HOLDING EACH OTHER (short films category)

The HOLDING EACH OTHER short films category explores the interdependent relationship between the notion of community and the sense of care. Whether we're talking about the family space, the circle of friends, neighbours, or the position of ally, "caring for one another" remains the community's fundamental need. Building on this foundation requires, among other things, a constant exercise of empathy, mutual support, and mobilization in the face of the obstacles posed by systemic aggressions of any kind. Collective memory, intergenerational or cultural heritage, activism, and vulnerability are tools in the hands of those inspired to build community around them.

From: Nora, Romania, 2024, 19'
Sending love letters can't be easy when the writer you like never writes back.

La Trenza, Mexico, 2025, 9'
Five Indigenous women braid each other's hair in a space of awareness where we learn parts of their stories, marked by migration, abandonment, racism, love, and pain.

Golden Fingers, France, 2024, 6'
Three friends rehearse, on a beach, the speech one of them will give to tell his parents he's gay. A short film about the candor of friendship, the fear of judgment and rejection, and also the joy of being around the people who give us the courage to be ourselves.

Yes all women, France, 2025, 16'
Takes us into the world of Alice, a 20-year-old who receives an unsolicited dick pic from her crush and tries to get past the disappointment and discomfort with the help of her friends and her own imagination.

BAYARDS STREET 59, Belgium, 2024, 15'
Captures fragments from the lives of those who lived in the social housing building at this address, tracing the bonds between people - moments of solidarity, sisterhood, and care.

I'm only a body, Belgium, 2024, 22'
The short film follows the director and two of her friends as they try to break the silence around an abuse, reconstructing, between reality and flashbacks, fragmented memories of a story about incest, pain, and resilience.

The sound of freedom, Germany, 2025, 18'
The story of Zimbabwean women's rights activist Karen Mukwasi, who is living temporarily in exile in Germany. A poetic documentary portrait, built from intimate moments, digital connections, and fragments from Zimbabwe, about solidarity, courage, and the question "What does freedom really sound like?"

- followed by a Q&A session with Margot Therer, director of BAYARDS STREET 59, Ramas Ramales, director of La Trenza, and Chryssa Florou, director of Golden Fingers (in English)