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(introduction to the field of)
shapable matter
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Margarita Raeva
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2021
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Russia / 9 mins
the virtual desiring-machine has spawned special objects for the world of uncontrolled production of ideas and forms. their surfaces, colors and textures together with functionality can re-shape an experience of lost or suppressed, deform the moment of now or help to expand the perception of the mundane. so surface vibrations and transfigurations of forms and their parts occur in the context of relationship between matter and information, informing us that they are all alive and filled with virtual heat.
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13 years /
13 años
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Roma Alejo Bazzi
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2021
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Argentina / 11 mins
My nickname in school was THE. Starting from my story. Starting from my cry. I was abused by Marcelo, the catechism teacher, for 5 years. Wolves are free, let's do something. We are so many, but almost always (if not always) they escape without being condemned. That's my way of starting to get justice. Justice with my hand.
Trailer… here
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“16 »
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Guilien Skorny
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2021
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France, Canada / 11 mins
A filmmaker’s personal journey into discovering his grandfather’s story and its relationship to his present life and coming out.
Trailer... here
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1325 Kilometers 227 Days
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Vítor Teixeira,
Gustavo de Almeida
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2021
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Brazil / 5 mins
A love story from a distance crossing a pandemic being told through WhatsApp audios.
Trailer… here
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1959
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Daniel Gómez
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2021
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Paraguay / 7 mins
After the murder of Bernardo Aranda, which happened on September 1, 1959 in Asunción, Paraguay, two lovers are involved in an incessant persecution in which 108 men are captured and tortured, under the pretext of linking them to the crime. 61 years later, the memory always returns to the heart that never forgets.
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20 Jahre queeres Luzern
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Jules Claude Gisler
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2021
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Switzerland / 10 mins
Anlässlich des Jubiläums von PinkPanorama werden die Zuschauenden mitgenommen auf eine Reise durch die Geschichte der queeren Region Luzern während der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte. Stimmen aus der Community reden über unsere Vergangenheit, Gegenwart ud Zukunft.
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28J3JCHF+P6
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leesima
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2021
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Korea / 10 mins
Can I not awkwardly get a perm from an auntie at a hair salon? Can I take a skirt to the laundry? Can I call the auntie at the noodle shop 'sister'? Why can I, how long can I, and where can I? Can I be welcomed in women's solidarity?
Trailer… here
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2020
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Oziel Herbert de Araújo Pereira
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2021
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Brazil / 22 mins
Uma série de escândalos e contradições jurídicas e políticas levam ao cancelamento das eleições e a instauração de um Regime Militar no Brazil. Diversas minorias passam a ser caçadas pelo governo. MARIANA, 20, uma antiga líder da Resistência contra o Regime, é convidada por OTÁVIO, 30, atual líder do movimento, a ajudar na construção de uma Máquina do Tempo para derrubar o Governo Militar. Durante viagens ao passado, ela se apaixona por IFÉ, 19, que a distrai de sua missão.
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75 Cents
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Safi Jafri
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
On a midnight bus, a boy is just trying to catch some sleep, but the man who boards after him has more intimate ideas in mind.
Trailer… here
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A Better Place
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Jennifer Fearnley
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2021
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UK / 32 mins
A Better Place is an in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetrators of sexual violence to go unpunished. More than 70 countries still criminalise gay sex. In over 30, rape within marriage is still legal. Behind these statistics are the people whose lives are paralysed by these archaic laws.
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a body is a body is a body
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Cat McClay,
Éiméar McClay
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2021
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UK / 13 mins
How is a body—particularly a queer body—narrated? a body is a body is a body deals with the coexisting forces of lived experience and the external structures that shape it. The subtitle text haunts the video like a spirit; unspoken yet uncannily close and corporeal in its depictions. Elusively, it slips from the body of a twin to the body of a lover, from pleasure to violence, from pious to unrepressed. Imbued with a power of their own, these words create and suppress, get close and push away. In an amalgamation of experimental literature, prayers and queer erotics, the text curls in on itself; repeating, re-telling and undoing.
Trailer… here
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A Chair Porn
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Camilla Del Fabro
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2021
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Belgium / 4:22 mins
Chairs modulate our daily routine. They shape space and time, like in an office or in a waiting room; they express hierarchy and needs, like in parliament or in a restaurant.
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A Life of Honor
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Richard O’Connor
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
When Joseph Patton joined the Navy in 1955, he recalls serving in silence, as the LGBTQIA+ community could not be open while in the military. Despite being the “perfect sailor,” Joseph was kicked out of the Navy for being friends with gay service members, under the assumption that he was homosexual. Due to the status of his “undesirable discharge,” Joseph was unable to receive any benefits for his service in the Navy. Years later, Joseph came to StoryCorps to reflect on his journey and share his resilience, as he fought and successfully changed his status to “honorable discharge.”
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A Little Shine
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Yun Jou Chen
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2021
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Taiwan
If fear was a dark forest, everyone would be a dark elf. Everyone has their own fears, and people are accustomed to using weak light
Mang went to appease it, but to get rid of the fear, what he really needs is to face the darkness and walk out of the dark forest inside.
An elf who is afraid of the dark lives in a dark forest, relying on magic to light up a faint light to reassure himself, until one day, he saw a strange bright light in the distance.
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A Love Letter to Black Male Femininity
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Penuel "Blue" Nawa
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
An exploration of gender expression in Black men, and a love letter to the corners of the Black community that have made that exploration possible. A multimedia combination of poetry, film, fashion, music, and visual art to illustrate the multifaceted beauty of the intersection at Blackness and Queerness.
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A Love Letter to Brian, Leslie & Michelle
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Hettie Barnhill
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2021
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62 mins
The result of human beings coming together, diverse in age, sexuality, race, and gender, talking with their bodies, minds, and souls, about Black lives. This is a film, a play, an experience, a concert dance, a work of art, a self-reflection, a protest.
Trailer… here
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A Love Letter to the Basement
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Sweatmother
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2021
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UK / 6 mins
A delicious flavour of queer London nightlife through the lens of someone who had their life changed by the (now gone) underground DIY bar, cultural space and performance collective in South East London.
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A Place Called Home / The Wind
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Kennlin Lake Barlow
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2021
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Canada / 11 mins
A meditative image of the light dancing along a snowy landscape.
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A Room with a View /
Un autre jour d'été
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Eli Salameh
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2021
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Lebanon / 8 mins
Jobless and stripped of any prospects of a normal life in Lebanon, Wael tries to kill himself on August 4th 2020, not knowing that a few moments later something big will happen… Beirut will explode.
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A Scaffolding of Love /
Un Chantier d’Amour
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Sachin Jain
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2021
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India / 18 mins
The days merge into one another for a single gay man locked down in his Mumbai apartment, as the pandemic wears on. Some masons work on a scaffolding around the apartment. He contemplates the seemingly insurmountable space between himself and them and imagines freedom. All he can do is complete his chores one by one… until he comes to the last one. The title is a play of words on ‘Un Chant d’Amour’, a 1959 film by Jean Genet.
Trailer… here
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A Short Film About Cake
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Omar Abdo
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2021
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Egypt / 5 mins
A millennial indulging in present day luxuries gets distracted by glimpses of a past world that now seem alien and long gone. Cake, the third segment from a short film series, showcases the stark presence of a digital reality and the dissolution of a past we millennials once knew.
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A Separate Peace
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Kegan Mcfadden
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2021
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Canada / 10 mins
Comprising five hundred images McFadden assembled to investigate the nature of homosocial and queer male relationships, A Separate Peace includes the reading of an eponymous essay the artist wrote in response to this collection and the end of his longterm relationship.
Watch… here
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A Significant Name
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Diane Russo-Cheng
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
The story of Ban’s journey as a child of Taiwanese immigrants raised in the American South, focused around Ban’s name.
Watch… here
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A Story that Doesn’t Have to Do with Me
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Kymberly McDaniel
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2021
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USA / 7 mins
After the filmmaker discusses her research in bioarchaeology with her partner, a conversation emerges about survival and what is left behind after death.
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A Tribute to Sitt el Beit
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Anya Kneez
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
Part of Institut Du Monde Arabe’s exhibition: “Arab Divas” presents Lebanese Drag artist Anya Kneez who plays the role of a Lebanese mother cooking at home for her family. The film takes place in the early 90s and is inspired by Anya’s own home videos from childhood. Anya chose to honor one of the greatest Arab divas, Fairouz. For many people in the Arab world, Fairouz’s voice has always been and always will be a beacon of hope.
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A Trillion Miles West of Bradford
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Hamish Roberson
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2021
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UK / 22 mins
After losing his partner in a car accident, Ricky travels to a parallel universe to find the alternative version of his boyfriend and start fresh, however he only has ten minutes before his body will shut down.
Trailer... here
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A Yellow Circus
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Jasmine Cheri Rush
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2022
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USA
Stuck on a beach, four young black girls clash, as their eyes open to the world around them.
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About Love
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Andrey & Kirill
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2021
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France, Russia / 4 mins
A tattoo artist from Paris who in 2015, was attacked by six homophobic men talks about his love with a partner after the incident.
Watch... here
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About Short Eyelashes
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Kim Hye Jin
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2021
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Korea / 11 mins
Minji and Hanna shared an intense relationship when they were teenagers.
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Abundance
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Amber J. Phillips
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2021
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USA / 31 mins
Abundance is a 3-part short film that explores the limitations and radical possibilities of identity from the perspective of a jaded politico, Black storyteller, and pop culture enthusiast with Black queer feminist intentions.
Trailer… here
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Access /
Acesso
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Julia Leite
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Brazil / 18 mins
Places suspended in the memory of five LGBTQI+ people from São Paulo are revisited through Google Street View.
Trailer… here
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Across the Street
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Georgina Frias Juarez
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2021 |
Canada / 15 mins
The sparks that come with falling in love at first sight… and the agonizing long nights that come with unrequited love.
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Adju
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Elvis A-Liang Lu
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2021 |
Taiwan / 25 mins
Mo Fan and Chen Wei are ADJU, a word meaning sisters in the Paiwan language. The traditional mindset of the community, paired with their Catholic upbringing, have forced Mo Fan and Chen Wei to avoid confrontation; to keep silent and accept the hierarchy and the conventions of their society.
Trailer… here
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Again I Dreamt of You Last Night /
Anoche Volvi a Sonar Can Vos
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Mauricio Escobar Duran
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2021
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Argentina / 10 mins
Two men talk: about the past, about the future, about the present, but are they part of each other’s past future and/or present. It’s a beautiful story of communicating or not with those we care about.
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Against the Wind
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Ruhul Robin Khan
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2021
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India, Bangladesh / 6 mins
‘Against the Wind’ is a biopic of Noor Alam, an intersex person from Bangladesh working for community development. A tearful and powerful interview with an individual representing an incredibly isolated community, this film serves as a stepping stone for broader conversations about the intersex community.
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Aguirre
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Eric Yamil Cruz,
Sergio Daniel |
2021 |
Puerto Rico / 6:17 mins
Un hombre acosado por la conciencia, la negación, el desamor y el miedo, intenta enérgicamente escapar del único lugar que ha conocido toda su vida, Aguirre, un olvidado Ingenio Azucarero que durante décadas fue la única esperanza de un futuro brillante para los amigos y amantes locales.
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Al-Atal The Ruins
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Raed Rafei
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2021
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Lebanon / 15:37 mins
In a French travel book to the Middle East, a drawing of an ancient bathhouse sparks a visual poem inspired by the Arab poetic tradition of "standing by the ruins." The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring imperial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, homoeroticism and violence, archives and ruins, histories of sex and of empire, all commingle in this essay film.
Trailer... here
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Alchemy
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Bridget Fitzgerald
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2021
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USA
Here is the story of glassblower and social entrepreneur, Rebeccah Byer, as she navigates her grief at the loss of her brother, Ben Byer, from ALS, to create a glass studio for youth. We witness this transformative power through one of Rebeccah’s apprentices, Lucy McGinnis, who struggles growing up trans in North Carolina.
Trailer… here
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All About My Child /
Wszystko O Moim Dziecku
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Piotr Jacoń
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2021
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Poland / 47 mins
At the very best they’re invisible on a daily basis. At the worst – they become „LGBT ideology” and a target of attacks. Both, verbal and physical ones. The reality of transgender and nonbinary people in Poland often consist out of pain and fear. Their families are scared too. This film is a parents’ tale of dysphoria, depression and suicidal attempts of their children, but also of difficulties in finding the right doctors and what one has to go through in Polish courts to fight for their identity. Those are the stories that do not lack of love. Piotr Jacoń listens to stories of “rainbow” parents – a motorwoman, a teacher, a farmer, a miner. They come from big and small towns. From Poland and from abroad. “Everything about my child” is a very dark story at times. But in front of all that it’s a story about love – and a personal standpoint of the reportage’s author on transsexuality.
Trailer… here
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All for the 15 Thousand /
Todo Por Los 15 Mill
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Daniel Garcia
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2021
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Peru / 7 mins
Roxy is the new star at an exotic dance club. Together with her partner Daniela they are putting it all on the table to be able to pay for an expensive operation.
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All Men Should Have Shoes
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Nastya Lisovets
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2021
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Russia / 11 mins
The story of Herman growing up, who decides to become who he really feels himself to be.
Trailer… here
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All of You at Once
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Alex Ahr
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2021
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USA / 4:31 mins
A graphic novelist and her guardian, Persephone, revisit a lifetime all at once.
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All Over the Place
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Ami
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2021
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India / 9 mins
A group of friends go to their first drag show in Mumbai and as it goes with queer friend groups with one token straight best friend, they’re all over the place. The journey, conversations, community, chaos and joy of queerness packed into a truly indie unfiltered short. Wannabe drag kings and queens, actual drag kings and queens and the start of tipping culture in drag in India, the night was all over the place.
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All the Way Up /
Tout en Haut
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Alen Predanič,
Robi Predanič
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2021
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Slovenia / 8 mins
Two creatures have a dream to be the first to capture aliens on film. One day a UFO arrives on their planet. What opportunities await them?
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Allah made me queer or Our success is in sharing space
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Yasmine Benabdallah
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2021
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Morocco, USA / 9:14 mins
A personal narrative of identifying as both Muslim and queer, about family, sharing identity through performance, negotiating the intimate and the shared.
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Almost Love
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Myat Noe
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2021
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Burma
A love triangle is complicated when each vertex hires a criminal. Only unknowingly, they have hired the same.
Trailer… here
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Amar
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Justine Méry
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2021
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France / 14 mins
She employs herself to take care of her schedules, services and prices: Amar has been a militant sex worker since the age of 18. He has always fought for his freedom and independence, but the new laws prevent him from carrying out his work in good conditions.
Watch... here
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Amorous Adventures & Exploits
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Patrick L Hoffman
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2021
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USA / 10 mins
The trials and tribulations of young queer dating (via animated, hand-illustrated talking human heads on animal bodies).
Trailer…here
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An Approaching World
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Andy Motz
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
A cross-country reflection on the familiar route that so many queer people traverse, from rural to urban, from unsafe to safe, and from storm to shelter in search of liberation.
Trailer… here
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an ode to queer friendship
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Megan Ingram
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2021
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Canada
'an ode to queer friendship' is the culmination of my explorations of memory and childhood through the lens of my relationship with my dearest friend and chosen family, ᓯᐦᐟ, a queer Indigenous femme.
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An Unimportant Story
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Mateus Capelo
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2021
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Brazil / 13 mins
Works of art, youtubers, movies and diaries: control and pleasure.
Trailer… here
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Andrómeda
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Adrián González
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2021
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Spain / 11 mins
Three young people travel by car after a night out. On their way back, they talk about astrology and personal issues. During the conversation, Marta realizes that the ideas she had about herself are not clear. At the end of the trip and wrapped in an apocalyptic atmosphere by a cosmic event, she will find the answer.
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Angelique
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Elisabeth Kratzer
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2021 |
Germany / 27:13 mins
Pictures, photos and paintings of the young and beautiful Angelique Nagel hang everywhere in the house. Born into a hairdressing dynasty, her appearance have always played a major role. Today, the 73-year-old trans woman looks back on a life for which she risked everything in 1969. The portrait of a woman who goes through life with a lot of self-confidence, passion and courage. She has never stopped fighting for her life as a woman.
Trailer… here
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Anna + Liv
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Celine Berge
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2021
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Norway / 12 mins
Two childhood friends meet up after eight months apart, but can it ever be like it used to?
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Anniversary
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Chantel Houston
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
A woman arrives at the beach to celebrate a special anniversary with her wife under unusual circumstances.
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Anniversary
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Jesús Miranda
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2021
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Spain / 3 mins
While celebrating their anniversary a marriage will be discussed by a misinterpretation of some alleged facts.
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Another Beautiful Creature
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Mahx Capacity
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2021
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USA / 15 mins
In another queer pornography/documentary hybrid we are invited into a trans and non-binary couple’s journey through pregnancy, as they become and create Another Beautiful Creature.
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Anymore
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Madi Piller,
Sina Âwsémoon
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2021
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Canada / 10 mins
In a true collaboration of image and sound, the viewer experiences a visceral symbiosis of technology, organisms, and skin.
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Anywhere is a Dancefloor
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Mathew Beckett
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2021
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UK / 8 mins
‘Anywhere is a Dancefloor' is a new collaboration between choreographer Jaii Guest and drag artist & cultural producer Fatt Butcher. Through celebrating the creativity, resilience, and fierce spirit of Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ nightlife community this new work is an invitation to the city to create their own dancefloors anywhere and everywhere!
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Apparition
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Carter Cavanaugh
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2021
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USA / 11 mins
Heather (Youko Martinez) is a displaced young woman sheltering in an abandoned house, along with the ghost of its’ previous occupant, Eden (Chelsea Marie Logan). The two develop an unconventional love, but their otherworldly bond is threatened when the house is set to be demolished. Unsure of Eden’s fate if the house were to come down, Heather is determined to find a way to summon her ghostly girlfriend.
Trailer… here
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Après la Pluie
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Noémie Dossou
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2021
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France / 6 mins
An and Daisy have always lived together on their small desert island. But Daisy has a desire: to fly to new horizons.
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April in Her Mind
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Willow Skye-Biggs
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2021
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USA / 6:18 mins
A young transgender woman balances her life as a metal worker with a complicated inner emotional world, while also navigating the realization that she and her girlfriend seem to be telepathic.
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Archivos Lumínicos y Otras Sensibilidades
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Nuria González
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2021 |
Mexico / 7 mins
Reverberations of fear and desire stemming from the desire to reflect the gaze and assert oneself as an image. My trans body contemplates the possibility of collapsing into an unarticulating stream of family movies. This self-portrait summons familiar ghosts who inhabit the wound of an image.
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Arepas quemadas
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Henry Pacheco
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2021
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Chile / 10 mins
While a couple of Venezuelan migrants living in Chile hope to commemorate the birthday of one of them, an unexpected visit will transform the celebration into a tragedy.
Trailer… here
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Argos
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Paul Samuel White,
Chris Owen
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2021
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Derived from the performance, 'FRUITTY' by Chris Owen. A yellow hose ribbons through a disused Argos, where four bodies curl and crumple, and bits from the floor stick to the sweat on their backs. Four flourescent-lit figures become four lights in the dark; a phone-lit face-off. Something has to break.
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Aromatics of Longing
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Jade Wong
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2021
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USA / 14 mins
Ending a long-term relationship with a birth control implant prompts a diaristic rumination on the passing of time and bodily change—all while spatchcocking and roasting a chicken.
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Article 6.21
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Tatiana Stolpovskaya
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2021
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Russia / 24 mins
Article 6.21 is a short, mixed-media animated documentary that examines the state of queerness censorship in Russia today and its effects on personal life in the queer community.
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As Bold as Red, As Soft as Velvet
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Nguyen Minh Truong Giang
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2021
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Singapore / 15 mins
Revolving around Gary, a young guy who identifies himself as asexual.
Watch…here
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As You Are
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Astar Elkayam
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2021
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Israel / 25 mins
A comic drama about the lives of a group of wild Tel-Avivian women in their thirties, who try to fulfil themselves against the ticking of the biological clock, social norms and the status of women. Going with their dreams and loves at any cost and even offering an alternative to the accepted lifestyle, at an age where every choice is fateful.
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At Water’s Edge
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Sean Dorsey
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2021
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USA / 3:31 mins
Featuring mesmerizing queer dance in watery coves and ocean edges, AT WATER’S EDGE is a short dance film by award-winning transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey.
Watch… here
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Athaar
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Zara Naber
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2021
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Lebanon / 5 mins
Athaar (‘ruins’ in Arabic) is a story about the identities we create, adopt, and reject as we question the traditional constructs of freedom. The western world has objectified the notion of freedom as its own – today freedom is not Arabic, it’s American, European, Western.
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Atmospheric Arrivals
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Ayo Tsalithaba |
2021 |
Canada / 6 mins
This film is at once a living archive/polytemporal memory bank and a love letter to my other selves.
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Autumn /
Automne
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Felipe Casanova |
2021 |
Belgium / 22 mins
When Alex returns to the foster family where he lived for a few months, he finds the traces of a first love. A painful confrontation in a tender and vulnerable film.
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Azul Piscina
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Pedro Fagim |
2021 |
Brazil / 15 mins
Tiago’s lonely and monotonous existence is turned upside down when he discovers the love of his life inside a flowered box. But can this love be reciprocated?
Trailer… here
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Baby Bird
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Jonathan M. Fink
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2021
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USA / 8:10 mins
Abstract and surreal subjective look into the mind of an individual who is grappling with identity, rejection, trauma, and religious indoctrination after escaping a cult.
Watch… here
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Babylon /
Babilonia
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Frida Cárdenas,
Joe Menacho
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2021
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Peru / 11 mins
In his intimate temple, Jorge becomes Babylon. His friends accompany him, at a distance, through affectionate WhatsApp audios.
Trailer… here
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Bad Bitches /
Mauvaises Chiennes
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Johan Gayraud
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2021
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France / 13:41 mins
Petrole, Princesse Jeanne and Cecilia Da Colonia, three young ratchet dragqueens are trying to win a drag contest by being possessed by demons. The effects of the ritual will go beyond 2021their expectations, for better or for worse...
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Bad Women of China
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He Xiaopei
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China / 82 mins
Filmmaker and activist He Xiaopei’s first feature-length documentary commences with an attempt at reconciliation with her mother, before taking the audience on a journey from the 1920s through to the 2020s. With a raw, DIY aesthetic, the film brings to life the experiences of three generations of Chinese women – He’s mother, herself, and her daughter – as they come to terms with political and social change. Combining interview, video essay, and home movie formats, the film offers a refreshingly irreverent perspective on historical experiences, while wryly documenting the potential of lesbian and polyamorous lifestyles to challenge established ideas of feminine propriety. Through intimate conversations, Bad Women of China demonstrates how women are unconsciously led to belittle their own desires, experiences and hopes.
Trailer… here
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Banana Island
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Caroline Schwarz
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2021
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Germany / 5 mins
A banana-islander realizes that people are approaching his habitat. Panicked by the thought of strangers, he starts eating his island of bananas, while the boat comes closer and closer and the people aboard get fewer and fewer. When the islander has eaten himself down to the very last fruit, one remaining traveler arrives at the island, and both of them simultaneously grab for the last banana.
Trailer… here
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BasketArt Court
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Xray Aims
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2021
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USA / 12 mins
Performance artist, Xray Aims, transforms a Covid-abandoned basketball court into an expansive outdoor installation. The work, which came to them in a dream, culminates in the durational creation of a sculptural weaving that spans one backboard to the other, as dog walkers, neighbors, sport players, and passersby, are invited to dialog about the work. As the artist ties square knots of the raw material, bicycle inner tubes, Aims also weaves human relationships, to forge meaningful connections in the face of so much disconnection.
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Batimentos
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Clara Dias,
Pedro Petriche
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2021
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Brazil / 24 mins
At a college party, the brothers Júlia and Miguel go through different journeys, facing their own emotional issues. Miguel is intimidated by the presence of a new guy in his group of friends, while Julia, who is an amateur DJ, has to face the fear of exposing herself.
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BBQ & Apocalypse /
Vi går ned med stil og engangsgrill
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Alexa Sivertsen,
Ylva Gulpinar,
Christa Barlinn Korvald,
Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid
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2021
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Norway / 16 mins
The planet can no longer sustain humanity, and a small, privileged part of the population plans to leave. Among them is meteorologist Thomas, but if he leaves, his boyfriend is left behind with those who have given up hope.
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Beatriz, the Saint Prays
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Ursula Nyaboke Gisemba
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2021 |
Kenya / 11mins
This spoken piece breaks down a popular Christian prayer through honest concern, irony and sarcasm to examine its meaning in today’s world.
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Becoming Raven
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Makayla Caldwell
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2021 |
USA / 5:42 mins
Raven's story of transformation from a houseless street newspaper vendor to the creator of a Covid-19 task force at Street Roots.
