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

122 min
Community Partners
Come Sin With MeThis 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.
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Please note: Only some films in this program will be available to watch online. See below for details. Learn more.
How a River is Born (Como Nasce um Rio)
Luma Flôres
Brazil
2025
8 min
No Dialogue
In this sensual animation, a person convenes with Mother Earth, caressing her peaks and valleys and diving into her rivers.


Underground Morphology (Morfología Underground)
Sidka S. Vera
Argentina, Chile
2025
13 min
Spanish
While documenting Buenos Aires’ vibrant club culture, a filmmaker embarks on their own gender journey, confronting and challenging normative expectations of self-expression.



M
Christina Burchard
United States
2025
9 min
English
In this psychosexual film, two women explore power dynamics in their new relationship.


Not enough hands
John Bergerhausen
Germany
2025
8 min
English
Dark rooms. Glowing whirlpools. Steamy seduction. Descend into a gay sauna in the centre of Cologne.



Peppermint Diesel 20%
Mariangela Pluchino
Finland
2024
15 min
English
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.



Never Fully Naked
Laurence Bidal-Pouliot
Canada
2024
6 min
English
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.



Scorpionikas–countermanifesto (Escorpiônikas–contramanifiesto)
Bruna Kury, Nisha Platzer, Matheus Mello
Spain, Brazil, Canada
2025
12 min
Spanish, Portuguese
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.



Red Light Green
Eva Wu
United States, Germany
2025
6 min
English
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.



Report from the Interior
Lucas Crawford
Canada
2025
3 min
English
Trans love and kink find its rhythm in this “animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.”



The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom
2025
7 min
English
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.


