SHORT FILM PROGRAMMES
THURSDAY 07 september
FRIDAY 08 september
CLAWSON AND WARD
SATURDAY 09 september
SUNDAY 10 september
GROWING UP QUEER





PIFF Shorts 2 (Community)
Time:
Venue: The Cube Microplex
Duration: 61 Mins
What does it mean to be part of an intersectional community, this programme explores the different voices and identies in what it means to be queer today.
Lolo
D: Markus Kaatsch
Lolo is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to finally convince Max, his first love, to go public with their relationship at the school party.
Stinkhorn
D: Hilary Harp
Set in a campy western mining town, Stinkhorn tells the tale of a lady blacksmith named Dusty and her naughty trickster paramour, Blaze
Pxssy Palace
D: laura Kirwan Ashman
Pxssy Palace is also the club night where, around two and a half years ago, filmmaker Laura Kirwan-Ashman found her tribe
Ensemble
D: Jack Chapman
A documentary exploring Clare Lowe. An events organiser who runs Wig in a Box Promotions, an important voice in the Bristol queer scene.
Fish
D: Limão Capeta
Marina is a young woman that works in Belo Horizonte doing deliveries on her bike.
Time:
Venue: The Cube Microplex
Duration: 77 Mins
Venue: The Cube Microplex
Duration: 77 Mins
Being queer is rebelling, these stories are all about taking on 'the man' through our own unique queer ways
Sissy Fatigue
D: Oscar Oldershaw
Sissy Fatigue' follows the insidious transformation of seductive blonde woman into a rage fuelled bald creature.
Vogue Beirut
D: Helene Dancer
We meet dancer Hoedy Saad in Beirut to discover how, in the face of adversity, he's building a vogue scene in the Middle East to fight for freedom.
Sparrow
D: Ali Kurr
It’s not all love’s young dream during a getaway at a British seaside resort.
Not Your Fetish
D: Rachel Edwards
'Not Your Fetish' explores the fetishisation of identity and the role that social media, porn and the fashion industry play in perpetuating it.
Isha
D: Christopher Manning
Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep up appearances with his Muslim family.
Hyped
D: Calkis Papastathopoulos
Vera is anxious about her first night out with Lola.
Ayaneh
D: Nicolas Greinacher
Ayaneh, a young refugee from Afghanistan living in Switzerland meets Anna at the local swimming pool.
Clawson and Ward Shorts
The Cube Microplex
Time:
Guest Programmer: Elisa Bozzarelli
Artists: Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert & Ulrika Bandeira
Juck
Guest Programmer: Rachael Clerke
Artists: Bet Van Beeran
62nd Birthday footage
Guest Programmer: Jen Conway
Artist: Barbara Hammer
Dyketactics
FailureGuest Programme: Clawson and Ward
Artists: Jo Kimber
Jo tries to tell the story of Lesbians on TV whilst coming to terms with the fact that she is a hospice for cars, a place where shit cars come to die
Guest Programmer: Tom Marshman
Artists: Paul Samuel White & Chris Owen
Juck: Title TBC
Guest Programmer: Phil Owen
Artists: Michael Daye
Diener
Guest Programmer: Vicky Smith
Artists: Tanya Syed
Delilah
Guest Programmer: Vicky Smith
Artists: Tanya Syed
Delilah
Guest Programmer: Michael Tew
Artists: Paul Hurley & Paul Samuel White
We Are Not A Single Species
Guest Programmer: D-M Withers
Artists: Emma Thatcher
Things Which Are Natural
Guest Programmer: Savinder Bual
Artists: Sandeep TK
You Told Me There Are Many Fish In The Sea
Strand Title: PIFF Shorts 5 (Growing Up Queer)
Time:
Venue: The Cube Microplex
Duration: 63 Mins
Coming Out' seems a little 20th century, but it's still a pinacle moment in a queer persons identity when we self-proclaim ourselves.
Shed Your Eyes
D: Alexandre De Villeneuve
Oa's encounter with a transvestite allows him to assert himself and to question the social sphere in which he lives.
I am Mackenzie
D: Markus Kaatsch
A coming of age drama about adolescence and the feeling of not belonging; the feeling of being an alien to your home, your peers, your body, your gender.
Turn it Around
D: Ingeborg Putter
At a house party fifteen year old Bram is surrounded by friends and draws the attention of many pretty girls. But he has no interest in them.
Wai(s)t
D: Titouan Le Gouis
Theo's father is convinced he raised a future diving champion, while his new teammate, Arthur, thinks he's just another potential one night stand.
Strand Title: Imaging Hues
Programmer: Qila Gill
Time:
Venue: The Cube Microplex
Duration: 71 Mins
Imaging Hues is a compilation of historical dues of the present future where politics intersect with the plurality of being. Binary colours have blinded you. Read me, in shades of white, pink, black and blue. Let me sing you my darkest tune.
The Eternal Return
D: Michelle Williams Gamaker,
Video Home System
D: Sharlene BamboatThis video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism, and how bootleg economies kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.
Journey to the CharBagh
D: Abdullah Qureshi
O’ Pierrot
D: Tanoa Sasraku-Ansah