Films
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26e
Pre-Drink
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
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26e
Precious Hair & Beauty
John Ogunmuyiwa
England, Fiction
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.
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26e
Progressive Touch
Michael Portnoy
Netherlands, Austria,
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to "improve" sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance, as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples, the dancers' every explicit move is synchronized to the propulsive, unpredictable score.
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26e
Prouve-le
Geneviève Dunn & Carol-Anne Vallée
France, Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Tonight, they are crazy about each other.
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26e
Ready for Love
Lauren McCune & Dylan Pasture
United States, Fiction
Amber knows that the right man is out there. Maybe he’s on The Bachelor? Ready for Love covers a decade of a woman's life, as told only through her own video submissions to be a contestant on The Bachelor.
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26e
Réminiscences
Virginie Brunelle
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
This dance short film brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.
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26e
SHE|/I
Shaun Clarke
United States, Experimentation
A meditation on the human body, identity and movement. Directed by Shaun Clarke. Featuring Maria Alvarez (Boston Ballet) and John Lam (Boston Ballet).
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26e
Sacrifiée
David Sanchez
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Flavie is a bold and opiniated 15-year-old who is ready to engage in civil disobedience and suffer legal consequences in her fight for her social and environmental convictions.
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26e
Shark
Nash Edgerton
Australia, Fiction
Completing the trilogy of wickedly dark comedy shorts that began with Spider and Bear, Nash Edgerton finds a perfect match in Rose Byrne as Sofie, a woman who loves pranks just as much as Jack, Edgerton’s onscreen alter ego. Alas, the couple’s quest to outdo each other may lead to the most outrageous calamity of all.
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26e
Sierra
Sander Joon
Estonia, Animation
A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.