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The Other Database...

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

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

2016 - UPDATED: January 2023

 

#Femmemagic

Crystal Barajas Barr,
Antoinette Myers,
Lindsay Rodriguez

2016

USA / 4 mins
A lovely introverted mermaid needs #femmemagic to come to her rescue.

#LGBTsuperheroes

Mike Buonaiuto

2016

USA
Iceman, Mystique, Catwoman & many others are LGBT in the comic books but appear as straight on screen.  It's time all superheroes were accurately portrayed.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/g-EAVmV7Y-E

#TwinkDreams

Finn Peaks

2016

UK / 5 mins
A twink undresses, masturbates and shares his deep longing for a Daddy in form of a narrated BDSM role play fantasy. #twinkdreams is an intimate account of gay desire from a transgender perspective.

(Special) Friend

Emilio J. López

2016

Spain / 7:30 mins
Pedro has fallen in love with his invisible friend, his mother seems not to accept it

2 Pairs Of Shoes
2 Pairs of Shoes /
2 Paar Schuh

Stefanie Spachmann

2016

Germany / 9 mins
2 Paar Shuh' Two Hamburg women and their different ways to express their love.

A Beginners Guide To Growing Up Queer And Invisible
A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible

Debasmita Das

2016

USA / 3 mins
Made by someone...obviously oblivious to the mass amount of LGBT representation now flooding the market!   The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible is an animated comic series that attempts to delve into the experience of a young queer girl growing up in a predominantly heterosexual world in which any alternate sexual or romantic preference is neither found in the society nor represented in the media available to her.
Watch... https://youtu.be/qDyB76i9Jdw  

A Day in the Life of Pencilman

Francisco Figueroa

2016

It’s all mysterious misadventure in A Day in the Life of Pencilman.

A Film About Love
A Film About Love

Dale John Allen

2016

UK / 5 mins
A story of friendship, adventure, love and loss through a lived experience of bi-polar.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/160639934

A Fome Secreta

Katyucha de Oliveira,
Yuri Félix

2016

Brazil / 10 mins

A Moment

Gabi Ncube

2016

USA / 9 mins
Sparks fly between two women on the bus who find themselves beguiled by each other, but unable to find the courage to communicate. Will they get over their shyness and break the ice before their time on the bus inevitably expires, and becomes a missed connection? 
Watch... https://youtu.be/JOWSo6frm44  

A Rite of Passage

Marjorie Newman

2016

USA / 3 mins
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite you to a special gathering at the beach.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/167484948 

A Thousand Likes

Wilson Alvarenga

2016

Slovenia / 8 mins
Matej is obesessed with Social Media and his mobile phone. He does everything to get likes. Thus he becomes more and more isolated from his surroundings. After a rejection he takes the ultimate step... 
Watch... https://vimeo.com/174328989

A Time for Us

Rain Cuaca

2016

Indonesia / 14 mins
A couple who are not all that they seem to be.

A Vancouver
À Vancouver

Vincent Chevalier

2016

Canada / 35 mins
À Vancouver is an experimental video essay staged within the genre of a father-son road trip movie. Blending documentary and fiction and switching between English and French subtitles, the video examines and expands upon parallel events in their lives, wherein each traveled across Canada to Vancouver and had formative (homo)sexual experiences at separate moments in time: the father as an 18-year-old traveling in the mid-60s and the son (filmmaker, Vincent Chevalier) as a young teen and then adult in the mid-90s and 2000s. Ultimately, À Vancouver explores individual and cultural histories as a story of what will have been.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/180327089

Ab Ovo Luca Ferri
Ab Ovo

Luca Ferri

2016

Italy / 24 mins
In un paradiso desertico e ostile, tra montagne di sabbia e solitari cammelli in perpetuo cammino, si rinnovano la vita ed una promessa d'amore all'ombra di un albero solitario. Adamo ed Eva hanno ancora una possibilità. L'ultima occasione per guarire e generare una nuova genìa di esseri umani più dignitosi. Nove piani sequenza in super 8 colore in cui abbiamo preso Adamo ed Eva e gli abbiamo fatto rifare tutto, daccapo.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/195432772

ABC of Travel

Signe Baumane

2016

USA / 1:07 min
Several same-letter families travel to the San Francisco Airport for a reunion.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/180723709

Action Potential

Jacob Love

2016

UK / 12 mins
A hypnotic evocation of chemsex – on two screens.
Watch... https://youtu.be/MLYLxw_2azc

Aged Out

?

2016

USA / 8 mins
Too old for homeless youth shelters, two young LGBT men struggle to survive in the big city.

Alexis

Tamara Cáceres

2016

18 mins
Alexis es un niño de 7 años. Va en kinder y le gusta mucho disfrazarse, especialmente de superhéroes como Spider Man y Iron Man. Le encanta jugar con sus amigas y amigos y parece ser un niño feliz. Alexis es un niño transgénero que empezó su transición de Celeste a Alexis en el año 2015. El documental nos muestra la vida de Alexis, su familia y la transición hacia la identidad de género que él siente le corresponde.

All About Love Tejashri Joshi
All About Love

Tejashri Joshi

2016

India / 15 mins
Documentarian Tejashri Joshi probes more than just its titular subject with this provocative documentary that takes an objective cross-section of contemporary Indian culture and all of the traditional biases, social mores, and nuanced building blocks that the LGBTQ+ community faces.

America/America

Jonathan Caouette

2016

USA / 5 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/156280621

An Apprenticeship in Queer I Believe It Was

Nina Wakeford

2016

UK / 10 mins
Live performance, with digital and 16mm footage, exploring lesbian community love on Greenham Common.

Andrea Landman 2016
Andrea Landman

Manuel Yasir Baldoceda Cerdan

2016

Perú / 8 mins
Andrea Landman es el nombre de la belleza y el arrepentimiento, un personaje con muchos secretos que la destruyen por dentro y fuera.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/199725980 

Annemarie

Suzanne Vega

2016

Watch...https://youtu.be/yq1cdePr3Hc

Antes Da Encanteria
Antes da Encanteria

Jorge Polo

2016

Brazil / 21 mins
Um magote de viada truando no meio do mundo. Desde 2013, o coletivo Chá das Cinco realiza atividades culturais diversas em Icó, interior do Ceará. Engolidas pelo que fizeram, devoram caminhos rumo à Lua. 
Watch... https://vimeo.com/165251649  

Antonette
Antonette

Darren Heroux,
Ian Barbour

2016

Canada / 47 mins
This documentary captures the spirit and life story of local trans elder and poet Antonette Rea—in all of its humour, pain, and passion. Antonette culminates in the production of Miss Understood, the interdisciplinary performance showcased at PuSh Festival last year based on Rea’s poetry. At times harrowing, but ultimately hopeful...
Watch...https://vimeo.com/170964986

Any Other Day

Tejashri Joshi

2016

India / 15 mins

Appmor

Nektium Sandoval,
Jorge Sandoval

2016

Spain / 10 mins
Los estereotipos en el mundo gay , todos los gays sólo buscamos sexo? Todos queremos enamorarnos? Cuál es la mejor forma de encontrar al amor? Antes de ver el corto de Jorge Sandoval Ruíz, 'Appmor' , respondan esas preguntas. Luego vean lo que sucede en la historia y LA onda final decidan el rumbo de sus vidas.
Watch... https://youtu.be/jzyKwvMkJxE

Artur

Daniel Filipe

2016

Brazil / 15 mins
De dentro da piscina, Artur olha para Marquinhos. 

As a Rabbit /
Na králíka

Kateřina Turečková

2016

Czech Republic / 13 mins
The guinea pig has to be fed, even if it's not possible. He does not leave the room, although it is difficult to stay. Sometimes it's good for a rabbit, garlic is good for a rabbit, and anything is good for a rabbit.

Así es como te dejo 

Sebastián Mejía

2016

Colombia / 15 mins

Atmosphere:
The Show

Elisabeth Marek

2016

Austria / 17 mins
Khusen khaydarov worked as a tailor and designer in his native Tajikistan. He had to flee with his partner Komil -  an activist in the LGBT community - due to persecution and discrimination. Once in Vienna, they find themselves confronted by racism, xenophobia and anti-refugee sentiments in the media, and decide to change something negative into a thing of high fashion and creativity.

Aurora

Chiara Corvari,
Dafne Di Vaia

2016

Italy / 7 mins
Aurora does not like pink wallpaper and dancing. She likes listening to rock music, running around on the skateboard and play soccer. His grandmother, a rebellious biker, is her myth and Lucky Lizard her best friend. She decides to escape from home, but Lucky will find her.

Aussi fort qu'une bête, aussi libre qu'un dieu

Julie Sando

2016

Switzerland / 21 mins
Su belleza es inamculada y corre peligro en manos de bestias para quien la diferencia es intolerable. Clío, Sísifo y Janus en una lucha mitológica.

Bare Naked

Rob Easton

2016

Canada / 5 mins
In Episode 1 of Daily Xtra’s new series Bare Naked, four guys talk about what it was like to take off their clothes for the first time on camera. They were part of Egale’s new m.bodiment campaign that aims to open up a conversation about gay, bi, trans and queer men's body image.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/159232136

Be Brave

Josh Chang

2016

Taiwan / 4 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/181332212 

Be Yourself 2016
Be Yourself

Thitipan Raksasat

2016

Thailand / 9 mins
Promotional film on Bangkok Gay Club.
Watch... https://youtu.be/YTyLPfTL4us

Beauty and the Beast

Bev Zalcock,
Sara Chambers

2016

UK / 7 mins
These two veterans of DIY film making are back again this year with a queer version of Beauty and the Beast. Using early silent cinema techniques, Barrelstout re-work this traditional story with their usual humour and DIY approach. But has the princess really learnt that beauty lies within?

Because I Am

Lawrence Zidyana

2016

Zimbabwe, UK / 6 mins
A short film about being a lesbian in homophobic Zimbabwe. Based on a poem by Tinashe Wakapila. Featuring a cast of six women, five of whom are LGBT asylum claimants in U.K.
Watch… https://youtu.be/N62SQ8mvIfU

Being

PARK Si-woo

2016

South Korea / 17 mins

Belleza

David Moreno

2016

Cuba / 11 mins
Dos muchachas se reencuentran cada año en la ciudad de Gibara para vivir un eterno romance. Se aventuran a recorrer las mismas calles y lugares, compartiendo sentimientos e intimidades, con el afán de hallar la dicha de que nada ha cambiado entre ellas. Simulan o no. que el tiempo se detiene y se entregan sin medida, haciendo espacio a la libertad y el amor.

Bending the Line

Ruth Goldman

2016

USA / 7:19 mins
What does gender sound like? This old school video combines a simple, playful visual aesthetic with complex sound to challenge and queer assumptions about gender: bending the frame and pushing the sound wave.

Beneath His Lies

Marcus Harper

2016

USA / 6 mins
A guy and his roommate are having an affair, but one has a girlfriend who doesn’t know.
Watch... https://youtu.be/BLoEPabAO_M

Besos de Mazapan

Ramses Rodstein

2016

5:10 mins
Two chicanx, non-binary trans queers come together for a tender, sexy encounter ignited by marzipan kisses. Featuring original song, Con Besos by El Primo Inocente. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/320833228

Bi-Sided

Rob Van Der Haak

2016

The Netherlands / 16 mins
Two opposites cross paths and in their own way, try to achieve pure happiness.
Watch... https://youtu.be/WYZ-UIK1tLU

Black Hole

Erich Dzbl

2016

Mexico / 19 mins

Blindfolds Rilan
Blindfolds Feat. Naz Tokio

Rilan

2016

USA / 3 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/4bLl5fTSctk

BLMTO:
Black Pride

Michael Toledano

2016

Canada / 4 mins
Black Lives Matter – Toronto activists stage a sit in at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade to demand an end to anti-Blackness in addition to a list of specific changes at the Pride Toronto organization.
Watch... https://youtu.be/w9UhcQ3tcyI

Born Again

Tzipi Baider

2016

Israel / 65 mins
Last March, while Amir Guttman Fryszer is in the midst of rehearsals for the High Five Band reunion, he feels unwell. After a month of medical examinations, he receives the worst news of all: he has lymphatic cancer and his chances of recovery are slim. A week before Amir is scheduled for bone-marrow transplant he receives a response from a pathology expert in the US saying they did not recognize cancer. His life is turned over again and Amir embarks on a new journey to discover the truth - does he indeed have cancer?

Braw Butches

Lisa Plourde

2016

UK
Where are all the butches? What portrayals of lesbianism are acceptable and who is erased? Tender, funny, and thought-provoking, Gender Troubles: The Butches explores these questions through a series of interviews and testimonials with butch-identifying women, looking at the strange dichotomy of being both hypervisible in everyday life and invisible when it comes to media representation. Director Lisa Plourde’s documentary shows us there’s a lot more to butch identity than plaid shirts and tool belts.

Break the Chains

Carly Davis

2016

USA / 6 mins
The project features a local event called Break the Chains, which provides a safe space for Boston’s Queer Community to meet each month for an all-ages, all-gender dance party.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/164744780 

Broken Arms /
Loz Brazos Rotos

Marco Berger

2016

Argentina / 16 mins
A social worker provides a bath to a young patient with the broken arms.  A dramatic erotic tension is established, but it is not clear whether it is floating between the two characters, or it simply exists in the mind of the spectators…

Brother, Omar Mateen

Saad Khan

2016

USA / 4:40 mins
A Muslim queer Pakistani immigrant in the US talks about Omar Mateen, drawing parallels of his own identities with that of the Orlando shooter. The speaker reveles his hopes, his fears, and who he is/what he stands for.

Bus Stop Beauty

Eric Brunt

2016

Canada / 3 mins
A young man falls head over heels, but when the girl of his dreams turns out not to be what she seems, he learns to let go of preconceived notions surrounding love.   Watch... https://vimeo.com/131027736

Buying Dick

D'Lo

2016

USA / 7 mins
A couple discusses whether buying a new dick is more than just buying a new dick. 

