See the Full Lineup of Films:

REPLAY, 2min., Canada
Directed by Andy Nguyen
An experimental student film exploring human life, body, identity, and gender through a mixture of film, photography, stop-motion animation, sound design, and prop design. In this abstract short, the spirit of a trans person looks back on his past life as he tries to find the answers to the questions asked by the flowers of life.

https://www.instagram.com/nghtanh

2020 - 2021?, 13min., USA
Directed by Leslie Yusuke Watanabe
"2020 - 2021?" illuminates the social and emotional challenges we face individually and as a community, by reminding us of the hope and resilience in the human spirit -- awe-inspiring, even in the face of the COVID pandemic.

https://www.instagram.com/lwatan33/

IT'S A GIRL!, 3min., Canada
Directed by Andy Nguyen
A self-potrait short experimental film on 16mm from a Vietnamese trans man

https://www.instagram.com/nghtanh

THE ESCAPE, 8min., Russia
Directed by Liudmila Komrakova
The patient in an insane asylum is given an injection to calm her down. She is left alone lying on the bed in a straitjacket overhelmed with her hallucinations and memories.

IS, or: A beautiful, tiny, reddish hair, as thin as fiber, 5min., Greece
Directed by Kostas Bakouris
On a human head, a common, humble little hair has only…a lifetime struggling against scissors and combs to claim her diversity.

WE WEAR THE MASK, 2min., USA
Directed by Frederick Taylor
"We Wear the Mask" was written by African American poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1895. Like much of Dunbar's work, "We Wear the Mask" is a reaction to the experience of being black in America in the late 19th century, following the Civil War—a period when life seemed to have improved for black Americans yet in reality was still marked by intense racism and hardship. Dunbar compares surviving the pain of oppression to wearing a mask that hides the suffering of its wearer while presenting a more joyful face to the world. All that said, the poem itself does not specifically mention race; its message is applicable to any circumstance in which marginalized people are forced to present a brave face in order to survive in an unsympathetic, prejudiced society.

https://instagram.com/Fr3deR1cK

VISUALS FOR MUSIC BOX, 2min., Argentina
Directed by Alejandro Thornton
Short visual about stereotyped sex, violence and fun that let us sleep comfortably.