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The Other Database...

We do strive to include every film that has been screened at the LGBT film festivals around the world.

Life does become a little more difficult when they [the films] don’t have an IMDb entry...therefore, they end up here...films in dire need of publicity/promotion/marketing...

2017 - UPDATED: May 2024

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Untitled & Unlabeled Terry Jones
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Terry Jones

2017

Turtle Island / 3 mins
In this very personal experimental work, director Terry Jones reflects upon the moment he was told he was 'different' and how that left an imprint on the narrative of his life.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/254138440

¿Derechos iguales?

Fundación Triángulo Extremadura

2017

Spain / 55 mins
Sobre las condiciones de vida que lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales de África y América Latina viven en sus Países. Aborda temáticas como la violencia y discriminación en el trabajo, en los servicios de sanidad y en la educación que estos colectivos sufren en esos países del mundo.
Watch… https://youtu.be/U69TG25TX98

16mm Scratchings

Tama Tk Sharman-Favell

2017

Australia / 2 min
Scratchings on 16mm film stock.

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Tyler Ham Pong

2017

USA/ 4 mins / Music Video
A queer themed music about a broken love story.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/209128941

2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com

Thirza Cuthand

2017

Canada / 5 mins
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN 'lavalife" lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand), 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit "snagging and shacking up" with suggestions of nearby pipeline protests to take your date to, and helpful elders who will matchmake you and tell off disrespectful suitors. It's the culturally appropriate website all single 2 Spirit people wish existed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/215438778

3guzica Intro

Marina Mutak

2017

Croatia / 56 mins
Three little characters are in search of a planet more suitable for their wishes. May the gods save them on the miraculous journey!

52 Hertz

Xuetong Zhao

2017

China / 15 mins
The sound wave frequency of the average whale is 15 to 20 hertz, but one-of-a-kind whale, Alice, has a frequency of 52 hertz. With no response, she has been called the loneliest whale in the world. Qian Li, a young Chinese gay guy, seeks to find Alice. This is a story about love, differences in culture, freedom and loneliness.

A Boy Named Skye
A Boy Named Skye

Jimmy Elinski

2017

USA / 5 mins
Through the world of online dating, Skye tries to find a relationship. Downhearted by his failed attempts at love, he might find what he’s looking for when he least expects it.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/247395128

A Lesson in Love

Darcy Long

2017

USA / 5 mins
Bud and Don have shared 41 years of love and gratitude in the wake of gay liberation and the AIDS epidemic. Take a moment to listen to the story of Ben, Don's first partner, who succumbed to AIDS in 1995.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/209217516

A Letter To The Person I Met On Tindre
A Letter to the Person I Have Met on Tinder

James Allen Fajardo

2017

Philippines / 5 mins
The film is about the filmmaker’s experience of meeting a stranger he matched with on Tinder.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/262501633

À Luz do Dia

Elaine Coutrin

2017

Brasil
Pelas ruas de São Paulo, o documentário aborda as dificuldades enfrentadas por diversas travestis e transexuais na busca por um emprego formal no mercado de trabalho. Com experiências, idades, formações, carreiras e histórias de vida completamente diferentes, todas têm o mesmo problema: a falta de oportunidades.
Watch… https://youtu.be/5lHXE2QOQ-0

A Melhor Amiga Da Noiva
A Melhor Amiga da Noiva 

Felipe Camara,
Maria Melo

2017

Brazil
Juliana e Fernanda são melhores amigas, entretanto sentem despertar algo mais forte do que a amizade. Para enfrentar o medo de assumir o que sentem, encontram no amigo Daniel a torcida e ajuda necessárias para viverem este sentimento.

A Moment in My Cosmic Narrative

Nicole Cyrus

2017

UK / 11 minute
A docu-fiction essay film, centred around the themes of women mental health. With in the film interview segments are used to position media representation of womens mental health in a wider cultural context, where as the fictional segments use poetry to allow the protagonists to explore her relationships to growth and acceptance.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/221209675

A Partida

Fábio Bernardo

2017

Portugal / 15 mins
A couple is on verge of breaking up, due to one of the partners is going abroad.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/199548643

A Permanent Part of Me

Geoffroy Dedenis

2017

France / 3 mins
Violence and sex when it gets out of hand. An experimental short based on interviews with notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

A Story About A Bear Who Wanted To Be A Horse
A Story About a Bear Who Wanted to be a Horse

Calvin Brett

2017

Canada / 3:18 mins
A transformative travel story: a young boy tells an animation artist about the bear who wanted to be a horse.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/229929549

About Wedding

Park In-Hee

2017

South Korea / 24 mins
30-year-old Eun-ho goes to Gold Mary Wedding Studio to help her friend Ye-jin with her wedding photo shoot. Seeing Ye-jin’s fancy gowns and her rich fiancé, Eun-ho cannot help but think about her relationship with her penniless boyfriend. But the engagement between Ye-jin and her fiance is not what it seems.

Absent Wound

Maryam Tafakory

2017

Iran, UK  / 10 mins
The rituals of Persian warrior training, is seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Io63_gZIrqs

Achilles in the Forest of Gaia

Lou Lou Sainsbury

2017

UK / 9 mins
In which the ankle oozes menstrual blood, slowly decomposing and recomposing in a slow meditation.

Adaminaby or Marginalian Capital Territory

Kermie Breydon

2017

Australia / 5 mins
An exploration of the Australia Capital Territory as layers of shifting emphasis, animated in highlighter across reclaimed poetry collections.

Afecto Tóxico

Maria Flores

2017

Spain / 6 mins
Nuria desconoce que su vida está a punto de dar un giro sobrecogedor, al confiar en una desconocida.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/ZrPVZKgrgP8

Aguas templadas

Viktoria Martín

2017

Argentina / 5 mins
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/359324549

Ahmed e Itzhak

Manuel Aranda Martinez

 

Spain / 24 mins
Cuando dos pueblos hacen la guerra, en un pequeno punto de luz visto desde la estratosfera de esas dos zonas en conflicto dos personas de diferentes bandos hacen el amor.

Al mismo son

Gian Carlos Toledo

2017

Spain / 5 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/b3A16-TkTiM

Alcobas Blancas

Gabriel Moran

2017

Spain / 3 mins
Gestos, movimentos e ações que permitem dar o valor de cada uma das palavras do poema "Busco Tu Piel Inconfesable" de Antonio Gamoneda. Um piscar de olhos pode definir tudo.

Alexia Leon LandazuriAlexia

León Landázuri

2017

México / 4 mins
ALEXIA has had a difficult life, between dreams of princess, taunts, discrimination and violence. Now she is ready for the performance of her life.
Alexia ha tenido una vida difícil, entre sueños de princesa, burlas, discriminación y violencia. Ahora está lista para el desempeño de su vida.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/231414282

Alfredo Daloisio In Arte E In Politica
Alfredo D’aloisio, In Arte (E In Politica) Cohen

Enrico Salvatori,
Andrea Meroni
with Eugenio Di Corinto

2017

Italy / 50 mins
The film chronicles the life of Alfredo “Cohen” D’Aloisio (1942 – 2014): literature teacher, pioneer of LGBT movement in Italy, openly gay, showman, actor and singer with the ambition to transform his dialect into a language.

Alien

Julian Quentin

2017

Switzerland / 3 mins
A story of liberation between self-destruction and self-realization.
Watch... https://youtu.be/YOUpnTZjlbc

Allergies

Kirrilee Bailey

2017

Australia / 5 mins
Catt breaks out in a rash and thinks she might have become allergic to her long-term partner.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/231175592

Alone Together

Mitko Karakolev

2016

UK / 2 mins
The city stands as a silent witness to both happiness and tragedy as well as to the passing of time; it acts as a container of the various emotions experienced by its inhabitants. What would happen if this collective energy somehow becomes embedded in the buildings, changing their form as a result? What sort of stories would the city be able to tell?

Always Love

Brenna Perez

2017

USA / Web Series
In celebration of Pride, "Always Love" is a three-part documentary series by WeWork profiling New York-based LGBTQI creators.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/226002056 & https://vimeo.com/223636928

American Folk 

Matthew Lax

2017

USA / 24 mins
A movie of file images without file images. A study in aphorisms: Tropics sad, Elian Gonzalez, Master paintings without attribution, artifacts mal-atribuídos throughout the history of denim. Trying to understand the creation and collapse of culture through specific objects and stories presented in narrative form; Signs, myths and legacy are questioned and reviewed.

Amnésie

Yvan Megal

2017

Belgium / 4 mins
Two people in a restaurant move to a quiet room to talk. Though they have been talking to each other during the evening, one can't remember the name of the other one.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/215242442

An All-Nighter

Etai Sharabi

2017

Israel / 8 min
Two good friends are forced to spend the night locked in their cinema classroom. In the intimate quiet of the night the truth cannot remain hidden.

An Extension of You

Nelly Matorina,
Xiaoxuan Huang

2017

Canada / 4 mins
An extension of you is a short film that looks at what it means to be separated from the one(s) you love by distance and a generation’s worth of years.

Angela

Steve Adams,
Sean Horlor

2017

Canada / 12 min
This short documentary explores a week in the life of Angela—a roller derby athlete and transgender rights activist in Alberta, Canada. As a jammer for the Calgary All-Stars team, she skates under the name Easy Break Oven and is a role model in the local derby community. She also coaches kids from the small-towns surrounding the city, which is one of the most conservative and religious parts of the country. While preparing for her first derby match of the season, she begins to see her teammates and her life in a new light.

Angels PremonitionBranislav Princip
Angel's Premonition /
Slutnja anđela

Branislav Princip

2017

Serbia / 26 mins
Film “Slušnja anđela” je uspomena i sećanje na Dejana Nebrigića, srpskog gej i mirovnog aktivistu, pisca i pozorišnog kritičara. Jedan je od osnivača LGBT pokreta u Srbiji, jedan od najistaknutijih aktivista i prvi gej u Srbiji koji je imao javni coming out.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/4aCWy8EtWoc

Ankahee

Sreejoni Nag

2017

India / 6 mins

Another Matter Baska Mevzu
Another Matter /
Başka Mevzu

Bahar Kılıç Adilçe,
Hulusi Nusih Tütüncü

2017

Turkey / 12 mins
Civan was born as an intersex-person, yet her mother forced her to live her life as a son. After her mother dies, Civan is on the verge of breaking free from this identity and to start a new life as a woman.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/223330999

Anya Kneez - A Queen in Beirut

Mohamad Abdouni

2017

Lebanon / 10 mins
Anya Kneez is an Arab Drag Queen who left Brooklyn in the Summer of 2012, after 23 years in America, and moved back home to live with her parents in Beirut, Lebanon. Five years later, at 28, Anya still struggles with the values of a Middle Eastern society that remains unable to accommodate her lifestyle. The short form documentary offers a glimpse into the life of the boy who brought Drag from the slums of Brooklyn to the clubs of Beirut.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/224114015

Aquilo Que Me Olha
Aquilo que me olha

Felippy Damian

2017

Brasil / 25 mins
Vocalista metalhead transexual, Belladona está empenhada em acertar seu cotidiano. Entre impulsos e ritos, sente seus dias degringolarem encontrando pessoas de seu passado.  Em episódios de delírios ou absurdos reais, ela irá projetar suas inquietações.

Ardhanariswar

Sankhajit Biswas

2017

India / 26 mins
In 2015, the transgender community of Kolkata organize India’s first community Durga Puja with support from a local club Udyami Yubak Brinda. In an effort to manifest their identity the community adopt an Ardhanriswar form of the Durga idol, that represents both the masculine and feminine principles in one body. However, a year later the club refuses to accept the Ardhanriswar idol. After repeated attempts at reconciliation, talks fall through at the last stage and the search for a new collaboration begins.

Are You A Gay Stereotype?

Michael Henry

2017

USA / 2 mins
Youtube video on whether or not you're a gay stereotype and if that is even a bad thing or not.
Watch… https://youtu.be/KbbBbuR6bJA

Arturo Rhodes

Lola Maraver

2017

UK / 13 mins
Documentary Short Film about the artist Arturo Rhodes.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/185658117

Ascolta I Tuoi Occhi
Ascolta i tuoi occhi

Marcello Padretti

2017

Italy / 5 mins
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/242231678

Asexual

Oli Isaac Smith

2017

UK / 20 mins
This short documentary explains what it means to identify as asexual. The film does not define nor generalize the notion of asexuality in the nowadays world but discuss the wide range of interpretations and life styles those who indentify as asexual choose. Topics from aromanticism to grey areas are discussed. The questions of how being an Ace effects one’s sexual life and how asexuals suffer bullying and oppressing even within the LBGT+ communities are going to be answered.

Ashen River of Remembrance / Kulay abo ang llog ng Gunita

Ronaldo S Vivo, Jr.

2017

Philippines / 15 mins
The year is 1579. The Spanish colonization of the Philippines is in its infancy. Somewhere in a small village in the province of Cagayan, the townsfolk believe a young lady named Pinang is being possessed by an evil spirit. Pinang’s parents have unwavering faith that Father Vacion’s rituals will cure their daughter. Soleng, Pinang’s dear friend, thinks otherwise.

Aunty Elfi makes a visit /
Besuch von Tante Elfi

Moana Bauer

2017

Germany / 23 mins
Sonja has just moved in with her girlfriend Michi but Michi already invited her rich aunt to visit, planning to tap the old lady for some money. It’s of course Sonja who has to take care of Elfi. Both women clearly don’t get along from the start. They get into a serious argument and Aunt Elfi suddenly faints on the kitchen floor. Sonja panics and calls her friend Katrin for help. Katrin is distracted by motionless Elfi’s striking resemblance to French actress Catherine Deneuve and gets herself and Sonja locked out of the apartment. Only quite-possibly-dead Elfi and a very hungry cat are inside…
Watch… https://vimeo.com/245096168

Awaker Prebudzac
Awaker /
Prebúdzač

Filip Diviak

2017

Czech Republic / 10 mins
Short animated story set in a cold nordic country happening in the beginning of the 19th century. The story is about the stereotypical life of old man who is working as an awaker, man waking up people. His life is still the same, until the day he gets an old shiny bell.
Watch… https://filmfreeway.com/diviak_awaker

Azúcar

Luna Merbruja

2017

Israel / 9:30 mins
Trailer… https://youtu.be/DC9jDP2a52E

Bad Conchas

Nance Messineo,
Cole Santiago

2017

USA / 15 mins
A queer dyke living in Echo Park hustles to make ends meet while hooking up with as many girls as possible.

Balanceia Juraci Junior
Balanceia

Juraci Júnior,
Thiago Oliveira

2017

Brazil / 7:40 mins
Uma sessão de cinema em Parintins promete emocionar a plateia, no próximo sábado, dia 27 de janeiro. O filme exibido será “Balanceia”, de Juraci Júnior e Thiago Oliveira, que mostra a viagem de um turista à ilha tupinambarana, em pleno festival folclórico. As memórias sobre a festa pedem espaço na mente do personagem, durante a viagem de volta no barco sobre as águas barrentas do Rio Amazonas. Além do peito pulsar com as lembranças dos Bois o protagonista se impressiona com ribeirinhos que desafiam as águas e comovem os viajantes.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Gcl6vd4xvNM

Be My Guest

Thitipan Raksasat

2017

Thailand / 8 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/sP6wvklY67Q

Beauty Building 

Benoît Bargeton

2017

France / 6 mins
lise is a young graphic designer employed in a photomontage agency.
Her time is spent reshaping the appearence of models on the covers of magazines such as COSMOPOLITAN, and presenting the seniors to appear about fifteen years younger for insurance purposes.
She does not get a lot of job satisfaction and meanwhile, her boss is giving her a new task,- to reshape her own body on the updated agency contacts page.
Then her mind goes from self doubt to awareness.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/162748149

Becoming Pauline

Thanut Singhasuvich

2017

Thailand / 1 min
At the age of 49, Pinit decided to come over his lifelong fear, and abandon his whole life identity, to become ‘Pauline’.

Before the World Was Big

Dylan Lalanne-Perkins

2017

USA / 6 mins
In a post-wisdom tooth extract haze, a trans teenager learns of the recent hospitalization of his best friend. He looks back on their years of friendship — documented through voice mail messages, childhood videos, and muddled memories — and wonders how he could have been so oblivious to her issues.
Watch... https://youtu.be/rrp03hVmie4

Before You Was Darkness

Michael (Mish) Rozanov

2017

Israel / 6 mins / Music Video
Workers at a factory, reduced to automatic work, wake up when one of them imagines a magical dancer moving freely in the halls of the factory. As passion and color take over, the oppressed are liberated through movement and music. A narrative music video for the song 'Before You was Darkness' by The Orvim Ensemble.

Being Myself

Ronnie Zidon

2017

Israel / 6 mins
Michael, a genderqueer artist, explores how to express their inner-self, when it doesn't match the outer one. 'Being Myself' deals with trans and queer self-expression and simple humanity

Being Single

Tom Craine

2017

USA / 10 mins
When Grandma Betty surprises Jimmy with a visit at his party, the closeted young man looks at why everyone at the party is single

Bendita Seja Feita A Tua Vontade
Bendita seja feita a tua vontade

Ed Borges,
Wilson Ricarte

2017

Brazil / 19 mins
É a história de uma jovem travesti que retorna à sua cidade natal no interior após perceber que Cândido, seu irmão mais novo, sofre sérias agressões de Tião, seu pai alcoólatra e homofóbico. Junto com a amiga Kátia, Bendita tenta pôr em prática um plano discreto para livrar Cândido dos abusos, porém o ambiente de violência e opressão se faz tão forte que o confronto direto com Tião é inevitável.

Sikkidre Shikaari
Bird Trapper or Beggar /
Sikkidre Shikaari, Ildidre Bhikaari

Vinod Raja

2017 

India
The film is a journey that perhaps began decades ago and has been many years in the making. The Hakki Pikkis are a free spirited nomadic tribe who began their wandering many generations ago in the North Western part of the Indian subcontinent.

Over time they traveled through and settled in different states of the country. As they moved, they survived through trapping birds and hunting small game in the forests and selling them in cities and towns along with lucky charms and trinkets. If the trap failed, begging was the next best bet!

Exiled from the forest, reviled by the city, their traditional ways of life outlawed, the Hakki Pikkis share their stories of wit and survival in the film that emerged through a series of community conversations held when we travelled with friends from a settlement in Bannerghatta, Bangalore to other settlements across Karnataka.

Black Is Me Elliot Blue
Black is Me

Elliot Blue

2017

4 mins
Black Is Me is a dance video staring Indigo Raÿn. It is a demonstration of empowerment concerning both identities, being transgender and being black; being unapologetically oneself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/230980615

Blackzilla: Transitioning at Our Own Pace

Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley

2017

14 mins
BLACKZILLA follows the transition of a Black Body in an environment that archives their existence. The cyborg BLACKZILLA descends from the sky to record Black Trans lives, creating a space that centres and supports them. Through music and animation they begin to choose how they want to transition within this new space.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/254791910

Blastogenese II

Conrad Veit,
Charlotte Maria Kätzl

2017

Germany / 3 mins
Blastogenesis II fantasize Evolution between science fiction images out from the 1950s and images of queer and bizarre experimental films. A film who shows creatures between human and animal, born out of a plant seed pouch in a setting of world end. It shows birthing, living and scoring like in nature documentaries , but with the aspect of drag, which brings up the question about fetishism and experimental porn. 
Watch… https://vimeo.com/223757720

Bleeding Hearts

Harshit Pachauri

2017

India / 13 mins
Shikha & Isha are lovers. Shikha is a professional Bharthanatyam dancer while Isha is a professional writer. Shikha is a girl who keeps her emotions and feelings intact while Isha wears her on her sleeve. Shikha‘s family pressurizes  her to get married. Fed up of the pressure Shikha decides to bow down to the families wish but she manages to find a middle path by arranging a marriage with a gay man. This goes against the understanding between the couple.

