25 min | short film selection
Enjoy the sauciest selection of short films made by female and/or queer directors. The short film gems that blur the line between the erotic and the artistic into a mesmerising whirlwind of expression told from a female and/or queer perspective. Changing our gaze. Juicy content, quirky stories, visual pleasures but, most of all stories told from a fresh perspective.
First screened as part of the Saucy Selection showcased during the Playgrounds International Film Festival, this program was co-curated by Hannah Lau-Walker, animation director and founder of She Drew That.
! ATT: The films can depict mature content.
Selected films:
- Shadow of Butterflies (d. Sofia El Khyari) | 9 min
- Futon (d. Yoriko Mizushiri) | 6 min
- Lusthouse (d. Neeraja Raj) | 10 min | fiction
Shadow of Butterflies (d. Sofia El Khyari)
Morroco | 9 min | animation
In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a daydream as she observes butterflies.
Futon (d. Yoriko Mizushiri)
Japan | 6 min | animation
Wrapped in the futon… Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained…Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense…
Lusthouse (d. Neeraja Raj)
South Korea | 10 min | fiction
Lighthouse keeper Da-hee’s solitary summer ignites when a devastatingly handsome young man washes ashore.