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USN – Sardinia Queer Film Expo
USN Expo
Tuesday, 11 November 2025 until Saturday, 15 November 2025
USN – Sardinia Queer Film Expo 2024 is a short movies contest addressed to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer themed works, both released and unreleased ones. Contents can be artistically performed in all its possible meanings, interpretations and realities.
USN|Expo is fostered by ARC OdV, a cultural association from Cagliari, by ARCinema, a member of the Italian Federation of Cinema Societies, and by Students’ Association universitARC.
USN|Expo is born to promote LGBTQIA+ cinema, literature, and culture, on a local, national, and international level The organising Associations aim to raise awareness in society on sexual and romantic orientation, gender identity and on the need of equality in terms of civil rights, thanks to the universal language of art. In addition, through the Festival the Associations aim to enhance and promote young and independent movie productions, especially small ones, that are connected to queer culture; to promote dialogue and cultural exchange among productions of different countries; to offer the region of Sardinia and the city of Cagliari an opportunity to learn more about this still unknown movie niche.
The competition is exclusively dedicated to short films concerning LGBTQIA+ topics, that last no more than 25 minutes (opening and closing credits included).
Works of any genre and production will be accepted: documentary, fiction, classic and/or digital animation, videoclips, videoart.
Best Short Film Award, awarded by the Jury of USN|Festival: € 2,000.00
Audience Award: € 1000.00
Best Original Short Film that speaks about the LGBTQIA+ situation in Sardinia: € 500,00
Students Award: € 500,00
2025 films...
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION…
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
(Chheangkea, Cambogia/Francia/USA, 2025, 18’44’’)
High Diver
(Oscar Bittner, Germania, 2024, 4’58’’)
Just Kim
(Javier Prieto de Paula/Diego Herrero, Spagna, 2024, 20’)
The Blurring of Trees
(Fanny Perreault, Canada, 2024, 11’05’’)
Golden Fingers
(Chryssa Florou, Francia, 2024, 05’56’’)
People under Water
(Paul Galli, Germania, 2025, 18’)
A thing about Kashem
(Bijon Imtiaz, Bangladesh, 2025, 16’25’’)
Proximates
(Corn Baum, Germania, 2024, 15’17’’)
Pietra
(Cynthia Levitan, Portogallo, 2024, 13’08’’)
Hi Mom, It’s Me, Lou Lou
(Atakan Yilmaz, Turchia, 2024, 20’35’’)
Rage
(Jose Luís Lázaro, Spagna, 2025, 09’51’’)
Three
(Amie Song, Cina/USA, 2024, 15’09’’)
Angelo
(Helias Doulis, Grecia, 2024, 13’55’’)
Familiar
(Marco Novoa, Francia, 2024, 19’26’’)
Beicon
(Jose Montero, Spagna, 2024, 11’40’’)
The Root
(Isabel Sáez Pérez, Spagna, 2025, 07’59’’)
Julian and the Wind
(Connor Jessup, Canada, 2024, 15’29’’)
Shame
(Hadi Moussally, Libano, 2024, 04’27’’)
I Never Promised You a Jasmine Garden
(Teyama Alkamli, Canada, 2024, 20’26’’)
Teth
(Peter Darrney, Gran Bretagna, 2024, 14’39’’)
Hot Sheet Motel
(Alexandria Lane, USA, 2023, 11’ 59’’)
Dragfox
(Lisa Ott, Svizzera/Gran Bretagna, 2024, 8’)
Under the Glitter
(Paul Marques Duarte, Francia, 2025, 06’10’’)
Tamago
(Orso Miyakawa/Peter Miyakawa/Benjamin Miyakawa, Italia, 2025, 18’21’’)
Principessa2
(Alessandra Francesca Coratella, Italia, 2024, 6’40’’)
The exchange
(Amaia Yoldi, Spagna, 2023, 14’15’’)
Thin Lines
(Mickael Yip, Francia, 2025, 11’43’’)
Someone Special
(Alice Gervat, Francia, 2024, 07’28’’)
FEATURE FILMS…
Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch
with Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindsay, Denise Crosby
(USA, 1985, 96′)
Sex
by Dag Johan Haugerud
with Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen
(Norway, 2024, 118′ – sub. ita.)
OUT OF COMPETITION…
Blood Like Water by Dima Hamdan
(Palestine, 2023, 23’)
Amida
(Majid Mirhashemi, Iran, 2025, 25’58’’)
The Situation
(Davood Vandadeh, Iran, 2024, 14’57’’)
The Ellipsis Figure
(Saeed Heshmati, Iran, 2024, 15’)
Ralchemy
(Geneva Giuliacci, Italy, 2024, 18’30’’)
I don't forget
(Antonello Murgia, Italy, 2025, 13’21’’)
My Senses Are All I Have to Offer
(Isadora Neves Marques, Portugal, 2024, 20’51’’)
My Personal U
(Rafael Giner Sánchez and Alex Cuellar, Spain, 2025, 15’39’’)
Two Or Three Things Before I Go
(Guillaume Le Pape, France, 2025, 13/11’)
Water
(Valerio Montemurro, Italy, 2024, 18’56’