Short Films Package

Total Duration: 84 min

Life is an ever challenging journey and nothing goes as planned in one’s life, yet one has to keep going along with a determination and desire to live. The first part of Documentary Panorama showcases four realities about the lives, challenges, dreams and aspirations of the people from the LGBTQIA+ spectrum rooted in three diverse cultures and ethnicities.

BUNNY DECIDES TO GO

Dir: Vusala Hajiyeva

17 min | 2022 | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani | Asian Premiere

A personal video diary about the isolation, fear and threats to her life in Baku that led the filmmaker on an unplanned trip to Tbilisi. There she has to adapt to a new life in a new city, solve the problems she carried.

MAWITAI'KW JUNE 8 THU Alliance Francaise

Dir: Bretten Hannam

Across Wabanaki territory, Two-Spirit people overcome distance, isolation, and a pandemic to unite as a community and share perspectives.

2.30 PM contd

PRIVILEGES Alliance Francaise

Dir: Daniel Favaretto

34 min | 2022 | Brazil | Portuguese

We used to have nightmares about AIDS. Today we choose to dream. Documentary invites people living with HIV to select memories to relive performatively in a dream

SONS OF THE NIGHT

Dir: Henrique Arruda

16 min | 2022 | Brazil | Portuguese | Asian Premiere

Questioning where their bodies fit in the current world, seven elderly men between ages 50 and 70 share their memories, lives and nocturnal images.