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(510) CALL ME-CHELLE
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Juliana Nguyen,
Andy Briseno
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
A queer Bay Area transplant develops an unexpected friendship with her witty next door neighbor who helps her navigate the myriad of identity politics at work.
Trailer... (510) Call Me-Chelle on Vimeo
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(Fluid) Mosquito
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Carleen Maur
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
(Fluid) Mosquito is a film centered on a body losing another body through a winding pathway of forests two cyclists chance one another. It thinks about the naturalized camouflage along side ones own agency to not be seen.
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(with[out] balls) /
Met Zonder Ballen
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Luca Meisters
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2023
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Netherlands / 66 mins
A moving and hilariously honest portrait of a transgender son and his mom. based on the successful eponymous play. We see a kid who’s becoming more and more clear and a confused mom who can barely keep up with him.
Creating space for addressing the wrongs, concerns and clichés, this film provides a loving insight into the reality of a kid in transition. It shows the impact that ‘becoming who you are’ has on a family, but at the same time addresses universal themes like growing up, becoming an adult and the art of raising a kid and letting them go.
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4 Walls
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Mahlatse Nare
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2023
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South Africa / 11 mins
Nathi’ & ’Karabo’ played by Tshepiso Jeme and Kamohelo Sebudi, share a bond that seizes to exist outside these 4 walls. The characters take us on a journey of exploration, touching on complexities surrounding identity, freedom, and desire as black queer South African Men today. 4 Walls speaks to the navigation and exploration, of a particular shared experience amongst the LGBTQI+ community.
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14 Years and a Day
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Ayo Lawson,
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim
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2023
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Nigeria / 21 mins
In a riveting tale of love and self-discovery, a restless young woman finds herself embroiled in a passionate conflict with her partner of 14 years. Fuelled by frustration, she seeks solace in a solitary dinner, unaware that fate has something extraordinary in store. As the stars align, she encounters a captivating stranger whose mere presence ignites a storm of doubt within her heart. In a single encounter, the foundations of her relationship tremble, compelling her to question the very path she once thought secure.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/fqKyXCacyYI?si=YcxQzq0MNDsV4gs8
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4801 Nuits
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Laurence Michel
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2023
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France / 38 mins
Abstinence is refraining from satisfying a craving.
Teetotalism is the total, definitive abstinence from alcohol.
In other words, a life sentence!
4801 nights documents an introspection and a wandering, a fall and a rise, during a trip to the polar circle. Legend has it that the polar night can drive those who venture there to sanity or madness
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A Friend of a Friend /
Ami d'ami
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Simon Gualtieri
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2023
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Canada / 15 mins
Jules is bi. Bi as in bisexual. Bi, even though he’s only slept with women. Bi and ready to try his first experience with Samuel, a friend of friend.
Trailer... Ami d’ami (2023) - teaser on Vimeo
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A Fuckboi Story /
Despide a tu fuckboi
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Carlos Jiménez Lucas
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2023
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Spain / 10 mins
Have you ever heard of a fuckboi? Well, Ulises has one.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/PsHdtVZJ66Y
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A Ghost in the House
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Tom Mcvey
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2023
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USA / 8 mins
When Victor reveals to his husband that he’s been communicating with a ghost named Louis, the couple decides to welcome the ghost into their relationship. Louis has other plans.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/844766624
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A humanidade que me resta
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Kieza Fran Nascimento
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2023
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Brazil / 6 mins
Escutando seu diário gravado, Kieza tenta se levantar da cama para mais um dia de luta, mas se depara com pensamentos intrusivos, angústias e disforias.
