Screening Curated by Tampere Film Festival as Part of the Manse Pride 2024 Event

The programme of the Manse Pride 2024 event week will feature the short film screening TFF GOES MANSE PRIDE: RESISTANCE, curated by the Tampere Film Festival. The screening will be shown on Thursday 13 June at 7 p.m. at Arthouse Cinema Niagara.

The main theme of the screening is resistance, and a total of four short films will be shown in the screening. The screening will feature, for example, films that participated in the Tampere Film Festival 2024 International Competition. The films shown are Bolero (France, 2023) by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, L’Esquisse (France, 2023) by Tomas Cali, Nuits blanches (France, 2023) by Donatienne Berthereau and Leila (Sweden, 2023) by Fariba Haidari.

Tickets for the screening can be purchased on Niagara’s website or at the box office. All Manse Pride screenings shown at Arthouse Cinema Niagara can also be found on Niagara’s website.

Manse Pride is a week of events organised by Sinuiksi ry, which will be held this year for the 10th time 10–16 June. Read more about the event on Manse Pride’s website.

TFF GOES MANSE PRIDE: RESISTANCE

Thu 13.6. | At 7 p.m. | 76 min | Arthouse Cinema Niagara

TICKETS 10 € / Sinuiksi ry members 8 € (at Arthouse Cinema Niagara)
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All films are screened with English subtitles.

BOLERO
Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
France | 2023 | Fiction | 17 min

Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Bolero, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyfully chaotic climax.

L’ESQUISSE / THE SKETCH
Tomas Cali
France | 2023 | Documentary | 9 min

Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist’s studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.

NUITS BLANCHES / SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Donatienne Berthereau
France | 2023 | Fiction | 25 min

Paris, April 2022. Between the two rounds of the French presidential election, Solène, a waitress in a bar, gets lost in sleepless nights. 

LEILA
Fariba Haidari
Sweden | 2023 | Documentary | 25 min

Poignant and touching slices of Leila’s life, a charming 64-year-old transgender woman who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.