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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...

2014 - UPDATED: October 2024


 

(Trans)parência

Pedro Henrique Conrado de Macêdo

2014

Brazil
Maria Clara is a woman who fights for your rights. She talks about your transsexuality process and issues that evolves this Trans universe, as your struggle for a social name and against the heteronormativity.

A Baroque Ball

Frédéric Nauczyciel

2014

France / 5 mins
Quelques instants de « voguing » au Centre Pompidou avec la vogue scène de Paris et Dale Blackheart (Baltimore).
Watch... here

A Flash Niall Cutler
A Flash

Niall Cutler

2014

Ireland
Two boy band loving girls stumble upon a scandalous secret in a hall closet after sneaking into a sold out concert.

A Love Letter to Machism

Bo Justine

2014

France / 4 mins
Loving and attentive compilation.

A Love Such As This /
Ek Maaya Ashi Hi

Vaibhav Kar

2014

India / 27 mins
A story about a mother, an illiterate poor Marathi widow, who accidently finds out that her son is gay. She is shattered and furious. She beats her son, abuses him and tries to convince him that whatever he is doing is wrong until she meets another mother when her world gets turned upside down.
Trailer... here 

About Us

Cutiepoc productions

2014

Germany / 13 mins
About Us was about a community experiencing how it is to collaborate on a soap together. Filmed on and off over a period of 1 year “About Us” was a community and collective project bring- ing people from the Berlin and wider QTIBIPoC community together to find our own alternative narratives.

Acceptance

Jaishrish Udai

2014

India
In a world filled with prejudice, a young couple comes face to face with the stark realities of an unjust judicial system.

Actual T.V. Picture

William E. Jones

2014

USA / 7 mins
A juxtaposition of footage of a jungle in Viet Nam being bombed by an American war plane, with a late-1960s television commercial showing recent advancements in the miniature transistors. This technology made possible improvements in consumer goods like television sets, but its origin was in military weaponry.
Watch… here

All Over Town

Matt Thomas

2014

Canada / 9 mins
Jesse, a young art student, works on a graffiti project to win back his ex-boyfriend Shane. Shane and his best friend Zack, however, uncover his true motivation.

All We Share

Erez Eisenstein

2014

Sweden / 25 mins
Two arborists, Samir and Sara, are hired to cut down a healthy tree in a family's backyard. Why the family wants the tree removed seems at first quite incomprehensible, yet the wife is determined, while the husband behaves rather strangely. It's obvious there's something they don’t want to talk about. While taking the tree down, Samir observes the backyard and the people he meets.

Always Think of Me in Your Lunch Break

Maria Chiriac

2014

UK / 2 mins
Always think of me in your lunch break' is an experimental short film focused on daydreaming and reverie, as an escape from reality, following the mind into the rabbit hole whilst detached from the immediate surroundings, capturing the the blurring contact with reality. This tells the story of an imaginary lunch time mental rendez-vous of two lovers in a forbidden relationship. The couple trapped in different real life coordinates, noisy urban soundscapes, secretly agree for a simultaneous daydreaming - during lunch break, irrespective of their actual location or surroundings they strongly long for time together in intimacy and rush to find bliss in the subconscious togetherness of an imaginary date.
Watch... here

Ambigu

Isaiah Lawrence

2014

USA / 2 mins
A non-narrative piece about ambiguity, androgyny, bodies, sensuality, music, and movement.
Watch...here

Another Way Out 2014
Another Way Out

Anna Gutmanis

2014

Three generations of LGBT Canadians talk about their life journeys - being bullied, coming out, and coming into their own. Stark black and white visuals highlight these candid, eloquent self-portraits. Anna Gutmanis' powerful song "Another Way Out" provides the soundtrack.
Watch...here

Antonio

David Muñiz

2014

Spain / 1 min
"¿Antonio? ¿Quién demonios es Antonio?"

Arianas

Hylnara Anny Vidal

2014

Brasil / 15 mins
Através dos sons, das imagens e do trabalho de ator, um transbordamento do que pode ser um acontecimento, ou um crime, na vida de duas meninas mulheres.

Through the sounds, images and work of acting, an overflow of what can be an event, or a crime, in the lives of two girls.
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Armagayddon

Martin Gaughan

2014

Ireland / 4 mins
A dystopian vision of Ireland in the wake of marriage equality
Watch...here

Asbjørn - The Love You Have In You

Thomas Dyrholm, Anders Morre

2014

Denmark
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Ashes

Tom Kalin

2014

USA / 6:34 mins
For Ashes, Tom Kalin photographed thousands of high resolution still images and "stitched" them into a moving image. While borrowing library books for research on another project, Kalin discovered, glued to the endpapers, ordinary "due date" ledgers stamped with dates spanning three decades. Inspired by these tiny ledgers—like skin or palimpsests that recorded an analogue history, an accumulation of many gestures—Kalin combines quotidian pictures snatched from his daily life with an evocative musical track by ongoing collaborator Doveman (Thomas Bartlett). The film layers dates and moments from Kalin's personal world with the public and global history of AIDS.
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Ayotzinapa Quisieron Enterrarnos…No Sabian Que Eramos Semilla

Daniel Brittany Chávez

2014

USA, Mexico / 10 mins
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Benny

Joshua Long

2014

Singapore / 4 mins

Beti Bina kal

Pranjal Vashishtha

2014

India / 5 mins
Arun don't want a baby girl, but dream of a future without daughters horrified him and he realize how wrong was his decision to abort his baby daughter and he decides to give birth to his daughter.

Between The Lines Leon Livshitz
Between the Lines

Leon Livshitz

2014

Israel / 8 mins
A unique point of view at the colorful crowd flowing through Tel Aviv's veins.

