Tue, 21 Oct, 6/8.30 pm, CITY 46 Bremen
Fri, 31 Oct, 7 pm, JUB Bremerhaven
approx. 93 min | original languages with German subtitles

In AS YOU ARE, an interabled queer couple prepares to be intimate for the very first time. Before they can take this step, they must confront their insecurities around sexuality and bodily autonomy.

After years in the design world and queer life in Iowa, Marc returns to Guam to create costumes for a children’s play. What begins as a professional project turns into a tender reconnection with his estranged parents in WOULDN’T MAKE IT ANY OTHER WAY.

SKIN offers a sensorial meditation on queer identity, self-discovery, and the body.
In NEO NAHDA, a London barista uncovers traces of a once-thriving cross-dressing community of lesbian, queer, and non-binary people in Lebanon’s past.

Teenager Yael navigates questions of identity in WAKING UP IN VEGAS, caught between his older brother and his queer best friend Aaron. But can their friendship withstand this search for self?

When Zooey Zephyr loses SEAT 31 in the Montana House of Representatives, she turns a public bench into her new “office.” In doing so, she transforms political loss into an opportunity to defend her community, safeguard her identity, and make a pivotal personal choice.

The poetic stop-motion short TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE imagines Eden and Dula’s tender love in a utopian refuge—an escape from the trauma of their past lives.

Content notes

As You Are: –

Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way:: Queerphobia, violence, alcohol consumption, flashing lights

Skin: Self-harm

Neo Nahda: Alcohol consumption

Waking Up in Vegas: –

Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr: Queer-/transphobia, misgendering, flashing lights

Two Black Boys in Paradise: Racism