“From The Bottom of The Vortex” is a 2016 LGBT+ short film about the difficulty of sharing feelings, particularly when they don’t conform with a common idea of “normality”, written and directed by Kozue Nomoto.

From The Bottom of The Vortex is streaming on TodoiF

Kiko (Sayaka Hashimoto) is in love with her best friend Rii (Izumi Okamura). We see her at the opening of the film, observing tenderly her friend asleep and maybe meditating about revealing her feelings to her. However, Rii is the first to admit she has something to confess; she has been seeing someone and they have just moved in a flat together. Kiko, barely manages to look happy for her friend, but when Rii leaves, she breaks down and decides not to see her again. Driven by desperation, she even tries to seduce her sleezy neighbour, aka “the call girl guy”, in an attempt to...