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          March 19 – 30, 2025

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              Birthdays

              Adrian Jalily / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere / 19 min

              A short hybrid film about Bruno who doesn't get invited to birthday parties with either the boys or the girls in his class.

              Bruno doesn’t get invited to any of the birthday parties in 2nd grade. Bruno is not really ‘one of the boys’ and he will never really be a girl either. When Bruno’s Iranian father Marlon picks him up from school, Bruno tells him about the lack of invitations. Although Bruno doesn’t want to upset or hurt his parents, the three of them enter a new and unfamiliar landscape that they must learn to navigate together. Adrian Jalily has directed a semi-autobiographical film with an impressionistic lightness of form that moves effortlessly between documentary realism and staging, but which speaks with great empathy on difficult topics such as childhood, gender and identity.