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A Parte que Falta
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Nicole Nasser
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2023
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Brazil / 18 mins
Como último desejo de sua mãe doente, Teresa volta ao interior para buscar seu pai, Francisco, que não o vê há anos devido a uma briga que separou a família. Na viagem de volta, os dois têm dificuldades para se relacionarem e vão descobrindo coisas novas um do outro. Mas em dado instante, o passado vem à tona e não há mais como fugir dele.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/NypMZvYwIuY?si=myXrBRC815Ozx_YD
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A Safe Place /
A L'abri
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Nicolas Lincy
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2023
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22 mins
Alain lives locked up in a large house with his husband, Raphael. They were about to renovate the place and turn it into a bed and breakfast. A new virus, still unknown, poisoning the air, stops them in their dream. Alain is now obsessed with the idea of protecting Raphael, whose health is fragile. But the latter is suffocating, for him it is the house that is unhealthy, as if haunted
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A Sea of Love for Us /
A mares amores
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Arturo Nicolás Dávila Zelada
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2023
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Perú / 14 mins
A partir de encuentros diarios con amantes trans, se genera un diálogo entre el hogar, el cuidado y la memoria. Las imágenes que se construyen revelan el amor, las costumbres y la espiritualidad que se teje en esta intimidad.
Trailer... A MARES AMORES de Arturo Dávila on Vimeo
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A Tábua de Esmeralda
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Felippe Moraes
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2023
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Brazil / 7 mins
Bianca Exótica encontra um objeto mágico que a transporta para dentro de si. Nessa viagem alquímica ao som de house music, se depara com saberes que a transmutam na versão iluminada do seu ser.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/877626633
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A Touch
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Sahil D Gada
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2023
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India / 28 mins
When Miril downloads the dating app for the first time, he comes across a profile of Gandhar and swipes right. Receiving a match after ages, Gandhar, who is craving for a human touch, gets excited and the conversation turns out fruitful. In this excitement, Gandhar forgets to tell Miril, that he’s confined to a wheel chair, because of an unfortunate accident. After a few days of chatting Gandhar agrees to meet Miril. He is ready to face the fate and invites Miril to his place. How does Miril react to Gandhar’s condition? Do these desperate souls depart or touch each other?
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Aalapanam
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Niketh Manulal
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2023
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India
Portrays change and connection about a family, together still apart.
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Acmé
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Agustín Montangie
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2023
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Argentina / 16mins
Este documental retrata la vida e intimidad de dos personas con VIH que habitan en la Patagonia Argentina, con las características socio-culturales y limitaciones propias de la región. Acmé pone en tensión la calma cotidianidad de los personajes, su rutina, su profesión, sus paisajes, con la voz reflexiva de sus pensamientos y sus experiencias vividas en torno a la enfermedad.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/458321265
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After Bed
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TT Takemoto
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
Pulsing flashbacks from the summer of love reawaken a queer California classic.
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After Work
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Jan Soldat
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2023
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Germany / 5 mins
After work, Holger and Lutz hook up for sex. But actually the two are tired and not the youngest anymore.
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Aiming at the Apocalypse
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Shireen Mccormack
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2023
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UK / 15 mins
“Aiming at the Apocalypse” explores religious futurism in a triptych of three parts; before, during and after leaving religion, using the phobic mirage of a motorcycle as an anchor throughout. Emotions are imbued on the object, one that is already a symbol of strength, desire and freedom. Throughout the film, the motorcycle evolves from an object of transportation to one of transformation, a mode of navigating gender and sexuality upon leaving religion. The film reckons with difficult memories, the effect of religion on the body in the present and the grief of what is left behind as it looks towards the future.
Trailer... Aiming at the Apocalypse (2023) (Trailer) on Vimeo
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Alba
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Juana Gonzalez Posse,
Carmen Lanzi Giannoni
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2023
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Argentina / 6 mins
Luca e Milán atravessam as diferentes fases do amor e da desilusão, com a árdua tarefa de saber como dizer adeus. Gerando um espaço comum entre a realidade, a memória e a fantasia.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/797059139
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All that You Could Be /
Tudo o que Você Podia Ser
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Ricardo Alves Jr.
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2023
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Brazil / 83 mins
It’s Aisha’s last day in Belo Horizonte. We follow her farewell in the company of her best friends: Bramma, Igui and Will. Through the everyday life and encounters between the characters, the film weaves an affectionate portrait of a family that is built by choice, through the value of friendship.
