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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...

2012 - UPDATED: October 2023

 

 

 

 

 

¿Cuál es la Diferencia?

Fernanda Sanjurjo

2012

Uruguay / 20 mins
Una muestra de cómo no tener en cuenta un enfoque de diversidad de género puede llevar a diagnósticos de salud erróneos, lo que puede afectar a la salud de las personas LGTIB. 

Adonis

Eliezer Pérez Angueira

2012

Cuba / 6 mins

Aimlessly /
Sin Rumbo

Soledad Mariel Fernández

2012

Argentina / 6 mins
Watch...https://vimeo.com/45676883

Allone

Luigi Cataldo

2012

Italy / 8 mins
A woman locked on the body of a young artist.
Watch...https://youtu.be/wJIKFYaRwoU

Axel & Peter

Rosa von Praunheim

2012

Germany / 41 mins
A four-day-long clash of titans starring Axel Ranisch and Peter Kern with an off-the-cuff duet about diets and a sex scene featuring two pointing fingers…  Nervously nibbling on a sausage and equipped with a red plastic rose, German director and actor Axel Ranisch waits for his Austrian counterpart, Peter Kern, at the airport in Berlin. The account of their very first meeting turns into a self-ironical, bitchy satire on the ‘rhythm of fat’ and gay desire.

Balls /
Couilles

Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine

2012

Canada / 2 mins
“Couilles” is the French expression for having “guts” or “balls”. A brave woman. A raw and queer body filmed “à nu…”.

Bellboy

Blacky Mendez

2012

UK / 19 mins
Plagued with a bunch of personal issues that he is overwhelmed with, an attractive young stud named Jake flees his hometown and heads north to get to away. To help him survive in the new city, he becomes a bell boy — though he is instructed to not play with guests, some rules are meant to be broken… Can he let go of the past and make room for a new love interest before he leaves town forever?

Boi Oh Boi

Thirza Cuthand

2012

Canada / 10 mins
After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male. This experience involved a six month period of her life during which she went by the name Sarain, which she would have been called had she been born a boy, and asking to be called by male pronouns. Complicated by mental health crises, Cuthand found themselves in a mental health group home for women, having to hide their gender dysphoria. After a considerable amount of thought and discussion, Cuthand changed her mind and decided to remain a Butch Lesbian. Explaining her decision, she touches on the desire to maintain a connection to the Lesbian community, as well as the sexy genderfucking that happens when one is a masculine woman. Shot partially on location in Hamburg, Germany, riding back and forth on the UBahn is a metaphor for her eventual acceptance of fluctuating between a masculine and a feminine gender. In a nod to her two spirited ancestors, she mentions that she would have been able to make up her own gender had colonization not happened.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/54810927

Boy's Period

Mei-yi Lam

2012

Hong Kong / 20 mins

Buffalo Boy:
Don’t Look East

Adrian Stimson

2012

Canada / 7 mins
Buffalo Boy is outrageous and excessive. But going too far is about taking audiences out of their comfort zones and reflecting their prejudices back at them, refusing to legitimize them. In recreating the Wild West as a camp spectacle, Stimson’s work is in dialogue with and indebted to artists such as Lori Blondeau and Kent Monkman, among others, in whose work we see the same love of twisted elegance, parodic exaggeration and elaborate staginess. Mixing satirical spectacle, camp aesthetics and anti-colonial critique, these artists depict the West as high-camp theatre, in which everything is done “in quotations” and nothing is what it seems to be.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/370143244

Candle-manifestation, Gothenburg

Varg Holmdahl

2012

Sweden / 9 mins
Questions around police presence at Pride events have been debated since the earliest days of the Pride movement, in the wake of the police raid on Stonewall Inn in 1969. In 2012, a change of the Gothenburg Pride organizers policy on violence prompted activists to creatively highlight what seemed like a double standard. In the film there is a brief clip of a police intervention in the Pride park a few days earlier, where queer protesters were taken into custody.