By the Bi

Nate Caywood,
Mike Garcia

2016

USA
This is a web series about my experience being bisexual.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/djOKSLD2gpw

C.R.E.A.M.P.I.E.

Ines Kramarić,
Julia Jarque

2016

Germany / 9 mins

Caged Animal

Sam Van Pykeren

2016

USA / 4 mins
A piece that brings together multiple experiences into one story. Inspired by my friend’s and my own experiences.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/196787895

Cakes Da Killa New Phone Who Dis
Cakes Da Killa:
New Phone Who Dis?

Ben Clarkson

2016

USA / 4 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/U3ElynnrCxk

Call and Response

Anand Jay Kalra

2016

USA / 4 mins
The film presents voices from interviews 5 transgender men alongside a voicemail from a grandmother discovered after she passed away. Positioning the interviews as a reply to the bewilderment of the voicemail, Call and Response challenges trans men to carry old-school integrity through a brave new world.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/180851843 

Cambrian Explosion

Fuyuhiko Takata

2016

Japan / 2 mins
A video work based on a mermaid’s story.
The artwork is in the fashion of a music video featuring a romantic song in which a mermaid dreams of becoming a human and walking with two legs on the land. In the video, the mermaid (played by Takata) sings the song whilst she cuts her fish tail in half in order to create legs.
Red blood pours out from the tail. The blood consists of red beads, and their sparkly splatter fills the screen.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/556118864

Can We Date?

Nathan Chambers,
Elizabeth McGinley

2016

Canada / 11 mins
A documentary on how college/university students in Toronto currently think about and respond to same sexual exploration and relationships. 
Watch... https://youtu.be/nw0bNkL6w9c 

Care

April Wilson

2016

USA / 8 mins
At an assisted living facility the last thing Bea and Rose expect, is to  find love, but in doing so redefine expectations of life and commitment.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/172344682

Carla and Hayfa 
(Love Intersections)

David Ng,
Jen Sung

2016

Canada / 9 mins
Through an intimate and touching lens of looking at the relationship between a mother and her queer daughter, “Carla & Hayfa” investigates the impact of historical trauma on communities of refugees and their queer family members.
Watch...https://youtu.be/LkOBjQl9bnU

Carol 2016
Carol

Krissy Mahan

2016

USA / 6 mins
This Carol parody is a simple yet spectacular class analysis of the desire in Todd Haynes' already iconic Carol, using DIY techniques and Fisher Price toys to recreate the modern queer classic.

Charlie

Lynnly Benson

2016

UK / 1 min
This is a profile of Charlie Craggs, the founder of Nail Transphobia, a wonderful form of ‘fabulous activism’ that has Charlie travelling to events with her nail bar to spread sparkle and tackle transphobic attitudes.

Chasing Love

Chris Valente

2016

USA
A young man lands on the reefs of yearning and courage.

Check Out

Sarah Santamaria-Mertens

2016

France / 5 mins
Lucy and Josephine have been together for a long time. To keep their love intact, they have their own special strategy.

Chimera

Laura Mitchell,
Coral Short

2016

Canada / 5 mins
These slow moving fantastical creatures give us a glimpse into another world, a new angle of perception and fresh possibilities. Are they apparitions? Hallucinations? Monsters?
Watch... https://vimeo.com/155257050 

Clarisse Tout Simplement

Charlotte Font,
Alexis Bregeon,
Ludivine Petit

2016

France

Claudia

Marta Mancusi,
Anna Trento

2016

Italy / 7 mins
Retrato de Claudia Rodríguez, activista trans chilena, en Santiago en 2015.

Closet Witch:
Funeral Regrets

Autojektor

2016

UK / 2:55 mins
Super8 manipulator Autojektor creates an assaulting suburbicon of rage, despair, and reclamation from the  burned-out faces of queer childhood erasure and family trauma, set to the backdrop of Iowa grindcore outfit Closet Witch’s furious wall of hardcore punk.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/176395729

Coheed and Cambria - Island

Anderson Wright

2016

USA / 5 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/_ED4GBcPI9s

Colourmakers

Carlos Azcuaga

2016

Mexico / 9 mins
In a gray world where communities shut themselves in from diversity by building stone walls, a tireless girl fights for color, reaching out to stray outsiders to ultimately bring down the walls by way of empathy and compassion.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/158092568

Come Over

Jamal Jordan

2016

USA / 20 mins
Two guys meet for a quickie that stays with them forever?

Coming Out

Vijay Patel

2016

UK / 2 mins
Vijay Patel’s short-short is made of a series of thematic contrasts – the event of coming out to one’s parents, the almost mundane conversation that followed. This mix of the vulnerability and the strange inane tension we have towards the families we grow up with becomes a soundtrack to an explicit, matter-of-fact, personal sex scene.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/175960887  

Coming Up for Air

Jonathan Caouette

2016

3 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/S64TDcLqzjM  

Comment on peut supposer que Dieu était bien intentionné, malgré les avalanches, les moustaches et les petits tracas du quotidiens

Dauverné Marie

2016

Canada / 6 mins
Watch...https://vimeo.com/127991687

Confessions Of A Breastimator
Confessions of a Breastimator

Jisu Kim

2016

USA / 4 mins
Confessions of a Breastimator, is a story of a breast aficionado who reflects back on her life as an animator, confessing her long-time passion for cartoons and animating double D’s.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/channels/muse/197843140 

Conmigo

Fernandez Arredondo

2016

USA / 4 mins
Breaking the trance of gender roles and revealing yourself is sacred in Conmigo.

Counter Charge

Alex Hovet

2016

USA / 13 mins
In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate on Patti in a complex of libido, love, and gender expression that leads Larry/Patti on an investigation of duality. bell hooks' meditations on love attempt to guide them, but are rejected and re-purposed by the game's instinct. Blocked by his own ego and the constructs of the game in which he wanders, Larry's desires are continually repressed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/145794196

Cuando sea grande

Brunella Bertocchi Ramírez

2016

Perú / 4 mins
Ariel, un niño soñador, visualiza cómo desea su vida en un futuro. Lista desde sus deseos fantasiosos hasta la mención de un plan de vida con otra persona. Hacia el final, nos revela que la persona con la que busca compartir esto es otro niño: Diego.

David está morto

Ed Pereira,
Guilherme Macedo

2016

Brazil / 4 mins  
David está dentro de mim, está por toda parte. Mas David está morto.

Dessous de Table

Daphnée Perrain

2016

Belgium / 6 mins
Toute chamboulée, une table qui n’a pas perdu sa langue
devient le témoin de la vie animée de la Maison Arc En Ciel.

Diario Blu(E)

Titta Cosetta Raccagni

2016

Italy / 28 mins
Sono gli Anni ’90: la Guerra del Golfo, l’imporsi sulla scena politica italiana della Lega Nord, la scomparsa del Pci, le (dis)avventure dell’Inter. Intanto per radio passa “Smells Like Teen Spirit” dei Nirvana. Ma se si è adolescenti tutto è tangenziale rispetto al reale cuore delle cose, capire chi si è e diventarlo. Una trasformazione che coincide con i primi innamoramenti, difficili e disperati soprattutto per chi sente la propria diversità. Diario sentimentale di un coming out e di una faticosa scoperta di sé.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/169244207

Divisible Lines

Zachariah Barghouti,
Alina Bee

2016

USA / 8 mins
Three queerdos pay homage to their stories across Divisible Lines in the shadow of family & freedom, land & war, loss & resiliency. 

Doors /
Darwaaze

Aaditya Joshi

2016

India
Based on a story in Marathi written by Joshi, it is about a Maharashtrian couple who befriends two men living next door and discovers that they are homosexual.

Dopamina

Junior Cândido

2016

Brazil
Com o coração em chamas, eu procuro por você essa noite.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/185428585 

Drag King Problems

Sally Paskins

2016

UK / 3 mins
Hilariously funny sketch about the problems Drag Kings Suffer.
Watch... https://youtu.be/EaSprjURCsU  

dragThequeen

Emilio González

2016

México / 11 mins
Every weekend the center of Mexico City becomes an unparalleled circuit party, the party can start anywhere but always ends here. Sexual diversity here, is the reason for celebration and worship. The “Drag Queens” lead the celebration from the bar, superior and colossal, almost divine. Three characters (Ikki Love, Drag Moon and Luna Lansman) explain the de nition of “Drag Queen” while using their own face as canvas, canvas of their character: the woman which they’ll become all night.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/aEW9t-0lnT8

Drugs for Unicorns

Jaq Nguyen Victor

2016

USA
One very sick unicorn is desperate for help. Has this magical creature caught the flu, a transphobic virus, or just an advanced case of neoliberal capitalism? Follow their journey to health… for it involves glitter and glee.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/179263263

Échos

Coline Rivet

2016

France / 15 mins
Paroles en échos, qui s’écoutent et se répondent. Échos aussi comme un cri étouffé, une parole lointaine que l’on cherche à faire entendre au-delà du fossé créé par une société genrée. Par ce même écho, la parole pourra aller au-delà, jusqu’à atteindre celles et ceux qui ne veulent pour le moment même pas essayer de l’entendre.

Eclipse

Viet Le

2016

Filmed in Hanoi on the fortieth anniversary of the military engagements in Southeast Asia (2015), thinking about still-present pasts, the ghosts of history and modernity.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/159464930

Ecos

Ariel Luque,
Damián Lomba

2016

Argentina / 30 mins
Este es un llamado a que los pocos o muchos que tengan cercanías a las historias de estos personajes puedan liberarse y unir voces al grito de igualdad social. Ecos, también es todas esas voces que ya rompieron lazos y atravesaron todo tipo de obstáculo para ser lo que hoy son. Los conflictos que afrontan estos personajes, cada uno de manera diferente, están cuidadosamente desarrollados para evitar efectismos o sensacionalismos que se ven a menudo en varios cortos con propuestas similares y que por esto no cumplen su objetivo. 
Watch... https://youtu.be/RlRgwKcwILs  

Edney Joao Roberto Cintra
Edney

João Roberto Cintra

2016

Brazil / 15:32 mins
Edney vive sozinho, num apartamento pequeno e trabalha lavando pratos. À noite, ele é só Ney: se veste como Ney Matogrosso e se entrega à nostalgia de músicas que contam sua história. Até um rapaz entrar em seu mundo e revirar sua cabeça. Suas duas vidas se misturam: lembranças e o presente, dia e noite, tentando viver e entender esse amor. 
Trailer... https://youtu.be/wdOALlh1wfA

Eggism

Coco Schwarz,
Alina Mann

2016

Switzerland / 5 mins
Body becomes a canvas for sensual nevertheless abstract drawing with ink and egg inspired by the “story of the eye” from Georges Bataille. Analog synthesizer music composed by Coco Schwarz leads the overall sensory experience.

Eila

Cecilie Krebs Nørgaard

2016

Denmark / 13 mins
This portrait of Eila, an 85 year old transgender lesbian, shows that it's never too late to become and be ourselves.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/155666497

El Leche Felipe Arredondo
El Leche

Felipe Arredondo

2016

Chile / 26 mins
En la nortina ciudad chilena de Antofagasta, El LECHE (11), un pequeño ladronzuelo de los sectores altos y vulnerables de la ciudad, debe lograr restituirle un pequeño televisor a su postrada hermana LUCÍA (6), quien padece de piel de cristal, para que esta pueda ver la final de su programa favorito de música y baile antes del anochecer, por lo que se escabulle del acecho de su curtida madre TAMARA (38) , quien a toda costa impide que el niño se acerque a su padre, el TRIPA (45), su maestro en el mundo delictual, y quien posee la televisión.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/158577688  

El Rio Interior
El Río Interior

Lorena Ciro

2016

Colombia / 13 mins
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/173523305   

Eli (Parts 1 and 2)

Sarah Jenny Johnson

2016

UK
Part 1: Elijah is 32. He is a female to male transgender person. He has been transitioning for one year. This is the start of his story…Part 2: Elijah is 34. He is a female to male transgender person. He has been transitioning for three years. This short film is the 2nd instalment in a series of short films about his transition…
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/176027953

Embrace Yakap
Embrace /
Yakap

Margo Manolo

2016

Philippines / 13 mins
Alee learns that the truth is loudest in the silence when an unexpected encounter alters her plan of coming out to her conservative mother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/6zsYSQhrQoE

Empoderadxs

Femimantis

2016

 Argentina 

Escape

Vincent Keith

2016

UK / 5 mins
Vincent Keith and Gerard Floyd collaborated on a video essay exploring isolation and loneliness, shot in the spectacular landscape of Dungeness Beach. Located on the south coast of the England. The shale beach sits in the shadow of a nuclear power station and is strewn with rusting winches, decaying boats and fishermen's sheds.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/164409140  

Eudy Simelane:
A Life Cut Short /
Eudy Simelane:
Una Vida Truncada

Fanney Tsimong

2016

South Korea / 18 mins
A pesar de ser una estrella nacional de fútbol en su país, South Africa, Eudy Simelane siempre vivió expuesta al peligro por su activismo por los derechos LGBT. Su terrible asesinato, crimen de odio, llevó a algunas comunidades religiosas a movilizar a sus miembros contra ese odio homofóbico. Sus padres, creyentes, con ayuda de su pastor, son actualmente defensores de la igualdad y la inclusión social de las personas LGBT en su país. Mientras, continúa hasta hoy la violencia ejercida contra las lesbianas y gays negros. Watch... https://youtu.be/j2VL7EyGjZc  

Everything is Allowed /
Vale tudo 

Eduardo Wahraftig

2016

Brazil / 4 mins
Una colección de historias de amor cortas, todo tipo de amor.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175234448

Exchange /
Austausch

Lukas Schöffel

2016

Austria / 25 mins
Finn, a Norwegian exchange student, ends up with a Tyrolean family. Soon his unconventional looks and his friendship with his host brother Christian threaten the value system of the host family.

