Come as You Are


(BALi Kinos)

A Mythology of Pleasure

A group of women are leading a revolution in Valencia, Spain. With the help of their gods and goddesses, they are fabricating weapons for liberation, with their own hands.… >>>

  • Duration: 6 Min.
  • Director: Lara Rodriguez Cruz, Jule Katinka Cramer

The Sublime of Rectum

A visual exploration on an intimate body contact.… >>>

  • Duration: 14 Min.
  • Director: Quy Truong Minh

Yaoi Istanbul

Artist Lotte Nielsen's serial YAOI project depicts youngsters from the LGBT scene in performative collaborations. The latest work is filmed in Istanbul, where the already repressive norms are getting worse under the Erdogan regime. We meet Nirhan, Yunus and Hakan, who introduce us to their personal lives: their first sexual encounters, their relationship to their parents and the thoughts of suicide that several of them have had. Their concerns about the future are not taken out of nowhere. But the film creates a haven around them, where they can be themselves and speak openly about the struggle for rights and recognition from the rest of Turkish society.… >>>

  • Duration: 17 Min.
  • Director: Lotte Nielsen

Becoming

Embodying a body after trauma. Blowjobs, „Buffy the Vampire Slayer“, and memory are interwoven in attempt to find bodily autonomy and to process.… >>>

  • Duration: 8 Min.
  • Director: Ariel Teal

Donzelle

DONZELLE is „pussy-core kitsch-hop trilingual party rap“ from Montréal. Frontwoman Roxanne Arsenault raps with brutal honesty about her life, love and men. With playful irony, clever humor and the believe, that all women deserve on stage, the group performs as themselves, using their bodies to challenge stereotypes about feminism. None of them are professional dancers or singers. But they are united in the joy of performing and the strive toward a better world.… >>>

  • Duration: 19 Min.
  • Director: Marina Hufnagel