My Life, My Choices
My Life, My Choices
Fri, Aug 27, PROG – 2
Life is all about facing challenges, making mistakes and learning new lessons. A package of six short documentaries giving glimpses of the journeys of some amazing, determined queer people from across the continents. They must have stumbled, fallen or failed – but they keep themselves going because they choose to make rest of their lives the best of their life.
Dir: Jaime Fidalgo | 10 min | 2019 | Spain | Spanish
A solitary night watchman opens the doors of his work to take us on a cathartic inner journey, in which he strips off the mask he’s created before the world, to finally question who he is.
Dir: Bruno Montenegro | 5 min | 2020 | Peru | Spanish
Bruno is a transgender boy who doesn’t believe in marriage, but a few months ago he learned that his friends from Iquitos Almendra and Luko were married in Argentina and returned to Peru. So he decided to go to Iquitos to dispel his doubts.
Dir: Ruhul Robin Khan | 7 min | 2021 | Bangladesh | Bengali
After the age of 25, Noor Alam discovers himself as an Intersex person. Being born as a girl and later declared as a boy, Noor gradually got alienated from family, society, institution and even from himself. Noor keeps struggling all through this challenging journey, until defining their true identity.
Dir: Alfredo Del Rosario Ruzol | 5 min | 2019 | Philippines | Tagalog
As a gay/bisexual farmer and his live-in partner expect their first child, he seemed to have taken both his roles and responsibility sincerely – as the provider to his soon to be a big family, and as an aware farmer.
Dir: Amina Maher | 20 min | 2019 | Islamic Republic of Iran, Germany, Malaysia | Persian
A heartfelt letter to tell the mother the most painful of secrets. Amina, who in 2002 was the small protagonist of Ten by Abbas Kiarostami, is now a transgender filmmaker who tries to make her voice heard, understood, and be understood.
Dir: Savino Carbone | 30 min | 2019 | Italy | Italian, French, English
Two homosexual migrants reflect on their status as asylum seekers in Italy, after having left Senegal and Nigeria to escape persecution against the LGBT community. Filmed in Bari in 2019, at the height of the Salvian campaign against migrants, they are confronted with a climate of xenophobia, forcing them on a lonely journey of self-determination, between memories of lost loves, dangers and suffering.
