Eröffnungsabend: Heidilicious One More Time

Content warning: Pornographic depiction

Age recommendation: 18 years and older

Les Dieux du Supermarché
Alberto Gonzalez Morales, Switzerland 2022, 8’ (French/e), experimental
In times of body positive movements this film pays tribute to the mainstream representation of the male body which the director has a love-hate relationship with. Through a series of gleaned images from the internet and elsewhere (“net found footage”), our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

Pipes
Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran, Switzerland 2022, 4’ (no dialogue), animation
Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club

Ours
Morgane Frund, Switzerland 2022, 20’ (German/French/e), documentary
An amateur filmmaker who has filmed bears for years, contacts a film school looking for someone to edit his images into a film. A student comes forward. But when she digitises his archive, she discovers that the recordings are not only of bears. A discussion ensues about the power of a gaze and its voyeuristic violence.

Ohrwurm
Abcde flash, Switzerland 2022, 14’ (OV/e), experimental
Four Swiss-based queers meet for the first time to explore the various ways that play is possible with a much under-represented organ: the ear.

Mirage
Akira River, Jessica Moon, Switzerland 2022, 8’ (no dialogue), fiction
Mirage invites us into a realm where dreams meld with sultry memories and sensual instants. It sings the praises of the fervent flame that ignites between two souls, loving without bounds. It's an entrancing daydream that paints a tableau of bodies quivering with yearning, as we, with closed eyes, drift beside the one our heart cherishes.

Crushed
Ella Rocca, Switzerland 2022, 8’ (German/e), documentary
The filmmaker is, once again, hopelessly in love. Time for them to confront their crushes. With reflective self-irony the director takes on unrequited desire and by mixing imagination and fact at their desktop, creates a surprising experience.