SWEET AND SAVOURY SHORTS
Float
Directed by Sam Berliner
Float is a four-minute experimental short film shot completely underwater featuring trans and genderqueer folks swimming naked set to music by trans musician Rae Spoon.
Cunt Month March
Directed by Rosa Von Paunheim
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon of the worldwide LGBT scene: a pioneer, a gay activist, a provocateur – and a unique storyteller. From the 70’s onwards, he has been touching taboos and society’s raw points with his titles. Now he has accomplished one of his most ambitious projects, ROSA’S WORLD. Cunt Month March is one of the vignettes in this series depicting a moment in time and the beginning of a revolution around language.
Performing Girl
Directed by Crescent Diamond
Performing Girl is a short documentary about D’Lo, a queer, transgender, Tamil Sri Lankan American actor, writer, director, and comic who got his start at age eleven by performing for his family and classmates in the desert town of Lancaster, California. Animations, home movies, and family snapshots paint the portrait of D’Lo’s personality. In interviews and clips from his performances, D’Lo and his parents explain how his identity and their relationship have changed over the last twenty years.
Easy Reappearance
Directed by Gullaime Levil
Anne, a fifty-year-old woman with a bourgeoise mentality, listens to a message secretly intended for her husband: a man makes an appointment with him in a gay club where you must give the password, “Easy Reappearance”.
Tremulo
Directed by Roberto Flesco
Carlos sweeps and mops the floor of an old-time barbershop. The day before Independence Day, among the customers is Julio. Their eyes meet, and when the barbershop closes Julio comes back for Carlos. They spend the night together, eating, chatting, and even dancing, knowing full well that this encounter will be brief and short-lived.
SWEET AND SAVOURY SHORTS
2015| MIXED| 87 minutes
Date: SATURDAY MAY 21
Time: 5PM
Location : 7PM
1133 Kensington Rd NW
Calgary, AB T2N 3P4