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# FILM REVIEW: 5 short queer  films
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/film-review-5-short-queer-films/
- Published: 2021-01-19T18:50:52.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-19T18:45:15.000Z
- Description: Brian Butler views a new crop of queer short films on show at the Fringe Short film fest
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Arts, Queer Corner, Reviews

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The London Short Film Festival this week brings us five queer tales from [**Fringe! Queer film and arts fest.**](https://www.shortfilms.org.uk/fiveshortsfromfringe?ref=scenemag.co.uk)

The best for me happened to be the first on the list – **Alexis Langlois**’ funny, gruesome, uplifting , crazy **Terror, Sisters!** Kalthoum , a trans girl , meets up with her trans sisters in a cafe bar and they go on a fantasy voyage in their dreams of a world where they can wreak their revenge on cis heteronormality. Its high-tech visual effects and headlong music soundtrack take us in and out of reality – a reality of phobia, violence and hatred. In the end the sisters – described as “ bad super bitches “ strut their stuff down the street – good for them !

**Flourish** is the up and down story of a black drag artist **Miss Crystal Visions**, whose drunken, overbearing boyfriend’s intrusion into club life is annoyingly real. Mix with a lesbian threesome and androgyneous queer club-goers and you have a heady cocktail.

[**They Looked At Me And Smiled** ](https://www.shortfilms.org.uk/films/they-looked-at-me-and-i-smiled?ref=scenemag.co.uk)is a grainy, almost home movie – reminiscent of Warhol – where a mixed group paint their faces like canvases and dress up – one as a pregnant Harry Potter – and brave the snowy streets of Toronto to make their trans, non-binary and queer presence felt.

[**Bonde again**](https://www.shortfilms.org.uk/films/bonde?ref=scenemag.co.uk) centres on a mixed group of Brazzlian queer friends who go out clubbing and are subjected to police phobia and brutality. “We are a family “ they assert proudly in a final rooftop twerk session.

[**Beat Is Protest** ](https://www.shortfilms.org.uk/films/beat-is-protest---funk-by-female-optics?ref=scenemag.co.uk)– Funk by Female Optics is an ambitious analysis of the phenomenon of Brazilian Funk music – especially free street music – it’s lively, informative, empowering and puts women centre stage in an industry dominated by men.

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Full details of the films and more at[ fringefilmfest.com](https://www.fringefilmfest.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)

The Queer films will be shown on **22 January** – to book go to[ shortfilms.org.uk](https://www.shortfilms.org.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk). With the wider short film festival from 15th to 24th Jan. Many a treat to be discovered.

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