Boys Dario Pacheco
Boys

Dário Pacheco,
José Gonçalves

2014

Portugal / 12 mins
Through an old forgotten tape we enter into the world of fetish and fantasy of sports and locker rooms, however there is something beyond sex … there is a secret force uniting the team, the love between comrades. Love is the energy that binds the two men. These men are together to achieve victory, and love is the power that animates their bodies.
Trailer...here

Brother In Law Hassene Belaid
Brother in Law /
N'sibi – Le Bon-Frère

Hassene Belaïd

2014

Algeria / 21 mins
Ali, a young man from the lower class living in the Algerian town of Setif, leads a dull, narrow and isolated life. One evening, he is forced to give his sister-in-law, a trans woman, a ride home, yet Habiba’s ways are in total contradiction with his own values…
Trailer...here

Bubble

Zig Lam Yee Shing, Kaylen Quek Yu Lin, Korny Poh Ya Ching

2014

Singapore / 6 mins
A chance encounter of a girl and a cat in a small Southeast Asian village.
Watch...here

Candy

Hanna Szentpeteri

2014

Candy hasn't always been Candy.
Trailer...here

Chelsea and Mo

Tobi Hill-Meyer

2014

USA / 28 mins
Actress, activist and director Tobi Hill-Meyer has great success with her ”docu porns” that celebrate and explore trans women’s desires and sexual relations.

China

Tommy Llorens

2014

Spain / 4 mins
Unas viejas fotos pueden cambiar tu presente, tu futuro e incluso tu pasado.

Cityboy

Blacky Mendez

2014

UK / 27 mins
New to the City, young Max is struggling to find his feet and find love at the same time. With a chauvinistic manager who prides himself on being able to buy anything and everyone, Maxis caught between keeping up with the big boys and falling for the gorgeous barman the rest of the suited young men see merely as a commodity. Once he hears even the cute barman has been bought, Max starts to spiral out of control, trying to plays the game himself but without knowing the rules, there can only be trouble ahead, but the company is up for a big presentation where they need to please the big boss from Paris who flies in especially.

Clarisa

Juan De La Cruz

2014

Argentina / 7 mins
Algo no anda bien... el encierro en sí mismo no permite entender qué es. Díascíclicos se pasan en una casa de campo. Emociones incontrolables, pueden hacer perder el control hasta volverse todo confuso...
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Clothes

Leung Jojo

2014

16 mins
Nam is suffering from "gender identity disorder," the man has been seeking self-identity. Even he has a physical in a man body, the heart of the soul is female. In the process of seeking gender identity, he has thought he has been sick, gay and Cross-dresser. He is also confused, grief. He is very distressed and unable to find mind in any position. Because he don’t know that the unidentified confusion come from. He sits on the park and calls friends to talk.

Coffee Break

Sara Rico Castillo

2014

Spain / 2 mins
Carmen ha quedado con Sara para tomar un café....un café muy amargo...

Colby does America

Colby Keller

2014

USA / 52 mins
Colby Does America is a highly ambitious & hugely collaborative art project that entails the filming of erotic art pieces in all 50 states, and several provinces in Canada. Whether in front of the camera, or behind it, Colby Keller hopes this project will help him to further explore the representation and commodification of sexuality in today's society.

Corpi e Memorie

Claudia Mollese

2014

Italy / 10 mins
All’ombra delle loro abitazioni, anziane prostitute raccontano la storia di Mara, una transessuale che ha dato scandalo, in città e oltre, dagli anni ’50 fino al 2001. A tracciarne il ritratto sono i racconti di chi l’ha conosciuta e ha incrociato con le proprie esistenze la sua chiacchierata vita.

Crack Kazutoshi Inudo
Crack

Kazutoshi Inudo

2014

Japan / 19 mins
Satsuki is a bisexual teenager and she feels desolate. She loves her girlfriend Jun and she doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with her relationship but her mother doesn’t think it’s “normal”. Satsuki sways with her sexuality because of this and she has relations with a man. CRACK explores the fluidness of sexuality with teenagers in a modern Japan that still has traditional values.
Trailer...here

Crazy Hot

Stephanie Saint Sanchez

2014

10 mins
This short film takes a campy look at ups and downs of dating. It is a valentine to all those hopeless romantics that endure the lunatic antics of that special someone…if only for a song.

Crooked

Briana Blades,
Kristin Kent

2014

Canada / 5:39 mins
A documentary about genderqueer journalist, poet and artist Jess Sachse who is living with a congenital disability.

Crush and Love

Almendra Nieto

2014

Mexico / 5 mins
Blocked windows, fear your feelings, shame of falling in love with someone of your same sex, love,desire.
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Crush-Shake

Jagruti Jethe

2014

India / 10 mins
Beautiful girl next door… Chocolate boy… Teenage crush. Love is in the air. Which love? And where?
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Cunt Month March

Rosa von Praunheim

2014

Germany / 18 mins
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon of the worldwide LGBT scene: a pioneer, a gay activist, a provocateur – and a unique storyteller. From the 70’s onwards, he has been touching taboos and society’s raw points with his titles. Now he has accomplished one of his most ambitious projects, ROSA’S WORLD. Cunt Month March is one of the vignettes in this series depicting a moment in time and the beginning of a revolution around language.

Dear Grandpa /
Caro Nonno

Luca Ferri

2014

Italy / 18 mins
Three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their “dear grandpa”. Maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. they find themselves in different countries, yet in the same place. they confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to their octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for goethe, calvino and wallace and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love-hate for stravinsky. The appearance of the grandfather will clarify all doubts.
Trailer... here

Deux

Lauren Brim,
Jethro Massey

2014

USA / 11 mins
Three couples, heterosexual and homosexual, show the unifying element of love, the loss of balance in the dynamic of two, and the journey of the individual in a relationship. Set to Cello Sonata in A minor by Edvard Grieg, this film interweaves dance and fiction to show mankind’s intense desire for connection, the limitations of relationship, and how ultimately, we are all on a journey alone.
Trailer...here

Dirty Laundry

Drew Nelson

2014

USA / 5 mins
A boy just wants to read his bible while his darks are drying, but the guy folding towels behind him wants to jump his bones.

Dr Sharpe Alice Ash
Dr Sharpe

Alice Ash

2014

10 mins
Rose Durrell is a psychotic woman who has a disturbing affection for her doctor. Her actions result in harrowing circumstances.

