🇨🇦 The screening is organized in cooperation with Embassy of Canada to Estonia 🇨🇦

A cassette of short films that celebrates the human body. All bodies are different and all are beautiful in their own way, just like the movies in this collection. Everyone wants to accept their body. You will see 4 works from different directors.

1. Well Rounded, Shana Myara, Canada, 2021, 60 min

Well Rounded starts from the understanding that being fat is ok.

​Blending gorgeous interviews with dreamy animation, director Shana Myara assembles personal stories from a diverse, captivating cast whose horrors, triumphs and commitment to dreaming large offer BIG inspiration -- especially for those of us who don't often see our BIPOC, LGB2TQ+, disabled and/or fat selves celebrated on screen.

2. It’s complicated, Isak Kohaly, Israel, 2021, 22 min.

Itamar, an overweight and depressed young man, returns to his childhood home in the suburbs after suffering a mental breakdown.

As he struggles to get better under the care of his quirky and overprotective mother - he meets Ronen, a charming lifeguard who takes an interest in him.

3. The Things That Make Us, Fox Fisher and Owl Fisher, UK, 2020, 3 min.

The Things That Make Us is a short film about effects hormones can have on your body as a trans person. Mainstream narratives often sensationalise the experiences of trans people with medical interventions, but this film explores the issue of hormones in more depth in an honest, bold and vulnerable way.

4. Monsieur, Thomas Ducastel, France, 2019, 23 min.

Georgie and Stan are two friends living in a small town in northern France. Georgie dreams of being in the spotlight while Stan wants to be a filmmaker. When Georgie finds out that his idol is going to the "Mister Northern France" pageant, Stan, the event videographer, helps him enter the pageant. As they prepare for the event, hidden tensions break out between the two friends.

🎤 There will be a discussion after the film screening in English. Meet the participants:

Alvar Ameljushenko

Regular CIS gay, big, hairy, overweight, way empathic, late sexual bloomer, half of life closeted, half of life out, married and partnered, often just tired of any and every hate, circumstantially activist - head of Tallinn Bearty, the best little festival of #bearculture in the world

Shana Myara

Shana Myara is an award-winning writer, curator, festival director and community arts programmer who has cultivated arts and dialogue for social change for over 20 years. Her short story collection is forthcoming from Biblioasis.

Isak Kohaly

Isak Kohaly was born in Padua, Italy from Israeli and Iranian parents - and moved to Tel Aviv, Israel to pursue his dream as a filmmaker.

Isak attended the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television in Tel Aviv.

His greatest sources of inspiration come from his identity as a gay man of multicultural background, and the topic of mental health, explored in his latest short film, "Complicated". Isak is currently working on an idea for a tv show, a new short film and a feature film version of “Complicated”.

Jana Levitina

Jana Levitina is an editor of the Russian-language section in Feministeerium. She is a Rustonian (i.e. Russian-Estonian speaking) feminist who fights for feminitives in Russian and tries to spread feminist ideas and empower gender minorities.

Jana has created a feminist online community of Russian-speaking women living in Estonia.