In Ren Scateni’s “Grieving Tomorrows” programme at this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival, grief is framed as denied, fragmented, or fluid, and, most often, as a political act.

Expectations of masculinity permeate today’s visual culture, creating pressure and exclusion for all, as illustrated in Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur’s short film programme “He’s Got the Look”.

Among the shorts featured in “Tongues (Re)United”, a programme curated by Berlin-based Chinese filmmaker Popo Fan, Tianyu Jiang finds a shared concern with the power of language to question queer and migrant bodies.