How to deal as young adults with what we inherit from our society? The Exploding Girl is the diary of lonelyCandice. Her body is a colourful mess of textures that has been exploding every day for the past three months. Several times a day sometimes, her record standing at seven.
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SHE STAYS
Ella se queda
Marinthia Gutiérrez
MEX, 2024, digital, VO ES ST ENG OND, 10’
In Marinthia Gutiérrez’s genre-bending She Stays, a girl is accepted into a dance master’s programme abroad. When she goes out with her friends, she notices various girls who are carefully watching her wherever she goes. Distracted and anxious, she is constantly annoyed until she visits a coven of vampire dancers. She Stays is a beautiful love letter to dance and horror.
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BLANK NARCISSUS (PASSION OF THE SWAMP)
Peter Strickland
AUS/UK, 2022, digital, VO ENG, 12’
Evoking the fantastical eroticism and unapologetic camp of James Bidgood’s queer classic Pink Narcissus, British auteur Peter Strickland packs kitsch erotics with intense emotion into this saucy, shimmering short. A potent merger of desire and memory that is most definitely NSFW!
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TAKO TSUBO
Fanny Sorgo & Eva Pedroza
AUT/DE, 2024, digital, VO AL ST AN OND, 6’
Takotsubo, or broken-heart syndrome, is an acute and often serious dysfunction of the heart muscle that usually arises from extraordinary emotional or physical stress. In this witty animated film, Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed so as to free himself from complicated emotions. After the removal, he holds on to his heart for a while longer, in the hope of understanding it better someday.
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HEXHAM HEADS
Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen
BE/UK, 2024, digital, VO ENG ST ENG OND, 34’
In 1971, a family living in the town of Hexham was plagued by a series of paranormal events. After bringing home a pair of small stone heads, the family were terrorised by the ghostly sounds and images these objects exerted. Hexham Heads adopts an impressionistic approach to this folk tale.