Blind Date Thorsten Homberger
Blind Date

Thorsten Homberger

2017

Germany / 6 mins
Two attractive young men are looking forward to their dates. But for one of them his date is going differently than planned.
Watch… https://youtu.be/L-zFkm52wFc

Blood for Blood

Jared Bolhuis

2017

USA / 8 mins
One act of hate. Orlando reacts with love as Stigma Tattoo Bar raises money after the Pulse shooting, and the community sheds blood for the victims whose blood was shed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/217347632

Blueness Blau
Blueness /
Bläue

Kerstin Schrödinger

2017

Italy, Switzerland, Germany, UK / 58 mins
Eine Dioxinwolke Hoffmann-La Roches vergiftet 1976 Seveso. Bläue ist das Labor, das die Verbindungen zwischen der historischen Katastrophe und der chemischen Gegenwart der Medien und der Körper untersucht – denn auch die Sprecherin heute ist voll Pharmazie, optimiert ihren Körper und Gefühle. Dazu kommt die Chemie der Medien, Gift und Heilmittel gleichzeitig: 1709 wird das Pigment „Berliner Blau“ erfunden, giftig als Cyanid, Gegenmittel bei Vergiftungen … Blau ist ein Hauptdarsteller von Schroedingers Film und seiner Projektionsflächen. Seid ihr bereit für eine nicht optimierte, nicht digitalgeglättete, roh-analoge Bildverschachtelungsinszenierung?

In 1976 the Hoffmann-La Roche dioxin cloud poisoned the air in Seveso. “Blueness” examines the links between the historical catastrophe and the chemical present of the media and the body, with Prussian blue toxic in the form of cyanide and at the same time an antidote for poison. Blue is the star of Kerstin Schroedinger’s non-polished blend of images.

Bob the Drag Queen Talks Sex

Brian Emerick

2017

USA /  9 mins
Bob the Drag Queen, RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE Season 8 Winner, discusses condom use, sexual health disparities for gay Latino and African-American men, slut shaming, and more!

Borderhole

Amber Bemak,
Nadia Granados

2017

Mexico, USA, Columbia/  14 mins
Borderhole takes place on a mythical border area between Colombia and the United States. We investigate the relationship between North and South America through the lens of the American Dream and the illumination of multiple tensions in and around the border. The piece explores imperialism, globalization through pop music, gender mutation in an international context, and the choreography of women’s bodies in relation to sociopolitical and ecosystems.

Both

Noa Astanjelove

2017

Israel / 15 min
Yishai is a teenager making his first steps in the world of drag. He faces challenges on his way, mainly the lack of approval by his parents. This is a story about passion and how difficult it is to make it come true.

Breaking Borders Fatima Warsame
Breaking Borders

Fatima Warsame,
Barbara Vollebregt

2017

Netherlands / 17 mins
Gay refugee Ibrahim Mokdad flees his home country Lebanon and becomes an lgbtqi+-activist in Germany.

Breaking Glam

Pavi Meiyappan

2017

Canada / 1:40 min
A bear cub creates online makeup tutorials.

Broken Promises

Hayley Repton

2017

UK / 6 mins | Music Video
Roxie has had a tough past struggling with alcoholism and anger issues. Her workaholic partner Beth has helped her change her ways, however Roxie still faces challenges every day. They endure an intense rollercoaster of a relationship
Watch... https://vimeo.com/196204372

Brthr Inma Veiga
Brthr

Inma Veiga

2017

Spain, Portugal / 8 mins
The first time I saw my brother I didn’t like him and told my mum to send him back; I didn’t want such an ugly baby at home. Seventeen years later, Brthr shows his transition from the end of adolescence to the beginning of adulthood. So, this is a film about the search of identity and self-acceptance, narrated with honesty, familial issues and complex affections that only siblings can offer.

Bubby & Them

Hazel Katz,
JeJae Daniels

2017

USA / 20 mins
Adoptive grandmother Bubby Razi provides a space of refuge and resilience for non-binary whirlwind Je’Jae.

Buffalo Girl /
Paskwâw Mostos Iskwêsis

Howard Adler,
Candy Renae Fox,
Leo Koziol


2017

Canada / 4 mins
Set in the backdrop of colonial violence and the extermination of the buffalo. The Genocide of the buffalo parallels the loss of Queer Indigenous and Two-Spirit knowledge. In this film a Buffalo Spirit transforms into an Nēhiyaw Iskwesis (a young Cree women), and a ghost like apparition sings Maori songs and underscores the links between colonialism on Indigenous peoples across the globe.

Busy Signal - Text Message

Eva Wo,
Ma Ya Ma Ya

2017

USA / 3 mins
Two women playfully dancing to Text Message by Busy Signal. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/Gl1CsAdfaLk

Butch

Mia Jagpal

2017

USA / 13 mins
S.D. Holman ist die Autorin und Fotografin hinter dem Buchprojekt Butch: Not Like Other Girls, in dem sie maskuline und gender-nonkonforme Frauen portraitiert. Die Dokumentation beleuchtet die Entstehung des Projektes und zeigt, wie bereichernd geschlechtliche Vielfalt sein kann.

By Night Anna Bridgforth
By Night

Anna Bridgforth

2017

USA / 5 mins
A teaser video introducing BY NIGHT, a narrative series of vignettes that tell the story of the many varied characters who live and work within the burlesque and cabaret nightlife community in New York City and the duality of their lives. Some embrace this dichotomy and some struggle with it, but all of them chose this world for a reason...
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/223799347

Ça Va

Charlie David

2017

Canada / 4 mins / music video
Music video featuring Marc Devigne and Charlie David from the miniseries “Shadowlands”. In the episode titled “Pygmalion Revisited”, Marc Devigne and Charlie David play a couple whose time together is cut short.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/232277898

Cacherotico

Lucas Kane

2017

USA
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/221097500

Cafe Midnight

Anastasia Venkova

2017

Russia
Watch… https://vimeo.com/292343920

Camel Toe Alexandra Barbosa
Camel Toe

Alexandra Barbosa

2017

Portugal / 11 mins
Bruno, a 26 year old man starts to enter the Drag culture in Oporto in 2015. Initially he's rejected multiple times in various show rooms for being "way too gay". After two years the name Camel Toe is now famous because of his excentric personality wich gives him a voice when it comes to the defence of all kinds of artistic expression and in the fight against prejudice. Camel Toe comes to chock, through his irreverence, the city of Oporto and to tell us the story of his life as a metaphore for the revenge of an whole comunity in the contemporary days.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/em8pMgrTslw

Cantando en las azoteas

Enric Ribes

2017

Spain / 5 mins
This is a tribute to an artist - considered the last drag queen in the final days of Barcelona’s “Barrio Chino” red light district – who continues to take to the stage every night at the age of 90. As his beloved poet Federico García Lorca wrote, in verse: The ladybirds of the South sing on the roofs! Gilda Love will also continue to do so.

Caricia David Montes Bernal
Caricia

David Montes Bernal

2017

Mexico / 20 mins
Caricia is a transgender hairdresser who, after overcoming various identity changes and a scarring relationship with a violent man, decides to go back to her hometown in Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero, to start her own business. La Paloma de París Paris¹s Dove) is a modest‹yet liberating‹beauty parlor, where other transgender women can feel at ease.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Gbzmwd2EbW4

Carlie & Doni – “Pussy Protector Spray Commercial”

Doni Carley,
Carlie Mantilla

2017

USA / 2 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/LX6BT7VLRiw

Carnada

Elías Romero Farias

2017

Chile / 20 mins
Un joven y solitario estudiante de teatro adicto al sexo vive solo en el centro de Santiago

Cavia

Coral Short

2017

Canada / 64 mins
Non binary, a gender, two spirit, genderqueer, gender fluid and gender nonconforming identities have always existed, but this program aims to give plenty more space to these communities. We wish to start a new cinematic language in order for us to expand and evolve. Gender clear is one of the first times audiences are seeing an entire bill around these identities. These fun and fearless artists celebrate romance, dance and fashion while exploring the complex struggles and joys of being genderqueer. Transformations and binaries are questioned and answered through radical self love and vivid creative expression.

Chahine

Simon Guélat

2017

France / 23:37 mins
In her small apartment in a Parisian suburb, Chahine throws together the rhythms that will accompany her on stage. This space is hers, and it is the only place where she feels safe. She visits the surrounding areas on Google Street View.

A woman born in the body of a man, she is reminded of her difference every day. And the difficulty of finding her place in the world here goes together with another question: to whom does the city belong?

Dans son petit appartement de la banlieue parisienne, Chahine travaille les sons qui l’accompagneront sur scène. Cet espace est le sien ; c’est le seul où elle se sent en sécurité. Dehors, la ville lui interdit de devenir la femme qu’elle veut être.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/WqA607g5UHU

Chicken. Egg

Evan Huang

2017

Taiwan / 29 mins
A man is numbed by being preached by his supervisor and his priest. He doesn't know if God exists in him. One day, a black-clothed man appears and starts to linger around him. The black-clothed man throws eggs at him as a ritual and makes him reborn in front of God. This film is both a fantasy and a mystery and presents the confusion of faith and sexuality.

Chinas Pride El Orgullo De China
China’s Pride /
El orgullo de China

Luis Martínez,
Ana Sánchez

2017

Spain / 46 mins
After living six years in China, two Spanish journalists decide, by their own means, to record a documentary about the situation of homosexuality in the Asian country.

Chosen Family Stories Of Queer ResilienceChosen Family:
Stories of Queer Resilience

Nathan Flanagan-Frankl,
Tyler Oakley

2017

USA / 13 mins / Web series
The Internet has been a spectacular place for queer people to find people just like them. To discuss some queer topics, I invited some of my favorite LGBTQ+ Internet stars over for brunch & giggly gossip. Safe spaces to have open dialogues make ALL of us better, and listening is just as important as sharing our perspectives.
Watch... https://youtu.be/25zJpra8fD4

Chronic Mohamed Moe Sabbah
Chronic

Mohamed Moe Sabbah

2017

Lebanon / 89 mins
Omar, a photographer, has a special experience with death, which he tries to express through a new project. He invites three models to his studio. His "project" is not only about the photos. He spends the day manipulating his visitors, playing with them, provoking them and putting them in danger.  A story of sex, love and trauma in the city of Beirut.

Club Del Desvelo Selma Y Kimono
Club del desvelo: Selma y Kimono

Bryan Atticus

2017

Puerto Rico / 6 mins
Una mirada a la relación de Selma, una estudiante de 16 años que está en una etapa de rebeldía, y Andrea “Kimono”, una chica de 23 años. Después de un día muy difícil, Kimono decide reunirse con Selma.

Cocoon

Mohammad Eskandari

2017

Iran / 12 mins
Looking for a place to spend the night before sex change surgery, Solmaz faces a challenge.
Trailer... https://player.vimeo.com/video/237948568

Come Home

Omer Yefman,
IGY  Haifa group

2017

Israel / 18 min
Or, an 18-year-old girl, runs away from home after her mother discovers her ongoing romance with Shani, a girl from Tel Aviv.
Or feels unable to return home and so she decides to go to Shani. On her journey she meets various characters who reflect the true meaning of her decision.

Connect Narges Mohebbi
Connect

Narges Mohebbi

2017

Canada / 10 mins
Two women meet at a bar, both struggling for an genuine tangible human connection in an increasingly artificial world.

Connection

Jean-Michael Kelsey

2017

South Africa / 6 mins
A short film about two young men in a long distance relationship who struggle to keep it together.
Watch... https://youtu.be/6J64PiFjyYg

Consecuencias

Adrian Blanco

2017

Costa Rica / 23 mins
Todas las acciones en nuestra vida tienen unas consecuencias. Y la promiscuidad también puede llevarnos a un callejón sin salida.
Watch... https://youtu.be/DEjvJOI_DXE

CorpoStyleDanceMachine
CorpoStyleDanceMachine

Ulisses Arthur

2017

Brasil / 7 mins
“Ando por mistério, vivo por mistério. Nosso corpo é uma máquina, ou cuida ou sabe como é né?” Entre memórias da boate e relatos de resistências cotidianas, Tikal dança e afronta as normas.

Corpus

Mario Coyol Sánchez

2017

México / 4 mins
Retrato videográfico, visibilizando los movimientos y micromovimientos que se generan en diferentes corporalidades, enfatizando sus paisajes internos. El cuerpo se convierte en la materia prima para explorar, cuestionar y transformar su representación.

Cover Story Suhail Abbasi
Cover Story

Suhail Abbasi

2017

India / 13 mins
Randeep, a successful advertising executive, is in turmoil as his boss Neeraj, dismisses a same-sex ad film idea proposed by his junior colleague Rashi. He senses a deep sense of homophobia and sets into deep introspection about his own sexuality. What if his boss or colleagues find out that ‘he is gay’. In the cold corporate corridors reeking of misogyny, hostility, stigma and discrimination, will Randeep find his voice…?!

Crush

Alexander Schmitz

2017

USA / 6 mins
This short film follows a high school student named Isaac as he realizes his sexuality in a somewhat conservative environment, in a family that is not only distant, but also absent. In the face of rejection and retaliation, Isaac has to decide his next course of action.
Watch… https://youtu.be/rQ2T7pIujuQ

Crystal Nights Of LustCrystal Nights of Lust

Cristina Zaragosa

2017

Spain / 4 mins

Cuida bem dele

Isabela Xavier

2017

Brazil / 10 mins
When they tell Bruno that his voice does not match with the character’s voice, he begins a search that, along with all the new experiences, turns into finding out he’s own way of being and existing in the world.

Curiyú

Elisa Portela

2017

14 mins
En medio de la selva, dos amigas ven interrumpido su descanso al encontrarse con una joven desconocida. La presencia de la extraña poco a poco cambiará a las tres, a medida que la noche avance y el sonido las envuelva.
Watch… https://youtu.be/b6RtxaS6MOA

Cursed Love Amore Maledetto
Cursed Love /
Amore Maledetto

Alessandro Ruggiero

2017

Italy / 9 mins
L'essere gay, a volte finisce in tragedia, specie quando regna la confusione sulla propria identità sessuale.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/222796542

Dandara
Dandara

Flávia Ayer,
Fred Bottrel

2017

Brazil / 14 mins
O assassinato brutal da travesti Dandara Kataryne poderia limitar-se a uma estatística no país que mais mata travestis e transexuais. Porém, o caso ganhou repercussão com a difusão, em redes sociais e aplicativos, de vídeos gravados pelos próprios agressores. Amigos e parentes de Dandara trazem a história não contada sobre o caso que escancarou a violência transfóbica no Brasil.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/239178339

Darin Sebastian Freire
Darin

Sebastián Freire

2017

Argentina / 14 mins
There is no adversity or misunderstanding that passes through the life of Darin Wixon. The story of an American artist who arrives to Buenos Aires, lives the intense gay night of the city, suffers an illness, and a marriage that ends in a scam: life is art.

Daughter /
我的女儿

Amanda Lee

2017

Canada / 5 mins
DAUGHTER explores an immigrant mother's pain and worry about her transgender daughter and examines the perspective of a mother who may not understand her daughter, but cares for her deeply. The film celebrates transgender resistance, gender nonconformity, and the strength of the immigrant family across language and cultural boundaries.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/groups/492046/videos/247243664

Day Dream

Stephen Isaac Wilson

2017

UK / 4 mins
This expressive and dreamlike portrait of party founder Kareem Reid explores race, loneliness and community within London’s scenes, and muses on the remaining gulf separating queers from straight privileges in later life, such as financial security.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/228805458

Death of the Innocent

Xennia O’Catherine,
Kai Daniels,
Calvin Beardemphl,
Zoey Luna,
Asher Cope

2017

USA / 4 mins
A demon lurks in the shadows of an abandoned building. Will these teens make it out alive?

Del Dyer

Daisy Asquith

2017

UK / 6 mins

Dele Viaje
Dele Viaje 

Jose Pablo Garcia Montero

2017

Costa Rica / 19 mins
'Dele Viaje' is a popular Costa Rican phrase that encourages people to overcome fear and step outside comfort zones. Pupis, Beto, and Carlos are three young adults struggling to feel normal in our world. Their stories run parallel: Pupis, an inventive and somewhat neurotic girl, has been taken from the past and is now adjusting to life in modern day San José; Beto lost his girlfriend and, along the way, a piece of who he was; and Carlos, a defeated soccer player and current high school teacher, is slowly starting to realize that his frustration might be a product of his own denial as a closeted gay man. But what these three stories have in common is their characters vulnerability and the way their lives are shaped in the face of fear of not being accepted, of having to come to terms with their past, and of uncertainty for what the future might have in store.

Derby Diversity: A Westpride Story

Scout Micallef

2017

Australia / 10 mins
Westside Derby Dollz (WSDD) welcomes all genders and is Melbourne’s only roller derby league in the West.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/wwCeyFp8avk

Desde El Recuerdo Con Amor
Desde el recuerdo con amor

Álvaro Orfla Giner

2017

Spain / 15 mins

Detached Desencaixe
Detached /
Desencaixe

Tiffany Rossi

2017

Brazil / 1 min
Filmmaker Tiffany Rossi asks: Have you ever felt detached?
Watch… https://filmfreeway.com/desencaixe

Devourable

Ms Naughty

2017

Australia / 12 mins
The polyamorous couple JanEva and Calliope are passionate sexual adventurers, always keen to explore new experiences together. In this erotic documentary, they celebrate spring with a romantic romp in a nearby park and a raunchy bit of role-play involving heels.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/166605065

Day 1
Dia 1

Matheus Faro,Rafael B
olacha

2017

Brazil / 12 mins
Durante uma entrevista, Luan se recorda do dia em que recebeu seu diagnóstico positivo para HIV. Ali se colocam seus medos, aflições e questionamentos que o fizeram tomar decisões importantes para seguir em frente. Baseado em uma história real.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/_dNoD6UKW2M

Diadème, martinet et sentiments

Hubaut Natacha,
Balboni Raphaël

2017

Belgium / 16 mins
To be free. What is that ? How many people have you slept with and how many have you loved ? Would you be able to stay with a person you love but who does not satisfy you sexually ? You too should answer to this quiz that mixes laughter, reflection and poetry, and questions our relationship with sex and love.

Diamanti is Forever

Enrico Salvatori

2017

Italy / 15 mins
An homage to the italian actor Vinicio Diamanti who worked for both cinema and TV together with Franco Enriquez, Enrico Maria Salerno, Giancarlo Cobelli, Manuela Kusterman, Giancarlo Nanni, Memè Perlini, Valeria Moriconi, Vittorio Gassman and Pippo Di Marca.