Christine In The Cutting RoomChristine in the Cutting Room

Susan Stryker

2012

USA / 4 mins
This nontraditional reimagining of Christine Jorgensen, who in 1952 became a celebrity after sex reassignment surgery, sets in-your-face archival footage to an electronica soundtrack.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/erNy3Mh41gQ

CinderfellaCinderFella

Colin H. Duffy

2012

USA / 6 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/F9ZA7bn5ujk

Cóctel de Gambas

David Rodríguez

2012

Spain / 11 mins
El padre facha, la madre histérica, el tío gracioso, la tía "progre", el abuelo senil, el hijo borracho y el gay. El cóctel de gambas está servido esta Navidad.
Watch...https://youtu.be/VyZMoHEzLIE

Crunch Pop

Grace Raso

2012

USA / 6 mins
Move your body to the sounds of hip 1980s aerobics music. This colorful and upbeat video clip is filled with glitter, snacks, wigs, and flashy outfits.
Watch...https://youtu.be/Rp9mdEh0SKY

Da Alegria Do Mar E De Outras Coisas
Da Alegria, Do Mar e de Outras Coisas

Ceci Alves

2012

Brazil / 13 mins
The transvestite Nem Glamour, which does shows by night in Salvador de Bahia, saw her best friend Joy, also a transvestite, get murdered by military policemen. Nem accused them and now pays the price for it: Persecuted and reviled, she is forced to run away from the country, but only after her last show.
Watch... https://youtu.be/5nP4QPmV8dc

Do you, Andy...

Arvin Chen

2012

Taiwan / 4 mins
After 4 years, 8 months and 10 days, my best friend, are you ready?
Watch... https://youtu.be/Wv65Avng6zg

Dukes and Barons /
Duques e Barões

Kiko Alves

2012

Brazil / 18 mins
A vida às vezes nos coloca em caminhos estranhos e nos leva a lugares que questionam nosso modo de perceber o mundo. Quando nos condicionamos sempre a seguir em frente esquecemo-nos do que temos no presente, no agora. Verônica sente que algo ficou perdido.
Watch...https://youtu.be/LaXO4MFjVzs

Elicriso

Alessandro Antonaci

2012

Italy / 19 mins
A young man reads a diary of the future

Fuck My Life

Xandra Ibarra

2012

USA, Mexico / 4 mins
Fuck My Life, named after Ibarra's full-length performance work of the same name, follows a sordid and fatigued showgirl as she sluggishly awakes to make up with yet another day.

Gay in a Day

Yair Hochner,
Anat Salomon

2012

Israel / 60 mins
These materials construct this film and portray a rich mosaic of voices and experiences in the LGBT community in Israel.
The objective of this project was to enable its participants to present their individual point of view showcasing the different meanings of lesbian, gay, trans or bi identity in Israel.
Watch… https://youtu.be/kHOaAOVbmCU

Gay Pride

Pierre Primetens

2012

France / 1 min
Une spectatrice de la Gay pride confie ses impressions à la caméra de Pierre Primetens.

Gloucester City, My Town

Krissy Mahan

2012

USA / 3:57 mins
In typical Fisher Price style, Mahan depicts the continual  encounters of what “being a daughter” means in my working class town, even for a butch lesbian.

God is love

Edward Lyon

2012

UK / 10 mins
a man in his new home is delighted to receive an invitation to attend a church service on the local cliff top. He isn't nearly so delighted when he gets there.

Gone with the Smoke

Junny Zhu Ni

2012

Macao / 14 mins
Instigated by Ar Dick and a bunch of friends, Ka Ming takes on the habit of smoking during college. A year after graduating, Ka Ming realizes that whenever he smokes, he cannot help recalling his college life and the guy who taught him to smoke.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/46956138

Google Chrome:
Yours Truly

Hieu Tran

2012 

USA
A guy also uses the web to save his long distance relationship.

