12 Mar2022

2022 - UPDATED: October 2024

Written by CGiii Editor.

Most of these films will be doing the festival circuit and haven't yet been entered into IMDb...


3Some Collage	No_Pic_No_Chat	2022	Poland / 11 mins 3Some Collage is a short movie that centers on the personal experiences and identities of three non-heteronormative individuals: a bisexual gender fluid individual, a cisgender gay man, and a bisexual transgender male. Through a stylized and artistic approach utilizing black and white cinematography, the film delves into the sensualities and gender expressions of its protagonists. The film’s use of monochromatic visual storytelling enhances its aesthetic sophistication and stylization, while the cinematography’s intimacy and rawness allows the audience to form a deep emotional connection with the characters and their desires.
#NotMeAnymore	Kaspersilas Crystallando	2022	Denmark / 4 mins Based on a true story. Taking the final steps to become her authentic self, a transgendered woman returns to find love lost. Broken and sad, only her true reflection saves the day.
(In)Visible Night	Iwidobo Kollektiv	2022	Germany / 11 mins Dieser kurze Film aus Hamburg fragt, was passiert, wenn wir uns aus der Gesellschaft zurückziehen und in die Unsichtbarkeit verschwinden. This short film from Hamburg asks what happens when we withdraw from society and disappear into invisibility.
(para)site	Baiba Sprance	2022	UK / 11 mins (para)site is an ongoing, multi-stranded artistic project by zack mennell. The project reflects on class, disability, queerness & ecology through the lens of zack’s experience. The (para)siteworks emerge through zack’s psychogeographic explorations of sites of industrial, working-class history, where they scavenge for materials and undertake strange performative actions. Trailer… here
(Wel)Coming In	Emmanuelle Roberge	2022	Canada / 7 mins (Wel)Coming In is a dance video honouring the process of coming out for LGBTQ+ people while also extending an invitation to openness to others.
"3"	Giuseppe Capudi	2022	Italy / 12:40 mins Watch… here
7 Year Itch	Dolly Dulu	2022	Philippines / 20 mins Will David and Eli make it past the 7-year itch? Or will they give up on trying to win a losing battle? In the end, we ask ourselves: is love always worth fighting for?
23rd September	Sombit Naskar	2022	India / 11 mins Dodo awakes at a sudden phone call and acknowledges the same with haste, but soon recognizes the voice and begins the conversation. The man on the other side of the call unintentionally nudges Dodo to question his decision of getting married ignoring his once true love. Suddenly, the phone disconnects leaving Dodo with a hodgepodge of emotions and regrets.
100 Ghosts	Noncedo Khumalo	2022	Canada / 1 min A woman wakes to mysterious sounds – and confronts an astonishing surreal world summoned forth by her innermost fears. Watch… here
A Bath in My Mothers Womb	Mona Namér	2022	Sweden / 10 mins “In a dream landscape outside the physical world, the mind and body floats between different mental states in the search for total liberation.” A Bath In My Mother’s Womb is an experimental short that through dance, explores the stages of birth, chaos and stillness. Drawing inspiration from the process of metamorphosis and the caterpillars transformation in the cocoon to becoming a butterfly, the film acts as a metaphor for how essential introspection is for both nature and mankind to have the opportunity to heal and be reborn. Trailer… here
A Bitch of a Race	Danielle Dawn DiVito, Aubrey Leigh DiVito	2022	USA / 17 mins Cyclist Anna Lena Kempen gave life to the idea for The Frigid Bitch Race over 9 years ago because there wasn’t a space for her in the male-dominated cycling field. She wanted to create an inclusive space for women (and quickly realized the importance of including all underrepresented genders). The race would be harder, longer, colder and more terrible and awesome than other races, and it would be just for us. Trailer… here
A Diary's First Page	Hriday Rao Chauhan	2022	India / 30 mins An unexpected meeting at a party takes Ahan and Prabhat back to where it all began. They reminisce about the good old times while walking in the park and eventually head to Ahan’s flat for a few more drinks. Flashbacks from the past strike Prabhat as he looks at that corner where the two of them used to hang out before. Meanwhile Ahan discovers the diary that he gave Prabhat a long time ago. Prabhat still carries it. Trailer... here
A Dying Dream / Somnus	Johan Gayraud	2022	France / 18 mins Three young friends are preparing the end of the year party. They will try to live their last love stories, as tomorrow will never come.
A Flor de Piel	Andor Polgár	2022	Netherlands / 4 mins An experimental short film shot entirely on an analog 35mm rangefinder camera. The title is a Spanish idiomatic expression that literally translates to “like the flower of skin“. The phrase conveys an overt display of emotion. It is similar to the English expression of “wearing one's heart on one's sleeve“.
A Handbag / Una Cartera	Daniela Miranda	2022	Chile / 6 mins A deep dive into the absurdity of gender policing and identity suppression in Latin American as told through the handbag. A partir de la reflexión sobre el bolso como accesorio e identificador de género a lo largo de la historia, este cortometraje reflexiona sobre la irracionalidad de los ataques contra la comunidad LGBTI+. Trailer... here
A Heart Full of Black / Un Cuore Colmo di Nero	Nero Morabito	2022	Italy / 7 mins Vittoria is a homosexual girl who is bullied at school for her sexuality. She writes everything that happens to her in a diary. Watch… here
A Journey to Pride	Christopher Wesley Moore	2022	USA / 57 mins After a decade of not having a pride in Jackson, Mississippi, a local pride committee is formed to plan the largest and safest pride Mississippi has ever had as the COVID pandemic threatens to cancel the event for the third time. Trailer… here
A Letter to Her	Karla Sofia Calderon Solis	2022	Ecuador / 4 mins Have you ever been in love? A young woman reflects on a relationship and great love she can not forget
A Letter to Myself – Valerie	Omar Gabriel	2022	Lebanon, Canada / 10 mins Valerie Saliba shares her personal battle to embrace her gay son. Through this journey, she finds her own voice as a courageous woman in a conservative country.
A New Day Has Come	Nguyen Hai Yen (Red)	2022	Vietnam / 8 mins The Purple and the Orange move into a surreal cave and dance through a strange axis of time. Trailer… here
A Painfully Obvious Miscommunication in Teenage Romance	Joe Tufte	2022	USA / 13 mins A quirky, campy, queer rom-com following two best friends in their senior year of high school, struggling to explain their true feelings to each other after a miscommunication.
A Pearl in the Ocean	Vasundhara Jadhav	2022	India / 13 mins A documentary about Tushar Roy, a confident 19-year old, homosexual boy who likes to belly dance.
A Place on the Edge of Breath	Veronica Rutledge	2022	USA / 29 mins The relationship between an Anishinaabe trans man and a white trans woman is tenderly documented in this lyrical and intimate expression of love. Trailer… here
A Priest Is Not Gay / Ein Priester Ist Nicht Schwul	Giuliano Spagnolo	2022	Germany / 22 mins The world of Frank Kribber, a catholic priest, is turned upside when his best friend of many years dies and a letter from the deceased suddenly appears. Watch... here
A Revelação	Jaime Queiroz	2022	Brazil Pedro is an extremely talented gay visual artist who has not yet come out of the closet for his parents due to the intense history of violence. Trailer… here
A Space for Us	Seed Meyer Minkin, Emory Rose Harger	2022	USA / 19 mins Queer & Trans Youth + Allies summer camp provides life-affirming community and self-discovery in nature.
About them	Bruna Arcangelo	2022	Brazil / 14 mins An immersion in different female alliances, portraying mutual support movements in which different women participate and strengthen the links and the support network, showing that female liberation is not individual, but collective.
Abundance / Abondance	Milo Rivard	2022	Canada / 6 mins The movements of the water unite with those of the dance, moving the filmmaker to finally recognize himself in it.
Accompagne	Liam Laurenti	2022	France / 4 mis Confrontation entre un adolescent transgenre et sa mère lors d’un trajet en conduite accompagnée. Trailer… here
Adam Is No More / Adán ya no existe	David Arias Sanguino	2022	Argentina, Colombia / 15 mins Antonio, after a day’s work in his taxi, receives a call to make the last trip of the day, when the passenger gets in, he discovers that it is a reunion with his past. Antonio will have to decide what to do Trailer… here
Admit One	Vieira Vasco	2022	UK / 3 mins Charlie’s in love. They go on a not-so-ordinary date, but what’s so good about ordinary anyway? Trailer… here
After Matter Come Energy	Nicky Lisa Lapierre, Nour Beetch	2022	Belgium / 19 mins A multi-coloured and soaring sketch of a loving intimacy that deconstructs more than pornography.
Al Diablo	Bex Nitti	2022	USA / 3:34 mins Three queer couples in Downtown L.A. have tender moments in their safe place when they are abruptly interrupted by sirens and anti-trans propaganda that fills the air. In this moment, they choose to push past their fear and join their community as they find strength in who they are.
Aldeviar	Eduardo Gabriel Torino Merino, Esteban Chuytón Sanchez	2022	Perú / 13 mins El documental «Aldeviar» sigue la historia de una joven drag queen llamada Nia. El documental muestra el proceso creativo de Nia mientras trabaja en su vestuario, ensayos y finalmente su actuación final. El documental invita al espectador a adentrarse en el mundo del drag y descubrir la pasión y el talento detrás de esta forma de arte única.
Alex	Jean-Pierre Huot	2022	Canada / 18 mins A prostitute becomes friends with an old woman who is his complete opposite. This friendship deeply transforms the young man. However, she keeps a grave secret that will upset their relationship. Trailer… here
Alfi שבי	Raz Bdv	2022	Israel / 22 mins 16 years old Noga is trying to write a speech for the Animal-Liberation demonstration, with the help of Lea, an older activist. Noga imagines a world without oppression, while struggling with her new found desire. Trailer... here
All the Pretty People	Lucky Marvel	2022	USA / 13 mins Set in the Land of the Freaks and the Home of the Depraved, Sam and Adrian, a young queer couple growing apart, endure a dystopian date night at The Country Club, a patriotic floorshow promoted by Adrian’s enigmatic sugar daddy, Fox.
All Trace is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss	Chris Zhongtian Yuan	2022	UK / 22 mins In a forest, two exiled individuals are about to reincarnate into the next life while intimately sharing family legends, collective histories, love tales and folklore. Trailer… here
Allison Wonder, Master of Dolls	Eric Slade	2022	USA / 10 mins Allison Wonder’s Beaverton, Oregon apartment is a magical fairyland – floor to ceiling shelves filled with dolls and their accessories. “The thing I love most about dolls,” he says,“is that I can do pretty much anything I want, it’s just in miniature.” He creates custom costumes, props and sets for his dolls then takes them on location for elaborate photo shoots. Growing up in small town Michigan, Allison wasn’t allowed to play with dolls. Today he never leaves home without one. Trailer… here
Alma, A Worldly Woman of Indomitable Spirit / ALMA, neuklonljiva ženska	Andrej Kamnik	2022	Slovenia / 11 mins This short animated film is based on the previously published book by Huiqin Wang, entitled Little Alma on the Great Road (2020). The story is about her peculiar personality, her youth, her staymins in Japan and her work and life there. The film summarizes the personality of Alma Karlin, part of her journey around the world, and shows feelings that we did not know about her. The genre of the animation could be defined as a poetic document by the cosmopolitan and writer Alma Karlin. Trailer… here
Alsanar Alo	Koyel Ghosh	2022	India This is the story of Alsana or Alo - a 15 year old, female bodied individual. Alo is a 9th grader at a co-educational school. The story begins at Alo’s home where everyone is looking for them but they are nowhere to be found. Finally, Alo’s sister finds a letter in their room. The rest of the story revolves around their gender journey which is encapsulated within the content of a letter written by Alo to their family.
Amazones d'hier, Lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui. 40 Ans Plus Tard	Dominique Bourque, Julie Vaillancourt, Johanne Coulombe	2022	Canada / 57 mins Amazones d'hier, Lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui. 40 ans plus tard offers a return in images to the creation of AHLA, Amazones d'hier, Lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui, a lesbian collective at the origin of the video of the same name shot in 1979 and also the eponymous magazine published between 1982 and 2014. Based on interviews conducted in May 2021 as well as archive footage, this documentary highlights the four founding members of the collective. Trailer... here
Amor By Night	Henrique Arruda	2022	Brazil / 19 mins Em um futuro próximo, vozes se apaixonam, e amores serão frequências. Trailer… here
Amor en Cuarentena: The Series	Eugenia Renteria	2022	USA / 30 mins Set in the Central Coast, the Spanglish series follows Emi, a funny, dedicated and complicated Mexican-American teacher and hopeless romantic, as she looks for love with the help of friends and family during a global pandemic.
An Alarippu	Talin Subbaraya	2022	India / 10 mins "An Alarippu" is a piece that tries to bind my experiences of sexuality around the city and of learning and performing the alarippu itself. Both these experiences were and are bound by the idea of exploration. Trailer… here
An Honest Life	Richard O’connor	2022	USA / 2 mins When Jeffrey Perri was nine years old, his grandfather, Tony Perri, came out to him as gay. At StoryCorps, grandfather and grandson share memories of their respective coming out journeys and reflect on how much they mean to each other. Watch… here
An Ordinary Day / Un Jour Ordinaire	Afaf El Haddioui	2022	Canada / 1:51 mins A portrait of a non-binary person living in Montréal and their journey of self-discovery.
Anandros	Yanis Crom	2022	Greece / 22 mins In a Greek town, a gay teen, suffocated within his social surroundings, uses art as a secret escape in order to express himself. However, the unexpected outing of his sexuality leads to a family turmoil letting violence define the limits of freedom.
And if we didn't care / Et si on s’en foutait?	Johanna Lagarde	2022	France / 12 mins Sasha, 3 years old, was born intersex, neither boy nor girl. His parents have chosen not to operate on him. They want Sasha to choose his or her gender one day, when he or she is older. In the meantime, Sasha lives his life as a child, simply and innocently shaking up some of society’s codes.
Anita	Stewart Jeffers	2022	USA / 7 mins When Levi receives a pressuring phone call from his mother regarding marriage, he is left wondering why he hasn’t fallen in love. In an act of desperation, he follows his roommate Brandi to a mysterious club where he meets Anita. Will this act of desperation lead to love?
Anita Anota	Carola Arbós	2022	Argentina / 18 mins Ana, raised in the bosom of a structured family, goes through her adolescence. Between drawings and emotions, she tells us about a Friday in her life, where everything that has been postponed appears and only the truth can save her from herself. Trailer… here
Another Sunday / Un diumenge qualsevol	Eugenia Sampedro	2022	Spain / 11 mins Júlia experiences sexual affection relationships very differently from Clara, her partner. This fact will cause her to doubt, making them realize that they no longer share the same lifestyle and, moreover, will end up questioning their own relationship.
Another You	Theadora Shorrock Nedvins	2022	USA / 4 mins ANOTHER YOU is an experimental visual poem centered around the experience of returning to a defining childhood place as an adult. The video is largely composed of water in varying states. This visual represents how something as constant as a single body of water has variation through time, both in form and perception, just as integral places we have always known do. There is a sense of heartbreak in being unable to recreate the magic that physical spaces held for us as a child, but in that heartbreak there lives something caught between childhood wonder and adult longing; a call for your present self to re-examine just how far from that former - You - you truly are.
Antígônadá	Dora Longo Bahia	2022	Brazil / 120 mins Após a morte de seus dois irmãos, Antígona e Ismênia refletem sobre as leis de “Deus” e as leis do Estado, os direitos dos cidadãos e dos socialmente excluídos. Tomando a obra “Antígona” de Sófocles como ponto de partida, “Antígônadá” trata da situação política atual, e explora o aspecto revolucionário da personagem principal, uma mulher que desafia a ordem social estabelecida. Trailer… here
Anything You Want / Tout ce que tu veux	Faust Lust Smiatek	2022	France / 5 mins As she struggles to communicate with her girlfriend during sex, a young woman dives back into a childhood memory that troubles her. Trailer... here
Aphrodite אפרודיטה	Aseel Joron	2022	Israel / 11 mins Shahd is longing for love. Ziad, her gay best friend, has been there for her, but she always wanted more. After a night of drunkenness and mixed signals, Shahd makes a move, taking them to the verge of vulnerability, attraction and love.
Archive of a Trickster	Kaya Joan	2022	Canada / 4 mins “Archive of Trickster” weaves together physical and digital archival imagery relating to projects of urbanization at the mouth of the Humber. Working with personal interactions with the land as an archive, this film explores the past, present and future of the river.
Arm Wrestling Championship 2022	Rosie Poebright	2022	UK / 4 mins Get a front row seat at Bristol Butch Bar’s annual arm wrestling championship, celebrating butch strength, solidarity and community.
As Leaves in the Wind	Sofia Luz	2022	Spain / 10:56 mins Two trans women, one from Equatorial Guinea and one from Honduras, tell their stories of migrating to Spain.
As We Hold Hands	Clementine Narcisse	2022	USA, 7 min Over the course of one day, a model falls in love with a photographer.
As Velas do Monte Castelo	Lanna Carvalho	2022	Brazil / 16 mins Família, luz, escuro, calor, castelo e velas
Asians Have Feelings Too	The Mollusc Dimension, Darius Shu	2022	UK / 4:25 mins A stranded dreamer, a bored typist and a defiant, transqueerian space captain attempt to rediscover joy in a fantastical #StopAsianHate music video propelled by dance and animation.
Ask Me If... / Chiedimi Se…	Margherita Fiengo Pardi	2022	Italy / 18 mins Il titolo è già una scelta programmatica: raccontare dall’interno, e non dall’esterno, una famiglia omogenitoriale. Diciannove anni di vita familiare, ma anche un dolce tributo alla storia d’amore tra due donne che hanno scelto di diventare madri.
Assembling Myself	Yumi Maes	2022	Netherlands / 9 mins How to exist with a society that puts you into boxes.
At His Whim	Jamal Phoenix, Daddy Anansi	2022	USA / 8 mins The air is hot and heavy with the smell of sex and leather after Daddy Anansi puts good boy Jamal Phoenix at his service. These two gear-freaks unleash their desire for each other and transform this casual sunday stroll into a kinky playground and space of worship.
At Home Among Strangers	Asya Gorbacheva	2022	USA / 24 mins his intimate observational portrait of Sasha Smirnov, a gay asylum seeker, explores the steep price of freedom after coming out publicly in Russia.
Até a luz voltar	Alana Ferreira	2022	Brazil / 23 mins Nino vive na pequena cidade de Nova Canaã. Em meio aos obstáculos da vida, ela busca na religiosidade e nas expressões de sua sexualidade formas de se ver livre da sensação de abandono e exploração.
Aunt Kaka	Hazel Wu	2022	Taiwan / 2 mins It’s stuck! I can not be the Lady Gaga, but I could be the Aunt Kaka. Just like couch potato, no one can pull out.
Aurora	Tzu Tung Chen	2022	UK Aurora bumps into an attractive and passionate photographer, Elaine, who leads her on a journey of finding beauty in life. Trailer… here
Autoaggression	Martin Willibald Meisl, Daria Vybornova	2022	Austria / 27 mins AUTOAGGRESSION is an autobiographical shortfilm about bugchasing, the intentional self infection with HIV. In the work author and director Martin Willibald Meisl deals with his memories and tries to explore his own motivations. - When did the tendency towards self-destructive behavior arise and which ones can be seen? For that he works with reenactments of artworks such as photos by Joel-Peter Witkin or Michaelangelo’s Pietá. Trailer… here
Ava	Youssef Youssef	2022	Switzerland / 17 mins Ava recently decided to come out as transgender. With sweetness and virtuosity, she invites us to discover her world. Painter by day and drag queen by night, her creativity has no limits.
Ave Maria	Giulia Tomasini	2022	Brasil / 7:25 mins En la búsqueda de encontrarse a sí misma, Alicia es despertada por deseos arriesgados y liberadores que mueven la monotonía de su vida cotidiana en el convento.
Ave Maria	Hail Mary	2022	Spain / 9 mins Marie, a devout Christian, goes to church to confess and speak to her priest. Marie tells him that her daughter has adopted a child and that they intend to baptize him. The priest, delighted, agrees to baptize the child until he discovers that the mother is a lesbian. From then on, the priest refused to officiate the baptism and began a discussion with his parishioner.
Ave Maria	Pê Moreira	2022	Brazil / 25 mins After her father’s early death, Maria spends a year away from her family. On Christmas Eve, she returns and the reunion with her home, her mother, her brothers and her grandmother reactivates memories and renews relationships. Após a morte precoce do pai, Maria passa um ano longe. Na véspera de Natal deste ano, ela volta, e o reencontro com a casa e a família reativa memórias e abre espaço para a reimaginação das relações. Trailer… here
Azulejos	Maria Paula Arboleda	2022	USA / 19 mins A young woman, Daniela, visits her grandmother to tell her some important news. Trailer… here
Babsi Adler	Diana Šikalieva	2022	Slovenia / 11 mins A short portrait documentary about Babsi Adler, a slovenian drag queen.
Baby Teeth	Joey Massa	2022	USA / 8 mins Baby Teeth looks at a young girl experiencing her first loose tooth. Nervously, she asks her mother what will happen, and her mother tells her about the tooth fairy. The film explores attraction, becoming, and desire in girlhood, topics often only depicted in media representations of boyhood.
Baby Trans	Aimé Majeau Beauchamp	2022	Canada / 12 mins Paradoxe offers a portrait of Laure, a gentle but intense soul. As she begins feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to tame the bodily, emotional and identity changes she’s experiencing.
Babygurl’s Big Birthday Bang	Mahx Capacity	2022	Germany / 15 mins Manon Praline is turning 40 and for her birthday, her sweet and sadistic Leather Family planned a very special celebration. Seven eager tops await their precious babygurl--eager to devour her like cake with their hands, mouths, tools, and toys. Manon thanks her family profusely as they each take their turn wishing her a very happy birthday. Trailer… here
Backgammon	Jack Wake-Walker	2021	UK / 7:40 mins When a phone-obsessed city girl visits her rural home village, her mother forces her to make a life-changing decision.
Bad Lesbian	Ava Palmo, Madeline Johnson, Olivia Muse	2022	USA / 33:42 mins When she was a sophomore in college, Olivia Muse endured an emotionally abusive relationship with her first girlfriend. Four years later, Olivia still can’t help but wonder: “Did that happen to me because I’m a bad lesbian?” Since when did abuse happen in the queer community? And why isn’t anyone talking about this? Now, Olivia is tired of the silence. Through documenting her own recovery, Olivia challenges the narrative of abuse, empowers other survivors, and tries to motivate change in a community from within.
Ballroom	Camilla Pérez Rojas	2022	Perú / 8 mins La escena de Ballroom en Perú se encuentra en un momento de crecimiento constante. Las marikas del ballroom saben que su existencia puede incomodar a algunos, pero eso no es un impedimento para ser, expresarse y sentirse como desean. Después de aproximadamente cuatro años de grabación documental, Julius Prince de la Casa Kiki Prince cuenta un poco sobre este desarrollo que surge a partir de la resistencia, la lucha y el apoyo familiar y emocional para salir adelante.
Barbelés	Youpron	2022	France / 8 mins Un film de love à partir d'images tournées au microscope, de cruising dans les bois , de Hand Spinner et de sexy sur un son relaxant de cascade et de dérapage de motos.
Batidinha de Fruta	Ediyporn, Hiperlinque	2022	Brazil / 18 mins Between fruit and kisses, Cyber heats up the ass of Gabs with slaps and a spanking. Sucking and with deep touches, Cyber takes their partner to ecstasy.
Be My Player 2	Emily Stewart	2022	UK / 2:01 mins A short film that follows a girl trying to confess her love, but her fears turn out to be much more large and intimidating than she thought. Will fighting a dragon be easier than admitting her feelings? Watch... here
Becoming Chavela	Joyce Callo	2022	USA / 17 mins "Becoming Chavela” is a film adapted from the docu-cabaret about iconic Mexican singer Chavela Vargas' life and music, set within the art world and social milieu of mid-century Mexico City when it was the cultural capital of Latin America.
Becoming Creature	Zoë Marden	2022	UK / 8 mins “Becoming Creature” begins by looking at the mythologies of subaquatic creatures like mermaids, sirens, selkies and the Lo Ting. The Lo Ting is a mer-creature and the alleged ancestor of the people of Hong Kong. Watch… here
Behind the Door	Natalia Sara Skorupa	2022	Poland / 6 mins A short story about two queer people living in Poland. Because the country condemns being queer, only at home, behind closed doors, can Andrea and Kornel be themselves. It's a slightly mocking story in which they make fun of stereotypes about queer people. Watch… here
Belle is Poque / A Bela é Poc	Eric Lima	2022	Brazil / 13 mins Belinho, a poque (homosexual) boy who lives with his father and supports him, is a great lover of France and dreams of being an artist like the cabaret divas he admires. After a turning point in his life, a fatality happens and leads him to live his biggest dream. Trailer… here
Belongs to Anat שייך לענת	Yuval Barnea	2022	Israel / 17 mins Marva (27yo) wakes up to find that on every item in her home there’s a note that reads “Belongs to Anat”. Realising that her partner Anat has left her and that she is on her own, she goes on a journey asking people for guidance. When that fails, in a desperate attempt, she sings Anat a love song, in the lobby of her office building.
Best Friends	Miriam Moreno, Pablo Soto	2022	Spain / 4 mins Dos amigos charlan en una fiesta sobre la superficialidad y el gusto por otras personas, pero uno de ellos oculta un gran secreto. Trailer... here
Bienvenides a la House	Beatriz Del Caz, Sam Rausell, Fabián Muñoz	2022	Spain / 19 mins Cansadas de no tener un lugar seguro donde vivir su identidad, un variopinto grupo de artistas queer se juntan para construir la primera casa cultural y refugio LGTBIQ+ de València. Sin dinero y con muchas ganas, se arman de plumas, pelucas, mucha ilusión y brillo para crear un lugar seguro para todes. Trailer… here
Beyond Masks / Além das Máscaras	Letícia Lopez Rangueri, Lucas Brassanini Flores, Carolina Bonformagio Da Silva	2022	Brazil / 11 mins While playing rivals Harlequin and Pierrot in a play, passionate actors Tetra and Lester live a secret love offstage. Tetra takes her role intensely seriously, maintaining her character at all times and hiding her relationship with Lester. Afraid of rejection, Tetra begins to lose her own identity and puts her relationship with Lester at risk, having no choice but to show who she really is. Watch… here
Big Science	Naama Shmueli	2022	Israel / 9 mins After leaving Daria and moving to study in New York, Alisha returns to visit Israel. In a so-called friendly hang at the museum they try to find their way to a last intimate moment together.
Bind	Yané Garcia	2022	USA / 33 mins A celebratory documentary about bodily autonomy, BIND allows space for trans individuals to discuss the joys and pains of binding. Watch… here
Bitter September / Septembre Amer	Sophia Farantatou	2022	Switzerland / 26 mins After the assassination of the Greek-American LGBTQ activist, Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend, Sophia Farantatou, returns to Greece and finds herself stuck in a dead end. Between the media storytelling and her own archive footage from her friend, Sophia has no choice but to isolate and reflect on the meaning of memory.
Black Church	Nichole Marie Lim	2022	USA / 3 mins A trans poet laments about his life in the black church, being a father and an outcast. Watch... here
Black Dog	Firat Uran	2022	Turkey / 10:58 mins Ege and Berk are introduced by Rana. These two men, who are as different as Batman and the Joker from each other, sleep together the night they meet. Ege learns the details of Berk's trauma and depression: Black Dog. When everything is going well, Ege tells Berk that he loves him. Thereupon, Berk decides not to meet with Ege.
Black Rainbow Love	Angela Harvey	2022	USA / 40 mins Black Rainbow Love shares the stories of the black LBGTQ+ community in a way that has never been done before. The authentic and transparent stories of love, intimacy, friendship, spirituality, marriage, self-care, community, purpose, and were extracted from the 17 interviews of 28 lovers. The stories reflect the real lives of real people from a community whose culturally relevant stories aren’t being told, seen, shared, or discussed. Trailer… here
Blackfellas Who Can't Dance	Enoch Mailangi	2022	Australia / 8 mins Two men dance around their desire for each other at the gym as they discover they’re fundamentally different people, in this comedy-drama.