El Armario Ruso

Miguel Ángel Viñas

2014

Spain, Russia / 42 mins
En Rusia es difícil hablar abiertamente sobre orientaciones sexuales "no convencionales". La homosexualidad ha sido durante muchos años tabú en esta sociedad pero la ley aprobada en junio del año pasado -que sanciona a quien se manifieste a favor de la homosexualidad en presencia de menores- ha complicado más la situación para gais, lesbianas, trasexuales y bisexuales. Algunos activistas de organizaciones en defensa de sus derechos creen que incluso ha servido de escudo para que grupos de extremistas neonazis lancen impunemente ataques contra esta comunidad, que después cuelgan en las redes sociales. Muchos confirman, también, que desde que se aprobó esta ley ha aumentado la homofobia, el miedo y el odio en el país.
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El Beso 2014
El Beso

Stef Jacob

2014

Argentina / 7 mins
Una persona toma la decisión que cambiará su vida y la de sus hijas para siempre. ¿Logrará su sueño de ser ella misma… o la vida de todas se convertirá en un desastre? El beso es una invitación a atreverse a ser feliz.
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El Evangelio Segun Mateo
El Evangelio Según Mateo

Jorge Vega Reyes

2014

Ecuador / 12 mins
While avoiding confrontation in the city by pretending they scarcely know one another, they laugh, make love and dream in their magical hidden place in the forest.
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El Sexo Sentido
El Sexo Sentido

Manuel Armán

2014

Spain / 57 mins
"El sexo sentido" retrata cómo viven y sienten algunos niños y niñas y sus familias la transexualidad. Cuando nacemos nos asignan un sexo en función de las diferencias biológicas pero... ¿qué ocurre cuando un niño o una niña se sienten incómodos con el sexo que les asignaron al nacer?
El documental ha entrado en la vida de niños como Ariel, Patri y Eli, y de jóvenes como Edurne, Alejandro y Leo, para retratar una realidad desconocida por la mayoría; mostrando los obstáculos que estos menores tienen para desarrollarse libremente y los problemas sociales, médicos y legales a los que se tienen que enfrentar.
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Esto a los Heteros no les Pasa

Miguel Lafuente

2014

Spain / 1 min
Este tipo de cosas nos les pasa a los heteros...
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Eve & Eve

Racheli Ben Zaken

2014

Israel / 3 mins
Interpretation of the Adam & Eve story.

Eyes 2014
Eyes

Xu Naixin

2014

China / 5 mins
All you see is a pair of eyes that tell you a life story.

Fact

Carole Menduni

2014

Belgium / 4 mins
The party seems to have started well, cheerful, when sexism and lesbophobia crash in violently.

FAG

Scott Fitzpatrick

2014

A personal Venn diagram, a conceptual cobbling together of interests and identifiers, a sound and animation experiment rendered in all 260 fonts on my MacBook.
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Flabzilla

Kayleigh O'Keefe

2014

4 mins
Flabzilla subverts the concept of the monstrous fatty and plays with common perceptions of an ‘othered’ physique. A morbidly obese behemoth rises from the sea and uses her body mass to attack the city of London, which is built entirely from cardboard and packaging tape. Treading a fine line between grotesque and sex, weighty flesh and physical power clash with intricately crafted landmarks until all is destroyed.

Floors Scrapers

Marita Kavtaradze

2014

Lithuania / 6 mins
‘The Floor Scrapers’ is a short dance piece about three friends – two guys and one girl, who are moving in to live together. While scraping the floor, guys find they have feelings for each other, but they are trying to hide them because of a fear to be misunderstood.

Free Bird Yu Jeong Hong
Free Birds

Yu-Jeong Hong

2014

USA / 10 mins
Timmy is a gay teenager living in an ultra-conservative family. The last thing he wants to do is talk about girls with Dad or listen to hellfire-and-brimstone sermons in church. Things change when he meets Xena, a gregarious free spirit, who tries to show Timmy that being yourself is more important than pleasing the wrong people.

Ğ

İsa Şahmarlı

2014

Azerbaijan / 6 mins
Trailer...here

Gabriel

Randa Maroufi

2014

France / 16 mins

Gay Terminology Challenge

David Levitz

2014

USA / 5 mins
A quick immersion in today’s slang of the American gay culture.
Watch...here

Gays Heart San Francisco

Luis Bustamante

2014

USA / 10 mins
In the second installment of Luis Bustamante's Docu-Diary, "Backstage Pass," Luis, Taylor, Craig and Matt go on a road trip across California to visit the gay mecca of the United States, San Francisco. A lot of the scenes from that chapter were deleted but in this ten minute short you can watch all of the shenanigans that took place on that road trip!

Gerardo

Andy Garzon

2014

Mexico / 5 mins
Gerardo is a gay man in the closet and he thinks he should marry a woman. But he cannot hide his secret.
Gerardo un joven que ha hecho todo lo correcto para encajar en esta sociedad como hombre un día se cansa fingir ser la persona que no es y se verá forzado a tomar una decisión drástica con su vida.
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Gestures

Vishwanath G. Shirodkar

2014

India / 24 mins

Going Here

Courtney Trouble

2014

USA / 13 mins
Porn novice, Lyric Seal, and porn veteran Jiz Lee confront old traumas of being stuck in an elevator by having hot, consensual sex in that very location.

Green Willow

Olivia Samantha

2014

Indonesia / 6 mins
A short movie about equality, false love, and despair.
As an act of love, Adam made a sculpture of a person he deeply in love with. However, the process of making this sculpture is much easier than trying to make his love interest fall for him.
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Hey Sexy!

Pascale Neuschafer

2014

South Africa / 6 mins
A documentary short about street harassment in South Africa.

Honest Living

Kevin Barbagallo

2014

A young man struggles to maintain financial independence while hiding a secret from his family.
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How to Get a Boyfriend

Sebastian Rhodes

2014

How to get a gay boyfriend... If you have ever wanted a sexy gay boyfriend, you need this video. A hot boyfriend is hard to get but totally worth it. This video is also a joke.

