QUEER GAZED BODIES SHORTS´26

Queer Gazed Bodies moves between two intertwined perspectives: queer bodies on screen and a queer gaze that reshapes cinematic perception. The programme traces fluid, unstable body images while foregrounding films that are queer not only in what they show, but in how they are constructed. Queerness emerges through cinematic language — through montage, rhythm, framing, and movement — sometimes without depicting explicitly queer subjects. These films resist fixed meanings and normative body images, opening spaces of ambiguity, sensuality, and transformation, and proposing cinema itself as a site of queer perception. Opium Dream, Nishchaya Gera, Belgium & United States, 202, Spanish with EN subs, 13 min SUCHEN (Looking), Diego Barriga, Germany, 2023, English with EN subs, 04 min Coffee Grapefruit Cacao, Dominique Preusse, France, 2023, French with EN subs, 23 min The Passion According To Karim, Axel Würsten, France, 2024, French with EN subs, 24 min I've Heard a Siren Calling, Dylan Mitro, Canada, English with EN subs, 12 min Return to Water, Kate Malyon, United Kingdom, 2025, English with EN subs, 5 min somehow an organism, Karla Stindt, Germany, 2024, German with EN subs, 7 min Marrow of my Bones, Karly McCloskey, Canada, English OV, 2 min Not here for you, Eva Eyrich, Germany, 2025, English with EN subs, 15 min