November 20, 20:30
Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26
The collection of 5 international short films SUNNY BUNNY continues one of the cross-cutting themes of the festival, including its Ukrainian program: the struggle for and regaining what is rightfully ours, which the community has been deprived of and is still being deprived of by the authorities, empires, colonizers, and hetero-majorities. The decolonization struggle in general rhymes and intersects with the struggle of queer people for their rights, lives, and spaces, and its relevance in Ukraine is extraordinary.
Screening duration: 91 min
Curated by Богдан Жук
The films are screened in OV with Ukrainian and English subtitles
FREAKY
Mark Durand (Dnarum Kram)
Canada / 2021, 7 min
A playful and humorous universe of film conceals metaphors linked to the filmmaker's difficult past in the mise en abym where they step into the heels of atypical and non-conforming characters.
DIPPED IN BLACK
Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch
Australia / 2023, 23 min
"Dipped in Black" follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch’s road trip back to the Country for spiritual healing as memories from his childhood return. A journey from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide back home to his remote Anangu Community (Aputula) to perform on sacred Inma ground. Inma is a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical. It is how Anangu Tjukurpa (story connected to country/dreaming/myth/lore) has been passed down for over 60,000 years from generation to generation.
ARIBADA
Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar
Colombia / 2022, 30 min
In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world.
FLOWERS FROM THE OTHER YARD
Jorge Cadena
Switzerland, Colombia / 2022, 15 min
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
CASA DE BONECAS
George Pedrosa
Brazil / 2023, 16 min
We're immaterial beings. We'll always be inside of each other's heart. Day by day, we mutate and get way stronger. Body, soul and blood smelling like pink.