Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Babystar
  • Hola Frida
  • American Schemers
  • Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically
  • Life Inside Me (A)
  • Love Me Tender
  • Doin' It
  • Thirty Years with the Whip
  • Nest (The)
  • Flat Girls
  • Fréwaka
  • See You
  • Compulsion
  • Inside Amir
  • Peter Hujar's Day
  • Captive (The)
  • Constantinopoliad
  • Weapons
  • Follies
  • I Have Never Been on an Airplane
  • Nova 78'
  • Alexina B. Composing Lives
  • Long Road to the Director's Chair (The)
  • Griffin in Summer
  • Girls & Boys
  • Premiere (The)
  • Unforgivable
  • Wayward
  • Cutaways
  • My Sunnyside
  • Brigitte’s Planet B
  • How Far Does The Dark Go?
  • Brief History of the LGBT+ Press in Brazil (A)
  • Internal Comms
  • Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos
  • Mothers, Lovers and Others
  • Labyrinth of Lost Boys
  • Gunyo Cholo: The Dress
  • Days of August

Upon Her Lips: Butterflies

Country: Italy, Israel, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Language: German, English, Arabic, French, Italian, 92 mins

  • Director: Margot Gallimard, Julia Ritschel, Abbe Robinson, Samira Saraya, Asli Umut
  • Writer: Julia Ritschel, Asli Umut
  • Producer: Eli Laszlo Berger Eli Berger, Sari Ezouz-Berger, Verena Gräfe-Höft, Charles Philippe, Lucile Ric

CGiii Comment

That feeling of apprehension, of doubt - the sensation of butterflies before taking the plunge. Five women and the objects of their affection face up to their futures in these thoroughly modern tales of lesbian love.

Polygraph

20m

An Arab nurse finds out that her lover, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army, has been reporting on their relationship.

** Dir. Samira Saraya **

Feedback

30m

When Maude suddenly loses her hearing, she and her girlfriend Clothilde must face a new reality.

** Dir. Margot Gallimard **

The Cricket and the Ant

15m

Student Lena is engaged in a passionate affair with her French teacher, Katharina. How long can they keep it a secret?

** Dir. Julia Ritschel **

We Were Waves Once

16m

Struggling writer Cocteau meets young and wild neighbour Alicia, who just might be the inspiration she needs.

** Dir. Asli Umut **

The Girl and the Gondola

12m

Young Carla dreams of becoming a gondolier, however her chances of becoming one are slim. That is until she meets Natalia.

** Dir. Abbe Robinson **


Trailer...

Cast & Characters

Chereen Buckley (as Cocteau)
Alexandra Cismondi (as Clothilde)
Tabita Johannes (as Katharina)
Eva Nürnberg (as Josefine)
Salomé Richard (as Maude)
Deanna Rodger (as Alicia)
Samira Saraya (as Yasmine)
Elisa Schlott (as Lena)
Hadas Yaron (as Or)
Fidaa Zidan (as Jehan)