… I Am Michelle Michelle, a 20-year-old transgender girl, lives in Kyiv, Ukraine, and dreams of becoming a model. Though popular on social media, she is often overcome with loneliness. She returns to her birthplace, a small village in Western Ukraine, to visit …

… The performative film ‘With Love, Koptev’ follows the avant-garde work of a couturier who left occupied Luhansk. The film ‘Black Dog’, filled with urban poetry, leads to a conversation about protecting the LGBTQIA+ community from violence. In ‘I am Michelle’, we see a traditional Galician family almost accepting their transgender daughter. A special film in the collection is the short film ‘I Have a Friend’, which immerses us in the atmosphere of the Ukrainian queer scene in Kyiv in the late …