What's there to do, when you're no longer bleu? When Pat loses out on their dream role, they find it increasingly hard to break out of character. Director bio: Haiba Khan's debut short film "I Hate Birthdays!", which she wrote, directed and produced, won the festival prize for best narrative short film at the New York Short Film Festival in 2024. The film was programmed with GIRLSINFILM and is available online. She recently starred in Michelle Uranowitz and Daniel Jaffe’s film, ‘Clarities’, that premiered at Slamdance in 2026.

Bleu

What's there to do, when you're no longer bleu? When Pat loses out on their dream role, they find it increasingly hard to break out of character.

A psychedelic queer fever dream in the tradition of Kenneth Anger and early experimental cinema.&nbsp; Traversing the psychedelic wonderings of magnetic cult leader Rowen, the film creates its own language of experimentation by blending tactile digital textures with makeup, projections, and animation to create a pastel-soaked world that completely envelopes the senses and rewrites the rules of our reality. Guided through this fairytale by enigmatic Promise (voiced by John Cameron Mitchell) this is a directorial debut unlike any other. Director Alice Voena bravely and serenely paints a new landscape for exploring identity, gender, religion, and the liminal space where they all meet. -LD Director bio:Alice Voena is a trans filmmaker and multifaceted artist based in New York City. Cutting her teeth as John Cameron Mitchell's tour manager, Alice has been an active member of the underground NYC drag scene. Alice's art questions the absurdity of life and focuses on the connection that people hold with identity, mortality, and one's own body. "Heaven Above Rowen" is Alice's first feature film.

Heaven Above Rowen

Under the influence of experimental smokable medication, Rowen Amadeus Camor (Alice Voena) is a queer cult leader consumed by psychedelic visions. After forming the Church of Avalon through the guidance of Promise (John Cameron Mitchell), a hallucinated deity, Rowen faces a slow mental breakdown as they search for identity and meaning the day before a prophesied religious doomsday.

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Bleu + Heaven Above Rowen

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