Hairy

Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine

2012

Belgium, Canada / 2 mins
“Many trans men affirm their masculinity with beards or moustaches,” byol asserts. In this video, “I am performing masculinity by transferring 100 grams of my own hair to my face to become a realistic Asian man”.

I Love My Skin

Terry Haines

2012

 Canada / 4 mins
A quirky conversation about the affects of colonialism on the minds of First Nations children.

In & Out

Carol Montealegre

2012

6 mins
As to the actual representation of the image is always, partially, phantasmatic. Peggy Phelan
This proposal was an action to be seen online.
The body is the central theme. The body in interaction with Other bodies, establishing a dialogue with other bodies, with themselves, with the camera, the political body, the social body, the human body.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/52391512

Invisible Parents

Mike Buonaiuto

2012

UK
Imagine if your family wasn’t legally recognised in the majority of Europe. That’s the shocking scenario examined in a new online short film, which is the first of its kind to use Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of the alarming inequalities facing gay parents throughout Europe.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/aeBy_q4i40s

Invisible Picture /
Retrato Invisivel

Denise Soares

2012

Brazil / 18 mins
Monica takes care of her grandfather who is in a coma. An unnexpected visit of a friend breaks her routine. It’s Lara, and she will reveal secrets that even Monica does not know.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/67735515

Keep Breathing Orr Sigoli
Keep Breathing

Orr Sigoli

2012

Israel / 14 mins
A young man’s strong feelings for his ex turns into an obsession when he starts stalking him and even turns up at his girlfriend’s house. Better sense prevails and he is back to reality with support of his best friend.
Watch... https://youtu.be/1g8AnGc71hI

Keep It Straight!

Vinicius Salles

2012

UK / 20 mins
In London, a gym offers a specific training: the Gay Boxing Club. This film take a close look at the steps of its founder Ben Day and Scott Valentine, one of its members. These two characters have broken the rules by fighting the roles that society forges for man to play whether straight or gay.

Kinsey

Karmen Wessels

2012

South Africa / 12 mins
James, supposed to be straight, falls for his best guy friend Nico.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/wGq3O0oLRX8

Making Peace with the Wind

Kyrahm,
Julius Kaiser

2012

 Italy / 4 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/46495865

Murr My Best Dress
Murr:
My Best Dress

Calvin Hudson Hwang

2012

Canada
Watch...https://vimeo.com/38675357

Pablo Y David Javier MarzoaPablo y David  

Javier Marzoa

2012

Spain / 14 mins
The story of a couple and their difficulties to normalize their situation.
Watch...https://youtu.be/pc-aZfbkasM

Parole Rosette

Katrina Daschner

2012

Austria / 8 mins
Trailer...https://youtu.be/HCC3W4kHi5A

Por lo Que se Ve...

Emmanuel Duprez

2012

Mexico / 42 mins
Un joven es víctima del acoso de sus compañeros por ser homosexual y decide suicidarse porque no aguanta la situación, su mejor amiga se hace pasar por lesbiana para comprobar que en su escuela hay homofobia.

Porn Again, Vol. 1:
Mutation of a Transsexual

Sofia Moreno

2012

USA / 7 mins
A personal account of the artist’s body as raw material for alteration and as a medium for refusing fetishization.

Prayer That Works /
L’orazione Efficacissima

Renato Muro

2012

Italy / 7 mins
A priest asks a young man to help him make the necessary preparations for a procession.