Human Machines / Maskinmänniskor

Ricky Lindén

2014

Finland
In a society similar to ours, but with further developed technology, robots are build for different tasks. The next step in development is to give these machines feelings with a new type of circuit board. Two robots, Chip and Loop, are chosen and the optimistic Jack and his pessimistic assistant Liam follows the development of the experiment. The robots become more humanlike compared to their old cold ways and they get to experience happiness, sadness, fear and love. Jack has waited many years for this to happen and is in the beginning very happy with the results. The sceptic Liam however gets scared when he notices that it actually works. He develops hate against the two childlike machines and plans to sabotage the whole project.

Hybrid /
Híbrido

Márcia Bellotti

2014

Brasil / 6 mins
Em um jogo entre performance e ficção, 'Híbrido' é uma videoarte acerca dos conflitos e convergências entre aspectos masculinos e femininos, assim como as obrigações, subjugações e relações de poder relacionados ao falo.

In a game between fiction and documentary, the film talks about the conflicts and convergences between the male and female aspects, as well as obligations, subjugations and power relations related to the phallus.

I Am 2014
I Am

Anna Rodgers

2014

This beautiful and poignant film was commissioned by TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) and is a conversational piece which explores gender identity and transgender experiences in Ireland.
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I Am What I Am

Equal Ground

2014

Sri Lanka / 28 mins

I Am Yours To Keep

Iqrar Rizvi

2014

Canada / 2 mins
I am yours to keep is a performance for the camera where the veiled figure unfolds the conflicting nature between one’s identity and the body in a state of isolation.
Trailer… here

I Don’t Need To Know You

Katia Repina,
Luca Aimi

2014

Spain / 6 mins
The collaborative project by photographers Katia Repina and Luca Aimi explores Cruising in Cataluña, Spain. This process of searching for sexual encounters in public places such as parks, beaches and parking lots has attempted to reveal and understand the complexity of motivations and feelings that drive the subjects. Broadcasting a sense of loneliness, shame, guilt, exclusion and adrenaline the narrative poses disturbing questions in search for hidden reasons and excuses. After all, these emotions are what make a human being feel alive.

I Hit Send, or Modern Meltdown

Steven Boyle

2014

Ireland / 4 mins
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I Wish I Was A Lesbian
I Wish I Was A Lesbian

Erika Lust

2014

19 mins
Maria's deepest fantasies come true when she finds herself being hosted by a hot and sweet lesbian couple.

Imaan – This Is The Beginning

Faizan Fiaz

2014

UK / 7mins
Imaan is the world’s longest-running peer support group. Founded in London in 1999, it continues to support LGBT Muslims. Director Faizan Fiaz’s film delves into the history of the group, how it evolved and how it has met the challenges that face LGBT Muslims in the UK.

Indian Sex /
Desi Chudaai

Zeeshan Akhtar

2014

India / 18 mins
A film about male to male sexuality in India.
Watch... here

Insomnomaniac

Troy Martin

2014

 

Internal Body Shots

Kristian Peters,
Jasco Viefhues,
Emma Simon

2014

Germany / 13 mins
“Tell me one of your memories, maybe your first memory of your body or your cock.”
Hans, Can, Grete and Coco meet for a chat about physicality, in order to get to know each other and exchange experiences. An experimental conversation about gender norms, genItaly and the body within, the one you only see once you got to know someone.

Invisibles

Flor Maya,
Luis Huerta,
Oscar Maskie,
Jaime Blanco,
Don Anahí

2014

México / 7 mins

Jack’d

Huynh Nguyen Dang Khoa

2014

Vietnam / 33 mins
The day before Andy, a gay Vietnamese business man, leaves Vietnam, he makes a date with a famous actor on Jack’d.
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James Baldwin #1-#5

Marco Kane Braunschweiler

2014

4 mins
"I want to add to the discourse of work around Baldwin and this is a poetic response to his oeuvre. Listening to Baldwin talking I felt he was speaking to me, imploring me to think, to change. As my contribution, I’m stripping away the image to underscore the natural effect the photograph has to condense and flatten time and show just how little has changed in 50 years."
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Jizz Envy

James Diamond

2014

2 mins
An adult oriented mock fairy tale where (“female”) ejaculation combined with true love brings a happy ending to a trans-male narrative.

Johanna

Till Gombert

2014

Germany / 8 mins

Just friends /
Je suis en manque

Uli Decker

2014

Germany / 2 mins
Two friends remember the night they tried to have sex
One night, one bed, one blanket.
One man, one woman, one dream.
A shared memory...
Watch... here

Just Two Steps Away

Mujeer Pasha

2014

India / 53 mins
When two boys first met they realized that it was just one thing being together no matter what, but everything could end soon. They knew it well and that is why they kept each other two steps away.
Trailer...here

La Candidata

Tomás Balbas

2014

Spain, Catalonia / 7 mins
The Iron Woman, The Black Woman with a Golden Heart, Jesusa, the Rose Woman, The Calm Woman, and Esperanza Constitución. All of them are The Candidate: Six stories, six worlds, six voices, six women willing to say what they think and offer the best of them and to be themselves if you vote for them.

La dolce Siria

Ammar al-Beik

2014

UAE  / 24 mins
The Italian National Circus tent arrive in Damascus. However, there’s no trace of the magical realism told by Fellini. Even in that idealized place, made by dreams and celluloid, you can’t wait to run away. While the pictures of the riot pour into the TV, while the rockets whistle in the sky, the innocent look of two kids stretches time endlessly.
Far from the aseptic war story or the TV report, al-Beik’s documentary is a frantic research of a fictional normality, a heartfelt and insisted tale of a daily life even more unreal that fiction itself.

Ladybeard

Marit Östberg

2014

Sweden / 2 mins
Hair and pearls. Everything finally ends where it belongs. The cunt has the cake and eats it too.

Long Time Love Mitra Devi
Long Time Love

Mitra Devi

2014

Switzerland / 52 mins
Five lesbian couples in longterm relationships all of them sympathetic very conscious women including Sunci and Fab the founders of the popular lesbian online portal Shoeorg ask themselves 10 basic questions about their relationships eg Was it love at first sight What keeps you together and what could separate you What are your strengths and what are your weaknesses as a couple Do you still have sex.
Trailer… here

Love Is Gender Free

Michelangela Caldarella,
Igor Longhi

2014

Italy / 6 mins
Esistono molte definizioni di AMORE. In ciascuna di esse si descrive una relazione tra due soggetti ma in nessuna esiste distinzione di genere.

