Feminist Shorts (Encore)

THURSDAY 29 APRIL | 6:00PM
ACMI CINEMA 2

Total runtime: 92 minutes

Screening location: ACMI Cinema 2, Federation Square, Melbourne | Plan your visit to ACMI **Please enter through the Fed Square entrance

Unliveable [Inabitável]

Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho / Brazil / 2020 / Portuguese / 19 / Narrative / Australian Premier

The world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene searches for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.

DOUBLESPEAk

Hazel McKibbin / USA / 2021 / English / 10 / Narrative / Australian Premier

A young woman grapples with the aftermath of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace in this 2021 Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee.

Many Bloodlines [êmîcêtôcêt]

Theola Ross / Canada / 2020 / English / 11 / Documentary

A Cree filmmaker and her white partner document their pregnancy and journey to parenthood. From the search for an Indigenous donor and midwife to their concerns about raising a child as an interracial queer couple, the joy of having a child together gives them the courage to overcome any obstacle.

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Alice Seabright / UK / 2019 / English / 15 / Narrative / Australian Premier

Jaq wants to have sex. But her Endometriosis is out to sabotage her with chronic pain and unpredictable bleeding - at the very worst time.

Mothers Of

Ross Lai / Canada / 2019 / English, Spanish / 19 / Documentary / Australian Premier

The unconscionable story of Teodora del Carmen Vasquez, who suffers a stillbirth at full term and is cruelly sentenced to an 11-year jail sentence in El Salvador under some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the world.

A FOOL GOD

Hiwot Admasu Getaneh / France / 2019 / Amharic / 18 / Narrative / Australian Premier

When young Mesi steps in for her squeamish brother to perform a traditional — male-only — ritual, she faces blame for the negative outcome. Instead, she defiantly questions the wisdom of her elders’ beliefs, in Hiwot Admasu Getaneh’s magical realist and gently irreverent drama.