Proximity. Shorts

Carpobrotus

2024 / France / drama

Director: Simon Frenay
Cast: Juliette Savary, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Simon Frenay
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 22 min

It’s summertime, and three friends – Maxime, Yann and Laura – are spending a few days on a wild Mediterranean island. Maxime loves Yann passionately, but doesn’t know if his feelings are shared. It’s in this quest for love that Maxime immerses himself, at the risk of losing himself, between dream and desire.

The Mud under My Window
Sous ma fenêtre, la boue

2025 / Belgium / animated drama

Director: Violette Delvoye
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 13 min

One of Emma’s mothers is too busy, the other one is too far away: a presence she rejects, an absence she sublimates. Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.

À Poings et À Cœurs

2024 / France / documentary

Director: Augustine Caille
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 8 min

Coming out swinging, a group of trans women forge deep bonds at a dedicated boxing club.

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian

2024 / USA / animated drama

Director: Carmela Murphy, AJ Dubler
Cast: Jordan Gantos, Cecile Lopez, Timmothy Sullivan
English, with Lithuanian subtitles, 8 min

After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.

Lost Hearts
Coeurs Perdus

2024 / France / drama

Director: Frédéric Lavigne
Cast: Guillaume Soubeyran, Isaak Dessaux
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 30 min

Paris, 1992. Julien, a science thesis student, learns of the death of Christophe, a young suburban hairdresser he had met a few months earlier. He sets off on a journey to retrace their history and try to understand and forgive.