon, who uses transforming art to echo ancestral messages from the forest.
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3: Micro Resistencias
Director: Marwa Arsanios
Germany, Colombia, 31 minutes, 2020, documentary, experimental
The film brings to our attention several stories of women who, in turn, talk about their struggle to preserve the ancestral knowledge of the indigenous communities concerning the cultivation and protection of the seeds that enable them to achieve a form of agricultural autonomy.
You Think That The Earth Is a Dead Thing
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Director: Florence Lazar
France, 70 minutes, 2019, documentary
The film looks at the “global ecological crisis” from the perspective of the island of Martinique.
zong
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Directors: Teta Tsybulnyk, Elias Parvulesco, Svitlana Pototska
Ukraine, 9 minutes, 2019, experimental
Zamglai nature reserve is one of the largest bog systems in Ukraine. Its name probably derives from the Old Kurdish word ‘zong’ meaning bog.