1. Kapaemahu, animation

Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit brought the healing arts to Hawaii and imbued their powers in four giant boulders. The stones still stand on Waikiki Beach, but their true story has been hidden – until now.

2. Adelina, documentary

Kosovar filmmaker, Rita Krasniqi, has been working as a writer and director, focusing on fighting social injustice through her films. Rita’s short film ADELINA is an LGBTQI+ film that focuses on the lives of drag queens in third world countries as it sheds light on the mistreatment of this community from a vastly big homophobic society. Adelina has been a Semi-Finalist at Flickers’ Rhode Island Festival as it continues its journey to different film festivals.

3. Accompanied, animation

4. Out of the blue, animation

5. Grazziano and the giraffe, animation

A man hungry for sausages buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.

6. Pentola, animation

“It’s not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, you are my superhero.”

7. 42 Days, documentary

The film, shot during the pandemic, focuses on a confrontation with a fear of a terminal disease while trying to process a complex, personal tragedy. The author takes the viewers onto a journey of different realizations regarding a difficult family relations, gender and sexual identity, migration and re-rooting. It reflects on the experience of queerness in a conservative Catholic setting, the ideas of survival, hope and love as well as the liberation from a feeling of guilt and shame. The author wonders what it is that determines who we really are and speculates whether it is possible to fully accept one’s fate. Trigger warnings: terminal disease, disability, suicide.

8. Each and Every night, animation

Since childhood, Lea has seen a ghostly deer loom about her. Now in a relationship with Maud, her visions are getting worse. How can she prove to her girlfriend, and to herself, that this is a real problem to be dealt with?

9. Yde & Olive, animation

10. Princess, animation

11. The boy and The elephant, animation

12. Lady of the night, animation

The annual dinner commemorating the death of Cornelius, revives Samuel’s memories. He was 20 years old when he discovered his attraction to Cornelius. Tormented by regret and misunderstood by all, he never revealed his homosexuality to Cornelius’s family, whom he had invited that evening. After their departure, Samuel retires to his room, desperate, and seeks refuge in his nightlife : he becomes a Queen of the Night, in tribute to his lost love.

13. U, documentary

14. Fireworks, animation

15. Lesvia, documentary – Tzeli Hadjidimitriou+ q&a, *Cinedoc Greece

The documentary chronicles about four decades in a small farming village of Eressos on the island of Lesbos, where lesbian women from around the world have been gathering since the late ’70s.

Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have flocked to a small village on the Greek island of Lesvos. As tensions between the newly-arrived lesbians and local residents rose, Tzeli Hadjidimitriou – caught in the middle as a local and lesbian herself – chronicled 40+ years of love, community, conflict, and what it means to feel accepted

*The first 2 hours (19:00 – 21:00) are by TaF (Thessaloniki Animation Festival).