15h15 / SHORTS PROGRAMME 1 (84’) (Shorts Film Competition)

My Name is Love, by David Färdmar (Sweden, 2008, 20’)
Freunde die du hast | The Friends you have, by Haik Büchsenschuss (Germany, 2008, 14’)
Somebody got Murdered, by Tor Iben (Germany, 2009, 40’)
In His Shoes, by Ornette Spenceley (United kingdom, 2008, 12’)

In My Name Is Love two young men meet by chance in the street, on a romantic summer evening. But what seems at first an innocent flirt quickly becomes a dangerous liaison. Homophobia outbursts in a small town serve as backdrop to The Friends you Have, the story of an outsider for whom a local youth falls in love. Somebody Got Murdered confronts us with the story of a gay man entering adult life who, after being attacked in the park, falls for his aggressor. In In His Shoes, a boy discovers his identity after his fathers’ suicide. N.G.

17h15

(Shorts film Competition)
Protect Me from What I Want, by Dominic Leclerc (United Kingdom, 2008, 14’)

Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising at an underground archway, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz’ bed-sit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure. Both characters’ disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night.

(Feature Film Panorama)
Shank, by Simon Pearce (United Kingdom, 2009, 89’)

Worlds collide as the lives of Cal and Olivier intersect in Shank, a gritty coming of age/ rites of passage drama. Cal, an 18 year old Scally lad and gang member has nothing in his life except drugs, sex, random acts of
violence and a secret that he keeps hidden from his mates. An online hook up for sex with a stranger, Scott (36), temporarily satisfies but fails to dampen his unspoken desires for his best mate, Jonno. Nessa, their
twisted, foul-mouthed and controlling, de facto gang leader, suspects that there is something going on between them. For no good reason an innocent student, Olivier (19), falls victim to one of her plans and is mugged on her orders by the gang. Cal steps in to restrain them and creates a distraction allowing Olivier to run free. Ignoring Nessa’s screams of contempt, he chases after him and offers him a lift by way of an apology. Fearing that the fall-out from Nessa for his actions will be harsh, Cal persuades Olivier to help him out. Seizing the moral high ground and sensing that there was something more to Cal’s good samaritan act, Olivier allows Cal to stay with him for a few days. Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new
emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before. Nessa can’t contain her rage for Cal’s disloyalty to the gang and sets about hunting him down, intent on destroying him once and for all.

19h15

(Best Documentary Competition)
Verliebt, Verzopft, Verwegen | Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious,
by Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym (Austria, 2009, 64’)

Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious takes us back to Vienna in the 1950s and 60s. It was not exactly a welcoming city for lesbians. But still, they did exist even back then. How they met, where they went, how they found their look, their identities and their fellow sisters – the three very vivid and outspoken protagonists narrate a rare and important example of oral history.

21h30 / SHORTS PROGRAMME 4 (84’) (Shorts Film Competition)

510 Meter über dem Meer | 510 Meters Above Sea Level, by Kerstin Polte (Switzerland, 2008, 16’)
Tanz ins Glück | Dancing to Happiness, by Barbara Seiler (Switzerland, 2008, 17’)
Duas Aranhas, by Carlos Conceição (Portugal, 2009, 9’)
Easy Tiger, by Alkmini Boura (Switzerland, 2008, 12’)
Tect | Test, by Borislav Rostov (Bulgaria, 2008, 8’)

A series of stories on women takes off in a mountain airport. In 510 Meters Above Sea Level a woman misses her flight and while waiting for a new connection, she meets a stranger… Dancing to Happiness draws together a stock broker and a cleaning lady through common interests, such as dance lessons. A story at dawn reveals two women, one of them about to give birth, in Duas Aranhas. At night, in Easy Tiger, a casual encounter in a copy shop in Zurich promises revelations mainly to a woman in her 30s who feels that her life hasn’t quite started yet. In Test we’re placed inside an elevator in a health clinic. Waiting for the results of her exams, a girl dreams of what life would be like, alongside another girl she just met by chance. N.G.

0h00 / GAY SHORT FILM PROGRAMME (Queer Art)

Steifheit I+II | Stiffness I+II, by Albert Sackl (Austria, 1997-2007, 6’)
Invitation, by Michael V. Smith (Canada, 2007, 6’)
Muchim Lok | Middle-Earth, by Thunska Pansittivorakul (Tailândia, 2007, 8')
Plug, by Antoine Barraud (France, 2008, 14’)
Steam, by Damien Rea (United Kingdom, 2008, 3’)
Toward the Blue, by Randy Caspersen (EUA, 2009, 10’)
Income (Butterfly + Tail), by Michail Michailov (Switzerland, Austria, 2007, 3’)