Diques

Sara Álvarez Hernández 

2017

Spain / 4 mins

Disoriented  Orientierungslos
Disoriented /
Orientierungslos

Lara Mack

2017

Luxembourg / 32 mins
Orientierungslos (Disoriented) tells the story of two young female students going on a camping trip to discover, in an emotional chaos, that their perception of friendship is very different.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/199314426

Divina Luz
Divina Luz

Ricardo Sá

2017

Brazil / 15 mins
A trajetória de Luz del Fuego, a bailarina naturista que balançou o Brasil nos anos 1950 com seus ideais de nudismo.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/199596285

Do Not Forsake Me

Alon Reter

2017

Israel / 17 mins
Just a few steps from downtown Jerusalem is Independence Park. At night, the park transforms into an eccentric empire of prophets. Each character has a complex relationship with God, and all of them are seeking conversation and contact. Equipped with a small camera, the filmmaker walks among them, capturing moments of intimacy and alienation, looking into his own faith in the process.

Dolphin Dreams

Kinga Michalska,
Winnie Superhova

2017

Canada, Germany / 3 mins
This playful gender-bending film explores the sensual qualities of a cheap toy.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/236618146

Don't Touch Me

Savannah Smith

2017

USA / 15 mins
Relationships can be hard when you've got a demi.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/191916694

Doppelgänger Memorandum

Clark Nikolai

2017

Canada / 6 mins
A film score composer is distracted by a haunted video monitor.

Dorado William Reyes
Dorado

William Reyes

2017

Honduras / 5 mins
Um adolescente tentará contar um segredo a seu melhor amigo na última tarde que passam juntos antes que o amigo parta ilegalmente para os Estados Unidos.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/pDmfbJhC0W0

Dorothy

Reda Ait

2017

Germany / 6 mins
Dorothy is both a tribute to David Bowie and to the art/sport of pole-dance. Through this documentary, THEM tries to develop the idea that, again, using our bodies are more than just visual, it is a real involvement and a way to get rid of social constructions. The idea of the choreography came to Dorothy’s head the very next day of David Bowie’s dead, during the night.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/202011307

Dream Phone

Kendra Lohr

2017

USA / 3 mins
Who--who--who's got a crush on you! Was it all a dream?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/216732486

Duality /
Dvita

Vishal Vasant Ahire

2017

India / 15 mins
Rajjo, a member of the Hijra (intersex/transgender) community in India develops a crush on a girl but realizes that neither his community nor the world at large completely approve of his existence.

Duas Vezes Senzala
Duas Vezes Senzala

Gustavo Pozzatti

2017

Brazil / 25 mins
Meu documentário sobre LGBT's negros e suas vivências já tem data de estreia, pra quem mora em Goiânia é só colar no DIGO hein, pra quem não mora aqui em breve ele será lançado na internet. Curta a página do doc e acompanhe... Trailer... https://youtu.be/1IZXjDRkWtQ

Duo Impacto

Molly Harding,
Miranda Everingham,
Alexandra Nagy

2017

Cuba  7:49 mins
Two Cuban lesbians talk about LGBT rights, wanting children and performing as drag kings.
Watch... https://youtu.be/_a6eFU2xJYI

Dyke Problems

Ronnie Zidon

2017

Israel
Watch...https://vimeo.com/225602215

Echo Each Other

Pin-Ru Chen

2017

Taiwan / 15 mins
It’s difficult making the transition from being single to starting a relationship. So how should we cope? Echo Each Other abandons spoken dialogue, instead using sign and body language to silently communicate with the audience.

Echomutation /
You, Me, It /
Bleached

Coco Schwarz,
Alina Mann

2017

Three experimental films that focus their attention on representations of the gendered body in film.

Einfach Mensch

Gina Wenzel

2017

Trailer...https://vimeo.com/206139884

El Alquiler

Marta Barroso

2017

Spain / 16 mins

El error

Yolanda Moreno Torrado

2017

Spain / 2 mins
Una conversación trivial entre dos hermanas sobre los juegos de su infancia.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/204788187

El Espejo de Obsidiana

Juan Carlos Manrique

2017

México / 5 mins
Tras el fallecimiento a su amado, Rafael realiza año tras año un ritual prehispánico para poder reencontrase con su pareja.

El Gable’s Craze

Eli Gable (Andrea Meroni),
Anderes Holtz (Edoardo Preti)

2017

Italy / 12 mins
A collage sketch and music exhibition of Eli Gable, showman and gay dandy with a passion for synth-pop. As a character conceived in apocalyptic rave-party in the Mantuan countryside and nourished during alcoholic underground parties, Eli Gable speaks an unusual language inspired by Franco Battiato and hedonistic Dead Or Alive.

El Polvo Nos Sube al Rostro

Guillermo del Castillo

2017

Chile / 14 mins
Christmas Eve. Nelson told everyone his son was coming. The truth is that boy isn’t his son and the neighbors saw them kissing. But that’s not a problem to them, it seems it is a problem to Nelson himself who shows his wedding ring every time he can.

Ell@s

César García

2017

Colombia / 10 mins
El 30 de diciembre se llevó a cabo la Pelea por la Equidad de Género, como iniciativa de la Alcaldía de Soledad para abrir nuevos espacios a la comunidad LGBTI. Brandon San Juán y Brianys Romero se enfrentaron en la última presentación de la noche.

On December 30th, the Fight for Gender Equality took place as an initiative of the Mayor’s Office in Soledad  to open up new spaces for the LGBTI community. Brandon San Juán and Brianys Romero faced each other in the last performance of the night.

Emerge /
Emerger

Yuliana Brutti

2017

Argentina / 24 mins
Luciana studies in the south. Some time later, she visits her family in a Cordoba’s town. Nostalgia in the recent past and thinking that everything would be the same, keeps her in a kind of inner dilemma. Constanza will help Luciana to asking questions about herself so she can emerge out of that confusion to understand, that when we return to the river, the river is not the same, and neither we are.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/T7aE6MInYno

End-Beginning /
Anthadhi

Earthling Koushalya

2017

India / 20 mins
Two Souls in Love...balancing each other's nature...in a never ending vortex of ends and beginnings!
Watch… https://youtu.be/sTt99CjUAL8

Enero

Carlos Carrero Sepúlveda

2017

Puerto Rico / 8 mins
Ofelia recibe una llamada de su expareja, Maité, en la que le avisa que está punto de dar a luz. De camino al hospital, ambas intentan resumir asuntos del pasado y Ofelia se enfrenta a la incertidumbre de su futuro.

Enfasis De Historias
Énfasis, de Historias de VIHda

Pilar Devesa

2017

Spain / 26 mins
En noviembre de 2014 la periodista Pilar Devesa en colaboracio´n con el Comite´ Ciudadano Antisida de la Comunidad Valenciana propone un proyecto comunicativo con el propo´sito de generar contenido documental actualizado, integrador y positivo sobre las personas que conviven con el VIH.   
Trailer: https://youtu.be/H-gRy_I56AY

Erick

Boris Guzmán

2017

Puerto Rico / 6 mins
Erika es una joven que se siente nacido en el cuerpo equivocado e intenta descubrir quién es en realidad, enfrentando la aceptación o el rechazo de sus padres.
Watch… https://youtu.be/XjvavQoUvb8

Eros

Eva Wo

2017

USA / 2 mins
Divine mystic witch Lucifer Rising take a lavish milky hot bath with herself in a futuristic steam machine.

Escape Vinicius Sassine
Escape

Vinicius Sassine,
Mariana Paschoal,
Julien Mérienne,
Maria Chatzi

2017

Brazil / 52 mins
En estilo observacional, la cámara sigue Lludy y su entorno por seis meses. “Escape” mantiene una distancia que busca captar un movimiento casi invisible – el movimiento de brasileñas que escapan del país que más asesina travestis en el mundo.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/-52J2GCf2Vw

Everything Must Go Mon Amour
Everything Must Go, mon amour

Jocelyn Roy

2017

Canada / 9 mins
The existential angst of a young intellectual, when he and his boyfriend witness the destruction of the neighbourhood movie theater where their love story was born.

Excusez Moi Manon Weck
Excusez-Moi

Manon Weck

2017

France / 1 min
Une jeune fille se promène seule dans la rue jusqu’à ce que quelqu’un se mette à la critiquer. Puis, l’effet boule de neige crée une suite de moqueries et injures qui créent la confusion dans la tête de celle-ci…
Watch… https://vimeo.com/241838660

Eyeshadow /
Sombra de ojos

Manuel Morales

2017

Chile / 21 mins
Two deteriorating lives build a friendship framed in reflections on identity, loneliness and death in Chile during the 90’s. A poetic point of view about HIV/AIDS and its social stigma, inspired in chronicles by Pedro Lemebel.

Fabrica De Suenos
Fábrica de Sueños

Edgar de los Santos

2017

México / 5 mins
Ellos crecieron juntos, viendo telenovelas; pretendiendo que vivían en ellas. Hoy se encuentran y ese mundo de ficción debe volverse realidad.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/228173391

Fall

Rose Shirley

2017

USA / 6 mins
Transgender musician Claire Michelle shares her story of overcoming grief through the power of writing and performing music.

Fashion Cave!

Tristan Goik

2017

USA / 1min
Two drag queen super heroes await to fight some danger in their lair.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/203592680

Feeling for Chimera

Lou Lou Sainsbury

2017

UK / 20 mins
A research project investigating the sacred, the self-hunt and systemic violence in queer and chimerical bodies. Exploring text-to-image relationships as a reflexive process for fable-esque & fictive experiences of the body; focusing on poetry and found footage video to uncover moments of vulnerability and tenderness in experiences of systemic violence.

Feierabend

Kay Garnellen

2017

Germany / 4 mins
It’s late, working time is over, cleaning is boring…Well let’s have some fun instead!

Femme in Public

Jabu Nadia Newman

2017

South Africa / 8 mins
December 2016 popped off with a fierce and unapologetic bang as US performance artist /activist /poet Alok Vaid-Menon joined forces with some of South Africa’s trans and gender-non-conforming artists in a creative collaboration titled “Femme in Public”.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/211267675

Finding Home

Veronica McKenzie

2017

UK / 32 mins
A short about LGBT Asylum seekers & immigrants was commissioned by Southwark Network.

Firkytoodle

Brettley Kai,
Wyatt Riot

2017

Canada / 4 mins
Firkytoodle / fur•key•toodle/ noun.1. A 17th century British term, obsolete by the 19th century, meaning to caress sexually, to pet, to canoodle; what is known today as foreplay.2. Meeting at the intersections of fatness, transness, and desire.

Flesh

Thomas Repaux

2017

France / 19:28 mins

For the Love of Secrets /
Aus Liebe Zum Geheimni

Nicolas Sidiropulos

2017

Germany / 9 mins
Jochen und Rasmus sind zwei Menschen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Jochen ist vorsichtig, freundlich und unsicher – dagegen ist Rasmus sehr direkt, schroff und selbstbewusst. Doch gerade wegen ihrer Unterschiedlichkeit lieben sie sich. Aber trotz ihrer starken Liebe zueinander gibt es ein Geheimnis.

From Russia Wiwh Queer Love

Aleksandr M Vinogradov

2017

Russia / 16 mins
“From Russia with love” is the first Drag Queen Tango Drama short film.
Watch... https://youtu.be/6f3gAVq2bNs

from this side of space to the other side of the signal

Benjamin Rosenthal

2017

USA / 10 mins
Computer generated bodies and body parts glistening with video material generated via this system perform actions that queer the line between digital, physical and analog, homoeroticism and violence––entangled in a fragmented high-modernist grid.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/aGlv2Ywl8D0

Fuck My Face!

Grisel Amaury

2017

France / 4 mins
Sexual diversity- in closeup.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/214147098

Fuck Tree

Liz Rosenfeld

2017

Germany / 9 mins
After extensive research into the history, methodology and imagery of Luther Price’s film Sodom (1989), Rosenfeld created a portrait of an infamous tree which holds space for cruisers in London’s Hampstead Heath. Inspired by the various ways in which Price treated the emulsion of his film, Rosenfeld buried parts of the original film stock and soaked it in her own cum to erode the image. Reflecting on questions relating to queer historical public space and shifting ecologies, Rosenfeld looks at queer dystopia, a positive embrace of apocalypse and invisible genocide.

Fuego

Alice Jane McKinney

2017

UK / 10 mins
Fuego is a short documentary following Marta as she returns to her small rural village in Poland, after leaving in search of a better life.

Funny Girl

Rosina Andreaou

2017

UK / 6:35 mins
Exploring the on and offstage life of comedy with comedian Rosie Jones, this documentary explores stereotypes about disability, sexuality, and being a Northerner.

Ganymede Earrings

Niv Fridman

2017

Israel / 5 mins
A pair of golden earrings depicting a youth and an eagle are on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The youth is Ganymede; the eagle is Zeus, who fell in love with Ganymede because of his beauty, and kidnapped him to be the servant of the gods. A male prostitute wants to steal the earrings. To do so, he seduces one of the museum guards.

Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!)

Scott Sørli,
Evan Tapper

2017

Canada / 5 mins
Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) was created for Nuit Rose, an arts festival at Pride Toronto, 2017. The previous year, Black Lives Matter - Toronto intervened in the Toronto Pride parade, resulting in significant changes to Pride 2017. Among the most controversial of BLM-Toronto's demands was the 'Removal of police floats in Pride marches and parades

Gay Bashed

JC Gray

2017

USA / 12 min
“Gay Bashed” tells the story of Danny, a 26-year-old who is robbed, beaten, and abandoned in the desolate tundra of Colorado, all because he was presumed to be gay. The film follows Danny’s journey of survival and self-discovery.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/247160643

Gay Focus Group

Kyle Buchanan

2017

USA / 5 mins
What are The Gays into? Well, since you asked…
Watch... https://youtu.be/PFc22mw5PaM

Gemini /
Al-Jawza

Zamen Ali

2017

Iraq / 6 mins

Generous

Adam Jones

2017

USA / 8 mins
“Generous” is based on going to hook up with someone and they don’t even closely resemble the pictures they had sent on Grindr. Hesitant at first, the young man is convinced to stay after the catfish offers to be generous. A few drinks and a couple pills later they begin to open up to each other… and things continue to go south from there.
Watch... https://youtu.be/0p6VNYLvsGI

Getting High On My Own Sperm
Getting High on My Own Sperm

Shiri Faingold

2017

Israel, Germany / 18 mins
A bored boy named Boris accidentally smokes his own sperm, discovers that this trip is even stronger than taking acid. He uploads a video online of himself smoking his sperm. Getting high on sperm becomes a hit. It changes the world and might even destroy it.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/l_I-hc37cpc

Give A Man A Mask
Give a Man a Mask

Eric Gauss

2017

Zimbabwe / 12 mins
Give a Man a Mask uncovers the various ways MSM sex workers hide their profession, sexual preference and character to protect themselves in a country that condemns Homosexuality.

Gonj (Bee)

Arman Gholipourdashtaki

2017

Iran / 8 mins
Gonj (honey bee) is a film displaying the attempt of mountaineers who work in extreme Zagros mountains of Iran in the height more than 150m with elementary facilities and sever risks and difficulties. they give this pure and clear honey to the sick person in order to treat the various diseases

Goodbye

Marco-Alexis Chaira

2017

USA / 5 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/5_91pUhILPk

Goodnight, Kia

Kia LaBeija

2017

6 mins
Over the duration of the ongoing AIDS epidemic, an estimated 17 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related illness. Many of these children living with the virus themselves have ended up displaced or forced out of their homes. In Goodnight, Kia, Kia LaBeija processes a reoccurring dream of the home she shared with her mother Kwan Bennett. Bennett died of an AIDS-related illness in October of 2004, resulting in an unanticipated move that reshaped the course of her teenage daughter's life.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/245609278

Green Velvet

Ben Berlin

2017

Germany
Two people explore and incorporate a beautiful lake in their play. The play includes, among other things, breath play and blood play.

Grey

Amritanshu

2017

India / 22 mins

Guacherna 

César García

2017

Colombia / 12 mins
Una reina trans, un chico en proceso de hormonización, un líder bisexual y un peluquero, que todavía se extraña de sus preferencias sexuales, son los protagonistas de este relato audiovisual, que recorre la primera Guacherna Diversa en los Montes de María, una de las regiones más afectadas por el conflicto armado colombiano.
Watch… https://youtu.be/wZmeFWDIFYs

Guapa

Cecilia Grasso

2017

4:43 mins
Proiezione del teaser per un progetto di serie web e chiacchiere con le autrici e le protagoniste. Una serie al femminile in cerca di finanziamenti, in cui le donne fanno sesso, senza doversi giustificare e senza dare “spiegoni” della sessualità femminile. Punto

Gum [Grown Up Man]

Noémie Blondel

2017

France / 2 mins
The inner thoughts of a man putting his face on
A travers les couleurs flamboyantes d’une mise en beauté, ce soir, ce sera résolument lui la plus belle…
Watch… https://vimeo.com/242016652

Hallezoon

Mohammad Toriwarian

2017 

Irán / 11 mins
Tres jóvenes intentan cruzan clandestinamente la frontera entre Irán y Turquía. Su guía, muy religioso, solo permite el paso de hombres pero uno de ellos encierra una sorpresa.

Hard Femme Intimacy / Bebeschwendaam

Dayna Danger

2017

5 mins
2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist raised in so called Winnipeg, MB. Bebeschwendaam challenges the segregation between intimacy and kinship as a method of decolonizing Western perceptions of love and partnerships. By demonstrating candid moments between the two central figures, this playful film dismantles the notion that affection is solely reserved for romantic, heteronormative couplings. This film has been shown at Concordia’s VA Gallery in 2017 and Gallery 101 in Ottawa.

Hard Out

Howard Adler,
Candy Renae,
Jessie Short

2017

Aotearoa / 4 mins
A man wakes up lost and confused on the beach, and it’s a mystery of how and why he got there.

Heartbeats /
Batidas do coração

Laura Rämö

2017

 

Finland / 3 mins
Heartbeats is a poetic short documentary piece about hearts and their carriers, portraying four queer people. In one day, heart, our muscle that never rests, beats approximately over 100 000 times. In the film the intimate heartbeats blend to the rhythm of nature. By drawing attention to the familiar sound inside all of us it ponders the universal, yet temporal nature of being. The film was made during a weekend as part of Kino Queer workshop organized by Euphoria Borealis.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/223185756  

Helium

Daniel McIntyre

2017

Canada / 4 mins
Helium was originally presented as a dual-projector work, digitally transferred, that explores the worlds of competitive bodybuilding and balloon fetish.