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Alone /
Sola
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Séneca Claudia Dávalos
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2023
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Peru / 15 mins
After showing herself as she is, Luisa, who’s dedicated to crest traditional Andean textiles, is rejected by her nephew and her whole town. This leads to a series of events that will make her choose between recovering the only family bond she’s got left or choose herself in the process.
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Amar
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Anshul Kumar
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2023
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India / 10 mins
The story of the film revolves around the protagonist Amar who is blind from birth and who has graduated from a blind school. Amar’s mother passed away in his childhood and he now lives with his father in a small apartment. The film takes the viewer along with Amar as he wanders here and there– sometimes on populous streets and sometimes in solitude playing his harmonica.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Kw7ORy60moY?si=yKUbhf8GJfuMy87i
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Amor Puro
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María José Jiménez
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2023
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México / 5:55 mins
Darina es una joven con distintos pensamientos a los de su padre, el es algo anticuado y con otro concepto de amor. Darina y Alison llevan una relación escondida de ya un año medio y necesitaban ayuda de alguien para que el padre entendiera y aceptara o situación.
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Amōr - the Tune of Love
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Jijo Kuriakose
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2023
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India / 5 mins
Amor - the tune of love, is a Malayalam music video which carries the emotional elements of gay romance, the enticing feel of belongingness and missing. The music video is a dedication to everyone who believes in the power and love and campaign for human rights of the LGBTIQ community.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/KUdm9Q7tg3I?si=X6I9nTXlmThEs6Qo
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Anarriê
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Neto Astério
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2023
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Brazil / 14 mins
Follow friends Renan and Alana as they rehearse anxiously for their upcoming performance at Brazil’s local Anarriê festival.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/YqrZ-x2HaTw?si=FyZ19LxdaCc2vQIm
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And We Rest on Giants
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Kevin Anderson
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2023
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USA
“And We Rest on Giants” is an exploration into the lives of BIPOC aging and long-term survivors of HIV. As stigma continues to ravish communities of color, this short explores the daily walk of those thriving unapologetically and provides a first-hand account of the HIV journey. Layered with spoken word, these stories ignite the importance of honest discussion.
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Antes De
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René Cabrera Morales
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2023
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México
Diego, un chico de 18 años, en medio de la pandemia del COVID, se entera del inevitable próximo fallecimiento de un ser querido, pero la llegada de un misterioso ser lo hará dudar de su presente, lo que le dará otra perspectiva de su vida y de la persona que lo impulsa a seguir adelante.
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Antics
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Leslie Wool
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2023
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USA
After calling a phone number found on the street, Pinbone Malone get the chance to experience the joys and menaces of masculine friendship.
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Arc-en-noir
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Eric Plamondon
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2023
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Canada
Beatnik contemporary revival in the voice of a francophone queer métis gives voice to thoughts, desires, and struggles of a queer indigenous Manitoban.
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Artistes en Zone Troubles
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Stéphane Gérard,
Lionel Soukaz
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2023
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France / 39 mins
Portrait expérimental de l’artiste Hervé Couergou, mort du SIDA. Amant de Lionel Soukaz, Hervé a été son compagnon pendant les douloureuses premières années de l’épidémie de VIH. Des années de vie commune que Lionel Soukaz n’a cessé de documenter avec sa caméra. Ce film, construit en archives, dresse le portrait de Hervé, tout en parlant d’une époque et d’un fléau.
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As political landscapes dissolve
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Zora Ottink
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2023
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Netherlands / 7 mins
What is my identity in times of climate change and political upheavals, filmmaker Zora Ottink wonders, in this political picture story full of sweeping associations that starts in her bathroom.
Is a stable identity really feasible in the current political climate, filmmaker Zora Ottink wonders in this short surrealist picture story, which she shot on 16 mm. The film sets off stably in Ottink’s bathroom where she is having a shave, but when she subsequently steps into a melting snowy landscape, ideas start to change meaning in associative ways: razor blades, snowploughs, gender relations and identity politics. Everything is in a constant flux of permanent change, decay and remanifestation.
