TITE: Experience Shorts (+Q&A)

CLUB 18+132 min

Synopsis

With a focus on dramatic storytelling, palpable chemistry, and tangible production, this programme has everything from heart-wrenching dramas to pulse-pounding thrills. Whether by bringing you comfort, making you sweat, or frying your circuits, these short films can’t just be watched — they need to be experienced.

Features a post-screening Q&A with filmmakers.

This screening features fully subtitled spoken dialogue. [OC] indicates Open Captions and [S] indicates subtitled dialogue. Films with neither feature no spoken language and no captions.

Chestbound (2024, USA, 18') [OC]
Dir/Writ: Janine Anne Uyanga
Following Ray’s top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father’s stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray’s estranged mother.

doyousee.html (2024, Australia, 5') [S]
Dir/Writ: Aether Docherty
Scrolling the dark edges of the internet, Ash finds a strange website that unlocks something within them and begins a cosmic haunting.

GLORY, HOLE (2023, Germany/Ireland, 17') [S] Dir/Writ: Hiram Harrington Two gay men, one cis and one trans, clash at a nightclub glory hole when one tries to castrate the man he believes raped him.

Gloria (2024, Greece, 6')
Dir/Writ: Nikos Mpouyioukas, Fenia Apostolou
An invitation to experience life through the eyes of the titular Gloria, a trans woman and sex worker navigating the streets of contemporary Athens through dance.

Beyond the Golden Line (2024, Germany, 19') [S]
Dir/Writ: SJ Rahatoka
The moon is shining and the night is feverish. Preparing to pole dance at a queer club, an injured Black transmasculine dancer is interrupted by mysterious phone calls. Could the magic of his pole reconnect him with the people he loves, and reveal his full radiance?

second born son: a transsexual documentary (2024, USA, 11')
Dir: Merit Thursday
A transsexual frog is born, gets ‘the sex change’, receives his tissue back from the doctor, and buries his body gently in the earth.

The Performance (2023, Netherlands, 20') [S]
Dir/Writ: Claire Zhou
Chorister Lin is preparing her solo performance for the Chinese New Year celebration at her church when rumors start circulating about her family. Will she hide from the community or show her true self?

Overtone (2024, Ireland, 5') [S]
Dir: Hiram Harrington
A low-budget, high-tension music video for queer Irish punk band Touch Excellent.

7G: The Fight Against Phones (2024, USA, 8') [S]
Dir/Writ: David Leo, April Evelyn Oxford
In a near future, Pascadia, an outsider in a rebellious but ultimately ineffective group of humans, is struck by lightning and transformed into a digital superwoman.