SHORTS BLOCK: SEXUAL HEALING (18+)

Experience these powerful films that delve into the diverse ways we discover and embrace our trans bodies and desires.

SAT MAY 6 | 8:00 PM | THE BEACON CINEMA
AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MAY 4-7

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Moonyeka; 2022; USA; 9 min.
Reimagining the 1975 sex workers' protest and occupation in Lyon, France, this performance beautifully blends performance and digital fabrications.

When we occupy the churches
You are scandalised
Religious bigots!
You who threatened us with hell
We have come to eat at your table 
At Saint-Nizier
– Protest song penned by sex workers during the strike
Content warnings: Implied sexual situations 

THREE THINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
lisa g; 2000; USA; 5 min.
This punk stop-motion animation from 2000 draws us into  the power of queer sex and queer storytelling.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations 

SASHA
Serghei Chiviriga; 2022; Romania; 13 min.
Romanian with English subtitles
A young snail grapples with the world's bewildering chaos and the enigma of their own body. Thrust into a quest for personal discovery, they must unlock the truth about their sexual identity through a bizarre and unexpected confrontation with their other half.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations 

REFLECT. CONNECT. REBUILD
ScumTrust; 2023; USA; 8 min.
Spell 4 spell- a meeting outside time lets long distance lovers play with plants, pain and pleasure. Building a pressure that eases their reality.

PAIN DULCE
Ramses Rodstein; 2018; USA; 8 min.
A kinky breakfast between two xicanx nonbinary trans lovers, this erotic BDSM film will leave you both hungry and horny.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations 

LIKE A BUTTERFLY
Maximus Skaff; 2021; USA; 13 min.
A pink and poetic world of translove and ecstasy.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations 

RICO RICO
Maximus Skaff; 2021; USA; 14 min.
Community, joy, dancing, and ecstasy play out in a community space on a beach in Puerto Rico.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations 

RUPTURED
Max Disgrace; 2021; London; 15min. 
After a night on the town, Lina is haunted by erotic hallucinations in this genre-bending short that re-envisions mainstream horror tropes through a queer lens.
Content warnings: Explicit sexual situations, Implied violence