Movies: Self love

The short film *Paper and Ivy* tells a story of self-love, queer love, and unrequited love through imaginative metaphors. With few words, but through ivy vines, flowing piano music, singing, and drawings, it describes the feeling of being different, ...

A boy is cooking, a girl is waiting. Breakfast is soon served. Then a stranger enters the bedroom where the girl is lying and the nightmare begins. A short film about love and dependence, about relationships and the urge to break out. Experimental, ...

A lyrical film ode to the odehimin or heart berry. A two-spirit Anishnaabe person finds themself in a dark place with their body. They undertake a healing journey, stating aloud their intentions and reconnecting with the land and the water for streng...

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation....

A look at the challenges of living in a small Australian town, portrayed through the lens of a novelist and her teenage son....

As they get ready for the day, three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in relation to their cultivation of a strong sense of self. Wash Day is an intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts such as washing yo...

A love story on the first glance, and a self-love story on the second. It's for everyone who has ever felt trapped in their own body. Without words, but with images, dance, and music, we explore the theme of gender identity and internalised transphob...

A man down on his luck reconnects with his ex and receives an inconvenience instead of an inheritance....

"PHIL" is a comedy fantasy short film advertisement about an upset young girl who is startled as a narrator presents itself and tries to sell her a middle aged, white man called Phil....

Feeling not real? Let me go insane. An homage to the director's mind. A take on body dysmorphia and the bloody tale of self love....