Shorts: Tease Me, Please Me

Sept 14, 2025
8:45 PM

Location
International Village

Partially Online in BC
Sept 22, 12 AM - Sept 28, 11:59 PM

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This provocative collection of shorts dives headfirst into the pleasures, politics, and power of queer sexuality. From strip clubs to saunas, backrooms to fantasy realms, these films explore kink, consent, revenge, ritual, and transformation with fearless sensuality. Blending eroticism with radical self-expression, this lineup celebrates bodies in motion, unapologetic queer desire, and the beautifully messy freedom of choosing your own way to love, fuck, and exist.

Followed by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers.

Please note: Only some films in this program will be available to watch online. See below for details. Learn more.

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In this sensual animation, a person convenes with Mother Earth, caressing her peaks and valleys and diving into her rivers.

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While documenting Buenos Aires’ vibrant club culture, a filmmaker embarks on their own gender journey, confronting and challenging normative expectations of self-expression.

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In this psychosexual film, two women explore power dynamics in their new relationship.

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Dark rooms. Glowing whirlpools. Steamy seduction. Descend into a gay sauna in the centre of Cologne.

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After a long day on set, Liboria and Claudia stop at a deserted gas station and accidentally fill their van with the wrong fuel. Their unorthodox solution ignites a tense unraveling of memory, fear, and vengeance.

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While getting ready for their shift at a Montreal stripclub, three friends discuss the nuances of sex work and how their job informs their relationship to gender, sexuality, and their bodies.

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Weaving performances, interviews, and archival footage into a radical (anti-)manifesto; Scorpionikas–countermanifesto follows trans women, sex workers, and racialized voices as they confront colonial and patriarchal systems.

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A hypnotic, sensual 3D animation and love letter to the parents who tried their best, and their children who surpassed them in daring to love more boldly.

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Trans love and kink find its rhythm in this “animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.”

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In a large manor full of lifeless, identical figures, the sensory discovery of an orange draws one woman into a surreal realm, challenging her to choose between conformity and a new way of being.