Resisterectomy Chase JoyntResisterectomy

Chase Joynt

2012

USA / 8:54 mins
Resisterectomy is a 4-part multi-media moving image, picture and text installation that challenges the boundaries of a gendered body through the examination and infiltration of, in and on various medical procedures and spaces. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/nPLdJMm0TPA

Road Movie

Elle Flanders, Tamira Sawatzky

20212

Canada
Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky’s powerful and beautifully nuanced installation, Road Movie, examines contemporary life in Palestine. Palestinians living in the West Bank are confronted with a segregated and impossible road system made all the more problematic and unpredictable by shifting political currents. The subjects of the films, from Palestinian ambulance and taxi drivers to Israeli settlers and human-rights activists (who were all filmed while Flanders and Sawatzky travelled the segregated roads) offer a unique and unconventional glimpse into the human landscape of this volatile land. Filmed in stop-motion animation, with a screen set-up suggesting the foreboding wall surrounding Palestine, Road Movie is full of arresting and vibrant images, from the deserts of the Jordan Valley to the circumference of Jerusalem. The piece serves as an elegy for people and places that are rarely seen and heard. And for those who no longer see one another.' Trailer... https://vimeo.com/63464962

Scandal

Gilbert Mayo

2012

The Philippines
Watch...https://youtu.be/WDSgvqRslew

Seminal

Bren Ryder

2012

Canada / 10 mins
A queer couple documents their journey to become pregnant. From the trip to the sperm bank, interviews about their experience, to the explicit sexual encounter and subsequent sperm injection, this film uses simultaneous images and subtitle text for a unique viewing experience.

Sin Envoltura Roberto Mares
Sin Envoltura

Roberto Mares

2012

Mexico / 16 mins
Dos enamorados juegan con sus vidas poniéndolas en riesgo...
Trailer...https://youtu.be/a-BgaJ_1_i0

Stacey

Elissavet Chatzicharalampous

2012

Germany / 22mins

Te Amo

Juan M. Fernández Chico

2012

Watch...https://youtu.be/o1Q8BRX8BXk

The Casting

Jason Bradbury

2012

USA / 3 mins
A short film featuring the boys of AMCK Models. Inspired by the banned Larry Clark CK ads of the 90s.
Watch... https://youtu.be/tmBOPoW8H7A

The Jeweller /
Il Gioielliere

Kyrahm,
Julius Kaiser

2012

Italy / 7 mins
Watch...https://vimeo.com/37236015

The Moment of Truth

Oliver Valente

2012

USA / 12 mins
A story about an Iranian ultra-religious family who have immigrated to the US, that are about to learn that their son is a homosexual.

The Right Time

Hamish Steele

2012

UK
When is the right time to tell a secret to your best friend?
Watch...https://vimeo.com/43620513

Things are Different Now

Ryan Conrad

2012

Canada / 4 mins
How do younger queers who have never known a world without AIDS, including the accompanying prevention and treatment strategies that have been popularized over the last two decades, relate to the history of the epidemic and to those that managed to survive its earlier conditions?
Watch...https://vimeo.com/55874290

Tram-Pa-Ram

Anya Stetsenko

2012

Russia / 1 min
Amusing gender joke.
Watch...https://youtu.be/WYYXK3gahE0

What I Love About Being Queer

Vivek Shraya,
Lia Hietala

2012

Canada / 19 mins
34 beautiful queers. One big question.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/41154481

Wielandstrasse 20, 3. OG

Jan Soldat

2012

Germany / 2 mins
Ein klassischer Jan Soldat: Der unaufgeregte und unaufdringliche Einblick in Jörgs und Karstens Beziehung in ihrer Berliner Wohnung.

Wired4Sound

Atong Atem

2012

Australia / 5 mins
A celebration of evolving technologies as tools for performance and their parallels with the evolving queer body, the evolving sick body and the evolving black body. Technology as puppetry and the screen as praxis for our desires and our imagined selves.

With love, your children

Okvir

2012

Bosnia Herzegovina / 15 mins
With love, your children depicts personal stories of LGBTIQA persons on building parent-caregiver-child relationship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It explores the narratives of queering the borders of biological and chosen families through the prism of experiences of unconditional love, closets, understanding, support, courage, rejection, erasure and migration of LGBTIQA persons. This documentary movie invites every parent, caregiver and child to rethink the persona/political way of how we build our relationships and communities within patriarchal society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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