2e nuit du Queer Métrage
This is the great return of a moment of plebiscity during the previous edition of the festival. More than five hours of screenings to discover a selection of the best current short films. And it is a cinema room in the city center that welcomes this year this Night of all discoveries. Three sessions interspersed with coffee breaks and a very hot bonus session!
20h00 - 1ersegment
CŒURS PERDUS
de Frédéric Lavigne
France • 2024 • 34 min
with Guillaume Soubeyran, Isaak Dessaux, Stéphanie Michelini
Paris, 1992. Julien, a thesis student, learns Christophe's death, a young suburban hairdresser met a few months earlier. Then start for him a journey in the footsteps of their history to try to understand and forgive.
CHERCHEZE
de Paulin.e Goasmat
France • 2024 • 17 min 30
with Sohan Pague, Arnaud Stephan, Mélodie Lauret, Judikaël Goater, Gabrielle Pichon and Charlie Pietrantoni
While Charly, a young trans man, was buried under his birth name, Tom, Louise and BB, his queer buddies, decided to pay him a final tribute in a place where they used to meet, Charly’s childhood home. But Victor, his brother, and his wife, Iris, landed on the ground...
QUEER FIGHTERS OF UKRAINE
de Rebel Queers
Ukraine • 2023 • 30 min • documentary
Prix du meilleur court métrage ex-aequo à Screens Mixtes Lyon 2025
« 24 February, 6h31 : my partner calls me and tells me: ‘Don’t panic, but they started bombing Kyiv.’ A new reality had just begun. A reality filled with horror and suffering.” This documentary identifies the experiences of queers during the war.
21h45 - 2esegment
NOUS THE PROCHAINS
de Florent Gouëlou
France • 2025 • 36 min
with Calypso Baquey, Jean-Marie Gouëlou, Florent Gouëlou
Fred is drag queen and performs on the scene of a cabaret when he learns the death of his father, Jean. In the emergency room, he's nosey with his ghost. The next three days, Fred and his sister Cassandre try to organize Jean’s funeral, while Fred seems to be the only one to see him.
HELENE AND FILLES
by Claire Bonnefoy
France • 2024 • 23 min
with Louise Malek, Alma Rechtman, Marguerite Thiam
Hélène and Samia have always been best friends and say everything. When Samia went out with Gaby, she told Helen all the details of their torrid nights. But now it’s Hélène who’s together with Gaby, and Helen’s jealousy complicates everything. Until the day she decided to erase her memory thanks to a magical philtre promoted by an influencer.
POINGS AND CŒURS
of Augustine Caille
France • 2024 • 8 min
Women transacting in boxing speak about their experiences, their euphoria of gender, the problems and oppressions suffered, but above all the ties they hold thanks to the practice of their sport.
BIG BOYS DON’T CRY
de Arnaud Delmarle
France • 2025 • 23 min
with Rod Paradot, Wyssem Romdhane, MathisSonzogni, Emmanuel Rol, Kamel Mahjoubi
A canicular summer in a small village near Marseille. After three years of absence, Lucas and his group of friends found their friend Hicham, who left for the army. This long-awaited return prompts unfavourable emotions within the band.
23h30 - 3esegment
YOU CAN’T GET WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU CAN GET ME
de Samira Elagoz ' Z Walsh
Finland • 2023 • 13 min • Vostf • documentary
Prix du meilleur court métrage ex-aequo à Screens Mixtes Lyon 2025
From the first date to the first kiss, from aesthetic surgery to tattoos, from the encounter with the family to the realization of their transcontinental relationship, a social media flow composed of selfies, textual messages and musical montages documents with joy a spontaneous, intimate and tender union.
CARPOBROTUS
de Simon Frenay
France • 2024 • 22 min
with Erwan Kepoa Falé, Simon Frenay, Juliette Savary
It is summer, three friends spend a holiday on the island of Levant. Maxime, devoured by his feelings for Yann, is sinking into an elusive search, where the border between reality and desire is gradually disturbing, at the risk of losing himself.
CASA SUSANNA
de Pauline Bernard-Vernay
France • 2024 • 2 min
Paris, 1973. Paolo, a fan of Superman, discovers during a winter evening the double identity of his grandfather. Tito, that night, will become Susanna.
ANAPIDAE (APPELLE-MOI)
by Mathieu Morel • France • 2024 • 43 min
with Thomas Ducasse, Julie Morel, Fabienne Berthaud
In the cemetery of the Naarièges, Mino keeps the doors, watches the dead and mourning. Around him a ghost, a widow and a huge spider. They do, panic and bud, in love.
01h00 - Segment "bonus»
VERSA GEEK 26
by Mathieu Morel
France • 2024 • 10 min • experimental
with Mathieu Morel
Thinking creative, unhappy and eager, in the screen-heart of VersaGeek26, which desperately seeks Love, or at least, an interlocutor of flesh and blood. A striking patchwork of which Mathieu Morel has the secret, where virtual fantasies collide and blend into a 2.0 romance.
FRIOUL
de Lazare Lazarus & Antoine Vazquez
France • 2023 • 32 min • for notified public
with Lazare Lazarus, Giorgio Battura
On the islands of Frioul in Marseille, two wandering friends confront the landscape. Among the gabians and agaves, on the burning limestone, they explore their desires without taboo. An experiment to let go.