Love Me Forever

Sergio Muñoz Cano

2014

USA, Spain / 17 mins
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Love v/s Law

Sonal Giani,
Jeny Gada

2014

India / 8 mins
In 1860, the British colonial rulers introduced section 377 into the Indian penal code. Thus imposing in India the British Judeo-Christian morality of the time.
Section 377 stated that “Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life.”
Any sexual behaviour that did not lead to reproduction was considered to be unnatural. Homosexuality became a crime.
Then came a ray of hope, but it did not last long. On December 11, 2013 the Supreme Court of India delivered a shocking verdict upholding Section 377 criminalizing millions of Indians, specifically the LGBT community.
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Mary

Kent Monkman

2014

Canada / 15 mins

Matrimonio Per Tutt

Cinema Del Reale

2014

Italy / 3 mins

Meet Louis Gay

Karl Stavem

2014

Norway / 11 mins

Mimo
Mimo

Chang Pei Yee,
Oon Qian Yi Shannon

2014

Singapore / 2 mins
Animação tradicional 2D criada com tinta preta e cores pastéis. Inspirada por pinturas, linhas e cores de Joan Miró, MiMO é uma peça abstrata que explora a arte do movimento.

Traditional animation created with black ink and color pastels. Inspired by Joan Miro paintings of lines and colors, MiMO is an abstract piece that explores the art of motion.
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Model Workers

William E. Jones

2014

USA / 13 mins
A collection of paper money bearing images of workers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The montage includes colonies and the independent countries they became, as well as former and present socialist states. Intricately engraved details are arranged in chronological order; full views of the banknotes are in reverse chronological order, ending at the beginning: Mexico, 1914.

Mon Modèle Masculin est une Femme

Mikael Vilchez

2014

Switzerland / 3:38 mins
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My Father Is Gay Ambrish Bhatia
My Father is Gay

Ambrish Bhatia

2014

India / 35 mins
The movie is about a mature Indian gay man who is hunting for fun and Gay Love and in this hunt, he use fake details to attract young guys towards him but he get caught in a mess when one guy becomes hard on him and start blackmailing to him. His son came to know all this and then...
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Natura

Celia Wickham

2014

UK / 9:06 mins
The relationship between the filmmaker, her mother and her mother’s mental illness is depicted in this beautiful moving image film. The imagery of film burning and fracturing portrays a storm of emotion, an expression of memory, mental health and trauma. It’s a film to sink into and enjoy as it unfolds before you.
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Nomade 2014
Nomade

Lorenzzo K

2014

Argentina / 9 mins
Nomade is a visual and political poem about the experience of following our own path to become who we are, flowing with movement, space, light and love. Lorenzzo doesn’t have a settled house, neither does he have a single gender, nor a single lover… however, he remains on its axis, deepening his roots, to dream, to reinvent his world and fight back the domination, consumerism and patriarchy.
Trailer...here

Nude Crua Benedito Serafim
Nude /
Crua

Benedito Serafim

2014

Brasil / 22 mins
Tarcísio, membro de uma torcida organizada do Recife e entregador de água, mantém um caso amoroso com Adones, ator e escritor. Por não aceitar a homossexualidade de forma tranquila, Tarcísio decide acabar de vez com o seu romance.

Tarcísio, a member of a football fan organization in Recife and also a water delivery man, has an affair with Adones, actor and writer. Tarcísio, for not accepting his homosexuality, decides to put an end to their romance.
Trailer...here

Ojos Negros

Georgina López

2014

México / 13 mins

Opaque

Pauline Boudry

2014

10 mins
Both a document and a recreation of a performance, OPAQUE takes place in an abandoned public swimming pool. A series of curtains are drawn back, revealing layers of hot pink animal print and plumes of smoke, ultimately obscuring a Jean Genet inspired lipsynch.

Opening

Cristina Grosan

2014

20 mins
Eastern women meet their Western male clients online, in a sex chat studio where a transgender, on his way to become a woman, is the one in charge. But when he falls for a client he meets online, he’d give anything to finally be acknowledged as a woman. Except the image the client sees on his screen is someone else’s.

Out of The Closet, Kenya

Caren Otieno,
Iris Van der Spoel

2014

Kenya / 10 mins
Kate Kamunde from Kenya is one of the few lesbians who openly speaks about her sexual preference. A lot of homosexual Kenyans are still in the closet, because otherwise they risk being subjected to physical and verbal abuse everyday. Kate was married for 2 years to a man when she could no longer hide her secret, and so she came out, and strongly so.

Pain Killer

Dan Ban

2014

The film crashes straight into the story where we witness a very distraught and heartbroken man - seemingly mourning the loss of his male partner.
With only his dogs to accompany him on the day after his loss, he starts to really feel the loneliness and anguish, hence the copious amounts of painkillers and alcohol he consumes to drown the sorrows. He even starts to hallucinate, and a conversation with the 'Devil' ensues! However, the 'Devil' is in disguise (think 'Wolf Creek' meets Tony Abbott meets Kylie in Red Hot Pants - not gold!) and is potentially the voice of a very renowned bigoted politician -- and this outmoded, antiquated politician cannot be shaken from the heartbroken man's shoulder, however hard he tries.

Pat Stiletto

Karolina Malinowska,
Mav Gutarra

2014

UK
Music video for Alchemy Drive band.
Trailer... here

Patria o Arte

Óscar Andrés Acosta,
Iván Huidobro

2014

Chile/Colombia / 29 mins
Patria o arte is a documentary made in Havana, Cuba. It follows Lázaro and Grethel, two prominent artists in this Caribbean country where dreams, illusions, politics, and utopia blend together. This audiovisual journey reveals an age when artists struggle to move forward, to fill their life and spirit, on an island that remains frozen in time.

