22 November, 20:30
Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26
The TEDDY Award has celebrated the queer short form for over 37 years. With this select program of award winners, we take a wild trip through years of queer storytelling. From celluloid tributes to films that travel, we question lust or love, staying or going, the abstract and the possibilities in these films that managed to capture the love of our Juries and in turn ended up winning the top prizes.
Screening duration: 67 min
Trigger and content warnings: mentions of suicide, nudity, blood, cruelty to animals, gunshots, explosions
The films are screened in original with English subtitles
MONDIAL 2010
Roy Dib
Lebanon / 2014, 19 min
"Mondial 2010" is a discussion of institutional borders in modern day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel film in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers, in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Shot with a hand-held camcorder, Mondial 2010 borrows the aesthetics of a travel video log. It normalizes the abnormal, and by doing so creates its own universe of possibility. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor in the forefront of the produced imagery. This video glides over this conflict with an upper hand.
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.
UNDRESS ME
Victor Lindgren
Sweden / 2013, 15 min
Mikaela had a sex reassignment surgery. One night out she meets a guy who follows her home. The movie "Undress me" examines our perceptions of gender and how our identity can be formed by the perceptions of others.
ENTROPIA
Flóra Anna Buda
Hungary / 2019, 10 min
Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle! In the animated film "Entropia" by Hungarian artist Flóra Anna Buda, colours explode and sensually unleash new possibilities: Thanks to the fly, all that is abstract comes to life and sexuality plays an integral role.