Eye Touch Myself

Lynnly Benson

2016

UK / 1 min
The Vagina: desired, lusted for and often eluded to – and yet, when it is shown, considered indecent. Lynnly Benson explores the conflicting and contradictory messages associated with the imagery of female anatomy through this moving image art piece.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/157057280  

Faded Arthur Tan
Faded

Arthur Tan

2016

Malaysia / 5 mins
Will you leave me for the sake of your mother’s pain.
Watch... https://youtu.be/VCDCGzG1CMY  

Faka
Faka

Desire Marea,
Fela Gucci 

2016

South Africa
Documentary on the Johannesburg-based performance art duo FAKA. FAKA explores alternative expressions of their black queer identity, both through social media and live performances. First and third worlds collide as FAKA challenges the norms of gender identity and sexuality in a country with a progressive constitution but a conservative society.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/P7DrHlHNcqU

Falling For You Lion Hart
Falling for You

Lion Hart

2016

USA / 4 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/177073464  

Familiar Strangers

Eric Peter

2016

Philippines / 13 mins
Thinking about the divinity which trans women and -men in many different cultures worldwide once had, Ram says everyone needs to reclaim that very divinity right here and now to empower themselves and progress.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/154869879

Family Builders at 40

QWOCMAP productions

2016

USA / 10 mins
Family Builders is a heart-warming documentary that celebrates the important magic of loving families for children and youth in foster care.

Family Dinner

Zachary Lambe

2016

USA / 5 mins
This dramatic experimental narrative is about a family sitting down for dinner. It depicts the importance of not only eating dinner together, but also talking and listening.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/173535548 

Fanstasme Thomas Bussion
Fanstasme

Thomas Bussion

2016

France / 4 mins
A shopping spree with big rewards

Fantasy Freakouts

Natalie Arias,
Kaira Espinoza

2016

USA / 4 mins
In a flash, a bisexual Chicana navigates Fantasy Freakouts with friends, family, and potential lovers. 

Faux Solo

Nancy Lee

2016

Canada / 4 mins
Empty space, a human body, and 8 articles of clothing. FAUX SOLO explores the dialogue and collaboration made between the body, sound, clothing and space. Each article of clothing dictates the next move into the unknown space, becoming acquainted with the space with each accumulated piece. The sounds emphasize the impact of the colliding costumes and contrasts to the space surrounding it. It attempts to accent the feel of each moment, while supporting the shape of the entire piece as a whole. Simultaneously, the body is on view yet it is also the tool for manipulating the clothing and environment - the subjective/objective, personal/public is continually emphasized and revealed.
Watch...https://youtu.be/Hby418Qv18g

Feeling a Little Blue

David Cuní,
Raül Rodríguez

2016

Spain / 4 mins
En nuestra relación con los demás se encuentra el germen de la transformación de nosotros mismos. Los sentimientos que van aflorando con cada nuevo contacto definen un nuevo yo. Una exploración romántica de las relaciones a través de la video danza y dos jóvenes bailarines. 
Watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD68F7sqWH4 

Fifteen Again

Jordy Estrada

2016

USA / 5 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://vimeo.com/154839004  

Fight for Rainbow

Tanuj J. Narula

2016

Australia / 18 mins
The captivating story of Alan, a 56-year old who grew up in India when the socio-political climate was unstable. Despite the family and cultural pressures he faced, he came out, met his partner and chaired the Metropolitan Community Church, Sydney.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/195702182

Final Act

Juan Pablo Henao Sossa

2016

16 mins
Abril visits his father and what he learns moves him to write a play: Final Act, which, among other things, explores the border between life and art. One of our Festival's least 'linear' stories, this film has some images that will haunt you.

Flotsam
Flotsam

Sam Frederich

2016

USA / 12 mins
A little girl ekes out an existence on a wrecked aircraft carrier as she drifts alone through a flooded earth. That is, until she is visited by a mysterious, ethereal girl who walks on water.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/157536931 

Fluid

Whei Zhou

2016

14 mins
An experimental film in which a bisexual woman from China explores her identity.

For Us /
Voor Ons

Vangelis Sopamena

2016

Nederland / 6 mins
Artistic music video regarding vulnerability within intimate relationships
Watch… https://youtu.be/qI44g3fvbfM

Fragments of a Roundtable: Pink Life discusses archiving (yuvarlak masa fragmanları: pembe hayat arşiv tartışıyor) 

Esra Ozban

2016

Turkey / 5 mins
How do we archive when our lives must remain hidden? How do we archive when our past is a secret? This short DIY doc from the trans movement in Turkey is packed with powerful questions.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/221641206

Free Gender

Emma Appel

2016

USA / 19 mins
In a world where gender is seen as one of two options, Tish, Jacob and Vuk push boundaries and expectations. Intimate interviews explore and illuminate the diverse gender spectrum.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/167015097  

From This Day Forward...

GayMedWed

2016

Italy / 5 mins

Fuck The Fascism Basura Maria
Fuck the Fascism

Maria Basura,
Jorge Benavides

2016

Germany, Chile / 8 mins
Radical porn violently condemning colonialism, genocide, slavery and tyranny.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/235902642

Funny Boys

Marina Bertino

2016

Italy / 25 mins
Twenty years after the publication of Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy (1994), the director meets two old friends in Colombo. Together they plan to discover Sri Lanka. The three follow the poetic influence of Selvadurai and visit the places and the atmosphere of the novel. Funny Boy is the story of a young Sri Lankan and his first heartbreaks of a non-conventional love in a closed society, tormented by the Tamil–Sinhalese conflict.

Gay Turtle

?

2016

Turkey / 3 mins
All those appearing in this video were actors voicing homophobic opinions and views that are commonly heard in Turkey.
Watch... https://youtu.be/3UhtcLcwm_I  

Gayish

Kenan Hunter

2016

6 mins
On a quest to discover her sexuality, a young girl creates a scheme that will allow her to experiment, and hopefully, reveal her sexuality. The film follows her journey from her apartment to a community pool, where there, she takes a leap of faith that nearly takes her life.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/197293308

Genderwonderland

Michelle Biolley

2016

Switzerland / 62 mins
No Budget Gender Diversity Dokumentation.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/163948732  

Generation Divide II

Marc Adelman

 2016

USA / 1 min
More politics and canned laughter.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/184416528  

Get Away Weg Hier
Get Away /
Weg Hier

Anja Gurres

2016

Germany / 19 mins
The two teenagers Melek and Fabio couldn't be any more different. But they have one thing in common that brings them together: Both want to get away from home. Fabio because he is gay and Melek because here Turkish parents limit her dreams. Together they learn to face their problems. A film about understanding, beeing gay and migration.
Watch… https://youtu.be/9Hrbqg54ATM

Get Ready!

Muriel Alves

2016 

Brasil / 15 mins
The story of the first class of a pre-university course aimed at transvestites and transsexuals, told through high heels, hairpieces, pens, notebooks, prejudices and dreams.

Getting Things Straight

Wesley Sijbers

2016

The Netherlands / 14 mins
Julian is in a perfectly happy relationship with Remy, convinced that he is gay but then when he goes to a party and meets a girl things start to change for him. A film about discovering sexuality and finding your own way in life.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/203888541 

Glacier

Jonathan Caouette

2016

USA / 8 mins
Taken from the album Pale Green Ghosts available now via Bella Union…John Grant - Glacier
Watch... https://youtu.be/K3BzvWPYo94

Greysexual

Fiona Nicholson

2016

UK / 10:30 mins
Shannon is a pansexual asexual, and feels like a needle in a haystack. In this film we see her meet other asexual people to understand how people live life on the ace spectrum – and to find a sense of belonging and acceptance within herself.
Watch... https://youtu.be/S2dZlh6zSOI

Guitar Idol

Kolmel W Love

2016

USA / 4 mins
This truly queer experimental short invites you to play Guitar Hero, in a vintage and sexier way.

Hanna & the Keta-Boys

Theo Meow

2016

USA
A teenage gang on a secret mission: they have to prevent their very own leader from destroying the whole of humankind with poisoned asparagus. Be prepared for sex, drugs and DIY jetpacks!
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/181998398 

He’s My God, Too

Ze’vik Gordetsky,
Assi Azar

2016

Israel / 60 mins 
Assi Azar, who married his partner this last summer in Barcelona, is out to examine the possibility of bridging the gaps and tension between same-sex relationships and Judaism. Could Jewish symbols be a part of the wedding? What occurred when Assi confronted Benzi Gopshtein, the leader of the right-wing extremist group LAHAVA?
Trailer... https://youtu.be/K3_JnElVAFw  

Heaven

Luiz Roque

2016

Brazil / 10 mins
The film depicts a world gripped by a new viral epidemic, and reflects on the stigmatising rhetoric of anti-AIDS campaigns in the 1980s.

Hers is Still a Dank Cave:
Crawling Toward a Queer Horizon

Allyson Mitchell,
Deirdre Logue

2016

Canada / 25 mins
In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz writes, ‘We must dream and enact new ways of being in the world.’ Hers Is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Toward a Queer Horizon responds to this injunction by bringing an everyday feminist utopia into being. This new world is not a remote planet twinkling in the distance. It is not only then and there—it is here and now, where we already live.  The future in Dank Cave is a mash-up of stereotype and utopia, it is not sanitized or sublimated. We won’t live in the future without our macramé, our shag, our little animals. The female body will not be cleaned up in this queer future—it will arrive trailing its effluvia: bodily fluids, odours, patches of fur, cellulite, granny panties, that sucking sound. The lesbian feminist body, the fat body, the depressed body—it comes wrapped in context, swaddled in knitwear, and it requires a lot of rest. By remaining horizontal and low to the ground, this body serves as a queer horizon, the warm light of potentiality breaking just beyond it. 
Watch... https://vimeo.com/124180695 

Hijos Del Peligro
Hijos del peligro

Roberto Doveris

2016

4 mins
Roberto Doveris es reconocido por haber dirigido “Las plantas” -estrenada en la sección Generation +14 del Festival de Cine de Berlín, donde recibió el premio a Mejor Película-, y realiza este videoclip para el cantautor chileno (Me llamo) Sebastián.

Him

Ferran Navarro-Beltran

2016

Spain / 3 mins
Max, a deaf 12-year-old, becomes infatuated with his big sister’s boyfriend during a weekend retreat.

Historical Erasure as Violence

Hope Dector,
Dean Spade

2016

USA / 4:27 mins
A faux queen talks about how to take up space in the drag scene as a femme.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/144135575

Hoje A Mangueira Entra

Ângelo Lima

2016

8 mins
Todos os anos Olinda é invadida por Mulheres que fazem do Carnaval um ato de amor e liberdade. Amigas fundam um Bloco para poderem brincar e se divertir.

Holy Covenant

Nikos Bibizas

2016

Greece / 8 mins

Homoamak Ainhoa Artetxe
Homoamak

Ainhoa Artetxe

2016

Spain / 7 mins
In a world of deep-rooted homosexual traditions, twenty-year-old Xabi returns home after his studies period in Brazil. At dinner, Xabi will confess to his two mothers that he is in love… with a girl.

Honest Conversations Fathers and Their Gay Children

Dream Machine Creative

2016

Gay sons having honest conversations with their fathers. The father-son duos discuss a myriad of topics including what they thought when their sons came out and the fears they had for their sons being accepted in greater society.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/133076778

Honey, Wine and Kettle

Jaedyn Starr

2016

Canada / 3 mins
A humorous, abstract take on physical intimacy. 

Honor

Mateusz Zeglinski

2016

Poland / 13 mins
Inspiracja do stworzenia tego filmu bylo opowiadanie Marka Hlaski „Miesiac Matki Boskiej. Glównym bohaterem filmu jest nacjonalista, który nie zgadza sie na odmiennosci, jakie wedlug niego zaprzeczaja jego idealom. Film zostal zrealizowany na Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie na Wydziale Malarstwa i Nowych Mediów w Pracowni Filmu Eksperymentalnego pod opieka dr hab. Huberta Czerepoka i mgr Roberta Mleczki.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/j6U7qfKQ0s0  

Household

Guo Tao

2016

China / 28 mins
A gay couple Han Xu and Zhang Pin, find an abandoned child and decide to raise him. As the child grows up, they face difficulties due to the household registration system. A prostitute Xiao Lin is willing to help by marrying one of them. But the son finds out they are not his birth parents…

How Was Your Day?

Tag Iungman

2016

Germany / 4 mins
How was your day," which depicts a non-binary person's day.

Human Voice /
Umana Voce

Alessandro Sena

2016

Italy / 9 mins
Tratto dal testo di Jean Cocteau “La voce umana”, nell'adattamento di Alessandro Sena la protagonista non è una donna biologica come nell'originale, ma una persona transessuale, probabilmente una prostituta, in attesa dell’uomo che ama. L’unico.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/198371369

I Am a Weapon

Sage Yockelson

2016

Part narrative, part documentary, part experimental collage, I Am A Weapon is both a documentation of the feelings of isolation that plague young transgender and non-binary people and an urgent reminder that we are the ones who keep each other alive.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/152485851

I Am Going to Make a Lesbian Porn

Da Jing

2016

China / 28 mins
A docudramatic film explores the female same-sex eroticism through a series of interviews and staged dramatic scenarios.

I Am Not A Label Sunkee Angel
I Am Not a Label

Sunkee Angel

2016

5 mins
Transgender artist Sunkee Angel comes out in this video telling a true story of struggles with being HIV positive and struggles of dealing with a religious family who condemned her coming out as a trans woman and pressured her not to disclose her true identity  
Watch... https://vimeo.com/187763988  

I Can’t Breathe 

Zehong Zhu 

2016

Nepal / 2.50 mins
A short fiction documentary animation about a tradition from Western part of Nepal. 
Watch… https://vimeo.com/groups/414513/videos/310217768

I Don’t Believe in That

Byron Karabatsos

2016

9 mins
A comedy about compromise

I Grow More Fearless Each Time I Make It Home Unscathed

Jespa Jacob Smith

2016

Canada / 3 mins
The difficulties to navigate the world when the labels society gives you are annoying, restraining, painful and threatening.

