First-Time Filmmaker Shorts Program

There is something unmistakable about a filmmaker at the very beginning: a willingness to take risks, to let feeling drive the work. This program gathers six student films that capture that quality, each one a promising arrival in queer cinema.

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Program:

Carrotica
Daniel Sterlin-Altman • 13 min • Germany • German w/English subtitles
A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways

Heavy Metal Dream Police
Neel Shah • 14 min • USA • English
A surreal sci-fi love story about two queer physics students who bond over a love of an action movie franchise – and how badly they want the two main characters to kiss.

Glitch Baby
Celine Sutter • 12 min • USA • English
Set in the early 90s, Glitch Baby is a short film that takes a quantum genre twist on the usual queer coming-of-age story when an unexpected show of affection on the soccer field leaves a young tomboy humiliated and questioning her place in the universe.

Shedding
Jessica Herlitz • 13 min • USA • English
With a new haircut and a new sense of queerness, Bella returns from her first semester at college to her suffocating Dallas hometown, determined to confess her long repressed feelings to her childhood best friend. Instead, she’s dragged to a New Years Eve rager from hell where she finds a cold-blooded creature in the closet.

The Winds of Anemonia
Lana Limar • 20 min • France • French w/English subtitles
In the French Alps, Maxine walks alone along the road. When Catherine pulls over, an electric encounter ignites, calling for the storm.

Pansies
Jamie J. Simiele • 13 min • USA • English
After Caleb is almost caught in the back of a pickup truck with Logan Balfe, he has to keep things quiet while driving Logan home.

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