Blind Angels: Durham, North Carolina	Umbreen Butt	2022	USA / 8 mins In Durham, North Carolina, a vibrant and diverse queer chosen family has formed around José Romero, a charismatic organizer who is living with HIV. Together, in a place with unique and daunting challenges, José and their friends are modeling grassroots change, working together to create a community of love, activism, and mutual support. Watch…here
Blind Date	Mona Khaouli	2022	France / 12 mins Awkward 27-year-old May has a blind date with June. All she knows about June is that she will be wearing pink socks for their meeting. On the way there, May’s phone is destroyed in the most absurd of circumstances. Shocked and appalled, May decides to make her way to the date anyway: after all, June shouldn’t be that hard to find. To May’s surprise, the café is teeming with women, only women, all wearing pink socks. Which one of them is June? How will May find her without making an absolute fool of herself?
blk	Naforest Lim	2022	USA / 3 mins Watch... here
Blown Up	Joris Sluiter	2022	Netherlands / 11 mins A young man in his early thirties, living with his mom, has a secret life his mom doesn’t know about. She wants to have grandchildren for her own happiness, so her son needs to start dating to accomplish this. However, he has other ideas about that.
Blue	Modify Productions	2022	UK / 3:12 mins Seán Hewitt performs a newly-filmed poetry commission for Derek Jarman against the backdrop of the recent Jarman show at Manchester Art Gallery.
Body Language	Odu Adamu	2022	USA / 10 mins Body Language is a candid conversation about body image and body shaming for Black gay, queer, and same gender loving men.
Boi Band "Mainstream"	Federico Friciello	2022	USA / 4 mins A gut-wrenching self-love LGBTQ+ anthem. Watch… here
Boundless	David Chai	2022	USA / 9:37 mins Come swim with us through the limitless pools of our trans and nonbinary spirits.
Boybend	Eva Malmberg	2022	Sweden / 10 mins In this documentary we get to follow the boyband Boybend – in the spotlight and behind the scenes. The film offers exclusive pictures from a concert, backstage and the band’s own home movies that we have never seen before. Kevin, Noah, Hasper and Chase challenge the image of what a boyband really is and who gets to play the part as girls dream idols. Let yourself be swept up in the world of Boybend and become one of all the benders who scream at the front of a concert.
Boxed In	Coline Stell	2022	France / 18 mins Twenty-eight year old lesbian Lou's world is turned upside down after she wakes up net to...a man!
Boyish נערי	Chiara Yaar Golan	2022	Israel / 10 mins Daniel and Emmanuel have been Friends for a while. Daniel is in love with Emmanuel, but he can’t find the words to tell him. One night, he decides to try and “go for it”, escorting Emmanuel to his girlfriend Gaya, hoping that the night will end differently, only to find confusion.
Break (Maud Geffray - Official Video)	Roxanne Gaucherand	2022	Belgium / 4 mins Two enchanting actors, a rural retreat, the setting of the video "Break", a poppy soundtrack by Maud Geffray. Watch… here
Bro	Omar Abdo	2022	Iran / 20 mins Mehrad is a 20-year-old guy from upper middle-class Tehran. Despite the social practices of his class, he decides to deal drugs in his underground party community and today, for the first time, he’s going to buy 200 grams of cocaine.
Bunny decides to go / Dovşan getmək qərarına gəlir	Vusala Hajiyeva	2022	Azerbaijan / 17 mins Home is not always a comfort zone. Sometimes it can turn into a real hell. If the place where you live, your hometown and everything around you is making you uncomfortable and your life is in physical danger, the only option is to run away. The isolation, fear and threats to my life in Baku led me on an unplanned trip to Tbilisi. I had to adapt to a new life in a new city, solve the problems I carried with me and figure out, “What will happen next?” Will I find an answer to this question?
Butterfly	Iree Mann	2022	USA / 15 mins A coming of age queer love story about two teenage girls who unexpectedly fall in love catapulting them to freely express their sexual identity, in the limited time they have. Trailer… here
Butterfly, With No Doubt	Nedjma Zeghidi	2022	Tunisia / 15 mins Voices go through the city, a city that pushes them to the margins. A walking body carries these voices. The space is filled with their palpable dissonances.
BXBY	Chang Soojin	2022	UK / 37 mins Soojin Chang’s BXBY is a year-long performance that merges forms of documentary and ritual practice, following Chang as a hybrid, shape-shifting being attempting reproduction. Drawing from chimeric figures within the creation stories of the British Isles and the diasporic cultures of Chang and her collaborators, Chang positions her own hybrid body – part animal, part woman, part alien – as a site of technological interaction. Sampling scientific methods such as IVF, biohacking, and voluntary self-touch, BXBY addresses the legacy of colonial science to open up other possibilities found in queer, interspecies kinship. BXBY is intended to open discussion on sacrifice, animality, objecthood and in/visibility; looking in particular to animist techniques of embodying and remembering.
Cabiluda	aColetto, Dera Santos	2022	Brazil / 20 mins Dimitri está experimentando o início de um romance quando as coisas começam a sair de seu controle. Watch... here
Cancer is a Drag	Meha Dedhia	2022	UK / 10 mins “Cancer is a Drag” explores the story behind the organization by following the journey of Alan Bugg, who was diagnosed with Grade 4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in September 2010. After many cycles of chemotherapy and not being able to work, he found it difficult to make ends meet. During this time, his friends, family and organizations helped him survive financially, mentally and emotionally. Alan was inspired to help others and prevent cancer from being even more of a drag than it is now. Through stories of solidarity between Alan and his friends from the drag community who helped him, stories of celebrating the drag life while kicking cancer in the butt, and stories of successful fundraising, this film brings nothing but joy. Watch... here
Canto VI	Emil Vargas	2022	Canada / 12 mins A beautiful world where melancholy and confusion are ever present. Watch... here
Carly Dolls	Maudie Schmidt, Jaxson Power	2022	USA / 20 mins When Carly, a naive, homeschooled fourteen-year-old, is forced to face the treacherous waters of public high school, she turns to her beloved dolls, Lily and Mermia, for comfort and advice. Sprung from Carly’s own vivid imagination and taking the form of life-size “friends,” they guide Carly through the ups and downs of growing up, fitting in, and figuring herself (and her sexuality) out.
Catharsis	Aymeric Van Aerschot	2022	Belgium / 19:45 mins A tender and honest portrait of André - a young conservatoire student - who deconstructs prejudices about sex workers, Covid's forgotten people. Trailer
Catwalk	Nguyen Duy Anh, Tran Uy Duc	2022	Vietnam / 6 mins Tran Uy Duc – the music artist himself dressed as a stylized version of his high school uniform and performed on a walking track built by his father. Simultaneously, a group of dancers in office and technology driver’s uniforms attacked public places in Hanoi where they metamorphosed. Watch… here
Cesspit of Freedom	Oran Rose O’sullivan	2022	UK / 2 mins Cesspit of Freedom was born of my desire to see this event [Huddersfield Pride 1981] acknowledged in the present via the power of animation.
Chanson de Baise	Roger de la Société, Sébastien Delage	2022	France / 3 mins Un instantané érotique de la sexualité queer et gay d’aujourd’hui dans sa vision la plus tendre, positive, inclusive et fière. Trailer… here
Charged / La Carga	Jose Antonio Cortes Amunarriz	2022	Spain / 15 mins A young man who has lived through a traumatic experience faces an extreme situation.
Chrysalide	Nedjma Zeghidi	2022	Tunisia / 8 mins This documentary is a train ride: meetings with individuals questioning gender and non-normative sexualities.
Cinque uomini, un diario intimo al di là della scena	Cosimo Terlizzi	2022	Italy / 62 mins È il 2008 quando Antonio, un attore, riprende con una telecamera amatoriale i suoi colleghi nei camerini durante una tournée. Un diario audiovisivo che testimonia il mestiere dell’attore e le sue fragilità. Le cassette dimenticate per più di dieci anni diventano la fonte di questo film. Il materiale, girato in maniera istintiva, si rivela un commovente diario senza filtri in cui Antonio svela le fragilità, i dubbi, la gioia e le difficoltà del mestiere dell’attore.
Citron Gingembre	Nicolas Boni	2022	France / 3 mins A rainbow car ride in rural France turns into a queer rave on upbeat music. Jeanne est enfermée dans un lendemain d'after dont elle ne peut se dépêtrer. Watch… here
Clamor	Santiago Palero	2022	Argentina / 15 mins Luan es un hombre atrapado en su rutina. Una noche, en un intento por escapar de ella, conoce a Samuel, con quien inicia una relación que le devuelve el deseo, pero lo lleva al punto de poner en riesgo su propia vida.
Clap	Esteph Medusa	2022	Belgium / 6:52 mins Through a distortion of reality Nova is joined by her partners. Their bodies intertwine, flowing into each other until they become an unrecognizable organic mass.
Class Transitions	Em K. Shapiro	2022	USA / 13 mins Austin, Texas based queer legends Erica Nix and Rocky Lane strive to build a better future for LGBTQIA+ folks through their weekly non-normative and gender expansive movement classes. They propel their community forward, in the face of statewide government leaders who attack queer lives and futures.
Close Dance: Parts 1, 2 & 3	Jan Palmblad	2022	Sweden / 3 mins Watch… here
Close Quarters	Maggie de Guzman	2022	USA / 5:27 mins A tiny bathroom inducts signals of togetherness between the plexus of chosen Filipinx family. Watch... here
Coastal Redwood Grove	Hannah Vernot	2022	USA / 3:16 mins A corrupt saleswoman transplants facts with anti-science falsehoods to make a deal.
Coexistence	Youri Létourneau-Langlois	2022	Canada / 14 mins Sophie lives as a recluse and increasingly feels herself in a dissociated state. While trying to escape through poetry, a strange presence heightens her anguish, making her speech more and more irrational.
Come Away Death	Matthew Perifano	2022	USA / 4 mins The Clown's song from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night evokes the fear, isolation and stigmatization of the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
Coming	Matthew Tyler	2022	USA / 7 mins Blending surrealism with relatable social and sexual anxieties, a woman and her talking vulva get ready for a date.
Comme tous les garçons	Morisha Moodley	2022	UK / 10 mins A meditation on what it means to be/come like all the boys and also what it means to want to be/come like them. It navigates images and ideas of masculinity and trans masculine identity, combining found footage, illustration and personal archive in an act of assemblage that mirrors the erratic and eternal piecing together of a queer identity.
Con la fuerza del río	Colectiva Audiovisual Feminista La Plata	2022	Argentina / 73 mins Con la Fuerza del Río acompaña la historia de seis feminidades en el 34º Encuentro Plurinacional de Mujeres, Lesbianas, Trans, Travestis, Bisexuales y No Binaries, realizado en La Plata, 2019. A través de su activismo político, su participación en talleres y marchas, se despliega un mapa íntimo de uno de los eventos feministas más poderosos del Abya Yala.
Connection	Laura Valerie Mitterer	2022	Spain / 5:42 mins The lives of young people living in the same city connect through a series of encounters, showing how beautiful connections can be made anywhere if you let it happen.
Contorno	João Casalino	2022	Brasil / 3 mins Una película sobre el autodescubrimiento. Aborda a través de metáforas visuales el (re)descubrimiento del yo y del otro, a través del afecto y la relación. Trailer… here
Contraste	Jasser Bechir Ouasleti	2022	Tunisia An artist talks about gender and cultural policies in connection with the queer cause. Between laws and legality, what role does the intellectual – and particularly the artist in theater and cinema – play in questioning the social aspects of this objective?
Cowboy Kevin	Anna Lund Konerup	2022	Denmark / 6 mins Kevin and his horse are about to arrive at the place where a love letter was sent to him but when he is about to find it, love does not show as he always expected. Watch… here
Cream Cake עוגת קצפת	Zohar Barkan	2022	Israel / 6 mins A short date between two teens that starts bad and ends worse.
Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian	Licia Canton	2022	Canada / 29 mins Creative Spaces explores the intersections of queerness, creativity and culture with three Italian-Canadian writers living in Montreal. What does it mean to be queer and Italian Canadian? And what experiences do queer Italian Canadians have when their sexual orientation and gender identity come in contact with their cultural heritage and traditions? Trailer… here
Crush Icebergs	Hannah Rafkin	2022	USA / 15 mins Four queer adults reflect on the onscreen characters that captured their adolescent hearts.
Crushing	Luis Medel Hernández	2022	Spain / 2 mins Images of a young boy performing in his room in front of the camera to his sexchat audience intertwines with images of masked-men cruising in the darkness. The piece focuses on the psychological and physical suffering of the protagonist.
Cured / Kigyógyulva	Márton Csutorás	2022	Hungary / 3 mins Our protagonist tells us about his own experience attending a conversion therapy, as well as the surreal lies that society has convinced him to believe. Inspired by the outrageous misconceptions and fear surrounding homosexuality which often results in shockingly absurd and stupid statements.
Cycles	CJ Spears	2022	USA / 5:16 mins Poetry and collage rebirth a young queer Black person who manifests the Universe’s love.
Daisy Bed	Alen Predanič, Robi Predanič	2022	Slovenia / 4 mins The owners of the mansion play a mysterious game in which they throw black balls into a magic machine. They are used to winning, but this time it’s different. Watch… here
Dancing Queer	Lucie Cabrera, Cléo Miquel-Delhon	2022	France / 15 mins Un documentaire montrant le besoin d’espaces safes où la diversité puisse s’exprimer librement et dans ce cas, par la danse. Des témoignages simples, divers.
Dandelion Green	Kathleen Burgess	2022	Canada / 25 mins Weeks before ageing out of the foster care system, 17-year old Kay falls into an electric friendship with Olivia, transforming the way they see themselves, and their future. Trailer… here
DaXi	Jinghao Shen	2022	China / 13 mins Self-described “traitor to my male gender,” Da Xi Ge has known herself for some 55 years, but has never possessed the vocabulary to adequately express this knowledge. This documentary short, overlaid with a kaleidoscope of symbols of traditional femininity, follows the day-to-day life of a scavenger, as she prepares for her dream of sitting for a wedding portrait.
Dear Me, A Letter to My Younger Self	Stella Gelardi Malfilatre	2022	Denmark / 7:45 mins The intergenerational cast was asked to write a letter to their younger/older self. A selection of quotes acts as the collective voice of the film.
Death is Not the End of the World / La Muerte No Es El Fin Del Mundo	Juan Pablo Estaro	2022	Argentina / 12 mins A surreal and unexpected ending for two boys watching the sunrise.
Deep Ocean	Kao To	2022	Taiwan / 20 mins A boy is laying on the water, hoping that the waves will cover his thousand words. He hopes to get some hints from the boy he has a crush on, but slowly, he began to bury his secret deeper and deeper, and gradually loses himself, falling into the deep sea. Trailer… here
Depth	Yuhan Ding	2022	China / 10 mins The man couldn’t restrain his thoughts anymore, so he went to see him. Just as the two were slowly trying to approach each other, they found that someone was watching them…
Desbordadas	Pedro Varea Marta Abascal	2022	Spain / 15 mins Tres drag queens y dos diseñadores de moda se preparan para una sesión fotográfica. En el camerino, Samantha Hudson, Jeneva Gina, Gad Yola, Álvaro Navarro y Parodi Paradise conversarán sobre qué es la moda, cuál es su relación con la estética y el género, y sobre cómo sigue siendo una expresión artística salpicada por la homofobia, y la transfobia y misoginia sistemáticas. Lo que comienza como una sesión de fotos, termina como un escaparate para el humor, el ingenio y unos mensajes disidentes que se presentan, sobre todo, sin pelos en la lengua.
Detrás Del Arcoíris No Siempre Hay Un Tesoro	Emmanuel Jimenez	2022	México / 46 mins El crimen de odio en la comunidad LGBT es un problema que va en aumento, los asesinatos colocan a Veracruz entre los primeros lugares desde hace 5 años; este reportaje periodístico aborda la situación a través de una investigación con datos confiables y fuentes consultadas con colectivos e investigadores del tema, además con testimoniales, se logra una narrativa de casos, donde a miembros de la comunidad LGBT les arrebataron la vida, visualizando los actos cobardes y de corrupción, es un trabajo de concientización y llamado para evitar la violencia a las personas por su identidad sexual.
Developing	Dani W	2022	USA / 3:34 mins A visual poem pondering chemistry, and its effects on imagery, food, environments, and bodies. Born from the similarities between the language used to teach analog photographic techniques and the language used by doctors and medical institutions surrounding transgender hormone replacement therapy. Two types of development.
Dew Drops / OAS	Abhinav Dubey	2022	India / 12 mins Oas is a story of two women who broke up some time back but are still in love. One has moved on while the other can’t let go. They meet for their last conversation that sums up their dreams and expectations. In this night of introspection, will their relationship revive?
Die Musterung	Jan Soldat	2022	Germany / 15 mins Eine 2-Kanal-Musterung zum Militär-Fuß-Schweiß-Fetisch von Wolfgang und P.
Different Shores	Shani Cohen	2022	Israel / 13 mins During a one-day trip to the Dead Sea, a mother and daughter's complex relationship is put to the test when a secret is revealed.
Dilemma of Modern Sex Simulation	Charlotte Bevilacqua	2022	Belgium / 20 mins A team of students challenge themselves to film scenes of intimacy. Despite a healthy and benevolent set up with an intimacy coordinator, problems arise very quickly and challenge the mechanisms of the set.
Dippers and Oysters	Kai Fiáin	2022	UK / 10 mins A sparky romance ensues between Butch / Femme East End pickpockets.
Dirty Laundry	Andrew Neylon	2022	10 mins Life’s funny. Laundry isn’t.
Divina	Ode	2022	Brazil / 5 mins Nos capítulos “Caminho”, “Verdade” e “Vida”, ao contar a história de Marcinha do Corintho, Ode postula que travestis podem envelhecer, ter legado, ser vitoriosas e vistas como sagradas. Watch... here
Do I Know You from Someone?	Gwen Rathbone	2022	UK / 11 mins Jessica, a trans woman living in Brighton, is set up on a blind date by her best friend. A wrench is thrown in her plans when she realizes that her date, a woman named Avery, is actually someone she used to go to school with before she transitioned. Watch... here
Do Tanto de Telha no Mundo	Bruno Brazileiro	2022	Brazil / 23:26 mins Leo goes to Juatama to pay an unexpected visit to his mother, Cleide, whom he hasn’t seen for a long time. During their stay, both will have to deal with old conflicts that led to the separation from this relationship. Even without knowing how his mother will react, Leo gathers the courage to reveal his real intention in visiting her: to say goodbye. Leo viaja para Juatama para fazer uma visita inesperada à sua mãe, Cleide, que ele não vê há muito tempo. Durante sua estadia, ambos tiveram que lidar com conflitos não resolvidos do passado que foram a razão pela qual se afastaram. Sem saber como sua mãe reagiria, Leo tem que encontrar coragem para contar a ela o real motivo de sua visita: se despedir.
Dobles	Caharin Caparó	2022	Perú / 7:36 mins Andrés feels that the ambiguity and secrecy of his relationship with Mauricio are wearing him down. During one of the meetings they have in the shelter they turn to as a refuge, Andrés decides to raise these questions that lead us to investigate the different spaces in which their romance is built. Trailer… here
Dogs Do Not Eat Grass / A Kutyák Nem Esznek Füvet	Júlia Bagossy	2022	Hungary / 15 mins Anna lives in a world where there are a few famous lesbian women, where God always listens to you, where beer treats beestings, and love is unavoidable.
Don’t Worry	Kim Taeyong	2022	South Korea / 19 mins Suho questions his sexuality but he longs for his best friend Hanyeol. Hanyeol is gay and is conflicted with his feelings for Suho.
Dos Corazones	Cristina Herrero Laborda	2022	Spain / 19 mins Mari is an intersex person in permanent transit that incorporates two perspectives. A fighter and brave, her life has been a constant battle in an almost uninhabited rural area. From the sincerity, narrates her day to day, her desires, illusions and anxiety in an attempt to pave the way for those who come after.
Draw Now	Kun Sun		USA / 12 mins A teenage boy traverses the difficult terrain of puberty and sexuality. He is consistently conflicted inside and keeps his anxiety and issues bottled up inside. With no support system in place, he finds hope in the most unique circumstances.
Dreaming, so long / I drömmen, so long	Evelina Jacobsson	2022	Sweden / 15 mins The very first (sometimes beautiful, sometimes awkward) hours while laying eyes on someone special. About love confessions not dared spoken, but still come out loud.
Dreams Awaken / Jaagte Khwaab	Aprajita Gupta	2022	India / 19 mins If dreams had eyes of their own, would they see reality for what it is? A queer desire transcends from a night's dream to the day's reality when the filmmaker starts filming her everyday. The camera becomes the 'I' and travels through spaces to seek an understanding of its puzzled sense of being. The film is a jumbled self-expression. Trailer… here
Drew Adair	Krissy Mahan	2022	USA / 1 min Drew Adair, a Black gay man, organized a queer soccer team in 1989 at the height of hostility because of the AIDS crisis. This 60 second short honors Drew in his own words.
Drinking at a Stream / Combien Danseront Sur Ta Langue	Louis Barthelemy Rousseau	2022	France / 19 mins Alice is a doctor at the STD centre. Everyday she asks her patients about their intimate activities and takes blood samples. At home, physically weak Bianca is waiting for her. At the right moment, Alice pours some blood on Bianca’s tongue and starts talking...
Duo en sous-sol	Vinciane Le Men	2022	Belgium / 12:20 mins A close interrogation in a police station. A detective grills a psychoanalyst suspected of murdering one of her patients. The exchanges are tough and leave no doubt as to the guilt of the suspect. Manipulation, power grab, game of seduction… but what is the true stake of this investigation?
Dysphoria Football Club / Disforia fútbol club	Inti Lorca	2022	Chile / 5 mins "Disforia Futbol Club" is a documentary focused on the self-management of the Chilean trans community within sports spaces such as soccer. An internationally recognized activity with a long history of binary segregation based on sex and/or gender. Watch... here
Dzifa	Savannah Acquah	2022	UK / 19:37 mins Esther and their partner Chioma reconnect, and find diasporic Black queer joy, through a queering of a Ghanaian naming ceremony. Trailer… here
E.S.S. Scenes	Romi Kim	2022	Canada / 31 mins Set in Eastside Studio’s beloved former space ‘The Warehouse’, Romi Kim (a.k.a SKIM) portrays the vibrant and monstrous worlds of Vancouver’s drag scene. An ode to the transformative power of LGBTQ+ spaces.
EARTHBODY(S)_BIOME(TRICS)	mirrored fatality	2022	USA / 7 mins In the COVID-19 pandemic, mirrored fatality transverses through planet earth as international multi-hyphenated artists & farmers. BIOME(TRICS) is an eco_apocalyptic_survival_hit to fortify themselves towards food sovereignty & the collapse of the exploitative surveillance state. EARTHBODY(S) is a prayer and their reflections from leaving the concrete jungle and restoring in sacred lands, regenerative farms, community gardens, and QTBIPOC (Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color) sanctuary projects on Indigenous land. EARTHBODY(S) ft Queen Hollins is an immersive journey about how we are stripped from our ancestral lands and pushed into cities suffering from COVID-19, food apartheid, the police state, and environmental racism. Watch… here
East of Eden	Anushka Meenakshi, Joshua Sailo, Anishaa Tavag	2022	India / 6 mins In a garden just east of Eden, two bodies awaken to their senses, and to the eyes of another. They discover the power to feel, the freedom to play, a curiosity for pleasure. How might they express their desires? What kind of dynamics might emerge if their origin story was slightly different from the Garden of Eden? Trailer… here
Ecstatic Unity	Gerard X Reyes, Poppy Sanchez	2022	Canada / 18 mins A docu-fiction short film that follows Jorge and Gerard on a ritualistic trip to one of Berlin's lakes, which in the summer become mystical places where people go to connect and transcend their mundane lives.
Edinochestvo	Aleksander Kostin	2022	Russian Federation / 14 mins The hero arrives at a clinic, where he meets a sick and hopeless girl. The girl tells him her story, which he will bring to life when she is gone.
El Ancla	Giulia Antonelli Rogalsky	2022	Argentina / 11:17 mins Pauline es una artista francesa de treinta y dos años que está de visita por Argentina. Antes de regresar a su país hace un viaje a un pueblo de Entre Ríos, para conocer a un pintor que admira. Lleva consigo un cuaderno donde escribe y libera sus introspectivos pensamientos todo el tiempo. Al llegar a Colón recorre la playa, las desoladas calles y visita un bar donde un amigable mozo le indicará cómo llegar a la casa del pintor. Pauline se dirige a la dirección en busca del artista y conoce a la nieta del mismo en la librería donde trabaja. La librera le da la noticia, él falleció hace algunas semanas.
El Imaginario de Paula Sartre	Eihezem Alavarado	2022	Mexico / 27 mins After seeing a play, Nadia and Miguel begin to perceive strange behavior between them and their roommates, Terán and Helle. Who during the course of the night are repeatedly confronted with their own existence. Después de ver una obra de teatro, Nadia y Miguel empiezan a percibir comportamientos extraños entre ellos y sus roomies, Terán y Helle. Quienes durante el transcurso de la noche se confrontan repetidas veces con su propia existencia hasta descubrir que realmente son solo actores de la misma obra de teatro. Watch… https://vimeo.com/727615817
El Infinito Placer	Juan Carlos Gallego, Johnnier Aristizábal	2022	Colombia / 30 mins Second pandemic year. Rosario survives locked in her room with the savings from her job as a session musician. Willing to go out despite the contagion risk, she accepts a job offered by Pamela Cosmos to musicalize "Infinite Pleasure" a streaming live show on the deep web. Rosario will break her barriers to survive the desperation one more day.
El show debe continuar	Santiago Hurtado Toledo	2022	Argentina / 2:25 mins After being harassed and beaten, Marcos, 23, arrives in a hurry to the dressing room of his job where he has to make up and dress up to transform himself into Morgana because he has a show to give. Después de haber sido acosado y golpeado, Marcos, de 23 años, llega con prisa al camerino de su trabajo donde tiene que maquillarse y vestirse para transformarse en Morgana ya que tiene un show que dar.
El Viaje	Mateus Rosa	2022	Brazil / 13 mins Una mezcla de viajes en el tiempo, un registro documental, artístico y performativo que expresa la visión subjetiva del director sobre los lugares, personas y momentos que pasó entre 2015 y 2018. Filmada en super-8 mm e interpretada íntegramente con artistas LGBTQIAP+. Trailer… here
Elements	Matthew Riutta	2022	USA / 58 mins An anthology of four different Bay Area residents and their intersecting lives on the same day. Shirley is a lunch lady, bullied by a high school student until she takes matters into her own hands. Ben is a closeted gay teen who rehearses a dance with Shayne for their high school's show choir and discovers Shayne has more on his mind than jazz hands. Nate is a grieving father whose journey over the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge goes awry when he picks up a homeless veteran. Victor is a gay activist who rallies the queer community after he and a trans activist are assaulted by a group of religious extremists. Trailer... here
Elena	Jeong Minji	2022	South Korea / 11 mins Elena, the pigeon who lives in the stream Ui, gets a crush on an elderly woman named Soon-ja, who is taking a walk regularly. Her love, which transcends kinds, gender, generation, would be successful?
Embrace the Moon	Katrina Pleasance	2022	Canada / 4:40 mins The Moon Goddess falls in love with a human farmer. Even though they’re a world apart, she longs to meet her and uses her powers to bring them both together. Watch… here
Empress Nicole The Great	Dara Bratt	2022	USA / 15 mins Empress Nicole the Great, a champion of LGBTQ rights, reflects on her legacy.
Entre a Colônia e as Estrelas	Lorran Dias	2022	Brazil / 49 mins Colônia Juliano Moreira, RJ. Estelar trabalha num hospital psiquiátrico e tem visões do passado. Entre divergências políticas e identitárias com o irmão, ela nota que é preciso coragem para rever suas posições. Trailer... here
Envy	Carmina	2022	France / 17 mins ENVY is a reflection about bisexuality, non-binarity, a game about gender and sex and the performance of femininity and masculinity.
Éperlecques	Bénédicte Alloing, Lucien Fradin	2022	France / 45:47 mins A zealous TV show host seizes us by the hand for a tour of Éperlecques, a charming village in northern France, where he happens to cross paths with a local teenager named Lucien. Part fiction, part autobiography, part queer theory, this film plays with the conventions of the social sciences to map a geography of the intimate, a sociology of desire. Trailer… here
Ephemera	Oliver King	2022	Canada / 4 mins An indigenous man's journey of self-discovery while navigating the use of a dating app. Trailer... here
Epilogue	Yasha Maria Lelonek, Dahyo Coleman	2022	USA / 8 mins After reinventing herself, a young trans woman grapples with the question: “How have things changed?” Watch... here
Espejos Rotos	Henry Pacheco	2022	Chile / 13 mins Una pareja de mujeres lesbianas de nacionalidad extranjera, reciben una fuerte agresión de un vecino homofóbico. Trailer… here
Estética Unisex	Alvaro Acosta Gutierrez	2022	Peru / 8 mins The life of three trans women come together through Mishell´s memories. From Huancayo city to Atta alley in Puno, Peru, the memory comes alive with music, dance, and also death.
