The selection of Queer short films, “Bitter Sweet Symphony” presents the adversities and warmth experienced by queer individuals in both society and personal growth, weaving together a symphony of life filled with both joy and sorrow.
Run time: 90 mins
Schedules
14/9/2025 (Sun) 12:00pm – Broadway CINEMATHEQUE#
24/9/2025 (Wed) 7:50pm – Broadway CINEMATHEQUE
Abraham
Director : ELNAZ GHADERPOUR, REZA GAMINI
Iran | 2024 | 13 mins
* Hong Kong Premiere
Synopsis
A transsexual teenage boy named Abraham was murdered and burned in a cave out of a small village. The main suspect is his religious father who prays in a small mosque every day.
Pietra
Director : CYNTHIA LEVITAN
Spain, Portugal, Poland, Brazil, Lithuania | 2024 | 13 mins
* Hong Kong Premiere
Synopsis
In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower – as delicate as it is revolutionary – represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese neighborhood.
Just Kim
Director : JAVIER PRIETO DE PAULA, DIEGO HERRERO
Spain | 2024 | 20 mins
* Hong Kong Premiere
Synopsis
Rose Kim is a trans teenager. Although they long for it, they’ve never expressed their gender identity and navigate life in their assigned female body. Maybe because they’re alone in a country where they migrated illegally. But mainly because they fear losing the only emotional connection that ties them to the world: Camila, a baby girl they care for daily.
Sweet Talkin’ Guy
Director : DYLAN WARDWELL, SPENCER WARDWELL
United States of America | 2025 | 5 mins
* Asian Premiere
Synopsis
A trans woman goes on three consecutive dates with straight men. As the men grapple with their fragile masculinity, their sexual identity unravels in a frantic monologue — ironically delivered to the object of their desire.
Wrong Bathroom
Director : RAGINI BHASIN
United States of America | 2024 | 9 mins
* Asian Premiere
Synopsis
When a transgender student enters the men’s restroom for the first time, he is pressured by his male classmates to fit in.
Liminality
Director : TESS BLIVEN
United States of America | 2025 | 14 mins
* Asian Premiere
Synopsis
In the summer of 2004, in Berkeley, California, queer teens Nina and Jay grapple with understanding Jay’s uncharted transgender identity amidst the throes of first love.
Rejoyce!
Director : DAVID LEDGER
United Kingdom | 2024 | 15 mins
* Director in Attendance
* Asian Premiere
Synopsis
After the death of her husband, an elderly vicar’s wife re-discovers a book of erotic fiction that she wrote in her youth.
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