Hell You TalmboutHell You Talmbout

Denzel Boyd,
Tyler Rabinowitz,
Joseph Webb

2017

8 mins
Ten years ago, Melba Ayco founded Northwest Tap Connection, a social justice oriented dance studio intentionally placed in the most dangerous part of Seattle so that it could serve as a hub and refuge for youth in the area. In the wake of the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the directors came across a Facebook Live video of the students of Northwest Tap dancing in the streets in protest.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/188713888

Help

Sean McElhose

2017

USA

Henoko, Oura Bay:
The Sea of Life

Bunka-kobo Kei

2017

Japan / 71 mins
The beautiful sea full of life is being destroyed for the sake of wars caused by the U.S.A. The lives of people, the lives of dugongs, the lives of sea turtles… The lives of many creatures are being threatened. This is a record of the reality at Henoko and Oura Bay.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Y6IAHUf0Abk

Hermes
From the series “The Children of the Border”

Lidia Hernandez

2017

USA / 4 mins
Hermes Espinoza was 17 when he reached a breaking point in Arizona. Alone, without any family or legal status, his ability to remain in the United States was in danger. He had crossed the border from Mexico to the United States a year earlier, in 2007, looking to escape the discrimination he faced in his home state of Guerrero for being homosexual.  He expresses himself by designing and sewing his own clothes. He longs to be a fashion designer.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/219628307

Heroes

Archie Zhang

2017

Canada / 5 mins
For the princess with Daddy issues and the daddy with Princess issues, Heroes offers a thought-provoking twist in the little fairy tale that is our lives.

Herstory

Zhang Han,
Chen Cong

2017

Hong Kong / 36mins
Born as a “he”, Ruby is he as in she. Painting her eyes and eyebrows, the transgender Ruby is creating the perfect illusion of her own self. But can she paint her life to be better? Can she paint over the void in her heart? Can she paint herself an easier road in life? This is more than just a documentary of a transgender girl in HongKong, it is also an interrogation of all of us.

Heterocere

Mathias Tuosto

2017

Switzerland / 25 mins
David (20) is in a disconcerting period of his life. This psychological phase is shown as a forest path he's walking on.
His walk may be symptomatic of his condition and even more when he meets strange characters for the occasion.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/232145005

Hide and seek

Mark Karam

2017

Lebanon / 7 mins
A different kind of toursim. The film follows the lives of 2 guys roaming the streets of Beirut.

Hier Encore

Nara Noïan

2017

France / 3 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/rgRLrhLljiU

Him

Annemoon Van Maastricht

2017

Watch... https://youtu.be/WMwNjIHRQ9o

Historiografia

Amanda Pó

2017

Brazil / 4 mins
Quem escreveu a História, na qual homens são sempre protagonistas?

HIV ✖ LOVE?

Katsuhide Yamago

2017

Japan / 10 mins
Yuto is still single. He have a lazy sex life. Today's boy is not good compatibility. Jiu LINE. He is HIV positive... Sex × Friend ? part2

Home

Etamar Kadusheviz

2017

Israel / 7 mins
A couple returns home after the stabbing at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade. One of them decides that they must have sex.

Home Made

Diana Khong

2017

USA / 10 mins
Home Made is an intimate, contemplative portrait of two queer tattoo artists navigating an industry that is traditionally dominated by white, straight, cisgender males.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/217239233

Hot Power CoupleHot Power Couple

Erika Lust

2017

Spain / 22 mins
It’s porn.

How Come

Rick Flynn

2017

USA / 6 mins
Everyone does it differently. How do you get there? How Come?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/232530895

I Am Ma Gokul Kunwar
I Am / Ma

Gokul Kunwar

2017

Nepal / 8 mins
In a journey of self-discovery, a man realizes he is a woman trapped in a man's body. This is the story a man who is determined to live his new life to the full, will boldly attempt this amidst prejudice, discrimination, social dictation and, of course, public outcry, to fight for the right to be different.

I Am Every Woman

Lena Weller

2017

Germany / 13 mins
Dokumentarfilm, in dem Trans*Frau Kaey und Drag-Queen Fixie Fate einen intimen Einblick in ihr Leben und ihre Lebensentwürfe geben.

I Am What I Am Over The Rainbow
I Am What I Am – Over the Rainbow

Genki Masuda

2017

Japan / 75 mins
Chizuru Azuma interviews 41 members of Japan’s LGBT community, focusing on Hiroshi Hasegawa, the founder of the gay magazines Badi and G-men, and an outspoken board member of JaNP+ (Japanese Network of People Living with HIV/AIDs). The film’s participants include prominent figures like Peter, Ai Haruna and Kiyotaka, all delivering powerful messages for those conflicted about their sexuality.

I Am Your King Worarit Ninklom
I Am Your King

Worarit Ninklom

2017

Thailand / Web series 
Trailer... https://youtu.be/cQ7Oak2DVRk

I Am! We Are Here!

Seyi Adebanjo 

2017

USA / 7 mins
A community made DIY documentary of the trans*, queer, gender non-conforming and two-spirit residents of the Bronx.  I am! We are Here! invites the viewer to consider an alternative narrative to queer experience and platforms the bravery of everyday people living their lives and truths in the midst of political conservatism. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/243102613

I Can’t

Han Jay

2017

South Korea / 13 mins

I M U R – Swirl

Nancy Lee

2017

Canada / 3:48 mins
Black masculinity and bisexuality explored through intimate movements.
Watch... https://youtu.be/WmS2z8TBH8U

I Think We're Alone Now

Anna Dória,
Isabela Costa

2017

Brazil / 15:22 mins
Beatriz and Cecília are teenagers facing typical problems of finding space and time to be together freely as baby dykes in a conservative setting, so they wish to be in a place free from judgements and violence… and it comes true.

I’m Amanda

Amanda Prosser

2017

UK / 1 min
Amanda briefly explains why she’s changed her name, hopefully reassuring her friends and colleagues that not that much else has changed.
Watch… https://youtu.be/DaunRrW0x4s

Ice Cold

Sekiya Dorsett

2017

USA / 14mins
A blushing bride experiences the best and worst wedding day in history.

Il Lato Inaccettabile Della Libertà 1-3

Canecapovolto

2017

Italy / 16 mins / Web Series
Ognuno ha per forza qualcosa da nascondere. Chi odia ha paura e, quindi desidera. Inoltre, bisogna assolutamente creare una situazione per la quale nessuno è responsabile. Tre cortometraggi prodotti nell'arco di 3 anni riflettono sul Queer come strategia di abbandono della Realtà.

Incomplete

Nev Brook,
Emily McDonald

2017

UK / 6 mins
Andrew was living a solitary existence until he met Harriet..
Watch... https://vimeo.com/212973486

Infinite Galatea
Infinite Galatea /
Galatée à L’infini

Julia Maura,
Mariangela Pluchino,
Ambra Reijnen,
Maria Chatzi,
Fátima Flores Rojas

2017

Spain / 17 mins
Pygmalion, disappointed of the women of his time, decides to create an immaculate woman with his own hands. He models his creation at the height of his expectations and level: she should be able to satisfy his pleasures and provide his kingdom with workforce.
A visual essay about the body as a socially constructed discourse throughout gynecology, a science serving itself of an ideological scalpel to mould gender, sexuality and desire. 
Trailer… https://youtu.be/AwXAkZsdsE8

Instante: Natalia

Cristian Rodríguez

2017

Puerto Rico / 9 mins
Un triángulo amoroso. Siempre hay uno que tiene el mando. ¿Qué harán los otros por amor?

INTER(sectional)VIEWS

Andrea Silvestro,
Stefano Stefanini

2017

Italy, UK / 62 mins
INTER(sectional)VIEWS is a documentary made for the web, divided into 5 episodes. This series of one-on-one interviews, filmed in Italy and in the rest of Europe, is intended to function as a cultural tool to raise public awareness on "difficult" issues: the whole range of discriminations and the ever-growing conviction in the mind of the public that there is a clear and definite separation between "us" and "them". In each of these 5 videos, people who are very different from each other reply to a general question, dealing with different topics.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/tOJ3vc6POWk

Intimacy /
Intimität

Susanne Steinmassl

2017

Germany / 3 mins
Single INTIMITÄT from Candelilla’s 2017 album CAMPING via Trocadero / ZickZack Records
Watch… https://vimeo.com/199762102

Introspectiva De Un Chivo Entre Ovejas
Introspectiva de un Chivo Entre Ovejas

Hugo Nuñes Ruiz

2017

Perú / 15 mins
Un joven poco convencional narra a través de una introspectiva, el proceso y los problemas de crecer como una persona regordeta y homosexual, buscar su identidad y sobrevivir en una sociedad donde la perfección es requisito para la aceptación.

It is Time

Kajri Babar

2017

India / 20 mins
After watching this short film Your thought process will change about Gay society and Gay freedom
Watch... https://youtu.be/GDYtR0BrEAY

Je Suis un Coming-Out

Camille Beglin

2017

France / 2 mins
Mélanie et Tom vont devoir faire une révélation à leurs parents. C'est la rencontre entre deux mondes incompatibles... ou pas...
Watch… https://vimeo.com/228821977

Jelanii's Dance

Maggie Carroll

2017

4 mins
Jelanii dances because he's able to express how he feels without having to say anything.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/220359370

Jim & The Palace

Billy Craig 

2017

50 mins
A film about an eccentric Englishman’s reckless decision to buy a dilapidated 700-year-old palace, in the south of Poland and the unexpected life-line sprung on it by an artists’ residency. A foreign force numbering in the hundreds will now descend on Jim’s home, to breathe new life into the dungeons, halls and ballrooms.

Jim’s Introduction to Gender Identity

K. Kypers

2017

USA / 5 mins
Jim thinks he knows who he is: he’s a man, he has a hot girlfriend, he’s on the basketball team… But when Cassie tells him about a male bodied friend who identifies as a girl, Jim’s concepts of gender and identity are challenged.

Jodido VIH

Germán de Heras

2017

Spain / 3 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/kGWaEFmwWQk

Joey

Helen Wright

2017

UK / 9 mins
A lesbian sci-fi short about a young woman with telekinetic powers going out on the queer scene for the first time.

Just a Little Taste

Jacquie Ray

2017

USA / 4 mins
Two of our most primal urges combine in this short that allows the viewer to witness the passion of two hungry young male lovers. 
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/220345442

Kai, 12

Fox Fisher

2017

UK / 4 mins
Kai, was assigned female at birth but always identified as a boy. We have been following since he was 9. Now Kai is 12 and has been on hormone blockers for a few years. He is supported by his mother and sees a positive future for himself.

Karate /
Kapate

Karl Neubart

2017

Austria, Germany / 4 mins

Kibe Lanches
Kibe Lanches

Alexandre Figueirôa

2017

Brasil / 18 mins
Na década de 80, o restaurante Kibe Lanches, no bairro do Pina, no Recife, vendia pratos da cozinha árabe. Nas sextas à noite, transformava-se num alegre ponto de encontro, cuja principal atração eram as ‘Rolinhas do Barão’.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/238947506

Kim... But Inside in the Dark I’m Aching to be Free

Magdalena Wieczorek

2017

Poland / 10 mins
Historia Kim Lee pokazuje, ze nie ma jednego przepisu na szczescie i kazdy czlowiek powinien sam ustalac jego reguly.  Film stanowi prace dyplomowa Magdaleny Wieczorek, która zrealizowala w Pracowni Techniki i Sztuki Operatorskiej prof. Andrzeja J. Jaroszewicza na Akademii Sztuk Pieknych w Warszawie.

Kitfo

Samuel Shanahoy,
Emnet Getahun

2017

USA / 10 mins
A queer Ethiopian-American woman grapples with the decision to bring her partner to a family wedding, risking estrangement, or staying in the closet and losing her sense of self.

Kittens 2017
Kittens

Zhanna Ozirna

2017

Ukraine / 9 mins
Two girls in a Lviv apartment start a casual conversation about their common future. In the midst of the traditional Ukrainian life remnants the usual dreams about future stumble upon the unbreakable social norms and customs. The things that are private for most people the others have to fight for against the society. Surrounded by regular scenery while dealing with the usual household tasks, the sincere conversation turns into a global question: can we afford the freedom at least in our private lives without having to substitute it with pets?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/185949380

Kuvas seuraa mun matkallain

Pinja Valja

2017

Finland / 16 mins
The Image of You weaves together the themes of love and memory in the spirit of New Wave cinema. It’s a story of a couple, Lilja and Laura, who have recently broken up. To find peace of mind, Lilja wants to discuss the past relationship with Laura. But the women’s memories of the relationship differ, and the conversation and flashbacks from their past intertwine into an enigmatic puzzle. Who gets to decide what is the truth? Was their love true even though it ended?

La Delgada Linea
La delgada línea

Marco Dibildox

2017

Mexico / 5 mins
Dos jóvenes quedan para mantener una aventura tórrida con la ayuda de psicoactivos. Todo comenzará con mucha marcha. Sin embargo, las cosas no acaban siempre como empiezan.
Watch... https://youtu.be/nH_r_1sYaD0

La Duna

Ricardo Alonso Diaz

2017

Spain / 3 mins

La Mar

Moisés Anaya

2017

México / 15 mins
Florencia una joven arquitecta, sortea la violencia normalizada con que se vive en la sociedad. Cuando distintos sucesos continúan alimentando un miedo creciente, decide ̈hacerse a la mar.

La T Invisible
La T Invisible

Patricia Ortega

2017

Venezuela / 13 mins
Sharom es la T Invisible y silente del LGBT+. Ella es travesti de clóset. Mientras realiza su ritual de transformación, nos cuenta sobre su dualidad: el lado masculino que es su rostro público y el femenino, que es la cara censurada. Estos dos universos son partes indivisibles de su ser. Un diálogo que reSexiona sobre los límites del género, la identidad y la orientación sexual.

Lac de plumes

Emily Pelstring

2017

In this music video for IDALG's “Lac de plumes”, a woman smokes and waits for a phone call. In another forestial world, accessed through the portal of a magic jewelry box, a snake maneuvers through minerals and plant life. The two worlds gradually merge as the body of the woman and snake become intertwined.
Watch… https://youtu.be/TPEzUCFtfNw

Lace Me Tightly

Vincenzo Costantino

2017

Italy / 16 mins
Dario ha ventidue anni ed è cresciuto a Salina, una piccola isola del Mediterraneo. Già da bambino comincia a cucire, isolandosi nel suo fantasioso mondo dove incontra la sua prima amica defunta: Maria Antonietta di Francia, sua musa ispiratrice. È grazie alla sua nuova amica che Dario scoprirà l’eleganza e il rigore del corsetto che da quel momento in poi lo segnerà per sempre al punto che diverrà elemento centrale nella sua vita e nel suo lavoro da stilista portandolo a praticare il Tightlace, la pratica del restringimento del girovita. Suggestioni della quotidianità di Dario, che ci porteranno a percepire come si stia stretti dentro il suo corsetto.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/L5ZxXmN8haE

Lagunas

Karelys Ríos

2017

Puerto Rico / 24 mins
En cada familia hay rumores, pero no todas tienen secretos. Cuando se topa con un posible secreto familiar, Samantha se lanza a buscar la manera de encontrar la respuesta. Pronto, le revela una cruda realidad a su padre, abriendo así una caja de Pandora que será casi imposible de cerrar, junto con una gran incógnita.

Landslide /
Zsuv

Oleksiy Radynski

2017

Ukraine / 29 mins
In post-revolutionary Ukraine, a community of people try to build a new society in the cracks and pores of a collapsing social system. The film unfolds in central Kyiv, in a space that has been reclaimed from the city by forces of nature. As a result of a series of landslides, the area of Petrivska Street has become untenable and was subsequently occupied by the outcasts and outsiders of all kinds: a secretive graffiti team, a group of tech geeks and an avant-garde queer theatre that fled the war in Luhansk.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/293699661

Last Bottle Mark Gregory Bayani
Last Bottle

Mark Gregory Bayani

2017

Philippines / 8 mins
After a casual meet-up at a bar, two friends find it complicated to say goodbye to each other and don’t realize just how inseparable they are. Tale of an uneasy bromance.
Watch... https://youtu.be/kNQTOd-B1uk

Last Night's Sugar

Shawna Virago

2017

USA / 5 mins
A harrowing tale of late-night escapades and economic ruin, Last Night’s Sugar is the music video for the second single off of trans music pioneer and acoustic artist Shawna Virago’s critically acclaimed album Heaven Sent Delinquent.
Watch… https://youtu.be/C5ZaSglAySU

Late in my life

Ligal Mor

2017

Israel / 15 min
Following her father’s death, Aline comes back to the kibbutz. She is now a strong transgender woman, but the encounter with the closed society where she grew up, and especially with her brother, proves to be contentious. Her brother is in denial about the changes she has gone through, and their meeting challenges their common memories.

Less

Alexey Shipenko,
Anna Langhoff

2017

Germany / 81 mins
LESS, a documentary about being yourself, the challenge of life and the beauty of truth.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/152209602

Letting Go /
Desprender

Gonzalo Wolf Sandoval,
Catalina Monzalvett

2017

Chile / 17 mins
Damián and Luciano who are about to finish their final year of school lose their friend Agatha. Damián tries to seek restraint on his friend, but encounters the discomfort of a relationship of two that used to be three, until a new element appears in his friendship that changes everything.

Damián y Luciano cursan su último año de colegio cuando pierden a Ágata, su mejor amiga. Sin saber cómo terminar el año, se encuentran en una relación de dos que tendía ser de tres y la incomodidad que esto les genera. Damián intentará acercarse a Luciano para buscar contención, pero aparece algo más que amistad en el proceso.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/149864208

Life on Two Spectrums

Elizabeth-Valentina Sutton

2017

UK / 6 mins
The film follows Dan ‘Tia Anna’ Kahn, a drag queen with Asperger’s Syndrome who founded A.S.P.E.C.S (Autistic and Aspergers Persons of Every Category of (Queer) Sexuality) a support and networking group to help address the needs of the neurodiverse members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/199202763

liFeTiMe 

Yuma Wakabayashi,
Kaoru Maruwaka,
Aoto Tani

2017

Japan / 108 mins

Like You

Fox Fisher,
Owl

2017

Iceland / 7 mins
On a remote farm in Iceland, two strangers connect and realize they have a lot more in common than they previously assumed.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Y3LddZubx88

Lima Is Burning
Lima is Burning

Giovana Garcia

2017

Perú / 8 mins
This short documentary narrates the history of Gía (Jxna), the pleasure of (dissident) bodies, and the nights that make Lima burn.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/296062217

Lipstick Fights

Jon Mitchell

2017

UK / 3 mins
Jon Mitchell was mentored to create a poem, visuals and soundscape exploring gender and his deeply personal struggle with his own identity.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/265342336

Live Joan Montesinos
Live

Joan Montesinos

2017

Spain / 9 mins
Are we sure that we are able to live our fantasies of exhibitionism to the limit? And what is the acceptable limit, when the people you are acting out with understand that your intentions are different and try to change the agreed conditions? What is the degree of responsibility of those watching, if there are no longer any physical barriers  – no doors, walls, or screens – to voyeurism? "I'm not filming, we're going live!"

Living Scared Kyohairwe Kay
Living Scared

Kyohairwe Kay

2017

Uganda / 25 mins
“Living Scared” is a short story of violated rights, sexuality and acceptability and means of survival. Coupled with social conflicts and the challenges of a homophobic community, the film tells a tale of a humanity and what it means to be human.

liz/james/stillholes

Liz Rosenfeld

2017

Germany, USA / 8 mins
An exploration of cruising glory holes, feminism, and general queer frustration.

Looper Farfisa Song
Looper: Farfisa Song

Iain Gardner

2017

UK / 3 mins
(Introducing Mustard & Ketchup)
Watch...https://youtu.be/pCiFnljtBbs

Lost

Jorge Dopacio Fernández

2017

Spain / 15 mins
Algunas veces te tienen que recordar ciertas tragedias, para que no tires la toalla en el intento de conseguir tus sueños.

