International Queer Shorts: To My Family(HKLGFF 2023)

Movie Name: My Life at the Beginning
Language:Spanish(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 16 Mins
Director: Ana Puentes Margarito
Cast: -
Story: It is New Year’s Eve in Medarcos, a small town in the mountains of Madrid, inhospitable and frozen. Rome is 9-year-old and his favourite place is the lap of his father, Rodolfo. Yet, the atmosphere is rarefied.

Movie Name: Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)
Language: Yankunytjatjara(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 25 Mins
Director: Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch
Cast: -
Story: As Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch travels from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide to his remote Anangu Community (Aputula) for spiritual healing, his childhood memories return. This is a journey told through, Inma, a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical. It is how Anangu Tjukurpa (story connected to country / dreaming / myth / lore) have been passed down for over 60,000 years from generation to generation.

Movie Name: Bitter September (Septembre Amer)
Language: Modern Greek(English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 26 Mins
Director: Sophia Farantatou
Cast: -
Story: After the assassination of the Greek-American LGBTQ activist, Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend, Sophia Farantatou, returns to Greece and finds herself stuck in a dead end. Between the media storytelling and her own archive footage from her friend, Sophia has no choice but to isolate and reflect on the meaning of memory.

Movie Name: How to Carry Water
Language: English(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 15 Mins
Director: Sasha Wortze
Cast: -
Story: For over a decade, Shoog McDaniel (a fat, queer, and disabled photographer) has transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat phobic society views fat bodies through photographs. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, this punk rock fairytale immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation, one in which marginalized bodies - including bodies of water - are sacred.

Movie Name: Hate
Language:Italian(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 8 Mins
Director: Emiliano Sisolfi
Cast: -
Story: A teenager is questioning their gender identity and the relationship with their mother. They are looking for an answer by God itself.