Reel Out: Sunday Shorts Showcase

Opens on May 18

Run Time: 96 min.

Breaking Through | Director: Siham Bel | Release Year: 2023 | Run time: 29 mins. | Country: France

Every summer, Safia returns to Corsica to visit her dad. Ever since she left the island years before, she has kept her distance. On the surface, she seems close to her family, but a secret is stopping them from connecting. This summer, an announcement is going to shake up the family and take Safia on an unexpected journey of self-discovery on the winding and rocky roads of the Mediterranean island.

Content Warning: Racial slurs

Sister Wives is a multi-layered love story that tells the tale of young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society in 2003 Utah, USA. Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful | community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind. Sister Wives will offer a vital perspective to the canon of coming-out films; at its core, it is a story of female friendship, of allyship, a story of exploration, both physical and psychological, as together they find the courage to dream in tandem, of a world beyond the walls.

AMMA’s PRIDE chronicles Valli’s trials and tribulations as she watches her trans daughter Srija, fall in love, marry, and fight for state recognition of her marriage in a traditional small town in South India. When societal pressures push Srija’s marriage to the edge, Valli clings to the hope of a miracle.

In the short documentary Boxing Against the Binary, filmmaker Esmée van Loon takes us to a unique gym in Rotterdam. Queer Gym is a space designed for non-normative bodies to exercise, build community, and stay active both mentally and physically.