Trailer... Trailer | As Political Landscapes Dissolve on Vimeo
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Aunt Valeria /
Che buffa, la zia Valeria
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Marta Specolizzi
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2023
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Italy / 5 mins
"Che buffa, la zia Valeria" is a short film that tells the story of Valeria Specolizzi, a lesbian woman who grew up in Salento - a region in Southern Italy - in the seventies and eighties. The film works with memory and queer genealogy while exploring the social environment of Salento in that time period. The narrator, Marta Specolizzi, is Valeria's niece and through the film, she recounts her memories with and of Valeria.Watch… https://vimeo.com/767581104
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Auntie Chris Signs of Rivers
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Marrok Sedgwick
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2023
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USA / 5:43 mins
Auntie Chris Smith performs an ASL adaptation of Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Außer Männer hatten wir nichts zu verlieren
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Hanna Marie Hocker,
Leila Fatima Keita
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2023
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Germany / 30 mins
Hanna and Leila, two feminist filmmakers, have only read about their pioneers in books. The pair's cinematic quest begins after they find an old VHS tape. In 1975, the first women's bookstore opened in Munich: For the first time, men are not allowed in. Even after all these years, the owners demonstrate their militant stance. We are too prudish and too well-behaved for them - can we learn from each other? What unites and what separates our generations?
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Ausencias
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Alfonso Palazón
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2023
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Spain / 26 mins
Ausencias son memorias, revisionismos y olvidos pactados sobre representaciones del pasado basados en el silencio y la nostalgia. El recuerdo como negación de las grandes historias del pasado en donde los lugares comunes se convierten en pasajes de la negación. La (in)visibilidad de la migración LGTBIQ+ es la ausencia. Dibujos de lugares vacíos y robados que impiden construir nuevos espacios de libertad.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/8QAnU-YXJMQ?si=xDMVWo5TZicLdOsg
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Auto/Visual
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Menelas Siafakas
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2023
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Greece / 9 mins
When pornography doesn't work anymore but dreamscapes do, a sublimation of masturbation.
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Bad Behaviour
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Bhavana Rajendran,
Rency Philip,
Sharanya Ramprakash
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2023
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India / 5 mins
Bad Behaviour is a street performance exploring Brigade Road and surrounding neighbourhoods that gave Bangalore its moniker ‘the Pub City’ in the 80s and 90s. Today, Brigade Road is more of a commercial street than the ‘cool, hip and happening’ area it used to be with iconic places like NASA, Pub World, Galaxy Theatre, Rex Theatre, Brigade Gardens, Time ‘n’ Again, Black Cadillac, FoxTrot, Spin and other has-been spaces that were for drinking, dancing, and cruising.
Watch… https://youtu.be/k3PC37inyiE
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Beach
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Anisha Sharma
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2023
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India
Karan is a transman, who recently had a gender affirmation surgery and something as trivial as going to the beach shirtless has been a dream and an act of liberation for him.
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Beauty Within
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Carrie Miller
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2023
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USA / 5 mins
This abstract film is driven by colors, imagery of flowers, voice overs, and portrait shots of the characters. Skylar and Arbor meet in a beautiful garden, reflecting the radiant energy of the characters. There is a voice over of Arbor reading a letter to Skylar that describes how they met, their friendship turning romantic, and Arbor’s self discovery of their gender. As the letter is being read, they are seen meeting at the same spot, slowly getting closer. There is beauty and growth around them with blooming flowers and sunny weather. Skylar keeps going back, hoping Arbor will show up. Arbor’s voice over ends, saying, “I am sorry I never showed up, I had to find myself first.” Skylar finds the written letter from Arbor in their meeting spot, which is the voiceover that is happening throughout the film. She reads the letter, but the last few lines she reads out loud, “But when I am ready, I want to grow with you in the garden forever.”
