Dust off your VHS players and pull out your neon leotards for these retro (not hetero) sci-fi superpower shorts that will zap you into a library love story and zoom you into a colonial philosopher’s kinks. Let’s be real, not everything was better in the 80s but the decade gave us the best in campy lo-fi special effects and these shorts take us back to that vibe and take us forwards into a superpowered superqueered superfuture. If there’s one thing we know it’s that, whether it’s ocean-hopping cannibals, crime-fighting trans witches in 2050s Rio or a camp for kung fu masters, everything looks better with some neon and a few overworked smoke machines.
Telepathic encounters (Encontros Telepáticos) | dir. Henfil | 2025 | Brazil | 5’
Wild Fruits | dir. Bernardo Zanotta | 2024 | Netherlands | 35’
If I’m Here It is By Mystery (Se Eu Tô Aqui é Por Mistério) | Clari Ribeiro | 2024 | Brazil | 22’
THE MARTIAL FOREST | dir. J Triangular | 2025 | Colombia, Taiwan | 8’
CW: murder, transphobic violence, colonial violence, cannibalism
