SHORTS SHOWCASE
SHORTS SHOWCASE
Funny, thoughtful, touching, and wonderfully unpredictable—queer storytelling in all its short-form glory.
Kan-Kan, Sunday, November 15 | 12:45PM | 85 Minutes
SUNDAY LUNCH
Director: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan | UK | 14 Minutes — Watch Trailer
Grace, a young lesbian from a devout Catholic family, finally summons the courage to come out to her parents—on the most sacred day.
TOO DISGUSTING TO BE CONFUSED
Director: Maya Avidov | UK | 12 Minutes — Watch Trailer
Founded in 1972 by sculptor Andrew Logan, The Alternative Miss World celebrates transformation and unconventional beauty, all with humor, creativity and joy.
MAKING IT FIT
Director: Mariana Leal | USA | 4 Minutes — Watch Trailer
Making It Fit explores how LGBTQ+ people navigate death and mourning, reimagining traditional rituals to honor and remember loved ones.
STILL SPIRITS
Director: Julien Lecat | France | 29 Minutes — Watch Trailer
At a lakeside campground, anxious teen Max narrowly escapes drowning and meets the mysterious Gabin. As their bond deepens, their summer friendship takes on a haunting, otherworldly quality.
I’VE NEVER SEEN A STRAIGHT BANANA
Director: Marco Noé | Australia | 10 Minutes — Watch Trailer
Vaudeville “boy impersonator” Effie Fellows defied the conventions of her era. Fifty years after her death, Geoffoire, who once shared her family home, is finally ready to follow her lead.
DOUG + ME
Director: Cecile Fountain-Jardim | USA | 6 Minutes — Watch Trailer
A filmmaker explores the life and legacy of an uncle she never met, whose death from AIDS in 1997 set in motion the events that led to her birth.
HOW TO TIE A TIE
Director: Cooper Dalbo | Australia | 2 Minutes
Adeline’s first attempt at tying a tie takes an unsettling turn.
NEVER NEVER NEVER
Director: John Sheedy | Australia | 18 Minutes — Watch Trailer
In a Welsh fishing village, an aspiring drag queen’s forbidden romance with a fisherman forces them to choose between love, tradition and acceptance.
MORPHEUS AND CHARON
Directors: Luiz Ulian, Jocimar Dias Jr. | Brazil | 14 Minutes
As Zito’s dementia progresses, he imagines his final days as a dazzling samba musical while his longtime lovers, Morpheus and Charon, care for him through their final farewell.
KILORAN BAY
Director: Michael Bruce | Scotland | 13 Minutes — Watch Trailer
Alan Cumming shines in this stirring musical. Returning to Scotland with his partner for a wedding after decades away, a gay man is confronted by painful memories—and a coming-out story marked by nostalgia and danger.