Descriptions:
Get ready for OML Lesbian Short Film Festival Vol 2! 🌟✨ Check out an amazing showcase of creativity and storytelling as talented filmmakers present their short films. 🎞️🍿
Featuring the films: “OPEN WATER SWIMMER” directed by Margaret Donahoe, “Bes” directed by Ayla Çekin Satijn,”I Love Her” directed by Darya Perelay, and “ARRIVEDERCI ROSA” directed by Flaminia Graziadei.
OPEN WATER SWIMMER
Year of production: 2015
Total running time: 22: 32 min
SYNOPSIS
Jana and Kristin have just completed their acting studies. They don’t like each other but they have to travel together to an audition at a theatre in Munich. During the short journey, things don’t go exactly as planned. Thrown into the real world, they both
realize they’re in the same boat and rediscover each other. They become friends- maybe even more –
and right at that moment, they are separated from each other.
Production Company: Caroline Whalen
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions
CAST
Maggie…Abby Weisbrot
Julia…Tori Devine
MAIN CREDITS
Director: Margaret Donahoe
Beş
Running Time: 7 min
Year of production: 2021
SYNOPSIS
Asli, a young, Turkish, lesbian woman, returns to the village where she was born to attend the henna-party of her childhood friend. She fears not being accepted, but when she sees her old friends again, she comes to realize that she herself has the biggest prejudice.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Production Company: KeyFilm
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions
CAST
ASLI : Zehra Göktas
IZEL: Deniz Campinar
MAIN CREDITS
Director: Ayla Çekin Satijn
I Love Her
This movie is about two girls who both feel lonely living in the big
city. One of them is a street musician who comes to play every day
in the same place. And there, on the street, among the thousands of
passer-bys, a girl comes to her attention whom she soon falls in
love with.
Film Credits
Musician Girl – Natalie Adequate
Deaf-mute Girl – Frau Hanna
Director of Photography – Sergey Marinchak
Director & Screenwriter – Darya Perelay
Total running time: 3:39
ARRIVEDERCI ROSA
Running Time: 17 mins
Year of production: 2015
SYNOPSIS
Andy is gay, Rosa isn’t. School and college friends from Rome, Andi loves Rosa in all her beauty and life-force. When Rosa arrives in London for the week end to visit her friend, Andi, remembering the many nights she sat wallflower- like in straight clubs accompanying Rosa, decides her old friend owes her one and asks her to come with her to a Gay Speed Dating Night. But, even without a word of English, Rosa proves she is Queen of the Lesbian scene, while Andi bores her dates with her academic take on life, and ends up alone again. As she looks in frustration and awe, she realises that it is not her impossible crush on her friend which is ruining her chance of love and if she can accept who she is, she may find that being herself could bring unexpected rewards.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Production Company: LonRom Film Production Ltd
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions
CAST
MAIN CREDITS
Director: Flaminia Graziadei
Screenwriter: Caroline Burns Cooke