UPON HER LIPS: HOLD ME TIGHT

Escaping a religious community, receiving mixed messages from a much younger call girl, a one night stand that breeds results and a frantic wait for a baby on the way. What connects these uplifting stories is the all too human desire to embrace the future when the present is in doubt.

VIDEO FILE: 1hr 35mins, HD mp4 with burnt-in English subtitles.

GRACE AND SOPHIE dir. Timo Willman

Straight-identifying best friends, Grace and Sophie, wake up after a house party and a realisation dawns: they have slept together.

CONCRETE HEART dir. Enrika Panero

In the suburbs of Paris, Kenza, a shy and secretive teenager, takes part in the workshop of Oréade, a young rapper that her friends make fun of. Inhibited by her timidity, she slowly but surely hones her rapping skills, and by extension her desires. 

WOMAN MEETS GIRL dir. Murry Peeters

As cocktails lead to revealing conversation, chemistry builds between Annabelle, an awkward in her own skin, forty-two-year-old woman and Tessie, an extroverted, eighteen-year-old sex worker. A surprising moment soon introduces the possibility of deeper connection.​

NOORA dir. Tommy Næss

Noora is raised in a strict Christian sect on the west coast of Norway. When she falls in love with Siv, she upsets her family's plans to marry her with the much older Johannes.

EXPECTING dir. Alice Douard

In the maternity ward, Céline awaits the arrival of her first child. It is Jeanne, her partner, who will bring her into the world. At night, in the entrance hall of the hospital, she meets men who are waiting, just like herself.