SHORTS: YOU MAKE ME FEEL: Award Encore

Streaming Nov 24–30
Featuring audience award and jury prize short film recipients, this tender and heightened collection of LGBTQ+ stories will get you so emotional, baby. Featuring work from shorts programs WOMEN’S NIGHT OUT REMIX and WE CARRY THE LOVE, catch up with festival favorites from the newest wave of emerging queer filmmakers.


AS YOU ARE
Dir. Daisy Friedman, USA, 2023, 15 min
When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.



SIS
Dir. Miranda Haymon, USA, 2023, 13 min
In this surrealist black comedy, a woman’s curiosity in her ex-crush’s new girlfriend complicates after their cosmic meet cute at a Brooklyn rooftop party.



BECOMING
Dir. Tramaine Raphael Gray, USA, 2023, 25 min
An imaginative queer teen weaves in and out of his own fantasy world while struggling to connect with his older brother.



THE END
Dir. Fernando Reinaldos, Spain, 2022, 10 min
In the last years, Carmen has dedicated herself body and soul to caring for her wife Rosa, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. In each gesture, Carmen maintains the hope that Rosa will look at her as she used to do when they were younger.

Week 2 of NewFest35 Encores
NewFest35 Award Encores are presented by Amazon