Generations Shorts

Shortfilm program, 96 min.

A selection of films from this program can also be streamed with the Online Festival Pass. Please find more information here.

These four short films provide insight into the work and lives of queer artists from the past, as well as contemporary perspectives on life and death from people in their golden years.

Cristina

By: Giulio Golfieri
IT 2025, 12:18 min., it. OV

Cristina, an aging vampire, in her struggle against the concept of death.

El Jardín de los Faunos (The Garden of Fauns)

By: Pol Merchan
DE/SP 2022, 24:10 min., sp. OV+ engl. UT

Documentary about Nazario Luque, the groundbreaking queer artist and author of the first openly gay underground comics.

Os Animais Mais Fofos e Engraçados do Mundo (The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World)

By: Giulio Golfieri
BR 2023, 23:42 min., port. OV + engl./ span. UT

The elderly caretaker of a motel has a dirty secret…

Mr. Bound and Gagged

By: Carson Parish
US/FR 2024, 36:00 min., engl. OV

Octogenarian publishers Bob “Mr. Bound & Gagged” Wingate and his partner Lee Clauss travel to the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago to comb their archives – unearthing provocative art, correspondence, political polemics and porn that reframe their scandalized careers as essential queer history.

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