Sexuality, carnality

dir. Flóra Anna Buda

10′anim2023

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

dir. Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini

14′fab2023

A short, dramatic conversation. A man is trying to elicit some information from a clearly scared woman. Where is she? In a cave. With a fire burning at its entrance. How did she get there? And, first and foremost, what happened to Abraham? The teenage boy went missing. He is not at home. There are only burnt women’s clothes.

dir. Isabela Tent

84′dok2024

For 10 years, the film author observed the life of the film character who as a teenager gave birth to a child from her relationship with a much older man. The film is a story of subsequent disappearances of Alice – a sensitive girl and an artist looking desperately for her own way and fleeing from her demons.

dir. Shiva Krish

20′dok2024

Srija, a transgender woman from a small town in the south of India, is trying to get her marriage recognised. Unfortunately, her fight for justice, the media’s interest and the inconsideration of many people overshadow her relationship. But even when the problems start to mount, Srija can still count on the unconditional support of her mother.

dir. Janet Harbord

18′dok2023

In 1957 at the Maudsley Hospital in London, a film recording atypical behaviour of children was shot. Many years later, three adults in autism spectrum added their commentary to it providing new interpretations for the behaviour of the children in the film.

dir. Duda Gambogi

23′dok2024

It is a hot night in Cuba. During her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa, Elizabeth de Victória must confront all the difficulties that precede a live performance.

dir. Markus Stein

90′dok2024

In the 1980s, West Berlin was the European LGBT+ capital. Jürgen Baldiga, a photographer, poet and activist, became its co-founder and chronicler. The archival materials he left behind were used to tell a neurotic story about himself and the community living in the shadow of AIDS. Age rated: 18+

dir. Emanuel Pârvu

15′fab2023

Sixteen-year-old Adi is taken for a physical examination. He has obvious traces of beating, his face is lacerated and it is evident that he has been whipped. He does not say much. The police find out very soon that the motive behind the assault was his sexual orientation. In a small community, this is a reason to be ostracised, and for the family, especially his religious father, it is dishonour.

dir. Lika Nadir

15′fab2023

Russia. On the monitors of a nightclub, beautiful girls dance in front of an uninterested clientele. From the radio and television come recruitment announcements for a ‘special military operation’. In the drawer of Savvy's young bodyguard lies a gun. Would he be able to use it to kill someone? In the name of what? Love? Propaganda?

dir. Betina Bożek

12′anim2024

A woman who lives inside the glass Rubik’s Cube makes sure that everything is organised, clean and symmetrical there. One day, inadvertently, she hurts her foot and chaos starts to force its way into her orderly life. The struggle between what can be under control and what is untamed begins.

dir. Anna Korom

30′fab2023

Maria is addicted to plastic surgeries. Successive augmentations do not satisfy her and she wants new ones. Her nose, lips or facial fillers are never perfect. Now, she is looking forward to the opportunity of a date with her former love. But where to find money if she is drowning in debt?

dir. Jorge Cadena

16′fab2022

dir. Gracjana Piechula

24′fab2024

A simple hug lowers the level of cortisol and blood pressure, at the same time strengthening resistance and self-esteem. Life can be hard without it, as experienced by Staszek and Alinka. In their marriage, closeness has been replaced by routine. Everything changes when Alinka takes up the work of a hugger at Honey Bunny salon.

dir. Mary Posatko

94′dok2024

In the heavily-immigrant and Catholic coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Tom and Sheila choose the pageantry, promise and safety of religious life, taking life-long vows of celibacy as teenagers.

dir. Igor Kuna

7′dok2024

A young determined man, despite not having his left arm, strives to be a hero as a fireman and father. Devoid of dialogues, the film shows the stalwart strength of the human spirit and boundless love using just images and sound.

dir. Izabela Plucińska

15′anim2024

Grotesque, Roland Topor and Plasticine, i.e. Izabela Plucińska returns yet again with an animation exposing human weaknesses, which is full of absurd and black humour. This time, using 600 dolls and 200 kilograms of plasticine, she shows the mechanisms of manipulation and social hierarchy.

dir. Carla Melo Gampert

14′anim2023

Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.

dir. Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany

30′fab2023

Asma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. In the midst of forced migrations, can we move past our animosity to find solace in each other?

dir. Ohad Milstein

73′dok2023

The director observes his senior parents whose relationship burned out a long time ago, for which his mother tries to compensate with shopaholism. The son initiates a psychodrama featuring his parents and at the same time tests his own marriage, which is falling into a routine. Is monogamy still the best form of a relationship?

dir. Jessica Poon

6′anim2024

The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. On the one hand, they seem to be roaming without an aim, while on the other, they try to move ‘mountains’ with all their might. This surreal story is a metaphor of the lifestyle of modern nomads constantly chasing novelty and, at the same time, entangled in old habits.

dir. Józef Gross

30′dok2024

A punk story about the Z generation without censorship. Oscar, who lives in Toronto, returns to Krakow after many years. He carries a baggage of difficult life experiences with him and has a plan for the coming future – tattooing.

dir. Michalina Musialik

14′anim2023

Christmas is the magic time when snow falls, the family gets together and toys become alive. On this special evening, a little girl can see her doll embark on a great adventure. The magic is gone the moment a wooden soldier puts his hand under the doll’s dress. A story about growing up and discovering carnality to the tune of Tchaikovsky’s ballet.

dir. Qi Zhang

18′fab2023

Residents of no other country have been so much experienced by the pandemic restrictions. In China, a quarantine meant not only a ban to leave your house but also a welded door. ‘Open Eyes’ is a film that settles accounts with this difficult period in an unexpected way by presenting a relatively young marriage trapped in isolation.

dir. Macha Ovtchinnikova

14′fab2023

This miniature, set in two time realities, presents a biography and philosophy of an activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940). ‘The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands’ says the protagonist, ‘but true emancipation begins in a woman's soul.’ Has this idea become outdated or perhaps it resonates nowadays stronger than ever?

dir. Mateusz Pacewicz

25′fab2024

Antek fell in love head over heels. The object of his affection is Kuba, a teenage drug dealer. The boys have nothing in common. How to initiate a meeting? Antek does not take drugs, but he is in love, so he continues to buy fixes. Eventually, the boys have a chance to spend a longer evening together. Can anything go wrong?

dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer

102′dok2024

Peaches, who is a performer, provoker and a sassy lady, does not slow down in the sixth decade of her life. To the contrary, her tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her album ‘Teaches of Peaches’ was an explosion of creativity. For the filmmakers, it was an opportunity to find out more about this rebellious artist, an icon of feminism and queer culture. Age rated: 18+

dir. Caroline von der Tann

73′dok2024

Ciretta lives in the streets of old Naples, primarily from theft and prostitution. He is also a street singer and a faithful adherent of the local Virgin Mary cult. In his company, we visit places where plebeian religiousness merges with cheerfulness and human solidarity.

dir. Emilia Ondriasova

19′fab2023

Martin has it all: his own art gallery, an intelligent wife, a nice apartment and an organised and settled life. This may be the core of the problem - his everyday life is overwhelmed by all-encompassing boredom or, simply, the mid-life crisis. He decides to face it in the most mature way: by running away.