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Before Bacchae Before
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Maxe Crandall,
Hope Mohr
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2021
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USA / 29 mins
A trans-queer, dance-theater takedown of gender reveal parties that culminates in a ritual for the trans kids we want futures for.
Trailer… here
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Begum Parvathi
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Radhika Prasidhha
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2021
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India / 8 mins
Begum Parvathi is a seven minute short conversational piece between two characters. Two women meet online. Over the course of a few months, they share an intimate connection that develops over phone calls, texts and other virtual exchanges. The possibility of meeting in real life fills them with curiosity, hesitation, longing and maybe even a little bit of catastrophising for their own individual reasons. Do they end up on the same page? Will they meet? Will they hold hands? The conversation unfolds.
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Bekeken
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Kim De Ruyter
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2021
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Netherlands / 3 mins
Bekeken is a short film about the excitement of watching and being watched and the physical tension that someone’s gaze can leave you with. It shows the experience in an uncomfortable manner by playing with that all too familiar feeling creeping under your skin when someone’s gaze attacks your image of self.
Trailer… here
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Belonging Nowhere
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Jungeun Lee
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2021 |
Korea / 41 mins
In the winter of 2019, Jungeun Lee recruited eight Korean queer women who have migrated to France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Jungeun Lee meets with them and hears their stories, and the six characters—Beer, Hanseo Oh, Jerry Ahn, Yeon, Yeonju Yoo, and Yogue—openly reveal themselves in front of the camera. The main topic is the overlapping identities of women, immigrants, and queers, and the experience of otherization resulting from those identities. Their confession seems to be summed up in a few keywords, but the 'better life' they think of extends in different directions.
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Benched
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Nicholas Barton-Wines
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2021
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UK
Scotland, 8pm, Summer. A bench at the beach, overlooking the sea. A man, Andrew, nervously awaits an imminent arrival: the man he has been sleeping with. Upset, he doesn’t know what will happen next when he is joined by an awkward, remorseful, and anxious Lewis who needs to set the pair on a new path before returning to celebrate his marriage to his new bride.
Trailer… here
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Between Complete and Incomplete
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Donghyuk Shin
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2021
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Korea / 18:32 mins
Soon to be grad student, Minho, is excited but hesitant to join Gyutae and Seungjin’s partnership. Unfamiliar with how Minho’s asexuality will blend into their allosexual relationship, both of his older partners struggle with his disinterest in sex and perspective of intimacy.
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Bicycle City – Ramiro
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Gabriel Motta
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2021
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Brazil / 19 mins
Among his regular morning rides and demanding work, Ramiro has no time to waste. At the insistence of his boyfriend, João, he agrees to break the routine and go out on a date. “Ramiro” is the second episode of the mini-series “Bicycle City”.
Trailer… here
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Big Baby
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Sam Meier,
Christopher Jarvis
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2021
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USA / 16 mins
Based on real events: A young gay man ends his relationship with his religious mother after years of her emotional abuse. With his mental health in freefall, he copes by becoming an adult baby.
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Bigger is Better
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Larry Tung
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2021
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Taiwan / 31 mins
A documentary about the identity culture and body politics of the bear subculture within a larger gay male community in Asia. It takes the audience to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China to meet with stakeholders and examines the development of this unique subculture and its meaning and impact.
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Black Sesame Soup with Tofu Pudding
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Vic Lui Koon Gee
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2021
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Two teenagers, Fung and Ho, share mutual predilection for sports, desserts and gender preference. Upon falling for each other, they soon realise the contentious nature of their relationship as stigma and prejudice slowly permeate different aspects of their lives.
Trailer… here
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Black Femme Remains
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Tiara Jackson
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2021
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USA / 5:23 mins
Archival practices stream and sway in a bodily altar dedicated to New Orleans spiritualists.
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Black Sheep
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Kevin Anthony
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2021
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USA / 14 mins
In this LGBT series, we follow the lives of three teenagers trying to find their way in this big bad world. These little lost sheep aren't so innocent; their clothing a distraction from their bite.
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Blackout
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Milo Clairmont
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
A trans man is plagued with dissociation, which sends him on a mental journey.
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Blanc'
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Wenkai Wang
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
A couple went through emotional turbulence as if they lived in two different time zones during lockdown.
Watch… here
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Blooming Love
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LEE Ji-yeon
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2021
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Korea / 23mins
Trailer… here
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Blurred Lines
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Lucy Sandler
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2021
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Blurred Lines is a short form pilot from Rachel Brunner and Mechi Lakatos. It follows the lives of three 20-somethings as they maneuver love and friendship and the fine line between.
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BMB
(Black, Muslim and Bi)
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Heidi (Jade) Ramírez
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2021
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Spain / 7 mins
BMB stands for Black, Muslim, and Bi – three identities that director Dafne C. explores in this personal, experimental short film. The film is a compilation of four poems by Dafne C. that move from their struggle against prejudice to self-acceptance and emancipation.
Watch… here
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Bodies /
Corpas
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Arthur Almeida
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2021
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Brazil / 20 mins
In Fortaleza, the capital of the second Brazilian state that kills trans people the most, a hacked computer stores files of six Living Bodies in constant process of creation. .
Trailer… here
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Body Pride
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Tharanga Ramanayake
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2021
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Canada / 35 mins
Caitlyn teaches naked sex education at her Body Pride class.
Trailer… here
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Bone Broth
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Michelle Ricketts,
Carmel de Jager
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2021
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Australia / 7 mins
The elixir of eternal youth can be messy in the making.
Trailer… here
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Boomerang
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Morticia Godiva
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
An ode to the black-femme-trans-experience in our world. A beautiful warning to white liberalism and performative wokeness, underpinned by the harsh reality of the consequences that has on the most at-risk population in America.
Watch… here
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Bori
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Luiz Anastácio
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2021
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Brazil / 38 mins
What feeds you? “Bori” is a medium-length film produced by the Brazilian based Ewé Group that dwells on the relationship between food and ritual dances. The name is a reference to the primordial ritual within Candomblé (an African-Brazilian religion) Bori, a Yoruba ritual that means “feeding the head”. This videodance is a tribute to the Ori entity, with which we celebrate all the contribution of knowledge generated from the cultural manifestations of black people. “Bori” is an abundant table provided by african matrices, their stories, bodies, religions, symbolic universes, philosophies, music, and dances. Food for the eyes, ears, memories, for the past and the present. Everything eats!
Trailer… here
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Bosques sombrios (Autorretrato)
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Mabel
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2021
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Argentina / 7 mins
Bosques sombríos (Autorretrato) es un cortometraje experimental que explora a partir de un aria barroca las diversas formas pasadas, presentes y futuras de unx artista queer cuya identidad se encuentra en constante cambio.
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Bouches du rhône
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Lazare Lazarus
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2021 |
France / 14 mins
From Mont Rose to the Camargue, 2 lovers film their gay sexuality, by passing through loved landscapes.
Watch… here
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Breathe
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Susanna Barranco
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2021
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Spain / 92 mins
Breathe is a documentary about the female inmates at the penitentiary of Can Brians 1.
The documentary gives a voice to imprisoned women and reflects on the current prison system exploring if the judicial system is favorable to women from a health care, hygiene and bioethics point of view.
Breathe is committed to a realistic and direct filmmaking process to portrait life in a penitentiary.
How do you live life in the absence of freedom?
The film vindicates these women as the subject of speech because they are often silenced.
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Budjang
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Rhadem Musawah
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2021
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Philippines / 30 mins
A story of the blossoming of a transgender woman in a Muslim barangay, abandoned by her parents, only to find herself sitting on a village seat with unexpected allies. This film talks about the struggle of transgender in work opportunities and sense of belonging in the provinces of the Philippines.
Trailer… here
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Business Casual
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Matthew McKinzie,
Zach Cargie
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
A young business professional, grappling with his gay identity, embarks on a private journey of reckoning and redemption connected to the recurring image of a clementine.
Watch… here
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Butt Karhai
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Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
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2021
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Pakistan / 8 mins
A son and dad communicate without ifs and but(t)s while preparing their Sunday brunch.
Trailer… here
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Cà Phê 179
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Thiên-Thi Nguyen
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2021
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Canada / 11:19 mins
Archival sequences of a queer, Vietnamese-Canadian's search for identity, crafting a portrait of their own, their family's, and their home country's histories.
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Cabin Fever
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Keaton Harper
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
When arriving to a cabin with his friends, Forrest realizes he’s left something at home that he can’t go without.
Trailer… here
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Cannelle
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Sébastien Bonnabel
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2021
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France / 3:56 mins
À prononcer ce titre, on salive: pâtisserie, vin chaud et autres gourmandises gustatives. Vraiment? Car certain.e.s adorent… et d’autres détestent. Cannelle ou l’histoire d’une épice qui met le feu aux poudres…
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Capim-Navalha
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Michel Queiroz
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2021
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Brazil / 16 mins
Capim-Navalha é um documentário que retrata as questões vividas de seis personagens transgeneres que moram na Chapada dos Veadeiros. Pessoas diferentes entre si, complexas por suas trajetórias retratadas em seus territórios corporais, geográficos, decoloniais, interseccionais e suas vivências LGBTQIAPNB+. O filme apresenta narrativas de gênero dissidentes, elaborando fricção e alteridade, com análises sobre biopolítica e a necropolítica sobre esses personagens que lutam nesse cis-tema.
Watch… here
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Capital Rojo
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Tatiana Maimbil
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2021
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Argentina
Dentro del marco de un mundo globalizado y postmoderno como el que habitamos, se deja ver, un poco como a los codazos, la existencia (y resistencia) de otras formas de ser y estar en ese Mundo del hetero cis capitalismo. El colectivo de trabajadores sexuales se organiza para poner en jaque las concepciones que creíamos rígidas, acerca del ejercicio del sexo, la construccion de la sexualidad como un bien de intercambio, la producción del deseo y la diversidad de experiencias y placeres posibles. Melisa de Oro, La Truena, Franco Rubi y Sasha Sathya en su relato, reivindican su trabajo en el acto de rebeldía política e identitaria, que implica reconocerse abiertamente como trabadorxs sexuales en un país legislativamente abolicionista. Hablan de sus vínculos con sus clientes, las diferentes dinámicas de intercambio, y hacen suyo el potencial subversivo que supone redefinir el deseo, la sexualidad y lo que está en juego en ella al vincularnos.
Trailer... here
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Cars Without Dicks
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Feb Yifei Xie
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2021
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China / 6:28 mins
This work hopes to shake the internal logic of the fertility cult by digitally reshaping the realm of everyday life.
Watch… here
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Casa Frida
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Itzel Sarmientos
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2021
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Mexico / 8 mins
En un país con altos índices de violencia en tiempos de pandemia, las historias permanecen en silencio, un silencio tan fuerte que rompe las cuatro paredes de su casa. Nunca se hubiera pensado que el silencio de sus voces explotaría, logrando encontrar un hogar donde alzar la voz y decir: "Mi nombre es ..."
Trailer… here
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Cat Vomit
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Francis O’Mahony
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2021
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Ireland / 7 mins
A diaristic account of one person’s experience of their gender as a lingering and inescapable aspect.
Watch… here
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Cattails
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Kathleen Munroe
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
Set on the outskirts of Buffalo, NY, Cattails tells the story of an estranged mother and daughter who reunite when an object of sentimental value suddenly goes missing.
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Caza Políglota
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Marcelo Cerón
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2021
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Mexico / 20 mins
Las distintas sombras se mezclan y contrastan lenguajes de caleidoscopio de experiencias del imparable ímpetu de la biomasa ¡Yo, sólo me muevo!
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Cerdo Agridulce
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Mikel D. Etxeberria,
Álvaro Jiménez
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2021
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Spain / 11 mins
Julienne es una joven caníbal que conoce a sus víctimas a través de una aplicación de citas. Un día se encuentra con Sabrina y no puede evitar enamorarse de su cena.
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Ceux Qui Désirent Se Connaître
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Léonard Vuilleumier,
Korlei Rochat
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2021
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Switzerland / 18 mins
Two guys meet for anonymous sex. But afterwards they are confronted with their differences and become closer.
Trailer… here
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Chhoti Shameez
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Shruti Vohra
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2021
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India / 15 mins
A small, non-descript bra shop tucked away in the lanes of a crowded Chandni Chowk turns into a venue for celebration in the lives of motley group of women, as they begin to discover themselves, and start forging beautiful bonds of friendship.
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Child Ornaments:
Balbhushanani
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Chinmay Sudhir Shende
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2021
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India / 8 mins
Shekhar is coming home from America after four years; his family is waiting for his arrival, and are very eager to convince him to get married this time. But his friend has a different thought.
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Chivalric Values
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Elissa Weir
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2021
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Canada / 3:29 mins
A medieval knight uses a dating app to find true love in the modern world. It doesn’t go as easy as she had hoped!
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Choc
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Brian Zahm
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2021
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USA / 11 mins
As a child, Choc experienced violence from his family and church in Chicago.
Trailer… here
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Ciao Libertini!
Gli anni ottanta secondo
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Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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2021
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Italy / 15 mins
The 80s seen through the eyes of the great writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli.
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Cistema
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Daniel Romo |
2021 |
Mexico / 9 mins
Coral, a young trans girl sex worker, wants to buy a dress, but because she doesn’t have enough money decides to accept a client with an erectile dysfunction. However, he will not pay until his needs are satisfied. |
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Circa
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Sonya Mwambu
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2021
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Canada / 7:42 mins
“circa” is a piece that reclaims the agency of Black identities and bodies in Toronto’s history. Through the eyes of her characters, Sonya Mwambu recontextualizes the life of Mary Austin, lady of Spadina House, within a reimagined present, reclaimed past and collective futures.
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Clarisa
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Philip Knowlton
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2021
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USA / 17 mins
In 2016, the Bronx was ranked "the county in New York with the worst health outcomes” or 62nd of all 62 counties in NY in terms of health. This documentary tells the story of Clarisa Alayeto, a community activist from the Mott Haven section of the Bronx who — inspired by her Grandmother — sets out on a mission to break that cycle.
Trailer... here
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Coda
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Hallie Haller
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2021
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South Africa / 11 mins
What does it mean to transition from who you were to who you want to be? Through the voices of the Johannesburg youth, CODA explores the internal conversations that people have when they are at a time of transition. Through this story, we are transported to a place where we can feel the fears and aspirations one holds onto while anticipating what will come next in one’s life, through the eyes of millennials.
Watch… here
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Color Me In
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Tatum Poirier
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
For her senior thesis, Tatum Poirier, directed, edited, and wrote a grouping of 8 short films that utilize color theory to tell her personal experiences while coming out as a part of the LGBTQ+ community. Each film was shot in a specific color of the rainbow to highlight specific emotions that have shaped her identity today.
Watch… here
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Color Poetry
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Tahura Khan
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2021
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India / 16 mins
This story is a portrayal of relationships through colour.
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Coming Into Bloom
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Bruna Estevam Amorim
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2021
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Brazil / 15 mins
Coming Into Bloom sheds light on the challenges of growing old in Brazil as a woman who loves women. the filmmaker bisexual, reflects on her own ties based on the experiences of Yone Lindgren, founder of the lesbian movement in the country.
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Compositions for Understanding Relationships
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David De La Fuente
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
Compositions is an experimental, animated "love letter".
Trailer… here
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Consuelo
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Guillermo Guzmán
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2021
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Spain / 22:22 mins
Amanda, que tuvo que huir del pueblo, y su hermana Catalina, que decidió quedarse, deben encontrarse tras el funeral de su madre para gestionar la herencia que les ha quedado en forma de una casa invendible. La burocracia y el duelo se verán obstaculizados por viejas peleas familiares y antiguos rencores.
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Contrato
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Cancion Diez
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2021
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Mexico / 6 mins
It tells the story of a reporter and a journalist who seek the story of his life, the one that captivates the public. The search for that story takes place naturally until a chance encounter changes the course of the story for both parties.
Trailer… here
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Contre nature Fiction
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François Zabaleta
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2021
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France / 7 mins
Sur le divan de son hypnothérapeute, un homme homosexuel se souvient de sa première et ultime expérience sexuelle hétérosexuelle.
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Corona Diaries:
Tight Rein
יומוקורונה: ריסון מהודק
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Ze’ev Goren |
2021 |
Israel / 23 mins
Two months after the suicide attempt of Amatzia, Zeev’s little brother, their whole family falls into a big mess, where difficult decisions must be made, even if it may bring separation and destruction. At the same time, Ze’ev begins to develop romantic feelings for his best friend Elhi. |
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Coronation of Our Lady of Travestis /
Coroação da Nossa Senhora das Travestis
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Idylla Silmarovi
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2021
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Brazil / 9 mins
Adaptation of the performance “Coronation of Our Lady of Travestis”, by the collective Academia TransLiterária, from Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), paying homage to the lives of travestis.
Trailer… here
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COVID: The Musical
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April Hirschman,
Lynn Gardiner
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Three strangers meet on Craigslist and become roommates just as lockdown starts. They struggle with loneliness, loss, and the desire for connection against the backdrop of the pandemic.
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Crisálida
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Efraín Rosa
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2021
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Puerto Rico / 15 mins
Cándido y Leonardo, son dos jóvenes de 18 años que experimentan sensaciones discordantes con los convencionalismos de la época y sufren trágicamente las consecuencias del machismo que los condena. Se criaron juntos, vivieron su infancia con la normalidad que les permitió su diferencia de clases sociales. Leonardo, hijo del hacendado, Cándido, hijo del capataz. Jugaban a las canicas, gallitos (semilla de algarroba), subían a los árboles y se bañaban juntos en el río… pero se descubrieron… se vieron por primera vez, de manera diferente.
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Cuernos Rosas
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Paula Soler Laveaga
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2021
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Mexico / 10 mins
Teresa escapes from her Catholic school where she is bullied and celebrates Halloween with her transvestite friend dressed as the devil, who teaches her to defend herself.
Watch... here
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Cuerpo Trans (Versado)
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Salomé Lozano
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2021
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Argentina / 16 mins
Visibility and awareness of the court case of Azul Montoro, a murdered trans woman.
Trailer... here
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Curfew /
Couvre Feu
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Mélaine Ricard-Boulieu
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2021
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Canada / 14 mins
After meeting on a dating app, Tom and John decide to give each other a chance to be more than just two anonymous bodies, as they take a walk in the snowy Montreal winter. Even though John does not speak nor French, nor English, the two start bonding. But the curfew is just around the corner...
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Cumyard
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Mexicum
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2021
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Mexico / 15 mins
A man visits his lover's grave to feel his presence one last time, but today is the day of the dead, and his lover wants to feel his presence too.
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Cybernetic
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Pleasure Beyond Flesh
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2021
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Sweden / 11 mins
Where does a body end? Neural connections and flesh. What is pleasure? Connecting synapses, fluids of nutrients, and comfort. What time is love? Spasms and contractions. Beating pulse, beating heart. Pleasure beyond flesh.
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Cycling
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George Zuber
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
Cycling takes a simple look at an age-old universal story through the eyes of two men — the nature of love, loss, and renewal. Filmed in Fort Lauderdale with a local cast familiar to many.
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Daisies
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Aló,
Tormenta Cósmica
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2021
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Brazil / 26 mins
Tormenta Cósmica plays the obedient while Aló gives what this naughty woman wants: slaps and the permission to cum.
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Damn Right + Apologize
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Amber
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2021
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USA / 7:42 mins
This LGBTQ+ music video tells the story about two guys that meet during a speed dating event. While we see the connection is there, and very sexy, the trust is broken on multiple levels.
Watch… here
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Dancing Heart /
Corazon Danzante
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Amaranta R. Saavedra
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2021
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Mexico / 14 mins
Lesbian love has always been a rebel act. But the relationship between Luisa and Violeta, teenagers and feminists, is pure anarchy.
El amor lésbico siempre ha sido un acto rebelde. Pero una relación entre dos mujeres, adolescentes y feministas es pura anarquía.
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Dancing with Gender /
Dansen met gender
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Jorinde Hol
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2021
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The Netherlands / 3 mins
‘Dansen met gender’ (Dancing with Gender) is a short documentary about identifying as non-binary.
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Das Ding
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Cade Danieli
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2021
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Brazil / 12 mins
“Why do hollows matter, when hollows aren’t matter?” From stop-motion animation to live action to music video, an unmissable achievement.
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Dastak
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Fazal Ahmad
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2021
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Pakistan / 7 mins
A guy wakes up to the sounds of celebration on the streets. Switching to TV News, he realizes that the entire country has embraced the inclusive philosophy.
Trailer… here
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Day & Night
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Nix Guirre
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2021
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USA / 5:18 mins
An immigrant Filipina dances to ease the pangs of a colonial mentality and longing for home.
Watch… here
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Dead End /
Gang Buntu
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Omar Beretta,
Dwi Asrul Fajar
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2021
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Indonesia / 8 mins
A desperate love song to Jakarta. Nocturnal wanderers lost in the maze of sex and religion, culture and loneliness. East and West fuse in the archetypal search for meaning across the many narratives of existence.
Watch… here
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Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina
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Beatrice Gibson
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2021
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France, UK / 4 mins
A woman is scrolling through her cell phone in a park, surrounded by playing children. The film was commissioned in 2021 as part of a project by Punto de Vista Film Festival in which several filmmakers were asked by curators Garbiñe Ortega and Matías Piñeiro to film a letter to a filmmaker they admired. For (Gibson wrote a love letter to three filmmakers – Barbara Loden, Nina Menkes & Bette Gordon –, women whose voices and characters have influenced her deeply in the last few years.
Watch... here
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Dear Bhargava
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Ramnath Shanbhag
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2021
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India / 16 mins
A gay son decides to move out of the country and disconnects himself from a family due to fear of disapproval of his sexuality. On returning home for his father’s funeral, he finds a letter in his father’s closet addressed to him.
Watch... here
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Dear Dad
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Ibrahim Azmat Rana
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2021
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Pakistan / 10 mins
A young man visits his dying father for the confrontation of his life.
Trailer… here
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Dear my Wonnie
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Jooee Kang
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2021
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South Korea / 22 mins
Jeje finds a place carrying Wonnie who injured his leg.
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Death is My Pronoun
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Zafira Vrba Woodski
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2021
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Sweden / 14 mins
Being trans is a matter of life and death.
Yet, I’ve never met a trans person who is afraid of death.
Death is my pronoun takes you on a journey from the 17th century Witch Trials up until today, and gives a glimpse of the future.
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Deberíamos Imaginar Todo en Términos de Arena
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Roxana Bernaule
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2021
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Argentina / 53 mins
Juegos visuales, sonoros y lingüísticos en las performaces de cuatro personajes que habitan sus propios encierros. La diferencia expuesta en un grito poético, intimidante y silencioso sobre el texto Diez noches en el cuadrado de Romina Funes. Junto a la compañía Tawa Teatro, la película investiga el proceso de creación colectiva desde una visión y una postura inclusiva respecto de la discapacidad, la diversidad de género y las corporalidades disidentes.
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Decoherence
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Adrian Assoufi,
Jessie Garon
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2021
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Canada / 3 mins
Two men look for healing in each other in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Told through the urgent and visceral language of dance this film speaks to the emotional experiences that unite us.
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Dedicated to Those Who
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Jules Retzlaff
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2021
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USA / 13:39 mins
A hybrid doc and visual album exploring the struggles of the past, present, and future San Francisco.
Watch… here
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Dentata Pearls
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Antigoni "Bunny" Tsagkaropoulou
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Greece / 12 mins
DENTATA PEARLS is an experimental film that emerged during the time of isolation, out of a desire for intimacy and a need for escape. It is a sci-fi, queer fairytale - manifesto that envisions a non-heteropatriarchal world of self-determination, emancipation, and mutual care.
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Dentate
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Pequeno Marginal,
hiperlinque
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2021
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Brazil / 15 mins
Who eats who? Cavities are not just receptors, but technologies prepared to nourish themselves. The hole eats, the phallus is devoured, swallowed, consumed and savored.
Trailer… here
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Dérive Diasporique
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Kimura Byol-Nathalie Lemoine
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2021
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Canada / 2 mins
Dérive diasporique is an audio-visual essay on the year I thought I was going to die, the year of the Tokyo Olympic Games. The date is delayed…is my death as well?
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Descent /
Descenso
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Dora Schoj
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2021
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Argentina / 15 mins
Lara arrives for the first time in Buenos Aires to pay a surprise visit to her brother Nico. On her first night, after a series of disagreements, she accompanies him to an electronic party, a completely new and strange environment for her. who will discover another universe of his brother.