Evening Ritual / Aftenritual	Nanna Hauge Kristensen, Ruth Storm	2022	Denmark / 9 mins Jørgen and Benny have been together for 16 years. Previously they shared a life together, but now Benny can only visit Jørgen in his care home living room.
Excess	Mehdi Koushki	2022	Iran / 14 mins According to Islamic Republic of Iran's laws a son inherits twice as much as a daughter from the father's property, but what if a girl has changed gender?
Exibidas	Ediy Porn	2022	Brazil / 11 mins Two hotties go for a sex adventure in the streets, marking their territory with the delicious liquid of cum.
Exxxtasy	Emy Fem	2022	Netherlands / 9 mins Playfully explores role play and BDSM, celebration and perception, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, tenderness and brutality, pleasure and pain.
Ezohikoak	Alejandra Bueno	2022	Basque Country / 10 mins In the Basque Country, people are brought up believing in the existence of a Basque matriarchy and assimilating normative family models. The protagonist does not sees herself reflected within these models and carries out a historical review through photographs in order to understand what the society in which she lives is like. The same photographs that have served to narrate a single normative story come to life to tell the story of historical women without history, women without matriarchy and other women. Trailer… here
Fags Talking	Jack Solemdal Lowe, Hanna Persson	2022	Norway / 17 mins Over the course of smoking three cigarettes, a story of sexuality, betrayal, and friendship is exposed.
Fallen Angel מלאך שנפל	Noah Dolinsky	2022	Israel, Thailand / 16 mins Young and introverted trans woman faces loneliness in the big city and tries to find love. Trailer… here
Fanny Pack / Čopor pičića	Paula Skelin	2022	Croatia / 47 mins Fanny Pack follows Croatia’s only drag house, called House of Flamingo, on their first performance tour after more than a year of absence from the stages due to COVID-19 pandemic. The film provides a unique insight into members’ personalities, relationships, aspirations and the hectic madness that accompanies each appearance on stage.
Farewell	Yunhe Zhang	2022	UK / 3 mins “Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Father F***er	KIM Minhoon	2022	Korea / 19 mins The first daughter, who has just lost her mother, hears about her father's remarriage. One day, someone comes.
Fearless: Jazmin	Theodora Nicole Sullivan	2022	Australia / 4:36 mins Jazmin is an 83 year-old trans psychic who's tarot readings attract people from all over Australia. Watch… here
Festival Procession / Mela Jaloos	Abdullah Qureshi	2022	Pakistan, Canada / 13 mins A 13-minute art film that embarks upon a speculative queer Muslim journey of celebration, resistance, and protest. Taking a performance-based approach, the film uses poetic and hybrid means to present a kaleidoscope of influences that are rooted in Sufi histories, queerness, and life in Lahore, Pakistan. Trailer… here
Fight for Your Freedom	Canisius Avéko	2022	Burkina Faso / 8 mins Since childhood, Eric has a particularity that does not make living his journey on earth easy. He learned to navigate his individuality and fights to be free.
Fille du Péché	Elhachmia Didi-Alaoui	2022	France / 29 mins Yasmine, Franco-Maghrébine, la vingtaine, a pris le large pour vivre sa vie. À l’occasion de l’Aïd, elle rend visite à sa famille pour quelques jours. Avec chacun une relation insolite se tisse et se dévoile.
Finding	André Parra	2022	Ireland / 2 mins A young child searches for his lost ball in the park, but instead finds a doll. He soon learns that playing with dolls comes with stigma and a price.
Finding the Italians: A Granddaughter’s Journey	Giovanna S Capone	2022	USA / 1:41:41 mins This film documents the history of the Italians in the U.S., and specifically in Oakland, California. It includes the vibrant story of the Italian social clubs dating back to 1920 in North Oakland and extending to the year 2022. It's told from a personal point of view, tracing the journey of one woman, the filmmaker, whose grandparents came to New York a century ago as immigrants from southern Italy and what happened when they arrived in America. She weaves her own family story with the story of the Italian immigrants to the U.S. She also includes her own personal story as an Italian American lesbian, seeking to live in a large gay community in California, which has meant leaving behind her ethnic hub in New York and the complex feelings that have resulted from this decision. She asks the crucial question: How do you hold onto your culture in a new land? It's a question every granddaughter of immigrants faces. Trailer… here
Flesh / Carne	Juan Diego Aguirre Gomez	2022	Colombia / 16 mins Jairo, a 50-year-old gay man, a sex worker in a Colombian club, cannot conceive of another life outside that he knows, an underworld of illegality, marginality and lust. That day, Helda, his patron, warns him that his time in that world has ended. Trailer… here
Flo	Stéfy McKnight	2022	Canada / 3:50 mins My sister was told by a doctor that she could not have a hysterectomy unless she had permission from her boyfriend. Drawing on the impact of anti-abortion legislation in the United-States, and the use of period tracking applications to track estrogen producing bodies across North America, flo playfully disrupts and turns the hetero-patriarchal, colonial, misogynist and queerphobic white surveillant gaze onto itself. Inspired by contemporary media and solidarity movements online, specifically in so-called Canada, flo highlights the ways that bodies who can become pregnant continue to be victims of systemic violence and patriarchy.
Football Players	Ding Frisby	2022	UK / 3:42 mins Ding Frisby celebrates the Women's Euros with the queerest football anthem of 2022. Watch… here
Forbidden by God / Deus Não Deixa	Marçal Vianna	2022	Brazil / 20 mins Years ago, Miguel stopped presenting himself as Mika Sapequinha: he cut his hair, shed his skirts, and created a new version of himself. A frequenter of the Evangelical Church, today he faces a turbulent journey of self-knowledge. Anos atrás, Miguel deixou de se apresentar como Mika Sapequinha: cortou os cabelos, largou as saias e criou uma nova versão para si. Frequentador da Igreja Evangélica, hoje enfrenta uma turbulenta jornada de autoconhecimento. Trailer... here
Forged in Chaos	Patricia Gloum	2022	USA / 3 mins Forged in Chaos is a unique project directed by Patricia Golum. At a crossroad between fashion, digital art, dance and music, this docu-poem-experimental short is a taste of what video content will look, feel and sound like in the near future. Watch… here
Forty	Sreelakshmi M	2022	India / 13 mins Forty is a film that delves into conversations amongst two generations of women, trying to navigate the questions that we all face everyday but choose to ignore. The film explores a mother-daughter relationship where a young, 20-year old Aparna (Appu), who at the face of grief stumbles upon her mother’s notebook, opening her up to a past life that lived and breathed. With a hint of nostalgia, Forty keeps switching between the past and the present, of all that is said and unsaid. With sombre frames and minimal music, the film tries to maintain its intimacy and desires, celebrating life through different times and spaces.
Francheska: Prairie Queen	Laura O'Grady	2022	Canada / 64 mins FRANCHESKA: PRAIRIE QUEEN follows the journey of a Filipino care worker, Francis (Kiko) Yutrago, as he tries to achieve drag star superstardom while still financially supporting his family back in the Philippines. Kiko's mission is complicated by the fact that he and his fiancé live in a tiny bible belt town in southern Alberta. When a typhoon hits his parents' house, Kiko relies on his drag persona, Francheska Dynamites, to bring in the extra cash they desperately need. Trailer… here
Free	Alfian Efendi	2022	Indonesia
Freedom is an Action	Anna Stoeva	2022	Bulgaria LGBT+ rights lawyer Denitsa Lyubenova wages a legal battle that can affect the lives of over 100,000 children in Europe.
Friendship (Soi)	Monalisa Dasgupta	2022	India / 20 mins Two teenage girls in a remote village in India are deeply affectionate for each other. Their life is disrupted by the pandemic, and it takes them away from each other. Meanwhile, one of the girl's parents arrange a marriage for her, which devastates her best friend. Trailer… here
From Darkness to Light	Joe Fox	2022	USA / 40 mins “From Darkness to Light” is a documentary film that tells the story of the Peter Krueger Clinic (PKC) – one of the first HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States, which was established at Beth Israel Hospital in 1989. Started during the height of the epidemic in New York City. This powerful film traces the clinic’s origins and its impact over the last 3 decades, as told by the patients and staff that have called it home.
Fucking Freaks Club	Nicky Lisa Lapierre, Nour Beetch	2022	Belgium / 18 mins Post-porn ritual thwarting fears, with intimate and complex emby power, at the borders of comedy and SF. A magical kiss that fucks the norms.
Fursona	Aly Labbé-Hervieux	2022	Canada / 5 mins Fursona is an incursion into the universe of Aly, a member of the Furry community. La communauté Furry regroupe des personnes utilisant le dessin et les costumes pour animer des sujets animaux aux caractéristiques humaines. Fursona dépeint l’univers d’Aly, un membre de cette communauté. Trailer… here
Fury Has an Anthem	James Newman	2022	UK / 7 mins A musically fueled martial-artist has to fight off toxic masculinity while searching for new love. Watch… here
Future Comes at The Right Time	Elena Bongiorno, Sofia Merelli, Martina Tamburini, Gabriele Umidon	2022	Italy / 16 mins Future comes at the right time tells the story of Nelson and his escape to Italy after a violent aggression, due to his sexuality. He was born 25 years ago in Benin City, one of the most unstable areas of Nigeria. In 2018 the territorial commission that examined his case considered his testimony not sufficiently credible and rejected his request for international protection. In 2021 Nelson appealed to the Venice Court. Awaiting for his verdict, which can take months, Nelson spends his days working, hanging out with friends and making music, hoping to become a great singer one day.
Gap Year(s)	Nate King	2022	USA Gap Year(s) is a mini animation about how sometimes things take a very long time, whether that be getting over a breakup, or making art. As time moves on our own feelings shift and we may no longer feel the way we once did.
Garden Amidst the Flame	Natasha Tontey	2022	Indonesia / 28 mins Garden Amidst the Flame is a coming of age story where we are guided into the fantasy of a young Minahasan girls in non-linear time structure. The journey began from young protagonist Virsay filling up the night with shaving her eyebrows with her younger sister in an unemotional display of the hypermasculinity of Minahasan culture. Without knowing her younger sister is one of member of the child gang that practises ancient knowledges, she encounters a realm of nowhere with the sudden appearance of a living fossil, the Coelacanth monster, on her bed, a Rooster beast dancing in her room which is beheaded by a child gang, and other fantastical and absurd situations.
Gastar Polvora en Gallinazo	Nicanor Monroy	2022	Panamá / 3:24 mins Un chico reflexiona sobre sus elecciones de vida al borde del final de una relación.
Gauero	Iñigo Alkorta	2022	Basque Country / 7 mins Galder is tired of being self-righteous. Tonight he is determined to try something new and different. Feeling excited and nervous at the same time, he goes into the unknown in the toilets of a discotheque where he hopes to live a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Gay Quiz	Caleb Cook	2022	USA / 3 mins Spencer, a concessions stand worker, decides to give his new and attractive co-worker, Jack, an internet “Are You Gay?” quiz to determine his sexuality.
Gay Spirit Radio: Not Afraid to Be Different - The Keith Brown Story	Susan Cardillo	2022	USA / 23 mins For 40 years, Keith Brown has been the producer, voice and soul of Hartford’s Gay Spirit Radio, a weekly LGBTQ radio program on WWUH. This is his story. Watch... here
Gaze in Silence	Hao - Liang Huang	2022	Taiwan / 14:48 mins Yan Xin is an ordinary white-collar worker. He really likes to have sex with different guys. Yun Fei is a stalker, following, taking pictures and spying on others' privacy is his biggest hobby. From time to time, Yun Fei became curious about Yan Xin and began to follow him. During a date, Yan Xin met a pervert and his life is in danger. After witnessing everything, what should Yun Fei do?
GendrBendr	Joe Nadeau	2022	Canada / 2 mins GendrBendr receives a chest binder as a gift and discovers new joy in life (euphoria). They learn to love themselves, breaking out in dance. Gender identity is also about learning to love our trans body, like the art it is, no matter what stage of transition it is or not.
Generations in Time	Liz Nistico	2022	USA / 13 mins The life of a drag queen from the glitz and glam on stage to the real-life grit of NYC. The film highlights the cherished artistic connection between a son and his father. Watch… here
Get Free	Ray de Mesa	2022	USA / 9 mins A thrifty, fabulous,and newly independent drag artist unwittingly faces an unusual request from an enigmatic stranger in exchange for a free dress. Watch… here
Gianna	Manuel Gomar	2022	Spain / 13 mins Julia is widowed and unhappy. She decides to make a big change in her love life, and enlists her granddaughter for help with the task.
Give It Back	Andy Scott	2022	5 mins Two siblings pack up their childhood home and rediscover a memory that wants something back. Trailer… here
Glow	Jottum Kok	2022	Netherlands / 9 mins In this poetic and observational documentary we follow Yusuf during an ordinary day in his life in the asylum seekers’ center. Slowly, we see how he transforms into his alter ego Grizolda, who gives him hope and strength outside the walls of the asylum seekers’ center. Trailer… here
GMT+9	Sugano Matsusaki, Jonas Beile	2022	Germany / 30 mins GMT+9 is a nuanced portrait of two Japanese women who want to live together as a couple in Berlin. The plot is based on a collage of interviews and stories that circulated in the authors’ surroundings. The fictional setting creates conditions in which issues that would otherwise be repressed in a kind of self-censorship can be expressed relentlessly. The two main characters speak of shame, secrecy, and the impossibility of unfolding in ways they demand of themselves. The ideal of openness unwittingly becomes a burden for the protagonists. Berlin is not the imagined place of longing, and the freedom they envisioned is in fact their entry into a fierce economy of self-assertion.… Trailer… here
Goalgetter	Ivan Stojiljković	2022	Serbia / 18 mins Nikola’s life is turned upside down after he publicly accuses his football coach of sexual molestation.
Gonna Haunt	Jen T. Stoughton	2022	USA / 11 mins A self-entitled ghost embarks on a petty crusade to “haunt the shit” out of her roommate who refuses to glorify her post-death.
Goodbye Again / ধুলোয় রইলো ঢাকা	Dwaipayan Mazumder	2022	India / 26 mins The film explores several layers of a complex relationship between two friends who happens to coincidentally meet in a party after a long separation.
Goud/Zwart	Meander van Harrewijen	2022	Netherlands / 4 mins Fjomo’s stylized music video deals with searching for your true self.
Grace	abcde Flash	2022	Switzerland / 6 mins Grace. is an ode to abcde Flash’s understanding of her cycle and herself. By accepting each phase for what it is, she’s transformed this never-ending experience of highs and lows into a most reliable routine: a cycle that, like clockwork, she knows she can count on.
Grace Under Pressure גרייס	Etelle Ebner	2022	Israel / 19 mins Grace and Maya, two teenage cousins, are the absolute opposite of one another. Grace, an American tourist, is shy and naïve. Maya isn’t. A fateful night in Tel Aviv will reveal a secret better left hidden. A coming-of-age story, featuring taboo, love and sex.
Granada	Benedito Ferreira	2022	Brazil / 71 mins The dancer Dom walks elegantly with his polka-dotted scarf through the streets of downtown Goiânia while the director Benedito Ferreira continues his daily effort to observe and photograph the city. An attempt at a portrait, a brief dialogue, and suddenly the two of them sit in a bar to talk. From this chance encounter, a friendship is born and a plan for a final and grandiose flamenco dance show is born.
Grigrette’s recipe	Alba Melis	2022	France / 3 mins A young witch falls in love and decides to create her own love potion. After a long process, she manages to offer the flowers sprinkled with the potion to her future beloved. However, a surprise awaits her… Watch… here
Happily Ever After	Lau Wing Man	2022	Hong Kong / 26 mins A married man is secretly learning pole dancing. When his wife finds out, it creates turmoil in their secured married life and brings up questions, which the couple must confront.
HÄXAN: The Black Rite	Joseph Häxan	2022	Australia / 3 mins Made exactly 100 years after the iconic 1922 Danish film Häxan, this film follows a rite of witchcraft as the earth is engulfed by a catastrophic, world ending meteor shower. Trailer… here
Head Boy	Lee Campbell	2022	UK / 2 mins Combining innate humour and salacious content which teases the imagination, this coming-of-age story by director Lee Campbell explores some of the complexities surrounding male teen homoerotic desire, battling then overcoming bullies. The underwater imagery was shot in Devon, UK and Malta and the recurring illustration of Rupert Everett in the film 'Another Country' was drawn by Lee himself and taken from one of his sketchbooks he kept at the time in the 1990s the poem refers to. Watch… here
Hedda (After Ibsen)	Jen Heyes	2022	UK / 58 mins Hedda is beautiful, aristocratic, and intelligent, loaded with social grace and a steely, clear, dispassionate charisma. Life really isn't good enough for Hedda. Like any of us, in life there are moments when we feel that this frustrating business of existence — as lived on our darkest days — really isn't good enough for us either… Set in a Lynchian world of dream imagery, drama, bespoke sound design, music and chanteuse style singing; the iconic avant-garde performer David Hoyle stars as Hedda in this one-person, cinematic/theatrical reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, created and directed by Jen Heyes, with original composition by Tom Parkinson. HEDDA (After Ibsen) moves past the obvious to create a darkly surreal show for everyone that doesn't reduce it to our binary traditions. Shot on location at Soho Theatre, yet cinematically ambitious, HEDDA (After Ibsen) is a story of many faces - the absolute power of manipulation, influence, the control of obsession and dark psychological unrest. This is a contemporary unpacking of Ibsen's original text from inside the hinterland of the artist's imagination. Heyes and Hoyle's reimagined Hedda is both musical and darkly surreal, moving us far beyond the traditional binary. As Ibsen himself said: 'Hedda is first and foremost a human being.' Trailer… here
Held Together	Alvin Agarrat	2022	USA / 16 mins A Chorus of Black Gay Men Denounce 'Fem Shaming' Washington's essay about "femphobia” is now a choral work as conceived by director Alvin Agarrat. Agarrat filmed 9 Black gay men lending their collective voice to this message. Femphobia actually stems from fear-based and hateful attitudes toward women and girls. Gay men are shamed into hating their own fem side. This is how they become femphobic against each other, even though they are gay. “Held Together” explores the effects of stigma, and the value of self-acceptance.
Hello, My Name is Sara	Sarah Hill	2022	USA / 10 mins This mixed media compilation featuring puppetry, paper dolls, and archival footage seeks to answer the age-old question; what’s in a name? The film explores the moments of awkwardness, humor, and self-actualization that come with settling into your name. Trailer… here
Hen	Alice Tovey	2022	Australia / 10 mins When a non-binary Gem attends their cis mate's hen's night, the girlies turn from bubbly bridesmaids to cock hungry demons. But Gem could never have known just how far they would get under their skin. Gem (Frankie McNair) and Trisha (Mish Wittrup) have been friends since childhood. Gem will be at Trisha's side on the big day without a doubt. But their bond is no match for the Three Bridesmaids of the Apocalypse. Under the influence of bad vodka and worse friends, Trisha turns from girl-boss ally to monstrous beast in the space of a Ginuwine remix.
Her Ghost	Jade Kerry	2022	3 mins A ghost story about love, grief and learning to continue on. Watch… here
Here	Lucas Liu	2022	8 mins Will experiences a strange day following his roommate’s murder. As Will loses grasp with reality, he is forced to remember the true identities of his strange girlfriend, his dead roommate, and himself.
Hiding	Will Carey	2022	UK / 4 mins Will is starting to come to terms with his sexuality. When friends pressure him to admit things that he’s not ready to share, Will learns that true acceptance won’t come from anyone else, but himself.
Hijo	Oscar Perez-Chairez	2022	USA / 32 mins As a teenage Mexican immigrant slowly assimilates into American culture, he struggles with his identity and his mother’s growing disapproval of his change. Trailer… here
Hokjes	Dewi van Breukelen, Anne Karman	2022	Netherlands / 19 mins We live in a binary society, and this documentary shows that all too well. What if you do not feel comfortable as man or woman? Which box do you fit into then, and should you even want that? In 9 different interviews, you get a better idea of what it is like to feel misunderstood in our society.
Home is Home	Mohammad Safaeipour	2022	Iran / 15 mins A woman is painting another woman in a house and over time a relationship is formed between the two. Trailer… here
Honeydew, Darling	Callahan Bracken	2022	Canada / 4 mins At the intersection between animation, ceramics, film and printmaking, Honeydew, Darling employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the transient relationship between time and identity as it relates to queerness.
Honeysuckle Joyride	Jennifer Mehigan	2022	Ireland / 13 mins Honeysuckle Joyride is a commissioned video essay made in response to Bassam Al-Sabah's show I AM ERROR which opened at Gasworks London in 2021. The essay considers themes of decay, inter-species kinship and the Irish landscape through a post-humanist lens. Footage of various locations around the island are layered with computer-generated imagery, uncovering personal or domestic materialities of queerness, grief and horror as they intersect with the screen, and ideas of truth and reality in a space where public and private spheres are constantly colliding with and abstracting each other. Watch… here
Hot As Hell	Julia Balista	2022	Brazil / 3 mins Soraya, the vampire, goes on a trip to El Salvador but is hit by a heat wave.
Hot Wheels	Shayna Davis	2022	USA / 13 mins Casey, a local roller rink employee, is crushing hard on the rink’s one regular patron that she thinks is way out of her league. The object of her affection is Janice, a middle-aged, flamboyant individual with an unorthodox passion for roller skating and her head stuck in the 70s.
House of Rencong	Rizky Rahad	2022	Indonesia / 25 mins In 2018, Indonesian police raided several hair salons in Sumatra, torturing dozens of trans hairdressers. Four years later, survivors meet discreetly with a trans artist, Tamarra, to explore performance as a means for collective healing.
House of Ubae	Koda Calma	2022	USA / 34 mins In this intimate portrait, a young trans and Filipinx drag queen reflects on her journey of overcoming childhood trauma as they prepare to move across the country and leave their beloved chosen family. Trailer… here
Houvast	Naomi Aalbers	2022	Netherlands / 5 mins When two people meet in the subway, their lives take a ‘touching’ turn. Watch… here
How Many Will Dance on Your Tongue	Louis-Barthélémy Rousseau	2022	France / 20 mins Alice is a doctor. Every day she questions patients in their deep intimacy and proceeds to blood samples. Back at her apartment, she finds Bianca, languidly waiting for her. The moment to come, Alice pours the blood on Bianca’s tongue, revealing their intimate sexual stories.
How to Disappear	Dyno Fanoy	2022	The Netherlands / 8 mins A short film about mental health, in which filmmaker Dyno tries to delete themselves. After returning home, they admit to their roommate they are not doing well.
How to learn Basque / Nola ikasi Euskara	Juan Esteban Montoya	2022	Basque Country / 27 mins After a 3-year audiovisual record, a Chilean migrant approaches the Basque language to reflect on memory, time and territory through images of a coastal village where he was confined.
How to Live Here	Alisha Doody	2022	Ireland / 3 mins How to Live Here is a short film that is part of a wider biographical multimedia project that explores the trajectory of a queer woman who leaves their rural upbringing in search of community only to return to the conditions she once ran away from.
HuEllas. Relatos de amor y violencias desde lo íntimo a lo politico.	Esther Martín Pineda	2022	Spain Huellas es un viaje narrativo que, desde un enfoque interseccional, transita por las reflexiones y experiencias de lesbianas feministas en Bogotá (Colombia) en torno a la identidad política, el amor y las relaciones, las violencias en sus vínculos sexo-afectivos así como sus aprendizajes y sanación. Trailer… here
Huldre	Julie Holst Nielsen-Man	2022	Denmark / 13 mins A young woman is losing touch with both herself and her girlfriend, as she is dealing with a melancholic mind.
Hungry / Gourmandise	Sosucks	2022	Belgium / 4 mins An invitation to discover Minnie Fetish's uninhibited sexuality during her sex cam. With Gourmandise, Minnie Fetish will make you hungry.
Hunting for Snakes	Boy Ewald	2022	Denmark / 15 mins After meeting at an underground techno party, Pelle and Maggs go on an adventure, where they each share a small part of their inner life.
Hygieia	Paulo Mendel	2022	Brazil / 6 mins Inspired by an ancient incubation treatment known as Enkoimeses, this sci-fi queer film portrays Hygieia, Goddess of Health and Hygiene, and daughter of Asclepius, God of Healing, experiencing a powerful awakening. Through a hypnotic and dream-like aesthetic, these spiritual and symbolic entanglements propel an untouchable body into the infinite universe.
I am not a Number: Alejandra	Bart Peters, Transketeers	2022	Netherlands / 20 mins An intimate documentary portrait Alejandra shares her experience of migration, the struggles she faces, and where she finds strength. Trailer... here
I Can’t Forget Him	Kevin Yiu	2022	Hong Kong / 14 mins A rent-boy goes on vacation to a remote Hong Kong island with his bestie to forget his ex-lover, but the trip turns haywire when he meets a mysterious stranger evoking the legendary poet, Wat Yue from 2000 years ago! Trailer... here
I Could Give You My Life in Arms	Gregory Shark	2022	USA / 11:09 mins A train conductor fills the traveling vessel with marine life in order to build a cool new world.
I Don’t Exactly Remember What Happened Last Night אני לא בדיוק זוכרת מה קרה באותו לילה	Hadas Ginat	2022	Israel / 4 mins A personal documentary made as part of Mansher studies. The director recounts a difficult experience she went through.
I Have, I Don't Have	Ming-Chueh Yeh	2022	Taiwan / 2 mins If infants were born asexual, they could choose their sex organs: breasts, genitals, or phalluses, according to their wishes. Proposes a new imagination for the human body and reflects the phenomenon of modern society. Nowadays, people have multiple roles and enjoy the right to choose the gender they prefer.
I Just Want to Come Home / Jag vill bara hem	Nasrin Pakkho	2022	Sweden The documentary refers to five contemporary trans people’s testimonies of living in Sweden. These persons are between 17 and 70 years old. The film highlights their stories of life’s different journeys. One describes themself as a binary trans person, another as a man with trans experiences and a third as neither a man nor a woman but non-binary, beyond gender. One may dream of the day when the gender confirmation surgery is complete while another feels it’s enough to express their gender using hormones. Trailer… here
I Met You On My Way To The Cemetery	Johnny Doov	2022	Israel / 23 mins On his way to a funeral in the Kibbutz, where he grew up, after his best friend ends her life, Alon meets a young broken-hearted girl that joins his journey. Trailer… here
I Missed You at Synagogue הבדלה	Hanan Brandes	2022	Israel /12 mins Carmel is asked to convey a message of reconciliation from his best friend Ido’s recent ex-girlfriend. When he finds Ido heartbroken and in need of comfort, he clings to the last moments of closeness.
I Shudder with Pleasure that at Last the Time Has Come	Mari Terashima	2022	Japan / 27 mins In a secluded corner of the world, there stands a chamber of sweet nectar, where the Mistress imparts the secrets of love to all who come. This room is easily accessible to all. But no one wants to enter it. One day, a young man finds himself drawn to it despite better knowledge. He has been reincarnated for thousands of years and now, finally, exists in this room at this moment. Pain has turned into sweet love, a kind of rooted love, and through it, he becomes one with the Mother, with himself, and with the universe.
I was looking for you	Georgia Helen Twigg	2022	UK / 3:29 mins Finding the prefect recipe for queer family lineage.
I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy	Orla Egan	2022	Ireland / 18 mins LGBT people from Cork in the 1970s and 80s remember cherished community spaces, parties, pubs, clubs and political activism.
I’m the Only One I Wanna See	Lucia Martinez Garcia	2022	Switzerland / 6 mins A woman, a dancer, a creature, dances, free. She makes fun of the violence, the insults, the looks that reign around her. Trailer… here
I’m Still Your Fag	Izzy Johnson	2022	USA / 4 mins A meditation on the eroticism of queer intimacy.
If I cannot Feed all the Hungers of The World, do I still hold Value?	Ray Isaak Bleau	2022	USA / 2:55 mins Dysphoria follows as I, a demisexual non-binary femme, find myself in my Prime of external beauty approved by western standards.
Ilas de Oxala	Henrique Filho	2022	Brazil / 5 mins Drawing parallels between Afro-Brazilian religions and LGBTQIA+ resistance, Ilás de Oxalá (hope) is a powerful poetic prayer for all bodies that have been stigmatized and assaulted by patriarchal and racist society. Watch… here
In a Slumber / Uthay hi Nahi	Kartikey Tripathi	2022	India / 14 mins A COVID test result, an overworked homemaker and my struggle with depression: 'In a Slumber' is a story about a family in isolation. But sometimes isolation also means that the bigger picture gets lost in mundane, everyday tasks. The film charts the trajectory of my experience of living with COVID and explores themes of loneliness, desire and mental health.
