international narrative shorts IN COMPETITION

 In the Austrian Alps, father and son set out on a hike to finally climb to the top of their emotional world.

A visual short coming of age story of young boy Bram discovering his sexuality. acceptance.

Hikari Shintani (Yu Ishizuka), a trans woman, works at an ornamental fish company and lives alone in Tokyo. While occasionally feeling an indescribable distance between herself and others, she enjoys the company of her trans women friends and workmates. One day, Hikari returns to her hometown for a business trip. To reveal her true self as a woman, she gathers her courage and texts her old classmate Takashi, a long-unrequited love from high school.

A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.

Five friends meet on Skype on the initiative of a sixth, which is slow to appear. Little by little, we discover what binds them together: the memory of the “Tell me about love”, a slam evening organized by a certain Clémence, and during which everyone ended up giving themselves up.

Tomas’ world has gotten small since his cancer diagnosis and treatment. Now in remission, he meets Dustin on Cancr, the dating app for people with cancer. Their summer romance may be brief, but the care and understanding that passes between them opens something beautiful for both young men.

After meeting on a dating app, Tom and John decide to give each other a chance to be more than just two anonymous bodies, as they take a walk in the snowy Montreal winter. Even though John does not speak nor French, nor English, the two start bonding. But the curfew is just around the corner…

Two amateur actors guilty of homophobic acts face their first gay kiss in the middle of shooting a student short film, the recording stops with the first kiss (horrible and uncomfortable). Soon they will discover their past, the guilt and the search for redemption will make them try a romantic and passionate kiss.

A Jordanian man (Karim) must find a way to tell his childhood friend and first love (Ramzi) the truth about what happened twenty years ago, when a single moment changed both their lives. When he can’t find the words, the conversation repeats, becoming increasingly surreal until he loses.

When a mysterious gate-crasher appears at their wedding, Madhav and Sufi are forced to face past secrets and reflect on what makes a family. Queer Parivaar is a story of multi-generational LGBTQ+ identities and experiences, narrated musically through an ambitious original soundtrack, and created by a majority South Asian LGBTQ+ cast and crew