Trailer… here
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Diario de Confesiones Íntimas y Oficiales
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Marilina Giménez
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2021
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Argentina / 25 mins
A partir de material de archivo de programas de la televisión argentina del año 2001 y archivo televisivo personal del 89-91, Marilina Giménez, la directora, recorre parte de su historia personal en la que narra su primera relación lésbica con Marina La Grasta, música del actual grupo Ibiza Pareo. “Si nuestros deseos son imposibles seremos un misterio”, la violencia simbólica de les no representades se transforma en pancarta de rabia y orgullo.
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Dick
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Kevin McLellan
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2021
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USA / 7 mins
DICK is a homoerotic short that mashes-up public domain sources (three 1940’s educational films starring Dick York, a 1940’s anti-gay propaganda film, music from different decades, and a quote from David Wojnarowicz) to survey representations of gayness from different lenses. A version is available with burned in subtitles.
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Different
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Alexsys Giraud
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2021
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USA / 1:59 seconds
A 7th grade student shares his feeling about being Different
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Dirge
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Brendan Leonard
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
A queer is excluded from a family funeral. They're not going to miss out on all the fun. Are they?
Watch… here
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Disappearing Acts
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Sarah E. Jenkins
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Darkness encroaches upon a loggy landscape of animated tricks and turns.
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Disclosing Acuenda
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Ana Carolina Marinho,
Anna Zêpa
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2021
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Brazil / 15 mins
A group of drag queens from a suburb of São Paulo, unveils a day of performance under the curious gaze of a child. What is being a drag queen?
Trailer… here
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Distant Love
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Dexter Jone
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2021
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China / 18 mins
In a bright Spring day in the village of Nanjing, Hong, whom Min has not seen for many years, suddenly enters her life and leads her to review the misfortunes and sorrows that happened to her in the past. The interplay of multiple emotions leads these two women to try to come to terms with their past.
Trailer… here
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Do I Qualify for Love?
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Atlas O. Phoenix
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2021
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USA / 14:05 mins
Shot on a cellphone, with a budget of $28, Do I Qualify for Love? is a short experimental documentary that tells the autobiographical story of Trans-Masculine, Black, Disabled, Nonbinary, award-winning filmmaker, Atlas O. Phoenix, as they revisit their past on the eve of an abusive night with their parents. Told in realtime, at age 17, and ending as a reflection from their POV at 50, Do I Qualify for Love? asks the existential question of a lifetime.
Trailer… here
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Do They/Thems Like Flowers or Do I Buy Platform Shoes and Tarot Cards?
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Ezra Šimek
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2021
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Czech Republic / 13 mins
Our diversity is our strength, even despite a society deeply entrenched in the binary perception of gender. Walking the fragile line between euphoria and dysphoria can be a daily part of life. This video-essay examines the problematic, yet often unseen aspects of the society we live in, highlighting the potential for emancipation and the pleasure that rewards overcoming the oppressive binary logic.
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Domestique
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Nikita Burdein
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2021
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USA / 10 mins
A young gay man adjusts to a partnered, domestic life.
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Dove Love
זוג יונים
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Oz Kaufman |
2021 |
Israel / 13 mins
Rona, a young woman making her living as a “professional cuddler”, receives an order from an older man, who, to her surprise, lives on the streets. |
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Dramatic
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Yang Rong
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2021
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Taiwan / 7:15 mins
"I don’t like my voice, because I sound different from other guys. A high-pitched voice is seen as cute when you’re a child, but it’s considered weird when you are an adult. I worry about how others perceive me and how they judge me. 'Is he gay? He likes guys, doesn’t he?' I don’t want strangers to see right through me and to know that I like men, because it makes me feel like a clown, born to entertain others’ imagination."
Trailer… here
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Edén
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Guillermo Enrique Osorto Campo
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2021
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Spain / 23 mins
While packing up their childhood home, one man tries to express his desire for his best friend’s cousin without ruining their relationship.
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Einfach Jamie
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Alex Findus Zwerger
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2021
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Germany / 4 mins
Jamie tells what it's like to identify as non-binary, not use pronouns, just be Jamie and finally live the authentic you.
Watch... here
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Ek Duniya Sheher Si
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Divyani,
Kartikey,
Kirs,
Nishta,
Shadab
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2021
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India / 40 mins
Ek Duniya Sheher Si is a poetic documentary that takes viewers through New Delhi as a city of contrasts through poetry. The poems represent a diverse set of worldviews, and are visualised in different parts of the city across time. These are interspersed with short interviews with a range of individuals – young and old, natives and migrants – as they discuss what the city represents to them. Spanning themes like love, longing, loneliness, family and memory, the interviews and visuals capture a polyglossia of experiences in the city. The four anthologies featured here capture the changing face of New Delhi, as a place and a protagonist, and the realm of what it has signified and what it can.
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El Fenómeno Drag
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Beatriz Domínguez Correa
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2021
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Spain / 26 mins
Con más de 20 años de celebración, la Gala Drag de las Palmas de Gran Canaria se ha convertido en el núcleo de uno de los fenómenos drag más importantes a nivel mundial. "El Fenómeno Drag" invita al espectador a viajar por su historia, apreciar su valor artístico y descubrir su enorme influencia social.
Watch... here
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El Juego
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Cancion Diez
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2021
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Mexico / 9 mins
After a long business trip, Tavo is about to return home, next to the great love of his life, Nico, with whom he has shared years of great happiness. Meanwhile fate brings him a great surprise that will change the course of both making it clear that love is not as they paint it.
Trailer… here
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El Torito
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Royert Salazar
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2021 |
México
EL TORITO muestra la vida de la comunidad LGBT+ en Silao, Guanajuato, donde sus miembros se han apropiado de un personaje de la danza regional y han encontrado a través de él una voz en la sociedad.
EL TORITO shows the life of the LGBT+ community in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, where its members have appropriated one of the characters of a traditional dance and found through it a voice in their society.
Trailer
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El Velorio
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Julia Maddox
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
One man seeks out a way to honor his lover after dying from COVID-19.
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Elia
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Sasan Baha
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2021
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Italy / 11 mins
Durante una serata con amici e parenti, il ventenne Elia abbandona i panni che era solito portare e rivela la sua vera natura con un’esibizione canora. Un corto che invita a mostrarsi per come si è davvero.
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Em caso de fogo pegue o elevador
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Fernanda Reis
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2021
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Brazil / 12:57 mins
A horny young woman unsuccessfully searches for creative ways to enjoy amid the frustration of isolation.
Trailer... here
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Emerald
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Alejandro Suárez
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2021
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Spain / 15 mins
Ezequiel, a young hiker, has been kidnapped. His captor is wearing a pig mask and sleeps in a cabin in the depths of the forest, where he tortures Ezequiel until daylight.
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Emergence
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Rey Tang
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2022
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USA / 14 mins
Tori arrives at college with with the emotional baggage from being a transgender athlete at a conservative high school. A struggling Tori befriends Amanda, an upbeat teammate on the verge of discovering herself, and the two grow into confidence together.
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En voz alta
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Teresa Martino
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2021
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Argentina / 85 mins
Un recorrido por historias de personas lesbianas que conforman familias, y una profunda reflexión sobre la heteronorma como sistema de opresión.
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Ensemble
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Jack Chapman
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2021
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UK / 10 mins
A documentary introducing Clare Lowe, an events organiser who runs Wig in a Box Promotions, and an important voice in the Bristol queer scene.
Watch… here
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Entreaberta
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Bruna Estevam Amorim
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2021
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Brazil / 15 mins
Uma reflexão sobre os desafios de envelhecer no Brasil sendo uma mulher que ama mulheres. A cineasta bissexual reflete sobre suas próprias amarras a partir das vivências de Yone Lindgren, fundadora do movimento lésbico no país.
Trailer… here
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Envoie Valser
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Julie Robert,
Juliette Peuportier
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2021
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France / 4 mins
This folktronica song is three stories wrapped into one: it's a declaration love, a call to come out in order to live as authentically as possible, and an invitation to escape the grind and routine of daily life. The music video conveys these messages through the story of a couple who leave everything behind for a road trip toward a more peaceful life where they get to enjoy the simpler, more essential things and each other.
Trailer… here
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Esta Note Abriu-me os Olhos
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Tomás Mateus,
Bernardo Naia
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2021
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Portugal / 11:08 mins
This Night Opened My Eyes tells the story of a group of teenage boys whose main interests are girls and sex. Kiko, hide your homosexuality in secret...
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Euromerica
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Steven Norris
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2021
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USA / 57 mins
In 2020, the global market research firm IPSOS determined that only 6% percent of Americans had ever seen the Eurovision Song Contest, this despite the fact that the annual event is the most watched live music event in the world — second in viewership only to World Cup Soccer. After the 2019 edition of the contest, the organizers at the European Broadcasting Union announced the contest would be expanding to America. Then Covid-19 happened. During the height of the pandemic, Eurovision was cancelled for the first time in the contest’s 65-year history. These changes and challenges offered a perfect launching point for Atlanta filmmaker Steven Norris to find American superfans who’ve been following the contest each year.
Watch… here
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europa
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Ioana Bălănescu
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2021
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Romania / 19 mins
Ana, Lea și Mihai petrec noaptea de revelion împreună. O noapte plină de evenimente, schimbări politice majore, artificii, temeri și explorări.
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Evanescent
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Hyung Seulwoo
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2021
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South Korea / 29 mins
Sue-kyung is a young woman struggling to fit in at work due to her introverted nature. She signs up for an SNS service, where she begins to communicate regularly with Jeong-yeon. Having no other friend, Su-kyung opens up to Jeong-yeon, and the two of them finally agree to meet up in person.
Trailer… here
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Even the Dinosaurs Were Young
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Ivy Crago,
Meg Taranto
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2021
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Australia
Sunny and Poppy, two young women who share a fierce and enduring intimacy, take a long walk through the Dandenong Ranges.
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Everyday Onslaught
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Kellyn Botha
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2021
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South Africa / 18 mins
In the opening scene, the leader of the LGBTIQ + people solemnly addresses us: "Without wanting to offend anyone, in order to complete the gender revolution, we will have to crack a few eggs." An inventive and intelligent staging that crystallizes the internal conflict of the director, torn between activism and serene life. A cheerful and facetious tone to talk about happiness.
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Everything is Okay:
An ASMR for Inert Bodies
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Autojektor
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2021
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UK / 6 mins
The demonisation of trans bodies? Ssshhhhhhh everything is ok…
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Falling
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Mers Tran
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2021 |
USA / 4 mins
A visual dance interpretation of the song, “Falling” by Nenci.
Watch… here
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Family Misfortunes
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Joseph Burke
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2021
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UK / 11 mins
When father and daughter just want to be loved for who they are.
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Farlaques
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Julien Cadieux
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2021
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Canada / 7 mins
A country road in a bucolic landscape. But this Acadian beach is not only for tourists.
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FATbulous Me
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Chia-Hsuan Tsai
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2021
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Taiwan / 19 mins
'Being fat' often has negative connotations and is seen as a state that needs to be changed. Amy and Mallie suffered much frustration before learning to live in harmony with their bodies and advocating for body equality.
Trailer… here
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Fierceness Served!
ENIKALLEY Coffeehouse
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Michelle Denise Parkerson
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2021
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USA / 35 mins
The early 1980s in Washington DC was a time of phenomenal creative and political ferment. Within this setting, a Black LGBT renaissance emerged. At the center of this groundswell was the ENIKAlley Coffeehouse.
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Finding Queer Disability Culture
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Jen Sungshine,
David Ng
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Canada / 5:54 mins
Directors Jen and David connect with Amar Mangat and Vivian Ly, who are part of the Deaf, and Neurodiverse, communities, respectively. Parallels between Deaf identity, Deaf Culture, and Autistic identity and Autistic Culture are drawn as both individuals challenge neurotypical and hearing-privileged ways of understanding disability, language and access within queer culture.
Watch... here
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Firebird
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Aaron Bevan Bailey,
Beth Buxton
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Short film Firebird, starring Ayesha Tan-Jones and directed by BuxtonBailey Studios, based on the Slavic folklore and ballet by Ivor Stravinsky.
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Fish Tank
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Julian Konuk
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2021
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UK / 16 mins
An episodic examination of queer communication and connection - with ourselves, with other bodies, with nature (which is inherently queer, obvs).
Watch… here
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Fist
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Romy Alizée
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2021
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France / 3 mins
A girl. Myself. Our Hands. FIST.
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Flights
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Anne Gart
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2021 |
UK / 8:33 mins
Flights was inspired by Michel Foucaults’s History of Sexuality, where he explains how being gay was considered a “symptom” in the past. I like Foucault’s work because it emphasizes how dialogue can change internal and external lives. The idea for this video piece came to me when I was browsing through Hogarth’s prints, one depicting an 18th century asylum visit. I imagined a different character in the image, someone subjected to psychiatric "help" because of being gay. It is wonderful to see pseudo-scientific notions about gender, sexuality and identity recede into the past, being replaced by the freedom of expression.
Watch… here
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For All the Kings
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Rosabel Su
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
Follow a potato's journey to self-fulfillment.
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For Creation
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Deborah Kelly
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2021
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Australia / 7 mins
For Creation is an elaborate contemplation of the great weight, the myriad complexity, the glittering webs enveloping matter and sentience. Combining playful proposition, ardent queerness, elegy and homage, this new moving image artwork forms a call to congregants of CREATION. Made over three years, around entwined global crises of health, climate and justice, For Creation is an animated paper collage constructed from the ruins of obsolete books.
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For Jean
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Eritria Pitts
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2021
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USA / 14:23 mins
Two former lovers meet at their now empty apartment for one last goodbye.
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Fragmented Delicacies
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Elio J Carranza
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2021
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Germany / 9 mins
Kinetic sand, butt cheeks, insect robots, and more were conceptualized as actors in their own right, recontextualized during montage within a digital, extended ecosexual pleasure fiction.
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Freak of Nature
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JP Schiller
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
A platypus tries to figure out if they are a beaver or a duck in this winking search for gender identity.
Watch... here
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Freed Nature
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Susanne Knöbl
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2021
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Austria / 20 mins
A coming of age story about two young women, discovering their sexuality and the individual hurdles they have to face.
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Fresh Blood
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Julianna Notten,
Hayley Wong
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2021
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Canada / 12mins
When Maya gets her period for the first time, she loses control over her body in strange and frightening ways, relying on her older sister, Rachelle, to bring her back to herself.
Watch... here
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From Shame to Pride
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Baboo Matsusaki
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2021
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Brazil, USA / 11 mins
Raised in countryside towns in Brazil by a conservative and military family, drag queen Krisa Gonna remembers childhood episodes, scrutinizing in a ludic way how that period had been marked by toxic masculinity and homophobia.
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From the fabulous water /
Dall'acqua meravigliosa
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Caori Murata
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2021
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Japan / 2 mins
Inspired by Dante's birth and by suggestions found in his Comedy.
Watch... here
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Frontera
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Anatael Pérez Hernández
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2021
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Spain / 3 mins
In a barren wasteland, the silhouette of a boy crosses the horizon. Without a precise destination, the boy is caught up by the extraordinary. "Border" is a simple story that speaks of human selfishness and its consequences. The obsession to separate us costs lives every day, a drama that usually unfolds before our eyes.
Trailer… here
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Fuck the Fascism:
The Crossroad of two Worlds
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Maria Basura
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2021
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Canada / 9:30 mins
In Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, the Selk'nam descendant Marcos García tells the horrific story of ethnocide of the Fuegian peoples. His testimony makes us aware of how this history continues to repeat itself; and how the precursors of these massacres and their heirs - now powerful businessmen and politicians - are still responsible for the usurpation of native lands and the violent repression against communities. In the past, it was the mutilation of Selk'nam ears; now, in the midst of the Chilean social rebellion, it is the eyes of the mestizos that are being shot by the police.
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Fuego en la Habitación
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Juan Camilo Morales
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2021
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Colombia / 4 mins
Todos tenemos un fuego que a veces nos quema y a veces nos eleva. Fuego en la habitación habla del descontento, amor y libertad de un adolescente que esta descubriendo su identidad sexual. Esta es una pieza que habla sobre el calor del amor sin ningún pretexto, excusa ni exclusion.
celebramos la libertad y nos declaramos desobedientes.
Trailer… here
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Fuel for Life
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Katie Bennett,
Blake Hansen
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2021
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USA / 7:22 mins
Some people spend their entire life discovering who they really are, and what they’re meant to do. Blake Hansen knew early on. The hardest part? Acceptance.
Watch… here
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Galatea
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Maddie Billok
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
A girl finds a stained glass goddess and falls in love.
Watch… here
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Gay*Watch Berlin
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Hanna Schaich
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2021
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Germany / 13 mins
A queer-empowerment sing-a-long about not needing to be saved, about sexual liberation and togetherness.
Trailer... here
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Genderfluid
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La Fille Renne,
Laure Giappiconi,
Elisa Monteil
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2021
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France / 7 mins
A dreamy contemplation of what happens when our bodies and our desires do not line up.
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Generation T
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Toriano Lockhart
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2021
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USA / 14:24 mins
In the Age of Tinder, Generation T follows the aftermath of a random hookup between two strangers on a stormy night.
Watch… here
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Gift to Give
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Erica Daniels
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2021
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Canada / 11 mins
A Two-Spirited daughter discovers she is a perfect kidney donor for her ailing father. By gifting a piece of herself, she hopes to save his life and gain his acceptance for who she truly is.
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Ginger & Honey Milk
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Mika Imai
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2021
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Japan / 60 mins
“I might be gay,” Rei is told by her friend Kento. In April 2020, a state of emergency was declared due to the coronavirus, and four people, deaf and hearing, are forced to change their lives, but lead a university life. A human drama that depicts a complicated quadrangle relationship where their sweet and painful feelings intersect. Kento likes Atsushi. Jun likes Rei. But Rei is kissing Asuka. And Asuka likes Kento! ? What will happen to this quadrilateral relationship?
Trailer… here
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Glimpse
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Clarice Teh
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2021
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Singapore / 3:22 mins
How does expressing your gender feel like? Personally, it’s terrifying and freeing at the same time- wanting to be seen but also wanting to hide. We wanted to explore the ways gender can be expressed and perceived- by both society and more importantly, intimately by ourselves.
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Gloria
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Tanguy Pochoy
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2021
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France / 6 mins
A boxer is faced with the biggest fight of his career: his inner fight.
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Glow
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Finn Evans
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2021 |
UK, Bulgaria / 12 mins
Glow is a coming-of-age, experimental, short film in which we follow Philip’s journey in overcoming family issues, fear, and mental health struggles to succeed in his dream of becoming a successful dancer. The film’s essence is about finding your inner glow, when you are down in the dark, surrounded by your own metaphoric demons and the importance of reflection. Glow also tries to challenge societal stigma on male dancers. It relies mainly on body language, mimics, dance, and music to express emotions, rather than dialogue.
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Glow
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Jottum Kok
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2021
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Nederland / 10 mins
In an asylum center, Yusuf transforms into his alter ego Grizolda.
Watch... here
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Go Tell Them it’s Spring /
Vagli a spiegare che è primavera
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Sara Luraschi,
Lucio Guarinoni
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2021
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Italy / 60 mins
Bergamo, 2021, a border space, a performance, 8 characters on the threshold: between adolescence and adulthood, between real and imaginary, between past and present. Vagli a spiegare che è primavera (Go tell them it's spring) is a documentary based on the biographies of a group of young people who, over the last three years, have been researching the boundaries of identity, a story about art as a possible space for growth, resistance and transformation.
Trailer… here
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Gonora La Grave
(Suzanne Après L'amour)
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Elsa Aloisio
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2021
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France / 32 mins
"A heartache, then my meeting, intense and joyful, with the Turkish Toulouse drag queen Gonora La Grave, deep and funny discussions that repair, a great desire to film it and listen to it sing old love songs that I love."
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Good Times for a Change
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Mick De Paola,
Elena Comoglio
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2021
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Italy / 45 mins
May 2019. In the small town of Tromello, near Milan, Italy's first transgender mayor is elected. The documentary tells the campaign that led to this historic election. A story of friendship and courage against prejudice.
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Graceful
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Alex McFadden
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2021
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USA / 2:30 mins
A non-binary person explores their experience with dysphoria.
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Gradual Ascent
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Diana Albrecht
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Gradual Ascent celebrates intimacy and connection within interracial, LGBTQ+ relationships.
Watch… her
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Grand Mother Tongue
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Chanelle Lajoie
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Grand Mother Tongue pairs poetry, spoken in Plains Cree, and breath with the intimate imagery of strawberries being consumed bite-by-bite, and finger lick for finger lick. Together, these stories work to build a foundation of queer desire, heart medicine, and language revitalization for those who are also seeking to connect with these intersections of self and community.
Watch… here
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Grandchild
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Claudio Steinberg
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2021
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Israel, Argentina / 12 mins
Surrounded by friends of their age, many of whom already grandparents, Claudio and Hilla yearn for their first grandchild. Nitai, their son, begins a surrogacy process with his husband in Canada. But the family has to bridge intergenerational gaps.
Trailer... here
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Greenwood:
Making a Space
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Adam Knight
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2021
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UK
When the pandemic hits and drag queen Mystika Glamoor (aka Oskar) is out of work, they seize the opportunity to create a new queer sober community café in Edinburgh. A hopeful documentary which shows the power of community space.
Trailer… here
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Grounders
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Melanie Hope
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2021
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USA / 20:38 mins
An inside look at The Prospect Park Women’s Softball League which was formed in 1981 with a radical vision to welcome all women to play regardless of prior experience. It remains a place where women meet across differences of race, economic class, sexual orientation, education, religion, and gender identity to play softball.
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Growth
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Mia Fryer
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2021
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UK / 3:22 mins
A young person's gender dysphoria grows on their skin until it almost envelopes them. To survive they must come to terms with their issues around self-image.
Watch… here
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Guardians
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Lucy Skrypzak,
Gale Smith
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2021
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USA / 2:47 mins
When facing their fear of darkness, a young child receives help from some unlikely defenders.
Watch... here
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Hair /
Hår
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Isabella Karlström,
Malin LQ,
Tove Lidman,
Adam Bejstam
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2021
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Sweden / 15 mins
“Hår” invites you to a collective reflection on identity and hair routines. We get the chance to hang out with members in our queer community in Stockholm, exploring the question: how much does your hair reflect your identity?
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Halloween
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Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau,
Aérea Negrot
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2021
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Brazil, Germany / 6 mins
Trans*Atlantic family bonds, established by the love for art and cyberspace. Alma Negrot, Make-Up artist and Performer in São Paulo chats with mother Aérea Negrot, whom she has never met before, on the day of Bolsonaros Government takeover. How do we create alliances to challenge the status quo of Make-Up?
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Hand in Hand
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Richard O'Connor
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Sissy Goodwin has always loved wearing skirts and dresses, but he hid that part of himself while growing up in 1950s Wyoming. When he first met his now-wife Vickie, Sissy kept up a macho appearance. Eventually shared his whole self with her. Vickie stayed by his side, and despite cruelty and intolerance from neighbors, the couple grew closer and more in love over their five-decade-long marriage.
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Hansa Boy Something That Might Never Happen Again /
Hansa Boy etwas das kommt nie wieder vor
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virgil b/g taylor
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2021
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Germany / 11 mins
‘Hansa Boy etwas das kommt nie wieder vor’ is a project unfolding Germany’s failure to recognise its central role in the history and present of European imperialism with its self-proclaimed mastery of Erinnerungskultur (Culture of Remembrance) of the crimes of the Nazi state, recognizing that there was no apocalypse in Germany after World War II, the world never ended, the bridges were rebuilt, and the Germans continued.
Watch... here
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Hatef Sada /
Phone Echo
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Anoush Basbous
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2021
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France, 7:30 mins
A correspondence between two amant.es of two Mediterranean cities, a forbidden letter given to the sea to carry it. The title means the echo of the phone, the echoes of the voice.
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Haze
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Meg Duncan
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2021
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Australia / 13 mins
Haze uses an old camcorder to film their body at night. When their mother finds the camera and watches Haze’s private video, the shimmers of new understandings penetrate the day.
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Hel Questioning Out
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Carolina Kzan
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2021
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France / 8 mins
Hel, a non-binary independent researcher and performer and Carolina, a filmmaker and photographer, have known each other for years. One day, Hel asks Carolina to take some pictures of them as a way to record their gender transition path. However, what was supposed to be a photo shoot ends up becoming an honest and sweet record of Hel’s questions and points of view in relation to their experiences on the gender spectrum.
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Helena’s Birth /
O Nascimento de Helena
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Rodrigo Almeida
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2021
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Brazil / 11 mins
My biggest dream, my ultimate, absolute dream, was basically to wreck a family.
Trailer… here
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Hello Sir
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Jet Moon
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2021
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UK / 7 mins
A genderqueer dyke dominatrix orders us all to become gay, sissies and crossdressers. What’s not to like?
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Hermanas
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Nay Mendl
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2021
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Brazil / 4 mins
A travesti trip never seen before.