In Between / Dazwischen	Anaïs Bourgogne	2022	Switzerland / 17:38 mins Sonja, Angeles and Kaajal are twelve years old. Sometimes childlike, other times astoundingly grown-up, they are going through a turbulent time full of changes. Trailer… here
In Boxes	Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer	2022	Israel / 6 mins A couple moves in together, but what's hidden in those moving boxes? Trailer... here
In Curve Notes_Stream / Apontamentos de Curva _ Correnteza	Flavia Regaldo	2022	Portugal / 7 mins When does shape fall apart? Based on the premise of rethinking the body as a critical space, this porn animation of sliding watercolors explores the tensions of the body and desire in its antimatter, in the blind cuts of its lines and curves, in between the lines of the unsaid. Trailer… here
In Our Minds	Tabitha Murdoch	2022	Australia / 5 mins Two teenage girlfriends learn that their love can survive being challenged after they are separated by a non-supportive parent.
in transit	Nhi Nguyễn	2022	USA / 2:45 mins A young Vietnamese woman sinuously flows down the alluring arteries of San Francisco.
In Tune	Hannah Miles Wong	2022	Singapore / 16 mins A self-conscious conformist, 35-year-old Lin is forced out of her comfort zone when she stumbles upon a half-finished composition written about her by her son's piano teacher, Sarah. As Lin tries to ignore it and find her way back to her usual routine, she begins to question if a life of conformity is what she really wants.
Intentionally Erased	Kimya Motley	2022	USA / 59 mins Kimya Motley is an educator, activist, author, director, and producer working to end violence against all women and girls. She has directed, co-wrote, and co-produced this absorbing documentary about the experiences of Black trans women in the United States. Join us for the world premiere of the film and a panel discussion afterwards.
Interface: Cruisin’	Nate King	2022	USA / 1 min Interface: Cruisin’ is a mini-film exploring the artists own nostalgia for video games of the 90s while simultaneously queering the narrative, replacing the traditional bikini babe with himself.
Intransitive: a documentary about trans stories / Intransitivo: Um Documentário Sobre Narrativas Trans	Gabz 404, Gustavo Deon, Lau Graef, Luka Machado	2022	Brazil / 72 mins 2021. Pandemic. Brazil (the country that most murders trans people and transvestites for the 13th consecutive year). Amid a dangerous and critical political moment, a trans-centered troupe travels through Rio Grande do Sul and talks to eight transgender individuals. The interviews raise issues related to transition, and other identitary and intersectional crossings, such as class, race, age, sexuality, and body. On the backstage we witness the conversations among the crew, discussing these same themes, so as their interpersonal relations on the road. Trailer… here
Iris	Iris Kea Pontoni Wachowicz	2022	Netherlands / 4 mins A personal animated story about being raised by two mothers.
Isolation	Diane L. Wilkins, Terry L. Galloway	2022	USA / 6 mins This short film introduces us to KC, a tomboy with cp, who escaped well-meant but oppressive over protectiveness to find fun freedom in their queer identity, until Covid threw them back into isolation.
Istosi: The Land We Live On	Making Treay 7 Cultural Society	2022	Canada Seven artists immerse themselves in theatre creation techniques inspired by the land we call Calgary. Trailer… here
It Had to Be You	Camryn Garrett	2022	USA / 4 mins When Cleo falls for a customer at the coffee shop she works at, she must catch his attention before her more beautiful coworker does.
It Hurts to Love a Woman	Jessica Silber	2022	USA / 4:43 mins A tender yet tragic tale that recounts the intimate journey of two women, ROSE and MAX, whose connection cautiously dances on the fine line between friendship and romance. Told through the juxtaposing lenses of their drastically different experiences in the same space, we fall privy to their love as it unfolds, blossoms and deflates. Led by movement and sound, we teeter on the border of fantasy and nightmare as ROSE experiences the painful repercussions of falling in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves. Watch… here
It Takes a Village	Glam Hag	2022	USA / 8 mins Today is the day these two pregnant cult members have been waiting for.
It's Better Outside	Leo Becker	2022	Australia / 5 mins On a night out, Paul convinces Ian to experiment with a drug and together venture down the rabbit hole. Moments after taking the pill, Ian's secret feelings for Paul are awakened, leading him to a second world where a truth that will forever change his reality is exposed. Watch… here
ITSUKA: Someday, now	Eru Yamada	2022	Japan / 26 mins A week after birth, she came to her same-sex husbands, Yamada and Sato, and the world reflected in the eyes of "someday". It's a blurry vision, but I do feel it someday. That the two of you are working hard to come to terms with one day and that you are loving them.
Izurdea	Anne Dobaran	2022	Spain / 14:33 mins Marta, Irati y June son amigas de toda la vida y deciden irse juntas de vacaciones de verano. Cogen un Airbnb en un pueblo precioso en La Rioja. En su primera noche de vacaciones, deciden estrenar la casa con una pequeña fiesta. Trailer… here
Jailer	Milad Vaezi Majd	2022	Iran / 12 mins It's the story of a boy who wants to be a girl and he is under pressure of his dreams.
Jem’s Dream Home	Louise-Marie Le Doussal	2022	Canada / 30 mins Thanks Jem is living their last days in their Vancouver home; it has been sold, and they have been asked to leave. The pandemic had already made it difficult for the drag queen performer to stay afloat. The only way they know to cope is to channel it into their art, prompting one final shindig. Trailer… here
Jillian’s Peak	Charzette Torrence, Danielle Johnson	2022	USA / 12:22 mins Jillian Thomas an African American woman who is afraid of marrying a man. Because deep down inside she knows the truth that is a lesbian. She has been struggling with the truth for years that she is gay.
Jim’s Tips	Piper Peña Hadley	2022	USA / 9 mins Transgender teen Flora struggles to cope with her father’s death and the series of How-To videos he’s left behind. Watch... here
João	Rafa Maciel	2022	Brazil / 7 mins Liquid love and sexual freedom of a young gay man in the Amazon. Trailer… here
Jose’s Sunday Paella	André M. Zucker	2022	USA / 5 mins José has a great life. Since coming to New York City from Valencia, Spain, he has become a doctor, married his husband, and had a daughter. There’s only one thing missing. José is desperate to make paella the way his family did when he was growing up in Valencia. This is not something easily done in the middle of New York City. Motivated by his need to pass on his Spanish heritage to his American daughter, José and a friend are going to try to recreate a piece of José’s childhood on the streets of Brooklyn.
Journey to Assaf	Uri Levi	2022	Israel / 56 mins Assaf Kroll was an artist who painted his soul. He painted the three significant and difficult periods in his life. He did not reveal the paintings to the world but kept them to himself. After he died of cancer at the age of 39, his parents set out on a journey where they try to learn and get to know their son – Assaf. Trailer… here
Judgment-Day Selfie	Yossi Waxman	2022	Israel / 5 mins Observing Van Leyden’s “Judgment Day” painting in these very days of a global pandemic, wars and natural disasters, images created while dialoguing with the artist: a satire of mankind in the age of social networks, attempts to dialogue with eternity. Watch... here
Junglez	Rikki Beadle-Blair	2022	UK / 17:23 mins A ragtag group of Black queer youth from a secret squat in Brixton dream of becoming Grime stars. Trailer… here
Junto con nuestros padres y amigos	Sandra Flecha	2022	Paraguay / 14 mins Two lifelong best friends, Juanda and Marce, summon their family and friends to tell them something that will completely change the evening.
Kaalpurush	Ryan Dey, Sandipta Chhetri	2022	India / 45 mins It’s the story a boy who goes a woman to a man. After being converted, he is humiliated everywhere and can’t find work anywhere. He is in a relationship with Converted women. Oneday he gets drunk in despair and write his whole biography in a dairy and commits suicide, the girl come and realized everything and goes to the boy's house and tells them everything. Trailer… here
Kamiya, you seem gay, don't you?	Mahiro Hamamoto	2022	Japan / 7 mins Popular model Yasuto Kamiya seems gay. "A person with a deep relationship with Kamiya's office," he says. In his absence, the rumor, whose authenticity or falsity is unknown, is picked up on the net news, goes around on SNS, and eventually reaches the ears of his lover, Mizoguchi. Yokoyama, a mutual friend of Kamiya, tells Mizoguchi not to believe him, but Mizoguchi's anxiety, boosted by popular voices, could not be dispelled by Yokoyama's own words, and Mizoguchi continued to search for Kamiya. In the meantime, another rumor is circulating on the Internet out of nowhere. Trailer… here
Kavlart	Manos K	2022	UK / 4 mins An artistic expression of the complex passion of sexuality.
Keymil	Nicole Pastrana	2022	Colombia / 4 mins Cuando K-mil le dijo a su familia que era una mujer trans, la echaron de casa y solo pudo regresar con la condición de que dejara de ser quien quiere. Todos los días debe salir de su casa porque allí sólo le permiten dormir. En el skate park de su ciudad encontró un hogar, un lugar seguro donde poder encontrarse con sus amigos y ser ella misma.
Killing in a Vegan way / Ubistvo na veganski nacin	Julia Ernesti	2022	Serbia / 24 mins The harmony-loving Aurora increasingly compromises in her relationships with her friends and her vegan boyfriend Charlie and neglects her own needs, which has fatal consequences. Trailer… here
Kim, People are Dying	Sepand Mashiahof	2022	USA / 7:43 mins Beast Nest travels through a vibrant and strange realm of emotional agony in an attempt to reconnect to old friends and collectively heal their deeply felt pain. This video is about mental health and disability and how much friendship can save us in our strangest, hardest, and darkest moments. Watch… here
Kin	Michal Janicki	2022	USA / 6 mins A man attempts to contact his brother in space to discover who they both are.
Kind Eyes	Casey L Floyd	2022	USA / 12 mins Seeking romance on a dating app date and believing he’s finally found it, Cody looks up to see his promising date turn into something else entirely.
Kings	Eric Garcia	2022	USA / 5:49 mins Two drag kings dance their way through a bathroom quickie. The film is part of UP ON HIGH, a 9-part dance film that interrogates the notions of queer legacy, asking “What is built that has resonance beyond us?” UP ON HIGH is collaboratively researched and devised by an ensemble of dance and drag artists who investigate lineage, impact, and our role as future ancestors for the next generations.
Kings of Taiwan	Syrus Sadvandi	2022	Taiwan / 16 mins In Taipei, a unique community of drag kings has grown since 2019 thanks to Liting ‘LT” Tan, a drag king from Singapore who came to Taiwan to be in an environment that allows him to live authentically. He became a force and an inspiration in the community, pushing for a space where kings can thrive.
Kiss of Life	Andrew Chan Gladstone	2022	USA / 12 mins Paloma takes radical action to hold onto her love and life after she learns she could be deported.
Kiss of Life	Clifford Prince King	2022	USA / 7 mins ‘Kiss of Life’ is an experimental and poetic documentary about living with HIV. A beautiful illustration of intimate relationships in a traditional, everyday setting and speaks to the experiences of queer black men. Watch… here
Klappe	Jürgen Brüning	2022	Germany Shamelessly, Jürgen Brüning samples and remixes clips and scraps of material from his own work as a director and producer (among others for Bruce LaBruce & Shu Lea Cheang) with borrowed pop cultural references from around the world for this video essay on gay identity. His reflections are connected by songs that address miscellaneous news and social issues with egalitarian verve, sung by hot guys in a public toilet. A film full of meandering associations and unexplained references, it's at the same time a political musical and the taking stock of a romantic revolutionary. Anti-religious, anti-authoritarian and somehow also a bit anti-everything!
Klarissa	Ruaridh Lever-Hogg	2022	UK / 6:52 mins Deaf artist Klarissa Webster explores identity and connection to traditional Japanese ink work. Watch… here
Know You Twice	Andrew Chan Gladstone	2022	USA / 12 mins Paloma takes radical action to hold onto her love and life after she learns she could be deported.
La Cisne	Fil Uno	2022	Perú / 9 mins On the way to the museum, Angellina wanders the streets and squares of Lima; in his mind, however, he appropriates these spaces. As she dances, her movements tell the story of her body. Her path takes her to the city's coast, where she undergoes a rebirth ritual. Watch... here
La Danse du Printemps	Sido Lansari	2022	France, Morocco / 8 mins On a spring day, a family celebrates the new season with a picnic in the woods of Casablanca’s surroundings. The sun beats down, darting its rays through the trees and lighting up the scenery. Suddenly, the kid starts dancing.
La espectra de los mares	Luis Felipe Ramirez Montesinos	2022	Perú / 4 mins Legend has it that in the time of the Ayamarca Raymi Quilla (November) un@ Qariwarmi (Rune of two sex-spirits) of unknown name returns from the Ukhu Pacha (World of l@s muert@s) and circles the shores of the Rimak valley (The Talker).
La Región Enferma	Dario Exequiel	2022	Argentina / 9 mins En julio de 2074, el gobierno nacional envía una expedición para comprobar si el país aún es inhabitable debido a las mutaciones físicas que comenzaron a sufrir los seres humanos.
La Segunda Oportunidad	German L. Ramos Briñez	2022	Venezuela / 15 mins Carlos es un joven atormentado que reflexiona en amarga soledad sobre los terribles eventos que provocaron un accidente, en el que él y sus padres estuvieron envueltos. Carlos evoca momentos felices de la familia, pero también recuerda el airado reclamo de su padre al descubrir su gran secreto, es homosexual. Carlos suplica por “Una segunda oportunidad” para hablar de lo que quedó atrapado en su corazón; En ese momento abre los ojos a la realidad
La Sirène en mal d’amour	Camille Gautier Quattrocchi	2022	France / 8 mins Une gorgone se fait voler son cœur par la mer. Sophie et Camille sont en relation, mais un vide se fait ressentir. Camille se confie à la mer qui l'aide à retrouver ses émotions.
La Virgen de Los Mártires	Alberto Aguilar	2022	Mexico / 13 mins Martina is a transsexual woman who works as a prostitute in a provincial brothel, with dreams and loves she longs to leave that world in which she finds herself.
Lalabis	Noá Bonoba	2022	Brazil / 25 mins When Kali woke up, the whole world was paralyzed. Her mother and father were paralyzed eating breakfast. Her brother was paralyzed playing Mario Kart. She never understood why nothing happened to her, until she learned the secret of Numi and the kingdom of the Lalabis.
Lamento de Força Travesti	Renna Costa	2022	Brazil / 5 mins What is your dream? How do you imagine yourself 10 years from now? Being a trans in Brazil is an act of daily resistance, being alive and allowing yourself to dream is necessary. In a futuristic wilderness a bunch of transvestites create their own redoubt. From clay they create their corps-territories, evoke their ancestralities from the force of fire, celebrate their existences, and dream. Watch… here
Land Song	Inês Ariana Pereira	2022	Portugal / 8 mins A self-proclamation and announcement of existence, a record of lesbian affection as a cure, a night to sleep, a landscape made of light, a love song for my balcony, for the hills and for her.
Late Bloomers	Solveig Selj	2022	Norway A story about how our heteronormative society and the patriarchy can affect how we identify ourselves. About being visible and invisible, and what it's like to finally bloom into the person you're suppose to be late in life. The LGBTQ+ story you rarely hear. Trailer... here
Late Blooming in a Lonely Summer Day	Sein Lyan Tun	2022	Myanmar/ 20 mins During the second wave of COVID in Yangon, a lonely middle-aged woman Ma has just lost her job as a kitchen helper in a restaurant. However, the day takes an exciting turn when her younger, attractive co-worker agrees to meet her later. She is waiting for him in her room with much excitement. Trailer… here
Latrinalia	Sophie Broadgate	2022	UK / 4 mins A spoken word poetry film made from the best real-word toilet graffiti Jane had ever come across. Jane collected toilet graffiti from queer clubs and other places across the UK, then put them together into this love letter to queer spaces and the connection and solidarity we can find in unexpected places.
Le Bal des Folles	Quentin Goujout	2022	France Blue Lagoon (assistant manager in a hair salon on the verge of closing, obsessed with seduction) and Juliana Blue (switchboard operator, obsessed with her body, her weight, her age), are friends. They spend their time at the Bal des Folles, Bloody Mary's bar (old and obsessed with her future in love, believing in conspiracy theories) surrounded by Ever Green, the lucid stripper who works here, Moonlight, a romantic and unbearable unemployed young man who never speaks, and Lazy Daze, a waitress in another bar in the neighborhood, the third of the group, suffering from the supposed lack of attention of the others. Following a disturbing monologue by Bloody Mary, they will come to understand what brought them here and conclude that there is no other way out except sex and death.
Le Jardin des Delices	Geneviève Dale, Dean Mang-Wooley	2022	Canada / 4 mins Inspired by the absolutely unhinged I masterpiece of Hieronymus Bosch, this collage animation takes its audience on a journey from the lush gardens of paradise through to the flaming hot recesses of hell. Watch... here
Le Point Sur Les 'I'	Frédéric Chane-Son	2022	Switzerland / 65 mins Deborah, Audrey, Som et Linn ont des parcours de vie très différents mais un point commun bien particulier : iels sont intersexes. En Suisse où iels vivent, les institutions politiques et médicales entretiennent leur invisibilisation. Sans loi interdisant les mutilations génitales, leur droit à l’autodétermination n’existe pas et être soi-même est un combat. Sous le regard bienveillant du réalisateur, iels nous racontent leur chemin vers la découverte et l’acceptation de soi. Confidences intimes et revendications affirmées sont ici un acte militant visant à briser le tabou, ensemble.
Lennon	Jason Leighton, Elliot Frahs	2020	USA / 23 mins Lennon is a film about an individual experiencing homelessness who craves to be seen and heard, but all it takes is a stranger offering a cup of coffee to ignite some compassion. The best part is… that compassion can be contagious.
Les Crottés	Cédric Gaillard Desrosiers	2022	Canada / 10 mins After their physical education class, the guys can’t manage anything more than tugging at each other and calling each other names. Lou, watching from afar, waits for them to leave before taking his turn in the shower. When he returns, he’s surprised by Manu, where they use this intimate moment to redefine their relationship.
Les électriques	Joy Feldman	2022	France / 3 mins It only took a few seconds for Suzanne's life to change.
Les(v)isibles	Arene Gabiña, Juan Zubillaga	2022	Spain / 22 mins Lesvisibles recovers the historical memory LGTBI + through the testimonies of seven women who, having lived their adolescence and youth during the Franco regime in the Basque Country, socialized as lesbians and feminists in a repressive and deeply lesbophobic social context. They are women who are part of the first moments of a feminist movement that strongly claimed sexual freedom and the right of women to have the sexuality they wanted.
Let Down	Andrea Guajardo	2022	USA / 6 mins The story of lost love is told through a movement that confronts gender-normative dancing, and while providing representation for queer females in dance. Watch… here
Let Me Live	Éadaoin O'shea Costley	2022	Ireland / 4 mins Documentary short film on the experience of a trans young person in Dublin Ireland.
Letters to Myself	Marina Vergueiro	2022	Cuba / 18 mins On the 10th anniversary of her HIV diagnosis, poet Marina Vergueiro travels to Cuba to study cinema and discovers the story of Caridad, a woman who 20 years ago injected herself with HIV-infected blood when she discovered she was a lesbian and had no support from her family.
Libby’s Shores החופים של ליבי	Yael Hotomlansky	2022	Israel / 11 mins In a story of unrequited love, we find Libby on the seam between desire and reality. Drifting, as she navigates the shifting shoreline between these embattled landscapes, she closes a circle with Yuli.
Life Lessons	Erin Polich	2022	USA / 7:50 mins Malcolm is confronted by his boyfriend, Tyler, about his ex-girlfriend being pregnant. When Malcolm attempts to brush the conversation aside, Tyler doubles down and pushes Malcolm to face the consequences of his actions.
Living Our Lives	David Luis Perez	2022	Spain / 33 mins A unique journey across the world to discover the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people.
Lo que nos queda	Rosa Caldito, Anne Dobaran	2022	Basque Country / 22 mins A group of young people gather in a house to document a night of partying, seeking to portray the hidden truths of a generation that evades themselves through drugs, sex, social media, etcetera.
Lola vs Ed	Lars Brinkman	2022	Netherlands / 10 mins A drag-thriller about Lola, a drag queen who after a night’s shift, gets in the cab with Ed, a quiet taxi driver. He is being confronted with his own prejudices and desires by the colorful Lola. The two lonely souls try to get closer to each other during a taxi ride through Amsterdam by night.
Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards	Jao San Pedro	2022	Philippines / 3 mins Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards is an ode to the multiplicity, mutability, and expansion of what constitutes a body, a self, through imaging and technological mediations.
Los Amantes	Dario Exequiel	2022	Argentina / 7 mins Basado en un caso real. A través de una transmisión en una plataforma de sexo virtual, en Mendoza se conoció el asesinato de un hombre a manos de su pareja. El asesino declaró que el hecho había sido consensuado mediante un pacto. Watch... here
Losing Rose	Lindy Boustedt	2022	USA / 7 mins In 2020, Marie loses her beloved grandmother and must travel through the emptiness of the pandemic and canyons of grief to properly say goodbye.
Love Et Ex Mortuus	Mathieu Morel	2022	France / 42 mins Elisabeth Raymond has left us… To add to the misfortune of the villagers, the body of the teenager has disappeared. Her boyfriend Victor is devastated. Fortunately, André, Elisabeth’s big brother, is there to support him. The two boys go looking for the body.
Love Letter to a Garden	Yahli Maoz	2022	Israel / 13 mins Rona insists upon returning a giant cactus from her home to the nursery – where she comes across someone unexpected. Trailer... here
Love Lingers / Amar Nunca Seca	Washington Calegari	2022	Brazil / 22:22 mins Jonas is isolated at home as he reflects on his relationship with his boyfriend and best friend, who are hospitalized during the pandemic. Trailer available here
Love You Anyway	Julia Stroman	2022	USA / 10 mins Faith and family collide in this heart-breaking documentary of a family unable to accept their daughter's homosexuality in the face of their religion.
Love and Violence	Amel Guellaty	2022	Tunisia / 12 mins What link is there between the image and the sound? How can love bring out so much hate? In Tunisia, violence against the LGBTQIA+ communities is normalized and accepted by the society. Love and Violence, tells the stories of five individuals, all victims of violence because of their sexuality, through audio and through the images of their love stories.
Love is Calling	Quanah Style	2022	Canada / 6 mins The love story every trans girl deserves. Watch… here
Low Tide / Bajamar	Juana Castro	2022	Columbia / 19 mins Luisa falls in love with Anna while she spends her summer vacation with her family, then finds out something unexpected about her parent's relationship. Trailer… here
L'une et l'autre	Camille Roux	2022	France / 17 mins Pigalle, at night. Elma walks past the boulevard nightlife when a young woman catches her eye. An unusual fascination for this stranger seizes Elma.
Lucas	Jessica Quiroz	2022	Mexico / 18 mins If orgasm were a dessert, what dessert would it be? A girl sees through a pair of magical glasses and is submerged in a reflection about pleasure, the passage of time and the cyclicality of life. Documentary poetry dedicated to Lucas, mother of the director. Trailer… here
Lucioles	PornProcess 3	2022	Belgium / 29 mins Belgium-based collective Porn Process takes us on a journey into the forest. With the arrival of darkness, several fireflies appear. Then we follow the cameras, persons in themselves, held by gazes that veer between voyeurist, researcher and actor.
Lucky Penny	Sam Rooke	2022	UK Penny realises she’s in love with her housemate, but when she starts seeing a guy from across the street, her jealousy starts to manifest in disturbing ways.
Lugar nenhum	Camille Silva	2022	Brazil / 10 mins Cecilia wants to board a train to Nowhere, but that destination is unavailable.
Luki	Marta Bencich	2022	Italy / 11 mins A dive into the origin of LGBTQ activist Luki Massa, into her childhood in imaginative Baia’s surroundings, near Naples. A free spirit, a life in which a true boundary between the mundane and the extraordinary never existed.
Lullaby	Irène-Kimberley Valin-Awashish		Canada / 3:55 mins Lullaby is a documentary essay about coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the continuity of “Sweatlodge song”, this short film is a message of courage and hope. Watch… here
Magical Caresses / Caresses magiques	Lori Malépart-Traversy	2022	Canada / 19 mins Jouissance! Voilà une invitation douce et piquante à célébrer son propre corps à travers une rencontre privilégiée et le plaisir en solo Trailer… here
Making Bubbles / Tá Fazendo Sabão	Ianca Santos de Oliveira	2022	Brazil / 6 mins Essayistic film that portrays the construction of the identity and sexuality of the black lesbian child. It is narrated and documented in the first person. The film’s plot presents the affective bonds that unite the little tomboy with the black women in her family in a timeless and surreal performance. Trailer… here
Mala Reputación	Florencia Garibaldi, Estefania Santoro	2022	Argentina / 43 mins Una lupa sobre la representación de las lesbianas en los productos de ficción que se emitieron en canales de aire en la televisión argentina desde 1992 a 2014. A partir de entrevistas a profesionales de diversas disciplinas y de imágenes de archivo, el documental revela una caracterización negativa que predomina en las representaciones. Los personajes carecen de profundidad social y son distantes de la realidad.
Man Made	Elian Mikkola	2022	Canada / 8:08 min A repurposed narrative of a boy who gets introduced to the wonders of life by a beautiful shining trumpet. But the struggle to be oneself has only begun. Utilizing found 16mm footage and both digital and analog manipulation techniques, Mikkola pierces conventional masculinity with a transformative queer gaze.
Man-Woman / Goor-Jigeen Uomo-Donna	Alberto Amoretti	2022	Italy / 30 mins by generalization ‘gay’ and akin to an insult. In Senegal, being homosexual is punishable by law and could mean five years of imprisonment. This documentary tells the story of people for whom the journey to Europe is the only choice. Trailer... here
Mandinga	Adrianna Samara da Silva Oliveira	2022	Brazil / 19 mins Benedito desperta para mais um dia de trabalho como motoboy. Embalado por “Mandinga” de Raidol e guiado pelos seus Orixás, ele busca misteriosas encomendas para levá-las ao destino final. Trailer… here
Manifold	Adia Ivey	2022	USA / 48 mins This experimental anthology docuseries featuring the life stories of Black LGBTQ people across Chicago embraces a positive, joyful approach to exploring the diverse ways local individuals are celebrating and affirming their own lives and experiences and creating spaces building relationships that expand beyond just themselves. The collaborative and open approach to the production of the series mirrors this goal. Trailer... here
Manufacturing Love	Jonathan Romaric Marc-Le Ster	2022	France / 22 mins After a breakup with his lover, Leo, Jim becomes a filmmaker. As he’s completing the editing of his film along with his producer, reality seems to merge with fiction as memories come to visit him.
Manwella	Sahar El Euchi	2022	Tunisia / 10 mins Two names, two faces and one story: a story that is told behind the eyes of a person who is looking to be free but not lonely.
Manzanas	Jose Renteria Wallyto	2022	20 mins "Manzanas" tells us the story of José González's uncles, Manuel and Alexander, who in 1945 met, fell in love, and together fought for the creation of laws and norms for inclusion and equality. Trailer... here
Marlen, a portrait of hairy tits / Marlén, retrato de unas tetas peludas	Javier de Miguel	2022	Chile / 12 mins Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Marlén builds stories of family and love, understanding their hairy tits as the center in the construction of their gender, pleasure and sexuality. Trailer... here
Martín	Álvaro Vargas	2022	Spain / 10 mins Martín, lonely and isolated in his country retreat, manages to get a date for tonight. A compelling drama that reminds us that the stigma of HIV still lingers in our community and beyond.
Mawitai’kw	Bretten Hannam	2022	Canada / 16:55 mins Across Wabanaki territory, Two-Spirit people overcome distance, isolation, and a pandemic to come together as a community.
Measure	Matthias Falvai	2022	Canada / 3 mins Utilizing Angelo’s monologue from Act Two, Scene Two of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, three lonely souls discover a perceived “flaw” within themselves and navigate its meaning.
Mi Cuerpo, Mi Transición	Camilo Lopez Diaz, Julian Merlo, Alma Chamot	2022	Argentina / 22 mins Corto documental que reúne imágenes del cotidiano de Milo, joven en proceso de transición. Un relato que se construye a través de entrevistas sobre su día a día, un repaso sobre sus vivencias y también por el contexto socio-político argentino, además de la experiencia de sus xadres: el entorno también transiciona.
Mi nombre es BRIGIDA	Vinicius de Souza Taborga	2022	Bolivia / 6 mins It is the story of a trans sexual "chola" woman, the "chola" women in Bolivia are the ones who today use the typical and traditional costumes. Of which this person from the age of 22 began his process of sexual transition, but without losing his identity, from man to woman, but seeking to be a chola, who did not uproot himself by deciding to keep the skirt and all his traditional costumes while telling some important events of his life. Watch… here
Migranta	Manauara Clandestina, Luiz Felipe Lucas	2022	Brazil, Spain / 18 mins O encontro de artistas migrantes LGBT+ no território europeu, descobrindo uma nova linguagem sobre a construção deste território. Trailer… here
Miles to Go	James Saunders	2022	USA / 8 mins An all trans-masculine trail running team discovers the freedom to be themselves on the trail as they advocate against anti-trans legislation.