I Have a Penis

Flora Bradwell

2016

UK / 3 mins
This anarchic video sees artist alter-ego diva disco band Bella & The Lordwarfs explore the domination of the male voice in everyday life. Crude humour, charming animation and shameless music video rip offs combine to prove that feminism is in no way a PC affair.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/218206782

I Lesb You 

Patricia Albornoz Ramírez

2016

Chile / 17 mins

I Promise

Paige McCay

2016

USA / 4:30 mins
Two friends discuss life, love and the pursuit of a brighter tomorrow.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/194060934

I Still Bleed Inside
I Still Bleed Inside /
Ainda Sangro Pordentro

Carlos Segundo

2016

Brazil / 24 mins
Dora is a cashier at the supermarket apparently leading a normal life. But there are some pains that ache in her body - scars from suffered sexual violence - and no eyes can see them.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/2_t01S60MNo  

I’m New Here

Tokini Fubara

2016

Canada / 9 mins
I’m New Here is a seriated animated documentary featuring queer African newcomers to Winnipeg, Canada. Their profiles and experiences of being black, queer and African in Canada is captured in gorgeous style in this oral project.

Id#3:
Burlesque Dancer

Emília Ondriašová,
Adriana Pirošková

2016

Slovakia / 3 mins
Even after establishing the first Slovak school of Burlesque, and having given confidence to dozens of students, she still finds it hard to come to terms with what truly defines her.
Watch... https://youtu.be/Jfkaexj1YRY  

Id#4: DJ

Emília Ondriašová

2016

Slovakia / 8 mins
ID#4 is one of the most popular Eastern-European DJs. A talented man, but also a very gifted woman - Matia/'B-Complexka' just wants to make music. And, from time to time, she really does not mind posing in a wedding dress with a vagina sign on. 
Watch... https://youtu.be/ZChUY7AwZps   

ID#5:
Winemaker, musician, farmer

Emília Ondriašová

2016

Slovakia / 8 mins
An intimate confession of a farmer woman who really doesn’t like sharing her story.

If I say I am, then I really am

Truus Kaspers,
Sander Houwen

2016

The Netherlands
Directed by a mother and son team this documentary is a nostalgic and insightful journey of six pairs of queer sons and their mothers. They sit across the kitchen table and talk candidly about their coming-out.

If this is confusing

Anakin Tora

2016

Sweden / 2 mins
A homage to shape shifting. An ode to not knowing. A love song for me and me and me, and you too!

Ile, O Curta

Vanessa Coscia

2016

Spain / 13 mins

Illegal:
The Impact on the Body

Jorge Lozano

2016

Canada / 37 mins
This mid-length film from prolific Toronto filmmaker Jorge Lozano offers a compilation of histories of undocumented migrants in Canada: nomadic friends who quickly disappeared into new identities or were forcibly deported. There are approximately 200,000 undocumented migrants in Canada. This video is just a spark of their constant re-invention of freedom, endurance, and resistance.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/240383621

Illusion

Zheng Yuanzhi

2016

Hong Kong / 3 mins
A girl is attracted by a senior student in her freshman year in college, and starts to make a move on her. However, the seemingly peaceful relationship is changing unexpectedly.

Immoral Behavior

Steven Vasquez

2016

USA / 42 mins
Peter is a young behavioral scientist in search of a missing teenager. The clue to his whereabouts may be hidden in hours of classified video tapes. These tapes contain young men forced to strip naked and perform sexual acts and were once the property of a deviant psychiatrist who used them as blackmail. Peter has a dark side of his own and soon finds himself using the Doctors methods to obtain what he most desires: his straight roommate Todd.

Impuesto De Salida
Impuesto de Salida

Jorge Medranda Jordan

2016

Ecuador / 10 mins
Ambientado en el año 1986 y con la fila del impuesto de salida del aeropuerto de Quito como telón de fondo, Jorge conoce a un colombiano con el que comenzará una relación marcada por el contexto social y familiar marcadamente heterosexual.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/163950517

In a Cage /
Im Käfig

Loic Bruyerer

2016

France / 6 mins
Der Bär im Käfig kann nicht singen, der Vogel in der Freiheit kann nicht fliegen. Es entwickelt sich eine Freundschaft, die für beide beflügelnd ist.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lacage

In the Dark /
Ilunpetan

Koldo Carranza

2016

Spain / 5 mins
In the dark of her room Lea masturbates thinking of one girl. When this girl asks her for a date, Lea will have to decide if she would let her feelings come to light.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/gg0TQq_PPg4  

In the Woods

Grace Martin

2016

USA / 9:09 mins
After the death of their only parent, Michael struggles to be the sole guardian and emotional support system for his younger sister, Cassie, as she deals with her depression.

Indian Summer

Diana Fraser,
Sam Dunnewold

2016

USA / 9 mins
A 20-something leaves her girlfriend at home to catch up with an old college friend, and during their night on the town sparks fly.

Ingrid Maick Hannder
Ingrid

Maick Hannder

2016

Brazil / 7 mins
An intimate portrait of a body.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/157796111  

Inside Out /
Avesso

Julia Morais,
Wil Futuro

2016

Brazil / 9 mins
AVESSO (inside Out) shows the memories of Tereza in the underground Salvador. Her experience portrays the way young black queer people are dealing with the opressions of a system choosing to express their own narratives…
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/204810295

Internal Aspect

Zoey Vero

2016

USA / 10 mins
Internal Aspect is a video art piece about body, identity, and internal conflicts that arise during change. It reveals the process of living through transformation and becoming oneself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/180441392

Íris

Warley José de Souza

2016

7 mins

Island /
L’île

Eric Lam

2016

China / 33 mins
A desert island, a house and a couple. When an intruder visits, rifts appear in an originally calm marriage. However, all this is only a script.

Jemima to Jeremy

Tamara Whyte (Warrgamay)

2016

Australia / 15 mins
Through his journey to his gender identity and exploring his Aboriginal heritage, Jeremy Andersen tells his story.

Jessica

Erika Daniela Lozano

2016

México / 8 mins
Jessica es una mujer joven, trans, feminista, defensora de los derechos humanos. En este documental su madre y ella narran cómo han vivido y luchado por una transición digna.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/221949974

Jimmy Does Dating

Gein Wong

2016

Canada / 6 mins
A comedy series about queer and trans dating and Jimmy’s adventures obsessing over crushes, Valentine Day mishaps, and navigating dating cis men.

Jonas Banhado Em Sangue
Jonas Banhado em Sangue

Mateus Bandeira

2016

Brazil / 18 mins
Jonas is looking for a body that isn’t there.

Jorkes Thank You
Jorkes:
Thank You

Simon Reichel

2016

11 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/176914865  

Junius Frey:
Love Is Love

Chris Jacobs

2016

USA / 4 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/T3ax8oLokXI

Just Be Gentle

Bo Chen Li

2016

Taiwan / 30 mins
In his dying breath, a boy looks back into his memories, reliving the relationships he had with two men.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/MhpN6r-Rj9U

Just Harry

Andrea Fraser

2016

Australia /15 mins
Just Harry is a documentary that tells the stories of pride and courage beneath the scars of pain and discrimination in experiences of community and city life.

Keep the Cumbia Going /
Que Siga La Cumbia

Candy Guinea

2016

USA / 8 mins
A documentary about the Oakland-based dance party Queer Qumbia, and the importance of queer and trans people of color creating inclusive spaces in a quickly gentrifying region.

Kenommie Dearest

William Stancil

2016

USA / 3 mins
Kenommie Dearest is deep within his lonely fantasy world, although he is not alone at all. 

Kill the Gay /
Tue Cet Homosexuel

Wan Qing

2016

China / 8 mins
One person: Qiu Bai, a lesbian. Two space-times: dream and reality. Two story lines in the dream: Qiu Bai read out some homophobic sentences from Chinese textbooks in public, Qiu Bai is having sex with another lesbian.

Kittens

Zhanna Ozirna

2016

Ukraine / 8 mins
Two girls in a Lviv apartment start a casual conversation about their common future. In the midst of the traditional Ukrainian life remnants the usual dreams about future stumble upon the unbreakable social norms and customs. The things that are private for most people the others have to fight for against the society. Surrounded by regular scenery while dealing with the usual household tasks, the sincere conversation turns into a global question: can we afford the freedom at least in our private lives without having to substitute it with pets?
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/185949380 

Kurneqiz
Kurneqîz

Suat Usta,
Göhan Yalçinkaya,
Rosida Koyuncu

2016

Turkey / 10 mins
This is the first LGBTQ movie in Kurd language. 17 year old Kerim is Kurdish, orphaned and trans.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/166204537  

L’autre Côté

Isabelle Bourgueil

2016

France / 33 mins
In a small town in the Cévennes, the street numbers of Rue de l'Industrie have disappeared, but this does not prevent mail to be delivered (anyway). On one side of the road, we can find the building site of a new 'Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions', a project with the aims to restore a former silk spinning laboratory where workers talk about the need for a change of working conditions. On the other side, a low-rent housing area filled of poor and desperate residents. There is a wall in between.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/156237553

La Ballena Más Solitaria del Mundo

Álvaro M. Dobaño

2016

México / 10 mins
Lupe es una mujer anciana que cada día sobrevive de la amabilidad de los extraños. 
Trailer... https://youtu.be/MdotlU-LLrY   

La Donna Pipistrello

Francesco Belais,
Matteo Tortora

2016

Italy / 41 mins
La vita di Romina, nata Romano, una delle prime donne a cambiare sesso in Italia: una personalità istrionica e brillante, regina del jet set fiorentino degli anni ‘70. Il documentario la racconta attraverso una serie di interviste, senza dimenticare i retroscena più difficili come il confino in Puglia e le denunce per offesa al senso del pudore.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/vkBPBEb9S7g

La Luna aún nos acompaña

Alonso Silva Montero

2016

Perú / 6 mins
Lucho acompaña a su muy cercano amigo, Marco, quién se encuentra gravemente enfermo. Ambos tratan de disfrutar los últimos días que les queda juntos.

La verdad sobre Ángela   

Manuel Yuta Nagahama Aranda Martínez

2016

Spain / 23 mins
La conversación, entre dos viejos amigos, desvelará secretos que son incapaces de pronunciar.

Labelle

Isabel Nobre

2016

Brazil / 15 mins
In a world where people are divided, arbitrarily, between the categories women and men, there are people who, even with inquisitive looks and symbolic or physical violence, subvert this standard and live their lives without forcing to come in this very narrow standard. One of this people is Labelle, a black transvestite who feels the imposition of rule in the skin, because she does not fit it. In this short, She shows us how life can be light, fun and beautiful, despite the adversities.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/151464645

Lady Porn  

Zoe D'Amaro

2016

9 mins
Lady Porn is a journey into the intriguing world of feminist pornography, through the personal and artistic experience of director Jennifer Lyon Bell. The film explores Jennifer’s ideological and creative approach, as well as the empowering impact of her work on female audience.

Laem Vito Gennaro Giacalone
Laem

Vito Gennaro Giacalone

2016

LAEM est juste un instant, un moment bien précis, une prise de conscience, un point d'où on ne revient pas en arrière.

Laika

Nicolay Bergløff

2016

Norway / 3 mins
Music video directed by Nicolay Bergløff for the queer group The Hungry Hearts Performance Band. 

Le Coup

Jacqueline Nassour

2016

Lebanon / 11 mins
A story about two girls from different backgrounds who finds one another and express their similarities in a rather strange way.

Les Papillons Gris

Anne Ballon

2016

Belgium / 16:50 mins
Sue is raised by her 12 year older sister Lily. In a city full of color and a life with ups and downs, the two search for a way to give each other freedom but nevertheless care and suppor for each other. When Lily falls in love with Basil, Sue is feeling forgotten and alone.

Let’s Go All the Way

?

2016

Belgium / 5 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/159610952 

Letters to Eros

Herbert Fieni

2016

 

Brazil / 30 mins
The documentary is a search for clothing materials from the clubber and crossdresser scene of the 90s in Vitoria. Cartographing in first people the affective becoming that these images-recording trigger in the processuality of assembly of the film, the author turns into object, being immersed in a constant flow of images, grouped under the impulse of Eros to create meetings and relationships between men.

LGBT

CupcakKe

2016

USA / 3 mins
CupcakKe is rollin’ with the LGBT, ’cause fashion-wise they don’t play, and when they step out, they gonna slay.
Watch...https://youtu.be/hu_XwnAiMXg

LGBTI Know

Annabelle Dunbabin,
Alysha Eibl,
Anne Keng

2016

Australia / 9 mins
To every individual who identifies as LGBTI, we acknowledge your fight past and present, and we hope that one day equality is no longer a discussion but a full and realised reality. You are all worthy and wonderful individuals who enrich this world every single day. Watch... https://youtu.be/HNaANAAs_ns  

Life is a Drag Show

Samantha Sullivan

2016

USA / 5 mins
This short, fast, upbeat, and enjoyable documentary allows us to peep into the world of Joshua Grannell as Peaches Christ, and the world of theater he has created.

Locked Out

Paul Vanderburgt

2016

Canada / 4 mins
Jack Swift is a twenty-seven year old widower who lost the love of his life in a car accident the night before their wedding. After months of grieving, Jack struggles to gather enough courage to leave his apartment and go on a date. Leading up to the date reminisces about his past love while changing his clothes as well as his mind. After many attempts, Jack finally takes a hesitant step outside. But when he tries to retreat back into his apartment he discovers he is locked out. Out of excuses, he takes a leap of faith and ventures out into the unknown.

Long Term Survivor
Long-Term Survivor

José Luis Cortés

2016

Puerto Rico / 6 mins
In ‘Long Term Survivor’ filmmaker Jose Luis Cortes has imagined a tale of condoms that were never used! It is told by Ivan Terrible – standing naked and fully painted in black and white – while watching his reflection in a broken mirror. Ivan’s tale is in fact his confession of choices made and roads not taken! A confession that unfolds in three parts as he remembers a time in his life before AIDS had a name, to the present time in which he shares the fate of “Patient Zero”. Redemption is not in the cards as Ivan reflects on the price he has paid for love!
Watch… https://youtu.be/rwAK83O6sGY 

Lord Help Me

Alsace Carcione

2016

USA / 4 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/jPGGm-V7qlM

Love & the Beauty of Us Meeting Here

Renee Vaughan Sutherland

2016

UK / 17 mins
How do the movies – and Julia Roberts, in particular – teach us to love?

Love Letter-Duet

Monique Romeiko

2016

Canada / 4 mins
Like something out of an anthropologist’s dream, contemporary dance artist Monique Romeiko has amassed a treasury of LOVE LETTERs in a dizzying variety of forms. Faced with artifacts in every medium, from the earnest and deeply personal hand-written note to the unscripted, courageously immediate text message, she explores, through dance and film, the mysteries of love connections. What will humans whisper to each other about love?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/289722947

Love Me, Want Me, Rent Me

Andy Boyce

2016

USA / 6 mins
A look at one man's powerful story of why he does sex work.

Love@First Night

Terry Torrington,
Sean Anthony Torrington

2016

USA / 15 mins
Original web series presented by Slay TV, romantic comedy about two men finding love after a hook up.
Watch... https://youtu.be/Bz6CgOPFIVA  

Loving Our Language:
Pride in Disability Culture

J. Sungshine, D. Ng

2016

Canada / 6 mins
This film explores queerness and disability through the lens of culture, language and community.

Ma Chérie

Sunny Mind Production

2016

France / 6 mins
Un homme face caméra dit son amour pour sa compagne en narrant des points qui font son bonheur, mais aussi ses angoisses car sa chérie n’est pas madame tout le monde
Watch… https://vimeo.com/175291328

Mademoiselle Do Rap
Mademoiselle do Rap

Raphael Gustavo da Silva

2016

Brazil / 20 mins
O filme conta um pouco da vida, trajetória e luta conta o preconceito de Lulu Monamour, que se auto-intitula o primeiro cantor de rap assumidamente homossexual no Brasil.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/199582742

Magik & Gabriella

Nathalie Therriault

2016

Canada / 5 mins
Sex, drugs and hip hop fuel this short about a passionate love affair between a drug dealer woman and her lover.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/189883875  

Mamãe, Papai, Preciso Dizer Algo

Paul Muresan

2016

Romania / 5 mins
A pressão de ter que contar aos seus pais quem você é. 

Marathon Gay Sex for Manly Men

Johnny Chiba

2016

USA / 3 mins
Music Video for TFG the band. Contrary to the song title, "Marathon Gay Sex For Manly Men", there is no actual gay sex in this TFG music video, other than some risqué lyrical content. Stop Motion Animation assistance c/o comix artist Mike Diana. Warning: this video is not safe for work,home or kids!
Watch... https://vimeo.com/187697614

Marie, je te vois

Carol Fernandes

2016

Brasil / 3:37 mins
Marie, Eu te Vejo is the first short of a series of portraits around visibility, gender identity and sexuality. This first episode follows Marie getting ready to go out in São Paulo, while she talks about her own identity as queer femme.
Marie se prépare pour aller en soirée, c’est le moment pour se livrer et évoquer son identité de femme queer. « Marie, je te vois » est le premier court métrage d’une série de portraits qui explorent les thèmes de l’identité et du genre.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/228167556

Más Amor Por Favor

Adalí Torres

2016

Perú / 23 mins
Amador explora su identidad a través de un viaje con el que busca desafiar la definición de género. Teme mutar y convertirse en hombre o mujer. El filme es un recorrido por su ciudad, la familia, los pelos, su cuerpo y sus miedos. Una cabrita limeña que interactúa con los miedos de todos nosotros.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Wwnjarm4WXk

Masc.Ing

Marcus Gambrill

2016 

Ireland / 3 mins
Masc.Ing uses a music video format, drawing from 90s MTV aesthetics as well as everyday domestic objects that can be perceived as queer, to explore a transition from boy to man.

Mass:
C19h28o2

Sam Hendi,
David Goldenberg

2016

UK / 14 mins
A chemical substance produced in the body that causes men to develop the physical features that are typical of males.
Watch… https://youtu.be/fyL8U7zc7DI

Master Mind Electric

Simon Matthew

2016

Norway / 3 mins
Music video directed by Simon Matthew for the queer group The Hungry Hearts Performance Band. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/zCbpppHOC2w

Matchsticks

Michal Janicki

2016

USA / 6 mins
The final moments of three LGBT icons – a suicidal bride to be, a muse dying of AIDS, and a political activist being assassinated.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/170051562  

Máximo

Sebastián Castillo

2016

Chile / 7 mins
Máximo en busca de oportunidades llega a Chile como muchos otros de sus compatriotas. Distintos caminos toma al tratar de integrarse a nuestra sociedad, pero quien es verdaderamente hace que el retorno an Argentina este cada vez mas presente.

Me Gustas Tú

Dew Kim,
Luciano Zubillaga

 2016

UK
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/191073104 

Memories of Maurice

Stephen Miller

2016

UK
A fond(ish) rememberance of the late Maurice Dobson, a gay sweet shop owner from Barnsley.

Menthol Umar Raza Khan
Menthol

Umar Raza Khan

2016

India / 14 mins
A Silent gay relationship.What happen when they meet on their special ceremony?
Trailer... https://youtu.be/G5JVB_7t5CM   

Metamorphose

Didyer Zarate

2016

UK / 2 mins
London fashion designer Erum Khan has designed an exquisite new nonbinary look for this video.
Watch...https://youtu.be/yDdQl8--5WI

Mirando por el espejo

Alexandra Vázquez

2016

Paraguay / 9 mins
El taxista Ramón busca a su hijo desaparecido en las calles de Asunción. Durante su búsqueda, un chico aborda su taxi y cuando se da cuenta de que es gay se niega a llevarlo. Ramón expulsa al chico pero una llamada de su esposa le hace reflexionar sobre su actitud.

Mixed Salad Salada Mista
Mixed Salad /
Salada Mista

Estevan de la Fuente

2016

Brazil / 4 mins
It comes in all sizes, all shapes, all colors, for all tastes. It’s a feast, nobody leaves with hunger.

Moje Jest Inne

Antoni Palka

2016

Poland / 47 mins
The film's collective protagonists are gay and lesbian parents and families. We listen to a polyphony from which comes shock and horror when the mother or father learns about the homosexual orientation of the child. Over time and at the cost of enormous struggles, parents' attitudes evolve. Relationships are reevaluating, suffering seems to have a different source than the child's psychosexual orientation. The title "Mine is different" bears a bitter question mark. Bold solutions in the formal layer emphasize the feeling of being surrounded and isolated. The change in the perception of homosexuality that has taken place in the Polish collective consciousness over the last few decades emerges from this poignant narrative.
Watch... https://youtu.be/6BTOeZ42BBg   

MTFTM

Philip Shafer/Godmother

2016

Germany / 4 mins
A little music clip by Godmother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/amqfRXhuGb4

My Child Is Gay I Am Happy
My Child is Gay, I am Happy

Sopan Muller

2016

India / 38 mins
MY CHILD IS GAY & I AM HAPPY, is a touching yet uplifting, 30 min documentary. The film is a series of interviews of some remarkable parents whose children represent the LGBT community. It shows their journey from being unsuspecting and often unaccepting parents, to becoming caring, supportive they are today. It is an important film, which gives the viewer a peak into the lives of the LGBT community, in the conservative society like India, where homosexuality continues to be a crime. 
Trailer... https://youtu.be/aNPIOj7ubPM  

My Femme is a Reflection

Jai Lei Yee

2016

3:43 mins

My Grindr Story

Didac Perez-Lopez

2016

Spain / 6 mins
Le réalisateur, adepte du site de rencontre, voulait faire un comparatif, en parallèle, du vécu ressenti de leur histoire, par ses amants et par lui-même. Mais un seul a accepté de se prêter au jeu. Watch… https://vimeo.com/177834832

My Mom is Worried Sick

Neelu Bhuman

2016

India / 6 mins
A sassy comedy exploring the prismatic mystery of bodies, senses and difference.

My Own Wings

Katia Repina,
Carla Moral

2016

USA, Spain, Ukraine / 8 mins
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity thought stories of intersex people in USA, Spain and Ukraine. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with “both” sexes but born with a variation from the standard of what is socially accepted as a male or female body.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/240038009

My Sisters Girlfriend
My Sister’s Girlfriend

Shanice Gauci

2016

Malta / 6:53 mins
A brilliantly crafted and concise family drama that challenges a mother’s stereotyping of her daughters – one feminine, the other a short haired football player who’s been hanging out with a certain friend more and more…
Watch… https://vimeo.com/157785890

Nails

Jack J Faulkner

2016

UK / 3 min
An animation about a boy who paints his nails at school for his own pleasure.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/190592774

Narcissa:
Portrait of a Drag Queen

?

2016

UK / 7 mins
Narcissa is short experimental film centred on a main character, her activities and way of life. As a work of research film making, the film does not strive for realistic depiction but aims at making the viewer familiar with the sensory dimensions of Queer Alternative culture.

Ne t’en Vas Pas

Jessica Han

 2016

Canada
A loving tribute to the filmmaker’s father as she struggles with the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. 

Nightwalkers

Jason Bradbury

2016

UK / 3 mins
Nightwalkers, a fashion film created exclusively for King Kong, Jason Bradbury captures the nocturnal pursuits of a sinister trio—members of a shadowy overclass for whom nighttime provides cover for bloodthirsty exploits. Styled by our Fashion Editor, Davey Sutton and stalked by Gary Card’s ghoulishly human sculptures, eerie counterparts to these strange figures.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/288365670

Nite Gloop

Nathan Hill

2016

USA / 4 mins

No Es Homosexual Simplemente
No es Homosexual Simplemente el Homófilo sino el Cegado por el Falo Perdido

Equipo Palomar

2016

Spain / 28 mins
Dentro de su prolífica producción literaria, Alberto Cardín esbozó en 1976 un guión cinematográfico, aún inédito, con el título No es homosexual simplemente el homófilo, sino el cegado por el falo perdido, hoy parte de la Biblioteca Alberto Cardín. El contexto de elaboración del guión se enmarca dentro del primer proyecto de ley para la reforma política y la elección del primer presidente en democracia tras la dictadura. Su activación y realización por primera vez en el presente vuelve a incidir en las macropolíticas estatales justo en un momento de cambio de paradigma, o lo que se está llamando segunda transición.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/170429906   

No, Así No

Juan Santini

2016

Colombia / 6 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/i4asywRKpgg  

Nos(otrxs)
Nos(otrxs)

Matias Ferreyra

2016

Argentina / 21 mins

Not a Minute More

Amir Stolar

2016

Israel / 45 mins
Director Amir Stolar tries to recall the event of the day when his father abandoned him and fled the country, some 12 years ago. His digging into this old wound blends with the inter-continental relationship he has with Victor, his Swedish partner.  Gradually, things turn into a bureaucratic struggle intended to get Amir's father to attend the wedding of his eldest son, Roni. Not a Minse More is the honest, uncensored depiction of one average Israeli family's attempt to confront a complex, arduous reality and to overcome it, making a better future for itself in the process.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/168765761  

Not Right

Rotem Plitman

2016

Israel / 7 mins
Maya doesn’t want to be treated as a girl anymore. Her parents ignore her request and make her wear overly girly clothes. Maya’s teacher decides to take matters into her own hands.
Watch... https://youtu.be/NzV55Gu9LUQ  

Not Yet Over Nichts Ist Erledigt
Not Yet Over /
Nichts Ist Erledigt

Kornelia Kugler,
Hanna Bergfors

2016

Germany / 63 mins
Not Yet Over positions current feminism in its relation to medical and social reproduction. Four women are set on stage: the one wants an abortion, the next, artificial insemination, the other wants to earn money as a surrogate mother. The fourth woman, a self-named techno feminist propagates the benefit of medical reproduction. Which side are we on? The case is clear: the economical question has to be addressed from a feminist point of view.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/174099785  

Novo Yurei
Novö Yùreï

Fredster & Fabrizio

2016

Trailer… https://vimeo.com/170844151

Ocorridos do dia 13

Estevan de la Fuente,
Débora Zanatta

2016

Brazil / 19 mins
Cinco amigos passam o domingo no apartamento de Carol e Ana. Lá fora, uma manifestação política. Além das questões pessoais que cercam as relações, os jovens se posicionam da forma que lhes parece possível diante desse cenário conturbado e sofrem as conseqüências de um país dividido.

October 1984

Arthur Johnson Weiss

2016

USA / 3 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/173721604

Old Home

Katharine King So

2016

USA / 5:29 mins
This experimental dance film explores the influence of post-war melodramas on experimental queer filmmakers. It also illustrates the media hysteria surrounding the AIDS crisis as an important time for the destruction of the nuclear home and ceasing the “othering” of minorities in order to move towards a time of queer solidarity and expression.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/163787909

On N’est Pas des Bœufs

Marguerite Dupré

2016

France / 4:25 mins
Watch… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4tlo3KhJA

On the Brink

?

2016

Germany / 9 mins
Trust is the most important value in a relationship - no matter if gay or straight. But when jealousy becomes more powerful, the relation will suffer. A metaphoric gay horror film. 
Watch… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zb5msWB3tI

One Summer's Day /
Yom Ehad Bakaeitz

Maayan Abadi Grebler

2016

Israel / 9 mins
17-year-old Zohar, meets her good friend Noam at an isolated waterfall, their usual spot, for the last time before Noam is about to run away from home. The closer they are to saying goodbye, Zohar refuses to come to terms with the situation and tries to stay close to her.

Orchestra Binária:
Galileu

Mateus Capelo

2016

Brasil / 4 mins
ÉssePê, Brasília, Locarno, PopPorn e o bonequinho da faixa de segurança. Os skatistas na Roosevelt, as folhas, a pizza, a prisão coercitiva e o Baiano. A chuva, o farol, o sono, Scovino e o Hudinilson. FILE, SP na Rua, André Medeiros e o céu. Um diário para um canção. Uma narrativa ao nível da memória.
Watch... https://youtu.be/tmI2KXhuttw

Our Own Private Soho

Calin B.

2016

Romania / 12 mins
The stories of four unusual teenagers. What’s up with kids nowadays?

Out of Breath

Shaul Melamed

2016

Israel / 12 mins
A film studies student wants to direct his own memorial movie. Not satisfied with the results he decides to confront an old secret and interviews his 3th grade classmate with whom he had an affair while visiting his grandmother in the kibbutz. During the interview for his own memorial movie he finds out that experience shaped the man that now stands in front of him and that he is now openly gay.

Outspoken

Michelangelo Reyes

2016

USA / 36 mins
A topical talk show, starring 4 gay men in their 20’s, that focuses on LGBT issues as well as their own personal stories, struggles, and experiences. These boys have a lot to say, and aren’t afraid to share. From life in Los Angeles, to sex and dating, and even pop culture and politics, no topic is off limits when you are OUTspoken.
Watch... https://youtu.be/FRUuyAjgUAY  

Paradise Lost + David’s Sling

Dew Kim,
Luciano Zubillaga

2016

UK

Pare-Choc

Elsa Aloisio

2016

France / 12 mins
Serti d’images d’une beauté rare, le poème amoureux qui est le corps central du film, nous plonge dans une superbe réflexion sur l’amour, ses violences, ses chamboulements.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/OyfA0z0VRz0

Park Ghost Park
Park Ghost Park /
Fantasma Cidade Fantasma

Pedro B.,
Amanda Devulsky
 2016  Brazil / 14 mins
O barulho do estacionamento 11 ecoa pelo parque no centro da cidade. É bom poder contar com você.

Parts and the Whole

Ricky Lee

2016

Experimental short about the body, daily doldrums, fantasy and the deep sea.

Passive Aggressive

Yair Peri

2016

Israel / 8 mins
The insecure Amitai finally gets invited to the appartment of the desirable Aitan. But when Aitan reveals his special secret to Amitai, the tabels turn and the dominant becomes the submissive.
Watch… https://youtu.be/k0xsHUMkmQY

Perdón

Ricardo Silva

2016

México / 11 mins
Daniel se casa con la mujer indicada pero no con el amor de su vida. Un acontecimiento inesperado revela su verdadero amor.

Perfect Neighborhood

Bouquet Napussorn

2016

USA / 8 mins
A party of high school friends takes a weird turn when a phantom seems to appear in the house.  
Watch... https://vimeo.com/163873367  

Performing My Real Truth

Anna Swanson

2016

USA / 13 mins
This film will make three statements. Two of them might be true, and one of them might not be.

Perlenmeere

Katrina Daschner

2016

Austria / 9 mins
Images inhaled and exhaled, gently but deeply. Details of a naked person, close-ups of deep-sea creatures—jelly fish, algae, cnidaria, at first, still a stony landscape. Small, precise picture waves, as though set off by hitting the surface of still water, set Seas of Pearls in motion. With this we experience through our bodies an encounter with the bodies in the film, and the body film: how the camera makes contact with the surfaces, how it transmits the rhythm of swimming beings to itself, how the montage gently rises and ebbs away, how the light refracts in the lens. 

Petite Mort

Antoine Bieber

2016

France / 4 mins
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/174676028  

Pieces

Calliope Lunn

2016

UK / 11 mins
A study in connection, love and loneliness that explores the blurred realities that occur when our hearts are broken. This film features stirring performances from Travis Alabanza and Julian Silverman.
Watch… https://youtu.be/8R0fuYH3M-0

Pili and Me

Ignacio Garcia Sanchez

2016

Spain / 8 mins
Pili has Down Syndrome and her inability to express her desires makes her nephew reflect on the importance of listening, using home films from three generations.

Pink

Dan Davis

2016

3 mins

Pipe Dreamer

Izzy Bautista

2016

Denmark / 9 mins
A foreign student in Copenhagen has a profound encounter with a drag queen that changes him, but it may have all just been a dream.

Playground

Racheli Ben Zaken

2016

Israel / 4 mins
Stop-Motion animation. At one side, a straight couple sits on a bench, next to them is a baby cart. At the other side sits on a bench a gay couple with a baby cart. Which family is better?

Playing Straight

Gary Bennett

2016

USA / 4 mins
Jacob and Sam are two typical bros, video games, gym buds, one words conversations. When they encounter two male characters hugging in a video game, Jake tries to broach an uncomfortable subject. How do you know that you're straight unless you try something gay? Although Sam tries to play it off and play through the level, Jake is insistent and seemingly coming to a bro-crisis. Sam decides to take aggressive action - with his lips.

Poly Amour 

Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi

2016

7 mins
How capable are we to love boundlessly? This film explores polyamory, deconstructing conventional stereotypes of the romantic relationship structure.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/193408442

Presenting Shree
Presenting Shree

Neha Karode

2016

India
Representing the transgender community and providing them equal opportunity meant everything to Mitr Trust in Delhi, who launched the country’s first-ever transgender modelling agency. At this time, four mass communication students of Jamia Millia Islamia, namely Faisal Alam, Minal Kumar, Neha Karode, Shyamolee MN and Ritwija Mukherjee, had embarked on their final year project and were toying with the idea of making a documentary on transgender models.This is when they met Shree Nagar, a transgender model, who gave them their time and insights for their work.  ‘Presenting Shree’, the documentary follows Shree, showing different aspects of their life within society.

Primadonna

Daniele Gangemi,
Clelia Scimone,
Ludovico serra,
Veronica Vescio

2016

Italy / 25 mins
Marco, artista savonese, come un Virgilio dantesco ci prende per mano e ci guida nel mondo delle drag queen assumendo di volta in volta punti di vista differenti. Uno sguardo sincero e chiaro che ci trasporta all’interno di tre diverse storie, di tre vissuti lontani tra loro ma che nascondono un filo conduttore: quello del travestimento, filo comune dell’intero documentario.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/201113465

Principes una Historia de Amor

Joey Graceffa

2016

5 mins
Porque no todo principe busca una princesa.
Watch... https://youtu.be/5SZt0UgEPpA 

Protagoniste

Morena Sarzo

2016

Italy / 5 mins
Two female souls, a woman and a transsexual, talk about the discrimination they have to face in our society.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/164838204

Pull 

Eleanor Capaldi

2016

5 mins
Pull explores what happens when two people are inexorably drawn to one another.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/196261637

Puppets for the State

Jeffrey Moore

2016

USA / 10 mins
Pat and Jesse, the puppet stars of a NC morning children’s show decide to go out on the town and blow off some steam.

Pussy Vortex

Angel Favorite

2016

USA / 5 mins
Get on your knees, get between the sheets, and you’ll be caught in the vortex too.
Watch...https://youtu.be/yHqHejoaUyA

Put Me in a Spell

Jordi Estrada

 

USA
Watch... https://youtu.be/xr30vTIH7gU

Q is for Queer

Emily Benington

2016

UK / 6 mins
This film was the result of a DIY project shot on phones and webcams, compiling a series of intimate, reflective and thoughtful interpretations on what Queer means to the participants and why it works with their identity. Personal and political in turn, it’s a film that inspires much thinking afterwards.
Watch… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1TljqPnKaU

Quan La Llum S’apaga

Marina Castillón,
Marc Vendrell

2016

Spain / 6 mins
Clara y Marian viven los últimos instantes de su relación. Ven como su luz se está apagando.

Quase ontem

João Niella

2016

Brazil
Por diversas vezes, no decorrer dos nossos dias encontramos algumas pessoas em situação de rua, lutando contra a fome, o calor, o frio e o preconceito. Mas você já se perguntou o que os levou até a rua? O que aconteceu antes? Existiu antes? Um homem que há 20 anos enxerga em calçadas, concretos e asfaltos a sua família e divide com eles fragmentos do seu passado, vivendo o seu eterno QUASE ONTEM.

Que no muera el sexo bajo los puentes

Arde Pandora

2016

Argentina / 2 mins
Desde o país salsicha. A partir de uma cama-estádio. Nossos corpos são murais. Pandora arde na pele e recita um poema-manifesto de Pedro Lemebel e Francisco Casas. Dissidentes do ativismo, do reconhecimento e a inclusão lgttttbiq, Arde Pandora propõe uma política para o prazer improdutivo contra o Capital, em um meio-dia, uma sesta, tira as roupas, a maquiagem e removida e torne-se uma desapropriação coletiva-divertida.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/207698490

Questa è la Mia Storia

Caterina Caso

2016

Italy / 5 mins
Tutti siamo schiavi di un qualcosa a questo mondo, questo video fa riflettere su quanto è importante far uscire la vera persona che siamo senza doverci vergognare di nessun pregiudizio. La bellezza sta in te e nella persona che diventerai.  We are all slaves to in this world.
This video makes us think about what is important to bring out the real person we are, not being ashamed of prejudices. Beauty is in you and you will not only find it, you will become it. 

Quién Soy? Quién Eres?

Juan Ramirez

2016

Colombia / 4 mins
Inspirado en la filosofía de la búsqueda espiritual de encontrarse a sí mismo.
Watch… https://youtu.be/2G9ST0WeHcQ

Quitria

Márcio Câmara

2016

Brazil / 15 mins
Lavar, engomar e passar. Cantar, se encantar e gozar.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/164932845

Rabbit Hole:
Stupid Ass Witch

Kevin Rios,
Andrew J. Hebert

2016

USA / 6 mins
Star-crossed lovers Brad and Cutter get lost in the woods while high. 

Racks

Sara Bozakov

2016 

Israel / 11 mins
Jonathan performs at night as Dixie. Tonight he decides to go out to the streets dressed as a woman.

Rainbow Day CampRainbow Day Camp

Horacio Marquinez

2016

USA / 31 mins
Thousands of young people are pushing the boundaries of gender. In 2015, a summer camp was created in the Bay Area to provide a safe and fun place to express their identity.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/161830685

Raising the Bar

Amanda Kindzierski

2016

Canada
Greg and Paige, co-managers of a quirky neighbourhood bar, have a tough choice to make, when the bar’s owner gives them the weekend to help the bar out of money troubles.

Reclaiming Intersex (while Black, genderqueer and feminist in South Africa)

Nthabiseng Mokoena,
Gabrielle La Roux

2016

South Africa / 28 mins
Documentary that is centred on the life, activism and experiences of Mokoena, a black genderqueer and feminist in South Africa.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/54_2e2A_Dls

Repeindre le Monde

Youssef Gebran

2016

France / 43 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/156252097

Respecter la roue

Melissa Mollen Dupuis

2016

Canada / 5 mins
Depuis le début de la colonisation certaines valeurs traditionnelles ont été mises de côté et laisse place à l'intimidation et la discrimination envers les Two-Spirits et la diversité. Pour que la guérison se fasse, on doit ramener le respect de la roue de médecine. La roue de la vie.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/174842907

Revolution /
Le Coup

Jacky Nassour

2016

Lebanon / 11 mins
Two girls from different backgrounds find one another and express their similarities in a rather strange way.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/183613455

Right of Passage

Emma Wheeler

2016

UK / 14:35 mins
Right of Passage is a personal look at three LGBT refugees resettling in Germany: Ibrahim, Hamid, and Ali. As they share details of the struggles they have faced, both in their countries of origin and now in Germany, we learn about the extraordinary circumstances behind why they decided to seek asylum and what their future holds for them.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/qY2VzVK7ulM

Rock And Riot Chelsey Furedi
Rock and Riot

Chelsey Furedi

2016

New Zealand / 3 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/8l8xbqvFPYI

Roofie  

Cristiano Sousa

2016

Brasil / 5 mins
Un hombre es atraído a una trampa con un cóctel que promete una  buena noche de cenicienta.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/191030482

Rosababy:
eHeritage

Alexander Nader

2016

USA / 2 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/fUYCP64dtC4

Rosen Marching for Abolition /
Rosen en Marche pour L'abolition

Catherine Tissier

2016

France / 86 mins
Rosen Hicher likes to call herself a prostitution survivor. At age 58, she set out to expose the violence and humiliation suffered by women living in fear and darkness. In September and October 2014, she walked across France to raise awareness about her battle: passing the law that reinforces the fight against the prostitutional system. My camera and I walked side by side with her. On April 6th, 2016, the law was voted in, but Rozenn continues to fight. For Rozen, this battle is a path towards resiliance. Can she erase 22 years of "sexual slavery"?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/200051838

S.T.A.R.

Rhys Ernst

2016

USA / 5 mins
A delicately woven archival portrait of trans activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

Salome 

Benny Rios Arenas,
Marlo Barbaran

2016

Perú / 13 mins
Dos hermanos se enamoran a primera vista de la nueva vecina del barrio, ambos la cortejan y terminan en una aventura donde no todo es lo que parece.

San Berillo
San Berillo

Maria Arena

2016

Italy / 12 mins
Episodio 3: Luci Rosse
Trailer...https://youtu.be/IbFF8dbHc8U

Sandclock

Deepak Miglani

2016

India / 25 mins
Trailer...https://youtu.be/KpbvmlShw7U

Sarà Tutta Una Depravazione: Hommage À Dominot

Daniel Kuhn,
Enrico Salvatori

2016

Italy / 15 mins
The life of Anthony Iacono, better known as Dominot, through video materials, pictures and unpublished testimonies.

Saturn Rising 'Down'

Raphael Chatelain

2016

USA / 3 mins
Saturn Rising’s music video for the club banger DOWN, shows the inherent power dynamics at play in sexual encounters where closeted white men fetishize black male bodies behind closed doors. 

Scattered Thoughts of a Young Sex Worker

Menelas Siafakas

2016

Greece / 14 mins
The issue of sex work is one that provokes a lot of emotion and controversy. In this documentary by Menelas we hear the views and opinions of a young gay sex worker in Athens today.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/161544823

Scent of an Orchid

Rosa Fong

2016

UK / 21 mins
Scent of an Orchid is an exploration of gender and sexuality seen through the life.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/6yhF-zRCmzA

Schrankschwestern

Aziza Aba Butain

2016

USA / 3 mins
It's crowded in the closet since so many LGBT don't dare to come out...
Watch… https://youtu.be/90Bu-SRG7oY

Sea of Love

JJ Levine

2016

Canada / 3 mins
This work is about radically reimagining parenthood and alternative queer family structures and embracing the tension that exists when seemingly banal gestures are enacted by non-traditional bodies. It’s about my relationship to the photographic medium and its capacity to commemorate the people that I love.

Seres Mariana Palacios
Seres

Mariana Palacios

2016

Sweden / 14 mins
In the midst of a dance that sounds and a music that moves, the earth trembles between manifestation and concealment, between search and encounter. Synthesis of time, cycles that extend, stripping themselves in a curved space line. The lull and the response of an inner forest that is declared in the chant, in the body, in its own return.
Watch… https://youtu.be/savulnQzdFo

Sex Changed Ankit Gupta
Sex Changed

Ankit Gupta

2016

India / 7 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/xyl5iSVq1K0

She Ain't Heavy, She's My Brother

Yihwen Chen

2016

A Malay trans man celebrates his 21st birthday. In a Muslim country where being transgender is outlawed, he only has the unconditional love and support of the women in his family.

She Did It for Me

Sabaa Zareena

2016

USA / 3 mins
Illusions, intentions and unspoken needs bubble up through She Did It For Me.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/228014025

Should Abbey Kill Cain

Kyaka Wilson Kaggwa

2016

Uganda / 30 mins
Abbey a Celebrated Businessman and a heir to late Adam's Properties adopted Enoch from the streets of Kampala and Introduced him to his blood brother Cain who shares the same sexual orientation. Lamech a family friend and a Christian man couldn't tolerate Enock and Cain’s sexuality, he outs them to the Local Community for Judgment.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/2cSwEOSHPas

Si Marseille est un Estron

Marc-Antoine Serra

2016

France / 15 mins
« Si Marseille est un étron », produit par Lionel Soukaz repose sur le poème balistique de Liliane Giraudon. Marseille en est non pas le décor mais l’héroïne. Des corps énigmatiques et pourtant ordinaires traversent le cœur de la ville sans nom. Tentative onirique de l’identité sexuelle d’une ville? Un chant d’amour trans-versal redouble l’énigme.

Silence Is Our Enemy /
Sound Is Our Weapon

Emma Shooshan

2016

10 mins
Looping through a collage of intergenerational trauma, genocide, and diaspora, spoken word and music lift up activism and hope.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/154947030

Silencio

Emmanuel Barrouyer

2016

France / 4 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/64MxT18BXB0

Skin

Paul Harnett

2016

4 mins
It takes a look at the inner and outer representation we have of ourselves, and how these can sometimes be conflicting. This piece also addresses gender identity, but can be applied to anyone who feels differently on the inside to how they are perceived externally.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/171307491

Snask

Prinsessan T

2016

Sweden / 8 mins
Snask is maid for Elle. A film part of a series that explores the body’s relationship to objects and observer when living with a secret sexuality.
Where does the boundary go for what a body is allowed to do when it can’t be identified? The films are made with tools available outside the industry. A lofi-production and exceeding in materials. Prinesssan T’s works often aims to contribute to discussions about belonging and heritage.

So Long! /
A Bientôt!

Da Jing

2016

China / 25 mins
The main character, Ran Ran, is just about to leave Beijing. With only ten days left, how will she decide to spend the rest of his time?

Soap Box

Nizan Shani

2016

Israel / 4 mins
A teenager takes a look at our reality and wonders how is it that we stand by and do nothing as so much social injustice happens before our eyes. He calls us to wake up.

Soapcunt

Finn Peaks

2016

Germany / 1:44 min
This strangely mesmerising little film inspired by the changing anatomy of a trans woman lover takes a humorous approach to trans feminine, lesbian and queer sexuality and explores this subject in a simple and direct way.

Solidão

Edu Lima

2016

Brazil / 12:36 mins

Solitude Darkness LightSolitude, Darkness, Light

Kayla Briet

2016

USA / 5 mins
In a blend of abstraction and realism, "Solitude, Darkness, Light" explores the confluence of place, time, people and emotions. Contrasting worlds of the future and the past and the still and the moving take the viewer across time in search of a new perspective on the present, as experienced through the lenses of sounds, animation and imagery.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/188713890

Som Fiskar

Robin Krey Andersson

2016

Sweden / 7 mins
It is hard when your first love moves away. Som Fiskar is a lovely story about the difficulties of first love.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/129224295

Something Something:
Home

Marlene Denningmann

2016

Germany / 5 mins
Trailer...https://youtu.be/DjE3IbWSq7w

Souls

Katie McCullough

2016

UK / 8mins
When Barrie goes to scatter his husband’s ashes at their favourite mountain peak, he is confronted with the sight of a man about to jump to his death from the cliff edge.

Spectrum London

Campbell X,
Jon Maguire,
Tim Porter

2016

UK / 90 mins
Hailing from the vibrant, bustling, and gritty streets of London, this web series gives a rare and intimate glimpse into the daily trials and tribulations of those living under the LGBTQ umbrella.  Following the lives, loves, and lusts of its diverse cast, Spectrum London will take you on a thrilling and often heartbreaking rollercoaster ride, the likes of which we’ve rarely seen.

Spill

Four Chambers

2016

UK / 10 mins
Short film about three women and a sheet. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/197544790

SSTM REL0AD
by A.K.A

Max Rocha

2016

Brazil / 1min
A fashion film about an entire range of beautiful genderless clothing from Brazil.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/168940335

Starring Jane

Brendan McCann

2016

USA / 6 mins
A young drag queen with a background in performance tackles the social repercussions of being transgendered.

Stella

Eylissia Winn

2016

UK / 10 mins

Stuart Timmons
Stuart Timmons' City of West Hollywood LGBTQ History Mobile Tour

Jason Jenn

2016

USA / 16 mins
Jason Jenn and a spirited crew of over a dozen costumed performers complete the Stuart Timmons historic tour of West Hollywood, and they created this entertaining -- and educational -- film as a way to share it with everyone in town.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/p9r4wGcwjnY 

Stupefied

Alba Roland Mejia

2016

5 mins
My film uses the conventions of a horror film to show the deep fear and darkness that comes along with sleep paralysis. With a cast of unique individuals I plan on taking the audience on a suspenseful trip through Enoch’s dream. This cast will help my film give the audience a unique experience. Dark shadows and dim lighting give off the feeling of deep and endless solitude. Feelings of helplessness, and loss of control overcome the main character as she is in the grasp of the entity, Nommo.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/-lse3-jb1r8

Submerged /
Sumergido

Isaac Flores

2016

Venezuela / 14 mins
Se recomienda escuchar el cortometraje con un sistema de audio que tenga Subwoofer, o con audífonos, para poder disfrutar los sonidos de baja frecuencia del corto.
Watch...https://youtu.be/-TibvPklty8

Sudor

Omar Zuniga Hidalgo

2016

Chile
Based on the novel with the same title by Alberto Fuguet, “Sudor” tells the story of a writer and describes the relations in the universe of literature, press and publications.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/192994946

Suitable A Medida
Suitable /
A Medida

Florencia Castaño

2016

Argentina / 10 mins
In 1964, Carla (26) is a dressmaker, she devotes much of her life to her workshop. That morning Teresa (24), a childhood friend, visit Carla to ask her to make a dress, her own wedding dress. Carla, who had begun to feel attracted by Teresa not received the news well.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/181311297

Sunday Danilo Curro
Sunday

Danilo Curro

2016

Italy / 23 mins
Fasasi Sunday lascia la sua casa, la Nigeria, perché non è più possibile per lui, come per molti altri, restarci.

Swing Maniacs Genova

Max Pitruzzella,
Thomas Blacharz

2016

Watch...https://youtu.be/2h6OBEExq0k

Swing Set

Heather Hutton

2016

9 mins
Swing Set is an unrequited love story about a struggling artist and her wealthy ex-girlfriend who try to rekindle their failed relationship, but they can’t due to a power struggle over socioeconomic differences.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/182498502

Swirl

Ryan Logan

2016

USA / 7 mins
SWIRL is the story of a boy's first crush told through dance, exploring the journey your mind takes the first time you touch someone you love.

Take Me to Church

Dew Kim,
Luciano Zubillaga

2016

UK / 8 mins
In Take Me to Church, electronic cyberspace connects a sadomasochist experience with Christian practice: a man exploring voluntary kidnapping becomes confused between fear and sexual pleasure. He realizes that his sexual desire is a kind of death and the ceremony is sacred. For George Bataille, religious sensibility always links desire closely with terror, intense pleasure and anguish. We see an energy in the story which, when harnessed to a devotion to something or someone, gives the devotee, the submissive, the masochist, the martyr, an ability to do something special, to step outside the limitations of the human.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/167665099

Talk It Out No More Gay Shame
Talk it Out:
No More Gay Shame

Vince Pellegrino

2016

USA
Brings light to stories about growing up LGBTQ.

Talking Too Loud

Abel Rubinstein

2016

Music Video
Watch...https://youtu.be/yRvJtkr37zA

Tami T:
Eat Me When I Bleed

Julia Thelin

2016

Sweden / 3.30 mins
I can’t go for five days and five nights without a tongue in between my thighs. So eat me when I ask you to. Eat me, this shouldn’t bother you. Eat me when I bleed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/170500382

Taz’s Story

Headspace / String Theory / Elle Marsh

2016

Australia / 4 mins
Taz Clay speaks about his experience growing up. Taz shares his struggles with drugs and alcohol, grief and identity, and how he came out the other side with a new outlook on life.

Tell Me Why You Obsess Me /
Dis moi pourquoi tu m'obsèdes

Naima Chebahi

2016

France / 3:28 mins / Music Video
Man, woman, black, white, straight, gay... We are all the same constantly fighting between our dark side and the light in us

Telton 7

Glen Fellman

2016

USA / 12 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/177735107

The 100 Blows

Gabrielle Lenhard

2016

USA / 3 mins
How to give a perfect blow job? 

The Art Of The Morning
The Art of the Morning

Nathan Hauch

2016

Canada / 5:41 mins
A lyrical look at how one person prepares for the day ahead, savouring each moment.

The Bench Harrison J Bahe
The Bench

Harrison J. Bahe

2016

USA / 8 mins
The Bench follows the rise and fall of a modern day relationship across a span of one year.
Watch... https://youtu.be/kccTRp4h-AQ

The Call of the Void

Four Chambers

2016

UK / 14 mins
Watching someone you love have sex with someone else: Security, uncertainty, love, sex. 

The Closet

Zameer Kamble

2016

 ?

The Confession Hsuan Chi Kuo
The Confession

Hsuan-Chi Kuo

2016

25 mins

The Crash Pad:
Behind The Scenes: Viceroy & Munnin 

Shine Louise Houston

2016

USA / 8 mins
Get a behind-the-scenes peek of trans couple Viceroy and Munnin chatting post-scene at the Crash Pad. Their silliness and clear affection for each other will leave you smiling just as much as the scene will leave you feeling steamy!

The Daughter I Never Had

Tommy Cowell

2016

UK / 5 mins
A lady meets a charming drag queen on Canal Street in Manchester and she complains about age and stuff…sometimes it is not a bad idea to talk to “strangers”.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175435974

The Encounter /
Encuentro

Diana Elizabeth Castellanos (Gabrielle Esteban)

2016

Ecuador / 11 mins
Diana was born in the Chinese year of the water dog and Gabrielle was born in the year of the metal tiger. Diana is from Colombia and Gabrielle from Ecuador. Two very different people: but together they confront social prejudice, gender violence and their own fears, discovering that to be happy, no road is obvious.

The Entanglement

Nicole Thorsley

2016

Canada / 5 mins
The story of Andrea, a young scientist, who creates a machine that allows her to send messages to herself from an alternate reality. Through the process she discovers the life she could have led and the dangers that arise from her choices.

The Garden of Loved Ones

Janette López

2016

Mexico / 6:49 mins
Blanca, a young woman searches far and wide for a beloved person in Mexico. She meets a little girl on her journey, who guides her in the right direction. The reunion turns out to be bittersweet and Blanca has a tough decision to make.

The Gay Agenda

Tanner Fell,
Marissa Blair

2016

11 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/167673215

The Gunpowder Road
The Gunpowder Road /
El Camino de la Pólvora

Andrés Martinoli

2016

Chile / 15 mins
Manuela Madriaga (17) busca intensamente al responsable del incendio de Valparaíso, ocurrido el 2014. Su investigación ocupa todo su tiempo libre. La visita de su tía Estela (43) significará para ella un avance vertiginoso en su investigación.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/288023611

The Hardest Word

Nev Brook,
Emily McDonald

2016

UK / 7 mins
George Montague is fighting for an apology over his arrest in 1974 under anti-gay laws. This is his story…
Watch...https://vimeo.com/212966747

The Horseman & The Body

Wu Meng Han

2016

China

The Journey to Her /
Avalilekkulla Dooram 

P Abhijith

2016

India / 28 mins
Avalilekkulla Dooram depicts the life of a transgender family. Their hurdles, issues and the relationship with family are being narrated to the audience.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/PwbVwow_cm0  

The Need /
Potrzeba

Wojciech Olchowski

2016

Poland / 5 mins
Każdy czegoś potrzebuje. Zazwyczaj czegoś innego…
Bohater filmu odkrywa czego tak naprawdę pragnie od niego dwójka jego przyjaciół.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/203862498

The Obstacle Course

Ben Briand

2016

France / 2 mins
You're a kid back at school, and everyone is staring at you in the long, leisurely silence before inevitable attack. Fleeing, you run into a world full of many more challenges, occuring everywhere from the dorm room to a high school party, to a job search and perhaps the most terrifying hurdle of all, dinner with your parents.  Watch...  https://vimeo.com/160372467 

The Offering /
Ofiarowanie

Konrad Bloch

2016

Poland / 14 mins
A young priest is not ready to teach about love. Firstly he has to understand what love really means for him.

