Growing up queer is never just about getting older — it is about learning how to exist in a world that was not built for you.
This program brings together short films that explore first love, identity, family, shame, freedom, and self-discovery through queer youth and young adult perspectives.
The films move between tenderness and rebellion, confusion and clarity, capturing the fragile and powerful moments that shape who we become.
Together they form an intimate portrait of becoming — of finding language for desire, courage for difference, and space for one’s true self.
These stories remind us that queer coming of age is not only about survival, but about claiming joy, presence, and future.

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Queer Gazed Bodies moves between two intertwined perspectives: queer bodies on screen and a queer gaze that reshapes cinematic perception. The programme traces fluid, unstable body images while foregrounding films that are queer not only in what they show, but in how they are constructed.
Queerness emerges through cinematic language — through montage, rhythm, framing, and movement — sometimes without depicting explicitly queer subjects. These films resist fixed meanings and normative body images, opening spaces of ambiguity, sensuality, and transformation, and proposing cinema itself as a site of queer perception."



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Art & Experimental Shorts brings together films that work against narrative certainty and familiar cinematic language. These works use experimentation not as a gesture of abstraction alone, but as a queer method — to disrupt perception, resist legibility, and open space for ambiguity. Through image, sound, performance, and rhythm, the films invite viewers into experiences that are felt before they are understood, proposing cinema as a site of tension, intimacy, and transformation.

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