What happens when love doesn’t just change you, but rearranges you?
Bodies swap, melt and grow into each other across seven films about desire in its strangest and most tender forms. Ex-partners trade ears, and two women fall in love and sprout into creatures bound to the natural world. Three friends in Folkestone find their seaside lives upended by saucy fiction, while a life-drawing class asks what it means to see and be seen. Along the way, a salaryman worships his machines, an artist’s fantasies tip into violence, and comedian Tim Key recites a poem about a date night gone horribly wrong.
Spanning Hungary, Belgium, Spain and the UK, these films are tender, twisted and often very funny.
Runtime: 69 mins
WISH YOU WERE EAR, 2025 (10 mins)
Director: Mirjana Balogh
In a world where ex-partners must swap a chosen body part after each break-up, every relationship leaves a visible mark. Disfigured and longing for wholeness, the protagonist encounters someone wearing their former ear, and begins a journey toward self-acceptance.
CHIMERAS TONIGHT (TOO MERCURY), 2026 (4 mins)
Director: Veronika Neputina
In this fantastical, dreamlike tale, two women fall in love and are metamorphosed into strange creatures, symbiotic with the natural world around them. An international collaboration between animator Veronika Neputina and queer indie-rock artist Dystopia Gently, AKA Katherine Evans.
THE FOLKESTONE LADIES’ EROTIC FICTION CLUB, 2025 (15 mins) [local film]
Director: Emelie Mahdavian
Three women find their quiet lives by the sea changed forever when erotic fiction unleashes hidden passions. This uplifting, sexy, comedy drama celebrates the power of Mother Nature, and female friendship, as the women turn fantasy into reality.
Content warning: sexually explicit language.
PORTRAIT OF DESIRE, 2026 (15 mins)
Director: Nina Degraeve
For one night, artist Romina Remmo invites us to experience the sensation of her suggestive work, imbued with eroticism and femininity. The film takes us into a labyrinth of thoughts and fantasies where desire brushes up against violence and where seduction borders on suffering.
GOSEI, 2025 (12 mins)
Director: Dani Alías
A Japanese salaryman finds himself trapped in a spiral of routine and despair inside a society obsessed with progress and efficiency, where work becomes a silent ritual and industrial machinery their god.
LIFE CLASS, 2025 (13 mins) [local film]
Director: Benjamin Verrall
Creatively stalled and trapped in a controlling relationship, Eve (Molly Vevers) is paired with guarded Celeste (Pooky Quesnel) in a life-drawing class. A conversation about seeing and being seen forces both women to confront the stories that have held them back.
SAUSAGE POEM, 2025 (2 mins)
Director: Rob Ling
Written and narrated by award-winning UK comedian Tim Key (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Taskmaster, Alan Partridge), this bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong…