NQV Media has a reputation for bringing us some of the finest gay short films from around the world. However, up until now, their collections have mainly centred on the male experience. But now, for the first time, NQV brings us a delightful, fascinating and engaging curated collection of female short films. NQV Upon Her Lips: Pure Feels is available now on Amazon and Vimeo On-Demand.
From the outset, one thing is clear: NQV’s Upon Her Lips is an essential addition to the NQV collection. Here, the female voice and experience sit centre stage, from Esther Bialas’ stark coming-of-age drama Tumbling Birds to the artistic and powerful Everything In Between, where sensuality, passion, and love wash over the audience in a silent tidal wave.
However, Upon Her Lips, true strength comes from its global reflections on the female experience with an exquisite journey across our world from Israel to Sweden and Brazil. These shorts encapsulate the journey taken in defining individual sexuality, belonging, and freedom, from our early days to the relationships that help define us as adults. I can only hope Upon Her Lips marks the start of an extensive collection of shorts from NQV exploring the female experience.
FAKE IT (Taasi Beceilu) Tzurit Hartzion
Professional photographer Zohar decides to dedicate a photography project to a relationship from yesteryear, one that will depict the highs and lows of their passionate affair. Enlisting the help of her ex, a reluctant Ela, the pair go about resurrecting their past.
Tzurit Hartzion’s ‘Fake It’ is a bittersweet comedy about love and separation, although not necessarily in that order…
TUMBLING BIRDS (Stürzende Tauben) Esther Bialas
She doesn’t know it yet, but this year’s sweltering summer will mark the end of Svenja’s childhood. The butt of endless jokes at her school, Svenja finds solace under the wing of a fellow outcast – the school’s janitor and his impressive collection of pigeons. Despite this burgeoning friendship and unlikely hobby, temptation draws her to the dazzling, mischievous popular girl, Janine, who takes an interest in the naive Svenja.
How will Svenja navigate her coming teenage years? And what is she willing to sacrifice?
AMONG THE MERMAIDS (Parmi les sirènes) Marie Jardillier
Marion, a 30-year-old woman, has decided she’s finally gonna do it. She’s going to tell her fun-loving group of friends that she’s no longer single. She’s fallen in love. But this time, she’s fallen in love with a girl. But what will her friends think of her having kept this a secret from them for this long? And what about Juliette?
Marie Jardillier’s fizzy and funny coming-out tale throws us headlong into the cosy nest of a group of close-knit girls who, despite being very much in love with each other’s company, don’t quite know each other as well as they first thought.
EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN (Vad som inte sägs) Rushema Vinberg
An ordinary woman and an ordinary girl have an extraordinary experience that etches itself in the memory of one of them. This is that memory, but remembering proves fickle… What was said has almost wholly disappeared, and what remains is everything in between the meal, the coffee, the cigarettes, and the sex: the physical, the pure, the visual, the intoxicating.
Rushema Vinberg’s extraordinary, almost entirely silent chamber piece features two women, between whom there is an electric attraction, and lets the images do the talking.
PISCINA (Leandro Goddinho)
On a quest to understand her grandmother’s past, Claudia meets Marlene, an old and reclusive woman who’s created a homage to her memories inside an empty swimming pool. Leaving her newborn child with her wife, she hesitantly enters Marlene’s underground bunker. When she eventually resurfaces, both old and young see their past and future in a whole new light.
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