Spanish LGBTQ+ animation shorts at Instituto Cervantes – BusinessWorld Online

THIS July, Instituto Cervantes’ Vimeo channel will host the short-film series Zinegoak, featuring eight animated LGBTQ+ stories by various Basque filmmakers. The film cycle presents personal stories, reflections, and testimonies that deal with gender identity, homosexual love and transsexuality, focusing on an underrepresented genre in cinema. The series will kick off on July 5 and 6, with the screening of the eight-minute animated film Azaletik azalera, released in 2021 by Mel Arranz. A multi-awarded short film, the work manages to materialize bodily intimacy, through detailed shots of the touching of skins, something hardly representable in real image cinema. The short film will be available for 48 hours through this link: https://vimeo.com/824067226.  The film series will continue on July 8 and 9, with La mesa (directed by Adrian García Gomez, 2019), a short film that challenges the representation of men, love and masculinity, which can be accessed at https://vimeo.com/827926201. The second week of the cycle will feature Beti bezperako koplak (2016), another short film directed by various filmmakers that denounces male violence and abuse against women. It will be available for viewing on July 12 and 13 through https://vimeo.com/824069808. On July 15 and 16, directors Paco Ramirez and Tanya O’Carroll will
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