Watch... https://youtu.be/DeV0nObYZ0Q?si=DDJ0mrkiaM1PpbPv
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Becoming
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Tramaine Raphael Gray
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2023
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USA / 25 mins
An imaginative queer teen weaves in and out of his own fantasy world while struggling to connect with his older brother.
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Bedtime Story
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Maty Grznár
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2023
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Slovakia / 8 mins
In the performance, the author primarily deals with the topic of queer identity, growing up and memory. He harkens back to his childhood experiences in character of protective figure that we as queer children lack during growing up. The narrative is conceived from a personal point of view, but it focuses on the bigger picture, which everyone can relate to somehow.
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Behind the Numbers
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2023
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Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Thailand / 30 mins
An intersex person from Zimbabwe, a lesbian couple from Bangkok and a trans person from the Netherlands; they all encounter the same barriers of heteronormative society for different reasons.
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Behind My Drag Queen
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Leonardo Oliveira
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2023
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Ireland / 14 mins
This short documentary tells the story of Chantelle Perez, a Brazilian drag queen who discovered a new life for herself in Ireland through the art of drag.
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Beware
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Wrik Mead
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2023
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Canada / 3 mins
A hacking of glitchy intimacies, set to sound extracts from the 1961 homophobic propaganda film Boys Beware, that makes the fag monster very lovable.
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Bistro #1
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Kiana Thienkim Nguyen
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2023
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USA / 10 mins
A young woman keeps the sales of her family’s food booth alive while navigating her sexuality.
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Bixas Pretas: entre o amor e os afetos
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Diego Roberto Silva Cavalcante Barrera
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2023
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Brazil / 25 mins
Quatro “bixas pretas” discutem, através das suas experiências, como o racismo e a homofobia afetam o campo do amor.
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Blinds
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Shir Green
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2023
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Israel / 9 mins
A short queer film about the complex experience of a bisexual woman in the closet, who desires her lesbian neighbor that she spies on from her balcony and then fantasizes about while pleasuring herself. She wants to be her and to be with her at the same time, but can only live it through the fantasy.
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Blue Flower
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Sunil Babu Pant,
Pradhumna Mishra
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2023 |
Nepal / 40 mins
A gay Nepali man in a rural setting is forced to marry a girl by his family. How do the couple navigate social pressures as well as take care of their needs?
Watch… https://youtu.be/gppzN-9mH5g |
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Boom Boom Chao
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Pau(La) Chaves Bonilla
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2023 |
Netherlands / 4 mins
“Glitches of a marica in self-exile” is this film’s subtitle, ‘marica’ being a Spanish derogatory term for gay or queer. In Boom Boom Chao, the artist reclaims the term while reflecting on what it means to live a queer lesbian life. In this glitchy spoken word piece (glitchy both in image and sound), she muses on the idea of this queer lesbian life being a sort of self-exile, an alienated life. |
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Born on a Sunday Morning / Nés Un Dimanche Matin
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Thierry Sorlini
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2023 |
Canada / 15 mins
Le jour précédent le départ de son frère pour l’université, Massimo découvre un secret qui pourrait changer sa famille pour toujours.
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Bound
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Biz Young
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2023 |
USA / 4 mins
In 'Bound: A Film on Liberation Through Rope Bondage,' Sakina Sins uses shibari (rope bondage) as a way to process pain and desire. As a queer, disabled, transmasc person born to immigrant parents — his body was often a site of pain and restriction, but getting to choose the pain he endures is what frees him.
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Boundless
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David Chai
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2023
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USA / 10 mins
Through a series of animated vignettes ranging from everyday scenes to abstract ideas, a group of trans and nonbinary people define their genders through their surroundings, families, cultures, and imaginations.
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Boxed In /
Le Poids des Cases
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Coline Stell
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2023
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France / 17:32 mins
Lou a 28 ans, elle est lesbienne et heureuse. Le jour où elle se réveille à côté d’un homme, c’est le monde à l’envers!
