LOLO lives alone in Xochimilco and strives to maintain the harvest of a chinampa farm that belonged to their grandfather. Despite the calmness among the crops, LOLO doesn't feel free to cultivate their true self. One afternoon at the street market, LOLO reunites with an old friend, KAT. In her company, LOLO discovers an open space where they can feel free to be who they are.

LOLO

A dreamy boy, a seamstress aunt and the power of imagination intertwine in a magical journey of self-discovery and boundless creativity.

Imagine

Gabriela and Julia are going through a moment of transformation in their relationship: the friendship is becoming something more. However, all the romantic atmosphere is destroyed when Gabriela goes into a trance. Julia, not knowing what to do, needs to call the neighbor to help with her crush's crisis.

Parla Italiano

In Queer Childhoods, conversations about childhood photographs reveal how images hold silence and unseen subjectivities. Inspired by Roland Barthes’s La Chambre Claire and Daniel Boudinet’s Polaroïd, 1979, this work treats the curtain as a symbolic photographic surface. Behind its softness lies domestic darkness. Can one enter this space? Can a voice inhabit an image? Can we listen to a photograph?

Queer Childhoods and Boudinet's Curtain

Young queer trans creative breaks out of their shell and exposes their hairy pink behind to the world.

Bright Pink

Closet Monster is an experimental horror-fantasy film that reimagines the “monster in the closet” through the LGBTQIA+ idea of “coming out.” Inspired by the director’s own journey of discovering sexuality and gender, and their love of horror cinema, the film explores how the figure of the monster becomes both mirror and companion in self-acceptance.

Closet Monster / Monstra do Armário

This poetic film takes us on an emotional journey of a girl contemplating death. Her jump from the edge allows her to fly around and meet different people. These encounters challenge her perspective on her narrative in life, death and transformation.

On the edge of life, I saw a film

Kabuki is a stop motion animation short film that poetically follows the transgender character Kabuki’s search for self-
acceptance and identity. The film is dedicated to the transgender people killed every day and revisits this ancestral form of theatre from Japan to give full significance to the object of the mask.

Kabuki

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