If They Knew

Go on an enriching journey from Mexico to Spain, onto Austria and then to China via Greece in these five moving short films where gay men overcome various obstacles in accepting who they are, and where they are going - things can only get better. The 5 short films are: If They Knew [Berak baleki] (2021); Xutaj (2022); Boom and Bloom [Neuzeit] (2022); Sexual Distancing (2022); And We Collide [潮汐平行时] (2021).

Deaf people in Wroclaw (Poland) are unaware of the noises and melodies of the city they live in. However, the movement of their hands merges every day with urban sounds and rhythms. Trains, smoke, crevices, reflections and rain evoke passages from the most famous urban symphonies of the history of cinema in a city that could well be exchanged for another.

In 1972, in one of his best-known articles, Pier Paolo Pasolini spoke of the disappearance of fireflies. A few months later he was murdered. Since then the fireflies have continued to disappear. But there are still people who remember them.

Bitor and Mikel meet during the Bilbao festivities. The first look is going to be special for both of them, but they will remember it in a different way.

After the death of his mother in 2011, the director embarks on an intimate journey through the personal objects and memories that remain of her in the present. This short documentary explores grief and illness and their relationship with dignity, care and transmission, claiming cinema as a tool to reveal the past.