Watch... here
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Hidden Collision
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Emma Zukovic
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2021
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Ireland / 12 mins
3 artists, 3 different mediums and nary shall any of them meet. A delicate doc about creativity.
Trailer… here
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Hierarchy /
Jerarquias
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Martín Olivares Del Campo,
Ángel Torrego
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2021
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Spain / 15 mins
Andrea suffers bullying for being lesbian in her school, as well as on her blog. Her classmates also turn their back on her. Her another classmate Marta also has feelings for girls but fearing being lonely like Andrea, is forced to hide her true self. May be her coming out could change Andrea’s sufferings.
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High Road No. 6
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Shawna Virago
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
‘High Road No. 6’ is a song about escaping the entrapments and negative forces wanting to take you down. It’s visual and cinematic song, and you can shine up your boots and and break out some line-dancing.
Watch… here
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Himno de Nosotros
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Juan Chappa,
Agustin Giatagenellis
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2021
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Argentina / 3 mins
Una atípica historia de amor en donde tres parejas viven experiencias amorosas en un mismo espacio y lugar sin saber de la existencia de los otros, hasta que en una situación muy particular se descubren. El amor no se divide se multiplica.
Trailer… here
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Hinga
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Sammay Dizon
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2021
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USA / 15 mins
Filipinx community rituals pulse with grief, transformation, and collective healing.
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His Voice /
A Voz Dele
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Ralph Somma
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2021
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Brazil / 25 mins
Carrying his homosexuality as a silent burden, Juliano spends his days spreading god’s message through the streets of Rio. With a modern progressive approach to preaching, his youth group convert many but, after falling in love with a boy, he sees his faith fading.
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Hold
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Marit Östberg
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2021
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Germany / 14 mins
This work describes the dynamics of intimacy in BDSM. It's a film about our longing, our pain, and being together in complete silence.
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holdingontoyou
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Theo Lucas
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2021
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Germany / 1 min
One day a hair suddenly grows on my neck. A small step towards complete facial hair, a big step towards yourself.
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Hole Theory
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Mahx Capacity
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2021
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USA / 12 mins
“The hole is not the entry nor the exit--it is the infinite interior, the space which cannot be Seen, only Felt.”
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Holy Reflection
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dezi solèy
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2021
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USA / 6:41 mins
The reunification of body and spirt murmurs to Afro-Indigenous femmes as they leap across timelines, dimensions, and goddess rituals.
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Hombre Mujer Bestia
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Mariano Dawidnson |
2021 |
Argentina / 13:18 mins
Un retrato íntimo que desnuda el alma de la artista Victoria Molotok, una mujer trans que migra a Buenos Aires persiguiendo un sueño lleno de desafíos.
Trailer… here |
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Home
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Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee |
2021 |
India
Based on a Poem by Arundhathi Subramaniam
Trailer… here |
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Homo Pol
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Amadeus Pawlica
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2021
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Germany / 19:21 mins
A short dance documentary film about nationality and identity with a focus on the situation of the LGBTQ+ community in Poland.
Trailer… here
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Homoperspectives
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Stiofan O'Ceallaigh
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2021
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UK / 5 mins
During the UK Covid-19 lockdowns the artist kept a daily visual diary in the form of digital collages or GIFs. ‘HOMOPERSPECTIVES’ contains selected extracts from the visual diary. Each individual GIF reflects upon themes such as mental health, the virus, love, sex (be)longing, (in)visibility, (im)possibilities and the day-to-day. The male figures in this series were extracted from pre-1950s photography, vintage gay adult magazines and the works of Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland to name a few. What’s most notable about these works is how the function of the male figures function changes from the erotic(-objective) to a more emotive context. The figures appear in new virtual worlds I like to call Qtopia (Q standing for Queer).
Watch… here
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House of Pride /
Ballroom Boudoir
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Joffrey Dumas (Frigid),
Stephen Hues (LaReign)
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Montreal art collective House of Pride takes you behind the scenes to experience their innovative work in drag, dance and performance art. Gender bending, ground-breaking, outrageous, legendary, queer, feminine power!
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How to Catch your Breath Screaming /
Como Recuperar O Fôlego Gritando
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Diego Nascimento,
Murilo Gaulês
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2021
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Brazil / 30 mins
This is the story of Aline, a travesti survivor of the prison system that moves to guarantee her autonomy and gain her dignity.
Trailer… here
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How to Film Queer Movie
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Yuha Cha,
Chanah Park
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2021
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South Korea / 6 mins
Here is a young director who is trying to shoot a queer film. An old lady passing by asks out of curiosity, “What is the movie about?”
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How, Where and When
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Armend Zeqiri
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2021
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Kosovo, Netherlands / 22 mins
How, Where and When aims to show all the difficulties and vicissitudes that the LGBT community in Kosovo goes through to have a date.
The film has 4 different stories by different generations and all those stories have shown all types of meetings, fears, emotions, indecisions, webs and applications that are used for dating.
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Hueco
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Alejandro Ariel Paiva
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2021
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Argentina / 7 mins
Dos albañiles se miran. La maquinaria constructora se transforma en caja musical. El deseo es una obra en construcción.
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Human Rights
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Elio Colen
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2021
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Spain
El documental testimonial "Human Rights", que nos habla sobre la experiencia de siete personas migrantes de la colectividad LGTBQI+ procedentes de diferentes países y que están en proceso de asilo político en España.
Trailer… here
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Hymn to Dudes
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Cat Mahatta,
Alli Miller
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
"Hymn to Dudes" is an anthemic message to the patriarchal powers that be that drips with harmony and gold. Cat Mahatta's celestial vocals deliver her not-so-subtle complaints about those who abuse their power to demean and oppress. The video portrays a mystical sleepover in which Cat is inducted into a queer coven of feminist art goddesses.
Watch... here
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I Asked Him to Take Me Dancing
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Hillel Rate
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2021 |
Israel / 6 mins
Young Israeli filmmaker Hillel Rate turns to his first date with Lior with an unusual prop: a camera. The result is a candid and intimate reflection on looking for and falling in love, and the price we pay for it.
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I Can Only Do So Much
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Lillion Lost
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2021
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Sweden / 18 mins
The main topic of the film is suicidality in context of close relationships. But its focus is not on the suicidality itself.
Instead it gives insights into the thoughts and feelings of a close person / partner who never had any suicidal intentions themselves.
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I Can Tell You Anything
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Kevin Anthony
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2021
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USA / 12 mins
Best friends Miles and Cole can’t resist each other. They experiment with new pleasures and emotions behind the back of Mile’s overprotective brother. But the fear of getting caught can’t stop what their bodies are telling them.
Trailer... here
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I Had Been Sleepwalking When I Saw All Those Colors /
Eram somnambul când am văzut toate acele culori
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Bogdan Balla
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2021
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Romania / 11 mins
Inspired by Derek Jarman’s Section 28 installation, the film compares stories from a recent history of the Romanian queer community with current personal experiences, linking them to lyrical observations about a still hidden present, a distillation of the distance between the silent realities of queer love and the hysteria of its public representation.
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I Hate Winters
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Shivesh Pandey
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2021
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India / 8 mins
An ode to all the feelings that we are too afraid to accept, lest they become our reality. A reality that we are already a part of.
Trailer… here
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I Identify as Me
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Tina Colleen,
Monick Monell
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2021
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USA / 10mins
A chorus of QTBIPOC gender-diverse people share their stories, allowing us to reflect on the truth that the intersectionalities of gender and people are infinite.
Watch... here
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I Like Girls Too
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Hannia Yeverino
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2021
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USA / 3:44 mins
Ex-lovers Anthony and Robert run into each other on a double date with their current girlfriends-- but in fear of not being accepted, they've never revealed to their partners their bisexuality.
Watch... here
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I Only Like You When I'm Lying Down
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Lydia Dunn Ribeiro
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2021
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Follow Nancy on a surreal journey through her thoughts and memories of intimacy and relationships. On this journey, she is continuously intercepted by one thought that she must confront.
Trailer… here
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I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You
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Andy Motz
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
The natural world has been a source of solace for many queer men throuought their lives. It also has played a significant part in queer male history as a key location for cruising. In both of these examples queer men’s place in nature is often transitory and ephemeral. Our stories and presence are gone as nature continues with barely an imprint we were even there. I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You preserves these hidden queer histories and draws attention to the often overlooked importance of nature in queer life.
Trailer… here
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I Won’t Let You Get Lost
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Dakota Renée
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2021
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USA / 10 mins
A UCF student’s personal experience in coming out as a bisexual trans man to their mother presents in a series of interviews that take place in both subject’s cars. Through the combination of these interviews, we witness a very personal coming-out experience from two distinct perspectives.
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I’m A Fag For U
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Vivek Shraya
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2021
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Canada / 5 mins
Unpacking the term “fag” multi-hyphenated Canadian artist, Vivek Shraya puts the slurs to a beat.
Watch… here
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I'm Too Big for My Home /
Je suis trop gros pour ma maison
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Mina Perrichon
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2021
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France / 1:40 min
I am the creature that lives in the chimney. But I'm growing so fast that I need more space.
Watch… here
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Ich Bin Trans*
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Marcel-Jana Urban
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2021
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Germany / 2 mins
Gianluca started a transition with hormones, among other things, and is wearing a binder, which has significantly increased his body acceptance. It is a way for him to feel authentic and finally be himself, instead of compulsively fulfilling the expectations of others and having to hide himself.
Gianluca, ein junger trans Mann, zeigt seine täglichen Routinen. Es sind Kleinigkeiten, die ihm helfen, seinen Körper besser zu akzeptieren.
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Ilunabarrean Esan
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Xabier Vallina
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2021
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Basque Country / 20 mins
Pamplona 2002, the youth political organization Segi, of which Urko is a member along, has just been outlawed. Urko is divided between public and private life. In public life, he is an exemplary militant. In private, he satisfies hidden desires both in the men’s toilets at the bus station and in the dark corners of the Taconera park. His social and political life will be involved with his sexual life.
Trailer… here
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Imagine a Body
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Connor Lee O'Keefe
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
Trans men reflect on taking testosterone. The body expands to a new realm of possibility.
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In Our Being /
Sa Aming Pagkatao
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Ghislan Timm,
Jann Earl Q. Madariaga
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2021
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Canada, Philippines / 8 mins
In Our Being/Sa Aming Pagkatao combines the perspectives of two queer people of colour, one from the Philippines and one from Canada, into one narrative body.
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In the Corner of My Eye
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Alicia Gong
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2021
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China / 12 mins
Gu struggles to come to terms with his sexuality due to social pressure. He shows his fondness to He Dong in anonymity until one day they were invited to the same party where Gu was forced to make a decision…
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In Your Palm
בכף ידך
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Alma Kalbermann |
2022 |
Israel / 2 mins
“There is only a breath in this moment in your palm”.
And unsurprisingly, this song was written about a moment of a hand resting on a knee of a newly lesbian couple, while watching an Israeli lesbian movie in the cinema. |
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Insurrection
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Okado do Canal,
Rita de Cácia Oenning da Silva
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2021
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UK, Brazil / 1.30 mins
He comes from the mud strengthened, ready to rule himself as king and queen. A journey to a different being, unique and yet belonging.
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Inverted /
Invertido
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Márcia Bellotti
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2021
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Brazil, Portugal / 17 mins
An experimental short film that addresses early childhood sexuality from the premises of Landscape Theory and seeks a field of libertarian expression for an ethical construction of narrated memory.
Trailer… here
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Inviting Moments of Stillness
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André Uerba
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2021
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Portugal / 36 mins
A choreographic-performative exploration of the practice of touch. André Uerba explores the different dimensions of touch – its properties, qualities and complexities. Through movement, trampling and concentration on the body, it is a question of testing different forms of knowledge and perception of the other as a means of discovering the potential of unity.
Trailer... here
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Irrupción
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Canción Diez,
Juan Ocampo
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2021
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Mexico / 8 mins
One rainy afternoon an emotional hurricane blows up when a stranger enters Paco's apartment.
Trailer… here
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Is she Queer?
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Isabella Walton
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2021
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UK / 2 mins
A young woman sitting in a park becomes immediately infatuated with a woman sitting on a nearby bench. Using intuition, imagination and queer culture clues she tries to figure out whether the woman is queer or straight. Exposes the struggles queer people face in the first steps of romantic encounters through a comedic lens. Inspired by tiktok's sapphic community and their relatable content that has allowed a space for queer women to feel they have a sense of identity.
Watch… here
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Is there a century?
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Sophie Yaroslavivna Abazjan-Bihailo
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2021
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Ukraine / 2:19 mins
Should they have been born at a different time and place? A question of despair and hopelessness. She is among a large crowd of people who always distract her, she cannot find herself or someone similar. Running through the streets of the city, she wants to escape from the crowd of people and find at least someone related and similar to her, someone who was also born in the wrong century and is looking for the right place on Earth.
Watch... here
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it belongs to me
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Em Johrden
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2021
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Germany / 14 mins
For 23-year-old Mít life between two worlds is nothing new, their gender and cultural identities constantly in flux.
Trailer… here
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It Is Love /
Es amor
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Manrique Cortes Castro
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2021
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Costa Rica / 5 mins
Carlos, a married man with two daughters, dares to reveal his true sexual identity to his family; Ale, a trans woman manages to finally reconcile with the image in the mirror and accept herself; and Jaz and Lalay, two young lovers, must confront their family and society in order to get married.
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It takes two /
Os dois convencidos
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Arthur Lestak
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2021
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Brazil / 41 mins
A crime sparks a guilty feeling in Ivan, which makes him satisfy all his partner’s wishes. His attempts at redemption feed an aggressiveness that turns crueler and crueler.
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It's Just Me
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Jared Moossy
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2021
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USA / 19 mins
It's Just Me is a portrait of Allie Cole, a Black transgender woman who sits on all the fault lines of all of America's concerns about gender and class, just by being her authentic self. She negotiates the demands of activism, her fledgling non-profit, her parents and finding love.
Trailer... here
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It's Not Her /
No Es Ella
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Samuel Gonzalez
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2021
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Chile / 11 mins
While she’s in Cuba and he’s in Chile, distance will support a lie that seeks to face a truth.
Trailer… here
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Jade
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Lara Singer
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2021
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UK / 7 mins
JADE is a short film series ‘Stories Untold’ that features stories of London-based migrants. These stories help us understand the current rhetoric surrounding migration in a post-Brexit Britain.
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James
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Lucy Collins
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2021
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USA / 11:31 mins
In a neighborhood of million-dollar houses, James lives in a house that’s falling apart, tending to his plants that threaten to overwhelm his yard and talks of his past as a young gay man who left his home in the Appalachian Mountains to find a new life in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Je Ne Suis Pas
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Valentine Zhang
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2021
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France / 4 mins
Alice s’échappe du cocon familial pour participer à un collage féministe...
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Jean Genet, Notre Pere Des Fleurs
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Dalila Ennadre
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2021
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Maroc / 61 mins
Under the benevolent shadow of Jean Genet, buried in Morocco, this film is a dialogue between the living and the dead, an invitation to hold the worlds together, between deaf humanist revolt and poetic elegy.
Trailer... here
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Jericho
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Lisa Chearles
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2021
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Singapore, UK / 8 mins
Moments of tenderness devolve into tension, each party protagonist and antagonist as they wrestle for love, power and control.
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Jiyo
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Fawzia Mirza
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2021
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Pakistan / 5 mins
Letting go isn’t easy, but as Urvah learns, it’s easier with the right tools: a good sidekick, a working lighter, and the perfect Star Trek episode.
Trailer… here
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Joomak
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Julissa Carbajal
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2021
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USA / 7:42 mins
Korean chefs metabolize scrumptious, affordable dishes at a lively karaoke bar.
Watch... here
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JTHIII
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Alan Amaya
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
JTHIII is the first music video from trans artists Luka Fisher and Kyler O'Neal and their collaborator Celeste XXX. In it they explore queer time and the pain experienced by trans people that are both desired and rejected for their identities in this surreal video.
Watch... here
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Ju-bin
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An Sun-young
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2021
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South Korea / 20 mins
A middle school girl stays at the school until late every night to study. When everyone goes home, she takes off her clothes and starts dancing.
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July, 2020
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Sahej Nandrajog
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2021
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India / 83 mins
Fraught with loneliness and desperation, two unnamed characters have no one to turn to but each other. Told over the course of six months during the COVID-19 Lockdown, the film explores the push and pull relationship between its two central characters. They talk, they laugh, they fight. Then they do it all over again.
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June
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Laura Baron,
Chiara Watt
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2021
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Australia / 6 mins
A young couple spend a tense night camping in the backyard
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Just Married
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Kat Macmillan
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Desperately Seeking dyke representation?
Watch... here
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Kadhakal Arangiloode
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Athul Sabu Varughese
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2021
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India / 22 mins
A documentary about the play “Parayan Maranna Kadhakal” by “Mazhavil Dhwani” discusses the plight and struggles of the Transgender Community.
Watch... here
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 Kekre
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Umut Derin Eroglan
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2021
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Turkey / 23 mins
The documentary “Kekre” focuses on the experiences of masculinity performances positioned as “other” against the hegemonic understanding of masculinity and aims to reveal the construction of dominant masculinity performance in society.
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Kerel
(Sea of Love)
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Jon Cuyson
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2021
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Philippines / 14 mins
Trapped in a cargo ship during the lockdown, Kerel, a gay Filipino seafarer escapes through his memory, and recalls his complicated past, present, and future self. The hybrid experimental documentary fiction film is an evocation of the complexities of personal and national identity prescribed by one’s memory. The film mixes archival images with texts, filmed and found footage to weave the complex narrative from the perspective of a seafarer stranded at sea, confronted by Chinese ships while recalling his relationship with himself, his lover, his family, and his country.
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Kimmortal - Wyd
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Steven Roste,
Kimmortal
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2021 |
Canada / 3 mins
Kimmortal is sucked into their computer and transported across colourful and surreal digital realms.
Watch… here |
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Kin
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Charmaine Poh
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Singapore / 3 mins
This hybrid documentary film proposes a safe space for queer life in Singapore.
Watch… here |
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Koyukuk
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Rachel Lin Weaver
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
The latest chapter in a long-term collaboration between me and the Alaska Native village where I grew up. Gitr'ingithchagg is a Deg X'itan village with a population of 81. It is a meditation on mixed indigenous identity, spiritual worlds, death, loss of language (survival in residential schools) and animal substitutes. Images of low-resolution camera traps from ecological studies of Arctic rivers are combined with interviews with aîné.es and music performed and composed by the artist, in an attempt to find an understanding and words after the death of fathers and grandfathers.
Watch… here
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L4 Ti4nguis
(Disidentxs)
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Itzel Sarmientos
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2021
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Mexico / 7 mins
Beneath the insurgentx roundabout you can hear the bass rumbling on a Friday afternoon where vogue is danced, graffitti is made, trades are made and protests take place. Dissidenta tianguis is a letter, a call to us to occupy the spaces that are not given to us, in a country that has the highest number of hate crimes against the LGBTQIA+ community.
Trailer… here
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La Naturaleza del Amor
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Nicolás Alvarez,
Joaquín Ostrovsky
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2021
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Argentina / 19 mins
Un viaje de luna de miel no ordinario a la Naturaleza. El amor entre dos seres humanos, un extraterrestre y un perro entre viajes multidimensionales. Una película musical sobre esa trascendencia cósmica entre el tiempo y el espacio que solo ocurre cuando uno besa. “El amor romántico no ha muerto”, parece cantar esta tierna y alucinada pieza audiovisual.
Trailer... here
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La storia di una lacrima
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Giovanni Coda
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2021
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Italy / 75 mins
Ispirato al libro “Ocean Terminal” di Piergiorgio Welby.
“Quando un malato terminale decide di rinunciare agli affetti, ai ricordi, alle amicizie, alla vita e chiede di mettere fine ad una sopravvivenza crudelmente ‘biologica’, io credo che questa sua volontà debba essere rispettata ed accolta con quella pietas che rappresenta la forza e la coerenza del pensiero laico.”
Trailer… here
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La Vida es Corta
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Florencia Bastida
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2021
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Argentina / 23 mins
Jose a un rencard avec Male mais iel a disparu. Lu a un examen crucial pour sa carrière le lendemain matin mais elle abandonne ses révisions pour aider Jose à retrouver son rencard dans une recherche nocturne, paranoïaque et complètement déjantée…
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Lada, Ivan’s Sister
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Olesya Shchukina
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2021
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Russia
Here is an animation based on the real story of Lada, a transgender woman from Russia. She tells her and her brother Ivan’s secret.
Trailer… here
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Laramie, Italy
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Martina Arrigoni
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2021
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Italy / 52 mins
In 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming (United States), Matthew Shepard, a 22-year-old student, was attacked by two peers in an act of a homophobic nature. At the end of his life he is transported to the hospital, where he will die a few days later, shaking public opinion overseas and beyond.
Starting from a crime story that really happened, the director Martina Arrigoni transposes on the big screen the rehearsals of the show "The seed of violence - The Laramie Project" by Moisés Kaufman and of the Tectonic Theater Project directed by Ferdinando Bruni and Francesco Frongia, produced by the Teatro Elfo Puccini, where eight actors bring about sixty characters to the stage, giving life to the words and thoughts of the Laramie community while asking themselves about their responsibility towards what happened to the boy, in a path of rehearsals that evolves to nowadays in Milan.
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Las Lagunas
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Kary Ríos Santana
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2021
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Puerto Rico / 25 mins
When Samantha learns what "poly-love" is; he realizes that his family is not what it seems and that "normal" is not necessarily "ordinary." His mission is to find a truth that little by little is disappearing along with the life and memories of his grandparents.
Trailer… here
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Laundry Night
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Josh Boehnke,
Jeff Dempsey
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Could matching socks at the laundromat lead to a match?
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L'eau qui dort
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Yael Vallotton
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2021 |
Switzerland / 16 mins
In the small kitchen of a family home, two women in their fourties are chatting. Out of the blue, one of them kisses the other.
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Le radici dell’orgoglio
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Giorgio Umberto Bozzo
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2021
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Italy / 19 mins
Le Radici Dell’Orgoglio – Cinquant’anni di storia del movimento LGBTQ+ in Italia è un podcast gratuito online dal 15 aprile 2021 che racconta la storia della militanza e della comunità LGBTQ+ italiana dal 1971 ad oggi. La prima stagione racconta la nascita e l’evoluzione del movimento negli anni ’70 ed è stata prodotta grazie all’autofinanziamento e all’aiuto della casa di produzione Kidney Bingos di Costantino della Gherardesca. Il corto, scritto con Jacopo Bedussi e Andrea Meroni, racconta la nascita del FUORI! ed è stato realizzato con parte dei materiali utilizzati per il podcast.
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Leap /
Salto
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Juan Baio,
Eino Antonio
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2021
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Argentina / 3 mins
On the rooftop of a massive building, surrounded by the blazing Buenos Aires’ skyline, two friends are taking a relaxing sunbath. In the flash of an instant an unexpected event takes place, which will call into question their friendship and leave them both on the brink of a resolution that could change their lives.
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Learning to Live
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Ander Duque
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2021
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Spain / 43 mins
Three HIV patients denounce in a documentary being rejected, discriminated against and stigmatized by society, despite the existence of pharmacological treatments that make this disease intransmissible.
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Legacy of Bodies
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Dev Ramsawakh
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2021
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Canada / 1min
An experimental poetic exploration examines chronic pain, intergenerational trauma, and abuse from the viewpoint of a disabled, non-binary, Indo-Caribbean Canadian director.
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Lego Harry Potter and the Transgender Witch
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Logan Ellis
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2021
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USA / 18 mins
Local Guests from Theatre Battery: Logan Ellis and Donato Fatuesi chat with Cooper Sealy and Naya Simone about their fan fiction return to Hogwarts. First Year student, Quincy, (Donato Fatuesi) navigates life as an out transgender witch. J. K. Rowling never imagined this, but we did!
Watch… here
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Leo & Nymphia
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Pan Hsin-An
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2021 |
Taiwan / 27 mins
Twenty-five-year-old Leo is a drag queen who supports himself by performing in nightclubs. In his role as queen Nymphia, he shows his heart and desires to the public. Leo’s work is bizarre, constantly challenging social boundaries and norms, and full of curiosity about the world.
Trailer… here
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Les Cils de L’Exode
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Victor Picard,
Zoé Simpson
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2021
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France / 11 mins
Un soir d’hiver à Briançon, Cécile demande à sa sœur et sa compagne d’héberger une famille de migrants pour une nuit. Quand l’une dit oui, l’autre dit non.