Lost Souls Of Tomorrow
Lost Souls of Tomorrow / Portret Izgubljenim

Jan Krevatin

2017

Slovenia / 7 mins
Tom and Noah discuss their friendship on the last sunset before Tom leaves.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/231449871

Lost Track of Time

Queer Youth Media Project

2017

USA / 7 mins

Lotus Lantern
Lotus Lantern

Xingpei Shen

2017

USA/ China, 7 mins
A short documentary on the intersections of drag, identity and community from the perspectives of six drag artists at varying stages in their careers. Join the drag performers, Mother, The Earl Grey, BooHoo Mann, YuGiHoe
Watch… https://vimeo.com/242858238

Love & Suppression

Samuel Foxton

2017

Ireland / 4 mins
Love and Suppression, a short film about the remarkable impact of HIV treatment on people’s lives. Love & Suppression tells the story of how learning about the powerful prevention impact of HIV treatment has changed the lives of an Irish couple. Robbie and Maurice explain how they, as participants in the landmark PARTNER study, are living proof that a person living with HIV on effective treatment cannot pass on HIV to their sexual partner.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/239810700

Love Phantom

Fuyuhiko Takata

2017

Japan / 1 min
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/558857538

Love Will Set You Free Quanah Style
Love Will Set You Free

Quanah Style

2017

Canada / 4 mins
The newest music video from Vancouver’s Styles, Love Will Set You Free follows her from Sunset Beach to Davie Street – where love is in the air.
Watch… https://youtu.be/9gD-6-WZkMY  

Love With A Colonial Scent
Love with a Colonial Scent / Amor con tufo a colonia

Joelle Laguer

2017

Puerto Rico, USA / 104 mins
Con vistas impresionantes como telón de fondo, este documental analiza la situación colonial y la bancarrota de Puerto Rico para centrarse en el debate sobre el matrimonio gay en la isla.

Love. No Boundaries

Monisha Ajgaonkar,
Archana Thapliyal

2017

India / 2mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/ztV6lYDdIgs

Lovechild

Sonja Madani

2017

Austria / 17 mins
A younger mistress, a secret student-teacher love affair and a love child. The source of many emotional dramas, this story takes the audience through the life of one family who handled these ordinary occurrences in an extra-ordinary way.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/241949986

Lovers In The Middle Of The World
Lovers in the Middle of the World /
Amores En La Mitad Del Mundo

Jorge Vega Reyes

2017

Ecuador / 8 mins
In a city crossed by the imaginary line, an accident will make the intertwining stories of Ena, Lea, Luis, Diego and Flor. From that moment on, their lives will change forever and many secrets will be discovered.

Luana DinizLuana Diniz

Filha da Lua,
Leonardo Menezes,
Rian Cordova

2017

Brazil / 78 mins
 Descubra a vida de 'Luana Muniz - Filha da Lua', um filme de Rian Córdova e Leonardo Menezes. O documentário narra a história da famosa travesti, que criou polêmica ao usar o bordão “Travesti não é bagunça” na TV.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/IA21VSIzjxQ

MA

Stacia Warren,
Vera Miao

2017

USA / 15 mins
Like many traditional Chinese mother-daughter relationships, MONA still lives at home under the stern but loving eye of her MA. And like many children of immigrant parents, Mona both worships her mother and is suffocated by her. When Mona leaves the house, its as if she can breathe freely. In the building elevator, she meets cute ERICA, the charming butch who just moved in next door. Whenever Mona is around Erica, things have a way of flying around on their own. Mona has the power to move things with her mind and she can't always control it. But Mona's instant chemistry with Erica awakens something dormant in her and she can finally stop hiding. She's in love. Of course, Ma notices and she's not going to let her daughter go easily. When Ma hounds and bullies Mona through their house, the long simmering fight exploding between them is ugly. Erica intervenes, but nothing can prepare her for learning what happens when Mona loves you...

Maceradas

Rubén Rolando Solla

2017

Puerto Rico / 8 mins
Maceradas cuenta la historia de Ismael, un joven inmigrante quien se aproxima a las plantas medicinales para la sanación emocional tras la deportación de su pareja Abey. Su memoria se resguarda en elementos de la naturaleza y todo el proceso traumático se disipa a través de la autosanación, vinculando en una narración introspectiva componentes sociológicos, históricos y místicos. Esta producción contó para la utilería con elementos escultóricos y pinturas que su director elaboró para la historia.

Mamá2. Familias homoparentales

Sofía París,
Marta Parra,
Miguel Modrego,
Alba Romero,
Javier Alcaine

2017

Spain /10:18 mins

Ma Maqueen
Ma'maqueen

Esmee Van Loon

2017

Netherlands
In this short documentary we see the fashionable centipede Dennis Bijleveld: fashion designer, positieveling and drag queen.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/276306792

Mañana a la Mañana

Kalen Lopez

2017

7 mins
En una fiesta un grupo de amigues se pelean. A tra­vés de la noche se revela el verdadero motivo de lo sucedido y las relaciones entre cada uno de elles.

Manly Mountain of Men

Karolin Twiddy

2017

Germany / 3 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/244239301

Margoth et Kassandra

León Landázuri

2017

México, Canada / 5 mins
Margoth y Kassandra llevaban una vida normal hasta que conocen a Kordell, un caballero francés que cambia física y psicológicamente a una de ellas.

Maria

Elen Linth

2017

Brazil / 18 mins
Born at 16, in a city bloody with chest and stick bodies.
Nascida aos 16, numa cidade ensanguentada por corpos de peito e pau.

Mark Me

Erin Batchelder

2017

USA / 26 mins
This handmade documentary sheds light on the multigenerational impact of the AIDS crisis on one Irish Catholic family.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/126604433

Masc4Masc

Sian Williams

2017

UK / 2:42 mins
Spoken word piece exploring the toxicity of hook-up apps.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/yeDjLxVRP60

May I Help You

Yamin Oo

2017

Myanmar / 26 mins
"May I help you" is the slogan of the Myanmar police, but it does not apply to everyone, as LGBTIQ individuals are harassed by the police all over the country. In this investigative documentary, victims of police harassment voice their experiences with structural discrimination.

Maybe

Kat Cole

2017

USA / 10 mins
After a chance encounter in Waikiki, a young Filipina teen explores her sexuality in secret.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/259528070

Me Become Us

Moran Shina

2017

Israel / 3 mins
A short animtaion documentary about love, adoption and parenthood. The story of two gay parents' adoption process as told by one of the fathers.

Me gustan los chicos

Carlos Ocho

2017

Spain / 4 mins
Cortometraje de Víctor Arbelo dirigido por Carlos Ocho apoyando la lucha contra la homofobia.
Watch... https://youtu.be/nRHo0ANj92Y

Meanwhile, Koren

Mili Tibri,
Yarin Bibas

2017

Israel / 8 mins
Koren, a young transsexual woman, discusses the long and difficult process of transformation she underwent, and the place where she is today – a normative, ordinary life.

Meat

Vishesh Pires

2017

USA /  8 mins
Could this be true vegan love, forever?

Merci

Solmaz Etemad

2017

Iran / 4 mins
Love is continuing in the world.

Mi Barba

Carre Real

2017

8 mins
An art video about gender noncon- forming queerness. Being a Black, Cuban, immigrant, bearded, gender nonconforming queer is a personal and social challenge.In this art video we evoke Ancestors and Orishas to protect and guide us.The love and creativity in the dimension of dreams help us to heal and continue the over and over again struggle in this full of contradictions and magic world.
Watch… https://youtu.be/lUt3HhkyLGA

Mighty Real

Vicente Ugartechea

2017

USA / 6 mins
A young trans person embodies confidence and power in this cross-generational sexual encounter.

Mikele Ekhine Etxeberria
Mikele

Ekhiñe Etxeberria

2017

Spain
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/194357362

Mirada

Angie Barrios

2017

Colombia / 15 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/7A0gWYXJu5Y

Mise A Nu Guillaume Dallaporta
Mise À Nu

Guillaume Dallaporta

2017

France / 5 mins
Anne Störker est une célébrité très connue dans le monde du cinéma. Dans quelque minutes, elle va faire un discours très attendu, et pour l’occasion, en révéler plus sur sa vie privée. Mais ces quelques minutes d’avant discours ne se passent pas comme celle-ci l’aurait voulu…
Watch... https://vimeo.com/229691995

Mobile Hai Kai
Mobile Hai Kai

Lilian Werneck

2017

Brazil / 20 mins
Um filme de amor entre duas jovens: Maria Clara, surda, e Olívia, cega. Depois de um encontro casual na Oficina Pessoas Extraordinárias, se aproximam e se tocam: percepções visuais e sonoras definem a intensa relação entre as duas. Porém, o preconceito familiar quase transforma a relação em tragédia. O tocar, o dialogar e o ser. Três momentos de um curta HaiKai.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/h09r_qD4sz8

Moment#2

Yaser Alnazar,
Matthias Bayr,
Julia Bern-hardt,
Johannes Frauenschuh

2017

Austria / 11 mins
A remake of Moment #1 (Basra,’13), this film tells the story of a dancer who has to prove herself. She finds herself struggling underwater, the clock ticks only backwards and her reality shifts. The film questions the potential of using moments to either “fail” or “succeed” in the irrationality of everyday life.

Momi

Amitai Martin Rawlings

2017

Israel / 8 mins
Momi is an unusual person. On the one hand he is a talented and charismatic dancer, who has performed on stages in Israel and across the world; on the other – he is caught in a constant search for his identity and is painfully alienated from his Family. Director Amitai Rawlings sets out to study the strong impression Momi has left on him from the first moment he met him, as a child.

Monstruos Benny Rios
Monstruos

Benny Rios

2017

Perú / 14 mins
Ramiro es especial. Vive en su mundo de comics y películas donde sus personajes son monstruos o están en camino de serlo. Un día se reencuentra con una ex pareja y recibe el beso de un extraño. Desde ese momento todo en su vida se empieza a transformar.
Watch… https://youtu.be/vrArufR8glA

Møtes I Døra

Det sporadiske filmkollektivet

2017

Norway / 15 mins
Nader and Janne share a tense moment in a bus doorway. This chance encounter transports them into a shared reality. As one door closes behind them, countless others open. Coincidence, or is it fate, causes their paths to cross a second time, and together, the couple must fight to face both minor challenges and major surprises.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/208557069

Mujer Y Filipina
Mujer y filipina

Luis J. Barroso

2017

Spain / 17 mins
Una pareja está celebrando su quinto aniversario pero él tiene urgencia por contar una cosa bastante peculiar.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/jz_FrhENGCw

Muy Joven Para Amar
Muy joven para amar

Peter Hornedo

2017

Puerto Rico / 16 mins
En la noche de celebración de sus treinta años, Eddie opta por utilizar una aplicación de citas con la esperanza de salir de su soltería. Es así como conoce a Ricky... encontrando el amor, pero perdiendo su libertad.

My Girlfriend's Gay Friend

Mark Lester

2017

USA / 7 mins
What would you do if your significant other had a friend they were more intimate with than you?
Watch... https://youtu.be/aLWLzUa2Qyk

My Horrible Attempt at Dating

Christina Iturbe

2017

USA / 13 mins
When 25-year-old Jamie gets dumped by her girlfriend of three years, her entire world shatters. Now she needs to get her life together and part of that is dating again. Yet the modern dating scene comes with complications.

My Sharemate

Asako Tanaka

2017

Japan / 25 mins
“Both ... women ...” The confessed words of Ryoko, who live together, confessed that they were dating a common friend.

My Skin Xudit Casas
My Skin

Xudit Casas

2017

Spain / 3 mins
Un canto a las diferentes opciones de amor a personas, cosas, lugares… Siendo tan diferentes, ¿cómo vamos a amar igual?
Trailer... https://youtu.be/P77TtYAuFPg

Myself

Pei-Rong Song,
Zong-Yam Tsai

2017

Taiwan / 2 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/DisuFIfzj3w

Na Esquina Da Minha Rua Favorita Com A Tua
Na Esquina da Minha Rua Favorita com a Tua

Alice Name-Bomtempo

2017

Brazil / 18 mins
Helena foi ao cinema e conheceu Tainá. Tudo que aconteceu depois foi só um quase e, por algum motivo, não foi. Ou talvez tenha sido.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/B_iafhjqWz0

Naranja Hanna Isua
Naranja

Hanna Isua

2017

Colombia / 3 mins
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/229433241

Native Snaglines

Howard Adler

2017

Canada / 5 mins
In the Native community, “snagging” is slang for picking up, or hooking up, with that special person you’ve had your eye on. In this short film, “What’s your best Snagline?” is the question that’s posed to the local Indigenous community in Ottawa, resulting in fun and tantalizing responses.

Naturally Lazy Naomi Wong
Naturally Lazy

Naomi Wong

2017

UK / 9 mins
Tom returns home for easter break. Bored and aimlessly wandering around town trying to pass the time, he hangs out with his friends. The boys spend the day playing football and sneaking cigarettes. Tom and Dylan are left alone together before sharing something else.
Watch... https://youtu.be/eqRBSZDHKcc

Nature is not racist

Susana Romero

2017

4 mins
In a habitat bogged down by racism, a queer Colombiana emerges into the solace of nature.

Near Change Andre Sogliuzzo
Near Change

André Sogliuzzo

2017

USA, Germany
Sometimes in life you find yourself at a crossroads between who you are, and the life you've been living. Dino and his best friend and associate Tony, are mid-level mafia foot soldiers. As they wait for breakfast in a diner, on an ordinary day like any other, Dino realizes he has reached his fork in the road. Unless “this” is all there is…something is going to have to change.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/231012596

Nebulah

José Montoro

2017

Perú / 9 mins
Nebulah, uno de los Drag Queen más reconocidos de Lima - Perú con 8 años mostrando su arte nos cuenta desde sus inicios en el mundo del drag, y como la gente influyo en su trabajo ganando en poco tiempo miles de seguidores. Su pasión, su alegría cada vez que sube al escenario, las ganas y el cariño del público hacen que Nebulah tenga mas fuerza para seguir sorprendiendo en cada presentación que realiza.
Watch… https://youtu.be/KWZ7pYZpThk

Netflix + Chill

Finn Peaks,
Fauri Cate

2017

Germany / 9 mins
Two queer boys want to relax in bed in front of a Netflix show.

Nighttime

Barak Cohen

2017

Israel / 11 mins
Leaving his house late at night for an encounter with a man he met online, Dan is confronted with questions about innocence and his own identity.

No Fim De Tudo
No fim de tudo

Victor Ciriaco

2017

Brazil / 14 mins
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/218074552

No Leash
No Leash 

SSION

2017

USA / 12 mins
Mykki Blanco and SSION suture quotes from Courtney Love, Joan Didion and Anna Nicole Smith into this wild hyperactive commentary on modern America.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/SwdUufJAW4o

Not Like Them /
Pas comme eux

Jonathan Lemieux

2017

 

Canada / 6 mins
Coming to terms with his avid pornography consumption in his teens, the director explores his relationship to his sexuality and his distorted visions of beauty and masculinity.

Not Yet Ainda Nao
Not Yet /
Ainda Não

Julia Leite

2017

Brazil / 21 mins
In the days before her birthday, Marina receives a visit from her mother.

Nos dias que precedem seu aniversário, Marina recebe a visita de sua mãe.

Nova

Ariel Mahler

2017

NOVA is a film about a trans woman of color navigating the throes of transphobic life in NYC. The film presents Nova, the title character, as a human above all else, complete with her own lovable traits and flaws, as she struggles to make sense of a new romantic partner who doesn’t know she’s trans, an HIV scare that challenges her self-worth, homophobia in the workplace, and a trans support group that has become jaded by hopelessness.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/225791701

O que você não vê. A prostituição vista por nós mesmas

Angela Donini
,Flavia Viana,
Marina Cavalcanti,
Tais Lobo

2017

Portugal / 9 mins
WHAT YOU DON’T SEE asserts sex workers’ right to the city and challenges stigmatizing discourses about prostitution through images, texts and audio produced by sex workers during Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Watch… https://youtu.be/ZoCYHhPn2Gs

Obeah From Tomorrow

Eva Wǒ

2017

2 mins
If all the oppressions that marginalized me were gone how would I arrive? We had to go to the future to answer this question. The year is 2040, where Obeah is 50 years old, and in love with herself. This unselfish love was achieved through work; both the nonlinear journey of personal healing and the systemic work to dismantle capitalism through organizing. The piece takes place moments before a gala celebration of decades of labor and the 5-year anniversary of liberation; when she is in deep reflection of her journey.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/227187959

Off-Side

Isabella Abad Pinedo

2017

Perú / 13 mins

Oggi Sono Passato e Tu Non C’eri

Canecapovolto,
Elisa Abela

2017

Italy / 45 mins
Rock and Roll, noise, collages su carta e progetti oscuri, Jung, l’uomo e la massa, sogno e veglia, costruzione e distruzione, palazzi e condominio. Già all’inizio di questo documentario/film saggio era chiaro che il metodo giusto per sapere non era fare ordine nelle visioni di Elisa Abela, artista visuale e musicista, ma di favorirne ed accelerarne il disordine. Oggi sono passato e tu non c’eri è un viaggio leggero ed ignoto, divertente ed a tratti enigmatico verso il nulla, risultato di un metodo compositivo spesso anti-cinematografico, inventato in corsa e condiviso con una piccola comunità di anime che hanno preso parte al racconto, generandolo a loro volta. Ancora una volta “Nulla è Vero. Tutto è Permesso”.

Oh No Pedro Annlin Chao
Oh No Pedro

Annlin Chao

2017

UK / 3 mins
A story of a young man who has lost his words, his thoughts, and his gender identity. Those eyes are always sharp as knives, yet the secret insides him is no longer hidden, waiting to be free by himself.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/234206267

Ojos Tristes

Andrew Arnold

2017

USA / 19 mins
A closeted Chicano teen, Mateo, travels from El Paso, TX to visit his sister, Lupita, a struggling actress in Hollywood. But, what Lupita doesn’t know is that Mateo has plans to meet someone else in Los Angeles while he's there.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/157655545

Olhos

Weslle Fellippe de Araujoa

2017

USA

On the Way of Blossom

Kai Hui Huang

2017

Taiwan, Malaysia / 32mins
In order to live with Kelly, Tang left Malaysia to come to Taiwan to become a college student at the age of 35. They dream of starting a family.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/AeXGGARRKwA

One Life to Live - An Evening With Ernesto Tomasini

Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky

2017

UK / 20 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/248907993

One of You

Nir Arad

2017

Israel / 9 mins
Rotem Lutsky 16-year-old girl, just wants to be in a body she likes. She wants her classmates not to treat her as a mystery or an alien. The film follows Rotem in school, and in her journey of Coming Out of the closet as transgender.

One Thousand Tales Hezar Afsan
One Thousand Tales /
Hezar Afsan

Asghar Safar,
Abbas Jalali Yekta

2017

Iran / 8 mins
The White Ogre attacks the city and kidnaps the young king. Rostam is set to find and return him.