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Boxes
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Wall & Yero
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2023
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Argentina / 2 mins
A young man recovers his collection of red cars only to realise that the scale of his fantasies has changed.
Un joven recupera su colección de autos rojos para darse cuenta que la escala de sus fantasías ha cambiado.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/833072892
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Boys in the Water /
Les garçons dans l'eau
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Pawel Thomas Larue
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2023
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France / 39 mins
It's late summer on the Brittany coast. Oscar invites his group of friends to spend a week's holiday at his grandparents' house. He hasn't been back to where he grew up since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meet Malo, a handsome local boy who is also trans.
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Brief Encounter
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Alex Matraxia
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2023
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UK / 4 mins
With a soundtrack like Bernard Hermann running a techno night, Brief Encounter is a short erotic neo-noir about chance meetings, absent fathers, cigarettes, shaving foam, and eye contact on public transport.
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Bubble /
Bolha
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Leandro Ricardo Wenceslau
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2023
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Brazil / 15 mins
“BOLHA” is a short film that tells the story of João, a 13-year-old boy who has just moved with his mother to Belo Horizonte. João faces the challenge of adapting to a new home, school, and family structure after his father’s death. He needs to figure out how to make friends in a world where people group themselves into bubbles.
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BunnyXGator
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Shoog McDaniel,
Ian Clotz
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
At first meeting, Evie Snax aka Bunny knew there was something special about Swamp Daddy, but it was years later when they saw eye-to-eye. Soon after finally sniffing each other out, they organically became Gator and bunny. Gator’s bossy power a perfect compliment to bunny’s willing receptiveness, fantasy role play became the drug of choice. We watched in awe as our sex opened up portals, drawing us into a twisted tale of carnal lust between two animals in a Florida swamp. Together we indulge in our magical alternative world, captured here by videographer Ian Clontz wearing our own papier-mâché costuming. Furry primal play gave us a window through which to explore Dominant/submissive play by giving into desire freely and without judgment. Running feral and feeling limitless, we fuck in the dirt and under the stars.
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Burn My Skin /
Queima Minha Pele
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Leonardo Amorim
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2023
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Brazil / 19 mins
These men are dripping with sweat, but it doesn't matter.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/867027237
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burning blue
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Kim Ly Lam,
Cecilia Luna Pohl
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2023
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Germany, Korea
Pilgyu Shin has a dream: As a gay activist, he wants to enforce the anti-discrimination law in South Korea. In Seoul, he encounters a parallel society in which many queers hide and pretend to be heterosexual. The reason: Christian churches are gathering thousands of members around them in order to threaten the LGBTQ+ community. With their money and influence, they can steer politics.
"burning blue" portrays twelve people who stand up against these authorities. It is a battle against time, as they lose more and more members of their community to suicide. Yet dividing barriers keep growing bigger and bigger within their own circle.
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Cafe Pamplemousse Cacao
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Dominique Preusse
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2023
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France / 23 mins
Samuel used to be in a relationship with Laetitia before she left him for Gaëlle. Today he has been invited to his home. Together, they will try to perform an act of love.
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Camille, Marc, Michel & Me
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Jonathan Lemieux
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2023
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Switzerland / 23 mins
On May 9th 2022, Michel, my mother's husband, died of pancreatic cancer. Unbeknownst to me, his death became the catalyst for my mid-life crisis in that it reopened wounds related to my father's abandonment (Marc) and my grandfather's suicide (Camille).
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Cannoli Brothers
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Ethan Folk,
Ty Wardwell
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2023
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Germany / 2 mins
They may not be real brothers, but their cannoli are anything but fake.
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Capim-Navalha
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Michel Queiroz
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2023
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Brazil / 90 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.
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Catch A Star If You Can
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Tanya Liu Choi Ying
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2023
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Hong Kong / 33 mins
Two swimming team members decide to escape their training camp for one night to watch the Leonid meteor shower. But the road trip is full of surprises bringing them more than the twinkling stars above.