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Les cœurs en pièces
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Karim Morel
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2021
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France / 17 mins
Two homeless men meet in the subway. One waits for love, the other hopes for it
Trailer… here
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Let's Not Let Go Anymore /
No nos soltemos más
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Alkisti Efthymiou
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2021
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Chile / 13 mins
In the midst of the social uprising and pandemic that is sweeping Chile, Alkisti (32), a Greek woman living in Santiago, and Mara (4), her flatmate’s daughter, are forced into progressive confinement. During this critical period, Alkisti decides to film the relational space she shares with Mara, revealing games, dialogues, and mutual concerns that will lead to a tale about femininity, survival, and collective care.
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LGBTerroristas
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Rai Gandra
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2021
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Brazil / 16 mins
Watch... here
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Like A Moonflower
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Upasana Dahal
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2021 |
Bhutan / 13 mins
A 25-year-old transgender leads two lives. She dons the mantle of a male taxi driver every day, compelled by the expectations of her family, the fear of social stigma, and worse, the horror of not being accepted. At night, she becomes a fiery bar dancer, living out her real persona.
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Lim - Bubu
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Giada Bossi
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2021
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Italy / 4:40 mins
The protagonist levitates from the bedroom to the club in a surreal narrative. The song’s house beat initially mimics a muffled heartbeat before the stillness erupts into a joyous club track just as the scene shifts to the dancefloor. The video ends back in the bedroom after an explosive psychedelic sequence that leaves the viewer wondering whether what transpired was dream or reality.
Watch… here
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Lima’s Place
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Hailey Bunn
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2021
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USA / 11 mins
In this smart and sweet experimental short, we get to know Kenyan-born, Seattle-based teenager Lima, who shares their experiences as a Black, nonbinary, bisexual person navigating family, religion, and mental health.
Watch… here
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Liquid Lyrical Liberty
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Silvia Marcantoni Taddei
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2021
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Italy / 7 mins
The gentle anarchy of a man called Queen. And this is not a fiction. It's life by AnimaeNoctis.
Watch… here
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Llamame Mateo
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Ángel Molina
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2021
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Paraguay / 6 mins
Through a virtual meeting in Buenos Aires, Tomás and Mateo bring memories of their relationship. Tomás asks Mateo for help with his new project, a film about HIV seen through affection.
Watch... here
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Llovía
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Ignacio Lillini
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2021
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Argentina / 7 mins
A suffocating summer afternoon. Iñaki (11) lies between the half-naked bodies of his brothers and his father. Guilt for exploring your sexuality will pit you to your worst fears and draw on your imagination to get through the situation.
Trailer… here
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Long Time Between Sunsets and Underground Waves
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Hu Wei
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2021
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China / 53 mins
Set on a fictional island in the Malay Archipelago where audience will witness two simultaneously unravelling narratives: that of a man imprisoned on the island and a being who delves the ocean’s depths. Through their stories and those of the other inhabitants of the island — human, animal, plants and apparitions — the film explores how the island’s ecology is formed from the entanglements between these different beings and the island’s geography, biopolitics and economy.
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Loredana’s Fight Against Transphobia
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Giulia Ottaviano
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2021
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Italy, Germany / 33 mins
Loredana Rossi has been fighting for her whole life. First for her identity, today as a social worker and “mom” of the Neapolitan femminielli. At 60, she has no intention of slowing down. For 21 years she has suffered prostitution on the sidewalks of Naples, a city that for centuries has been home to one of the most numerous transgender communities in the world, yet still strongly discriminated against. Loredana, along with her transgender rights group Associazione Trans Napoli, fights for the femminielli rights and she raises her voice when these are trampled. Loredana doesn’t allow anyone to silence her even when it comes to politics: Italy must obtain a law against homobitransphobia.
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Love and Hate in The Time of Covid
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Sibyl O’Malley
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
Once upon a time two girls met and fell in love. But when a pandemic hits, can love last?
Watch… here
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Love in the Time of…
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Farjad Nabi,
Meenu Gaur
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2021
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Pakistan / 8 mins
When a test result is positive, love can be negative.
Trailer… here
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Love in Transit
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Barbara E Guertin
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2021
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Canada / 3 mins
The familiar, and frequent occurrence of a hopeless romantic falling for a stranger, and letting their imagination run wild.
Trailer… here
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Love Is in The Air /
Flugzeuge Im Bauch
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Jan Wollenschläger,
Daniel Theobald
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2021
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Germany / 7 mins
Overcoming your deepest fear might be required to keep your love.
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Love School
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Giuseppe Capudi
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2021
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Italy / 17 mins
Will Gabriel be able to win Christian's heart thanks to the teachings of master Sensei Miyagi?
Watch… here
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Love Song
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Claire Marshall
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2021
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Australia / 16 mins
A dance film that explores a story of a relationship in constant flux, where deception and emotional manipulation unfolds. Featuring contemporary dancers Richard Causer and Anthony Trojman as two men in the relationship, LOVE SONG is presented in a parallel, split-screen structure, highlighting two aspects of a relationship occurring concurrently.
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Love Your Cunt
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altSHIFT,
Kali Sudhra,
Ivy de Luna
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
It's time to love your cunt! Love it if it’s hairy; love it if it’s shaved. Love it if your lips swing low or if they’re all shy and tucked away. There are not two in the world the same. Don’t let anyone tell you how yours should look. Don’t let anyone tell you how yours should feel. Your cunt isn’t on trial, your cunt is the fucking judge!
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Luke_Long
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Leonard Mink
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2021
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Germany / 5 mins
What does the unsparing articulation of one’s own sexual needs do to the recipient? Especially when all of it happens in the anonymity of the internet. A fatal game of dependencies in a supposedly safe space.
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Lullaby
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Irène-Kimberley Valin-Awashish
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Lullaby is a documentary essay about coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the continuity of “Sweat Lodge song”, this short film is a message of courage and hope.
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Luna Has Two Mommies
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Papi Femme,
Aorta
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2021
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USA/ 18 mis
A sweet and playful suckling session between Mommy Azalea and babygirl Luna leads to a big surprise: Mommy Dove! After fucking Luna on the couch, the mommies reward their babygirl with golden showers and a yummy bedtime bath.
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Lyly baise le cis-tème
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Lylybeth Merle
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2021
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Belgium / 15 mins
A visual poem of desire, Lylybeth has nothing to prove to woodland politicians: they transition together.
Watch… here
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Mabel
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Belem Lezama
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2021
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México / 19:35 mins
Mabel nos relata a través de sus vivencias como es que a tan corta edad inicia en un mundo de prostitución llevándola a un proceso de evolución y transformación a lo largo de su vida.
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Macaroni Soup
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Alayna Y
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2021
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Canada / 6mins
A young woman falls in love with a waitress in a greasy, nostalgic Hong Kong-style cafe, but a language gap divides them.
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Magma
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Arthur Fanget
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2021
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France / 26 mins
Adil, 20, has a date with a girl tonight in the downtown. Time to show everybody on social media, especially Sabri, his best and only friend, that he can seduce.
Trailer… here
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Main Prayer
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Rosa Caldeira,
Nay Mendl
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2021
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Brazil / 1 min
Brazil is the country that most kill travestis and trans people in the world. Travestis and trans people’s life expectancy is around 30 years, less than the general Brazilian population average. Eventually, who prays for the travestis?
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Maiskind
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iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
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2021
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Germany / 30 mins
Based on the Mayan creation myth, according to which the gods created the first humans from corn, artist Isaac Espinoza Hidrobo explores how the Western perspective can be transformed to see our connection not in the equality of all, but in our differences. Because “it is not about you, it’s about all of us.” Maiskind is a transdisciplinary collaboration with various artists (dancers, musicians, visual artists) and art & dance enthusiasts around the meaning of identity, empathy and togetherness, reclaiming public spaces in the city of Cologne.
Trailer... here
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Manor Holes High Rise
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Nick McKernan
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Genderqueer and nonbinary superheroes fight gentrification in this music video.
Watch... here
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Marcel
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Gastón Calivari |
2021 |
Argentina / 18 mins
Gastón quiere encontrar al payaso que animó su fiesta de cumpleaños de 3 años. La payasa de aquel cumpleaños remoto ahora tiene su nueva vida como Marcel, una mujer trans que regenta su floristería en Nogoyá, Entre Ríos. |
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Marks On My Skin /
Las marcas de mi piel
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Cristián Arredondo
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2021
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Chile / 7 mins
Canela InBenjamin is a transgender sex worker who performs with ropes and cables to unleash her experiences of pain, sex, and love.
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Mates
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Peter Kelly
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
I was fascinated by these two queer artists internal play, commentary and creative exploration through their social media pages. I worked to use their bodies as a medium for attraction and conversation to highlight the piquant dichotomy between these expressive, daring humans; these mates.
Watch… here
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Me :)
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Shashank HG
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2021
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India / 3 mins
A man encounters himself handcuffed and locked in a tiny room in which the exits are blocked. While trying to escape out of the room, he ends up in a breathtaking fight and wins at the cost of death. But death will be the start of the journey. And, all this while the blocked exits were the entry!
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Me Llamo Marian
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Pilar Cabrera
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2021
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Argentina / 30 mins
Marian ingresa a trabajar al Sanatorio Mitre a principio de los años 90, pero sus impulsos y deseos la llevan a hacer espectáculos en boliches under los fines de semana. Ahí vive y disfruta su verdadera identidad. Marian comienza con su transición y le exige a sus compañeros y compañeras de trabajo que la llamen por su nombre elegido, esto traerá problemas y enfrentamientos con jefes y autoridades, y una lucha por el reconocimiento de su identidad.
Trailer... here
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Meat the Mistakes
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Vixky Ramsay,
Lea asché Kalfus
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2021
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Switzerland / 2 mins
Welcome to the universe of body acceptance. If you love your body, it will love you too and dance with you under the moon and sun.
BodyNormShapes-Perfectly Imperfect
Garments address the external body problems. We push through the discomfort. A call to self-acceptance and body love.
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Mellow
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John Tsiavis
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Some people choose to be an activist, for others, it’s an ongoing fight for survival. This is a ‘moving portrait’ of Mellow, a trans, non-binary activist in Los Angeles. The story of moving out of darkness into the light, turning hardship into positivity.
Trailer… here
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Menace Miamine
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Alexandre Brulé
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2021
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Switzerland / 15 mins
Didn’t your parents ever tell you what Miamine is made of? Thirteen-year old Jim is at a tender age and just wants to see his hot tutor, when he learns the truth about his favourite spread.
Trailer... here
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Merci Madame Manon
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Manon Praline
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2021
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Germany / 20 mins
In this 20min switchy scene, Madame Manon is proud to show off her gorgeous and so perfectly obediant babydoll Puck Ellington.
The Femmedomme uses the doll as her personal toy for pleasure, breaking through the limits of ethically acceptable sex practices.
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Meritum
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Yago Mateo
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2021
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Basque Country / 6 mins
Sara and Elene finally get their objective. However, what’s the point if nobody recognizes their big achievement? There are always priceless things.
Trailer... here
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Mi piace Spider-Man…e allora?
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Federico Micali
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2021
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Italia / 9 mins
Cloe è una bambina di sei anni con una grande passioneSpiderman! E per il primo giorno di scuola non poteva che scegliere la cartella del suo personaggio preferito. Ma perché quando sfoggia lo zaino nuovo, tutti le dicono che “è da maschi”? Il viaggio di Cloe parte dalla scoperta che esiste un universo per i maschi e un altro per le femmine.
Trailer... here
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Mijn Vrouw
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Jasha Eliane
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2021
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Nederland / 3 mins
Inspiring music video about the beautiful love between women.
Watch… here
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Mijo
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Mazdey
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2021
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Mexico / 5 mins
Mijo is a young dreamer, suddenly blessed with the gift of King Midas. However his ability has a unique twist: whatever and whoever he touches is stylishly pimped up.
Trailer… here
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Missing Piece
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Nadim el Khoury
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2021
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Lebanon / 23 mins
Carole, a fifty-year-old woman is battling dementia. Her son, Elio, left everything in order to take care of her. Together, they will relive some of the moments that shaped their family.
Watch… here
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 Mitr Clinic:
Pride and Beyond
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Shrikkanth Govindarajan
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2021
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India / 10 mins
This documentary brings the exemplary story of Hyderbad’s Mitr clinic. Launched by ACCELERATE in January 2021 it is India’s first comprehensive clinic with & for the Transgender Community. The documentary shows the collective efforts of this clinic team in fighting and finding their way to acceptance, and establishing pride in their identity.
Watch... here
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Mojana
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Nadia Granados,
Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
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2021
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Colombia, Germany / 18 mins
Mojana is an associative re-imagining of a Colombian myth and traditional song. A mermaid-monster, who is desired and punished: the man-eating, seductive Mojana. Aggressions against this free and rare spirit are justified by obsessive love and desire. The film denounces the naturalised violence against this mythical female creature and reappropiates her as a symbol of trans-feminine resilience. Kinematic bodies and animal-human hybrids. An absent body, which returns into representation. A history of dissident bodies who resist dying in a necropolitical world.
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Mona
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Xavier Gould
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2021
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Canada / 23 mins
In a small Acadian city in New Brunswick in 2005, young drag queen Mona is auditioning for America’s Next Top Model. Through the gaze of her camera operator best friend we get to know her environment, dreams and fantasies. These visual landscapes – in juxtaposition with the regional Chiac dialect spoken – offer a witty queer exploration of contemporary Acadian cinema.
Watch... here
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Monólogo
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Pilar García Elegido
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2021
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Spain
"I was not born in the wrong body. I was born in the wrong society"
Trailer… here
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Monologue for a Monster
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Pedro Barateiro
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2021
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Portugal / 8 mins
A character addresses the viewer in a personal and intimate manner. The monster, who assumes having a non-binary identity, speaks of the way in which the information they capture and manage ends up indelibly transforming who they are and how they relate to the world around them.
Trailer… here
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More than Blood /
Mais que Sangue
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Sibelle Lobo
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2021
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Portugal / 10 mins
In a moment suspended in time, a group of women gather in devotion to the goddess for a sacred ritual of transformation and initiation of their new sister.
Trailer... here
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Mountain of Stone /
Pulong Bato
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Aeon Abad
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2021
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India
College friends climb near Mt. Pulong Bato in honor of their friend’s death anniversary. Will they find peace as old tensions and guilt rise?
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Moving Barcelona
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Jevan Chowdhury
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2021
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UK / 6 mins
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its past and despite much progress, it finds itself unearthing old wounds.
Watch... here
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Moving Out Through Stars
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Holly Summerson
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2021
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UK / 8 mins
An animated journey through queerness, joy and transformation, inspired by the poetry and scrapbooks of Edwin Morgan - Scotland’s first National Poet. Created for the Edwin Morgan Trust’s ‘Second Life’ Project.
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Multitask /
Mульtitask
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Ksti Hu
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2021
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MУЛЬTITASK invites its audience to witness the magic of breaking rules, dismantling tradition and creating disorder in language, typography and identity
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Muri
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Arya AT
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2021
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4 mins
You can make an ashtray out of anything if you are brave enough, she said, and I chose my heart.
Watch… here
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Mururé’s Flower /
Flor de Mururé
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Marcos Corrêa,
Priscila Duque
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2021
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Brazil / 10 mins
A musical ode to the beauty and power of feminility of the Amazon.
Trailer… here
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My Body is a Place, Just Like Any Other
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Petra Totten
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2021
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USA / 33 mins
Set against the stunning American Southwest, this documentary is a poetic meditation on embodiment and the trans experience.
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My Boy
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Lauren Fripont
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2021
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Belgium / 6 mins
Deux enfants jouent avec leur mère dans le jardin familial. Mais lorsque le garçon revêt le costume de la Fille Magique, les choses tournent mal... Un conte fantastique avec un happy end!
Watch... here
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My Dear Yeon
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JO Eun-bi
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2021
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Korea / 13 mins
Yeon and Ju-hwang are close friends who look at each other affectionately. Every night, Ju-hwang is repeatedly exposed to her father's domestic violence. However, Yeon is unaware that Ju-hwang is distressed and lost in fear because of the situation. One fine day, Yeon is left shocked when she finds a self-inflicting Ju-hwang in their secret hideaway. Yeon tries to stop Ju-hwang from running away but fails. Its then that Yeon discovers a suicide note written by Ju-hwang at their secret space.
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My Film with Andrei Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party
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Ayoto Ataraxia |
2021 |
124 mins
A crypto-trader and an ex-clergyman travel to Berlin to throw a sex party. Filmmaker Ayoto Ataraxia documents them and their sex-positive community with a phone during the week leading up to the event, discussing sex and life. But will they cum?
Trailer… here |
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My Life with Rainbows
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Elena Pendleton
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2021
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Canada / 8 mins
A kid tells what it’s like to have two moms.
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Naked Came I
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Peter Sparling
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
A childhood nightmare reanimated 60 years later evokes the terrifying tension within a nine-year-old’s psyche between innocence and violence, vulnerability and power, feminine and masculine energies.
Trailer… here
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Namid
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Victoria Anderson-Gardner,
Sagi Kahane-Rapport
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2021
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Canada / 5 mins
Struggling with a tragic loss in her family, Namid finds new meaning in her Grandfather’s teachings and is inspired to reconnect with those who have passed through fancy shawl dancing.
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Nanao
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Jay Swuen
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2021 |
USA / 5 mins
A throbbing exploration of self and becoming one.
Watch… here
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Nazco Problema
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Violeta Fontaiña
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2021
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Argentina / 24 mins
Cristian se siente atravesado por muchos estigmas: es negro, puto y villero ¿Cómo son esas violencias? ¿Cómo son sus resistencias?
Trailer… here
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Necrosis
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Paula Monesterolo
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2021
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Argentina / 4 mins
In «Necrosis» a human comes into possession of a strange artifact that allows them to accelerate into an advanced stage of human evolution. Their transformation is initially terrifying, but eventually accepted. The old body dies and and a new state of being emerges.
Watch... here
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Nectar of the Sublime
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Deike Schwarz
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2021
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Germany / 23 mins
An educational experimental piece of porn focussing on squirting, its stigma and empowerment.
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NERVE – Identity and pride
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Jefherson Luiz Maiczak
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2021
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Brazil / 4 mins
“Nerve” comes from Drag Queen and Performer Mariya Nerve’s research on body and sexuality.
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Never Fall in Love with a Straight Girl
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Ja'Von Ongele Hill
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2021
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USA / 11 mins
Kari, a masculine-presenting lesbian, and Shakerra, her bisexual ex-girlfriend, are moving out of their increasingly expensive townhome in gentrified NW, Washington D.C. Although Kari still secretly loves Shakerra, she refrains from telling her and spews biphobic rhetoric about Shakerra on her blog. With Shakerra being ready to move out and move on, Kari has a limited time to tell Shakerra her true feelings.
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Never Trapped Again!
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April Sparks
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2021
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USA
A PSA about dating advice takes a dark turn as a dating guru gives the viewers five tips to ensure they Never Get Trapped Again!
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No
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Quintin Rivera Toro
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2021
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Puerto Rico / 5 mins
Una joven bartender decide dónde trazar la línea con su novio.
Watch... here
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No Deberías
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Maider Garcia Merino
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2021
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Basque Country / 15 mins
Iratxe is 21 years old and is finishing college. Some days before she celebrates the first anniversary with her girlfriend, a pregnancy test gives her unexpected news. She knows she must tell Nora as soon as possible, but she knows it would destroy her. After all, the decision not to undergo sex reassignment surgery was not an easy one. Iratxe, with the help of her aunt Raquel and her friends, faces a dilemma that will rock the relationship. What’s the solution? Face it in Nora’s home village, far from the eyes of society.
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No Romo
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Elliot Blue
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2021
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Germany / 15 mins
Welcome to the world of "No Romo", a short film about questioning the way we live romantic love in society, and about the many shapes that Love can take.
Trailer… here
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No Sean Mis Amigos
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Bel Gatti
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2021
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Argentina
NO SEAN MIS AMIGOS es un pedido, un aviso, un recuerdo, la posibilidad de revivir el pasado para cambiarlo, la frustración de no poder cambiar nada, la certeza de cambiar el presente y así poder volver a ver los vídeos de tu banda favorita, y la mia también, esos videos que un día dejaste de ver por no poder.
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Noah’s Song
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Damian Bonito Zapien
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
An animation about a transgender man coming out to his partner.
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Non-Binary
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Arnold Tam
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2021
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Hong Kong / 3 mins
Non-binary is a short documentary about how gender-neutral fashion model Timmy Ng broke free from binary gender norms.
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Nos Vemos a la Salida
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Itzel Sarmientos
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2021 |
México / 7:30 mins
En un encuentro secreto, las miradas anuncian un cambio entre la relación complicada de Karla.
Trailer... here
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Nosoutres
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Francesco De Domenico,
Xiz Franco
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2021
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Spain / 34 mins
Xiz y Francesco, dos estudiantes que viven temporalmente en València se verán en la situación de tener que estar confinades debido a la pandemia COVID-19. Además de ser estudiantes, son pareja y ambes son trans*. Xiz se identifica como trans no-binarie y utiliza el pronombre "elle", mientras que Francesco utiliza el pronombre "él".
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Not Anymore
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Juan Ignacio Piasentini,
Omar Torrico Real
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2021
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Argentina / 5 mins
"When the way we were is no longer, waking up means absence and therefore dancing could be the garden where we’re still true”.
Watch… here
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Nothing But a Human
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Swati Jaiswal
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2021
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India / 45 mins
A documentary film about the life and work of Hiten Noonwal, a gender fluid artist from India.
Watch… here
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O' Pierrot
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Tanoa Sasraku-Ansah
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2021
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UK
Employing the narrative of Pierrot the Clown, and the aesthetic of Kenneth Anger’s pioneering avant-garde, queer film Rabbit’s Moon, O’ Pierrot (2019) explores the quest for British identity from a lesbian, mixed-race, British perspective.
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Œstral
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Camille Briffod
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2021
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Switzerland / 15 mins
A sensory journey through the menstrual cycle. Ilana, Nora, Begum, Anja and Una share with us their feelings and fascinations in connection with menstruation. Through a sensual exploration of this reality that is both commonplace and unique, the film plays with the boundaries of fiction and documentation.
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Of Longing
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Navid Sinaki
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Shaherizade, the storyteller from the 1,001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, is reenvisioned as a gay man who recalls an early lover while clicking through post-Y2K website fragments.
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Okinawa Coming out Chronicles “Mama” Katsuki’s Hug-Filled Road Trip
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Hiroaki Matsuoka
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2021
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Japan / 103 mins
In his late twenties, he leaves his hometown so he can be truly himself.
Ten years later from that day, he comes out to his parents as gay.
Now he can finally say he is on good terms with his family, but it took many conversations to reach this point.
This movie follows him as he visits his hometown of Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, looking back on the time when he came out, talking with family and friends and opening about their true feelings.
Trailer… here
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On ne se connaissait pas avant
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Ludmila Akkache
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2021 |
Algeria / 11 mins
Two feminists who met during the Hirak – Algerian protests against Bouteflika's candidacy for a fifth presidential term that took place in 2019-2020, also known as the "Algerian Spring" or the "Revolution of Smiles" because of its strong pacifist roots – recall the moments they experienced together and recontextualize the stages that led to the creation of the "feminist square" during the demonstrations held in Algiers. For there is a past of feminist resistance that exists in time, which runs through it, and that must be treasured, but there is above all a present in which these ideals must always be reincarnated, uniting people who, before that moment, had never really known each other. Only the meeting will make it possible to imagine the future with the suspended smile of those who cannot afford to give in to despair.
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On the endless road there are flashes of splendor /
Na Estrada Sem Fim Há Lampejos de Esplendor
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Liv Costa,
Sunny Maia
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2021
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Brazil / 11 mins
I once said: when I left myself, goodbye was all I had to say. On this journey, perhaps there is no arrival. Just an infinite path.
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On the Sidelines
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Valerie Betts
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
After almost 50 years of Title IX, gender discrimination is still taking place within collegiate sports. These are the people standing up for the student athletes.
Watch... here
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On the Umbrella to Be Resistance /
Debaixo do guarda-chuva pra ser resistência
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Vini Poffo
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2021
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Brazil / 18 mins
When you meet someone who goes along with the same feelings, the same experiences as you, that’s when you find yourself in the world.” Seven young LGBTQIA+ artists talk about their realities, dreams and how art influences their journey of acceptance and transformation.
Trailer… here
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Once Upon a Drag Storytime:
Going for the Gold
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Stephan Nicolazzo
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2021
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Australia / 9mins
Unbeknownst to Keith and Mohinder, Gavin, the presumed captain of the Blokes, has hijacked today's Drag Storytime by enrolling the trio into a gymnastics competition! Disappointed to miss story time, Keith and Mohinder sneakily read "Peanut Goes for the Gold!" by Jonathan van Ness whenever Gavin is distracted, but end up ruining all his efforts when a chaotic scramble ensues from a lack of rehearsing the routine. Just when Gavin is ready to give up, Keith and Mohinder find inspiration from the book to encourage Gavin to try again.
