"Watery Memories" Collection - Playlist
In the heat of becoming, we often find ourselves submerged - adrift in memory, soaked in desire, splintered by grief, or waterlogged by the ache of trying to touch what’s just out of reach.
‘Watery Memories’ is a cinematic dip through that fluid space where past and present blur, where emotions return without warning, and where identity keeps reshaping itself in real time. These films sit in that in-between: messy, intimate, and unsteady. We encounter characters suspended between versions of themselves - queer, grieving, soft, haunted, unhealed - each wading through the tender work of reckoning with the body and the past.
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The Return
A writer-director struggles with her profound sense of loss after the sudden death of her father, who dies while visiting his homeland of India. Hena wrestles with coming to terms with their strained relationship, by the only way she knows how: making a film.
Dharamshala International Film Festi...
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The Dream That Refused Me
The Dream The Refused Me is split across four aesthetically distinct chapters that ties together myths, attitudes, and rituals from across Africa. Powerful and emotionally stirring, a Xhosa poem narrated by Siyabonga Jim creates draws a narrative line between the ancestral specters and incandesce...
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Two Ways of Being Lonely (Dos Soledades)
Pablo is in love with his best friend Héctor, but must console him for a breakup and be his shoulder to cry on. This story is familiar to Alam, who seeks to prevent his friend from falling into a game that seems to repeat itself frequently.
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From X to Z
A cranky Gen X butch is forced to spend time with a disaffected zoomer who seems to represent everything that bugs her about "kids today".
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MASHED - Season 1
A tender, raunchy, and queer exploration of female pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction.
S1, E1: Random Dude
Mashie is in EMDR therapy. She comes out as queer, has an uncomfortable sexual encounter, and asks Siri why her vagina is broken.S1, E2: Know Blank
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Wetlands of Our Mother's Tongues in Concrete
"Wetlands of our Mother's Tongues in concrete" is an experimental film that explores the notions of transness, motherhood, and time & space travel. The narrators, Jordan Deal and Ivonne Perez, find themselves dispersed between the channels of the ocean, fragments of memory, and time travel as the...
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Rough River Lake
A weekend “Gaycation” is interrupted when a group of Queer best friends discover their lake house got double booked with a fratty bachelor party. An ensemble comedy about party fouls and Queerness in the South.
Indianapolis LGBTQ Film Festival
London International Short Film Festival
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Stress Fracture
A young transgender woman struggles to get a grip on space and time as her relationship falls apart.
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The Pool
When a lonely suburban pool reminisces about its life and the humans in it, it starts to bring up fond memories of Ari and Connell, a young couple who first fell in love by the edge of the Pool’s water.
LA Shorts Fest (2023), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (2023), SydFest Independent Film Fe...