Only Human

Ashley T Mac Nicol

2017

USA / 16 mins
Two couples face the everyday trials of being gay. based on true events. 
Watch... https://youtu.be/LI9nfFXzllY

Only HumanMichael Resin
Only Human

Michael Resin

2017

3 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/c81hDWlIEq8

OUT NZ

Greta Yeoman

2017

New Zealand / 23 mins
Six LGBTQ Kiwis talk of their experiences of coming out, being out and the idea of progress for LGBTQ rights in a country that decriminalised homosexual relationships 30 years ago and legalised same-sex marriage in 2013.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/213283659

Out: A Self Portrait

Danny Curley

2017

USA / 5 mins
Through the exploration of movies and music videos, the filmmaker allows the audience to observe his internal struggles of self-hatred and insecurity with the process of coming to terms with his sexuality.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/255657890

Pajaré

Damián San Martín

2017

Colombia / 3’:45 mins
Enjaulados en el género crecen los seres, pero en este mundo de jaulas nace Pajaré, el héroe que no encaja. Con gran sentido del humor Pajaré nos muestra su fuerza interna que lo ayudará a liberarse, su superpoder de transgredir las opresiones y descubrir un mundo lleno de posibilidades.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/205711103

Pancit Canton

Taylor Bennett

2017

Philippines / 3 mins
Two young women fill their halcyon holiday with sex and smoke as a sweet soundtrack reminds us of the ways that new love consumes us and colors our view of the world.

Para Ruy

Christian Incháustegui

2017

México / 5 mins
Una pareja de hombres encuentra problemas y violencia en su relación, la cual sólo puede ser reparada a través del sexo y la lujuria.

Partout Ailleurs
Partout ailleurs

Antoinette Giret

2017

France / 5 mins
Assis sur un toit parisien, Dalil, Leila et Doria songent à leurs plaisirs de jeunesse. Et si ces bonheurs leur étaient interdits?

Paula

Claudia Muñoz Vélez

2017

Spain / 17 mins
Paula es una mujer audaz que ha ido en contra de la sociedad y de su familia para conseguir lo que siempre quiso. Ha sido capaz de construir, junto a Agustín, una relación a base de una mentira que está acabando con su conciencia. ¿Qué tan difícil puede ser confesarle la verdad a la persona que amas?
Watch… https://youtu.be/oJbbgZRLEYM

Pehchaan Chirag Khatri
Pehchaan

Chirag Khatri

2017

India / 15 mins
Trapped in the world of a small town, this is the story of Suraj and Chandu and their tryst with life, love, homosexuality and freedom
Trailer… https://youtu.be/fh5_wBiOVOA

Perros de Luna

Alejandro Grande

2017

Spain / 9 mins
No importa el sexo de aquellos que se aman, o eso piensa Gonzalo. El actor está enamorado de Enrique y quiere que este se una a su lucha por cambiar la sociedad que les impide vivir su amor.

Physicality /
Uttar Thaguthi

V Ramanathan

2017

India / 18 mins
Krithika and Shireen are friends who strive for societal recognition of their preferred and lived gender. Shireen drives a taxi to support herself and nurses a dream to be a popular theater actress while Krithika focuses on becoming a police officer.

Pili and Me /
Pili Y Yo

Ignacio Garcia Sanchez

2017

Spain / 8 mins
Pili has Down’s Syndrome and it is her inability to tell what she wants that makes her nephew reflect about the importance of listening. The filmmaker uses home movies from three generations to illustrate his own family.

Pink Erasure

Piper Lambert-Vail,
Jaylen McKeever,
Elle Lapsen,
Jess Villa

2017

USA / 5 mins
Seattle queers share their experiences of identity erasure and hopes for the future.

Pink Paste

Kelsy Gossett

2017

USA / 4 mins
A woman stands in a bathroom alone; the water running. She and her partner begin to brush each other’s teeth. Pink, sparkly toothpaste foams from both mouths.
Watch...https://youtu.be/rCvGrmW8pno

Planet Z

Jen Robles

2017

USA / 5 mins
Disseminated across the galaxy, queer humans of color alight on a deserted earth.

Plant Dreaming Deep

Charlotte Clermont

2017

Canada / 7 mins
Following a diary-like aesthetic, deep colours and thick textures covers images of nature. Distorted by analog manipulations, their materiality seem to capture a sense of discovery and, at the same time, a feeling of oppression. Surprisingly, the images oscillates between being very close and distant, playing with absurdity and intensity. Like if someone was entering a mysterious place and going out very quickly, Plant Dreaming Deep is probably a joyfully overwhelming glimpse of transitions happening in daily-life.

Platónico

David Montosa

2017

Spain / 2 mins
The voyeur’s perspective is now more popular than ever, observing and looking at the other without shame or rest is a daily practice, a pastime in front of the screen: think, imagine and look for that other that is fictitious.

Pocky

Eva Wö

2017

USA / 1:35 mins
A personal meeting that includes butt plugs, intimacy and strong eye contact.

Polari
Polari!

Chris Brake

2017

UK / 15 mins
​There was a time when the persecuted gay men of Britain might greet each other with "bona to varda your dolly old eek"; a common phrase in their secret slang language of Polari.  The 'Polari' documentary explores the sad story behind the camp cryptolect, and profiles the men who spoke it, as well as those who rejected it.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/255355293

Por nós, pelas outras, por mim

Ingrid M. Abage,
Larissa Araújo,
Lorena Monteiro

2017

Brazil / 18:10 mins
Por nós, pelas outras, por mim! é um projeto experimental que faz uma cobertura da Marcha das Vadias 2017, desde sua preparação intelectual até o momento em que tomam as ruas em protesto. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/kOA0va36j1w

Positive Youtubers A Ma Chinima Documentary
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary

Leandro Goddinho

2017

Brazil / 15 mins
A student documentary film all-made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about 4 Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status, in a very positive way.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/250775380

Post Love Story

Elísabet Elma Guðrúnardóttir

2017

Czech Republic / 20 mins
Our vision sometimes doesn't mesh with reality, as a young woman from Germany coming to visit her girlfriend in the Czech Republic knows very well. Without any friends, but brimming with the depth of emotion for her partner, she must figure out how to find her place in the new environment.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/261907853

Prazeres Lucas Mendes
Prazeres

Lucas Mendes

2017

Brasil / 10 mins
A primeira experiência de um jovem que vai a uma festa de BDSM em São Paulo, numa sauna na rua Aurora. Conforme ele adentra o local, são mostradas pessoas em diferentes ambientes, praticando fetiches diversos: suspensão, fist fuck, bondage, rubber, spank, entre outros. O protagonista caminha entre todas essas formas de prazer até encontrar a sua própria.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/8GccLGXtNww

Prename Jorge Pratts
Préñame

Jorge Pratts

2017

Puerto Rico / 5 mins
Un conductor de Uber monta en su auto a un extraño cliente. En su viaje por calles de un Santurce post-María, el cliente le confiesa al chofer algo que acaba de descubrir sobre la naturaleza humana.

PrEP 17 – The Coming of Age PrEP 17 The Coming Of Age Of PrEP
of PrEP

Nicholas Feustel

2017

UK / 36 mins
In 2015, film director Nicholas Feustel made his first documentary film about the England PROUD PrEP trial. The film was screened at community events across the UK, and formed the focus for PrEPster’s Pushing for PrEP community information campaign.

In 2017, Feustel came back to London to tell a story of what happened after his first documentary. In “PrEP 2017” he interviews PrEP activists, current and former PrEP users, doctors and policy-makers. The movie was commissioned by the PrEPster organization and shows how pre-exposure prophylaxis treatment has become available to thousands of people despite problems the health system faces nowadays.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/214791866

Proyección 'Despedida #1'

David Pallás

2017

Spain / 10 mins / Web Series
“Despedida”, calificado como el acto de decir adiós a alguien o algo con un enlace dramático, triste, humorístico o violento, pero siempre necesario y de carácter liberatorio.  Primer episodio de la web serie “despedidas”, creada por el zaragozano David Pallás.

Pubik

Ozan Ünlükoç

2017

Turkey / 22 secs

Pussyhatsbild Kopia
Pussyhats och vårt dåliga samvete

Annika Ivarsson,
Astrid Askberger

2017

Sweden / 11 mins
Hur kommer det sig att tusentals kvinnor stickade rosa pussyhats och klev ut på gatorna och sjöng I can’t keep quiet för drygt ett år sedan ? Vad ville de säga och vad fick de sagt? I Göteborg samlades människor som stickade, fikade, pratade politik och sjöng. Den 8 mars fylldes Götaplatsen av ett hav av rosa pussyhats. Nu kommer revolutionen - men vi hann inte med den… Med avstamp i manifestationerna reflekterar regissörerna Annika Ivarsson och Astrid Askberger över den politiska kampens lockelse, svårighet och nödvändighet.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/261006620

Puto

David González

2017

Spain / 5 mins
Un joven y frío y morboso cliente contrata los servicios de un chapero.
Watch... https://youtu.be/JvTjDVKSHEs

Quaestio

Nicola Leddy

2017

UK / 1 min
Thomas Michael is an award nominated choreographer who has worked extensively in the commercial world choreographing music videos, commercials, musical theatre and plays. Growing up, Thomas was taunted and bullied about his sexuality. He grew up in a family of football-lovers and always felt like an outsider. A chance meeting with Joshua inspired him so much that he choreographed a contemporary dance piece using movement truly stemming from difference and disability.
Watch... https://youtu.be/o8ciX8QsWzc

Quando O Dia Acaba
Quando O Dia Acaba

Pedro Gonçalves

2017

Portugal / 15 mins
The portrait of a homoparental family: Marta and Mariana are married and live with their two children Matias (four years old) and a one year old girl, Maria Mar. With them lives Madiba, a nice Dalmatian. How does the love between these people can be materialized in small gestures?

Quarto Camarim

Camele Lyra Queiroz,
Farbicio Silva Ramos

2017

Brazil / 101 mins
A niece seeks to find her uncle after twenty-seven years with no contact.Trailer… https://youtu.be/euujsFvMzYE

Queer Porn Americana
Queer Porn Americana

Chelsea Poe

2017

USA / 60 mins
Queer Porn Americana is AVN-nominated performer Chelsea Poe’s directorial debut that blends the worlds of experimental film, queer music and queer porn. It stars Tiffany Starr, Crona Valentine, and a crop of fresh new queer porn faces like GodsGirl/clip star Ella Bryn, the film’s co-producer and Kelly Quell, who appears with Australian performer Marina Lee in a scene that will leave you clutching your pearls, literaly. The film visits places like Chicago, Vegas, and Grand Rapids “to capture just a tiny slice of what queer sex is like all over the country,” explains director Chelsea Poe.

Queer Royals Paola Reyes
Queer Royals

Paola Reyes

2017

Puerto Rico / 15 mins
Un colectivo emergente conocido como House Of De Show comparte sus experiencias y dificultades para mantenerse al día con sus presentaciones performáticas mensuales y, a veces, semanales, y reflexiona sobre su primer aniversario como grupo.

Queere Tiere

Ana Angel

2017

Germany / 5 mins
Gay giraffes, promiscuous bonobos and lesbian albatrosses: The rapper sookee shows that being queer is anything but unnatural.

Jedem Tierchen sein Pläsierchen: ein kunterbunter Bilderreigen zur Geschlechterdebatte. Mensch, Natur und Fantasie-Tierchen reichen sich die Fühler.
Sookee ist eine queerfeministische Rapperin aus Berlin. Sie engagiert sich gegen Homophobie und Sexismus im Hip-Hop sowie gegen Rassismus in Deutschland.
Watch...https://youtu.be/E1zaKaP6i4o

Queering Ballet

Bo Justine

2017

USA / 5 mins
Meet Katy Pyle, the artistic director of the New York based queer dance company Ballez, who is turning traditional ideas of gender and ballet on their head.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/257891936

Raatoke Hamsafar
Raatoke Hamsafar

Aakanksha Saggherr Loadhii

2017

USA

Rambling Girls /
Garotas Errantes

Kis Keya,
Paula Lice,
Rodrigo Luna,
Ronei Jorge

2017

 

Belgium / 26 mins
Manon and Julie, two teenage girls, meet at a bus station. They both missed the bus. The next one is in 24 hours. They decide to not go home and wander together in the city, waiting for the next departure

Reality Fragment 160921

Jasmine,
April Lin

2017

UK / 14 mins
The film follows two girls in their process of reality – curation as they create their own spaces against and via understandings of distance. How do these multiple lived worlds, each their own amalgamation of memories, sensations, thoughts, coexist with de facto presentations of distance, history, and totality?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/FPKlQjuSZyw

Reboot Love

Ismael Caneppele

2017

 

Finland / 5 mins
Reboot (verb): (with reference to a computer system) boot or be booted again. 
‘the new value will not be in force until you reboot the system’.  Reboot Love is a dreamy experimental documentary piece that takes a form of a dance in a night club. Based on four personal love stories from anonymous contributors it highlights the universality of love, including queer and non monogamous views aside others. The film was made in 48 hours by directors & lovers Martin Jäger and Laura Rämö as part of Kino Love - film making challenge organized by Euphoria Borealis.

Reign

Jeannette Deron

2017

USA / 10 mins
Reign is a short film that showcases the fashion creations of designers Dru Acosta and Omar Cisneros (aka DeL'Hacienda). A piece that embodies sentiments of self-love, temptation, and sacrifice. Atmospheres of the deep forest combine with a theme of royalty as the subject's inner turmoil is exposed, yet their supreme beauty is pristine and unfaltering.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/207209732

Relationships Ching Yu Yang
Relationships

Ching-Yu Yang

2017

Taiwan / 3 mins
Electrifying stories of intertwining relationships.

Renan

Heloisa Bastos,
Renan Santos

2017

Brazil / 5 mins
“Ela não. Ele!”

Retorno

Geovanny Polo

2017

Puerto Rico / 8 mins
Dos desconocidos coinciden en una casa de campo para vacacionar. En el transcurso del día, se cruzan en varios lugares, pero por temor a ser juzgados evitan encontrarse frente a frente. Al caer la noche, el inevitable encuentro entre ambos los lleva a escaparse del lugar hasta encontrar un refugio abandonado, en el que nadie puede señalarlos.

Rodrigo Cuevas Campo Y Tablas
Rodrigo Cuevas. Campo y tablas

Manuel García Postigo, Ojos de hojalata

2017

Spain / 38 mins
“Soy Rodrigo Cuevas y soy agitador folclórico” así se presenta este joven artista asturiano. Y es que la transgresión y la provocación es su seña de identidad. Pero más allá de lo que el espectador pueda ver en sus shows, tras las madreñas y el liguero se esconde un músico con un gran talento y formación. Este documental entrará en la vida de Rodrigo para ofrecernos un retrato cercano e íntimo del artista. Sus reflexiones, sus miedos, sus sueños de futuro…”
Trailer… https://youtu.be/oFL-2OpoeWM

Roma

Charles C.S. Ferreira

2017

Brazil / 20 mins
Julia se sente desconfortável com a religiosidade de sua mãe, que embora muito comprometida com sua fé, deposita toda a sua confiança no líder religioso da igreja local. Ao mesmo tempo, Julia entra em um dilema moral ao se ver apaixonada por Bárbara, uma nova integrante de sua igreja.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/210855688

Romulo Dileandro Dios

Gonzalo Scapuzzi,
Gastón Volpi

2017

Argentina / 108 mins
A staircase leading up a number of stories from the street separate Romulo and his boyfriend. Both live in the bedroom by a patio, a miniscule runway for take-off that allows them to fly in their adventure that is marital, artistic, pornographic and spiritual; though those categories blur their borders to become the same fuel that creates a shapeless trail that crosses heaven and earth.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/285149064

Round One

Ella Sowinska

2017

Australia / 4 mins
Round One creates a portrait of Nicola Stevens, who played in the first professional Australian Football League women’s game in 2017.

Routine

Wes Akwuobi

2017

USA | 6 mins
Dwayne, a recently out standup comedian, shares a dating experience with his audience—and discovers quite a bit about his new community.

Royal Jelly

Stephanie Burbano

2017

Canada / 9:53 mins
A vivid exploration of drag brought about by experimentation and a unique insight into life.

RQY Behind-The-Scenes: Seattle & Tacoma

Halil Aybar,
Jackie Moffitt

2017

USA / 4 mins
Here’s what it looks like to make a film in seven days!

Sabburah

Ibrahim Rana

2017

 

Pakistan / 49 mins
Aesthetically gloomy in its mood yet greatly cinematic, Sabburah revolves around a mother trying to overcome the sorrow of her loss through the memories and videotapes shot by her dead son. She follows her instincts to unfold secrets, as she leaves her house to find the reason that took her son away from her. The family drama climaxes into savage reality when she finds out the truth behind her son’s death.

Sagas & Sissies /
Sagen en Mietjes

The Transketeers

2017

Netherlands / 4:52 mins
A kids program in which the Transketeers dig up the queer history of The Netherlands.

Sam

Miguel Moura

2017

Brazil / 8 mins
Julia quer implodir.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/229632109

Sam

Stephanie Camacho Casillas

2017

Puerto Rico / 10 mins
A cash-strapped, young trans man struggles to integrate himself into Puerto Rico’s conservative job market and must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in order to live.

Sam and Eden

Maxwell B. Weaver

2017

Eden was perfect... but he wasn't.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/199530069

Same Love

Portia Mncadi

2017

 

South Africa / 35 mins
Lindiwe a 20 year old lesbian girl with the fear of rejection, she struggles to reveal her sexual identityto her parents. Lindiwe gets a visit from her girlfriend and after an emotional roller coaster, she finallygets the courage to tell her mother about her sexual identity.

Sam's Story

Gender Creative Kids Canada

2017

Canada / 4 mins
A child's identity journey through social gender norms.

San Pablo (En Primera Persona)

Jorge Bordello

2017

México / 17 mins
Relatos de deseo y concepciones de masculinidad de cuatro jóvenes mexicanos. Sus testimonios dan parte mía y de otros cuantos.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/193127766

Sandra

Sergio Glasberg

2017

Brazil / 7 mins
Sandra é uma mulher como muitas outras, mas uma diferença essencial está no fato de ter desejado ser assim como é – apesar das características que a marcariam definitivamente como integrante de outro gênero. O filme mostra, de modo delicado, por meio de vivências cotidianas, um fio que conduz à reflexão: Seriam os conflitos da condição transgênera inerentes ou oriundos da maneira como essas pessoas são vistas e tratadas?

Satyagraha Nuanda Sheridan
Satyagraha

Nuanda Sheridan

2017

Italy / 28 mins
A story of love and reincarnation told through the voyage of an elderly woman travelling through her previous lives. Dreamlike atmospheres, on the border between life and death, intermingle with the colours of the far East, of African lands and the rhythms of bohemian dances, visions that reveal sexuality, secrets and torments of a timeless love.

Savior

Roberto Timperi

2017

Italy / 16 mins
Salvatore talks about his life with spontaneity and naturalness transgressive

Savoia

Elvira

2017

Italy / 3 mins
The Savoia (Savoys) are back: they have formed the first kiki house in Turin, and, on six-inch heels, they are officially entering the Italian and international ballroom scene, ready to receive their crown as reigning monarchs. Awaiting them is a  flock of adoring subjects and a city to be transformed into the voguing capital of Italy.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/234820953

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Julia Carrie

2017

Canada / 10 mins
An intimate and gripping rural ghost story, surrounding a young gay man named Cyrus who unravels the mysterious drowning death of a youth in his community years before.

