Girls Shorts

SAT May 18, 11.00 AM, Cinepolis (Andheri)

AUNTIE ISSUES
(Original Title: Complejo De Algo)
Dirs: Tadeo Pestaña Caro, Rita Hostt
14 min / 2023 / Argentina / Spanish

Veronica is known for falling in love with her middle aged teachers. One day, wondering why this is, she has an epiphany.

I FOUND MY YELLOW
Dir: Shin Thandar
15 min / 2024 / Myanmar / Burmese

Two women, Shin and Susan, and one cat, Shwe Lone Chay, are slowly learning to be a family unit, lovingly accepting each other’s insecurities. In the face of the current LGBTQIA+ repression in Myanmar, same-sex marriage, for the time being, remains a faraway dream.

INVITATION Dir: Panha Theng 10 min / 2023 / Cambodia / Central Khmer Invitation is a thought-provoking film about a lesbian couple, Vann, and Nin, who live in a cozy condo in the city. They have been together for six years, and their relationship has been tested by their personal battles with their past.

LOVESICK (Mal de Amores)
Dir: Fiorella Vescovi Garcia
15 min / 2022 / USA / English

Natalia “Nat” Barbieri just discovered that her ex-girlfriend Tara is engaged to a douchey, rich, European playboy. She goes to her friends Beatriz and Lucia for support, but they’ve had enough of her pity party and call her out on her obsession. Nat doesn’t want to hear it and tells them to leave, adding that she won’t be going to dodgeball practice.

SEAGULLS CUT THROUGH THE SKY
(Original Title: As Gaivotas Cortam O Céu)
Dirs: Mariana Bártolo, Guillermo García López
18 min / 2023 / Portugal, France / Portuguese

Dense atmosphere of change and union strikes in Porto’s harbor. Clara, owner of a fishermen’s bar threatened by closure, finds in the arms of Raquel, waitress on cruise ships, the only shelter to express her fears and contradictions.

UNEX·TEXT·ED ENCOUNTERS Dir: Ria Mirchandani 12 min / 2023 / USA / English An unexpected romance, as told by the screen of an iPhone