Miniature	Seokyoung Yang	2022	USA / 5 mins A poetic love letter between two women rebelling against the heteronormative gaze.
Minima and the Drags / Minima et les drags	Antoine Dabin	2022	France / 52:23 mins The story of a movement exploding on big capital stages, including Paris. What we don’t know is that Drag artists created Pride and initiated every important battle for LGBTQIA+ community rights, as for every ostracized and despised communities. In this documentary, we follow several Drag Queens’ paths, such as Minima Gesté, alias Arthur. He/she is on every battlefront: his/her shows, engineering job, relationship, and his/her commitment to all lost causes. Trailer… here
Mirage	Dustin Tan	2022	USA / 10 mins A perfect life does not come free. A woman receives a mysterious letter, and her past seeps into her present as her choices come back to haunt her. Trailer… here
Mirage	Akira River, Jessica Moon	2022	Switzerland / 8 mins Mirage invites us into a realm where dreams meld with sultry memories and sensual instants. It sings the praises of the fervent flame that ignites between two souls, loving without bounds. It's an entrancing daydream that paints a tableau of bodies quivering with yearning, as we, with closed eyes, drift beside the one our heart cherishes.
Mirror Selfie	Gracie Wallner	2022	USA / 2:44 mins "I used to find it difficult to look at myself in the mirror. These days, I am finding it a little easier as I step further into myself and into my body as a queer, non-binary person. Mirror Selfie is a very short film self-portrait about self-reflection, gaze, and acceptance." Trailer… here
Míssil	Roberta Marques	2022	Brazil / 14 mins O filme narra a lembrança de uma história de amor no lockdown de 2020. Duas mulheres, dois corações flechados vivendo em segredo.
Missing the Boat / Teplé rožky	Emília Ondriašová	2022	Slovakia / 9 mins A short film about cabbage, hot rolls and other differences of opinion or generation, which are never as heated as during the holidays of joy and peace.
Mom Dad	Sydney Rose Walker	2022	USA / 2 mins Mom, Dad. I am sorry I am sending this in a video.
Mom told you so / Maman t'avait dit	Cécile Cournelle	2022	France / 7 mins Dans la peau d'une femme qui rentre tard chez elle après une soirée... sous la forme d'une partie de jeu vidéo. Watch… here
Monogamy House	Henry Hansen, Mitch Mitchell	2022	USA / 7:11 mins In this gonzo reality show from hell, twelve singles are trapped in a mansion on a tropical island with no escape...other than a lifetime of marriage to one of the other contestants. Til death do us part, bitch! Watch... here
Morgan	Daniel Guevara	2022	México / 14:33 mins En la pequeña ciudad de Cuautla, en el estado de Morelos, México, vive Frank, una persona no binarie, quien nos narra el proceso que siguió para poder llegar a ser la persona que es hoy en día y nos adentra en la intimidad de su ser.
Mother of Pearl	Moonyeka	2022	USA / 7 mins Moonyeka's self-proclaimed visual and embodied labyrinth is a picturesque short film that elucidates the sacramental process experienced by shelled creatures, particularly mollusks, oysters, and abalones, as parasitic energies encroach upon their environment. Watch... here
Mother’s Arm	France Rreally	2022	USA / 29 mins An experimental queer horror where a hooligan wanders around Milwaukee pulling people into their torrent of chaos.
Mountain Lingers (산이지나가는자리)	Hyeryeong Song	2022	Korea / 10 mins Meongjin and Inho went separate ways after their breakup. Meongjin became a fake shaman, while Inho started a family. Twenty years later, they unexpectedly reunite to predict Inho’s daughter’s college entrance exam results.
Moving At the Speed of Thought	Amy Collado	2022	USA An experimental film about memories and resiliency. A 50 year gap between "Operation Move-In" in 1970 and Operation Stay aka Cancel Rent in 2020 through the lens of a tenant organizer/film maker.
Muanapoto	Chriss Itoua	2022	France / 28 mins « Je suis un « muanapoto ». Cela signifie, en lingala, la langue majoritaire au Congo, « l'enfant de France ». Je mène deux vies : une avec mon copain, et de l'autre mes week-ends chez ma mère Suzanne, qui ne sait pas que je suis homosexuel. »
My Dear Mr. Whitman	Jeremiah Dickey	2022	USA / 2 mins An 1872 letter of adoration sent to American poet Walt Whitman by British writer Bram Stoker. Watch... here
My Eyelids	Danielle Cosmes	2022	USA / 3:43 mins The need to sleep bleeds into the evening of a young queer Oaxacan migrant.
My Little Dress	Zinc Liew	2022	Taiwan / 2 mins Little Crocodile wants a little dress, but mummy says: “boys don’t wear dresses”. Little Crocodile doesn’t understand, why not? Trailer… here
Narciso	Hedonistas	2022	Austria / 5:38 mins Levon passt auf die Wohnung einer Freundin auf, während sie verreist ist. Er findet Dessous und ist neugierig darauf, sie anzuprobieren.
NASA, Merthyr Tydfil	Kit Griffiths	2022	UK / 4 mins A spaceman returns to their Nanna's home in the valleys of South Wales. Watch…here
Ne-am cunoscut mâine	Stefi Mihailescu	2022	Romania / 26 mins Two best friends get through the most challenging moment of their friendship and it all starts when they find each other’s personal diaries. Cei mai buni prieteni trec prin cel mai dificil moment al prieteniei lor si totul incepe cand isi gasesc unul altuia jurnalul personal.
Negro Sol	Genaro Peñalosa	2022	13 mins Pablo, who hasn’t come out of the closet is a privileged young guy who loves basketball, he lives with his castrating father who wants him to give up on his idea of getting a sports scholarship to help him with the family business. Renato is a small dealer who teaches him all the basketball secrets and encourages him to follow his dream.
Neha	Praveen Chandran	2022	India / 27 mins Neha'' A romantic enigma of a transgenger. It's a character driven drama.. Watch… here
Never Look Away	Devin Boss	2022	USA / 15 mins The story behind Never Look Away, a 3-story high mural in downtown Portland, Oregon that is dedicated to the Queer community. Its creation demonstrates the power of regular people coming together to build something bigger than themselves - and of how public art is another layer in the lifelong process of coming out for our community. Trailer… here
N.E.W.	Shona Victoria Murray-Smith, Josh Butcher	2022	UK / 6:08 mins The story of Nate Ethan Watson, the first openly transgender artist on the UK Grime scene.
New Age עידן חדש	Noy Dekel	2022	Israel / 20 mins Daniel (25yo) is fired from his job as an air steward, just at the beginning of the Corona epidemic. He’s going back to living the single life of a gay Tel Avivian as an unemployed. At Purim party, he meets Idan (27yo), a well-known gay icon, a successful photographer, a bold guy who doesn’t mince words. They enter into a sort of undefined romantic relationship. In a new reality, when the entire economy and country is paralyzed, the world stops for a moment. The two men, confined together to one space, outside the race of life, have time to speak, reveal their skin and to flood out all the problems and concerns that they did not have to face until now. A New Age.
New King on the Block	Erika Lust	2022	Spain, Sweden / 48 mins Drag king workshops originated from the need to create safe spaces for queer people (especially trans and nonbinary AFAB folks). Desire, identity, love, pleasure, and power are all constructions that intersectionally build upon the white male gaze in a binary way. Queers who do not fit into the prescribed norm get excluded from the right to desire, exist, love, and feel pleasure.
Nichole	Gabriel Savignac	2022	Canada / 60 mins Nichole is a web series of fiction in six episodes of ten minutes each featuring Nichole. Originally from the Saguenay region, now established in Montreal, the self-proclaimed "rising star" is looking for fame and recognition in an attempt to break into the international music scene. Trailer… here
Night Out	Helena Coelho	2022	Brazil / 2:10 mins On a Saturday evening full of expectation, Ju gets ready for a night out with friends. But for someone like her, a weekend evening is not as peaceful as it seems. Em um sábado cheio de expectativa, Ju se arruma para uma festa com os amigos. Mas para uma pessoa como ela, uma noite de final de semana não é tão tranquila assim.
Nightmare	Adam Jordan	2022	Australia / 2 mins The importance of Pronouns, in even the most perilous situations. Watch… here
Nikita: Stage as a Shelter	Tekla Tevodorashvili	2022	Georgia / 13 mins This short documentary explores a new wave of queerness in Georgia and how music can be used as a way of liberating marginalized people. To be a queer artist in Georgia is still problematic due to entrenched homophobia in the country. Nikita, with extraordinary style and a complex personality, is currently the only openly queer artist in Georgia. The interview that explores Nikita’s world and unpacks the concept of music as a safe space, was shot in an abandoned building, which can be considered a symbol for queer spaces in Georgia, as it’s always most of the LGBTQ+ community lives in the shadows.
No Encontro Tudo Se Dilui	Fe A. Avila	2022	Brazil / 5 mins O ego quer nos manter presos à certeza da identidade, mas a alma quer se diluir, sentir que faz parte de algo muito maior que o eu. Tudo se transforma, a natureza é mudança, no encontro tudo se dilui. Trailer… here
no bites / nekoušu	Alex Sihelsk	2022	Czech Republic / 21 mins Feelings of a predator associated with lesbian orientation embodied by the archetype of a vampire and her endless cycle of self-blame and self-loathing. Social media as a virtual coffin that is comfortable but certainly won't last forever. Nonconformity and social anxiety about otherness carry a centuries-old dilemma - to disrupt or assimilate?
No More Longing	Connor Lee O’Keefe	2022	USA / 16 mins A musician tries to find his voice after moving away from Brazil and starting testosterone. Trailer… here
No nome do amor	Xabier Mailán	2022	Spain / 19 mins The parish priest officiating mass in a small hermitage acts disoriented, nervous, troubled. The parishioners eagerly await the moment to sing the liturgical hymns that the pastor skillfully leads. But today, he struggles to find the strength and faith to make a long-desired decision: to declare his love for one of his devoted parishioners. Music ends up giving him the vital push he needs to do so. On the run, liberated and full of joy, they leave the chapel holding hands in search of a new horizon, in the name of love.
No Pardon / Do daske	Aleksandar Reljić	2022	Serbia / 63 mins Media trials are a common occurrence in the Balkans, and newspapers, especially tabloids, conduct witch-hunts unpunished. Whoever stands in the way of the powerful ones becomes a victim of stigmatization by the media and institutions, as exemplified in the case of Srđan Šveljo, who was accused of paedophilia by the media, without ever being put on trial for that particular crime. Trailer… here
No-one in Particular / Kuka tahansa	Saana Penttilä	2022	Finland / 21 mins A new year’s party takes an unexpected turn when Enni runs into her ex-girlfriend Aliisa. Old feelings are quick to resurface even though Aliisa is engaged to another woman. Enni finds herself longing for the relationship she has already lost and soon gets caught up in the consequences of not letting go of the past.
Nobody	Mia Incantalupo	2022	USA / 5 mins A retelling of the Odyssey from the Cyclops' perspective. Trailer… here
Non-Binary	Firas Ben Ali	2022	Tunisia / 9 mins North African Tunisian queers explain the meaning of their gender identity and how they are dealing with their gender expression in a patriarchal queer-phobic system and an intolerant society
Normal	Naoto Tsukiashi	2022	Japan / 22 mins It’s spring. Manami and Kyoko are a normal lesbian couple. The two were to have a wonderful future promised for them but, things change. This is a love story about two normal lesbians during cherry blossom season.
Nos Habíamos Amado Tanto y Detestado Sin Pudor	Solana Llanes	2022	Brazil / 22 mins There are days that change our path, today will be one of them. After all, how much longer will you wait for each other?
Nosotres, les otres	Mato Torga Araya	2022	Chile / 13 mins A collective stream of consciousness in which Greg, Joss and Mar, three non-binary people, tell us about their experience with gender. Who are they to the world, and who are they to themselves? What are their relationships like? What do we, who are the others, feel?
Nunca Pensé	Abraham Céspedes	2022	Spain / 9 mins Diego, a young student, lives in the clutches of classmates who harass him daily because of his physical appearance and sexual orientation. Finally he must make a decision that will change his life forever. Diego, un joven estudiante, vive entre las garras de compañeros que le acosan a diario por su aspecto físico y orientación sexual. Finalmente deberá tomar una decisión que cambiará su vida para siempre.
O Capitalismo Matou Meus Pais	Karen Suzane, Lucas Tunes	2022	Brazil / 20 mins Com uma caixa de livros de poesia não vendidos e a relação com seus pais se deteriorando, Vanessa está perdendo as esperanças. Uma visita inesperada reacende novos sentimentos. Trailer… here
O Primeiro Movimento É Explosão	Grenda Costa	2022	Brazil / 22 mins O governo interino está cada vez mais violento, e os moradores da República não aguentam mais. Munidos de coquetéis molotov e máscaras de gás caseiras, eles seguem rumo ao confronto. Trailer… here
O rosa entre três vértices	Ravana Lobo	2022	Brazil / 14 mins Os livros de história pouco relatam, mas nos campos de concentração da Alemanha nazista haviam homens gays, que foram confinados, torturados e mortos pelo simples fato de contrariarem o único padrão social aceitável de sexualidade. Esses homens eram identificados por um triângulo cor de rosa em seus uniformes, cor que, à época, era altamente vexatória quando relacionada a homossexualidade. Pensando em prestar tributo a esses homens, vítimas históricas de homofobia, e reavivar suas memórias, a videoperformance “O rosa entre três vértices” foi idealizada. Watch… here
Obsessâo	Tamara Cleveland, Thais Andrade	2022	Brazil Laura is a young woman who works as a self-employed social media strategist. She has never been in a serious relationship and values her privacy very much. After meeting Sabrina she believes they’ll have just another casual date at her apartment, but Sabrina is the type of person who gets attached easily. She becomes obsessed with Laura, insisting on a relationship. Trailer… here
Oceanic: Queering the Ocean	Micha Maya Cardenas, Cynthia Ling Lee, Gerald Casel, Susana Ruiz, Huy Truong	2022	USA / 5:45 mins Three dancers at Natural Bridges Beach reflect on climate change, sea level rise and personal loss. How can we respond to the loss of places to climate change and people and capacities to COVID? How can we imagine queer, trans abolitionist futures after this moment?
Oh!	Diogo Hoffer	2022	Brazil / 16 mins Nara vive um casamento monótono. Cansada, certa manhã, em vez de ir para o trabalho, anda pela cidade e chega ao bairro onde cresceu. Lá reencontra Lucia, uma antiga vizinha que mexe com seus sentidos. Trailer… here
Oh Romeo, Romeo	Luciano Perochena	2022	Perú / 3 mins Inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Before going to a family dinner, Julian tries to convince Romeo to break up with his girlfriend, Julian's sister, and live their romance freely; but Julian doesn't know that Romeo and his sister are getting married.
Oh yes: Gay / Ah ja: Gay	Charif Ounis	2022	Germany / 3:18 mins A warm summer evening and the curiosity of two young men lead to an unexpected event. „Wann hast du eigentlich herausgefunden, dass du auf Männer stehst?“ Ein warmer Sommerabend am Badeteich nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung.
Ohrwurm	Abcde Flash	2022	Switzerland / 14:23 mins Four Swiss-based queers meet for the first time to explore the various ways that play is possible with much under-represented organ: the ear.
Once Upon a Time in the Gay Village / Il Était Une Fois Dans Le Village Gai	René Leboeuf	2022	Canada / 4 mins Once upon a time in the Gay Village is a montage of photos and music telling the story of the founding of Le Parc de l’Espoir, the AIDS memorial park in the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village. Il était une fois dans le Village gai est un montage photographique et musical qui raconte les faits saillants de la fondation du Parc de l’Espoir, un cénotaphe érigé à la mémoire des personnes décédées du sida. Le parc est situé au cœur du Village gai de Montréal.
One & Only	Carolina Barlow	2022	USA / 15 mins A young comedian misses performing, but faces a world in which she can no longer tell if she’s funny, so she decides to reconnect with her audience members – one at a time. Watch... here
One Baby, Please!	Polly Pierce	2022	Canada / 3 mins Omar and Dieon are having a baby! How will their friends and families react?
One Hand Clapping מחיאת כף בודדה	Hillel Soreq	2022	Israel / 11 mins A professional dancer finds herself at a significant crossroads, where she must choose between her childhood love and the dream of becoming an international dancer. This dilemma is compounded by the first COVID lockdown that reshuffles all the cards.
One Night Out	Seungah Yoo	2022	USA / 2 mins One Night Out is a 3D animated film that follows the story of three characters and their relationships. Deep in the night, a car carrying a man and a young woman is abruptly caught by a lady in pajamas. And then… there’s a twist. Watch… here
Oneiroi	Andreas Pavlou	2022	Greece / 28 mins Odysseus returned to Athens after 10 years to see Vasilis again. Everything is awkward during the day, but it changes at night. This love story is like a dream, a dream that only Erato knows how it ends. Sometimes daydreaming can "wake" you up!
Only You	Adrian Edery	2022	Israel / 7 mins Yonatan decides to get himself out of an unequal BDSM relationship. He tries to live a “normal” life, focus on work and date a “normal” guy, but in the end he can’t stop the thoughts and longing for the way he felt in his previous relationship.
Open Dialogues: Black Voices Black Stories	Freddy Rodriguez	2022	USA / 24 mins The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood’s documentary short film Open Dialogues: Black Voices \| Black Stories focuses on what social justice looks and feels like for Black Americans, as told through the narratives and performances of eight community leaders in Broward County. Trailer… here
Oral History	Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker	2022	USA / 15 mins The true love story behind New Orleans' last remaining gay leather bar.
Ordem das Magnólias	Rafa Sousa	2022	Brazil / 7:51 mins Rafaela Sousa – Cozinheira e gastrônoma, apaixonada pela história da alimentação do Ceará que defende o resgate e a salvaguarda das raízes dessa cultura alimentar. Também dedicou-se ao estudo de artes audiovisuais e o Design em sua abrangência, com ênfase no Design Editorial, moda e produção gráfica. Além disso, seu currículo conta com a produção, direção e edição/montagem de diversos materiais de audiovisual como performances artísticas em drag e documentários, dentre eles dois episódios do seriado documental ‘Como Existir sem Ser Binária’ e o curta ‘Sombra’. Dirigiu o curta-metragem ‘Ordem das Magnólias’, com a equipe inteiramente composta por profissionais trans cearenses, cuja sequência está em desenvolvimento com roteiro e direção assinados por ela. Trailer… here
Ordinary	Atlas O Phoenix	2022	USA / 12 mins A patchwork quilt of intersecting identities, Ordinary, weaves together multiple storylines to explore the purpose of identifiers and their meaning. Atlas questions whether identifiers truly identify anyone. Trailer… here
Orillas del Mar	Alexander Verano	2022	Perú / 16 mins Un padre sospecha de la amistad de su hijo con el amigo de su hijo.
Our Time	Áindréas Aingeal Fallon Verbruggen	2022	Ireland / 2 mins Adorable mother-son bonding in front of the dressing-up mirror.
Out From the Wings	Michael Anthony Montoya	2022	USA / 63 mins Out From the Wings is a documentary film which analyzes traditional gender role expectations in dance and how they affect LGBTQIA+ dancers. It addresses the ostracism and exclusion faced by dancers who do not fit cisgender heteronormative expectations and the long lasting psychological and emotional repercussions felt by these dancers. Trailer… here
Out in Place	Nicolas Jara	2022	USA / 13 mins Carrie and Nayeli just bought their first home in Joshua Tree and are creating a new life in the desert together. In the midst of unpacking, the duo spontaneously decides to indulge in psychedelic mushrooms leaving them to explore their new stomping grounds and unpack more than just dishware.
Out in the World	Bart Seng Wen Long	2022	Singapore / 9 mins Composited over found footage of patrons eating out at Chinese restaurants, a latex-clad figure spins in tandem with the lazy susans commonly found, and used as an object of entertainment, in Chinese restaurants. The figure doubles as both a sculptural ideal placed upon a pedestal and a consumable object of communal amusement, eliciting a range of curious responses from the diners. The exaggerated, cartoonish and sometimes flirtatious performances that this fetishistic body brings out of these folks, blur the line between derision and affection, othering and intimacy. In the second half of the film, a rupture occurs and with it, a chance for transformation beyond binaries. Trailer… here
Out Out	Sarah Louise Worth	2022	UK / 10 mins OUT OUT is a bold new dance film that unlocks the voices of Coventry’s LGBTQIA+ community. Bringing to the mainstream voices that are often hidden, in a celebration of togetherness and coming out. Created using a verbatim script based on real stories, contributed by 14-30 year olds in Coventry’s LGBTQIA+ community.
Over the Rainbow	Anoushka	2022	France / 13 mins One summer evening in Berlin; friends are having a drink and enjoying a beautiful evening. Two of them decide to extend the evening in a backroom and offer us a moment of explosive intensity.
Pabel es Mabel	André Córdova	2022	Perú / 26 mins Pabel (22) is ready to begin her transition, she's saving to pay for her surgeries, but a connection robs her of her savings. So, Pabel will try to find alternatives to get the money, but she will soon realize that her options are very limited: from being an escort to lip-syncing in a drag contest. Trailer... here
Painted Pain ft. Lukas Oscar by W1ZE	Sabrina Norte	2022	Austria / 3 mins Watch… here
Palimpsest	Mohamed Osman Kilani	2022	Tunisia / 6 mins A name is a spell and a key – if you know how to read it. Through a linguistic adventure, the director explores the several layers of Identity hidden between the lines of his forename.
Panorama Exótico	Tae Catalina Low	2022	México / 5 mins Un catálogo de fruta exótica para explorar y satirizar el término “exótico”. El uso de la palabra casi siempre está cargado de suposiciones raciales, sexistas o nacionalistas. A menudo, describir algo como “exótico” revela más sobre la persona que lo etiqueta que sobre el objeto o la persona que se etiqueta como exótico. Este corto-catálogo se pregunta: ¿qué es exótico para quién? Watch… here
Papi und Papa	Jonathan von Büren	2022	Germany / 10 mins A portrait of a loving family: a father who transitioned after giving birth and his two sons.
Parafina	Fabiana Custodio, Fátima Tejada	2022	Perú / 9 mins From his inner world, a homosexual expresses himself and leaves a crude testimony about an intolerant society.
Parivar: A Family Unlike Anyother	Amir Jaffer	2022	USA / 5:02 mins This is a trailer of 5 minutes showcasing South Asian transgender lives globally focusing on Anjali Rimi, president of Parivar Bay Area along with the communities in USA and India. Trailer… here
Paseos Con Ciencia. Chemsex y Salud Pública	Carlos Martínez, Débora Álvarez	2022	Spain / 58 mins Este documental científico aborda el fenómeno del chemsex como tema de creciente preocupación en el ámbito de la Salud Pública. La mirada de Gerard y Alex, vertebrará los testimonios de personas expertas de distintas disciplinas que trabajan dando respuesta a esta realidad desde la medicina clínica, la psiquiatría, la psicología, la investigación y la comunidad LGTBIQ+. Una mirada que huye del sensacionalismo y permite entender, desde una óptica amplia, las complejidades de este fenómeno, en el que se entrelazan la salud mental, las adicciones a sustancias y la […]
Patua	Renaya Renata Dorea	2022	Brazil / 4 mins To break a spell, Maya invokes the spirit of Ayo: a former love who is turning into an egum, to help her create a Patuá, a Yoruba spiritual protection amulet. Together they invoke their ancestors, thus allowing Maya to continue with her life, while Ayo completes her journey to the world of the dead. Maya est victime d'une malédiction. Pour rompre le sort, il faut invoquer l'esprit d'Ayo. l'esprit d'Ayo, un ancien amour qui lui a brisé le cœur. Ils se rendent à Olorum et, avec leurs ancêtres, ils construisent une Patuá (amulette de protection spirituelle de la culture Yoruba), qui permet à Maya de poursuivre sa vie, tandis qu'Ayo termine son voyage dans le monde des morts. Trailer… here
Peculiar (Sui Generis)	Luisa Mancilla Barrera	2022	Colombia / 13 mins Enquanto Sandra participa de uma sessão de biodança, percorremos o caminho que a levou até ali. Um percurso marcado pela violência a que foi exposta quando jovem e revitalizado pela sua determinação em tornar-se policial.
Permanencia Voluntaria	Omar Gámez	2022	Mexico / 47 mins El artista Omar Gámez brinda a través de su documental Permanencia voluntaria una descripción de la pandemia de VIH en México desde los años ochenta hasta el presente, atravesando además la pandemia de COVID-19 y cómo ambas se relacionan entre sí. Trailer... here
Permiso Para Dejar Ir	Marco Aguilar	2022	México / 19 mins During the Day of The Dead, Jonás prepares a traditional “ofrenda” dedicated to Héctor, his former lover, all while he remembers and pines over their relationship. That night he receives an unexpected visit which might change his whole perspective on guilt and life after love. Jonás ha vivido una vida monótona y vacía por más de treinta años. Durante un día de los muertos, mientras prepara su tradicional ofrenda dedicada a Héctor, su ex pareja, no puede evitar recordar y anhelar su relación. Esa noche recibe una visita inesperada que podría cambiar su perspectiva sobre la culpa y la vida después del amor.
Permissible Beauty	Mark Thomas	2022	UK / 25 mins Permissible Beauty uses the notion of ‘beauty’ as both a creative starting point and an analytical lens for interrogating the part that heritage has played in celebrating some lives whilst overlooking others. Placing Black queer experience at the heart of a highly collaborative process we will create richly layered portraits of contemporary figures (rendered in photography, oral testimony, performance and sound) out of a process of engagement with historic portraiture held in UK heritage collections. The portraits, brought together in a film aimed at both existing and new heritage audiences, especially people of colour/LGBTQ groups, explores shifting notions of beauty and asks why some expressions are more permissible than others.
Persephone	Papi Femme	2022	Germany, USA / 7 mins Will Garnet’s curiosity be their downfall? In a swarm of leather boots, Bobbi B. Good, Chip Matsuda, and Empress Wu circle their prey and take Garnet Lake all the way down. Together, they write a surreal love letter to boots, pain, and power exchange.
Personality Under Construction	Bruno Lovrenčić	2022	Croatia / 11 mins An actress delves into her subconscious as she steps on stage, questioning her past and her relationship with an acquaintance that forms the basis of the monodrama she is about to play.
Pet World	Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Grace Mitchell	2022	USA / 14 mins Inspired by Amy Hempel's short story collection, Reasons to Live, and the work of poet Bernadette Mayer, an ensemble cast riffs on what we might discover about intimacy in parking lots.
Pete	Lorena Gordon	2022	USA / 6 mins We meet Pete in 1975 Winterpark, Florida - an 8 year old with a dream of playing baseball like all the other kids. The thing is, Pete isn’t quite like all the other kids on the team, and the world may not be quite ready yet for a kid like Pete. Trailer… here
Photograp(her)	Anita Monteiro	2022	Canada / 2 minutes In an art museum a young photographer feels seen for the first time after an encounter with another photographer.
Picture Perfect	Mara Leroux	2022	USA / 8 mins When Amari's parents learn of her transgender boyfriend's identity while taking photos before homecoming, her parents disapprove of their relationship. Trailer... here
Picture Yourself	Tracey Lavigne	2022	Canada / 7 mins An agoraphobic woman resists going with her partner to a family funeral, triggering a crisis point in their relationship. Trailer… here
Pixie	Beth Johnston	2022	UK / 8 mins This documentary provides a portrait of Pixie, a young transgender woman from Glasgow.
Plaisir partagé	Marc Allal	2022	France / 6 mins Alix and John carpool Léa to Paris. When they discover their passenger’s convictions, the trip takes a completely different turn. Alix et John prennent en covoiturage Léa en direction de Paris. Lorsqu’ils découvrent les convictions de leur passagère, le voyage prend une tout autre tournure.
Playground	Ben Berlin	2022	Germany / 17 mins A place in the city that turns into a fetish playground where kinky imaginations become real.