School Fantasy

Animan

2017

USA / 10 mins
Coach Ben and his young students make an orgy at school…

Seasickness /
Mal de Mer

Branden Wittchen

2017

UK / 5 mins
A short psychological thriller.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/222291205

Selfie Queen /
La Reine des égoportraits

Melvin Gilpin,
Robert Gilpin

2017

5 mins
Things get unpredictable when Aunty Jane is in town!
Watch… https://vimeo.com/205910719

Sense

Jakub Ra

2017

Czech Republic / 11 mins
The end of authorities. The end of hierarchy. The end of gender. A game with the five senses is over. It's time to awaken the cells that have been sleeping for several millennia. A recording of a timeless performance that flows across media and materials, as it unfolded on the Žižkov TV Tower observatory on May 29.
Watch...https://youtu.be/lVjo7WZAvmg

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Dana Cohen,
Tomer Mana

2017

Israel / 8 mins
A bunch of teenagers at a house party decide to play Seven Minutes in Heaven. When Dani gets into the closet with Shiran, she doesn’t realize she will also have to come out.

She Is Juiced Ope Lori
She is Juiced – Ope Lori

Lois Norman

2017

UK / 14 mins
She is Juiced, opens up the worlds, works and creative juices of four powerful and passionate LGBTQIA+ female artists. Filmed with their work, they question and share, how we express all of who we are, and all of who we can dare to be.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/CNPdYIHRhwk

Sickbed

Collander

2017

USA / 5:31 mins
My sick bed is ghost, dream, lover and wound. Together we lurk around, make sense of resistance and love, and figure out creative ways to stretch twelve seasons of Grey’s Anatomy across the next six decades. 
Watch… https://vimeo.com/203647965

Simplemente Soy

Josué Osorio Hernández

2017

México / 3 mins
Ginger tiene a los 25 años la revelación de un sueño y decide empezar una nueva vida como hombre. Actualmente se llama Jackal y tiene 53 años.

Skin /
Pele

Adam Golub

2017

USA, Brazil / 9 mins
Dandara Zainabo has a scar around her belly button from eating bricks as a young child. Today, she is a 19 year old trans activist living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. This experimental portraiture seeks to preserve the spirit of this mighty woman as both powerful and precarious.

Sky Room

Marianna Milhorat

2017

USA / 5 mins
Watch.. https://youtu.be/neApw2LchnQ

Slabberts

Jurg Slabbert

2017

Belgium, South Africa  / 10 mins

Smash Lyrik London
Smash

Lyrik London

2017

SMASH is the Hottest New Dating App & Everybody is Looking for Love. Mostly in all the wrong places. In a world full of sex driven millenials, can two intricate individuals find more than just a one night stand off this dating app SMASH?

So near so far away

Alessandro Varisco

2017

Italy / 15 mins
Andrea, Camilla, Aurora, Marco and Antonio have many things in common: they are 19 years old and are at the last year of high school in a small village in the province of Pordenone. And all five, though for different reasons, end up being isolated from other people, often bullies. The force of that union will help the three protagonists to overcome the fears and difficulties that modern society offers.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/tGbn4lnPATc

Soft

Sasha Kathleen,
Gabi Whybrow

2017

UK / 3 mins
https://vimeo.com/223318820

Solitaire

Anna Maria Staiano

2017

Spain, Italy/ 4 mins
A poetic and symbolic interpretation of sexual and gender dissent which explores the social and family pressure placed on girls in order to make us “good women”.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/258086357

Somos Amor
Somos Amor. Historias de Familias diversas

María Torres Solanot

2017

Spain / 30 mins
Ocho historias de familias diversas. La riqueza de la diversidad frente al concepto de familia tradicional única y excluyente. Familias LGBTIQ, familias monomarentales y familias reconstituidas ponen su voz en este trabajo cuya misión es la sensibilización por medio de la visibilización. Lo que no se ve, lo que no se nombra no existe. Es hora ya de que todos los modelos familiares, orientaciones sexuales e identidades de género ocupen el espacio que les corresponde en la sociedad.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/6iodhBB2owo

Somos Iguais, Mesmo Diferentes

Alunos da EMEF Desembargador Amorim Lima

2017

Brazil / 15 mins
Vídeo realizado por crianças e adolescentes de 8 a 15 anos, alunos de uma escola pública da Zona Oeste de São Paulo/SP, inspirados pelo tema “Fazendo Cinema – Crescendo com a Diversidade”, do Festival Mix Brasil.

Sorellastre Donato Luigi Bruni
Sorellastre

Donato Luigi Bruni

2017

Italy / 90 mins
Un film con le donne, sulle donne e sul legame tra sorelle.

Spark Aharonit Elior
Spark

Aharonit Elior

2017

USA / 6 mins
Everybody has somebody. Just couples; nobody is single. On such days, it is hard to go out and have fun. And who to talk to when everybody has a partner? Staying home seems like a better option, but loneliness gets lonely, the front door seems to be getting bigger and it's becoming impossible to open. And someone's just knocked.

Spilled Magic

Iqrar Rizvi

2017

Canada / 6 mins
Spilled Magic explores the augmentation of drag performance with Bollywood dance and electronically enhanced body extensions. This drag performance investigates and teases technology, drag, and the body by incorporating body extensions with Bollywood dance while addressing the question of “where does individual agency end and social pressure begin?”
Watch… https://vimeo.com/209114636

St. Martin

Jack Barnes

2017

USA / 6 mins
A young queer man struggles with his sexuality and his relationship with his father.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/248433949

STA!

Pêdra Costa

2017

Austria, Brazil, Germany / 6 mins
The heteronormative societal gaze is flipped and reversed in this dynamic and joyful celebration of gender and identity in flux, and the solidarity found within queer communities and networks.

Stardust

Oliver Levi-Malouf

2017

5 mins
During a mental breakdown, Christian – a drug addicted drag queen – is abducted by a lonely and mysterious alien.
Watch… https://youtu.be/iZXe6B-GmLc

Stay Gold Man Up

Ray McEachern

2017

Canada / 25 mins
What began 9 years ago as a drag king competition night at one of the last lesbian bars in Vancouver—the now closed Lick nightclub—has since turned into a monthly multi-gender drag spectacular and queer dance party in East Vancouver. Celebrating kings, queens, and everything in between, Man Up has grown to become indispensable in Vancouver’s vibrant and diverse queer community, proving that drag is for everybody. Stay Gold Man Up features interviews with key figures, attendees, and performers alike. Man Up happens the last Friday of every month at the Cobalt.

Step This Way

Sarah Hill

2017

USA / 12 mins
In this equally hilarious and mortifying animation, a trans passenger navigates the difficulties of air travel. For your safety it is necessary to comply with all binary gender markers you encounter along your journey.  
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/232733246

Steps to Balance 1-5

Molly Garrett

2017

USA / 3 mins
Two characters attempt to balance through five steps. They become the tension, support, conflict and progress that happens within identity and relationships.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/216055303

Still Here

Britney Dennison

2017

Canada / 4 mins
Jason is using art to open up about his experiences – through his photography and paintings he is asking his audience to question what we actually mean when we talk about “bullying.”
Watch...https://vimeo.com/235808000

Still Love

Monica Matute,
Alexander Puga

2017

USA
To all the lovers, this one is for you.
Watch… https://youtu.be/h3j6Fm2TuSs

Stones & Water Weight

Mykki Blanco

2017

7 mins
STONES & WATER WEIGHT responds to the need for new interpretations of HIV+ people. Mykki Blanco is portrayed in tasks that test the limits of the body and physical stress and the boundaries of normative health. STONES & WATER WEIGHT is an exercise in how societies' perceive the fragilities of those who survive with the virus. In this era of globalized fitness culture through the use of social media, "looking healthy" matters much more than actually being healthy. Using endurance as the motivation for the performance, the video creates a new perception of HIV+ people as strong and resilient. Research references include the Atlas myth, the god of endurance that holds the earth and the skies over his shoulders, as well as the never ending climb of the Sisyphus myth.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/245609904

Stop 42

Fiona Rutan,
Ian Buson,
Kartar Bagri,
SailorHank Payne

2017

USA / 6 mins
A mysterious stranger offers a life-altering ultimatum to a teen waiting for their bus.

Stop Drop Roll by Macy Gray

Collier Landry,
Guido Fabris

2017

Watch...https://youtu.be/BDNipFmyhgU

Sum (Heart)

Jaene Castrillon

2017

Canada / 2 mins
Based on ideas of Zen Buddhism and rooted in the 7 Grandfather teachings, Sum (Heart) is a rumination on death, grief and letting go.

Take Me Like The Sea
Take Me Like the Sea

Salty Cheri

2017

Germany / 39 mins
A fantastic queer movie about classical music and sexuality.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/BgI0hXOEwOY

Talk The Ting
Talk the Ting

Shelby Coley

2017

UK / 44 mins
Talk the Ting is a documentary film that follows three queer British Black women who helm a radio show entitled Sistren
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/240522724

Tango Queer /
A Don Agustín Bardi

Carla Gutiérrez Yáñez

2017

Argentina / 3 mins
Bailarines: Francisco Solá y Lucrecio Robledo
Watch... https://youtu.be/onynuHmBUmQ

Tearoom Teteras
Tearoom /
Teteras

Nacho De Paoli,
Dora Schoj

2017

Argentina / 10 mins
Baños públicos. Hombres. Sexo. Alejandro Modarelli y Pablo Castro Videla comparten sus historias sobre el significado de las "teteras" durante la Dictadura militar argentina.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/272582655

Teenage Threesome Scheideweg
Teenage Threesome /
Scheideweg

Arkadij Khaet

2017

Germany / 4 mins
One Boy, One Girl and her Stepbrother. A date goes wrong.
This movie was made for the entrance examination at the Film Academy Baden - Württemberg. The examination was to create a movie under the topic "sexual determination" in only 72 hours time.

That Creature is Me

Or Yahel

2017

Israel / 15 mins
Adam (18) is 'the man of the house', considering and supportive to his recently divorced mother, and knows that Roey, his younger brother (7), imitates almost everything he does. But when he dares to expose his sexual identity to his mother, he is afraid of losing his place and importance in his home.

The Arch Of Fear
The Arch of Fear /
O Arco do Medo

Juan Rodrigues

2017

Brazil / 9 mins
Explorations of homosexuality, race and social class with a little bit of glitter.
Um relato de insurgência. Masculino e feminino caem perante um corpo negro que resiste na busca por liberdade e tempo. Borrando os limites do gênero, na tentativa de simplesmente ser. Um corpo negro que supervive.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/299294168

The Art of Being a Sinner

Ibrahim Mursal

2017

Norway, Sudan / 20 mins
The first gay man to voluntarily reveal himself to the Sudanese population was the artist Ahmed Umar, now based in Norway. It resulted in an extensive discussion on social media, and revealed just as much curiosity as uproar from a culture that initially condemn homosexuality. When Ahmed came out publicly, Ibrahim had the opportunity to confront his homophobia. It also let him find mutual understanding with a man who he had so much in common with, but who also defined what their culture would call “a sinner”.


The Best Moment El Mejor Momento
The Best Moment /
El Mejor Momento

Raúl Navarro

2017

Spain / 4 mins
Timing is essential for that important talk.

The Blade In The Wood Quella Lama Nel Bosco
The Blade in the Wood /
Quella lama nel bosco

Antonio Padovani

2017

Italy / 8 mins
During a hike in the mountains, Gaia and Alessandra find an ancient knife. An inscription on the blade refers to forbidden love between two women in the eighteenth-century . As "medieval" as it may seem, the two girls realize that the love they feel for each other is no less thwarted than that of their ancestors. A cruel and ancient curse that has not ceased to claim its victims.

The Blue Angel /
El ángel azul 

Borja Segarra Bueno

2017

Spain / 4 mins

The Bridge Marit Rose
The Bridge

Marit Rose

2017

USA / 6 mins
In the depths of winter, a young woman, intent on ending her life, comes to a bridge.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/groups/6210/videos/247199865

The Cage /Gabbia

Caterina Ferrari

2017

Italy / 12 mins
One-on-one combat is a primordial ritual that takes us back to the dawn of humanity. MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is the modern version of the Greek pankration, the education of the will, a psycho-physical preparation for war, where combat is a metaphor for life and one of the last sacred, almost ecstatic, rites of our time.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/EI3b9QGiIMU

The Cesspool of Rapture

Joseph Noonan-Ganley

2017

Ireland, UK / 17 mins
Zippers, stains, rips, abrasions, openings, and closings.

The Convention

Jessica Dimmock

2017

USA / 10 mins
A short film exploring the annual Esprit gathering, where transgender women in their senior years who have been closeted their whole lives gather for a week of shared experience and understanding in a logging town in Northern Washington. 
Watch... https://vimeo.com/195348975 

The Crossing

Carlos Motta

2017

The Netherlands / 26 mins
A collection of video portraits of eleven LGBTQI refugees who tell their experiences before, during and after the flight from their country of birth to the Netherlands. Their moving stories emphasises how hard it is to be surrounded by homophobia and transphobia.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/235314029

The Cuceta Tertuliana Lustosa
The Cuceta

Tertuliana Lustosa

2017

Brazil / 11 mins
Cuceta is a meeting of art and transi- tional ritual, Bahian food, tattooing, and body modification. A travesti (Brazilian transgender person) goes to Dr. Elton Panamby for a life-changing procedure: the cuceta, a tattoo on the anal and perianal region. Much more than a risk to the body, it’s a complete life-trans- formation.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/261810536

The Decision Of Riley
The Decision of Riley

Yue Xia

2017

UK / 4 mins
Riley, born with a female body, has always been confused about her gender identity. One day, she discovered a simple way to change gender.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/242517457

The Desert Deserto
The Desert /
Deserto

Jacopo Miliani

2017

Spain, Italy / 6 mins
Deserto reflects on the possibility of speaking about multiple and queer identities through the invention of a new language. Through only the movement of two hands and a voice over, the desert is evoked as the place where the sand never takes a precise shape. The desert is also a symbolic reference to two specific films: Teorema (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) by Stephan Elliot. The protagonists of these movies are the Guest (a mysterious stranger with an ambiguous sexuality) and Bernadette (a transgender character), respectively, and both played by the same actor Terence Stamp. These films are the starting point for the text narrated by the voiceover in Deserto, where real and fictional identities disappear, dismantling the existence of any fixed role.

The Dream /
Marzenie

Wojciech Olchowski

2017

Finland, Poland / 11 mins
One’s dreams are somebody else’s fears… Two men meet no strings attached but they want a lot and fear even more.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/233597408

The Emergence of Rainbow “T”

Toni Paynter

2017

Australia / 10 mins
Childhood abuse, emotional ‘burn-out’, recovery and transition lead this 75-year-old Melbourne trans film maker into a busy authentic life as LGBTI facilitator and advocate.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/224939371

The End of Things

Fair Brane

2017

USA / 1:19 mins
An ethereal look at the sharp divides between the binaries of material and scarcity, matter and atmosphere, stillness and movement.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/209241172

The First Homosexual

Dale John Allen

2017

UK / 3 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/LgNAgsJ8jYc

The First Time Ever I Saw His Face

Jack Deslandes

2017

UK / 2 mins
A queer love story about modern love and idols
Watch... https://youtu.be/fdZyJkmSX-8

The Garden of Loved Ones

Janette Lopez

2017

Mexico / 7 mins

The Gentleman Bank Robber
The Gentleman Bank Robber: The Life Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter Rita Bo Brown

Julie Perini

2017

USA / 46 mins
Imprisoned for petty theft, rita “bo” brown was radicalized in prison. Once released, she robbed banks in Seattle as a member of the George Jackson Brigade, a Pacific Northwest underground revolutionary group, evading capture by being continually misidentified as a man. Chronicling her life and work as a political and prison reform activist, this captivating portrait of a charming queer ideologue draws attention to the little-known history of militant direct action.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/241204522

The Ice Cream Killer

Anna Wasserwoman

2017

Ukraine / 5 mins
A short film about a stranger devouring her ice cream.

The Image of You /
Kuvas Seuraa Mun Matkallain

Valja Pinja

2017

Finland / 16 mins
An exploration of the aftermath of Lilja and Laura’s relationship, as both women contemplate on the past in an effort to end closure.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/218777906

The LGBTQ Alphabet

Jordan Bahat

2017

USA / 5 mins
Un alphabet dansé qui propose des images métaphoriques sur des témoignages réels.

The Loneliest Whale in the World /
La Ballena Más Solitaria del Mundo

Álvaro M. Dobaño

2017

Mexico / 12 mins
Lupe es una mujer anciana que cada día sobrevive de la “amabilidad” de los extraños. Uno de esos días que ha ganado más dinero del que tenía contemplado, alquila una habitación de hotel para pasar una noche tranquila alejada de las calles con su amiga Jacinta, un travesti recién metido en ese mundo.
Watch… https://youtu.be/69mRULtRwGk

The Loneliness of Number Two

Javad Sotoodehnia

2017

Iran / 20 mins
Morteza finds out his roommate, Abbas, wants to commit suicide. Abbas is transsexual and lives in a hard situation. Morteza tries to stop him, but then Abbas makes a strange decision

The Mob Gamel Baba Apalayine
The Mob

Gamel Baba Apalayine Jnr

2017

Ghana / 11 mins
When a young, promising medical doctor returns to his village to help at the local clinic, he develops an unusual relationship with a young boy who volunteers at the local clinic. Things go awry when their unusual bond draws the negative attention of the village folk and hospital nurses.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/275354426

The Natural Choice

Anna Pozdniakov

2017

Israel / 10 mins
After seeing Sean, Guy remembers their life together and how they had to separate because of a “cure” that was supposed to turn the whole gay community into a heterosexual one.

The Offer

Aria Adl

2017

USA / 5 mins
Tim thinks Kevin is really gay. Kevin asks Tim earnestly about doing the Stand- Up Comedy together, but Tim misunderstands about Kevin’s characters the whole time.
Watch... https://youtu.be/brxlk8dm86g

The Other Side 2017 Adef
The Other Side

Leo Adef

2017

5 mins
A young french boy takes a train to a new city to discover himself while he experiments for the first time a lot of new experiences about youth, sex, partying and friendship.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/242567790

The Queen

Joel Jairus Ravindran

2017

Sri Lanka / 4 mins

The Secret

Kim Anderson

2018

Germany / 4 mins
Julian is in a dilemma. He loves the person, he is in a relation ship with, less than his best friend.
Watch... https://youtu.be/8Fcsdm16Cfk

The Shore

Elliot Blue

2017

Germany / 2 mins
‘You and I are glorious. And we’re everything they say we shouldn’t be.’
Watch… https://vimeo.com/220284712

The Shuttlerun

Lee Eunkyoung,
Lee Heeseon

2017

South Korea / 10 mins
On the day of the physical fitness test, 13 year-old Beurl notices his heart is beginning to pound, and Beurl is clueless as to whether it is because of the running, or because of Ms. Hong, the gym teacher.