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Change Minority
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Tomoya ASANUMA
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2023
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Japan / 8 mins
Yuki, an office worker, and his female partner are heterosexuals living in a minority’s world and thinking about marriage. They live in a society where heterosexuality is not accepted and they suffer from the inability to legally start a family. They come out to their parents, their workplace enforces homosexual norms upon them, and they live their lives interweaved with troubles and sufferings, and finally find their way, in a society where homosexuality is the norm.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/FJZHe1w0kWk
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Check Please
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Victor Mignatti,
Scott T. Hinson
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2023
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USA
“Check Please” is a truly short comedy about the easy come, easy go nature of sexual attraction between strangers.
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Chica
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Juan Yactayo Sono
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2023
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Perú / 25 mins
After being attacked by the police, Katya, a trans sex worker, is given the opportunity to publicly denounce the assault in a television report. She decides not to do so, despite her desire to make a change, to prevent his mother from learning about her true occupation. However, the sudden death of her best friend at the hands of the same policemen changes her decision and finally denounces the aggressions. This will totally change the relationship with her mother.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/ZbZ6eS9YLZo?si=YlTuFRoApi8lN7FE
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Chlorine /
Cloro
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Pablo Borges
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2023
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Spain / 14:38 mins
Miguel and Diego are on the same water polo team. Little by little, they will discover that there is more than just chlorine between them.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/MxJsAqGmrZo?si=6ei1mEWmBJvClnPM
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Cineffabuleuses depuis 35 ans!
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Chriss Lag
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2023
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France / 92 mins
For the 35th edition of the Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival, Cineffable asked Chriss Lag to make a documentary about the association and the festival. The idea is to show what Cineffable has been for 35 years, as a feminist and lesbian festival, showcasing women directors from all over the world, organized by women, united in an association operating 100% voluntarily, with no hierarchical structure and no gender mixing.
Over the past 1 year, Chriss Lag and volunteers from the association have delved into the festival's archives and conducted over 25 interviews to track the evolution of the festival from its inception to the present day, as well as changes in society, in lesbian visibility and in feminist and LGBT struggles in general.
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Clear Sky
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Milica Mitra Cvetković
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2023
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Serbia / 26 mins
Nina arrives in Belgrade after hearing the news of her ex-boyfriend’s death. When she meets with once close friends, she realizes how much those relationships have changed. Amidst a series of turbulent emotions, she tries to cope with nostalgia and guilt, surrendering to a long-forgotten feeling of freedom.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/VedroNebo
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Clotilde
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Maria João Lourenço
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2023
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Portugal / 4 mins
On a planet where reproduction is mandatory in the daily life of its inhabitants, there is an alien who just wishes to pleasure herself.
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Collective Resistance
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Isak Vaillancourt
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2023
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Canada / 17 mins
Told from the perspectives of 2SLGBTQ+ Afro-Indigenous leaders and activists, this short documentary reimagines new possibilities in the relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity, which is rooted in solidarity and joy.
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Colony Collapse Disorder /
Hafra'at hitmotetut hamoshava
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Amos Holzman
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2023
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Israel / 15 mins
Between forest and city, two ambiguous lovers' journey to preserve their togetherness.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Nn2pdPL5YwQ
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Como Me Esquecer do Inverno
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Mari Moraga
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2023
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Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Bélgium / 15 mins
Violeta usa sua arte para criar possibilidades de ver o mundo em que vive. Uma Brazileira que busca, por formas incomuns, se aquecer através da sua comunidade queer durante o inverno em Lisboa.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/869276200/c430f58e83
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Commerce
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Daniel Mcintyre
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2023
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Canada / 7 mins
Through the use of artificial intelligence with analogue 16mm hand processing, Commerce explores the minds of leaders that exploit human labor, aroused by the technology poised to replace it. Who cares about the workers; a CEO should never have to choose between getting laid, or getting laid off.
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Community
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Dean Leetal
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2023
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Israel / 6 mins
According to scholars such as Hil Malatino, trans people survive in transphobic societies thanks to mutual community care.