Pluto's Gender	Hsiao-Hsia Huang	2022	USA / 6 mins Sophie, A law student visits her brother Gavin as he wraps up his astronomy class. Engaging his sister in the playful arguments that define their relationship, Gavin turns the conversation to Pluto’s “gender.” In this, the astronomer reveals that while useful, definitions can be imperfect, whether they refer to planets or people, and when they break down, it’s best to listen to your heart. As Sophie realizes her sibling isn’t talking about planets, Gavin comes out as Gabrielle. Understanding, Sophie embraces her sister’s identity. Trailer... here
Polartropica "What's Your Fantasy"	Vanessa Marzaroli	2022	USA / 3 mins A luscious, synth-driven, sticky, dream-pop Venus flytrap adventure that can transport you to any fantasy you desire. Watch… here
Pride	Arun Siddarth	2022	India A story that is set in modern society that still continues to be dominated by cishet representations of love. Queer tropes are less explored in modern Indian cinema and in search of this representation and in exploring what it means to own up to an identity that is not widely accepted in society. Trailer... here
Prince	Daniel Foerste	2022	USA / 5:09 mins We wake up like after a death in the family, "Oh. it's raining and the world still has this piece cut out of it in the shape of him." Where did my Prince collection go. It was carted away when I fucked up in the 80s and my shit got thrown in the street by annoyed girlfriends and never replaced cuz he was always there, on the radio, his fine arms around me. How did I never go to a prince show, it was always an after party at the DNA while I was driving people around and they would get in the car and say, "I saw him!" Death will come for us one day and we will never have been his little private joy, but he will have been ours and that will be enough.
Priob	Choirstaidh NicArtair	2022	UK / 5 mins We meet a young woman on her windowsill in the early hours of the morning, while she is in conversation with her late grandfather, The Coal Man, who lives in the clouds above and communicates through radio waves. Priob is a film about our inner children and the people who raised them, wherever they are. Trailer… here
Private Life	Aleksei Borovikov	2022	USA / 22:10 mins When Eric, a young reclusive photographer, secretly follows his boyfriend Chris into the mountains, he hopes to find answers about Chris’s fidelity. Instead, Eric finds a deeper connection to himself and to Chris just as they fall prey to a stranger who targets them, a tragedy that changes Eric forever. Private Life is inspired by an actual hate crime.
Procura-se Bixas Pretas	Vinicius Eliziário	2022	Brazil / 25 mins A documentary that takes place during the casting test for the short film “Tigrezza”, where candidates for the leading roles in the film, perform a monologue starting from a motivational scene, however, the scene delivered about Darnley and Tigrezza, intertwine with their own experiences about affection and identity creating a fine line between fiction and reality. Durante a audição de um teste de elenco, concorrentes realizam um monólogo em que contam as vivências sobre afeto e identidade de duas personagens. Contudo, a cena entregue sobre Darnley e Tigrezza, se entrelaçam com suas próprias vivências criando uma linha tênue entre ficção e realidade. Trailer… here
Progression - "The Death Of Gaby Get'cha"	Martin Willibald Meisl	2022	Austria / 4 mins Trailer… here
Puberty (青春期)	Jiabao Peng	2022	China / 2:28 mins A Chinese middle school student is concerned about her sexuality and gender expression. A fight in class leads to an escape of self-discovery. Trailer… here
Punchline	Rea Kapur	2022	USA / 5:31 mins A young fat South Asian lesbian muscles past pre-show nerves and stretches into her power and joy.
Puppies / Welpen	Björn Beton Warns, Björn Gailus, Saskia Mayerhoff	2022	Germany / 8:59 mins Zwei Männer, die ein Teil ihrer Zeit zu menschlichen Welpen werden und in den sogenannten „Pup-Space“ gelangen, ein Zustand des Flows. Trailer… here
Pure Unadulterated Masculinity	Julio Lopez	2022	USA / 2 mins Men are under the impression that the idea of masculinity is under attack. This film attacks the most masculine institution that they hold near and dear to them: American Football. Behold peak masculinity.
Purple Bun / Halahmaniya haSgula	Gilad Maderer	2022	Israel / 17 mins Ofek, a “closet case” who worked in cart sales in Vegas, was forced to return to his hometown Hatzor Haglilit to run the family business, following the death of his father. Three months later, his ex-boyfriend suddenly arrives at the restaurant, in a Saturday customers peak hour, for a conversation about their relationship, surrounded by Ofek’s family.
¿Qué Le Vas a Pedir a Los Reyes?	Carlos Vargas Gonzalez	2022	Mexico / 18 mins Cintia is currently 30 years old. On January 6, 2022, she decided to publish on her social networks, a story she lived in her childhood. When she was 6 or 7 years old, she wrote an unusual letter to the Three Wise Men. Cintia tiene actualmente 30 años de edad. El día 6 de Enero del año 2022, decide publicar en sus redes sociales, una historia que vivió en su infancia. Cuando tenía 6 o 7 años, les escribió una carta poco común a los Reyes Magos. Trailer… here
Queen Bees	Riley Jean Nickel	2022	USA / 6 mins A vibrant documentary follows a group of local Salt Lake City queens through their ups and downs, local pressures from a conservative environment, and celebrates the art of drag. Watch… here
Queer	Sara Kheladi	2022	France / 36 mins Lalla Rami, Turtle White, and Shani Da Flava grew up between France and Morocco. They are queer, lesbian, trans… and try to make a place for themselves in a rap world known to be macho and homophobic. La culture hip hop mainstream, emplie de femmes objets et de mâles dominants, a pris son envol. Véritable coup de poing, le documentaire peint le portrait de rappeuses queer, engagées et extravagantes qui, chacune à leur manière, font bouger les codes du rap français d’aujourd’hui… et de demain.
Queer Bodies	Elin Laut, Mattia Friso	2022	Germany / 5 mins QUEER BODIES is a three chapters video installation that explores the process of embracing queer identity: From the death of the former self, to the searching for agency, to the creation of a community. The viewer is drawn into a reality where subjects tell about themselves and bodies manifest themselves in an unconventional way. Watch… here
Queer Gardening	Ella von der Haide	2022	Germany / 79 mins Ella von der Haide collected 18 interviews with LGBTQIA*-gardeners about their relationships with plants and the land. These conversations take place in a variety of gardens, from urban vegetable production in Oakland to a community space garden in NYC, from a project to care for indigenous native apple trees in British Columbia to a reforestation project in Tennessee. Trailer… here
Queer Kink Semiotics	Marlowe Mitchell	2022	UK / 4:52 mins An audio/visual essay exploring how media has queered desire, bodies, and society through its depiction of kink.
Queer My Friends	SEO Ahhyun	2022	South Korea / 82 mins A-hyeon, a straight Christian woman in South Korea, builds a friendship with Gang-won, a gay man. While overcoming differences and conflicts between people with contrasting lifestyles, the film asks, “What is it to understand others? How can we understand differences and coexist?”
Queer Science	Nicole De Meneses	2022	USA / 7:10 mins An Asian grad student’s love for her girlfriend surges beyond experimental mishaps.
Queering the Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai	Nirantar	2022	India / 24 mins “Queering the Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai” is a short film about the queer historian and writer who passed away last August. Saleem is best known as the co-author of the richly researched book "Same Sex Love in India", which played a key role in the struggle against Section 377, the colonial law which was used to criminalise homosexuality. Perhaps what is lesser known is how Saleem gave us a chance to see how queer life itself is. The film shares many ways in which Saleem challenged binaries. Parties thrown by Saleem and his friends in Delhi clearly went beyond the straight and LGBT divide. His view of the importance of history as a guide challenged the past versus future binary. His passion for Bollywood as well as for classical music queered the hierarchy between fine art and popular culture. The film shares all these glimpses and more. We hope that screenings of the film, produced by Nirantar, a feminist NGO, will create a chance to remember Saleem and perhaps to talk about what queerness means to us in today’s context—whether we are LGBT or not.
Queers of the World, Sweden’s First Nonbinary Folk Costume	Oliver Jähnke	2022	Sweden / 14 mins Fredy Samuel Lundh aka FredyClue is a folk musician, playing the Swedish instrument nyckelharpa, and is also the genius behind the non-binary folk costume Bäckadräkten. In this video they talk about the costume and how it came to be, and how that merges with their discovery of their own gender identity.
Questbound – Forbidden Ventures of the Undead Soul	Alexander Bierling, Owen Buckley	2022	Netherlands / 8 mins Nothing could excite the great king, but then along came a noble knight… But is the undead king flirting? Infused with delightful humor and some welcome nerdiness, Questbound is a medieval fantasy story embracing that even undead kings have primal needs. Watch… here
Quing	James Gaspar De Almeida	2022	France, 7 mins Mimine, une enfant de 9 ans, découvre une célèbre émission de télévision sur les drag queens avec son frère et sa sœur. Mimine aime les drag queens. Mimine aime les drag kings. Et s'ils voulaient créer un nouveau mot? Mimine n'est qu'un enfant après tout.
Quinze Primaveras	Leão Neto	2022	Brazil / 16 mins Ravena nos conta sobre o desabrochar das flores de suas primaveras. Num tom agridoce, ela valsa com os obstáculos da vida na tentativa de realizar os seus sonhos, que em sua maioria são lacunas impreenchíveis.
Rain and Sun	Gabrielle Lopes Benites	2022	France / 9 mins In Sicily, a young woman is awakened to her previously unexplored sexuality with the help of traveller passing through. Watch… here
Rainbow Migrants / Migrants Arc-en-Ciel	Manfred Rott	2022	France / 71 mins They are migrants, they are gay and lesbian, and they have extraordinary courage. Diak, Rokhaya, and Maxime managed to escape terrible persecution in their African countries of origin and set off for Europe which is – compared to most African countries – a Rainbow Eldorado. During their journey in the stream of other migrants, they still have to hide their sexual orientation. Once they arrive in Europe, they can finally show themselves: However, they have a hard time being recognized as asylum seekers.
RAT	Sam Rogers	2022	Australia Jordan discovers a UV torch in a RAT test while isolating herself from her Covid sick lover Ginny. When Ginny gets attacked by their cat, Jordan goes to investigate.
Rather Without / Liever Zonder	Tjanne van der Sanden, Amber IJpelaar	2022	Netherlands / 19 mins Sex is everywhere. How is this for someone who does not experience sexual attraction? Rather Without follows Tessa, a young woman who identifies herself within the asexual spectrum, in her search for self-acceptance within her sexuality.
Ready for Ransom	Simon Dickel	2022	Germany / 16 mins Protagonist Ransom Bradford talks about the shock therapy he once underwent to become heterosexual, while the filmmaker also reflects on his longtime friendship with Ransom.
Really Good Friends	Adam Sekuler	2022	USA / 10 mins A portrait of a woman in her 60’s who cultivates an unusual friendship with a mysterious man she meets online.
Rebel Dykes Present: Dyke Tales	Harri Shanahan, Siân. A. Williams	2022	UK / 4 mins “Life in the 1980s? Well… it was exciting, it was scary, it was fun, it was poor, it was a great time and a terrible time to be young and queer in London.” Two extracts from the Rebel Dykes History Project, which focuses on the heritage of a group of young lesbians who lived in London in the 1980s. From the makers of cult documentary Rebel Dykes.
Reborn	Ary Maudit	2022	Italy / 8 mins In a climate of political turmoil for the approval of Zan bill to protect the LBTQIA+ community against hate crimes in Italy, four people decide to narrate their stories. They are respectively a non binary person, a transgender person, a cis gay man and a cis black lesbian. They recount their coming out stories and the impact with the hostile environment, with a happy and empowering ending.
Rechazo y elección	Luis Ramos	2022	Perú / 8 mins On a journey full of discovery, a couple of friends present their views on cloistered love.
Reclamation	Oran Julius	2022	USA / 16:22 mins Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual involving massaging, fists, and hot wax.
Reclaiming my queerness	Eva Krol	2022	Netherlands / 6 mins Jesse van den Berg has had a strange relationship with their body and the ‘feminine’ sides in their personality from an early age, because how does that fit together if you are labelled as a boy? Through photography, a search for themself is set in motion and a process of self-acceptance begins.
Reclaiming My Voice	Lee Campbell	2022	UK / 5 mins This short poetry film speaks about the filmmakers’ difficulty as a teenager growing up gay in a heteronormative environment in 1990s Britain. Watch… here
Refugee Arrival	Peter Hopkins	2022	UK / 4 mins For those seeking asylum, stepping foot on new soil is the first of many forms of arrival they will negotiate. Watch… here
Resurrection	Doan Tuan Duc	2022	Vietnam / 30 mins Since His Lover Committed Suicide Because He Contracted HIV From Him, Thien, An HIV-Positive Gay Man, Isolates Himself From Society, Gives Up His Health And Prays Daily For Forgiveness Of His Guilt. What He Doesn't Know Is That His Prayer Has Been Answered In Secret, In The Form Of A Young Stranger He Meets And Lives With, Even Though He Knows His Health. Trailer… here
Rex Ray: A Portrait	Kegan Marling	2022	USA / 3 mins A snapshot of San Francisco-based queer artist Rex Ray, told through the objects he collected during his life. Best known for his innovative pop aesthetic in fine and commercial art, his early designs include the first graphics for the San Francisco chapter of ACT UP; book covers for City Lights Books; and later design work for David Bowie, Bill Graham Presents, DreamWorks, Levi’s, Frameline, and Apple.
Rip Tide	Luisa Dantas	2022	USA / 12 mins A young couple celebrates their one-year "fauxniversary" at the beach, blissfully unaware of what the future holds.
Rise & Shine	Mahx Capacity	2022	USA / 14 mins Dahlia Doll and Dove know just how to get each other up in the morning.
Romana Gioventù!	Federico Cianferoni	2022	Italy / 10 mins Luke is a millennial, an aspiring filmmaker with a creative block. He’s looking for new sources of inspiration in the city where he lives, Rome. In this city, electrifying and stale at the same time, friends and lovers become his only form of distraction, analysis and awareness.
Rona	Johaira Michelle Dilauro	2022	USA / 4 mins This colorful conclusion to the COVID-themed trilogy will make you thankful we’re no longer all locked up, and you can show off that cute ass butt. Watch… here
Rosa Neon	Tiago Tereza	2022	Brazil / 19 mins The narrative of “Rosa Neon” is built between the documentary weaving of two audios, between one and the other, a delicate connection carefully crafted to tell us the story of a relationship falling apart. More than that, the short film plunges into the daily life of a couple to tell the story behind the non-history of a body full of silences: she is a transvestite; he is a cis: there is a concrete wall between them where it is impossible to see beyond. And this Thing that separates the bodies; this Thing for which the character asks help - for this there is no name. A narrativa de “Rosa Neon” se constrói entre a tessitura documental de dois áudios.Entre um e outro, uma delicada conexão minuciosamente arquitetada a nos contar a história de um relacionamento a desmantelar-se. Trailer… here
Roseland: Ballad of Bob Levine	Parker Sargent	2022	USA / 80 mins Eclectic. Iconic. Bob Levine has been entertaining the community of Cherry Grove as his alter ego "Rose" for over 50 years and he is still going strong. Spending summers at his home “Roseland” in the Grove, Bob always surrounds himself with a colorful cast of characters and has weathered many storms to become a well-loved queer personality known all over the world.
Roya	Rosh Zeeba	2022	Germany, Iran / 20 mins For Roya, Zeeba uses video footage from her* first and at the same time very last trip back to Iran after she* had to leave the country in the 90s. Zeeba constructs a half-documentary, half-fictional narrative that reflects on the concepts of belonging and upheaval with longings, dreams and dissolved self-constructions in multiple voices.
Rumination	Ashleigh Vaillancourt	2022	Canada / 3 mins A woman’s descent into the depths of her mind culminates in a revelation. Trailer… here
Running	Zachery Cameron Longboy	2022	3:46 mins A poem for my captor. Trailer... here
Rupture	Marianne Lavergne	2022	Canada / 2 mins Tess and Deborah are having marital problems, will they be able to surmount them? Trailer… here
Sacrificio	Guido Depaoli	2022	Argentina / 4 mins Digital animation short about the feelings brought about by a sexual encounter. A hybrid tale of erotism, accidents, and S&M spirit. Un corto de animación digital que sigue los sentimientos que desencadena un encuentro sexual del protagonista. La religión, la disidencia sexual, el sexo urbano y la tragedia son algunas de las líneas que se van enhebrando en las imágenes creadas por este relato que incomoda y sorprende en su mix de erotismo, accidente y un cierto espíritu sadomaso.
Sam	Yiqin Nq	2022	Singapore / 12 mins Sam is a newly divorced man who decides to question and explore his sexual identity. He goes out all out to impress his dinner date and it goes well until a revelation turns the situation awry. The dinner date unexpectedly falls apart and Sam is forced to come to terms with his perceptions and possibly misguided notions about people with HIV.
Sanwri: Love Beyond Gender	Pallavi Roy	2022	India / 110 mins Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender person – Sanwri. Having no resort Bhanwar and his uncle decide to keep Sanwri for their household work but fearing the social ostracization they also try to keep her actual identity a secret. Bhanwar and Sanwri eventually fall in love and fight to survive as a couple in a conservative, oppressive society where marriages are meant to take place only between a man and a woman, and traditional norms are more important than humanity.
Sapiosexual	Rocky Owens	2022	4 mins Sapiosexual is the sexy fun music video for Anne Stott's latest single of the same name Watch… here
Sapphic Dating for Rural Victorians	Elissa Weir	2022	Canada / 8:08 mins Violet, a queer woman living in Victoria B.C., wants to ask her crush, Saph, out on a date, but Voce, the anthropomorphized voice in her head, keeps feeding her facts that deplete her confidence. So stuck in her own head, Violet misses Saph’s attempts to reach out and return Violet’s affections.
Saudade	Gabriel Alvarez	2022	Perú / 6 mins Mike, a young adult, waiting to go out on a date with his boyfriend is thwarted by a life-changing event. It is told from the perspective of his mirror.
Say It - An Autofiction / Poder Falar – Uma Autoficção	Evandro Manchini	2022	Brazil / 15 mins An approach to the trajectory of a young filmmaker as he deals with the complexity of receiving an HIV-positive diagnosis on his birthday. Mixing performatic and documentary narrative, the film brings information, reflections, symbols and important characters from the fight for the dignity of life.
Sayaka and Ayumi	Erika Nakayama	2022	Japan / 7 mins Sayaka and Ayumi have been together for 7 years. One morning they both overslept. What will happen? Prologue to the short film “Veils”, which was nominated almost 50 times in 2022 at film festivals in Japan and overseas.
Schwankt, wie das Licht	Nina Laçin	2022	Germany / 8 mins The way in which fleeing shapes and changes a person is not only related to the experiences made in their country of origin, and certainly not to their own motivation and strength. LGBTIQ+ people who have experienced forced migration encounter a lot of violence and exclusion in Germany and in supposedly “safe” countries. The arrival in Germany is truly complicated, challenging, and layered to say the least. Four BIPoC Queer/Trans/Non-Binary people sensitively share their personal experiences, their feelings, and their hopes and dreams. Wie Flucht eine Person prägt und verändert, hängt nicht nur mit den Erfahrungen im Herkunftsland zusammen und auch nicht nur mit der eigenen Motivation und Kraft. LSBTIQ+ Menschen mit Fluchterfahrung erleben in Deutschland und in vermeintlich sicheren Herkunftsländern viel Gewalt und Ausgrenzung und auch das Ankommen in Deutschland wird durch viele Hürden erschwert. Vier BIPoC Queer/Trans/Nicht-Binäre Menschen erzählen in diesem Film auf eine sehr persönliche Art über ihre Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Träume. Watch... here
Secret Santa	Charif Ounis	2022	Germany / 5 mins Two siblings enjoy their Christmas morning by looking thorugh childhood photos and memorabilia. But old memories can reveal new secrets. Zwei Geschwister schauen sich am Weihnachtsmorgen zusammen Fotos und Briefe an. Dabei kommt Leas lang gehütetes Geheimnis ans Licht …
See Me: A Walk Through London’s Gay Soho in 1994 and 2020	Lee Campbell	2022	UK / 12 mins SEE ME was made during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in London in July 2020. This film includes sections of a walk that I made through Soho, London. As I walk, I listen on headphones to the compilation music tapes that I made when I first came to this area as a teenager in the 1990s. I reflect upon the difference between me in 1994 and me in 2020 and how my relationship to this area of London has changed, may no longer have the same appeal as it did in 1994 or a different kind of appeal in 2020. Trailer… here
Seed	Corina Andriana	2022	Romania / 17 mins O serie de evenimente inspirate din viața secretă a elitelor gay din România comunistă. Luăm parte la parcursul emoționant al unei persoane queer în timp ce crește într-o societate în care asumarea înseamnă propria condamnare. Această coregrafie complexă spune povestea revelațiilor sexuale de la copilărie la maturitate, de la manipulare la denunțare și, în cele din urmă, la trădare la petrecerile din spații sigure.
Selkie	Sophie Suliman	2022	UK / 6 mins This is an experimental performative and social documentary exploring humankind’s relationship to nature and other lifeforms through the ancient Nordic and Celtic myth of the selkie and the impact of wild swimming on our psyche and wellbeing. Based in different locations and through collaboration with various communities around Scotland. Watch… here
September 10th	Tasneem Nanji	2022	Canada / 15 mins Two queer Muslim Women, one in Toronto and one in New York, navigate love, family, and connection the night before 9/11.
Seven Minutes	Izzy Pye	2022	UK / 7:30 mins Two friends share a special moment together while waiting for the results of a pregnancy test.
Seven Penises	Maz Murray	2022	UK / 5 mins Watch... here
Sex of Death	M. Hadi Jamali, Fakhredin Jamali	2022	Iran / 11 mins A man is trying to kill himself in a hotel room, suddenly someone knocks on the door and enters…
She	Donato Luigi Bruni	2022	Italy / 17 mins “She” dipinge la storia di un figlio e di una madre, entrambi prigionieri degli abiti scomodi che la vita ha destinato loro. Entrambi indossano la sofferenza, ma in modo diverso l’uno dall’altra. Un’allegoria sull’accettazione e la scoperta di sé stessi, pregna di dolcezza e violenza, odio e amore; insomma, del profumo dolceamaro della vita.
Shedding	Tziara Reyes	2022	Canada / 5 mins This short documentary follows an individual’s journey of shaving their head for the first time; exploring the complex relationship between hair and identity.
Shirtless	Ed Varga, Corrie Bennett	2022	USA / 4:12 mins This song is an acknowledgement of vulnerability trans people feel in public. It's a story self-acceptance and a celebration of being trans. The music video was shot in various locations in San Francisco.
Show Me Everyone	Guy Hamiel	2022	Israel / 12 mins Omer (21yo) is peer pressured to lose his virginity. When his encounter with a girl from Tinder ends in shame, he is motivated to confront his fears and meet a guy. The meeting is intense, but gives him a sense of belonging. Trailer... here
Shy Little Boy	Jack Hessler	2022	USA / 7 mins In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a newspaper reporter interviews two teenage drag queens as they get ready for a performance. Watch… here
Silk	Lance Kenneth Blakney	2022	USA / 3 mins Heather Silk’s fever dream stream of consciousness, shot on 16mm film, humorously explores the question, “What does it all mean?”
Sin	Ivona Homicianu	2022	Belgium / 12 mins Ivona, une jeune roumaine découvre à l’âge de 13 ans qu’elle est attirée par les femmes. Dans sa culture roumaine orthodoxe, elle est forcée de garder son identité sous silence. Quelques années plus tard, lorsqu’elle part à Bruxelles pour y suivre des études, elle découvre enfin la liberté d'être elle-même.
Sin Combate	María Manzanares	2022	Argentina SIN COMBATE \| Treng Treng Kay Kay es una instalación video sonora que toma como inspiración un relato mítico del pueblo mapuche. En el origen, existen dos seres que cuidan sus espacios territoriales, el agua y la tierra. El ser de tierra se llama Treng Treng y el ser del agua, Kay Kay. Si ninguno avanza sobre los dominios de otros, se mantiene el equilibrio que permite la continuidad de la vida en el mundo. Para que haya equilibrio entonces, todo debe permanecer SIN COMBATE. Watch… here
Sing, Lola, Sing / ¡Canta, Lola, Canta!	Paloma Castro	2022	Mexico / 26:57 mins Jovany Magaña is a method actress and the great mind behind the show 'Los lamentos de Lola la Extra Grande', an independent show presented thanks to the company Talavera Cabaret. Through regional Mexican song, we explore the stages of grief after a breakup; Through the reflection, we hear the memories of Jovany and the people closest to her in her ordeal to heal her broken heart; and through mezcal, we question the toxic idea of romantic love that an entire generation of dreamers has grown up with. Watch… here
Singular	Guy Harries	2022	UK / 16 mins SINGULAR explores the experiences of single gay men during the pandemic in London. The film crosses between genres and art forms, combining elements of musical theatre, contemporary dance, sound art and documentary. The film highlights aspects of this experience such as: queer identity, activism, sex, intimacy, mental health, racism and ageism through an intimate lens of personal experiences. The piece is based on interviews with five London-based gay men (with a focus on the ages 45-65) and includes their voices as part of the film's soundscape.
Six Day Fiancée	Roland William Boyden, Katrina Guzmán, Malena Gordo	2022	USA / 12 mins Imagine you have just six days to pull off your own wedding, from the moment it first becomes an idea until the vows and rings are exchanged. And if you fail, you'll be separated forever. What are you waiting for? Get started! Trailer... https://youtu.be/YoRgM6kfWSM?si=KhWo8g5ICm5ZwIaO
Skunk Manifesto	Lomo Maniás, Monik laMetro	2022	Spain / 5 mins Is it celebration that gives us resilience? It is how we aim to turn off stigma, trauma, shame and fear in our third year as sex workers. The self-representation in this performance heals us, the ritual of celebration gives sense and history to our lives.
Sky and Lucia	Violet Gallo	2022	USA / 11 mins Sky is an introverted high school student, who when faced with turbulent emotional situations, literally disappears. In order to overcome this strange phenomenon, she must learn to stand up for herself in order to be seen for who she really is – a confident and strong woman. Watch… https://youtu.be/O-R3EWfr_SY?si=EL0P8win2LKDjmVZ
Small Fires	Nic Wilson	2022	5:30 mins Small Fires is a real-time video of a bouquet of flower-shaped candles burning until they extinguish themselves. There is an essay about the mythology and use of candles embedded in the subtitle track. Watch… https://vimeo.com/663849773
So It Goes	Gaia Alari	2022	Italy / 2 mins A looping memory of a lost love between two queer people, the animation, with its minimalistic art direction uses symbols, transitions and metaphors to explore what it means to live in the closet, and to pursue a love life made of secret encounters and beautiful moments that are bound to end, from the beginning. Watch... https://youtu.be/GJdTYe5ze9A
Soak	Desdemona Dallas	2022	USA / 10:49 mins ‘Soak’ is a photography and film project that seeks to portray trans, gender non-confirming and queer bodies in an intimate space. More than just a film, ‘Soak’ is a safe container of collaboration and exploration, where both subject and filmmaker converse about topics around gender. Trailer… https://vimeo.com/744820095
Sob a terra do encoberto	Xan Marçall, Id Libra	2022	Brazil / 60 mins Sob a Terra do Encoberto é uma obra audiovisual centrada no conflito entre o documentário e a ficção. Numa pandemia, a cultura das comunidades tradicionais é ameaçada por um projeto político governamental. O filme apresenta visões de mundo pautadas em imaginários insurgentes afro-indígenas, através da história, do mistério, da poética e do encantamento presentes na experiência de pessoas trans e travestis do norte e nordeste do Brasil.
Sobre Elas	Bruna Arcangelo	2022	Brazil / 14 mins An immersion in different female alliances, portraying mutual support movements in which different women participate and strengthen the links and the support network, showing that female liberation is not individual, but collective.
Some Tropics of Cancer	T.J Blanco	2022	USA / 9 mins After losing their father at a young age, the filmmaker mines the hidden world of astrological word origins, gems, ancient medical histories and forgotten family archives in hopes of gleaning meaning. Watch… here
Songs of the Standing Dead	Alice Michaud	2022	France / 65 mins This is the trans dystopian commune we are all dying to visit. Living gleefully in the French countryside, these queers are sent spiralling when a newbie arrives. The film grapples with the myths of queer utopia by tearing it apart. Echoing post-horror aesthetics and manipulating genre tropes in meaty ways, this is a poetic joyride to the underworld that never loses its glamour amid plenty of gore.
Sonic Reverbs	Sarnt Utamachote	2022	Germany / 22 mins This film documents Four Berlin-based migrant queer musicians opening up, becoming vulnerable, and letting go to find comfort and "reverberations" of their sounds in each other.
Sons of The Night / Filhos da Noite	Henrique Arruda	2022	Brazil / 12 mins Eight gay men aged 50 – 70 share their memories, lives and nocturnal images, questioning where their bodies fit in the current world. Oito homens gays entre 50 e 70 anos compartilham suas memórias, vivências, e imagens noturnas, questionando-se sobre qual lugar seus corpos ocupam agora. Trailer available here
Sounds of Hell	Kenji Dyck	2022	Canada / 11 mins Thom, a hobbyist photographer, shares a batch of muffins with his friend Logan at the local camera store.
