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French Institute
6/7
00.30pm
In the presence
of Miguel Bosch
and Judith Colell.
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Title
DIVERSITY IN SHORT
Direction
Several
Country
Spain




Cast
Several
Production
Several
Genre
Several
Duration
Several
Year
2016
Festivals
First showing in FIRE!!
SHORTS: DIVERSITY IN SHORT
Diversidad en corto
Through the Department for the Life Cycle, Feminism and LGBTI, Barcelona City Council commissioned five directors, both emerging and well-known, to produce short films on the theme of affective diversity. This initiative, which produced both fictional and documentary films, was aimed, not only at palliating the scarcity of audio-visual material available to primary and secondary schools, but also at general distribution, contributing to building a better social understanding of what it means to be gay, lesbian or transgender or to live in same-sex parental families.

From Isabel Coixet and Isaki Lacuesta, who both take a transversal approach to the theme, to Judith Colell (transsexuality amongst young people), Carla Subirana (female same-sex parents) and Miguel Bosch (male homosexuality), all these shorts share a single goal: to improve living conditions amongst the LGBT community and, particularly, to increase understanding and foster discussion of these concepts at early stages in life.


María’s mother is preparing her 12-birthday party. Meanwhile, María walks around and doesn’t want to come back home.

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Jupiter and Mars are bright planets. They are closer than the stars, so when we look at them they don’t twinkle. They emit a firm and constant light, as do Josep and Bruna when talking about their family, consisting of two mothers.

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Sergio is a boy-penguin. He was born that way. He thought he was the only one, that he would never meet someone like himself, but then he moves to the big city, where he meets Macaroni!