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One Day
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Carly Johnson
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
A narrative piece about coming out, based on the director's personal experiences and inspired by a poem.
Watch… here
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One of the Most Beautiful Experiences I Ever Had
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Colin Ginks
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2021
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Portugal / 1 min
In my artistic practice I use a variety of media (visual arts/writing/installation and video) to explore personal and universal experiences of (same-sex) desire. In this anecdotal work I highlight how the public space is instrumental in the forging of our sexual essentiality, and the risks involved - particularly for non-heterosexual individuals.
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Onur Calling
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Annik Faivre
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2021
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Switzerland / 37 mins
The filmmaker shoulders the camera to accompany her friend Onur, drag queen and artist from Istanbul, to the Gay Prides in Zurich and Istanbul. These are two events that, despite having the same origins, could hardly be more different.
Trailer… here
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OPERA TRANS*FORMED:
Teiya Kasahara
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Leah Borts-Kuperman,
Maria Sarrouh
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2021
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Canada / 7 mins
Teiya Kasahara leads a new generation of trans* opera performers, activists and self-proclaimed “shit disturbers” who are making their voices heard–whether the classical music world likes it or not.
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Oracle
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Ed Savage
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2021
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USA / 12 mins
Michael DeBow is a single father to a young queer teen, but when his son disappears, he seeks the help of a psychic to locate his missing son.
Watch… here
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Orixás Center
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Mayara Ferrão
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2021
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Brazil
Bahian director Mayara Ferrão creates a poetic-political atmosphere by proposing a story that unfolds Yoruba cosmology. In the documentary, the performance of black bodies gives way to the archetypes of the orixás, celebrating old memories and creating new imaginaries beyond the crossroads.
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Our Pain
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Mahtab Pishghadam
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2021
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Iran / 9 mins
A couple seeks to escape the inevitable limitations of a society that denies their very existence. A trans man needs money for surgery, and has the support of his girlfriend, but his father wants to stop them.
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Out and Proud
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Felix Hertneck
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2021
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Germany / 9:33 mins
A young, gay man drifts through the big city, caught up in sex and loneliness. Feelings of envy and melancholia rise in him when he sees happy heterosexual couples. Where do these feelings come from, given that he lives in a society that supports queerness? In a society where one is proud to be gay.
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Overtour
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Andrea Zanoli
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2021
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Italy / 77 mins
Silvia Gribaudi is one of Italy's leading performers and choreographers. Her constant research on nonconforming bodies has led her, over the past decade, to work with women over 60 years old with no previous performance experience.
Trailer… here
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Pablo's Letters /
La Carta de Pablo
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Alberto Suárez
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2021
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15 mins
Alejandro is a divorced man who lives alone in his apartment. He has a daughter and apparently has or had a relationship with a woman named Mercedes; but he goes trough his quarantine for the pandemic all alone...
Until Pablo's abrupt arrival ...
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Painted Gold
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Human Girl
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2021
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Canada / 5 mins
After releasing her debut single “Painted Gold”, Human entered into the Vancouver drag scene to perform the single, original mixes, and other pop songs that had lent themselves to her ear.
Watch… here
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Pájaro Azul
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Jonadab Beltrán Berlanga
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2021
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México / 18:17 mins
Tony es un chico tranquilo que le gusta andar en patineta, es despreocupado y está en la mejor etapa de su juventud. En el momento en que decide salir con un hombre diez mayor que conoció en redes sociales llamado Paco; comienza a sentir atracción y experimenta emociones que se muestran a flor de piel. Aunque no todo es color de rosa, conforme entabla una relación profunda con este hombre se dará cuenta de lo desgarrador que el primer amor es y que la confianza no se le debe dar a cualquiera.
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Panthera Lemniscata
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Felippe Moraes
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2021
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Brazil / 5 mins
In this science fiction, drag queen Márcia Pantera is awakened from a cosmic slumber to her frantic hair-banging, to the sound of an original track by NOPORN.
Watch... here
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Paper Wings /
Kaagaz Ke Pankh
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Kshitij Kumar Pandey
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2021
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India / 21 mins
Stuck in a week-long institutional quarantine, Nidhi finds comfort in a charming stranger next door.
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Partner
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Trupil Sharad Patil
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2021
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India / 14 mins
For years Amit has kept his relationship with Abhay, a secret from his mom. After being given an ultimatum by Abhay, he finally musters courage to come out to her but totally unsure how will she face his truth!
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Past Continuous
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Kineret Hay-Gillor
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2021
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Australia, Israel / 35 mins
A story about an inspiring couple who managed to stay together against all odds.
Trailer... here
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Patches
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Georgie Athanasopoulos
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2021
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Canada / 2:01 mins
Outcast due to physical differences, a lonely little boy in the 1920’s makes an unlikely friend and finds belonging through sacrifice.
Watch… here
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Patience, My Love /
Patience, Mon Amour
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Camille Duvelleroy
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2021
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France
Alice has wanted a child for a long time. Gabrielle just never thought about it. After seven years together they are finally getting started. Appointments are made, treatments are taken. After Alice suffers some disappointing results in Barcelona, the tables are turned and Gabrielle decides to go through with the artificial insemination process.
Trailer… here
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Paukhofstrasse
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Hannahlisa Kunyik
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2021
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Austria / 12 mins
On a hill, hidden by tall trees, stands a modernist building. Is it a residential house, a weekend house or a bunker? Kunyik creates a requiem for the site, an observation of its inhabitants, an abstract narrative.
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Peach Purée de Pêches
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Stephanie Burbano
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2021
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Canada / 3 mins
Band stand fever dream with goddess Elle Barbara serenading you through the new/old sexual politic.
Watch… here
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Pearl Drop
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Greta Kalva,
Becca Louise Murphy
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2021
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UK / 6:54 mins
Loosely inspired by the Narcissus myth, two mystical beings descend into the darkness of unrequited love. The story unfolds through an eclectic audio-visual journey.
Watch... here
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People of Leather /
Gente del cuero
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Nicolas Dodi,
Morfia
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2021 |
Argentina / 30 mins
Two intense months of constructing a visual installation for drag art action, techno and practices of deviated, public and collective pleasures. Sex and sexuality as a history of public culture and not as the heterosexual privatization of intimacy.
Trailer… here
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Perception
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Christine Racheal
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2021
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USA / 8 mins
A simple touch isn't so simple when enacted by the wrong hands. If intention makes the difference between desirable and offensive contact, perhaps Devin's perception of Ty's actions is a little skewed, and his judgement is beyond cloudy.
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Phone Call
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Nicolo Malaspina
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2021
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Italy / 4 mins
Inside a motel room a young woman records a voice message directed to her lover, while she retraces some moments of their story.
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Photographs /
Fotos
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Muhamad Shadi Akil
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2021
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Argentina / 8 mins
Isolated at home, Emma is carried away by the memories of her ex-partner Julieta.
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Pieces of Scannasurice /
Frammenti di Scannasurice
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Giuseppe Bucci
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2021
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Italy / 12 mins
The story of a transsexual Neapolitan, of her last intimate, tragic moments of her life, in the theatrical show Scannasurice by Enzo Moscato directed by Carlo Cerciello and interpreted by Imma Villa (today really a cult).
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Pikrodafnes
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Emil Giannisis-Verbogt
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2021
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Greece / 15 mins
A day in the lives of two strangers in the city of Athens, who accidentally meet and go on a date.
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Pistachio
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Isabella Spadone
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
It may not always be easy, but sweetness can be found wherever you turn.
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Place/Portal
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Sean Dorsey
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Set in expansive fields and watery coves, PLACE / PORTAL is a dance film featuring Emmy Award-winning transgender choreographer-dancer Sean Dorsey.
Watch… here
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Plan perché:
Témoignages de chemsexeurs
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Barbara Arsenault
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2021
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France / 65 mins
Plan Perché» est le premier « documentaire » qui met en avant la parole de chemsexeurs, 5 hommes qui ont accepté de partager avec nous leur histoire afin de faire avancer l’accompagnement des chemsexeurs mais également, le regard que l’on peut porter sur le chemsex. Ce sont des « récits de vie » qui rendent compte des trajectoires de chacun, de leurs différences ou similitudes. En livrant leur expérience de chemsexeurs, les témoins s’interrogent, réfléchissent et nous conduisent vers la complexité de cette rencontre avec les chem’s et quel impact cela a sur leur vie sexuelle, relationnelle et professionnelle.
Watch... here
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Plant Magic
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Antonio Da Silva
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2021
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Portugal / 8 mins
Ritualised embracing and gestures of tenderness are exchanged between men, between plants, and between men and plants.
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Pleasure /
Piacere
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Matteo Di Gioia
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2021
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Italy / 22 mins
Una drag venuta dalla grande città inaugura una serata queer nel mezzo della provincia veneta. In questa cornice, tre personaggi troveranno il coraggio di affrontare le proprie insicurezze anche a costo di scontrarsi con un ambiente ostile. Michele, Virginia e Aurelio si perderanno intorno ai confini immaginari di una relazione senza regole e capiranno che seguire il loro ritmo è l'unica strada da percorrere per essere davvero liberi.
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Pluma
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Clelia Goodchild
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2021
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France, Spain / 20 mins
In Barcelona, the Pluma family of Drag Queens and Kings strives to build a community based on freedom of expression, artistic endeavour and mutual support. With the city as their stage, they share the essence of their duality, while navigating the challenges that life throws their way.
Trailer... here
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Pocketfull
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Jameson Bernard
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
“Pocketfull” explores the intersection of urban nightlife with the transmasculine erotic. Discover a beautiful animation featuring the song "Murky Waters" by the band Autoheart.
Trailer... here
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Pointe A2B
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Natasha Adorlee,
Max Sachar
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
Two men dance together through classical art.
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Prairie
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Hope Wager
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
Alone on the Texas Prairie for a romantic getaway, a couple’s bickering awakens something lurking beneath the grass.
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Princess
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B Gosse,
Jason Vu
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2021
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USA, 8 mins
Non-binary Vietnamese-American dancer Jason Vu revisits memories of desire from childhood.
Trailer… here
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Prints
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M. Esther Martín Pineda
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2021
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Colombia / 60 mins
A narrative journey, from an intersectional approach, through the reflections and experiences of lesbian feminists in Bogotá (Colombia). Everything revolves around political identity, love, relationships and violence in their sex-affective bonds as well as their learning and healing.
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Punkodhai
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Suvanya Srithar
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2021
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India
‘Punkodai’ which speaks about an unspoken issue of the same-gender orientation under the gender sensitization and gathered a notable widespread viewership.
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Queen!
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Sibonele Yawa
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2021
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South Africa / 15 mins
Queen! is a 15-minute poetic-expository documentary investigating the drag queen culture within the South African context, based on men and non-binaries who have performed drag in and outside apartheid. It is a celebration of the drag queen community, and recognition of dragging as a liable culture, artform and profession. Made during level 5 lockdown the documentary shows the lifestyle of drag queens outside and in the profession, the processes they go through to entertain, and their struggles with societal misconceptions and prejudice.
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Queen Mab
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Elizabeth Quilter
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
A film made in total isolation in the spring of 2021. What becomes of us when we are left to our own dreams? Queen Mab is an exploration of the famous text written by William Shakespeare with a pandemic twist. What if Mercutio and Queen Mab were one and the same? If we are left alone this long, where will our imagination take us? Can our dreams keep us company? Or be our worst enemy? Queen Mab may have your answer.
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Queens of the Palace /
Les Reines Du Palace
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Karine Morales
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2021 |
France / 61 mins
Rue de la Paix, in front of the doors of a Parisian Palace, chambermaids are waging a war of attrition against a luxury giant. Armed with pots and sticks, they set up a joyful din every day under the windows of customers, to make their voices heard. Employed by an external cleaning company, they claim their integration into the palace, for which many of them have worked for years.
Trailer… here
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Queer Faggy Dance Fun
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Harry Price
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2021
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UK / 4 mins
This documentary short is a celebration of queer collective joy. After being separated by the pandemic a group of dance artists come together to reconnect, go full out and feel what it's like to really dance outside of their bedrooms again. Curated by fraserfab, O.K Norris and Pierre who also wrote and perform powerful spoken word.
Watch… here
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Queerantine Fantasy
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Mahx Capacity
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
Enter another dimension of diverse bodies in this fantastical sexy animation.
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Quinn
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Eva Colmers
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2021
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Canada / 30 mins
Quinn is a personal and artistic documentary that offers a unique four-year window into the life of a gender non-conforming individual. "Nothing stays the same," says Quinn, as they strive to find a place in a society that is fixed on labels.
Trailer… here
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Rain to Eaves
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Lina Wu
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2021
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Canada / 3 mins
Unravelling the intimate & amorphous dynamic wound between two bodies.
Trailer… here
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[Re]Counting [Wo]Man
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Jennifer Lisa Vest
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2021
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USA / 51:33 mins
As they traverse Indigeneity, queerness, and anti-Black racism, an African Indigenous Two Spirit stitches traditional strategies for survival.
Watch... here
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Ready
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Lois Norman
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2021
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UK / 2 mins
Ready – A Queer micro love story. Sometimes life gets in the way and you miss each other: and yourself.
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Ready to Assemble
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Lauren Runions,
Denise Solleza,
Justin Wotherspoon
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2021
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Canada / 5 mins
READY-TO-ASSEMBLE is a humourous take on ready-to-assemble furniture through the avenues of dance and the current ASMR internet trend.
Watch… here
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Reconexões
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Carolina Timoteo
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2021
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Brazil / 4 mins
Faced with the chaos of the Anthropocene, anxiety and the feeling of impotence fill the days. Inhale, exhale. The refuge is in dreams, where utopia exists in the deepest interior dives. An ocean of homesickness. Reconnections are essential and involuntary as a means of survival.
Trailer… here
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Red Bay
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José Antonio Cortés Amunarriz
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2021
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Basque Country / 29 mins
Hondarribia 1943. Martin is a young man who works in the family farmhouse. His mother collaborates in hiding with the Red Comette. Martin’s relationship with one of the refugee pilots will forever mark his life.
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Reflect
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Lotte Laitinen
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2021
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Finland / 15:44 mins
Mirva and Salla, each other’s first loves, meet for the first time in twenty years. The feelings they tried to hide from each other as teenagers seem to still spark, so Mirva decides to confess her love to Salla hoping that the feeling is mutual. But has adulthood made things any easier than they were twenty years ago?
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Reinas
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Guillermo Fernández López
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2021
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Spain / 5 mins
Dos chicas se acaban de escapar de prisión. Tras una larga carrera comienzan a replantearse si realmente quieren volver o no. Una de ellas está convencida de que es lo mejor, y la otra tiene más dudas.
Trailer… here
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Rendez-Vous
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Roshanak Ajamian
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2021
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Canada / 15 mins
A young couple named Navid and Baran have problems in their marital relationship after migrating to Canada. Now Baran decides to share his main problem with Navid.
Watch... here
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Resurface
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Wei Zhou
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2021
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UK / 8 mins
Resurface is a work about transformation and healing, about the material experience of intangible memories and their re-surfacing as visible marks, be it temporary or permanent. Through the intense proximity of visual and distanced memories of the voice, the erotic oscillates.
Trailer… here
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Rinzin’s Day
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Sonam Choden
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2021
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Bhutan / 7 mins
Rinzin Galley believes that men can wear make up and have the right to be glamourous.
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River is My Hometown
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River Cao
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2021
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UK, China / 8 mins
A revenant’s return to a homeland to reconsider memory, ritual and grief.
Trailer... here
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
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Victoria Isabel González
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2021
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Mexico / 7 mins
Two best friends go to a party where a round of 'rock, paper, scissors' spins things around.
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Rose
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Lane Michael Stanley
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2021
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USA / 10 mins
Two boys’ friendship changes with the discovery that one is interested in feminization hypnosis porn.
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Roya
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Rosh Zeeba
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2021 |
Germany / 20 mins
In Roya, Farsi for dream or vision, Zeeba uses video footage from their first trip back to Iran after leaving the country in the 1990s. The film revisits a road trip from Isfahan to Sari, where dream, memory, and reality blend into a multi-layered narrative that reflects on the politics of image production.
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Rumrebellieren
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Janina Lutter
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2021
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Germany / 16:51 mins
Alex demonstrates for a women’s quota at her university. However, she didn’t reckon with her ex-girlfriend Micky. Micky has registered a counterdemonstration and asks whether men are not better trusted. But her real motivation soon becomes clear.
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Run With Her
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Lia Campbell
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2021
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UK / 13 mins
Endurance running creates a secure world for 16 year old Emmy, where everything can be quantified and controlled. As influences from the outside world start to permeate, we follow the change it might bring to her relationships with the other girls on the team and within herself.
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Sab Shimono:
Acting “As If”
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Tina Takemoto
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2021
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USA / 9:55 mins
On the eve of his eightieth birthday, acclaimed Japanese American actor Sab Shimono reflects on his lifelong commitment to the craft of acting, his struggles against racism and homophobia, and how his life was transformed by gay bars and marriage equality.
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Saccharine
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Kale Chesney
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2021
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USA / 2:30 mins
Set to Lo Pony’s “Saccharine,” a young person swiping through a queer dating app tosses their phone aside in favor of quality alone time.
Watch... here
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Sacred Home of Pleasure
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Gonzalo Romero
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2021
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4 mins
Watch… here
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Sad Cowboy Platonic Love
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Ciel Sourdeau
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2021
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Switzerland / 17 mins
Clotaire Era, year 103: a fierce dragon thought extinct for generations has just reappeared. The queen sends a message throughout the land to avoid the catastrophe. Is there any hero to save the kingdom? In his debut film, Ciel Sourdeau fully exploits the queer potential of genre cinema, of which bricolage and masquerade have always been essential components. He develops an anarchistic fairy tale that reinvents in a very expressive way the figures of the cowboy and the dragon and subverts the linear structure of the conventional adventure story. Its last line, which sounds like a life lesson, should never be forgotten: «Any kind of discipline shall be dismantled!».
Trailer... here
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Safe Distance/
Bezpieczny dystans
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Artur Wyrzykowski
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2021
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Poland / 12 mins
Olek returns to Poland after a few years. He must be in quarantine, but his family refuses to let him in. He has nowhere to go, so he sits in the staircase. Władzio wants to walk his dog, which is about to blow up, but he cannot pass. He has to keep two meter distance and Olek doesn't even have a mask.
Watch… here
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Safe Here
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Mary Grace Shuttleworth
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
Once a thriving place of inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community, Knoxville, Tennessee, has seen the decline of these safe spaces, leaving the community with few places they can go to feel safe being completely themselves.
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Salad is life
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Mari Okada
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2021
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Japan / 34 mins
The story of two women sharing a room. A three-episode omnibus work that depicts casual days. However, there are also spooked remarks about women, insensitive speculations surrounding romantic supremacists, and such "somes" of the world. A little disgusted, a little resistant, their daily routine continues.
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São Paulo Open Wound /
São Paulo Ferida Aberta
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Elizabeth Rocha Salgado
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2021
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Brazil, Netherlands / 18 mins
In a political moment when the president of Brazil encourages intolerance and the murder of dissident, black and indigenous bodies; underground artists from São Paulo make of their art their resistance.
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Sapphic Sunday
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Sarah Drepaul
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2021
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USA / 4:36 mins
A fat queer South Asian woman flutters through romantic reveries and first love.
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Sarah
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The Future Perfect Project
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
When Sarah discovers she has a crush on Keira Knightley, her friends invite her to figure out if she's a lesbian or straight.
Trailer… here
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Sauna
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Anna Lena Spring,
Lara Perren
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2021
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Switzerland / 4 mins
Ava enters the Sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.
Trailer… here
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Scar
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William Jackson Stewart
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2021
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Germany / 9:50 mins
Two strangers meet in a ride share and spend an evening together they’ll both never forget.
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Scouts
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Oliver Schaffer
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
Set against the playful backdrop of Girl Scout camp, Scouts tells the story of Nova as they come to terms with being non-binary and come out to their friends.
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Sea Breeze
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Ben Berlin
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2021
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Germany / 8 mins
Ecosexual journey by the seaside, 10 years of practice culminating in a sensual exploration.
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Secadora
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Elyssa Aquino
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
“Secadora” is a short film that explores sex & identity in the Dominican culture. A photographer (Cynthia) falls for a model (Laura) —only to discover that she doesn’t identify with being black. This romantic comedy takes a turn for the worst and exposes the “cancel” culture in our community.
Watch… here
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Sed Saepe Cadendo
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Gina Kamentsky
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Home alone on a sunny afternoon: a perfect time for frolicking in the garden.
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Seek/After
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Sean Dorsey
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2021
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USA / 3:12 mins
A dream-like dance film by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey, SEEK/AFTER is part of a series of 10 dance films created for Sean Dorsey Dance’s multi-year project THE LOST ART OF DREAMING … which investigates and imagines expansive trans, gender-nonconforming and queer Futures.
Watch… here
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Sempre Existimos
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Tanaíra Sobrinho Terena
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2021
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Brazil / 17 mins
O documentário “Sempre Existimos”, narra a trajetória de indígenas “LGBT” do estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, região Centro Oeste do país. Entre relatos e depoimentos, o curta-metragem contará as descobertas, enfrentamentos e reflexões de indígenas que se identificam enquanto LGBT (ou não) dentro e fora das comunidades que são pertencentes.
Watch… here
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Ser Otrx
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Rocío Wischñevsky
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2021 |
Argentina / 1:36 mins
Ser Otrx es un vídeo poema que aborda el tema del orgullo LGBTI+ al describir los temores que experimentan los miembros de esta comunidad al salir a la calle, donde enfrentan la posibilidad de ser juzgados, observados e incluso, en ocasiones, víctimas de violencia. A través de las voces de cinco personas, el vídeo poema encapsula las aspiraciones y demandas de toda una comunidad.
Watch... here
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Sexual Friendship with My Straight Bff
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Marik Aaron Roeder
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2021
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Germany / 15 mins
This is an animated short about my best friend and me and how we fucked up our lives for quite a bit. It’s a story about friendship, sex and mental health. In its core it’s a lesson learnt that one cannot change who they are deep inside.
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Sexy Highland Stream
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Nathan Adler
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Written in both English and Anishinaabemowin, Sexy Highland Stream is a spoken word poem and a love letter to the beauty found in nature.
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Shapeshifter(s)
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Khairullah Rahim
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2021
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Singapore / 3 mins
Shapeshifter(s) is an experimental short which looks into the tactics of being, specifically in considering the interconnecting e/affects between objects, bodies and community.
Trailer… here
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She
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Masoume Khodabakhshi
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2021
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Iran / 8 mins
This ambiguous short explores one person’s otherness and leaves you to interpret the rest.
Trailer… here
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Shea
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Effy Adar
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2021
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Canada / 2 mins
A movement-based spoken word ode to shea butter, tradition, and embodied connectedness.
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Shift
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Daniela Martinez
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
After coming out & getting kicked out by her mother & stepfather, Amaia struggles with where to go & hesitantly seeks refuge with her grandmother.
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Should I ask about your moustache?
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João Carvalho
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2021
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Germany / 5 mins
In the closed-in intimate space of a bathroom mirror, two male identifying protagonists look for the in-betweens of masculinity. They search for the common language of their dialogue through words and gestures, while one is drawing his moustache and the other shaving his.
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Silence is Prescribed /
Se receta silencio
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Miguel Missé
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2021
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Spain / 18 mins
While they were growing up, Cristina and Lola were prescribed silence. They obeyed and kept silent for a long time, until today. The protagonists of this documentary short film raise their voices to get closer to their intersex life stories and share their reflections on bodies, identities, and desire. A liberating opportunity not only for them, but for all people.
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Sincerely
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Gabriella Lichtneker
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2021
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The Netherlands / 3:07 mins
A lighthearted animation about a not-so-everyday postal worker on her fantastical journey to deliver a not-so-everyday letter.
Trailer… here
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Sirena
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Miguel Ángel Contreras Pelao
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2021
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México / 80 mins
Marina lives surrounded by magic, death and mysterious disappearances. She flees and takes refuge in a brothel, where she is the main star singing opera.
Es Semana Santa en el pueblo y la magia y el misterio cobran vida mientras un comandante hace averiguaciones sobre un hombre que ha sido encontrado muerto. Sus averiguaciones arrancan en un burdel donde ameniza una cantante que se hace llamar Soledad, quien es ocultada por Coral, la dueña del lugar. La cantante parece llevar desde su nacimiento la maldición de las sirenas: “Todo hombre que se enamore de ella morirá” y a menos que la rompa deberá huir siempre, sin escapar de su propio destino.
Trailer... here
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Skin Talk /
Flor Da Pele
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Marie Trockau,
Miguel Ribeiro
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2021
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Portugal / 9 mins
An intimate sharing of the past, present and future of a boy.
