A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.
Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.
A café in the north of Brussels. Days are punctuated by the songs that the customers sing at all hours, to amuse themselves, to remember or to pass the time. Those songs transform the place little by little, making the film a strange musical.
Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained via Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?
Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, “Afterwards” creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence
“Homunculus” displays the wandering of a man in quest for other men. He will realize along his travel that people see him as an “Arab”, some ambiguous, virile and powerful entity both celebrated by white gay males, and hated by French police forces.