Close Contact (Shorts Block)

Boxing, kung fu, lesbian mud wrestling. Vampire fighters, giant worm hunters, violent lesbian cat-women. Fighting, kicking, biting queer women take center stage in this block of films exploring all manners of female rage, retributive violence, and girls behaving badly.

Wakashu

A group of men stalk a trans woman at night, unaware that she’s the master of a martial arts dojo.

Lady Jill / Brazil / 11m

Writer: Lady Jill

Producer: Ana Kinukawa, Lucas Bueno

I Hate Helen

Being a teenager means facing a tidal wave of gay lust, and letting those feelings wash over you. But Priya actually hates the way she feels about Helen, and she won’t go under without a fight.

Katie Lambert / UK / 6m

Writer: Katie Lambert

Producer: Martha McGuirk, Rosie Brear

Gay By Nature

In a dystopian future, two lesbian cat-people are locked up and harassed by human guards and visitors. As the violence becomes unbearable, the two decide to break out, transforming countryside idyll into an antifascist fantasy of freedom.

Helen Weber, Isa Schieche / Austria, Germany / 21m

Writer: Isa Schieche

Producer: Helen Weber, Isa Schieche

PHOBOSPLUNKER

A hungry inventor must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to defeat the source of sudden, wormy hallucinations.

Bee Mulvihill / Ireland / 4m

Writer: Bee Mulvihill

Producer: Bee Mulvihill

Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak

Max and Ricky’s party prep is interrupted by the impending arrival of an angry vampire, who threatens to reveal Max’s secret online life. What’s Max going to do – kill a vampire, or come out?

Heath Virgoe / Scotland / 12m

Writer: Heath Virgoe

Producer: Niamh West

Oi

After a turbulent teenage girl undergoes a traumatic experience, she must face her own violent bravado head-on. 

Sophie Serisier / Australia / 16m

Writer: Laneikka Denne

Producer: Monique Placko

The Martial Forest

In a dystopian present, exiled kung fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters to create the Martial Forest – a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat.

J Triangular / Taiwan, Colombia / 8m

Writer: J Triangular

Producer: An An Chen, J Triangular

CATFIGHT

Two boxers are drawn into an escalating match, where combat mirrors queer intimacy – a wordless love story told through sweat, bruises, endurance, and surrender.

Tara Devi / Ireland / 3m

Writer: Tara Devi

Producer: Tara Devi

Lesbian Mud Wrestling

A wet, playful, slippy and heartwarming documentary tracking Kit’s quest for the Golden Strap – the ultimate prize of Lesbian Mud Wrestling, a community event raising funds for gender-affirming surgeries.

Kirsty Wilson / Australian / 15m

Writer: Kirsty Wilson

Producer: Merryn Trescott, Jasper Caverly

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