Sour Milk	Mark Keane	2022	Ireland / 5 mins Two teen boys in a kitchen at night. One boy wants the other to take him seriously, and does something extreme in order to prove himself...
Soy Sasha	Yineth Iveth Lopez	2022	Panamá / 5 mins Sasha, a person of low income and raised in a violent environment will not let discrimination affect her to become the queen of queens. Una persona de bajos recursos y criado en un ambiente violento, no ha dejado que la discriminación le afecte para convertirse en la reina de reinas. Trailer… here
Soy Una Mujer Que Ya Perdió El Miedo	Aidé Nohemí Cerero Ramírez	2022	México / 12 mins De la serie “Resistimos: Lucha de mujeres ante la violencia machista y corrupta”, éste es un documental sobre el caso de Kenya Cuevas, quien ha sufrido violencia institucional, actos de corrupción y discriminación por denunciar el transfeminicidio de su compañera Paola Buenrostro.
Spectacular Intimacy / L’intime spectaculaire	Fanie Pelletier	2022	Canada / 16 mins In the YouTube era, exhibitionism and voyeurism echo each other and reach their paroxysm. Boundaries between private and public life are blurring. Intimacy becomes spectacle. Gabrielle Marion knows this more than anyone. Famous YouTuber from Quebec, she has been documenting her life and her sexual transition for eight years.
Spilling the Tea	Felix Reijmers	2022	Netherlands / 3 mins Two strangers exchange in their own peculiar way “tea” with one another. Watch... here
Spirit Day	Annie Knight, Greg Shea	2022	USA / 9 mins 'Spirit Day' follows Frankie, a lonely middle-schooler, as they pick a costume for their school's upcoming spirit day with the help of their imaginary friend, Mac. However, choosing an outfit proves more complicated than expected, prompting questions of presentation and identity.
Spiritus Dei	África Muñoz López	2022	18 mis In a world dominated by technology, the Church is dying out. A young novice is torn between reason and heart to make a decision that will change everything.
Squid Season	Ariel Mahler, Grace Hanna	2022	USA / 5 mins Using a novel style of animation, Squid Season looks to the murky sea to find clarity on gender. A slow, contemplative meditation on escaping into and away from familiar depths.
Standsinwater	Jean-Michel Beaulieu	2022	Canada / 22 mins Standsinwater Sutherland is Two Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservation and her commitment to help her community regain their culture and traditional ways. Watch… here
Stars and Freckles	Constanza Garcías Solé	2022	Argentina / 3 mins Two teenagers discover the secrets of the universe (and themselves) among the limited space of four walls.
STARTING TODAY: The long road to your own name / AB HEUTE - Der lange Weg zum eigenen Namen	Sophia Emmerich, Sam Arndt	2022	Germany / 47 mins AB HEUTE is an authentic, intimate documentary giving voice to the discriminatory legal process of official name change experienced by transgender people in Germany. By sharing such a moving compilation of stories from the transgender community, the film lays bare the honest and varied experiences of navigating a legal system that seeks to invalidate transgender lives. Trailer... here
State of Mind	Donald C. Shorter Jr	2022	USA / 4 mins BDSM as a pathway to spiritual transformation. Trailer… here
Steve	Nehemias Colindres	2022	Germany / 14 mins A young comedian struggles with self-confidence amidst a relationship in her life that would inspire her on her transition as a woman. Based on a true story. Trailer… here
Stickup, Winter, Orgy	EE Newman	2022	USA / 6 mins The Ignorant Cowboy keeps looking to make a connection at work, home alone, and in a crowd. Watch... here
Still The One	Taisiya Zaretskaya	2022	USA / 3 mins Despite big challenges, the family in this animated tear-jerker stays together, proving that love conquers all. Watch… here
Strangers in Paradise	Huang Yihong	2022	China / 17 mins Today's twenty-somethings are forced into a small safety bubble by systems, labels and meaningless routines. Huizit and Jimmy embark on a brave quest in the face of socially defined gender norms, warmly and firmly absorbing their friends who need a safe place to belong. Trailer… here
Strolling Through the Cities: Intimate Cabaret / En flânant dans les villes	Grégoire-Gabriel Van Robays	2022	Belgium Two years ago, Manu realized that he lived better by calling himself non-binary rather than a boy. In front of us, they tell each other, open, deliver a little of his history, his wounds and his joys. With the help of Miriam's piano, Manu sings what they can't always say. An hour without talking about non-binarity but taking the bet to make it live, to share it. An hour to better understand each other, to realize that we have more in common than we sometimes think. Trailer… here
Subterránea	Nelson Aldape	2022	México / 18 mins A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers. Una solitaria mujer trans cobra popularidad en su pueblo debido a sus poderes de clarividencia. Estos dones toman relevancia cuando su ciudad costera se ve asediada por desapariciones y fosas. Ella debe decidir en favor de quien usar estos poderes.
Suite Night	Mahtab Pishghadam	2022	Iran / 14 mins Suite Night is based on a true story. A young woman is desperately attempting to help a loved one abandoned by everyone else. Trailer... here
Summer Night's Fantasy	Guby Moon	2022	Spain / 5:40 mins It's a summer night and it's very hot. Mila is lying in bed and can't sleep. Then her hands slide down all over her body as her mind fantasizes taking her on a cosmic journey to the stars and beyond. A poetic story about a hot summer night's fantasy.
Summer with Maria	Joanna Ślesicka	2022	Poland, Spain / 17 mins Emily, after a sudden breakup with her boyfriend, cannot find herself in a new reality. Without much consideration she sets off alone for the holiday stay they planned together. On the spot she meets Maria — the owner of the holiday cottages. At first, Emily gets irritated by Maria’s straightforward manner. With time, aversion turns into fascination. Thanks to Maria, Emily will never forget that summer. Trailer… here
Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin	Dan Dansen	2022	Germany / 12 mins What if we lived in a society in which people who harmed and people who were harmed could heal simultaneously? Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin is a video essay on survivorhood in which trauma survivors cast a wild vision of a utopian society. The experimental film unfolds a hypnotic undertow that pulls the spectator into a journey from despair to self-love. The documentary narrates dealing with trauma as a sophisticated skill. Poetic and multi-layered imagery of traveling create a metaphorical space in which narration and imagination melt into a unique story. Different voices of trauma survivors tell about a survivor collective they have formed and they invite the viewers to join them. They encourage an emotional journey to the viewer’s very own abyss. Trauma is often related to speechlessness and isolation, but the film provides collectivity and the idea that healing is a continuing process. The film creates the restlessness that is typical for surviving through imagery and music. But it also makes clear that the transition from surviving to living is characterized by hope: the chorus of survivors shares their skills and their ideas on dealing with violence, the art of making kin and on queer love. Survivor Manifesto is a political essay that will change your perspective on trauma.
Susie Blue	Sarah Gwynne	2022	Ireland / 3 mins Music is the food of queer survival in this lovable Belfast doc. Watch… here
Switch for Daddy	Mahx Capacity	2022	USA / 17 mins Leather Daddy Mahx Capacity puts Bishop Black through their paces. Leather lovers Bishop and Mahx are ravenous for each other in this electric Berlin rendezvous. A steamy makeout ends with Bishop’s legs up in the air, and Mahx can’t help but feast on this gorgeous slut. Bishop slides down on Mahx’s strap, riding their daddy before dutifully returning the favor. Taking turns sucking, licking, riding, and cumming all over each other, Mahx and Bishop make switching absolutely indulgent.
Take Me in the Woods / Prends-moi dans le bois	Popo La Sodo, Ernesto Fag, Kim Possible, Lusidxxx, Otto	2022	Belgium / 4 mins A silky roman-photo through forest, winter and warm nymph mysteries.
Takeouts / Quentinha	Rwanyto Oscar Santos	2022	Brazil / 12 mins Couple sees the sale of takeout as an option to help with costs. But they realize it’s not enough. So, despite their good relationship, the two start looking for secret “extra earnings”.
Taking My Time to Dance	Celeste Lapida	2022	Philippines / 23 mins Rana, an eighteen-year-old bakla (Filipino queer), sneaks into their absent mother’s old room to steal clothes from her closet, but gets caught by their grandmother Nanay. Saada, their older trans woman friend, pays them a visit to help them get in drag for the first time. Before things get glamorous, Nanay asks the two to help her rearrange the living room. Nanay eventually lets Rana try on the old pink satin dress, and when they do, it lights up the whole room pink. While Rana and Saada get ready for their Friday night dancing, Saada shares her experiences being a trans woman while Rana shares their anxieties towards their gender identity. It’s difficult to be queer, but Rana notices the light coming in through the window and watches the sunset…and it’s pink. They arrive that night at a club, where at first Rana is overwhelmed by their anxiety, only to be comforted by more seasoned drag queens. The night is over, Rana arrives home and they’re at least sure of one thing: they’re ready to dance.
Tapping Into Our Past, Tapping Into Our Future	Ayodele Casel	2022	USA / 10 mins In creative conversation with archival footage, choreographer and dancer Ayodele Casel reinvigorates the legacy of Black female and male tap dancers who came before her. Trailer… here
Taylor: A Portrait of Becoming	Sean Frost	2022	USA / 17 mins While navigating a career in television news, a former Buzzfeed comedian confronts the reality of being gender non-conforming in the Midwest. This coming-of-identity film meets Taylor at a pivotal moment in their life; post-internet fame, dating after divorce, and their continual fight for visibility.
Te Amo, Se Cuida	Andre Vidigal, Liz Dórea	2022	Brazil / 5 mins Um retrato do amor em São Paulo que acompanha reflexos e espelhos espalhados pelo centro da cidade, perguntando a personagens da vida real o que veem refletidos de si próprios. Watch… here
Teddy Bear	Konstantinos Menelaou	2022	Greece / 3 mins A man returns home to Athens, where he spends solitary days in his new flat. As he navigates his loneliness, his voice reveals heartfelt messages to the lover he left behind, capturing the bittersweet emotions of love, distance, and the struggle to move on. Watch… here
Thank You, Come Again!	Aysia Segura	2022	USA / 4 mins A cat and his owner head to the store where temptations make it hard to stay on their two item grocery list. Watch... here
That restaurant at Talpiot market תלפיות או לא להיות	Maya Yenni	2022	Israel / 9 mins “Arabeska” restaurant is located at Talpiot Market in Haifa. Idan and Akram decided to open the restaurant in that location in order to make a change in the scenery, and also change the minds of the locals about a gay interracial couple.
The Accidental Archivist	Tracey Spring	2022	Australia ‘People have told me I’m a hoarder, turns out I’m an archivist!’ - Julie Peters. Julie Peters is a legend in the trans community in Melbourne. She was the first person to transition at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, at a time when there were no role models around her, and the first openly trans person to run for Parliament. From her early twenties, Julie started collecting anything trans or queer related. Whenever she saw a magazine or newspaper article, medical records or images related to the trans or queer experience, she cut it out and filed it away. Julie's home is crammed with filing cabinets filled with precious material. She also archived her personal portraits – 4,000 'selfies' (pre internet) where she experimented with looks and fashions.
The Aunties	Jeannine Kayembe Oro, Charlyn Griffith Oro	2022	USA / 6 mins A short format climate documentary based on the lives of Paulette Greene and Donna Dear and the legacies of Harriet Tubman and Mt. Pleasant Acres Farm.
The Best Grand Father in the World	Nina Bisyarina	2022	Russia / 6 mins The film is based on an interview with Felix, and his close relationship with his grandfather. Trailer... here
The Birth of a Woman	Soňa Nôtová	2022	Slovakia / 29 mins The main character of this documentary is the director herself who as a teenager went through a very masculine period. Now she is thinking out loud about the topics that a lot of us are too shy to talk about. It's the intimacy that brings the potential of understanding and acceptance of the so often condemned subject of gender.
The Bloom (Coordinate 2)	Echaka Agba, Kristina Valada-Viars	2022	USA / 21 min Part road trip and part experimental personal narrative, this short doc invites the audience to explore the meaning of Home alongside the filmmakers and their family. Trailer… here
The BOI's Failed Crown	Na Forest Lim	2022	USA / 3 mins A film that delves into longing and desire through the angle of reclaiming the Black trans body. Watch… here
The Boy at the Window	Lee Campbell	2022	UK / 2:34 mins A short poetry film with poetry written and spoken by Lee Campbell that shares a personal experience, of Lee looking up at a window and seeing a boy looking out. Watch…here
The Caress	Bhargav Lahkar	2022	India / 15 mins A middle aged transman crosses path with an old lover and share a dinner together that heals the resentment between them and frees both of them from regrets.
The Catharsis of Icarus	Maria Rita Nascimento	2022	USA / 2 mins The times when Icarus falls in love with the sun, but he knows that this relationship will not end well… But for Icarus, these cautions went in at one ear and out by the other as he lives a love story. Watch… here
The Cave of Dr Cayla	Sofia Chapman	2022	Australia / 16 mins Melbourne filmmaker, accordionist and playwright Sofia Chapman adapts her mysterious short story in this very French rendezvous co-starring illustrator Eloise Caleo.
The Choir of Our Kind	Xu Zai, Wang Sisi	2022	China / 38 mins The film follows the journey of a queer choir in Nanjing. From initial recruitment to their first performance, the story of New Jump offers a lens to observe how current social and cultural situations affect a small queer community. What should a queer choir in China look like? Trailer… here
The Clown	Giuseppe Di Gangi	2022	Italy / 13 mins A young man, tried by a particular and sad moment lived, one day, while crossing by bike the avenue that he used to travel, carefully observes everything he encounters and is around him and from here springs his reflection on the essence and on the true sense of happiness. Happiness is subjective: there are those who associate it with material and worldly things, there are those who identify it with simple, essential, indispensable things.
The Concept of Self	Pradeep Mahadeshwar	2022	Ireland / 20 mins A viral pandemic magnifies inequalities and isolation for an immigrant Asian gay person of colour surviving the lockdown.
The Concision of a Six Foot Five Inch Transgender Woman Shaving Her Body	Audrey Kiehn	2022	USA / 4:30 mins An intimate and meditative scene of a trans woman shaving her body.
The Confessional	John Fitzpatrick	2022	UK / 13 mins Bim and Nathan meet for a hook up in the park and have immediate chemistry, but Bim finds himself too exposed when a chance encounter reveals what he’s been trying to hide.
The Corpse of My Father Lays Beside Me	Titas Miciulis	2022	UK An exceptionally powerful and personal animation, drawn entirely in virtual reality. It is a visual expression of spite and trauma inflicted by an abusive family member that transforms into a feeling of salvation from the inevitable mortality of the abuser.
The Crush	Kevin Anthony	2022	USA / 15 mins Matt has had a crush on Davin since the eleventh grade - and then his crush vanished. Three years later the mysterious Davin pops back into his life and Matt begins to fall for him all over again. Trailer… here
The Daffodil Dance ריקוד הנרקיסים	Ze’ev Goren	2022	Israel / 42 mins Guy Levy, a 21-year-old gay man, doesn’t want to be gay anymore. He meets with Liron, a good friend from his past, asking him to go with him to a conversion therapy clinic. Liron was badly hurt by undergoing such treatments in his past, and these past wounds cause everything to change.
The Deceased / O falecido	Philipp Veiga Amaro	2022	Switzerland / 19 mins He is known as the deceased, “O falecido" - even though he is in no way dead. Philipp lived with his father until the age of 16, but has no memory of him. What exactly happened? He comes across a diary and tries to find answers - and by confronting the women in his family he finds his own perspective.
The Dragonflies / Les Libellules	Léa Codden, Adèle Fréchoux, Loris Hanck	2022	Belgium / 5 mins In 1910, an English couple on vacation comes to their mansion on the Normandy coast. The wife tries to maintain a love story, out of sight, with one of the maids. Their love transports them to a bucolic world far from the prejudices of society. Trailer… here
The Fourth Generation	Yony Leyser	2022	Germany / 39 mins The Fourth Generation, is a homage to Berlin’s vibrant underground and the communities that breathe life into the city. The film is set in a dystopian future, but the themes explored are very real. Queer identity, feminism, sexuality and the intersection of politics and art. Trailer… here
The Gift	Julian Tapprich	2022	Austria / 40 secs Watch… here
The Heart of Ybor	Samantha Luque	2022	USA / 10:06 mins A short documentary following the drag performers of Ybor City through their history, community and the ins and outs of drag. Watch… here
The Hidden in the Pain	Danial Ghasemian	2022	Iran / 5 mins Unusual love is created by unusual body
The Holey Grail	Ethan Folk	2022	Germany / 5 mins
The Hollidays in Mississippi	Christina Alison Huff	2022	USA / 36 mins Born and bred in small-town Mississippi, two gay men begin a familial mother and daughter relationship through the art of drag performance in The Hollidays in Mississippi. When GoDiva Holliday loses her passion after twenty years of drag, she relies on her drag daughter to pick up the pieces. Trailer… here
The Idealist	Martin Drouot	2022	France /10 mins Un appassionato professore cerca di insegnare ai propri studenti liceali come esprimere i sentimenti in modo convincente davanti alla macchina da presa. Ma lui stesso è in difficoltà, quando i sentimenti sono i suoi, nella vita reale…
The Invite	Jax Terry	2022	USA / 15 mins Jack is really Jax. They are nonbinary but struggling to express it. Then, a series of letters arrive from an anonymous source that seems to know everything about them. The letters call them to a mystical place full of transformation, self-love, and community. But first, they must accept The Invite. Watch... here
The Journey / A Jornada	Mateus Rosa	2022	Brazil / 16 mins This film is a mixture of time travel, a documentary, artistic and performance record that expresses my subjective view of the places, people and moments I spent from 2015 to 2018. Filmed on super-8 mm film Trailer… here
The Joy of Biting	Nina Hoffmann	2022	Germany / 2 mins Are you bored of your genitals? Do you want to masturbate in public without anyone noticing? Taste THE JOY OF BITING and begin your new better life…
The King is Not My Cousin / Le roi n'est pas mon cousin	Annabelle Aventurin	2022	France / 30 mins Author of "Karukera sunny, Guadeloupe stranded" (1980), Elzéa Foule Aventurin engages, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together they retrace, not without malice, a family history, sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A history of silence, pride and revolt. Watch… here
The Kiss / Da Kiss	Carlos Lowmet	2022	Mexico / 14 mins Two amateur actors guilty of homophobic acts face their first gay kiss in the middle of shooting a student short film, the recording stops with the first kiss (horrible and uncomfortable). Soon they will discover their past, the guilt and the search for redemption will make them try a romantic and passionate kiss. Trailer… here
The Language	Steph Odu	2022	UK / 9 mins Two members of Barcelona’s ballroom community share what it means to ‘speak the language.’
The Life in My Fists / A Vida Em Meus Punhos	Marília Hughes Guerreiro	2022	Brazil / 30 mins Olympic medalist Adriana Araújo cannot find sponsorship but wants to keep on fighting to fulfill her dream of winning the world title.
The Love of My Life	Francesca Rizzoli, Trevor John Graham	2022	Chile / 28 mins "Transgender Lipstick Lesbian Power Couple" Gail and Lisette are in love and plan to marry, leaving behind the facades of many years of conformity and heteronormativity. Trailer… here
The Mask / Mukhosh	Paayel Chouudhury	2022	India / 24 mins A suspense thriller with unique turns and twist. What will happen when one day you wake up without any memory? What will you do when you find out one day that your beloved person is wearing a mask of deception and treachery and hiding the true identity for a dangerous plan. Where will you run when the person you love is the enemy of your life?
The Memorial	Tyhran Sohoian	2022	Ukraine / 6 mins Images of the 911 attack on the Twin Towers act as a reminder for a character in recalling his lost relationship with a man he loved in this animated ode to building memorials – both physical and emotional – to those we have lost. Watch... here
The Occurrence of Colours by Night	Sophie Lenglachner	2022	Germany, Austria / 5 mins The dystopian genderfluid fashion of textile artist Sophie Lenglachner focuses on the beauty of darkness and reflective shimmers of light. Trailer… here
The Ones We Choose / Ceux que l’on choisit	Elora Bertrand	2022	France / 30 mins “The ones we choose” is a documentary about my chosen family. The ones I decided to walk through life alongside with. First taking the form of a family video; this documentary takes us from the intimate to the collective, from the intimate to the political.
The Other Half / L’Altra Metà	Alessandra Martinez	2022	Italy / 8 mins After a misunderstanding with her girlfriend, a woman contemplates her understanding of love, self-acceptance, and the freedom that comes from facing your fears. Trailer… here
The Other Peloton	Brian Jenkins	2022	USA / 14 mins Molly Cameron is a professional cyclist who has been navigating the sport as a trans athlete for over two decades. When she races at the 2022 Belgian Waffle Ride, it highlights the implications of organizing sports in a two gender system.
The Other Woman	Daphne Finlayson	2022	Canada A look into the lives of three adults featuring three queer adults, including one trans-masculine person in a happy polyamorous relationship.
The Person Behind the Door	Anna Alicia Pazderski	2022	Korea / 7 mins A female college student enters the women's bathroom and hears what she thinks is a man's voice. She calls the police and blocks the door of the bathroom stall, trapping a transgender person inside.
The Pink Time, the story of the LGBTQ communities	Amit Hachamov, Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein, Yair Qedar	2022	Israel / 60 mins The Pink Time, the story of the Israel LGBTQ. Based on the LGBTQ memory project by Yair Qedar and Etai Pinkas.
The Prince of Saturday Night	Jonathan R. Alleyne	2022	Panamá / 8:03 mins Una nota de voz real, grabada durante un mal día, nos introduce a un viaje sensorial donde Jonathan nos muestra cómo su mente lidia con un profundo sentimiento de soledad.
The Seeker	Héctor Jaime, Omar Ramirez	2022	USA / 4:41 mins The Seeker arrives on earth and remembers who they are. Trailer… here
The Song of the Meadowlark	Mike Fernandez	2022	USA / 2 mins The Song of the Meadowlark, a message of hope for the future of our planet. Birds tell us every day that the world is changing both through their songs and the songs they no longer sing due to habitat loss and global temperature rise. Will you choose to listen? Watch… here
The Space Dykes and Other Adventures	Julian Konuk	2022	UK / 20 mins A science fictionalised exploration into dykiness; a queer movement and bodily abjection in regards to searching for modes of home and unhome-liness not based upon patrilineal spatialities of biological kinship. Trailer... here
The Spanish King	Céline Van Heel	2022	Spain / 12 mins “The Spanish King” tells the story of a 90-year-old dandy in search of love and eternal youth. He celebrates his big 90th birthday party, which is attended by the country’s young artists. He is friends with all kind of young celebrities like Jedet, El Cejas, Samantha Hudson, Paula Cendejas, Recycled J and many more, who acclaim and adore him. But there is something that does not allow him to enjoy the party as he would really like… Watch... here
The Statue	Andrew Cormier	2022	UK / 4 mins A tale of desire, desperation, and consequence.
The Story of Me Missing Them	Ghazi Alqudcy	2022	Singapore / 23 mins Filmmaker shares his journey of self-discovery while living abroad, far from his family.
The Stories We’re Told	Mansha Totla	2022	India / 14 mins How stories have the power to shape our world. Trailer... here
The Straight Agenda	Emily Robertson	2022	Canada / 8 mins Through the use of childhood home videos intertwined with present day scenes, a writer shares her experience of coming out as a pansexual woman in a world where people are assumed straight at birth.
The Struggle	Jason Rajasinghe	2022	Sri Lanks / 7 mins After a co-worker takes a photo of Amit with his boyfriend, he’s outed at work and must navigate homophobic harassment.
The Swan Song / El canto del cisne	Julián Lona	2022	Argentina, Spain / 15 mins A twenty year old couple’s life has drawn them to take an important decision. Trailer... here
The Third Core	Mohsen Arshadi	2022	Iran / 15 mins The boy is involved in a sensory maze and tries to overcome his fears and prepare to face the reality of his story.
The Tower Falls	Ylva Mara Radziszewski, Kiki Robinson	2022	USA / 7 mins A film that uses the Major Arcana Tarot card, The Tower, to ask what holds us back from our sensuality and raw expression? What cords that hold us to this world are ready to be sacrificed? The Tower gathers these inner feelings as catalysts for change; a rupturing of structure and status quo.
The Velvet	Jett Anton	2022	USA / 11 mins A short film about what happens when a shy twink meets a charming trans bartender dressed in a stunning red velvet cloak.
The Very Thought of You	Bart Wen Long Seng	2022	UK / 10 mins The film centres around the experience of a vacuum-sealed Earth refugee’s imminent arrival onto the Moon. Taking place in a hallucinatory space brought upon by his own tortured subconscious, he is gradually released from his latex cryo-vacuum pod. A video message from his lover, who was left on Earth, appears. His lover goes into an angry monologue, accusing the man of abandoning him and his home in a bid for personal survival.
The Voice	Maral Ayurzana	2022	Mongolia / 15 mins A teenager records his a personal diary on a voice recorder. One day, envisioning his future self listening to this diary, he decides to come out to himself. This leads to an intimate conversation about self-acceptance. Trailer… here
The wind will bring the rain / Giraru Galing Ganhagirri	Joel Bray	2022	Australia It speaks to the implacable force of Country– of the assurance that, in nature, one thing follows another and the meeting of the elements of air and water. Always have and always will. In these times, solace is to be found in the ‘ancientness’ and endurance of Country. Whatever happens, the wind will always bring the rain.
The World Exists, But Not Right Now / Verden eksisterer, men ikke lige nu	Adrian Jalily	2022	Denmark / 16 mins Emil takes his friend Ask for a swim. They spend the trip reflecting on their friendship, talking about all and nothing. As the day progresses, Ask flirts with Emil, making him unsure about what to do.
The Young Men’s Guide to Bloodsucking	Max Rhineer	2022	USA / 15 mins Gabriel Young, a teenager raised under a Mormon household, attempts to come to terms with his burgeoning Queerness and Vampyrism. Trailer… here
The Zip of My Pants Is Open. Like My Heart. / Mein Hosenschlitz ist Offen. Wie Mein Herz.	Marie Luise Lehner	2022	Áustria / 28 mins A young woman indulges in erotic daydreams. The lead actors in the sexy cinema inside Thea’s head include: the gorgeous bartender from the trendy bar, who thirsts for menstrual blood; Laura’s “beautiful cousin” who plays the Magic Mike of Drag in a saucy mesh shirt; and not least of all, superblonde. Trailer… here
There is a Woman in This Town	Benjamin Esterlis	2022	Israel / 4 mins Seven different women find themselves locked in one tiny corporate bathroom.
There’s No Sex, Only Fans	Ting, Chi-Wen	2022	Taiwan / 20 mins On the website OnlyFans, subscribers can pay to watch amateur pornography. Hsuan, who has 20,000 followers on Twitter, receives a letter from university student A-Hsien, who proposes that they make a video together. The two meet in a hotel to shoot Hsuan’s favorite sex act… Trailer… here
Thick Skin	Inès Arsi	2022	Tunisia / 6 mins To define yourself is to shut yourself away. Ahmed, a young Tunisian artist, transcends standards and goes beyond the labels that are stuck on him, with a single goal: to live as his soul tells him to do.
Things that won't die / Cosas que nunca van a morir	Manuela Gutiérrez Arrieta	2022	Spain / 14 mins After finding videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself left on the internet. Along the way, she comes across things that even she did not remember about herself.
Think About the Beautiful Future Ahead	Diego Bragà	2022	Brazil / 4 mins Trailer… here
This Is My Day זה היום שלי	Helli Hardy	2022	Israel / 13 mins For her 30th birthday, Yaeli is planning a surprise party for herself. Ido, her best friend and roommate, is supposed to help her, but he is delayed and avoids the chores. He is hiding something that may ruin her day.
Three / Trije	Simon Moe	2022	Slovenia / 13 mins Klara spends one more hot summer night with friends Nejla and Lars before moving abroad to study. Three is an ode to the Ljubljana queer community, young love, and that special last summer before adulthood.
Throuple / Trieja	Patrick Fabrizio Trigoso	2022	Mexico / 8 mins Three male bodies, through tenderness, develop a dance from the intimate affections they share, making visible other ways of loving far from heteronormativity or binarism.
Titi	Marzieh Fakhar	2022	Iran After five years of Marriage, she takes all the measures to undergo a transgender procedure when she realizes that she is pregnant and is faced with an important decision. Trailer… here
To Be Yourself	Yuu Minote	2022	Japan / 4 mins Movements for the right to same-sex relationships and for equal marriage will increase the way of life and choices of a heterosexual. It also changes the content and meaning of marriage for heterosexuals. This work compactly expresses the changes of the times that are happening in the Japan right now. Trailer… here
to boyhood, i never knew him	Trâm Anh Nguyễn	2022	Vietnam, Canada / 3 mins Archive footage from 2006 to 2010 of a young girl growing up between the age of four and eight. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. An ever growing age of the digital world & globalization & of being filmed & watched & when our love letters turned into text messages. To the lost memories of when I knew childhood before the age of eight. I remember being a girl but I don’t. Trailer... here
to breathe	Ada Zhang, Jules Evans-Anfom	2022	USA / 5:33 mins Two young queer Black and Chinese friends breathe into rest and stillness as resistance.
