GRRL HAUS

International film festival GRRL HAUS CINEMA brings their signature movie mayhem to SIFF, with this best-of screening of short films centering the works of women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer filmmakers from all over the globe. With works ranging from animation, experimental, genre, and music video, there is something for everyone at GRRL HAUS.

Films Curated by SIFF Programmer Megan Garbayo-López.

FEST LINEUP

Made for Duty Overseas
Dir. Katie King, UK, 5 min

A noir-ish tale centered around a packet of menthol vogue cigarettes, moving between Sri Lanka and the UK. The narrator finds herself enticed into an addiction as she becomes intrigued by the allure of a woman’s identity.
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Into the Emerald Sea
Dir. Asuka Lin, Japan, 21 min

Suzu returns to their hometown from the depths of the ocean, reuniting with their grandmother who has been reborn into a sea turtle. Witnessing the marks of time left in a home that once was, Suzu grapples with the guilt of their disappearance.

La Chascona
Dir. Maria João Lourenço, UK, 2 min

An intimate moment in broad daylight on the Valparaíso shore.

Anniversary
Dir. Stephanie Ibarra, Anna Torzullo, US, 4 min

A music video set at Camp Saint Helene, Catskill-based, casting a love spell in this 1970s camp-horror-prom aesthetic.

Marrow of My Bones
Dir. Karly McCloskey, Canada, 3 min

A short experimental film that plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner. The film features a playful electroacoustic soundscape, blending voice, analog synthesizers, and field recordings.

Passageways
Dir. Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings, Canada, 5 min

A stop-motion documentary that takes a positive look at menopause. While different women confide how they experienced this natural and important passage in their lives, a female character tames her new environment and welcomes new ways of perceiving and projecting her femininity.

Cut Me Summa Dat Noise
Dir. Cara Hagan, US, 7 min

A film that celebrates the rhythms of everyday life through the eyes of a neighborhood matriarch who sets the tone for a new day with the beat of her own heart. As the neighborhood comes to life, people of all ages unite in a joyous cacophony of sound that illuminates the connections between them as members of a vibrant and diverse community in rhythm.

Lost Boys Pizza
Dir. Cassie Llanas, US, 15 min

On a Halloween night, two theater kids confront Dracula, using the power of dance to send him away.

All That’s Left
Dir. Simone Holland, US, 11 min

A surreal look into the perception of existence, Mercedes loses herself through the many people that seamlessly enter and exit her universe. Thrown into the maze of her mind, she struggles to differentiate reality from imagination.

Chora
Dir. Ao Wei, UK, 9 min

"I have created a world called Chora, a world of pre-linguistic order, a maternal space where 'Chora' is both a living being with changing emotions and an architectural body with its own order. The world suggests the circulation and flow of energy within the female reproductive system—a raw female power."

Trace on My Body
Dir. Yue Hua, China, 4 min

A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice—everything belongs to my body.

Poppy's Saturn
Dir. Nicole Tegelaar, Belgium, 15 min

When nightclub singer Poppy is confronted by a black-eyed man, she is overcome by fear. The event triggers a buried sexual trauma she must overcome in a kaleidoscopic world of glitter, music, and blood.

Sogno Rosso (Red Dream)
Dir. Coco Roy, US, 8 min

After being visited by 3 witches in a fever dream, a woman descends into a dreamscape blurring her reality with faded memories.