A collection of animation, experimental, documentary and narrative stories that run across the gender spectrum that is as diverse as the emotions evoked throughout.
Join us for this shorts program that starts off by exploring what it means to leave one’s home to start anew (without) and then shifts to two narratives that represent the vibrant, queer stories being made by filmmakers in Nigeria (within). Filmmaker Ayo Tsalithaba (they/them/theirs) in attendance.
Director Carlo Lavagna’s dreamily fragmented ode to self-discovery is ripe and unrushed; its sensitive camerawork, revelatory. With a convincing performance by newcomer Ondina Quadri in the title role, Arianna is a coming-of-age story that gives no pat resolution, but instead opens up into the beauty of uncertainty.