To Live / Para Vivir	Jackelyn Santiago	2022	USA / 5 mins A queer woman of color delivers a love letter crafted for all queer and lesbian women around the world: live and thrive and fight for love!
To My Next Lover	Kieran Charnock	2022	New Zealand / 3:26 mins This will not end well! A poet forewarns their next lover of what lies ahead. Based on the poem “to my next lover” by Paula Harris. Watch… here
To Somewhere, With Me	Sarah Sewell	2022	USA / 16 mins It’s the 1950s. Lena and Greta are living in a convent. Lena isn’t interested in becoming a nun, but for Greta, becoming a nun is her calling. Their lives take different paths as they strive to find themselves and follow their dreams.
Todo Lo Que Importa	Coraci Ruiz	2022	Brazil / 20 mins Cuenta la historia de tres familias de personas trans y los procesos de aceptación de la celebración de sus identidades. Estas mamás, papás y abuelos dan un paso adelante y deciden luchar por una sociedad que respete y valore la diversidad.Realizada por una cineasta que también es madre de un joven trans, la película conecta generaciones mostrando historias de amor, transformación y aprendizaje.
Together, Stronger in the Rain	Tsai Yu-Hsun	2022	Taiwan / 85 mins In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Three years on, same-sex couples still face challenges that heterosexual couples do not: some have trouble becoming legal guardians for their children; others must travel abroad to start a family; some are even rejected when applying for legal marriage status. As such, legalization was just another small step forward in the fight for equality. This 90-minute documentary shows how different same-sex couples fight for the life they desire and deserve. They may be fighting different battles, but they share one thing in common: the belief that the sun will shine after this rain.
Toilet	Luan Luca Lamberty	2022	Luxembourg / 1:33 min A nonbinary person faces the daily challenge of where to have a wee.
Tommy Kha's Bits & Pieces	Jia Li	2022	USA / 8 mins An intimate look at photographer Tommy Kha as he tries to reconnect with his hometown, Memphis TN.
Top Story	Erin Smith	2022	USA / 9:33 mins For as long as Tali could remember, their boobs have been a burden. Approaching the date of their top surgery, Tali humorously reflects on what brought them to this point, how the decision has affected those closest to them and how they negotiate their role in an Orthodox community.
Torta Documental	Brianna Di Paola	2022	Argentina / 11 mins Torta documental está hecha con relatos de diferentes activismos y militancias: ¿Quiénes escribían cuando no había material lésbico?, ¿Quiénes traducían textos?, ¿Quiénes estuvieron en las marchas exigiendo derechos, pensando leyes?, ¿Quiénes elegían visibilizarse aún cuando era un riesgo inmenso? Watch... here
Traces	Anja Elena Masling	2022	France The short video diary is about someone who hides in the woods because of who he is and who he loves, far from his family and their condemnations.
Tracing Skin	Max Kutschenreuter	2022	Germany / 3 mins The body is a landscape on which intimacy travels. “Tracing Skin” is an explorative film about the fine line between intimacy and obsession between queer individuals.
Trancinhas	Mariana Stolf Friggi	2022	Brazil / 10 mins Tamara é adolescente e mal-humorada. Com apoio de suas amigas Barbara e Duda, está sempre arrumando confusão. Porém, por trás das caras de mau humor, Tamara se revela com um coração mole e confuso. Trailer… here
Trans_Formação De Identidades Da Noite	Patrick Mendes	2022	Brazil / 25 mins Spectacular guests, they tell iconic stories of the beginning of the Queer scene in the city of Goiânia in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. In the speeches of Cristiano Mullins, Edilberto Dias, Esley Zambel, Henrique Florêncio, Lázaro Eurides, Paulinho Reis and Regina Perri, joy, memory and emotion present a look at the festive nights of Goiás.
Trans Glamoré	Lachlan Bradbury	2022	Australia / 45 mins Trans performers and prominent trans figures like Peta Friend, founder of Trans Pride Australia, reflect on the importance of community events like Trans Glamoré.
Transformations	Sophie Bennett	2022	USA / 3 mins Transformations is an experimental short film that was shot on Super 8 film as well as an iPhone 12. These two mediums were used to capture the subject's not only physical transformation, but emotional over the course of a year. The intention of the filmmaker in filming partially on color film and partially on an iPhone in black and white was to engage the audience in viewing the subject from different lenses. Watch… here
Transit	Hyein Moon	2022	South Korea / 27 mins A low-budget horror film is being filmed in a studio The chief electrician is a transgender woman who recently returned to work after a long break due to gender reassignment surgery, and the young actor is just beginning their acting career There is an unusually tense atmosphere in the studio, and the chief electrician and young actor encounter each other more frequently than usual. Trailer… here
Transition	Serge Barbagallo	2022	France / 3 mins Simon tells his parents that he is going to do a gender transition. Trailer… here
Transitando el Abismo	César González	2022	Argentina / 21 mins Alma transita por la ciudad de Buenos Aires en tiempos de luchas y reivindicación de derechos; las paredes cuentan, denuncian y proclaman contra el patriarcado y el FMI. Su identidad travesti y villera encarna deseos, rechazos, sueños, clandestinidad, resistencias, exclusión, nocturnidad. Alma atraviesa los abismos a plena luz del día con furia y chispa travesti. Trailer… here
Transubstantiation, Shabbat	Elio Baseman	2022	USA / 3 mins This short film serves as a meditation on Judaism and the giving spirit as they relate to the labour of cooking; gender, and the body. Watch… here
Trembling Eyes / Olhares Trêmulos	Leno Taborda	2022	Brazil / 20 mins Juliano é um jovem artista que vive uma vida feliz com seu namorado, Nuno, um homem de 65 anos, até que seu relacionamento é abalado pela descoberta de que seu parceiro tem uma doença degenerativa. Trailer… here
Triada	Fernando Villena	2022	Perú / 12 mins Saul receives a double invitation to his cousin's wedding. Having a polyamorous relationship with two guys, you will have to decide what weighs more, social or sentimental value.
Trickle-down Economics	Sophie Ansell	2022	UK / 2 mins A film about spit, tears and austerity. Watch... here
Trust Issues	Reva Santo	2022	USA / 20 mins A young musician haunted by past sexual trauma struggles to navigate the intricacies of trust, new love, and a destabilized career. Trailer… here
Truth Dream	Aarthi Parthasarathy	2022	India / 23 mins Truth Dream began as a photo exhibition on ageing, beauty and fantasy, tracing the experiences and dreams of the sexuality minority community. The exhibition features 12 friends who identify as trans women, trans men, kothi and gender non-conforming individuals from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, all above the age of 50 years, who set out to realise their desires and fantasies through this project. These community models embodied the characters that they had always aspired to be – characters which ranged from cabaret and classical dancers, ideal women, queens and goddesses from Tamil and Kannada films of the 60s. The film delves deeper into the dreams, desires, aspirations and pain of these individuals. The film documents the process through which their fantasies become reality.
Try and Touch	Nell Hensey	2022	Ireland / 12 mins Emer Danagher is a school girl in rural Ireland who is battling with the overwhelming agony of unrequited love. We see her build up the courage to come clean to her crush as she realises that she has nothing to lose and everything to gain. But at 17, it feels like her life will be over if she doesn't get the response she so desperately wants.
Tsunami	Arianna Taretto	2022	Italy / 2 mins Anxiety punctuates some days. I wake up, I breathe, I get up, I brush my teeth. I put my mind to rest. Watch… here
Tus Manos	Natália Paes	2022	Brazil Antônio es un joven soñador y es una bondad que conoce a Thomaz, quien en gestos y expresiones se destaca en su visión. En algunos desacuerdos hay acercamiento, y en el sentimiento de esta conexión, los muros sobre la comunicación y el amor se derrumban.
Twinkleberry	Daisy Ifama	2022	UK / 12 mins “The story of my super gay school year that had 30+ queer students in one year group during 2005 to 2012, in a small town on the border of the Midlands and the West Country.”
Twins / Jumeaux	Ines Clivio	2022	France / 16 mins It’s a stormy July 14th. During a car journey, Madoche, her twin and her sister, a real pain in the neck, run out of gas. Lost in the countryside, with a jerry can on her back, she meets a horsewoman. Her horoscope said it: destiny will bring you lust.
Two of Swords	Four Chambers	2022	UK / 13 mins Play fighting, power exchange, fucking with the sanctity of the idea of a serious and sacred masculinity.
Two of Us / Nas dve	Viktória Bera	2022	Hungary / 4 mins Love – our hero – lives by herself on an island where all animals have partners. Anyhow she seeks for herself in the souls of the surrounding animals, she struggles to find one alike. One day, she gets the idea to rip off her own arm, seed it, water it, and expect it to grow a partner. And so she does, with patience she waters, crops the arm, until it becomes another one of her, as they morph into various creatures together the dream falls apart, Love realises that she merely imagined all that happened, so her arm would still be just seeded in the ground, she must face the truth and loneliness.
Two Portraits of the Deceased / ふたつの遺影	Shun Nakagawa	2022	Japan / 4 mins The protagonist is in full swing. To be able to greet the last day "be yourself." He struggled with which photo to leave behind, and came up with an answer with his family. And then comes the day of farewell.
Ultra	Aïda Soler Esteban	2022	Spain / 9 mins Izan, a 14-year-old boy, is expelled from high school for bad behavior. In an environment with few resources, without the attention of teachers and family, the boy finds his only support in a group of radicalized young people. But he will soon realize that if he wants to continue hanging out with the gang, he will have to become one of them.
Unbroken	Kathy Moore	2022	Australia / 5 mins This is a visual musical journey from a young child to an adult of the challenges one can face in search of their gender identity.This true story was created in hope to engage the world in conversation, show the beauty of humanity and declare that we are unbroken.
Unconditional / Ubetinget	Ulrikke Martine Moss Hopland, Kaja Sørgjerd Saltnes Tømmerås	2022	Norway / 9 mins Ylva and her best friend Rakel go to a party, where Ylva drinks and takes drugs for the first time. She eventually gets sick, and when she wakes up she is confused about the events of the night before.
Uncovered Girl	Paola Molina	2022	Peru / 41 mins In recognition of two hundred years of the proclamation of Peru's independence, six trans women rehearse to characterize an iconic character in Peruvian history: the Tapada Limeña. This is juxtaposed with the present fight for rights for trans women and sex workers in a city that tries to make them invisible.
Uncovered Lives: Australia's Fight for Funded Trans Healthcare	Kai Wharton	2022	Australia / 14 mins A transgender filmmaker investigates Australia’s lack of funded trans healthcare, and how this prevents others from accessing the care that saved his own life. Watch... here
Uncovering	Dion Fibishenko	2022	Australia / 11:12 mins After the death of his closeted Jewish-Orthodox boyfriend Eli, Alexander attends the Shiva to pay his respects. Trailer… here
Un/Cut	Gordon Hickey	2022	Ireland / 7 mins A sexual hook-up quickly turns into a conversation about circumcision, which leads to a funny and informative history lesson. Trailer… here
Unheard Voices	Jake Oorloff	2022	Sri Lanka / 54 mins A transgender woman is assaulted by 6 men and she proceeds to file a criminal complaint at the police station. However recognizing that she is transgender the police treat her as a second class citizen, they refuse to take her matter seriously and demand that she go and deliver the addresses of the perpetrators if she wished for justice to be served. As the woman was determined she managed to produce one address even though she had to put herself at risk to do so. The police then attempt persuade her to let the matter go, claiming that as she is of the Islamic faith and the perpetrators too are of the same religion, she should be understanding. However when she refused to do so, they blamed the incident on her noting that it happened because she was dressed as a woman when she is a man. She pursued the matter as far as she could, going so far as to obtain a lawyer’s letter to issue the B report of her complaint however there was no compliance from the side of the police.
Unidos por el Amor y el Carnaval	Enrique Gabriel Kirchman	2022	Panamá / 18:31 mins Para muchos panameños el carnaval es una fiesta. Para otros, es una oportunidad de expresar su pasión y talento. Este último es Víctor Acevedo, un artesano y diseñador autodidacta que crea vestidos para reinas y carrozas de carnaval. Watch… here
Uninvited	Emily James	2022	Australia / 4 mins A young woman tries inviting her secret lover to her home while a seemingly innocent prank by her girlfriend becomes sinister.
Unrequited Love / Sadhonsongi	Sandipan Das	2022	India The film revolves around a middle-aged man who comes to know about the wedding news of his college junior cum brother and after knowing the news, his old dilemma regarding his feelings for his junior, which included both physical and mental feelings, came forward and started troubling him.
Valentine @ 3	Mani Shankar Iyer	2022	India / 1:51 mins Valentine @ 3 is an anthology comprising of three stories based on LGBT community . Three stories depict life of gay people at different ages. The first story tells about 18 years old gay boy’s feelings towards his school and college crush and his mother’s understanding towards his sexuality. The second story deals with two gay men deciding to get married against different odds in an unexpected situation. The third story deals with the conversation between two gay men in an Uber cab , the driver and the passenger who accidentally learn that both of them are gay and they both have a strong story to share for each other. Trailer… here
Valley of the Fairies עמק הפיות	Gil Mashal	2022	Israel / 23 mins Ari is from Tel Aviv. Like every year, in honor of Pride Week, he goes out with his friends to celebrate dressed in fairy wings. During the party, a surprising meeting with the mythological ex, June, awakens dormant emotions and sweeps Ari into a night around the city where he will be forced to realise that fairies and princes only exist in fairy tales.
Vases - The True Story	John D Goodwin	2022	USA / 3:30 Watch… here
Views from the Airplane Window	Kit Reilly	2022	New Zealand / 5 mins Told through a lens of movement vignettes and no dialogue, this film explores a once real life relationship of a queer couple and the brief but meaningful moments of tenderness they shared. This project is part of the 9 part dance film series “Turbulent Kingdoms.”
Viktoria	Ari Vidal	2022	Perú / 3 mins Un retrato de Viktoria, una showgirl limeña. A través de reflexiones sobre la auto-identidad, esta película explora una de las muchas historias de la comunidad trans en Perú, en busca de visibilidad y celebración de los cuerpos disidentes que se encuentran en los márgenes de una sociedad donde lo que no se ve no existe.
Virée Sèche	Théo Laglisse	2022	France / 23 mins After another sleepless night of partying and getting high, Jordane finds Chléo home, her little sister, anxious about a strange water shortage. Quickly realizing that the lack of water is affecting the entire city, Jordane faces one of her worst nightmare and embarks on a crazy road trip on foot through the streets of Marseille to stop their thirst. A lysergic, apocalyptic epic to the sound of techno halfway between «post-wall» German cinema and the queer American indie cinema of the 2000s, but at the same time making explicit the all-contemporary urgency of narrating current desertification. Brutal, unrestrained, and exciting even in the images that give no respite and compel the viewer to follow the protagonists in their headlong rush: «Run, Jordane, run!» Trailer... here
Virtual GIRL	Connie Glachan	2022	Canada / 5 mins Aqua Venus provides a personalised fever dream to help YOU discover what being a woman means!
Visibly Queer	Ruby Edwards	2022	Australia / 5 mins The voices of young queers escaping isolation from outer regions arrive in Naarm “ a place to fail and grow and explore” among the terraced houses and the nightlife with the promise of a queer utopia. Watch… here
Volana’s Eclipse	SJ Rahatoka	2022	Germany, France / 7 mins Volana (Moon in Malagasy) is a Black Transmasculine dreamer who hides their emotional and physical pain in the shadows of a club. One night, when everything seems fragile and close to collapsing, Volana gets stuck in another space where they meet Tia who will show them the multidimensional aspect of their being. Watch... here
Waiting for Otto	Conor Toner	2022	Ireland / 8 mins In a city full of lovers, Podge sips a pint and waits for Otto, hoping their date will be the first of many. He'll be waiting a while...
Walking in These Shoes	Samuel López, Christian Hui	2022	Canada / 12 mins Walking In These Shoes is a documentary short that offers a glimpse into experiences of poz BIPOC people living with HIV in contemporary times. It is also an homage and tribute to the late Toronto-based BIPOC HIV/ AIDS activist Derek Yee.
Warmth	Adam Bandrowski	2022	USA / 4 mins This film is about my life since starting testosterone, the joy and comfort I have felt since then. It is made entirely on fabric, which I have sewn into a quilt. Watch… here
Water Rose	Alexsys Giraud	2022	USA, South Korea / 4 mins A village woman in an abusive marriage meets a femme nonbinary river spirit.
Water Serpents II	Vienna D'amato Hall	2022	Canada / 6 mins Water Serpents II is a film about female pleasure in a lesbian context.
We Fight On	Aleksandar Nikolić	2022	Serbia / 25 mins A documentary film about the HIV epidemic in Serbia, told through personal accounts and interviews with experts.
We March (Stronger Together)	Ryan Otto Cassata	2022	USA / 6 mins We March (Stronger Together) is a protest song and music video inspired by an act of senseless homophobia and transphobia. Award-winning singer-songwriter and long-term transgender activist, Ryan Cassata leads the ballad with stories of his personal experience in fighting against oppression and violence while growing up trans. LA-based rock band Hello Noon come together with Ryan Cassata for incredible instrumentation including orchestral string arrangements. Watch… here
We, the Others / Nós, os Outres	Mato Ariel Torga	2022	Chile / 12 mins Um fluxo de consciência coletiva em que Greg, Joss e Mar, três pessoas não-binárias nos contam sobre sua experiência com o gênero. Quem são eles diante do mundo, quem são para si mesmos, como são seus relacionamentos?
We Will Not Destroy Each Other	Kevin Garner	2022	USA / 15 mins A young woman approaches her pastor with concerns about the intersecting identities of her sexuality and faith. It doesn’t go well, or does it, for her? A powerful examination of pride.
We'll No Longer Be Alone / Nous ne serons plus jamais seules	Manon Perreaut	2022	France / 15 mins Jess' nights are haunted by memories of her childhood. She wears a mask which is keeping her from being herself.
We're All Pretty Broken	Prince Lyons	2022	USA / 45 mins An energetic dance film that eloquently follows the activity of three complex high school students and a devoted teacher in Saturday detention. The diverse collective includes rebel Roxie, queer outcast Zane, and Jordan, the troublemaker. The film unpacks the complexities of being a high school student, the paramount commitment of being a teacher, and the impact of our educational system's sometimes harmful pressures on our youth. This film also features the music and performances of the critically acclaimed Saint Louis rapper, Mvstermind. This powerful and moving short feature is the debut film of director Prince Lyons, who also wrote, choreographed, and co-stars as Jordan. Trailer… here
We’re Here	Melahn Atkinson	2022	USA / 7 mins When societal “norms” tell you you’re not enough, when your existence is the resistance, it’s time to band together to “Fuck Shit Up”. “WE’RE HERE and WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!” Watch… here
Weavers / Tejedoras	Ana Micenmacher, Agustina Willat	2022	Uruguay / 16 mins In a rural area in northern Uruguay, Raquel and a group of women are running a weaving project. Faced with the challenge of collective work, they will use their encounter to fight against old and conservative structures and strengthen themselves as freer women. Trailer… here
Weren't it Clearer in the Haze	Kathryn Webb	2022	UK For the queer, the questioning, and the chances we never took.
What Being a Woman Means to Me	Ezra Brain	2022	USA This film seeks to capture what discovering your transgender identity feels like from the inside, including the horror, anxiety, and eventual freedom.
What Comes Up	Justine LaViolette, Alessandra Lacorazza	2022	USA / 11 mins What is intended as a nice sailing day trip with two sisters, slowly unravels along with our protagonist Ryan’s emotional state.
What gifts will you ask The Three Wise Men?	Carlos Vargas González, Gaby Hernández	2022	Mexico / 18 mins At 30, Cintia publishes a story written in childhood, a letter to the Three Wise Men, asking them for a gift - to live as her true self.
What Will Remain Once We Have Drank All the Water?	Loaiza Corpóreo	2022	Mexico / 18 mins When we are immersed in love our soul becomes hydrated, but over time, this elixir of affection can evaporate. Only then is the imminent space that gives rise to the last farewell.
What’s Best in Music / Das Beste in der Musik	Sandra Katzlmayr	2022	Germany / 7:54 mins "The Best in Music" is a portrait of George, a chanson and pop singer. The film tells how he found his very own voice: George is transgender, was in a woman's body a few years ago and sang classical opera. A very personal story - but at the same time a very universal one: about how a person, whom society sees in a very specific role, musters the courage to stand by himself and his own voice - despite all obstacles.
What’s ‘Gay’? Asked Mae	Mark S. Schoen	2022	USA / 3 mins “What’s ‘Gay’?” Asked Mae – Two children in the garden are helped by a variety of birds to understand the real meaning of the word “gay.” “It’s a way to love,” cooed the Mourning Dove. Based on the book by Brian McNaught, the three-minute animated movie provides an excellent resource for teachers and parents on how to educate youngsters, ages 5 – 10, on the loving context of “gay” before they hear, “That’s so ‘gay’.” Trailer… here
When I Sleep	Choi Jungmoon	2022	Korea / 115 mins Sunah, Jisu, and Bomi are three women whose relationships between each other look very special. Sunah is proud of her cousin Jisu, who grew up well with her relatives due to the sudden death of her parents, and Jisu is grateful to her cousin who took care of her like a real sister. And Jisu and Bomi, who are friends, are close enough to know each other’s secretive things. These three women go on a road trip together on the anniversary of Jisu’s parents’ death. However, due to a sudden accident, they fall into a conflict. As the conflict deepens, the narrow gap between them widens, and eventually, they see each other as who they really are. When I Sleep depicts how they truly reconcile and come to solidarity by sharing the stories they experienced as women. It also shows that getting to know each other properly is the prerequisite for true solidarity. Trailer… here
When the Garden Comes	Jay Gash	2022	USA / 16:42 mins The legacy of homeownership and gardening pumps through the veins of a Black family in North Oakland.
Where’s Danny?	Amy Pennington	2022	UK / 15:05 mins Ho, ho, who? In not, all bright and sunny resort town of Southend, England, suited in drag, TV reporter Barbara Standard, brings you unearthing news about the “GAY SANTA GETS SACK” from 1986. Where’s Danny? is a mockumentary drawing upon Derek Jarman’s painting “Time”, exposing and critiquing the temporal othering of queers during the AIDS epidemic in Britain.
While I was waiting	Omar Paul Yñigo	2022	Mexico / 16 mins Juanma arrives at a restaurant-bar in search of his girlfriend Lili. While he waits for her, a young man stares at him insistently from the bar table and encourages him to believe another reality would be possible, if he only dared.
Whistlings / Silbidos	Matilde Albert	2022	An army colonel is invited by the General Staff to attend the Annual Parade carried out by the Armed Forces. He wants his son to accompany him, but he opposes it.
White Wedding	Lloyd Eyre-Morgan	2022	UK / 16 mins A bride-to-be is thrust into an alternate dimension on her wedding day. Mixing up several genres, this high-energy, fast-moving short will leave you screaming and laughing.
Who Owns the Sky / Wem Gehört der Himmel	Sabian Baumann	2022	Switzerland / 82 mins The documentary film Who Owns The Sky uses an intersectional approach connecting the questions of the interrelationship between gender concepts and cis-hetero norms with colonialism, capitalism and racism. Interviews with activists from artistic and academic environments in Argentina and Switzerland are addressed through performances from an art activist project. Trailer… here
Why Not Both	Mansoor Noor	2022	Australia / 6 mins A bisexual man’s strict dating criteria backfires when he finds himself dating two people who seem a bit too similar.
Within the Frame	Gentian Minga	2022	Albania / 1:26 min Pictures show who we are – even on our desks in the office?
Without Léa / Sans Léa	Louve Dubuc-Babinet	2022	France / 20 mins Simon and Isaac, two friends who changed their names and faces, find each other back to put their friend from highschool's stuff in order, after her sudden death.
Women On Watch	Richard E. Haywood	2022	USA / 15 mins A mini documentary about the untold contributions lesbians made during the AIDS epidemic.
Womontown	Brydie O'Connor, Emily Woodring	2022	USA / 30 mins Womontown tells the story of a group of women in Kansas City who banded together to defy gender norms, transforming 12 city blocks in the Longfellow neighborhood into a revolutionary community by and for women. Drea Nedelsky and her girlfriend, Mary Ann Hopper, two lesbians who found themselves facing threats of violence, homophobia and misogyny, had a vision. They imagined a neighborhood where they could be themselves without fear, a place where women could walk hand-in-hand down the street without the judgments and criticisms normally encountered in the “straight world.” Watch… here
Wooden Mirror	Sergi Sánchez	2022	Spain / 12 mins Ambo is the prince of a kingdom in which the gender lines are clearly defined: all the men are warriors and defend the borders of the kingdom and all the women are nurses and heal the wounded men. Trailer… here
Woodland	Phil Wall	2022	UK / 7 mins Sparks fly when Alistair meets Fergus in the woods but must they keep it a secret?
Working the Woods / Faire le bois	Lola Peuch	2022	France, 45 min Depuis la scène d’un théâtre de plein air du Bois de Boulogne, Heden, Claudia et Samantha, travailleuses du sexe, racontent le Bois comme leur lieu de travail. Par-delà leurs récits, les paysages du Bois accueillent la voix-off d’une narratrice queer qui raconte des histoires. Partant de sa création sous le Second Empire, alors en pleine expansion coloniale, pour mieux revenir au présent, elle donne à comprendre le Bois comme une chasse gardée de la haute société française où des travailleuses du sexe se sont fait une place depuis plus d’un siècle.
Write to Me by Mistake / Scrivimi per Sbaglio	Giuseppe de Candia	2022	Italy / 19 mins Alessandro is an high school repeating student. He meets Chiara, his new classmate. It's love at first sight, and he decides to write a letter to declare his love for her. He delivers this letter but what fate has in store for him after this? Watch… here
Write What You Know	Aidan Alcala	2022	México En esta emotiva historia, un individuo cansado de vivir reprimido acepta su verdadera identidad como mujer transgénero, sin embargo, decide ocultarlo a su pareja y cuando esta descubre la verdad, ambos se ven obligados a enfrentarse a los prejuicios de la sociedad y reevaluar su relación. Juntos, lucharán por la aceptación y la felicidad en un mundo que a menudo no es amable con aquellos que son diferentes
Wrong Number	Yi-Chen Lin	2022	Taiwan / 14 mins One night, a strange woman (Molly) who posts a rental sign board catches Joanne's attention. After a few days, Joanne makes up her mind to dial the phone number on the rental sign board and decides to meet Molly as a tenant. That night,They meet to view Molly's room. However, Molly can't find her house key... Trailer… here
Yo Quería Ser María	Orlando Karin	2022	Mexico / 10 mins An emotional journey of acceptance, where one of the members of a couple acknowledges their definitive identity as a transgender woman. Watch... here
Yo Yo	Shuyin Zheng	2022	China / 10:14 mins A 15-year-old girl, Lin, who stays home pretending to be sick, lost her best friend because of a sketch, which also exposed her unrequited love under the summer sunlight.
You & Me את ואני	Shira Cohen Gov	2022	Israel / 24 mins Talia and Reut meet at the Alternative Civilian Service. Their friendship becomes romantic. When their mothers find out, they separate the girls. Then something unexpected happens. Is it possible that the relationship that everyone is fighting against, is God’s plan?
Young Sick Bacchus	Jax Poon	2022	USA As he struggles to capture the essence of his self-portrait, Kirk is interrupted by a dreamy boy packing up to leave the studio. Jacob takes a look at the portrait and decides to stay and help. As Jacob guides the timid and immediately enamoured Kirk, a day dream takes them into a sensual baroque world where every brush stroke, every helping hand, is mirrored in the sexual ballet happening in Kirk’s mind. Snatched out of the affair by the abrupt entrance of Jacob’s girlfriend, Kirk’s loneliness and longing bleeds into the real world as Jacob leaves with his beau. The intensity of his feelings brings the dream world into his waking life and like many first queer crushes, he’s left bereft and alone. Trailer... here
Your Shade of Blue	Emily Park	2022	South Korea / 16 mins A closeted Korean woman gets an unexpected visit from her estranged niece.
Zohar זהר\ה	Zohar Avigdori	2022	Israel / 9 mins Zohar Avigdori plays several roles in his life: he is an educator in Social high school, he is a drag queen and even a devoted father to his little daughter. His schedule is clear and orderly – he spends his mornings with his students and in the evenings with his friends for the common hobby, drag. In between he manages to run a household and take care of his child.

LGBT films

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