Penile code

Sharath Chandra Bose

2014

India / 15 mins
The story revolves around the life of a lesbian couple struggling to get past their problems they face under various political scenarios. Their relationship is fraught with tribulations both internal and external. Their relational dynamics undergo a massive change when an unexpected intruder enters their personal and sexual life.
Watch... here

Philadelphia

Stefanie Yan

2014

USA / 15 mins
Lived in the city of Philadelphia, Chutian is having a long distance relationship with his boyfriend back home. Under the conservative circumstance in China, he has to hide and lie about his homosexuality with his parents and friends. During the 15 minses short documentary, Chutian talked about how he became a gay at the beginning, he also talked about his parents and his family’s opinion on homosexuality.

Podríamos Jugar al Fin del Mundo

Elías Pedernera

2014

Argentina / 4 mins
El Camino Amarillo y Caminar De Elefante nos presentan el videoclip oficial de "Podríamos jugar al fin del mundo" que forma parte del disco "No sirvas ahí la tormenta" de Diegomartez, un cantautor solista de la ciudad de La Plata.
Watch... here

Polar Express

Karen Asmundson, Gwen Trutnau

2014

Canada / 4:52 mins
The Carnival is back in town and Jim is hell-bent for leather to ride the Polar Express and worship his ultimate fantasy: the airbrushed mural of the fur-clad polar goddess. A gender-bending heavy metal mid-way ride of ridiculous fun.
Watch...here

Poltergeist

Joaquín Tovar

2014

Spain / 1 min
Una familia, un secreto.

Polyamorous God

Laura Bispuri

2014

Italy / 4 mins
A music video representing metaphors of love and conflict in polyamorours relationships.
Watch...here

Portraits /
Retratos

Rafael Jardim

2014

Brazil / 15 mins
Two portraits. Alex hides his sexuality from his parents and Lara discovers hers after another betrayal of her boyfriend.

Post Religion x The End is Near

Alex Wolf

2014

UK / 3 mins / Music video
Post Religion's latest video is a collaboration with Italy-based clothing label The End Is Near. Premiered on C-Heads magazine and featured on Thvndermag, My Superhero Mag and Fizzymag, we used the concept of a fashion film to juxtapose memetic images relating to internet subcultures alongside the fast-food aesthetic of the collection. In this fantasy world that alludes to cyber culture images and hacker database visuals, reality is reflected as an aesthetic playground.
Watch... here

Procura-Se

Leo Pinheiro

2014

11 mins

Psychic Driving

William E. Jones

2014

USA / 14 mins
Psychic Driving deals with experiments involving hallucinogenic drugs and massive doses of electroshock administered to unwitting subjects. The psychiatrist in charge treated patients to destroy depressed personalities and then build them back up again. His funding came from the CIA. One of the subjects, the wife of a member of the Canadian Parliament, speaks out in an interview.

Question of Matter IV

Sonia Rickli

2014

Switzerland / 3:11 mins
Performance réalisée lors de la Nuit de la Performance organisée pour les 50ans du Musée des beaux-arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds.
Watch...here

Red /
Vermelho

Márcia Bellotti

2014

Brasil / 5 mins
Por meio de uma fusão entre performance, ficção e documentário, esta videoarte fala sobre as amarras que constroem à força o universo feminino. "Não se nasce mulher: torna-se..." - Simone de Beauvoir em "O segundo sexo" (Le deuxième sèxe, 1949)

Through a merge between performance, fiction and documentary, this video art talks about the physical and psychological restraints that build the female being. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." (Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex, 1949)
Trailer...here

Reel

Erez Eisenstein

2014

Sweden  / 25 mins
Robert and Victor is 15 years old and best friends. Tomorrow Victor will move from his hometown. They drag around, and does antics. Slowly, we understand that it's more than friendship between them. Evocative, and with fine acting, this film explores the emotional and sexual boundaries.

Resume

Ronald Bal

2014

Netherlands / 6:27 mins

Roads

Vanessa Gutierrez Toca

2014

Mexico / 11 mins
Carmela leads a quiet life until Abril, an adventurous free spirited girl, breaks into her routine. The meeting leads them to explore new paths in their lives.

Rompecabezas Trans
Rompecabezas Trans

Al Borde Producciones

2014

Argentina / 7 mins
In a world that seems to be controlled by stereotypes and gender norms, Ryan tells how, from hir daily life to hir dissenting body, s/he has reinvented the small and big things in life, as if it were a puzzle, completed to the rythm of hir pleasure.
Watch... here 

Same Sex Biz

Tabita Rezaire

2014

Guyana, South Africa / 6 mins
Through confronting discourses, SAME SEX BIZ creates a chaotic example of the complex situation that African homosexuals face today.With screen interface and energy currents, Tabita Rezaire’s digital healing activism offers alternative readings to dominant stories, questioning Western authority and propagating to dismantle the oppressive white-supremacist-patriarchal-cis-hetero-globalized gaze on the world.
Watch… here

Sangre Sucia
Sangre sucia

Juan Mirarchi

2014

Argentina / 62 mins
Un virus comienza a extenderse y todos los infectados se convierten en zombies. Entre los supervivientes, hay un jovencito gay que se enamora de un militar.
Watch... here

Santa Rosa Joao Paulo Palitot
Santa Rosa

João Paulo Palitot

2014

Brazil / 23 mins
Não soube jamais se na verdade ela havia esquecido ou se foi a vingança final de sua vida.

One never knew if she actually had forgotten or if it was the ultimate revenge of her life.
Watch... here 

Sápmi Pride, Gironis
Centre

Max Mackhé

2014

Sweden / 6 mins
What would be another meeting for those involved in the Queering Sápmi project instead became the world’s first Sami pride festival, Sápmi Pride. In mid-October 2014, queer Sami gathered in Kiruna for seminars and workshops. The first Sami pride parade attracted about 300 people. Filmed for the Sami channel Márkomáilbmi.

Saturn

Aja Pilapil

2014

USA / 2 mins
Performance artist SATURN slays and dominates the streets in this genderfucking ferocious dance video by AJAPOPFILMS.