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Slightly future, in a room.
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Kohei Yanagisawa
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2021
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Japan / 16 mins
The setting is a near-future Japan. As part of measures to counter the declining birthrate, the technology to transplant artificial uterines into men has been put into practical use, but it is not yet well known and has not penetrated society.
Trailer… here
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Slogan
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Simone Rovellini
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2021
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Italy / 4 mins
Watch... here
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Small Congratulations
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Jessie Posthumus
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2021
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Canada / 6 mins
After quitting hockey as an embarrassed preteen, Izzy joins a local women’s amateur league to gain confidence and to access a community she deeply values.
Trailer… here
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Small Town
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Meesh QX
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2021
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Canada / 37 secs
Small Town playfully explores a queer, mixed race person’s relationship to their identity and surroundings through delightful Claymation.
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Snack Time
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House of Huitlacooch
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
A Black trans woman luxuriates in sweet decadence.
Trailer… here
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Soapy Faggy /
Bóng Xà Bông
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Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú
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2021
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Vietnam
With Director Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú taking on the central role of a gay superhero who uses his first-ever queer memory in different forms to ponder the power of memory, Soapy Faggy analyses stereotypes of the LGBTQ community as displayed in Vietnamese media. It’s a film that you’ll either love or hate, which uses low-quality aesthetics and mixed media to create a satire that has an underlying layer of a much heavier subject – acceptance of LGBTQ people and their representation.
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Social inequality in Mourning
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YOON se-hoon
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2021
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Korea / 21 mins
A documentary about unrelated deaths. In Korea, 'death without a relationship' has a special meaning for queers or unmarried people who cannot be legally recognized for marriage. This work examines companionship and death within the social system based on the sympathy that anyone can become an unrelated deceased.
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Solitude
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Fabio Grossi
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2021
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Italy / 7 mins
A gym. Two proportioned and athletic bodies. A game of playful glances. The locker room, where desire is kindled. But is it a one way feeling or is it mutual? The shower could become an alcove. Or perhaps a theatre for the dance of seduction.
Trailer… here
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Someone Waits for Me
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Council on Aging of West Florida
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2021
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USA / 20 mins
The story of five gay and lesbian seniors in the Northwest Florida region as they navigate coming out, identity, politics, and the challenges and victories inherent in the gay experience. The film weaves together interviews with fictionalized interludes of magical realism that capture their experiences and feelings.
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Something Blue
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Yisrael Rohn Rigler
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2021
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Israel / 14 mins
Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish young women are forced to face up to what will happen to their relationship when they come together as bride and bridesmaid on Chaya's wedding day.
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Sonnet 19 for Peter Santana
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Matthew Perifano
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2021
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USA / 3:09 mins
In traditional sequencing of Shakespeare's sonnets, the first 126 are addressed to a young man. This is Sonnet 19, dedicated to the memory of Peter John Santana.
Watch... here
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Soraya’s Secret /
El Secreto de Soraya
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Talissa Lopes
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2021
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Spain
At the funeral of her best friend, Tania a transgender woman, receives a visit from the mother of the deceased, who refuses to bury her as a woman.
Trailer… here
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SOS Extase
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Esteban Sanchez Del Rio
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2021
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France / 18 mins
Ultimate pleasures and indigo fluids: these are the experiences of SOS EXTASE, a trip organised by a mysterious travel agency. A journey that Mama Allpa, a young woman giddy over these erotic promises, joins for the first time. Early in this journey however, things do not exactly unfold as expected...
Trailer... here
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Soul Travels
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BEYONDEEP Productions
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2021
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Colombia / 7 mins
Freedom throbs along a sensory journey of poetry, bondage, and impact play for two Black nonbinary queers.
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Soup Frog
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Ethan Folk
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2021
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Germany / 5 mins
Watch… here
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Southside
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Golden Lionheart Collier
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Black queer artists reflect on gentrification, community and belonging at the height of the pandemic. Where can you find home when every neighborhood is shifting?
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Sovereign Sex
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Dom Razberry,
Daemon Derriere
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2021
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USA / 14 mins
Sovereign Sex is a docu-porn that follows the experience of Raz as they explore their sexuality for the first time. A decade ago, Raz's virginity was taken by rape; now they are choosing to have their first sovereign sexual experience .
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Soy
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Bárbara C. Salas
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2021
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Spain / 4 mins
Cesar is 5 years old. He's at the neighborhood bar he always goes to, accompanied by Mom and Dad. But this time it will be the first time he tells Mom he wants to go to the bathroom alone. He knows the way and does not need help because he is older. What could go wrong?
Trailer... here
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Spearmint /
Hortelã
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Thiago José De
Carvalho Furtado
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2021
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Brazil / 14 mins
Luis and Alexandre's relationship cornes to an end. Oinha, a housemaid who has taken care of Luis since he was a child, is also Alexandre's grandmother.
Trailer… here
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Speed Limit
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Zino Bakker
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2021
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Nederland / 4 mins
When your soul is captured by bad intentions, let your consciousness rescue you.
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St Clair W
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Emily Ryder
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
A short film about love, loss, and the relationship we have with our own memories.
Watch... here
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Stand Up, Stand Out
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Nicholas Linnehan
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2021
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USA / 35 mins
Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement tells the story of a unique brand of activism belonging only to San Francisco--where three gay teachers’ fight for equal rights during the burgeoning Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s.
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Star Man
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Bill Calder
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2021
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Australia / 19 mins
More than 40 years ago a good looking, loud, opinionated American, Michael Glynn started Sydney’s first free gay newspaper, which continues today as the Star Observer. Glynn was a polarising man; loved and loathed during the 1980s – a turbulent decade for both Glynn’s newspaper, and Sydney’s gay community.
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State of Mind
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Donald C. Shorter Jr.
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2021 |
USA / 3 mins
State of Mind highlights the intimacy and beauty found through the experience of power exchange in BDSM/leather/fetish/kink.
Trailer… here
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Stick of Joy
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Brenda Akele Jorde
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2021
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Germany / 5 mins
A film about the pleasure of pain, of playfulness and trust between two people.
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Stories from Land Back Camp
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Erik O'Neill,
Amy Smoke,
Shawn Johnston
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2021
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Canada / 29 mins
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day a large tepee was erected in a busy, urban park close to O:se Kenhionhata:tie (Willow River) intended to assert an Indigenous presence for the day. Over 100 days later, the tepee remained standing, the space around it transformed into a camp of queer, Two Spirit, trans, and/or non-binary youth learning and practicing their Indigenous cultural heritages and demanding Land Back.
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Stuck on Earth
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Eva von Sichart
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2021
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USA / 9 mins
In a highly stylized campy reality an intergalactic spy is set out to catch a displaced alien on a foreign planet so familiar to us. The spy is continuously unsuccessful with the alien just barely escaping every time. Eventually escalating as the lines of who's hunting who get blurred.
Trailer… here
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Subamos juntas la montaña
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Dana Albicker Mendiola
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2021
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México / 14 mins
Carolay is a trans woman, with hearing impairment, sexual and reproductive rights activist of the Deaf Community of Mexico. She has had to actively fight against the growing transphobia in social movements by asserting her particular voice and her signs.
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Sudden Flash /
Súbito Destello
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Maho Irigoyen
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2021
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Mexico / 3 mins
A dive in the river takes a trans man on a journey back to his past.
Watch... here
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Sugar Oil Pine Water
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Tove Pils
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2021
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Sweden / 14 mins
A group of queers in northern Sweden are summoned to perform the ritual of the lesbian odyssey. They are united by queer experiences and dreams and by their relationship to the north. Because desire matters. Because place defines.
A tribute to those who have gone before, who walk beside, who have our backs. Those who have made and make it possible for us to live our lives.
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Sweetness
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ND Johnson
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
“Sweetness” centers Tara – a Black trans woman – who befriends a young eccentric transfem who sets fire to the life Tara thinks she desires.
Watch... here
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Syd - 'Fast Car'
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Ethan Nelson,
Graham Epstein
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
Syd (of The Internet) and her girlfriend, Ariana Simone, try their very best to film a steamy sex tape in the hills of Malibu. What starts as a seemingly impossible task ends in utter sonic bliss.
Watch… here
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T4T
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Emma Frankland,
Rosie Powell
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2021
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UK / 3 mins
Two trans people celebrate their love in this playful, sexy, and romantic musical short, set to “Get Cute” by Screaming Toenail.
Trailer… here
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Take Me
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Luca Asta
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2021
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UK / 3 mins
Watch… here
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Take Me Home
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Sandeep TK
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2021
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Japan
A reflection on religious texts, beliefs, information, social media and sense of space in contemporary times.
Trailer… here
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Taking My Time to Dance
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Celeste Lapida
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2021
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Philippines
Rana gets in dresses for the first time and is ready for a clubbing night.
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Tales of Another Radha
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Sudipto Kundu
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2021
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India / 25 mins
The concept of modern day gender fluidity among LGBTQ+ persons is not new, as it has existed in the ancient history & mythological philosophy of India. To rediscover this, the documentary travels to the interiors of Bengal documenting such practices and rituals existing in the secluded and reclusive indigenous communities of Baul singers. In tune with their mellifluous music, the documentary touches upon several examples of womanhood practices called Radha Vaab / Nari Vaab/ Gopi Vaab that offer clear indications of the concept of gender fluidity handed down over generations from ancient India.
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Tarek
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Anatael Pérez
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2021
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Spain / 9:16 mins
Four teenagers of different sexual orientation tell their experience at a party where they met a boy named Tarek. The four testimonies reveal a very deep connection between the characters, who despite their differences have experienced similar situations. “Tarek” talks about how people belonging to the LGTBI collective suffer discrimination and rejection due to their sexual condition.
Trailer… here
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Territory of Fences /
Territorio das Cercas
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Ricardo Fraga
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2021
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Brazil / 25 mins
Two bodies covered in barbed wire, one female and one male, struggle to break free, in different contexts, from the social fences imposed by the expectations of a man and a woman. The scenes are interspersed with real-time testimonies.
Trailer... here
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Testing My Pose
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Silvia Maggi
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2021
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Germany / 2 mins
Two doms wrestle for the top spot in this Super-8 showdown.
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Thank You for Being a Friend
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Anup Thapa
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2021
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Australia / 19 mins
The story of two friends who live together in a nursing home and love each other. The two had been friends since school, but, due to various reasons, they had to drift apart. After all these years, they meet again at the nursing home and reconnect their friendship.
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That Summer Day
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LEE Yea-jin
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2021
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Korea / 40mins
Soo Jin comes to the countryside with her aunt for the summer vacation. She accidentally finds Ye Eun at the place where Ye Eun was painting alone, and they spend the summer vacation together.
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The 5th Wagon /
Bullying (El quinto vagón)
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Antonia San Juan
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2021
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Spain / 7 mins
We all go on a train and all the cars are the same on the outside, not on the inside.
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The Abandoned Swimming Pool
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Frankie Symonds,
Devin Utah
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2021
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USA / 16 mins
The death of a queer film mentor serves as a starting point into a celluloid free-fall of memory, uncertainty, and regret.
Watch... here
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The Beauty of Being Deaf
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Chella Man
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
Shot underwater & featuring an all-BIPOC, Deaf cast performing a poem in American Sign Language because what is more beautiful than the ability to communicate underwater?
Watch… here
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The Blue Day Boy Who Can't Go Out /
El chico de días azules que no puede salir
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Paco Alarcón Rojas
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2021
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Mexico / 10:17 mins
An anonymous testimony that recounts experiences and expressions of life in a world where anyone with a different sexual orientation is immediately rejected and confined, increasingly longing for the right to freedom.
Trailer… here
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The Bodies of Siegfried /
Los cuerpos de Siegfreid
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Emilio Rodríguez
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2021
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Chile / 12 mins
Siegfried is an artist who is in the midst of a gender transition. The documentary ponders about the relationship between his sexuality and his work, through a visual exploration of it, questioning the limits between art and pornography.
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The Clayton Effect
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Jacob Clayton
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2021
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USA / 2:31 mins
Flush with saucy humor, social commentary, and a semi-autobiographical view on transgender life, step inside the bathroom to experience The Clayton Effect.
Watch... here
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The Crossroad
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Alex Lauria
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2021
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Italy / 10 mins
Three characters: a man who gets home, tired after a long shift in a factory, a pregnant young woman and a man who is hunting in the woods. Two cars and a rifle. Certain choices will prove to be crucial for the slice of life of these people, headed towards the same road crossing.
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The Dummy
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Kho,
Trevor Bukowski
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2021
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USA / 18 mins
Quirky, funny and poignant, this film follows Marin County Recycle artist KHo counting down the days to the 2020 election. Relying on items she finds in the neighborhood -- most prominently a pink pussyhatted mannequin and a chalkboard -- she unrelentingly voices her protest.
Trailer… here
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The Egg
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Loren Fink
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2021
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5 mins
A teenager finds an odd egg while making breakfast. Their mother isn't happy about it.
here
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The End
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Lamathilde
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2021
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Canada / 2 mins
Even in a very sweet virtual world the end of patriarchy seems impossible. A call to keep fighting.
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The Ending of This Video Could Be Extremely Disturbing for You
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Dennis Lubbers
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2021
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Nederland / 1 min
The best disclaimer of the festival has an important message.
Watch… here
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The Fae
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Shelton Lindsay,
Nessa Norich
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2021
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USA / 22 mins
The Fae is a queer fantasy series that follows Mark, a straight-laced gay man who suddenly learns about magical queer beings called "fae" – and that he might be one of them!
Trailer... here
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The First Time
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Soleil Burgess,
Camille Ora-Nicole
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
After dating for 6 months, Kat finally builds up the courage to tell Joey she loves her...for the first time.
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 The Florist
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Priyam Chanda
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2021
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India / 15 mins
The story revolves around Anish, a common man with a painter inside of him, his wife Amrita and a stranger Anish meets one day while searching for Yellow Roses.
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The Girl Behind the Mirror /
A Menina atras do Espelho
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Iuri Moreno
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2021
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Brazil / 12 mins
A transsexual girl locks herself in her room, safe from the monsters outside that threaten her, until a parallel reality appears behind the mirror, where monsters don’t exist, and people are free to be themselves.
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The Good Son
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Kevin Anthony
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2021
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USA / 19 mins
Nolan is the perfect son - according to his parents who are blind to his bad ways. This LGBT series follows a teen who thinks he has all the answers but beyond longboarding and popping pills - he's a below-average student in the school of life.
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The Greatest Sin
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Gabriel B. Arrahnio
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2021
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Germany / 25 mins
The voices of four black queer men. As individual as their life stories are, they are united by growing up in a conservative and religious home.
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The Guy on the Bed
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Mike Hoolboom
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
News from another pandemic, the one that ‘changed everything’ before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infected, or those who, like myself, managed a new life after death. Based on a text by David Wojnarowicz.
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The Idealist /
L'Idéaliste
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Martin Drouot
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2021
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France / 9 mins
During the shooting of an educational school film, a teacher directs his students on a scene where young actors have to hold hands. His own sentimental life resurfaces unexpectedly.
Trailer... here
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The Kiss of the Trucker
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Sibyl O’Malley
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
In this drag-horror-romance-comedy, a hapless trucker is smitten by a mysterious hitchhiker. When she proves more Satanic than sweet, he runs for his life, but not before she hits him with a curse. Despite flood, fire, and pie shortages, he decides love is worth the trouble. He returns to his blood-thirsty boo, whose evil heart is melted by his kiss. Or is it?
Watch... here
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The Last Nice Sunday in the East Village
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Danny Roberts
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2021
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USA / 12 mins
Three friends spend an unseasonably warm day together in the midst of immense loss.
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The Letter
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Meredith Morran
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2021
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USA / 10 mins
This delightful and incisive short explores semiotic theory in the most literal possible terms. With technical rigor and a distinct sense of humor, Morran presents a correspondence that demands the audience question what we say, how we say it, the letters we use, and most importantly the space in between all of what we write and the absolute truth of meaning.
Watch... here
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The Life Artist
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Heather Addison
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Poet Allan Morgan shares his lifelong experience in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
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The Lodge
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Pam Walton
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2021
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USA / 40 mins
One third of LGBTQ seniors over 50 expect to re-closet themselves when they move to a retirement community. Our documentary takes audiences inside Fountaingrove Lodge, the historic retirement community created especially for LGBTQ seniors and their allies.
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The Magnificent Zoey
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João Brás
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2021
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Portugal / 7 mins
The film is about a young girl named Zoey who dreams of becoming a superhero and saving the world from evil. It is a comedy-adventure film that explores the themes of imagination, courage, and friendship.
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The Manifest of Mallery
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Victor Liang Aleixo
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2021
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USA / 33 mins
Join Mallery Jenna Robinson on the fight for Transgender visibility in this compelling documentary. Her bubbly and captivating personality makes it easier to go through difficult subjects like Black Lives Matter, Transgender rights and LGBTQ+ acceptance. Mallery knows best and she has something important to say, would you pay attention and listen?
Trailer... here
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The Mare of Troy /
La Yegua de Troya
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Abril Fernández Ferrez,
Santiago Sarmiento
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2021
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Spain / 19 mins
A documentary film that covers some of the presences of Maite Amaya, in the present time of the collective struggles in Córdoba, Argentina. A story that (re) builds part of the living memories from Maite's own voice, and from her colleagues and friends.
Trailer... here
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The Messenger
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Abhishek Poras,
Devendra Singh
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2021
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India / 11 mins
The intentions of the short film are noble, determined by an inherent idea of hope. The execution of the same is achieved by an approach that employs no verbal articulation or dialogue. The entirety of the plot unfolds by way of a conversation over a phone screen that the protagonist is having with an unnamed, unknown person who reaches out to him during an especially difficult night.
Watch… here
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The Neighbour
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Cedoy
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2021
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Turkey / 20 mins
The Neighbour highlights the housing difficulties for trans communities in Istanbul through the story of Bulut, who moves to a new flat that's run by an unsupportive landlady.
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The Orgasm is in the Brain /
O Cérebro É Uma Zona Erógena
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Analu Bambirra
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2021
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Brazil / 3 mins
Using hypnoerotic aesthetic resources, “The orgasm is in the brain” proposes another way of looking at human sexuality.
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The Outcasted
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Gautami Purushottam Berde
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2021
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India / 8 mins
The Outcasted is a film that raises concerns about the mental, physical and sexual Health issues faced by the ‘the Third Gender of India’. The social determinants that affect Transgender Health in India as a result of social rejection. The film also highlights the noble work of two Indian NGOs that work for providing Health care services to the Transgender community in India.
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The Pigeon Lady /
La signora dei piccioni
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Giulia Brazzale
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2021
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Italy / 4 mins
Every day an old woman – a philosopher – wanders the streets of the historic center of Rome feeding the pigeons but her real mission is another.
Trailer… here
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The Power of We
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Donald C. Shorter Jr
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2021
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USA / 20 mins
“The Power of We” is a short documentary film that asks the question, “What does it mean to be visibly LGBTQIA+ in a suburban or rural area?” Three brave individuals present the ways in which they are unafraid to live authentically in Conroe, TX. Dynasty Banks, a bipoc drag queen, shares her story of how drag is a means to self acceptance. Debbie Steele, a lesbian bar owner, talks about how she has persevered in order to make safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ folx in her local community. Jhon embodies their queerness through the art of dance.
Trailer… here
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The Princess and the Magic Birds
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Fuyuhiko Takata
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2021 |
Japan / 18 mins
One night, two enchanted birds fly in through the window of a sleeping adolescent boy. Perching upon his ear, these magical creatures recount fantastic and peculiar folk tales into the teenager’s mind, as if speaking directly into his dreams. Relating an erotic fable of an Arabian princess who escapes her palace to spend lurid evenings with common men, the birds entice the young man toward his own desire.
Trailer… here
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The Quiet Solace of Sunset
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Tenzin Choedon
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2021 |
21 mins
Tashi, a queer youth returns to his hometown after five long years.
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The Remembering Time
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Tierra Allen
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2021
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USA / 5:21 mins
Ceremony and song pierce open memories of climate change and graft new stories onto our collective existence.
Watch... here
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The Resolution
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Charlie Kay
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2021
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Australia / 11 mins
The Resolution is Queer, romantic-comedy short that takes place at a New Year's Eve party. It follows Sav who is trying to fulfil her New Year's resolution before midnight, when the year will be over. The resolution? Finally tell Jay how she feels.
Trailer... here
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The Rye Mother
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David R. Williams
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2021
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USA / 45 mins
The final weekend of a toxic relationship.
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The Same Vision
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Hannah Rybchinska
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2021
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Ukraine / 9 mins
When we are born, we know how to create and how to love. We know how to breathe deeply. But then, as we grow, we replace these primal understandings with fear, shame, and self-doubt.
Trailer… here
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The Sanctity of Love
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Alí Meyer
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
Art history and classical painting used to recontextualize history into a more representative, queer narrative.
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The Scottish Woman
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Gigi Greene
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2021
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Czech Republic / 13 mins
Why did 57-year-old Diana Young agree to a documentary on her life? Simple: she likes being interesting.
Trailer… here
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The Sea Bride
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Mohammed Hussain Ateeq
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2021
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Bahrain
Manal has to decide whether she will submit to the will of her family, society, and traditions and accept marriage to her rapist, or rebel against all that and refuse to marry him, and consider the incident of her rape as a starting point for a new life, not a point for her breaking.
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The Signal
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Haichuan Xu
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2021
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France / 11:30 mins
Two teenage boys accidentally share their first intimate experience together on a summer afternoon.
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The Silence That You Do /
O Silêncio Que Você Faz
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Evandro Souza
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2021
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Brazil / 22 mins
Eduardo is in social isolation due to the pandemic. With an exhausting and inert routine, aggravated by a great loss, he gradually isolates himself not only from the outside world, but from himself.
Trailer... here
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The Sixth Borough
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Morgan Marcell
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2021
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USA / 12mins
Aiden is a young and introverted man who deals with the consequences of not facing his truth. When his relationship is in jeopardy, how far will Aiden go to risk his placid life to find a world that will welcome him for who he truly is?
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The Skin You Don't Wear /
A Pele Que nao Vestia
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Jonas Fernando Araujo
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2021
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Brazil / 20 mins
Rô Nunes, an obese, gay comedian, is canceled by public opinion after a controversial video goes viral on social media.
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The Sorrow of Love
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Sohag Sen
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2021
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India / 16 mins
Placed amidst the pandemonium of the recent pandemic, The Sorrow of Love is about those who have departed, and also about those who are left behind… to mourn or to gather their wits to start afresh.
Watch... here
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The Sound of the Sun /
El Sonido del Sol
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Alessio Del Pozo Temoche
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2021
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Peru / 11 mins
Silvia, a young Peruvian woman, finds herself in a world that seems strange, distant even. She feels she doesn’t belong. It’s always been like this. But in front of a protest against sexual minorities, she is going to find out, even if the tide is stronger than her, she is not alone. A meaningful and queer student short weighing in on the values of tolerance.
Trailer… here
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The Ugliest
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Victor Ridaura
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Heartbreak is universal. Based on the singer's first romance as an openly gay man, this video is meant to show something pure and beautiful and sad.
Watch… here
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The Vase
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Ryan Baker
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
Ryan Baker's experimental film unravels the intricacies of passing as a transgender man and biracial person, all while navigating the contradictions between the two worlds.
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The Wife of Them All
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Rebecca Close
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2021
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Spain
The Wife of Them All is a short story based on personal experiences of networking and family-building in the context of data capitalism, restricted access to assisted reproductive technologies and the concomitant intensification of migratory control.
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Theirs
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Guillermo Ramos,
Garrett Taylor,
Alex Sotelo
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2021
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USA
A short documentary film that tells the coming of age story of a young Black and non-binary teenager in Utah.
Watch... here
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Theology
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Robi Predanič
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2021
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Slovenia / 5 mins
Two witches want a cat, so they decide to summon it with a spell. A creature appears, but it doesn’t look like a regular cat.
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There's Beauty Here
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Leah Waring Byck
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2021
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USA / 17 mins
This short film is a short film in which nine self-identified non-binary and transgender millennials living in a small town in New York, USA, talk about their gender and their own way of life in unadorned language. A society that likes to categorize LGBTQ and non-binary in an easy-to-understand and simplistic way. Even if you consider yourself to be non-binary in such a society, the way you approach your sexuality, the way you face your body, the way you express yourself through hairstyles and clothes, and your interests are completely different, and it is such a matter of course, but through each person's story, it makes us realize once again that it is easy to forget.
Watch... here
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They Will Sell T-Shirts /
Ils vendront des t-shirts
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George Eperonnier
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2021
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France / 4:30 mins
"They will sell t-shirts" poetically depicts the bitter daily life of an Afro person in white school spaces in France.
Watch... here
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THEYSUCK
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Pierro Mombellet,
Lily Elsbrock
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2021
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UK / 10 mins
THEYSUCK is a low budget indie short film about trans and queer vampires.