The Outer Rim

Ryan Steele,
Amy Goodmurphy

2016

USA / 5 mins
After the events of Episode VII, General Leia stops at The Outer Rim bar for a drink to help her forget all her problems.
Watch...https://youtu.be/TcqOX3TMiIU

The Peculiar Kind Alexis Casson
The Peculiar Kind

Alexis Casson

2016

USA / 19 mins
Based on the web series of the same name this illuminating documentary candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations. Expanding on the conversations and discussions raised in the series Alexis Casson’s film explores race, religion, community, queers in the media and much more.
Watch...https://youtu.be/opgOEdEaBYo

The Personal Things  Reina Gossett
The Personal Things 

Reina Gossett

2016

USA / 3 mins
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy gets animated and speaks words of wisdom everyone should hear.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/192223519

The Secret Story:
How Medical Marijuana was Re-Legalized in the US

Brian Applegarth

2016

USA / 16 mins
The true story of one of our community's genuine heroes, Dennis Peron, who, along with many dedicated supporters, risked incarceration repeatedly in their decades-long campaign to make medical marijuana available to all kinds of ailing people, especially people afflicted with AIDS. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/1YRxfa_b2Sk  

The Story of Ziggy

Samora Mabuya

2016

South Africa / 5 mins
The Story of Ziggy briefly outlines the life of a woman in mid-transition to becoming a man, exploring the challenges of black South African gender identity in a complex youth society.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/193574851

The Things We Did and Didn’t Do

Elizabeth Martin

2016

An exploration and an exercise in learning: learning how to be autonomous, learning how to make videos, learning how hormones affect life. Filmed during the filmmaker’s first months on testosterone, this film hopes to document the life of a person who is transmasculine, who is an ex-gay cowboy. This film posits traditional transition narratives are much more subtle than contemporary language and science can convey.

The Thinking Body Kadambari Shivaya
The Thinking Body

Kadambari Shivaya

2016

India / 81 mins
La danza è lo stato dell’essere che trascende il proprio fisico, che scaturisce in stati profondi di menti risonanti in uno spettro senza tempo. Le forme di danza classica indiana forniscono un mezzo perfetto per le interazioni di emozioni in totale armonia, indipendentemente dal tempo, dallo spazio e dal sesso.

The Tie That Binds

Lanchi Le

2016

USA / 22 mins
After the death of her father, Allison must come back home to a mother who sent her away to a conversion therapy camp. Allison and Lorene must find a new balance between them after death and must struggle through the reality of the betrayal that costed Allison her identity.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/171848527

The Transgender Widow

Cressandra Thibodeaux

2016

USA
“The transgender widow”, a feature-length documentary, follows Nikki Araguz-Loyd and her court case from 2010 – 2015, as she battles to be recognized as her deceased husband’s spouse in the State of Texas. The film begins in 2010, when Nikki Araguz is denied the benefits of her deceased husband, a firefighter killed in the line of duty, because Nikki was born a male.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/178106893

The Visionists of Boston

Josh Kastorf

2016

USA / 16 mins
The Visionists were a small circle of young artists that were meeting in a “queer kind of place” in the Boston area in the 1890s. Though the group has nearly been forgotten, its members left an important legacy through the work they created and the people they inspired.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/181954573

Three

Henger Lin

2016

Watch... https://vimeo.com/179195448

Three is a Party

?

2016

USA / 7 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/148831881

Three Minutes with Myself

Chen Qiu

2016

China / 3 mins
Artist and filmmaker Chen Qiu explores the relationship between her body, her camera and herself.

Tigger!

Marvin Wayne

2016

Spain / 10 mins
Tigger! it's one of the outstanding personalities of the new burlesque that has reappeared in the off-off Broadway in New York. Second part of the burlesque series started with "Dirty Martini". 

Tiptoeing

Matanel Lustig,
Yarden Kashtan

2016

Israel / 10 mins
Eliezer Leibowitz is an ultra Orthodox Jew. Eliezer is torn between his religious beliefs, and his sexual inclinations and hobbies, which he hides under the bed.
When he sees an advertisement for a dancing audition, he decides to sign up under the name "Eli". During his dance he is able to break through his religious world, but does he really want to pass the audition?

Todo sexo es político

Antonella Centurion

2016

Argentina / 22 mins

Too Wide

Moyin Saka

2016

UK / 7 mins
This deceptively simple film has many layers. Cleverly shot through a surveillance camera, it references the feelings of being under constant social scrutiny that many trans people and cis women feel. Travis Alabanza demands the right of freedom from the gender binary through spoken word narration. I loved this film – how many times have we dressed to go out and faced the world feeling good, feeling sharp, on a high, to then step out into the street and be ridiculed or asked to defend our choice of expression?
Watch...https://youtu.be/FvUHs19s_Xg

Touch

Mischa Badasyan

2016

Germany
Watch...https://vimeo.com/178876570

Tournures

Sebastien de Buyl

2016

Belgium / 8 mins
In another social setting where gender is reversed, a man tries to free himself from a torrent of prejudice, alienation and stigma. Embodying emancipation, claiming sexual equality.
Wtch… https://vimeo.com/165424385

Trans Diary Contemplation Series:
#1 Voldemort

Alvis Choi

2016

Transness and transition - what does it mean to the artist as a non-binary trans creature?
Watch...https://vimeo.com/148134256

Trans Etherium

Aja Pop,
Joseph Liatela

2016

A film about metamorphosis, in which the artist embodies a human-like creature enduring a tormented birth, who overcomes bondage from a world not made for them. The artist undergoes multiple forms of rope bondage and a progression of physical transformation–symbolizing both the emotional limitations and safety of remaining closeted. Drawing a parallel to the artist’s experience of deferring medical transition and the pain of becoming other.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/178274435

Trans Action Kay Garnellen
Trans’Action

KAy Garnellen

2016

Germany / 10 mins
Between dream and reality, Trans’Action is a fantastical gender bending experiment. With Emy Fem, Sadie Lune and KAy Garnellen.

Transitioning Transgender Children
Transitioning:
Transgender Children

Olivier Semonnay

2016

Spain / 52 mins
In a series of frank and revelatory interviews, Oliver and Montserrat take an incisive look into the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people, ranging in age from eight to young adulthood. Their cinematic approach to documentary storytelling draws in the viewer with alluring visuals that enliven the oral histories of individuals and families navigating their way through uncharted territory. Sharply edited, this briskly paced film embarks upon a journey down the many eddies in a pool of gender identities.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/199130495  

TransParent Adel Clemente
TransParent

Adel Clemente

2016

After ten years abroad, a sudden death in the family compels a trans woman to return home and see her son for the first time as herself.
Philippines
Watch...https://youtu.be/VnyVERZ_MkM

Trigeni III:
The Mother

Agapi Kousten

2016

Greece

Tunnel of Colors /
Tunel Koloretsua

Deiane Moreno

2016

Basque Country / 11 mins
Miren is preparing her wedding. One day she meets an old friend from university. An encounter that will lead to know herself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/169191445

Two

Rotem Plitman

2016

Israel / 13 mins
Ellie, an insecure teenage girl finds herself spending time in the company of the lead singer of a band she admires. The two's relationship develops over the course of the night.

Um Brinde

João Vigo

2016

Brazil
Elias sempre evitou ir a enterros e velórios. Até o dia em que Cacau exigiu a presença do amigo em seu próprio enterro.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/187080912

Um Café

Clarissa Rebouças

2016

Brazil
Stuck to a recent past, Vicky's memories still live with her.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/185701219

Un Nuevo Error

Jesús Miguel Pedraza Madrid

2016

México / 37 mins
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/161668571

Under the Same Moon /
A Mesma Lua

Victor Oslo

2016

Brazil / 12 mins
Some friends are planning to humiliate André, who is openly gay, at the graduation ceremony. Will Van be honest and come out?
Watch... https://youtu.be/uLtivGKrCPo  

Unsteady

David Javier

2016

X Ambassador’s emotional track ‘UNSTEADY’ perfectly underscores a couple at their breaking point. “UNSTEADY” speaks to everyone who’s contemplated walking away from a love that may or may not be worth fighting for.
Watch...https://youtu.be/GsVXnCGij5o

Us

Avery Archie

2016

USA / 10 mins
This comedic web series explores the lives of Joshua and Avery, a unique duo in Los Angeles, as they explore Uber, exercise, and privilege.

Vacio A Carmen Rojas Gamarra
Vacio/a

Carmen Rojas Gamarra

2016

Peru, Spain / 5 mins
Vacío/a is an experimental piece that speaks of a sentimental breakup, told through an IKEA catalogue. What happens with the objects, once bought? What people do they arrive to, and what stories do they become a part of?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/5AjM6bkZ_qE

Vague

Mariah Garnett

2016

USA / 5 mins
"What are you looking at?" You'll never quite be sure in Dynasty Handbag's hilarious send-up of Madonna's magnum opus, recast in a semi-professional queer art context where no afternoon hike is what it seems…
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175141849

Variations on Breathing

Jean Carlo Ramirez

2016

4 mins
How can we embrace our true selves amid an ocean of false social constructs and unconscious biases? Borrowing from Vrijmoet’s “Non-Ordinary Reality” painting series and Le Boeuf's compositions for prepared piano, “Variations on Breathing” leads the viewer from the deep sleep of unknowing through a physical and moral struggle to free the self. Metaphors for transformation are explored through the lens of Ramirez's immersive maximalist cinematography, improvised movement, the shedding of aqueous skin, and the transition from full immersion in water to surfacing for air.
Watch... https://youtu.be/3jNCGJYZnxs

Vat Do You Vahnt for Bwekfas?

Jibz Cameron

2016

USA / 3 mins
Dynasty Handbag returns to Outfest in camp and abject glory with this comic music video about the way today's choices prepare us for having no future choice. 

Vibrator Wes Chew
Vibrator

Wes Chew

2016

Canada / 5 mins
Two women play out the power dynamic in their relationship in a supernatural way.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/155339252

Vildman:
Bambino Selvaggio

Alexi Carpentieri

2016

A real story of a young Swedish guy who built his “realm” on sex. An extreme ride showing freedom, youth and the power of sex.

Virginia Woolf’s Personal Assistant

Carly Usdin

2016

UK / 3 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/HGtan19QjoQ

Vivien.Liebe.

Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber

2016

Germany / 13 mins
When a baby gets underway in a threesome, the only question there is to answer, is whether all of them can refrain from being selfish and give love to multiple people simulaniously.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/175885074

Wait Up

Louisa Fielden,
Prinze George

2016

USA / 4 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/QPYICtFLBeY

Wanker

Grace Blick

2016

4 mins
In pursuit of the perfect relationship, a girl purchases a synthetic version of herself from the cloning company ‘U2U’. Although it would seem the pair are the most compatible match, soon the clone becomes more comfortable in the world than her original and begins to outgrow the life she was created to live.

Warning Shot

Tina Takemoto

2016

USA / 10 mins
One death. Three versions of the crime. James H. Wakasa, a 63-year-old Japanese American bachelor, was shot to death by military police at Topaz internment camp during World War II. Was it justifiable homicide, an accidental fatality, or second-degree murder? This queer experimental film essay uses the Rashomon effect to juxtapose three conflicting accounts regarding the circumstances and cause of his death.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/142545992

What’s in a Label?

Rob Eagle

2016

UK / 6 mins
WDIYFF veteran Rob Eagle returns with a new film exploring the relationship between labels and generations. We get to see three pairs of intergenerational LGBTQs debate how the language we’ve used to identify ourselves has developed and changed over the years.

White Nights

Mark Thiedeman

2016

USA / 70 mins
The classic love story by Fyodor Dostoevsky is transposed to a world of glittering dance floors and neon lights in the second feature by Arkansas filmmaker Mark Thiedeman.  WHITE NIGHTS is a pseudo-musical, queer adaptation of a tale of love at first sight and all the inexplicable, operatic confusion it brings.  As a hopeless daydreamer falls for a mysterious young man obsessed with his former lover, he finds himself compelled to help — and in doing so, falls madly in love.

Who We Are

Raphael Niederhauser

2016

Germany / 7 mins
Jonas is bullied at school. But he tries to ignore it – telling himself that it is not that bad. What should happen at the end? But when the relation to he boyfriend starts to be affected, he has to decide between standing up for love and staying a victim.
Watch...https://youtu.be/UbJV5wCN2qg

Who Will Hear my Sigh?

Mel Vee

2016

Canada / 5:12 mins
A woman, reflecting on her experiences as a maid in Canada, wonders who will listen to hear story, who will hear her sigh? Made as part of the 2016 Herland Video Production Workshop presented by Telus Optik Local, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and Spring Street Films.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/184773245

Why We March

Dina Boyer

2016

This is a preview trailer for a documentary about the history and meaning of San Francisco’s annual Trans March. Archival footage will be mixed with interviews of folks who go to the Trans March. The finished documentary titled “Why We March” will highlight the symbolism, the sounds, the people, the issues and the diversity of the Trans March in San Francisco.

Won’t the Real Transformer Please Stand Up?

Namita Aavriti,
Gee Imaan Semmalar

2016

India / 6 mins
A superhero film about trans* lives.
Watch...https://youtu.be/p6eM0S1P0yI

Xanh
Xanh

Sal Tran

2016

Xanh’s main goal is to save up money for top surgery. Their mother is a garment seamstress who polices Xanh’s gender presentation and performance through the creation of feminine clothes. As their mom starts to criticize what they choose to wear, Xanh experiences a series of nightmares and finds their dreams literally shattered.

Yes, Jesus Loves Me

Jayden Marre

2016

Yes, Jesus Loves Me explores the life of Frosty, a young Christian with same-sex attraction. He discusses his belief in God, views on Christians in the media, doubts and struggles as a gay Christian and Jesus’ love for all people. The film also features two Christians and an ex-Christian who present their experiences with Christianity and Homosexuality.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/188810575

You, Me, Us

Danylo Hauk

2016

USA
Elizabeth keeps her biggest secret locked in a room until he tries to break free.

Ysa Yaneza:
Tea

Bart

2016

USA / 4 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/Xl7AeQqGSzY