Animated shorts: Queer Sensations

Animakogumik "Tundeid kväärides"

Genre

Animation

Director

Matea Kovač, Efa Blosse-Mason, Emily Morus-Jones, Marko Dješka, Sofie Edvardsson, Jorinde Hol

Run time

1h 40min

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023)

Animated shorts: Queer Sensations

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Efa Blosse-Mason, UK, 2020, 8 min

Learning to love someone can be scary, but it can also lead to the most marvelous adventure. With a striking illustrative style, writer-director Efa Blosse-Mason tells the story of Heledd and Celyn who navigate the undiscovered and murky waters of entering a new relationship.

Diomysus

Emily Morus-Jones, 2022, UK, 5 min

The award-winning film interviews people from the British polyamory community, using puppets to hide the interviewees’ identities and allowing them to be safely honest and open about their experiences. Through these interviews, the film asks the viewer: how conscious is your bias?

“I wanted to use this opportunity to give a more honest, positive, insider’s account of polyamory, which is often trivialised or sensationalised on film despite the fact that it is most certainly on the rise in the UK”, Emily explains.

Flesh

Camila Kater, Brazil, Spain, 2019, 12 min

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

All those Sensations in My Belly

Marko Dješka, Croatia, Portugal, 2020, 13 min

All Those Sensations in My Belly is short animated documentary about the real life of transgirl Matia, who relates the story about her experience of transition process with a specific focus on complexity of finding true love with a heterosexual man.

TOP 3

Sofie Edvardsson, 2019, Sweden, 45 min

In this funny, bittersweet romantic comedy from Sweden, perpetual list-maker Anton falls in love with David, but things start to go awry when Anton realizes that his dreams in life might be in direct opposition to David’s.

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Matea Kovač, 2023, Croatia, 7 min

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Dancing with Gender

Jorinde Hol, the Netherlands, 2021, 3 min

Our society is extremely binary focussed, we think in female- and male-boxes, but not everyone identifies with those terms. In this short documentary you’ll hear several non-binary people talk about their experiences and perception of gender. Led by their voices and fluid line work, you’ll learn what the term means to them.

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023) is a new cultural festival in Estonia that focuses on sharing the stories of LGBT people, expanding safe space for queer people and promoting acceptance in society through film screenings, panel discussions, and other cultural events. All Q-Space events are organised in three languages and accessible not only for Estonian and Russian speakers but other people living in Estonia as well. Q-Space is working to bring dialogue and discussion on queer issues between different groups of society.

From 30 November to 3 December 2023, the Q-Space Festival Tallinn brings to the city a range of vibrant events:

• 7 screenings of new and internationally awarded films (5 full-length films, documentary and a collection of animated films) in the Artis cinema.

• 2 discussions on relevant issues such as being out and queer in school and the parenthood of trans people and acceptance by the their families

• 2 Q&As with film creators

• 1 workshop on emancipation through movement and dancing

• 1 presentation of a new publication of a comic book How Much Queer Work in Estonian

All films are shown with Estonian/English/Russian subtitles, discussions with guests are held in English.

We estimate 1500 visitors for the Q-Space Tallinn Festival.

Q-Space was founded in 2022 in Estonia. It is dedicated to LGBT communities and human rights. Q-Space received the honorary title of Rainbow Hero from the Estonian LGBT Association 2023.

During its short period of operation Q-Space has organised 12 public film events in Tallinn and Narva, a demonstration and film screenings at the Baltic Pride 2023. Events gathered 1 650 people.

Genre

Animation

Director

Matea Kovač, Efa Blosse-Mason, Emily Morus-Jones, Marko Dješka, Sofie Edvardsson, Jorinde Hol

Run time

1h 40min

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023)

Animated shorts: Queer Sensations

Cwch Deilen

Efa Blosse-Mason, UK, 2020, 8 min

Learning to love someone can be scary, but it can also lead to the most marvelous adventure. With a striking illustrative style, writer-director Efa Blosse-Mason tells the story of Heledd and Celyn who navigate the undiscovered and murky waters of entering a new relationship.

Diomysus

Emily Morus-Jones, 2022, UK, 5 min

The award-winning film interviews people from the British polyamory community, using puppets to hide the interviewees’ identities and allowing them to be safely honest and open about their experiences. Through these interviews, the film asks the viewer: how conscious is your bias?

“I wanted to use this opportunity to give a more honest, positive, insider’s account of polyamory, which is often trivialised or sensationalised on film despite the fact that it is most certainly on the rise in the UK”, Emily explains.

Flesh

Camila Kater, Brazil, Spain, 2019, 12 min

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

All those Sensations in My Belly

Marko Dješka, Croatia, Portugal, 2020, 13 min

All Those Sensations in My Belly is short animated documentary about the real life of transgirl Matia, who relates the story about her experience of transition process with a specific focus on complexity of finding true love with a heterosexual man.

TOP 3

Sofie Edvardsson, 2019, Sweden, 45 min

In this funny, bittersweet romantic comedy from Sweden, perpetual list-maker Anton falls in love with David, but things start to go awry when Anton realizes that his dreams in life might be in direct opposition to David’s.

Y

Matea Kovač, 2023, Croatia, 7 min

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Dancing with Gender

Jorinde Hol, the Netherlands, 2021, 3 min

Our society is extremely binary focussed, we think in female- and male-boxes, but not everyone identifies with those terms. In this short documentary you’ll hear several non-binary people talk about their experiences and perception of gender. Led by their voices and fluid line work, you’ll learn what the term means to them.

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023) is a new cultural festival in Estonia that focuses on sharing the stories of LGBT people, expanding safe space for queer people and promoting acceptance in society through film screenings, panel discussions, and other cultural events. All Q-Space events are organised in three languages and accessible not only for Estonian and Russian speakers but other people living in Estonia as well. Q-Space is working to bring dialogue and discussion on queer issues between different groups of society.

From 30 November to 3 December 2023, the Q-Space Festival Tallinn brings to the city a range of vibrant events:

• 7 screenings of new and internationally awarded films (5 full-length films, documentary and a collection of animated films) in the Artis cinema.

• 2 discussions on relevant issues such as being out and queer in school and the parenthood of trans people and acceptance by the their families

• 2 Q&As with film creators

• 1 workshop on emancipation through movement and dancing

• 1 presentation of a new publication of a comic book How Much Queer Work in Estonian

All films are shown with Estonian/English/Russian subtitles, discussions with guests are held in English.

We estimate 1500 visitors for the Q-Space Tallinn Festival.

Q-Space was founded in 2022 in Estonia. It is dedicated to LGBT communities and human rights. Q-Space received the honorary title of Rainbow Hero from the Estonian LGBT Association 2023.

During its short period of operation Q-Space has organised 12 public film events in Tallinn and Narva, a demonstration and film screenings at the Baltic Pride 2023. Events gathered 1 650 people.

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2023

Global distributor

Q-Space

Local distributor

Q-Space

In cinema

12/1/2023