Director: Therese Koppe

“The main question is: Why do I want to be free? What needs to be different?”. Erika and Christine have been a couple for more than 40 years. Today, at the age of 81, they look back on living through a turbulent time in history. A Quiet Resistance is a film about love and aging, autonomy, art and collectivity in freely created art spaces within the GDR.

Directors: Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen

Amber belongs to a queer generation which no longer wants society to dictate their identity. The teenagers proudly inhabit a spectrum of fluid identities and master their first loves and losses.

Director: Tourmaline

Atlantic is a Sea of Bones is a short film drawn from the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name that follows Egyptt LaBejia, an NYC-based performer through the 80s, 90s, and 2000's in NYC.

Director: Mihaela Drăgan
Part of “Resistance is a Girl who Changes the World” series
Performed by Julio Elvisey Pisică & Andreea Petre

The story of Bety from Romania - a story about how an episode of bullying in school was “cured” in a youth theatre group, about discrimination and resistance on the road to building an artistic career in theatre.

Director: Věra Chytilová

Two young women, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly, they embark on a series of destructive pranks, in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

Directors: Pushpa Rawat, Anupama Srinivasan

The film is Pushpa’s personal journey as she tries to make sense of her own life, and that of her women friends. Set in the outskirts of the metropolis, Delhi, it explores the lives of women, who are young, educated and bright, but who feel bound and helpless when it comes to taking any major decision regarding their life, be it career or marriage.

Directors: Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa

The revolutionary Indianara fights with her gang for the survival of transgender people in Brazil, striving to put into practice her ideals.

Director: Hamze Bytyçi

The short documentary follows Jozef Miker – called Jožka – during his protests against a large-capacity pig farm built on the site of the former concentration camp near Lety in South Bohemia in which hundreds of Roma lost their lives under the Nazi regime – including half of Jožka’s wife’s family.

Director: Tatiana Mazú González

As my grandmother and I make a red hooded coat, we, two women separated by more than sixty years, discuss the stories and contradictions of our gender and class within four walls. Outside, a new feminist generation takes to the streets.

Director: Arami Ullón

In an attempt to preserve their culture and reconstruct the memory of their lost home, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno traverses the Paraguayan Chaco recording the voices of other Ayoreo who, like him, were stripped from the forest and from their home.

Director: Zara Zandieh

Octavia’s Visions is inspired by the Parables of the African-American futurist author Octavia E. Butler, who died in 2006. Using poetic visual language, Octavia’s Visions interweaves Butler’s worlds with contemporary issues of environmental degradation, far right extremism, and social liberation.

Directors: lucine talalyan, Shushan Avagyan

postDIY is directed at the circumstances of the bombing of DIY and worldwide ignorance that is often expressed through homophobia. It questions the desire to establish uniformity and totalitarianism in the post-independent phase of the Armenian Republic and seeks out the beauty in a dissident relationship between two women.

Director: Thirza Jean Cuthand

When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged white settlers who have moved to Mars, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful planet they belong to.

Director: August Joensalo

Curiosity about a world without gender sets a journey through a world of jellyfish and disco uncles.

Director: Mihaela Drăgan
Part of “Resistance is a Girl who Changes the World” series
Performed by Arhanghella

The story of Bianca from Romania - a Roma activist who fights for more visibility for the LGBTQI+ community members regardless of their age or ethnicity and she does it via an online entertainment show.

Director: Mihaela Drăgan
Part of “Resistance is a Girl who Changes the World” series
Performed by Raisa Mihai

The story of Yumzhana from Buryatia who is a fashion design student whose artistic works combine eco-activism, feminism, and more visibility for spirituality and buryat culture.

Directors: Svitlana Shymko, Galina Yarmanova

The research film "The Wonderful Years" explores the lives of non-heterosexual women in Ukraine in the late Soviet Union. It is based on the archive video materials and interviews excerpts from the research projects on LGBT history.