Announcing the first 40 titles that are part of the Queer Lisboa 25th anniversary special edition. Namely, the 22 short films competing for the Best Short Film Award, the 10 short films part of the Best European School Short Film Award, and the eight films that will compete in the Queer Art Section.

SHORT FILM COMPETITION:

A third of the works in this section are by filmmakers formerly shown at the Festival; all of them with radical works that reaffirm their styles. There are also two Portuguese short films, four delicatessens arriving from distant realities and three moving documentaries; besides dystopian films, or others that invite us to evade ourselves, or even to dream of potentially better universes.

• A Table for One, Carlos Lobo (Portugal, 2019, 14’)
• Les attendants / The Men Who Wait, Truong-Minh Quy (France, Indonesia, Singapore, 2020, 15’)
• Beautiful Alexander / Mooie Alexander, Marc Wagenaar (The Netherlands, 2019, 13’)
• Drawings of my BF, James Cooper (UK, 2021, 7’)
• Dustin, Naïla Guiguet (France, 2020, 20’)
• Eggshells, Slava Doytcheva (Bulgaria, 2020, 15’)
• En ce moment / In this Moment, Serena Vittorini (Belgium, Italy, 2020, 15’)
• Escaping the Fragile Planet / Apodrasi apo ton Efthrafsto Planiti, Thanasis Tsimpinis (Greece, 2020, 17’)
• Expatriate Dreamer, Yihao Zheng (USA, China, 2020, 11’)
• The Fans / Fanaty, Seva Galkin (Russia, 2020, 26’)
• Fou de Bassan, Yann Gonzalez (France, 2021, 4’)
• Heaven Reaches down to Earth, Tebogo Malebogo (South Africa, 2020, 10’)
• Hi, Sweety., Celeste Prezioso (Argentina, 2020, 30’)
• Inabitável / Unliveable, Enock Carvalho, Matheus Farias (Brazil, 2020, 20’)
• International Dawn Chorus Day, John Greyson (Canada, 2021, 15’)
• Lointain / Faraway, Aziz Zoromba (Canada, 2020, 18’)
• Luz de Presença / A Present Light, Diogo Costa Amarante (Portugal, 2021, 19’)

• Nuit de Chine, Nicolas Medy (France, 2021, 15’)
• Octavia’s Visions, Zara Zandieh (Germany, 2021, 18’)
• Ouça / Hear Me, Cris Lyra (Brazil, 2020, 8’)
• Red Aninsri; or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall / Aninsri Daeng, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (Thailand, 2020, 30’)
• Vagalumes / Fireflies, Léo Bittencourt (Brazil, 2021, 19’)

COMPETIÇÃO CURTAS-METRAGENS DE ESCOLA EUROPEIAS “IN MY SHORTS”:

Strong French presence this year in the European School Film Competition, with two films from La Fresnoy and others on topics as essential as HIV/AIDS, cruising and drug addiction. Switzerland's HEAD Genève is also represented with two films. And there is also space for comic shorts, silent ones and others flaming with desire. New authors about to explode.

• L’annonce / The Announcement, Denis Liakhov (France, 2021, 8’)
• Diamanda s’en va / Diamanda Goes Away, Antoine Granier (France, 2020, 19’)
• Eden, Sven Spur (Belgium, 2020, 16’)
• Gare aux coquins / Naughty Spot, Jean Costa (France, 2021, 19’)
• La guerre en elle / The War inside Her, Yara Atz (Switzerland, 2019, 15’)
• Hyped, Alkis Papastathopoulos (Greece, 2019, 14’)
• Jo, Ann Sophie Wieder (France, 2020, 30’)
• Scum Mutation, Ov (France, 2020, 10’)
• Supreme, Youssef Youssef (Switzerland, 2020, 20’)

COMPETIÇÃO QUEER ART:

Queer Art's mission: to expose artistic objects that fit into a practice of filmic language whose aesthetics challenge the limits of its own categorization. This year it includes films crossed by the mismatch of identity (in)formation that defines us within strict norms and categories. Each one offers us suggestions to subvert canons. 

• 5 Casas / 5 Houses, Bruno Gularte Barreto (Brazil, Germany, 2020, 85’)
• Acts of Love, Isidore Bethel, Francis Leplay (France, USA, 2021, 71’)
• Agate Mousse / Moss Agate, Sélim Mourad (Lebanon, 2021, 68’)
• Another Europe, Sangam Sharma (Austria, 2020, 55’)
• Desaprender a Dormir / Unlearning to Sleep, Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil, 2021, 94’)
• Mojarse en Cuatro Versos / Four Verses of Self Pleasure, Heleni Smuha, Clara Ràfols Pérez (Spain, 2020, 63’)
• Passion, Maja Borg (Sweden, Spain, 2021, 95’)
• Vaga Carne / Dazed Flesh, Ricardo Alves Jr., Grace Passô (Brazil, 2019, 45’)