TISFF- DAY 5

This is right; Zak Life and After

Gevi Dimitrakopoulou, Greece

13′

A short narrative documentary about the aftermath of Zak’s murder from her community’s perspective.

MOTHER’S

Hippolyte Leibovici, Belgium

21′

This documentary portrays four generations of a family of drag queens in Brussels. As masculine features gradually soften under layers of makeup, as glasses are emptied, so the stories begin to flow. Tough subjects are approached, such as suicide, coming out and maternal love. Jokes fly, and the topic turns to the generational divide.

Beautiful Alexander

Marc Wagenaar, Netherlands

13′

‘Would you dare to jump if there were water?’, insecure teenager Alexander asks the boy he admires, who stands on a diving board in the middle of the beach. Cautiously dancing, they approach each other.

Biche et Louve (Doe and She-Wolf)

Sandrine Béchade, Canada

11′

Bea and Zoe are lost in the forest when Zoe decides to go for help. She leaves Bea alone and hurt in this wood that does not inspire confidence. The girl will face a sneaky threat.

Nuclear Family

Faustine Crespy, Belgium

19′

Jules, 18 years old, reluctantly spends his holidays in the naturist campsite of his childhood. He is torn between his attraction for the beautiful Karim, a seasonal worker on the textile beach, and the depression of his mother Adèle, who refuses to let him grow up.

FABIU

Stefan Langthaler, Austria

29′

80-year-old retiree Arthur lives in a modest council home in Vienna. For quite some time he has lovingly been caring for his seriously ill wife Martha, with only female nurses assisting him. As he finds Fabiu, the new male hungarian care worker, on his doorstep, his routine is broken. But soon the two men become closer and inside Arthur feelings of desire and suppressed longing start to rise.

I’m listening/ Kuuntelen

Katja Korhonen, Finland

11′

In the last hours of the night, A Night Radio host gets a call of a possible end of the world.