The Source is a Hole

Madsen Minax

2017

USA / 26 mins
A mystical voice contemplates mythology, science fiction, sexuality and death as a series of holes: through which to travel, through which to perceive, through which to accept, through which to speak.

The Sublime of Rectum

Truong Minh Quý

2017

Vietnam / 15min
A visual exploration of an intimate homosexual body contact.

The Surrogate

Achiro P. Olwoch,
Adnan Ssenkumba

2017

Uganda / 11 mins
A young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock with a homosexual man in a society that is weary of both scenarios.

The Taming. A Digital Tale of Love and Compression

Daniel Kulle

2017

Germany / 6 mins
An experimental found footage film on digital love and desire.

The Toilet Line Goodyn Green
The Toilet Line

Goodyn Green

2017

Germany / 13 mins
In this film by Erika Lust two women meet for the first time in a club in Berlin. They size each other up and after exchanging glances they realise that they both want to make love. The bathroom becomes their love nest, where they can indulge their passion.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/252401170

The Two Companions Nilimesh Kar
The Two Companions /
অন্তরালে অনন্যা)

Nilimesh Kar

2017

India / 18 mins

The Villain Who I Love

Pae Woori

2017

South Korea / 22 mins
One day, high school freshman Minzy finds a photo of herself changing clothes in the school locker room. Class leader Hyejin, who is not close to Minzy, points out that the new teacher is the suspect to her. Minzy and Hyejin collect evidence to prove that the teacher takes pictures of high school girls secretly. When Minzy and Hyejin report the teacher’s behavior to another teacher, Minzy realizes something unexpected.

The Void /
Hükmü Yok

Asya Leman

2017

Turkey / 13 mins
A short docudrama presenting transgender and queer experiences regarding the conflict generated by mandatory presentation of ID card.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/266139554

The Walking Gay  Fernando Farias
The Walking Gay 

Fernando Farias

2017

Brazil / 16:22 mins
Based on the almost homonymous series created by Robert Kirkman. In The Walking Dead we see what life on Earth is like after a zombie apocalypse - in our case, there is an "outbreak" of homosexual freedom, in which the vast majority of the Earth's population "became" gay. survivors of the epidemic - conservatives, extremist religious, homophobes and false moralists - must now unite to find a new home, away from the threat of the Affected. family from this immorality.
Watch… https://youtu.be/8XliYqRptAM

The words I do not have yet

Phoebe Boswell

2017

UK / 11 mins
In “the words i do not have yet”, Phoebe Boswell pays homage to women who, “have used their bodies in protest when not permitted to use their voices.” In this layered work, both the written and spoken words of poet Audre Lorde and Kenyan writers Wambui Mwangi and Ndinda Kioko are superimposed atop original animated drawings of these contested bodies. The result is a choir of voices that are at once harmonious and discordant, exposing the complex intersection between individual and collective experiences of oppression.

Them (Or Things My Ex-Boyfriends Have Actually Said to Me)

Jamie Jankovic

2017

UK / 9:22 mins
This experimental essay film from non-binary trans filmmaker Jamie addresses the lack of discussion around violence in queer male relationships, through personal testimony.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/225250527

These are Not Our Things

Jaz Papadopoulos

2017

Canada
A playful game, asking the question, "what is sex?"

They Won’t Let A Dream Come True

Shumaila Kanwal

2017

Pakistan / 2 mins
The world outside / Always wants some reason / For something new / For a dream to come true.
Watch… https://youtu.be/iFd40yv48QY

theyTHEM

Stuart Getty

2017

USA / 16 mins
Through honest and charismatic testimony across a spectrum of gender representations, races, and generations, this stylish documentary approaches gender and pronouns from historical and personal points of view.

Thin Green Line Mario Psaras
Thin Green Line

Mario Psaras 

2017

Cyprus / 20 mins
The Green Line is what locals call the unsettled ceasefire line dividing Cyprus into the Greek-speaking Republic of Cyprus in the south and the Turkish-speaking non-government controlled area in the north. This film narrates three real life love stories between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriot, showing the hardships and discrimination all couples face and the many differences and taboos that both divide and unite these people. 
Trailer… https://player.vimeo.com/video/278336452

Thinking Out Loud Ronnie Zidon
Thinking Out Loud

Ronnie Zidon

2017

Israel / 10 min
On the night of her break-up with her girlfriend, Shai is cursed with the opposite of mind-reading – everyone, including her legendary ex, can read her mind.

This is you

Joshua Romer

2017

USA / 2:20 mins

Tidal

Yenshun Lee

2017

Taiwan / 15 mins
It’s about a tidal like relationship. Ocean, a boy who grew in a small island. He has a taboo relationship with Tide, a sailor who regularly dock the island. On once Tide’s docking. Ocean is going to tell Tide that he had convinced his mother to let him go sailing. On the other hand, Tide has been concealing his married identity to Ocean. And he decided to end their romance.

Time Of The Blue Urvashi Pathania
Time of the Blue

Urvashi Pathania

2017

USA / 5 mins
A quirky take on an artist experiencing a creative block.

Todos Héroes

Miguel Silva Rojas,
Kevin Puelles

2017

Perú / 8 mins
Con las noches limeñas como escenario, Vacuman – el héroe que previene – aparece en los espacios menos, o quizás más, esperados. Jóvenes en los techos, estudiantes de miradas melancólicas y parejas intensas alrededor del amor, son sus protegidos.

Too Much Tenderness

Bettina Blanc Penther

2017

France / 24 mins
On sunny roads a ghost-boy is strolling around two girls.
He changes of body he loose his dress and we let him go. 

Trans Manifest

Viv Bruschz,
Matheus Faria

2017

Brazil / 9 mins
This documentary aims to show the human and professional sides, achievements and experiences of trans women, such their professional trajectories in the academic environment or in the militancy for their social rights and dignity.

Transcend

Otto Ivor

2017

Australia / 8 mins
An evocative documentary focusing on Callan, a transgender rock and roll musician whose uninhibited performances and spirited personality make her someone to be reckoned with.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/255679802

Trans Citadas Geraldo Vilchez
Trans-Citadas

Geraldo Vílchez

2017

Perú / 20 mins
Dos vidas paralelas; Kiara y Pilar son dos chicas 'trans' que se dedican a la prostitución. Este documental es una visión de lo invisible en el Perú, dos personajes que no se conocen pero comparten denominadores comunes: homosexualidad, prostitución y rechazo.

TransParent

Adele Clemente

2017

Philippines / 11 mins
For fear of being rejected as a transgendered woman, an OFW father hasn’t returned to his family in 10 years. One day, she finally gets the courage to come home. Is she going to be accepted by her family?
Watch... https://youtu.be/VnyVERZ_MkM

Transparentes

Manuel García Postigo,
Ojos de hojalata

2017

Brasil / 15 mins
Jordania, Maria Eduarda, Kauã y Wanessa han sido ignorados por la sociedad desde que nacieron. Ellos forman parte de las más de mil personas que pasan por una transición de género cada año en Brasil. La verdad es que todos hemos cerrado los ojos no sólo para ellos, sino para todo lo que los rodea, haciendo sus vidas aún más difíciles y sufridas. Transparentes es un documental de la Cruz Roja que muestra la verdadera historia de esas personas y lo que esperan para el futuro.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/4bf-juJLdoU

Transpose: The Transgender Project

Kurtz Frausun

2017

45 mins
Transpose is a film documentary that explores the extraordinary challenges and triumphs of transgender people as they transition from the gender assigned to them at birth to living the life that they have envisioned for themselves whether as a transgender man or transgender woman. Transpose is a collection of powerful stories of individuals who choose to determine the course of their life, regardless of the difficult path of transition.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/214908372

Transsexworks – Trans Sexworkers on Froben St.

Naomi Noa Donath,
Henry Böttcher

2017

Germany / 38 mins
Sex work is stigmatized and often misrepresented in the public eye. It’s normally discussed without the insights and experiences of sex workers themselves. This short discusses topics such as migration and violence, solidarity and community and – most importantly – gives a voice to the opinions and situations of sex workers.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/246465092

Transvivo Tati Franklin
Transvivo

Tati Franklin

2017

Brazil / 20 mins
“Transvivo” é um documentário que acompanha as vivências de Izah e Murilo enquanto passam pelo processo de transição de gênero.

Trilhos

Lucas Hossoe,
Luiz Fernando Coutinho

2017

Brasil / 14 mins
Após fazer fotos nos vagões abandonados, Antonio conhece um misterioso homem.

Trips

Brian Fairbairn

2017

France / 16 mins
A clash with what attracts us in porn ; somewhere between fascination and contradictions.

Tropical prevla

Manuela M B Sobral

2017

Germany / 9 mins
Chloé is bored. On her 12th birthday, she is on a boat tour in the Prevla river with her parents. But this river hides a secret.

True You

Matkai Burmaster

2017

3 mins
A young guy tells his girlfriend that he’s gay and what happens next isn’t what you’d think…
Watch... https://vimeo.com/233943467

Tua  palavra não nega Coletiva

Setor de Negras,
Negros do Levante Popular da Juventde

2017

Brazil / 15 mins
O racismo é um desvio moral de algumas pessoas ou é sistemático na sociedade brasileira? Negras e negros de várias idades, orientações sexuais e identidades de gênero refletem sobre o racismo está presente em palavras, frases e expressões da língua portuguesa e como essa realidade se reflete na vivência e na autoestima das pessoas negras.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/324025330

Turiya

Johann Debo

2017

Poland / 3 mins
A special state of consciousness, wherein no separation of subject-object, an area of pure consciousness.

Two Minds Are Better Than One

Felix Guerra

2017

Australia / 10 mins
Wayne McMillan and Mark Gage are two Melbourne pavement artists who have a unique relationship and collaboration that allows them to flawlessly combine their ideas to create fantastic original art works.

Two Spirited Beings /
Niish Manidoowag

Debbie S. Mishibinijima

2017

Canada / 5 mins
Four youth travel the Bebamikawe Trail in First Nation territory. The pair who are Two Spirited discuss the confrontations and acceptance that they have encountered and how that has affected their ability to experience and learn their culture.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/222306137

Tyler

Dan Frantz

2017

USA / 7 mins
“Tyler,” set in present-day New Orleans, tells the story of a young girl who is turning into gold. The transformation triggers a mental conflict and strained self-reflection as the world around her responds to her physical changes.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/199952259

Uit de Pijp

Matthijs de Raad

2017

Netherlands / 16 mins
85 year-old Gerard must leave the place where his life changed radically, and where everything fell into place as well. He has to move. His grandson is here. Is this the time for an announcement?

Un Cookie Para Curar Las Lagrimas de Maricon

Benni Quintero

2017

USA / 3 min s
This short explores the filmmakers family as they struggled to accept their daughters transition from female to male. 

Una Visita Inesperada
Una Visita Inesperada

Anubis Alejandro

2017

México / 12 mins
Cada mañana Olaf se enfrenta a sus pensamientos de miedo y destrucción propios de su condición física, quienes intentan seducirlo de distintas formas.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/-0SWRp8ij3U

Unconditional Love

Khaing Htun

2017

Myanmar / 22 mins
Unconditional Love is a window into the life of Myanmar’s mostly hidden Lesbian community. It tells the story of a tomboy and her lover and their story of how they meet and the struggles they encounter from their families and relatives.

Under the Same Roof /
Sob o Mesmo Teto

Coletivo Olho Vivo

2017

Brazil / 14 mins
The struggle and resistance of Casa Nem portrayed in a short documentary film. Creation and collective strength beyond the seventh art.  

Underbone Dana Washington
Underbone

Dana Washington

2017

USA / 5 mins
In ethereal vignettes linked by devotion and ancestral evocation, a woman traverses stories beneath her rib cage.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/261031367

Undefined Spaces

Michelle Trujillo

2017

USA / 10 mins
Spazi Indeterminabili explores spatial and social orientation within national borders, and social structures. Through a personal navigation of space and memories, it pursues a grounding concept of home.

Unicorns of Westfield

Louise Ashcroft  

2017

UK / 5:36 mins
Local artist Louise Ashcroft explores Westfield, Stratford and capitalism in her assumed residency.
Watch… https://youtu.be/je5QdXqFmkI

Uno Due Tre

Camilla Iannetti

2017

Italy / 50 mins
Una madre, un’adolescente e una bambina. Roberta Lucy e Danny sono una famiglia di sole donne. Il loro rapporto si basa sull'affetto che provano l'una per l'altra, il bisogno di sentirsi unite e quello di trovare ognuna la sua strada, indipendentemente dalle altre. Ora che Lucy, la figlia maggiore, ha intenzione di lasciare la casa dove abitano, l'equilibrio della loro estate sarà messo alla prova.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/212126295

Uprooting Ghosts: A Queer "Fantasia on National Themes"

Rafal Morusiewicz

2017

Austria / 47 mins
This mash-up work of experimental re-searching unearths the frenetic, oppressive mood of political and social realities in 1952-1989 Poland and Hungary, through fragments of queer desire and the resistance of our very existence.

The work combines samples of banned and rare films Hands Up! (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982), How Far Away, How Near (dir. Tadeusz Konwicki, 1971), and Another View (dir. Karoly Makk and Janos Xantus, 1982) and more than a dozen other films, texts and tracks to create a passionate, suspicious tapestry of hauntings, dreams, fragments and provocations.

Vainilla Y Coco
Vainilla y Coco

Andrés Weis

2017

Perú / 13 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/07TBQhqDezg

Valentine’s Day

Bella Giancotta

2017

Canada / 2 mins
Short and sweet, Valentine’s Day captures the process of getting ready for an exciting night through documenting a rarely-seen yet somewhat common ritual.

Välissä – In Between

Sonja Sinisalo

2017

Finland / 19 mins
Trailer...https://youtu.be/o5Drq_0BMB0

Violence: Square of a Quarter / Violence square des quarts-d'heure

Elsa Aloisio

2017

France / 11 mins
An Algerian-French transgender comes to term with identity, religion and sports.

Vivian & Veronica Play Doctor

Kelsy Gossett

2017

USA / 3 mins
The doctor is in…and out.

Vivian & Veronica: Pop It

Kelsy Gossett

2017

USA / 3 mins
A little bow-chicka-wow-WOW!

Vivian & Veronica: Schoolgirls

Kelsy Gossett

2017

USA / 2 mins
Bad girls need discipline.

Voices 2017
Voices

Ekaterina Izmestyeva,
Pierre-Yves Dalka

2017

Germany, Russia / 28 mins

Malvina trains her voice at Moscow's LGBTQ community centre in a group for trans women led by Vasilisa, a choir director. In Berlin, green political activist Claudia speaks out through photography, while Luis focuses on hormone therapy that should also bring about the transformation of his voice.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/193836560

Vourkoti 2017
Vourkoti

Hélène Mastrandéas

2017

France / 17:27 mins
Estelle et Juliette forment un couple fusisonnel. Pourtant leur relation va mal. Sur le coup d’une impulsion, Estelle décide de rejoindre le village de Vourkoti.

VS

Maria Blah

2017

6 mins
Two time-travellers from a distant planet are banished to Planet Earth. But there can be only one.

Wake Up /
Tsanizid

Beric Manywounds

2017

Canada / 6 mins
Two-spirit performer and storyteller Beric Manywounds takes us on an intimate and enthralling dance experience.

We Exist

Cal Andrews

2017

Australia / 12 mins
Reflections from community advocates on LGBTIQ homelessness in Victoria, including current projects and practice, changes and challenges in the sector, and hopes for the future.

What Do You See

Michael Bonner

2017

Australia / 6 mins
Born in Malaysia and now living in Australia, Sereena, a transfeminine dancer, performer, and photographer, poetically discusses her upbringing and trans (in)visibility—questioning the viewer, “What do you see?”

What We Don T See
What We Don't See /
Lo que no se ve

Lamberto Guerra

2017

Spain / 5 mins
Lorenza is nearing 80, she has just become widow and decides to come back to her youth home. Her daughter, Tara, does not approve that decision, but her granddaughters, Sofía and Alba, decide to accompany her. Together, these women tour the last stretch of her comeback, a short journey of 20 metres and 50 years, to reflect on the things that really matter, how difficult it is for us to see them… And for making some discovery along the way...
Lorenza va camino de los 80, acaba de quedarse viuda y decide volver a su hogar de juventud. Su hija, Tara, no lo aprueba, pero sus nietas, Sofía y Alba, deciden acompañarla. Juntas, estas mujeres recorren el último tramo de su regreso, un pequeño viaje de 20 metros y 50 años.

Where I belong

Tomokazu Takeda

2017

Japan / 77 mins
Trailer… https://youtu.be/b0OeaFrWwPA

Wir Können Alle Nur Gewinnen

Adrian Hoffmann;
Sebastian Schmöller

2017

Germany / 38 mins
Seit 1996 beschäftigen sich Menschen in Freiburg damit, wie diese Vorteile und Diskriminierungen abgebaut werden können. Wie kann es gelingen mit Menschen darüber ins Gespräch zu kommen?

Witches Brujas Carmen Rojas Gamarra
Witches /
Brujas

Carmen Rojas Gamarra

2017

Spain, Peru / 50 mins
A bunch of punk girls tell how it does feel to have a band and want to shout and spread your ideas in Madrid in this day and age.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/7bF0PYbj7eM

With this Ring

Natalie Gattegno

2017

Israel / 8 mins
As Ronny, a bride on her wedding day, takes a break before the ceremony, Lilach drops in for a visit. The two women reminisce about their shared past. Gradually, the atmosphere intensifies. Just then, the groom’s mother is accidentally exposed to their moment of intimacy.

Working Pleasure

Kay Garnellen

2017

Germany / 18 mins
A view into the world of sex worker KAy.

WYSIWYG

Kenzie Greer

2017

USA / 3 minutes
Featuring Maddie Conaway, who shares her inspirational and moving story about transitioning. She discusses the journey of coming out, and the power of self-acceptance.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/242516695

X Manas
X-manas

Clarissa Ribeiro

2017

Brazil / 18 mins
No submundo xs dissidentes sexuais, bichas bandidas, travestis, sapatonas boladas e todos os corpos marginalizados bolam um plano para destruir a cisheteronorma. 
Trailer... https://youtu.be/3cBkUwragIY

Yeda Brown – Efeito Borboleta

Pedro Murad

2017

Brasil / 6 mins
O bater asas de uma borboleta pode causar um tufão em outra parte do mundo. Um simples nome é como esse bater de asas. O filme traz um breve relato de Yeda Brown, uma das primeiras transexuais brasileiras (transgenitalizada em 1975).
Watch... https://vimeo.com/195850384

Yo Solo Queria Bailar

Nicol Guerra

2017

Perú / 28 mins

You Should Be Mine
You Should Be Mine

Ricardo Noel Frutuoso

2017

UK / 10 mins
Daniel spends part of his time finding dates online. After meeting Bear69, his life changes forever.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/254395636

Zaya Susanne Serres
Zaya

Susanne Serres

2017

Canada / 7 mins
Zaya is a contemporary dancer who has just realized her love for her dance partner, Nadege. But first she must realize her love for herself, overcoming her fears and opening up about who she is to her mother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/-BVwDK8j9QA

Zebra Fish
Zebra Fish

Augusto Sinay,
Maureen Zanetti

2017

Argentina / 13 mins