Watch... here
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Think About the Beautiful Future Ahead
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Diego Bragå
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2021
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Portugal / 3:41 min
When a beloved uncle died, he left behind an inheritance made of love.
Watch… here
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This Kind Body
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Scottee,
Lea Anderson
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2021
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UK / 20 mins
What if fatness wasn’t seen as a cause of death but the reason you survive? Scottee’s Fat Blokes carve out this space in a utopian love letter.
Trailer… here
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Tides
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Benedikt Paul Haag
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2021
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Germany / 20 mins
Erik and Henri have been best friends since childhood. A cross-section of Erik’s life not only puts him to the test, but also their friendship. But what is stronger than a profound, amicable bond between two people who treat each other in a respectful, caring and understanding manner?
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Tied Hand
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Ming Lou
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2021
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China
Heng, who has been away from home for ten years because of gender identity issues, finally gets back home but to attend their mom’s funeral.
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Tinivo
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Vic Sandoval
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2021
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Mexico / 15 mins
Nacho is a boy who, after a love break, seeks a way to give relief to his heart. In his search, he enters a singing school and although this is not one of his virtues, he takes refuge in music to alleviate his pain.
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Tips for Cleaning Your Partner
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Ted Zheng Wang
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2021
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USA / 5:17 mins
Following the instructions of the voice-over, the woman began to clean the man, but things gradually got out of control.
Trailer... here
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To become a monstress or a human /
Tornar-se Monstra ou Humana
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Catarina Almanova
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2021
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Brazil / 19 mins
“To become a monstress or human" is a short film about understanding the process of dehumanization to which trans women in Brazil are subjected, viscerally, navigating their depths through dreams, nightmares, spells, fantasies and the will to live. It is an investigation of signs, of habitable worlds, of a need to react against a CIStem that is like a dungeon for people who have chosen the freedom to EXIST.
It is a transmutation of pain into the energy of life.”
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To Eat with Her Hands
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Joni Renee Whitworth,
Amelia Okabayashi
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
A visual poem, this is a synthesis of the directors' reflections on lesbian spirituality.
Watch... here
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To The Farmhouse
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Sarah Hill
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2021
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USA / 11 mins
This stop-motion animation depicts a personal journey through loss, rejection, abuse, and religious dogma that ultimately leads to reclamation and healing.
Trailer… here
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Todos Tipos Trans
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Sabino Jerónimo Gazzaniga
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2021
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Argentina / 23 mins
Un documental que indaga la manera en que hombres trans se relacionan con los productos audiovisuales existentes y los feminismos a través de los testimonios de Julián Chacón, Gabi Díaz Villa, Fernando Martín Rodríguez y Ese Negro Montenegro. Realizado en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires desde una mirada trans, se pone en valor la identidad transmasculina; ya no como objetos de estudio sino enunciando como sujetos productores de contenido.
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Tonight Opened my Eyes /
Esta Noite Abriu-Me os Olhos
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Tomás Mateus,
Bernardo Naia
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2021
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Portugal
Kiko is an 18 year old skater who hides the secret about his sexuality from his friends. But on a night drifting through the city of Lisbon, Kiko finds in friendship the courage to open up.
Trailer… here
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Towards Hope /
Kasiyoli
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Bhargav Lahkar
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2021
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India, USA / 43 mins
A documentary, inspired by true life experiences of Assamese trans-man Milin Dutta.
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Tracing Skin
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Max Kutschenreuter
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2021
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Germany / 3 mins
The body is a landscape in which intimacy travels. Tracing Skin is an exploratory film about the fine line between intimacy and obsession between queer individuals.
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Traffic Lights
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Islom Rustam
o’g’li Riskulov
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2021
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Uzbekistan / 13 mins
Brothers make money by wiping the headlights of cars parked at a red traffic light. One day a child appears in the traffic light and becomes a partner in their work. The brothers, who do not want to cut the bread in half, want to take the stranger away at the traffic light. The boy’s unexpected experience changes everything.
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Trans People Applauding
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Zafira Vrba Woodski
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2021 |
Sweden / 2 mins
Trans folx are magical beings. When we fill up a room, no one doubts that trans is the future.
Watch… here
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TRANS-cendent Delight
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Jaq Quicksilver
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2021 |
USA / 8:10 mins
This unapologetically pornographic short portrays an androgynous figure who makes seductive but ambiguous references to the viewer’s gender expression.
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Trasteo
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Maria Matiz,
Juana del Carmen Sánchez |
2021 |
Colombia / 12:07 mins
Queríamos establecer un diálogo con la experiencia queer que no se limitara a nuestra existencia lesbiana, sino que estuviera ligado al resto de relaciones íntimas que establecemos con el entorno, la familia extensa y, principalmente, con el arte queer del fracaso. |
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Treelogy
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Eden Knutilla
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2021
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USA / 13 mins
Three mini shorts about queering space/time, and talking to trees.
Trailer… here
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True Mother
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Rotem Gabay
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2021
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Israel / 16 mins
After losing the custody case, Maya realizes that if she doesn’t do something drastic, her ex-partner will disappear along with their daughter, Shi-Lee. That same day, Maya shows up at Shi-Li’s kindergarten and takes her for a “fun day” with no intention of returning.
Trailer… here
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Tu Mell de Siempre
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Natalia Sepulveda,
Inti Lorca
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2021
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Chile / 55 mins
Melissa es una mujer trans colombiana que emigra a Antofagasta Chile, buscando las mejores oportunidades laborales. Es bajo este contexto discriminatorio que la rodea, que Melissa ejerce como trabajadora sexual. El trabajo forma parte de Melissa, está vinculado a cada aspecto de su vida, ya sea en su personalidad, sus ambiciones y sus sueños y este film la acompaña en su trayecto.
Watch... here
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Tupamara
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Cristhian Granados
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2021
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Colombia / 10 mins
Daniel, a member of Bogota’s House of Tupamaras, shows how his life has been transformed with vogue, achieving his acceptance and identification with his character Baretamara.
Trailer… here
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Two Boys Who Got Too Far Away from the Sun
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Lucelia Sergio,
Cibele Appes
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2021
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Brazil / 30 mins
The day before the fight for the boxing championship title in 1962 between Afro-Caribbeans Benny Kid Paret and Emile Griffith – the first world boxing champion to come out as bisexual –, at the weigh-in, Cuban Paret insulted Griffith many times concerning his sexual orientation, who got into the boxing ring unsettled and threw a series of punches at Paret, leading him to coma. Paret died ten days later, and the tragic event haunted the champion til the end of his days.
Trailer… here
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Two Sons
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Brute Sea
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2021
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Taiwan / 11 mins
A Chinese man builds up his courage to come out to his mother. Although she is accepting, the vibe between them is totally different than what he imagined.
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Txango
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Tamara Lucarini Cortés
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2021
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Spain / 18 mins
Two young friends accompany two other girls on their first climb to the mountain, strengthening their bonds of friendship.
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Un Día de Amor
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Ricardo González
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2021
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Spain / 12 mins
Varias décadas después, los actores del movimiento cinematográfico underground iberoamericano Els 5 QK´S, reaparecen en este cortometraje sobre el deseo en la tercera edad.
Trailer… here
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Una Ciudad de Búhos
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Mónica López Dalmau,
Oriol Grau Elias,
Inés Olondriz Granado,
Jordi Roig Ferré,
Xavier Salsench Antón,
Adiá Targa Ramos
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2021
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Spain / 59 mins
Tarragona, finales de la dictadura. Un grupo de gais decide alquilar un piso en la Parte Alta para amarse en libertad. No muy lejos, una joven es amenazada con un fusil por el padre de su amante, un guardia civil que cada tarde espía los pasos de su hija lesbiana. Estamos en la época de la “ley de vagos y maleantes”. Querer depende de a quién se considera un crimen. Al mismo tiempo, los primeros bares de ambiente abren las puertas en la ciudad. Las pandillas se juntan, organizan salidas clandestinas a Barcelona. Y si no, se montan la fiesta en casa. Quim, Carla, Fina, Patxitxa, Toñi, Sendo, Edu, Gelo, Núria, Ció, Dani y Manolo son los doce protagonistas de este documental que explora la vida LGBTIQ+ de Tarragona durante el tardofranquismo y el inicio de la transición. Bajo la atenta mirada de los búhos, estos personajes transitan por una ciudad a veces muerta, a veces secreta, siempre con golpes escondidos. “Tarragona era una fiesta si te la montabas”. Testimonios tiernos y a veces sobrecogedores, porque la fiesta es, también, sinónimo de liberación y plenitud. Un homenaje a doce personas que pusieron la primera piedra de nuestras libertades.
Trailer... here
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Unboxing
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Ash Verwiel
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2021
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The Netherlands, USA / 9 mins
Challenge the external temporary forms of being to redefine the past and create a harmonic self.
Trailer… here
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Underwater Phone Sex
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Gabriella Arrastia
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
There’s no need for social distancing when you can call the underwater phone sex hotline! This absurd local film mixes therapy and phone sex with a heavy dose of magical realism.
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Unicorn /
Jednorożec
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Maya Teryaki,
Marta Bogdańska
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2021
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Poland / 14 mins
“Kim Lee” is a funny and thought-provoking portrait of an iconic Polish Drag Queen. A story about a wonderful human who enthused others with his unique personality, charisma and witty sense of humor. The audience loved him, and for them, he wanted to be – as he stated himself – someone from another planet, a unicorn. The film is a laidback impression about him, a snippet of his life, finally – a tribute to Kim Lee. We see him in a dressing room where he shows us innumerable outfits, on a stage, during rehearsals, on the street. It is a unique occasion to see archival footage from his 18-year career and learn the transformative power of drag.
Watch... here
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Unique en Mon Genre
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Pascale Fournier
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2021
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France / 52 mins
Depuis 2016, les personnes transgenres ont le droit de changer de prénom en mairie. En 2019, l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé a retiré la transidentité de sa liste des maladies mentales. Depuis quelques années, des législations émergent et sont renforcées pour lutter contre la transphobie. Pourtant, les personnes transgenres ont encore besoin d'être entendues, comprises et accompagnées. C'est ce qu'ont choisi de faire Clara, Martine et Gwenola. Elles ont décidé de mettre leur expérience à disposition des plus jeunes et des familles. Elles-mêmes ont connu un parcours de transition. À Nantes, au sein de l'association NOSIG, elles accueillent des jeunes se se questionnent sur leur transidentité et des familles qui essayent d'accompagner au mieux ces changements de vie. Elles écoutent beaucoup et rassurent celles et ceux qui ont emprunté ce long chemin du changement de genre. Au travers de leurs échanges se dévoile tout un pan de leur histoire, composé de souffrances, de victoires, de bonheurs et d'espoirs
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Unknown
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Mariann Zászlós
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2021
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Hungary / 15 mins
A testimony of two transgender women about childhood, desires, violence, and perseverance.
Trailer… here
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Unreal
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EE Newman
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2021
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USA / 3.46 mins
The Ignorant Cowboy loses his connection to this world and floats away. He searches among theories of reality for his true self and a place to stay.
Watch… here
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Until Tomorrow
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Ian Graham
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2021
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USA / 10:13 mins
While stuck in a time loop at a party, a college student repeatedly falls in love with a boy that can never remember him.
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Untitled: Chris Jakob
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Desmond Love
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2021
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USA / 2 mins
This biographic poetic visual follows Chris Jakob through the inner workings of his personal story with explorations spanning the origin of self and identity, and ponders the dynamics of existence, thought and connection.
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Uplands Utopia I.O.U.
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Louise Ashcroft
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2021
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UK / 22 mins
Queer cartoon characters manifested from the trash of a North London industrial estate. A pandemic fever-dream that pokes at all our capitalist neuroses: productivity, overwhelm, loneliness and excess.
Watch… here
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Vaginal Panic /
Pânico Vaginal
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Lara Duarte
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2021
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Brazil / 30 mins
Low-budget science fiction. A video piece full of special flaws and a lot of creepy tape, that narrates the trajectory of a superheroine who opts for Intimate Weaponry – a procedure that can be installed in the vaginal or anal canal: pistols, shotguns, rifles, rifles, machine guns.
Trailer… here
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Vanitas. Quién Te Quita Lo Bailado
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Agustina Sario,
Matthieu Perpoint
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2021
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Vanitas como género pictórico se enraiza en el bodegón o la naturaleza muerta característico del Barroco donde ese plasma la vulnerabilidad de la existencia humana con una simbología particular.
Trailer… here
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Variable & Fugacious /
Variable y fugaz
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Camila Suazo
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2021
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Chile / 12:48 mins
Francisca and Sofía, an open couple, meet Anaís, a young Turkish woman, with whom they establish a beautiful friendship that makes them question their own relationship.
Trailer... here
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Very Important Trans Artwork
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Maz Murray
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2021 |
UK / 8 mins
A transmasculine person returns to their hometown in Essex just before the coronavirus pandemic. They try to conjure a treatise on trans-masculinity, Essex girls/boys, class and performances of gender but they’re just too tired from long covid…
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Vir and Diana
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Nuria Rubió
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2021
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Spain / 11 mins
Virginia is visited by Diana, the daughter of a very dear friend who died a few years ago. During their stay in the village they visit the caves and a swamp where they were together.
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Viral oceans /
Océanos víricos
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Kevin Magne Tapia
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2021
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Chile / 15 mins
Three Chilean performance artists living with HIV, meet in complicity and affection on the edge of the Pacific Ocean to perform a ritual and poetic action where biographies, feelings and experiences of HIV-positive people intertwine.
Trailer... here
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Virtual Love
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Aria Li
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2021
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6:37 mins
Watch… here
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Volver a casa
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Willy Suarez
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2021
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Spain / 4 mins
Javi wants to celebrate Christmas with Dani, his partner. However, Javi looks for an excuse not to go. Back in their respective homes, both live different realities where the relationship with their relatives determines their way of being.
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Waan(beeld)
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Mackenzie Fincham
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2021
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Netherlands / 3 mins
A girl wakes up in the middle of the night when her alarm goes off. She knows something is up. These suspicions are confirmed after she looks in the mirror. A disconnected connection with oneself causes a terrifying feeling.
Trailer… here
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Waiting for Dad
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Tracy Nguyen
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2021
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USA / 9:37 mins
A queer Vietnamese woman’s drive metamorphizes her refugee dad’s impulses toward health, life, and insurance.
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Wake Up! It's Yesterday /
¡Despierta! Es Ayer
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Julieta Tetelbaum |
2021 |
Argentina / 10 mins
Un cortometraje existencialista, queer, feminista que presenta un viaje a la mente de una vendedora de algodón de azúcar en su camino a casa desde el trabajo.
Watch… here |
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Walking Before
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Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer
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2021
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UK / 5 mins
This essay film acts as a prelude or introduction into a future second part. Both autobiographical and poetic, it explores themes of intergenerational embodiment and the weight in viewing historic documents, all in the realm post Soviet art and sociality.
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Walking Behind a Girl at Night When You're Gay
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Daniel Kaszas
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2021
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UK / 1:50 min
Daniel is just trying not to frighten anyone. Will he succeed?
Watch… here
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We Are Not Speaking the Same Language
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Danika St-Laurent
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2021
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Canada / 4 mins
Thinking back on her only phone call with her maternal grandmother, Danika explains her connection to her Indigenous identity (and her grandmother) through beadwork.
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We Have Not Lived in Vain
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Nick Antipov,
Bart Staszewski
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2021
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Belarus / 22 mins
This is the story of the protests that erupted in Belarus, as seen through the eyes of LGBTQ activists Olya, Zhenya, and Sveta.
Not only do they face violence and abuse when arrested, they are also met with hostility from other protesters who don’t see any place for rainbow flags in their revolution.
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Weavers /
Tejedoras
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Ana Micenmacher,
Agustina Willat
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2021
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Uruguay / 16 mins
In a rural area in northern Uruguay, Raquel and a group of women are running a weaving project. Faced with the challenge of collective work, they will use their encounter to fight against old and conservative structures and strengthen themselves as freer women.
Trailer… here
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Welcome
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Anna Forrás
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2021
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Hungary / 10 mins
In un villaggio della campagna ungherese, una ragazza omosessuale scappa dalla furia omofoba degli abitanti. Ispirato dalle azioni anti LGBTQI+ di Kadyrov in Cecenia, un piano–sequenza all’ultimo respiro, nato sotto la supervisione di Béla Tarr.
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We're Still Here /
Seguimos Aqui
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Emmanuel Garcia,
David A. Moran
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2021
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USA / 35 mins
Four LGBTQ+ identifying Latinx Chicagoans navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, interpersonal struggles, and community triumphs throughout a turbulent yet powerful 2020.
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Werewolf
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Angelo Duncan,
Mason Rose
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2021
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USA / 4 mins
Lose yourself to the allure of fear in A.S. Valentino’s debut music video that interrogates the relationship between trans people and monsters that plague the public imagination.
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Wet Streaming III:
Fuck My Ficus
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Aaron Scherer,
Eva Sommer,
Daniela Zahlner
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2021
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Austria / 5 mins
The rainforest and Victoria Falls are the porn stars in this humorous and hot feminist critique of eco-sexuality.
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What A Bordello – it’s Time For Clitocracy! /
So es Puff (So ein Bordell)
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Tina Hofmann |
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Switzerland / 98 mins
Charly and her boys want to sexually liberate women in her bordello «Mumuland» offering venal love. Amidst these times of unrest they experience true loyalty.
Trailer… here
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What Dying Feels Like
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Philip Ullman
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2021
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Netherlands / 9 mins
A mouse finds herself reciting childhood memories in a sterile living room. Shards of an alienating past paint the portrait of a human life. A sense of loss pervades the atmosphere as she’s torn between being human and being mouse, between being alive and being in a simulation.
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What Kind of Help?
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Amanda Kindzierski
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2021 |
Canada / 6:45 mins
What Kind of Help? follows a woman in lockdown in her apartment. We see her living her isolated days over and over while trying to cope with the pressure of a pandemic lockdown on a extrovert. As we watch her move about her new confining life, we hear her calling for help, but what kind of help.
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What Makes a Man?
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Chella Man,
Andre
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2021
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UK / 1 min
A deeply personal narrative, formed out of the protagonist's own experience as a transgender individual. Intimate moments are captured, as a way of letting people enter a personal diary.
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What Remains Beautiful
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Celès Galliot-Dollet
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2021
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France / 14 mins
She was a very great diver, my grandmother, who tried to pass on to me her love for the sea and the ocean, for the water.
She was free. She wanted the world and thanks to her, I perceived what she was seeing. Today, she can no longer walk, can no longer speak, she has hunched her thin shoulders and has crumbs stuck to her sweater. It's my grandmother Elephant Man. I don't remember when it happened. I go to see her once a year for her birthday, December 26, and the rest of the time, I don't even think about it."
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What U Wanna Do
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Jas Lin
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2021
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USA / 3 mins
A collective aberration from the oppressive banality of everyday life.
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What You Didn’t Steal from Me
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Kitty Rodé
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2021
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Canada / 4:38 mins
Trailer… here
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Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am
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Kay Chan
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2021
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Canada / 3 mins
Two Metis-Chinese people ceremoniously work together on hide-tanning while their surroundings change between industrial and natural landscapes.
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Where is Our Love Song
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GOH Gainsoo
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2021
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Korea / 22 mins
Min-Chul climbs up a mountain with his guitar, and Hyun-Jin tries to keep up with him.
Trailer… here
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Who Holds Us
(from Reemergence: A Queer Visual Album)
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Zhailon Levingston
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
A short musical about a future where love & community are supreme.
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Why Do You Love Me
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Xia Mu
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2021
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China / 12:21 mins
After a drag queen’s 444th daily livestream, intuition tells him that something is going to happen. He matched with a woman on a dating app. The woman started watching his livestreams since the first day after her mastectomy, realized she had fallen in love with him and decided to go see him on the 444th day. The drag queen felt that she was not the thing or person he was waiting for. People focus so much on waiting that when it (rainbow lightning; free, unshackled love) happens, they do not even realize it. And so, they miss it.
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Wie Wir Wollen
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Kollektiv Kinokas
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2021
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Germany / 98 mins
In 2022, Paragraph 219a, which prohibited advertising for the termination of pregnancy, was finally deleted without replacement. Paragraph 218, which makes abortions a punishable offence in Germany, has now been in the penal code for 150 years. In the documentary, 50 people who have had an abortion have their say. They are women, trans and non-binary people who describe the choices they had and the obstacles they faced. In the face of a emerging shortage of doctors, a strengthening network of Christian fundamentalists and a worldwide attack on reproductive rights and the right to bodily self-determination, a very important thematic debate.
Trailer... here
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Will Flowers?
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Kay Chan
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2021
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Canada / 1 min
Based on a text message from their fruit-bearing Kokum, the artist imagines planting the seeds for future generations.
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Window /
Khidki
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Shoneel Yallattikar,
Smriti Ramakrishnan
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2021
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India
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Wish
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Willow Skye-Biggs
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2021
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USA / 6 mins
Wish is a visual poem about a transgender mother and her son who live a rather isolated existence. Reality shifts between layers as they seem to exist in both this world and possibly other worlds. Loosely based on Beauty and the Beast, Wish is a fairytale without a clear narrative, focusing instead on the invisible emotions that moments create. The film shows us an experience of alienation that can be at once both full of magic and deep sadness.
Watch... here
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Wish You Well
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Annelisa Waltz
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2021
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USA / 29 mins
Hope Oliver grows up in the suburbs of Portland where she attends high school. In her final year of school, she has endured enough bullying to send her over the deep end. Hope is a ticking time bomb. When Hope’s older sister dies unexpectedly, Hope becomes completely unhinged. Days later, Hope takes revenge on her bully, unaware of the consequences her actions may bring.
Trailer… here
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Witch Finder Phenomenal
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Maria Rosamojo
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2021
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UK / 18 mins
1980s Harlesden. A mixed-race queer girl encounters witches, mermaids and wolves as she tries to free herself from the evil spectre of gender, racism, abuse and dissociation.
Trailer… here
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With Four You Can Play Bridge
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Katja Štefanec,
Asja Novak,
Edi Klobučar
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2021
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Slovenia / 29 mins
The rise of the authoritarianism of the current right-wing government is becoming impossible to ignore. How do we fight the emerging fear and the despondency? The short documentary With Four You Can Play Bridge follows Edi as he tries to grapple with what the current situation might mean for his activism. Starting from his own experience with queer activism in Ljubljana, Edi starts looking outward to other contexts and movements in the rest of Slovenia, as well as in Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic.
Trailer... here
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Witness
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Joie Lou Shakur
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2021
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USA / 5 mins
A Black gender-free being tries to find the key to combating Black Trans erasure in order to archive the community’s history for the future.
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Wūûūwūûū
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Rae-Yen Song
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2021
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UK / 3 mins
wūûūwūûū is an animation constantly in flux. Through vivid drawings and multi-textural vocal sounds, it considers identity, hybridity and future livability.
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You Are My Divine
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StormMiguel Florez
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2021
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USA / 4:52 mins
A trans Xicanx swells in love for QTBIPOC community as he harmonizes with the tremble of his pre-testosterone voice.
Watch… here
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You Must Everywhere Wander
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Whiskey Chow
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2021
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UK / 8 mins
A queer masculine body becomes a spectacular natural landscape where Chinese cooking spices grow.
Trailer… here
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Your Heart Out
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Lou Howell,
Beck Kuberick,
Paddy Shand
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UK / 11:40 mins
A love letter to LGBTQ people in recovery, a tender, short documentary that looks at the possible varying risk factors that lead to LGBTQ+ people being diagnosed with an eating disorder. The film bridges spoken word poetry and animation with three accounts from young people, Iona, Kylie and Rylan, to explore the untold narrative of those LGBTQ+ and living with eating disorders. |
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Yummy Body Truck
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Noam Youngrak Son
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2021 |
Netherlands / 7 mins
Noam Youngrak Son’s YUMMY BODY TRUCK is a fictional food truck that sells edible human body parts. What sounds like cannibalism at first turns out to be a biotechno-queer fantasy of interspecies mixing – quite literally so. In the computer-generated video, the pancake-shaped head of a “fluidic chimera” tells of its creation: that a rapidly spinning blade has taken on a multitude of organisms – from bacteria and fungi to plants, insects, reptiles… and also sometimes hominids – ingested, ground up their flesh and mixed it all into a malleable paste of diverse cells, organelles, DNA, enzymes, hormones, pigments, toxins: a pool of proteins, amino acids, nucleic acids, phospholipids, and all sorts of different polymers with all sorts of unidentifiable energy states and genetic information. This mushy mass is now being modeled into human body shapes in the YUMMY BODY TRUCK – similar to the multi-species convergence from fishing waste being reshaped into desirable seafood as surimi.
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