Seguimos Enamorados

Javier Llombart Sorlí

2014

Spain / 1 min
Después de cuatro años...
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Sewenir

Marie Dauverné

2014

Canada / 3:30 mins
SEWenir is a very short experimental video about traces left by departures with no return, made out of two single words sewn by hand on the fingers tips.

Sexo Distópico

Mario Alonso

2014

Spain / 3 mins
En un futuro no muy lejano, un chico aficionado a Star Trek consigue hacer realidad sus fantasías sexuales más inconfesables.

Shaving/Shorn

Lorin Murphy

2014

USA / 6:32 mins
Shaving Shorn brings the sensuality of the shaving ritual with an array of array of sound and image to almost a coital frenzy. Shot in black and white, Shaving Shorn’s rustic textures and dramatic lighting gives off a slight horror vibe.

Shwe

Christ

2014

Myanmar / 22 mins
“When I dance I want everyone to laugh”. The irrepressible Shwe is a hairdresser by day and a transgender performer during the night. While his compatriots tend to be shy, Shwe chose to be out, extroverted and outspoken. “Shwe” is a documentary film debut for director Christ, who had no film-making background before taking part in a workshop, the Rainbow Reels, as part of the preparations for Myanmar’s first LGBT & PROUD Film festival in 2014.
Watch...here

Social Love

Lewis Arthur

2014

UK / 10 mins
Loner Michael thinks he has found the guy he was looking for in outgoing Alex, but is this happiness to be good to be true?

Space Spider from Zagtron

Dave Fried

2014

USA / 12 mins
A blood thirsty spider is fleeing it's war torn planet, on it's way across the galaxy to a better future. Along the way, the spider passes by Earth ("the most wretched planet in the universe") and unfortunately crashes the ship. The next several minutes of this movie are of the spider engaging in a guerrilla style blood-feast on the humans who make the mistake of crossing it's path. Can you handle the unrelenting terror and bad lighting of.... Space Spider From Zagtron!
Watch... here

Sticks and Stones

Stephen Mooney

2014

Ireland / 4:26 mins
A young man is exposed to the dark side of social media.

Story of My Mouth  /
A História De Uma Boca

Bárbara Cabral

2014

Brasil / 2 mins
De quantas cores uma boca pode ser? How many colors can a mouth have?
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Storytelling

Fuyuhiko Takata

2014

Japan / 6 mins
A close-up of an abstract image in the style of a Rorschach-test is shown on the display. The image has been created by dropping blue ink around an anus after which the buttocks has been closed tightly.
Trailer… here

Surto

Nacho Correa

2014

44 mins

Text: A Unique Vision

Christina Koenig

2014

Can you survive one day without Internet or cell phone access? How would you react if you had to figure out what to do with your time if such a thing happened? That is the theme of this short satire, which follows a woman whom has an adverse reaction to her service being cut off. (Filmmaker:, TRT: 9 min). Christina, the filmmaker, is a trans woman and is excited to have her film screened at Gender Reel, even though it does not specifically reflect a theme about gender identity.

Thai

Lucas Padilha

2014

Brasil / 19 mins
Thai tem 15 anos e está começando a entender quem é. Em uma festa com sua irmã, tem um encontro que vai mudar sua perspectiva de si e do mundo.

Thai is 15 and is starting to understand who he is. At a party with his sister, he has an encounter that will change his perspective of himself and of the world.

The Adventure of Gop&Gay

Dumitru Grubii

2014

Georgia / 4 mins
A short movie made in Kobuleti (Georgia) by the Moldavian delegation in scope of youth exchange project "Make it visible". Our goal was to comunicate the dramatic situation about LGBT integration. We hope that this video can change the actual social problems with this amazing people.
Watch...here

The Devil’s Haircut

Marco Gatti

2014

Thailand, Italy / 60 mins
An intimate, underground video-diary of Bangkok’s ladyboys, the Thai transexuals: nightlife, neon-lights, money, pleasure, dreams come to life through their brief portraits. These places and characters are symbols of an era of mutations, illusions and dualisms.

The Eye of God

Sebastian Freire

2014

Argentina / 8 mins
Photographer Sebastián Freire projects over the faces of a porn theater audience the same images they choose to watch.
Trailer… here

The Fluid

Adi Zvi

2014

Israel / 3 mins
Being Bisexual, being fluidic, stop hiding, just being.

The Gambit

Anirban Gupta

2014

Australia
Rhea and Jay, urban professionals, married for 7 years and have a little son named Sam. Their nanny Catlin is a gorgeous and spirited woman taking care of their little boy. The Gambit explores the complex layers of changing relationships in the fast paced world where not every thing is exactly what they appear.

The Homonazi Effect

Alexandros Papadopoulos, Calypso Larah

2014

UK / 19 mins
The Homo-nazi Effect visualizes an erotic and violent interview that took place between a Manchester based web author/performer (Dr.Alexandros Papadopoulos) and an Athens-based homosexual neo-nazi. The Athenian portrays his neo-nazi experiences as a relentless gay orgy.

The Passer-By

Efa Blosse-Mason

2014

UK / 11 mins
Helen lives a dull existence until one day a strange and beautiful girl arrives and makes her notice the beauty in her life.

The Surface Tension Trilogy
The Surface Tension Trilogy:
Frida and Anita
Ηöch
Die Neue Frau

Liz Rosenfeld

2014

Germany / 65 mins
From activist and painter Frida Kahlo to filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to Hitler’s lover Eva Braun – Liz Rosenfeld tells a trio of queer histories that may or may not have actually happened. Making no attempts to disguise the fact that, despite taking place in 1924, 1933 and 1977, the films were clearly made in modern-day Berlin, Rosenfeld turns the way we normally look at history on its head.
Trailer...here

The Thrill
The Thrill

Chi-jan Hou

2014

Taiwan / 29 mins
A vampire bites a taxi driver. Going back home drowsily and sleeping all day, the driver involuntarily dreams about the vampire biting and devouring him. He can’t help but goes back to the place where he was bitten, from day to night, he waits for the vampire.

