IQMF: Short Film Program 2025 incl. Q&A
Lloyd Wong Unfinished
Duration: 29
Director: Lesley Loksi Chan
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: Canada
Year: 2025
IQMF proudly brings to you the Dutch Premiere of Lloyd Wong Unfinished. This film won the Golden Bear for best short film at the 75th Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival this year.
Synopsis:
A filmmaker unearths and completes an unfinished 1990s video project by a Chinese-Canadian artist who documented his life with HIV. The work bridges three decades, offering a unique perspective on art, identity, and legacy.
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory
Duration: 20’
Director: Sarnt Utamachote
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Country: Germany
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Fellow members of the Berlin queer community mourn together the loss of their dead friends due to substance abuse and the mental health crisis as well as the loss of urban safe spaces in general. By sharing personal materials, stories, and honest criticism about the club scene, working on this film becomes a means of healing for this group of friends. Resembling glow-in-the-dark fungi, they radiate light together as a network of support and care, they transform dead bodies and memories into a collective structure that sustains future living.
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory premiered in the Forum section of Berlinale 2024. In attendance of filmmaker Sarnt Utamachote.
事過方覺 (After All)
Duration: 25’
Director: Chongyan Liu
Language: English, German
Subtitles: English
Country: France
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
A therapist at a Berlin university navigates delicate emotional terrain as she provides solace to a grieving student grappling with the suicide of a trans woman on campus.
Actor Chuning Dai will attend the Q&A.
紅包Red Envelope
Duration: 20’
Director: Tami Xu
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Country: Taiwan
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
A newly-wed American Andy picks up a red envelope on the ground near a Taiwanese night market. What he discovers inside the envelope is a family saga that binds two worlds.
Actor Zack Ireland will attend the Q&A.