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Short Films Package

Documentary Short Competition 1

Total Duration: 50 min

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This year’s Documentary Short Films in Competition has nominees from UK, USA, Germany, Israel and Cambodia! Presenting here, the first part of the same with two short films from Germany, Israel and UK.

What It Means To Be

Dir: Lea Luiz De Oliveira

35 min | 2022 | UK | English | World Premiere

Callie is an activist who uses her position in STEM to fight for trans* rights and representation. As she is about to start her medical transition, a diagnosis puts her health and her career into question, she embarks on a journey of self- acceptance and decides to use her music to inspire others.

BI THE WAY

Dir: Amir Ovadia Steklov

15 min | 2022 | Germany, Israel | English | Indian Premiere

Bi The Way is a short, funny, and intimate animated film about Amir’s life-journey as a bisexual cis man – made in a Stop-Motion animation technique. The film tells Amir’s story from early childhood until present day, highlighting his struggle to fit into binary culture making him unacceptable to the hetero-normative community and invisible in the LGBTQIA community.