They Answered in Unison

Zackary Drucker

2014

Explore the cross-generational evolution of transgender identity through the interactions of grand dame Mother Flawless Sabrina, Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Drucker’s real-life mother, her eight year old nephew, and chosen sister Van Barnes.
Trailer... here

Three Summer DaysThree Summer Days

Lasse Nielsen

2014

Thailand / 8 mins
A young Thai man looks forward to getting tattooed, as a religious and sexual rite of passage.
Trailer...here

Tide

Marcela Arenas Rosas

2014

Cuba /15 mins

To Russia with Love

Tomislav Fiket

2014

Croatia / 2 mins
Watch...here

Together

Paul Asmar

2014

UK / 4 mins
Short promoting Camden & Islington LGBT History Month featuring LGBT Historical sites in central London and the everyday nature of LGBT History, Maureen Duffy, and an entire volunteer cast and crew.

Toinha's Fad /
O Babado de Toinha

André de Oliveira, Julia Aguiar

2014

Brasil / 3 mins
Toinha é uma baiana de acarajé pra lá de original e difícil de encontrar parecida. Ela faz seu próprio azeite de dendê, num processo rústico e artesanal, no qual mergulha com o espírito de Iansã, e que exige dela força pesada e muitos conhecimentos. E dessa cultura popular tradicional, Toinha tira seu sustento. Sua banca está localizada na Vila de Serra Grande, Costa do Cacau, Sul da Bahia, pedacinho de mundo especial. Agora pense no babado.

Toinha is a very original baiana do acarajé [woman who prepares the traditional acarajé from Bahia] and it is hard to find someone like her. She produces her own palm oil, using a rustic and artisanal process in which she plunges with the spirit of Iansã, and that requires heavy force and lots of knowledge. Toinha makes a living from this traditional popular culture. Her stall is located in Vila de Serra Grande, Costa do Cacau, Southern Bahia, a little piece of a special world. Now think about the fad.

Transitions

Chase Marie

2014

This is a story of a transgender.
Watch...here

Twitch

Tan Wei Keong

2014

Singapore / 5 mins

Under the Rainbow

Trish Garner

2014

Canada / 12 mins
A queer high school student facing family rejection, hunger, and homelessness.

Unmoved / Imóvel

Sérgio Galvão Roxo

2014

Portugal / 7 mins
Bodies pursue other bodies, maybe in an attempt to find themselves. The search creates a halt, the voracious thirst that keep us imprisoned on the search for an answer. Where to are the bodies guided?
Trailer...here

Valerie

Jonathan Caouette

2014

8:22 mins
A musical.

Valiance

Leonard Suryajaya

2014

USA / 21:38 mins
Watch...here

Voguing Train

Kemar Jewel

2014

Voguing and Ballroom is such an underground culture...so let's actually take it underground!
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Wall of Fire

Lisa Ganser,
Nomy Lamm

2014

USA / 6 mins
A tender and hot afternoon make-out session climaxes in intense, consensual amputee sex between two self-identified fat bodied genderqueer women.

We The Others

Maja Borg

2014

Sweden / 8 mins
Året är 2030 och vi möter en värld där de utanför normen förpassas till pereferin. Fruktade av alla som de “andra” är de egentligen oss alla.
Trailer...here

We Were Monsters and Detectives.

Al Benoit

2014

We Were Monsters And Detectives follows two young women over the course of a summer in a forgotten rural town as they discover that growing up doesn’t always mean growing together.
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What About Cock? /
Y la Polla?

Estevan de la Fuente

2014

Brazil / 8 mins
Three friends. A sunday morning. A hangover, a lot of desire. What to expect from an unpretentious talk by the pool, drinking martinis?
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What You Will

James Resendes

2014

Canada / 11 mins
Documentary that looks back on Sebastian’’s journey of identity and explores the difficulties he faces today as a male actor.

Whatever Happened to Jackie Shane?

Sonya Reynolds, Lauren Hortie

2014

Canada / 9 mins
Using shadow puppets, overhead animation, and stop-motion techniques, explore the little-known history of Jackie Shane–a flamboyant, black, queer musician whose 1963 hit song “Any Other Way” became an anthem to divas everywhere. And then she disappeared.

Where the Streets Have No Name  /
Aqueles Dois Naquela Manhã

Guilherme Macedo

2014

Brasil / 7 mins
Luis conhece Caio em uma boate e, de lá, os dois perambulam pela cidade. A conversa entre os dois é movida pela curiosidade do contato inicial e o medo de serem descobertos um pelo outro. Inspirado na obra do escritor Caio Fernando Abreu.

Luis meets Caio in a nightclub, and from there the two men wander around the city. The conversation between them is driven by the curiosity of the initial contact and the fear of being discovered by each other. Inspired by the work of the writer Caio Fernando Abreu.
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Wings /
Asas

João Celles

2014

Brazil / 15 mins
Bianca vive num corpo que não é o seu, Rodrigo estranha esse mundo de verbos. É na incômoda amizade que nasce entre essas duas solidões que se dá uma libertação possível.

Bianca lives in a body that is not hers, Rodrigo is surprised with this world of verbs. It is in the awkward friendship born between these two solitudes that a possible freedom happens.
Trailer...here

Woanders

Nossa Schäfer

2014

Germany / 17 mins
Julia, 21, drifts from one job to another. Today she's starting a new one. On the nightshift at Gabi´s, a woman with multiple sclerosis who needs constant 24-hour care. The time drags by, and while Gabi is sleeping Julia makes a decision she won't be so sure about later.

Xampy Paulo Menezes
Xampy

Paulo Menezes,
Daniel Wierman

2014

Brazil / 25 mins
This film profiles the life of a gender variant individuals living in Sao Paulo. Some people think Xampy is a man, others a woman, and some a trans person. Xampy tells the audience about their rocky past, the bullying they experienced growing up and time spent in a South American prison.
Watch... here 

You Don’t Own Me

Kristin Li

2014

Canada / 2:33 mins
Un court métrage d’animation avec la de Klaus Nomi « tu ne me possède pas » : la libération queer ou la liberté néolibérale?

Zero

Damien Dunstan

2014

Australia / 4 mins