"Different kinds of love are revealed in all their beauty and complexity in this programme, which is not only for romantics, but for them too. Through a variety of expressions, the filmmakers explore passion, longing, open relationships and questions of identity with verve, and remind us that love can be many different things." - Mantė Valiūnaitė, competition programme organiser. FILMS: Pigeons are dying, when the city is on fire Directed by. Stavros Markoulakis / fiction / Greece, Netherlands / 2023 / 21 min. On the hottest day of the year, two guys meet. A few hours later, a pigeon flies into their apartment and can't fly away. In this heat wave, everyone dreams of escaping the sweltering city. Dreams Like Paper Boats Dir. Samuel Suffren / Feature / Haiti / 2024 / 19 min. Eduardo lives in Port-au-Prince with his daughter Zara. After his wife left, they have received only one cassette from her in five years. What to expect from long-distance love after such a long time? Shoes and Hooves Dir. Viktoria Traub / animation / Hungary / 2024 / 15 min. Paula, a centaur who works as a chiropodist in a small town, dreams of having human feet. She meets and falls in love at first sight with Arnold, a human crocodile. Will Paula dare to take the first steps towards her own identity? What will be the price of her struggle to fit in and suppress her true self? Looking she said I forget Dir. Naomi Pacifique / fiction / Netherlands, Switzerland / 2024 / 25 min. Lu, who has recently moved to Amsterdam, is furnishing the apartment where she will live with her partner Joel. However, he is currently travelling with his other lover. Faced with the complexities of a non-monogamous relationship, Lu turns her attention to the rhythms of her new city. You can't get what you want but you can get me Dir. Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh / documentary / Netherlands, Finland / 2024 / 13 min. Transgender artist couple, Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh, have created a sincere and racy ode to their mad love from moments captured in photographs over the years: their first kiss, meeting their parents, virtual sharing of seductive photos, a beach wedding, a sex-change operation, recovering from the surgery and so on.