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Compositions For Understanding Relationships
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David Delafuente
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2023
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USA / 5:30 mins
A Love Letter.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/575121413
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Conceiving Our Future
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Annie Pancak Vogt
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
Some view having children as a necessary chapter in the human experience; others are concerned the decision is self-serving.
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Conociendo a Marc
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Carlos Eduardo Espinoza Velazquez
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2023
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México / 13:9 mins
Marc es un chico trans el cual durante un viaje vacacional junto a su madre y hermano se embarcan en una aventura, durante su aventura Marc conoce a una chica muy linda la de la cual queda flechado al instante, cosa que es mutua durante este viaje a lado de Marc podremos experimentar junto a el lo que es el amor, la aceptación de la gente de su entorno ante su cambio, y como su hermano poco a poco va apreciando y aceptando a su hermano Marc ¿podrá marc en estas vacaciones descubrir quien es el de verdad?
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Consuella
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Alexandre Figueirôa
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2023
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Brazil / 23 mins
Nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, Consuelo foi a travesti mais famosa do Recife. Tempos depois foi morar na França, onde fez sua transição e se tornou vedete nos cabarés Carrossel de Paris e Madame Arthur.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/zALdcIA_Bio?si=ukPQmENsYYoXH5It
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Continuum, la playa
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Mariana Bomba
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2023
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Argentina / 6 mins
Historia de amor entre dos mujeres a comienzos de los años 90, que pronto se transforma en una gesta desbordante de experimentación, goce y vínculos en una de las generaciones de mujeres cineastas más feroces de la Argentina. Treinta años después, el hallazgo de una valija con más de mil negativos fotográficos, películas en 16 mm y cintas VHS preservadas por Vanessa Ragone, una de las protagonistas, revela una década fundacional en la vida y en la trayectoria de las grandes artistas de esa generación.
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Conversation With Albert Knoll /
Gespräch mit Albert Knoll
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Philipp Gufler
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2023
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Germany / 25 mins
Albert Knoll has dedicated a large part of his life to commemorating the crimes against humanity committed during the Nazi dictatorship and what this archival work has done to him.
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CrashPad Quickies: Zuri Love & Knotty Rell
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Ava LaPrima
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2023
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USA / 5 mins
The erotic tension between Knotty Rell and Zuri Love can be cut with a cane. Throughout this sexy BDSM scene, our guests share sweet communication and tender moments in-between soft thuds.
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Creating Space
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Ariel Robbins
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2023
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USA / 2:06 mins
Cal Calamia prepares for his run in the Presidio. As he makes his way through several, iconic San Francisco neighborhoods, he tells an intimate story of his life as a trans runner.
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C-TV (If I tell you I like you ...)
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Eva Egermann,
Cordula Thym
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2023
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Austria / 30 mins
Onscreen, we see wild hamsters with X-ray eyes, a zombie soldier on the telethon phone, a grandiose performance in a song contest, and at the center, a talk show offering an alternative to the heteronormative TV mainstream.
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Cuando vuelva, en verano
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Alberto Prados
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2023
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Spain / 12 mins
Año 1987. Rubén es un niño de diez años que crece jugando a las chapas en el pueblo. Vive junto a sus padres y a su abuela, con la que pasa las tardes. Rosa intenta que su nieto siga siendo un niño y no sea consciente de la dramática situación que se vive en casa y de la que se habla en voz baja.
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Cum As You Are
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Hanna Schaich
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2023
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Germany / 13 mins
Sex can be felt with all senses, naturally with body and mind. All scenes are carried by poetry that sounds like the threat of a new world order, accompanied by metallic-raw music. What if in supposedly individually experienced mental and physical wounds lies the collective energy for resistance? What if we squirt, dance, eat, whip away a society cramped in shame and norms? Or even abolish it? Fasten your seat belts on this horny ride through Wild-Wild-
Witch-Clity-City. And: CUM AS YOU ARE
Trailer... CUM AS YOU ARE TRAILER on Vimeo
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Cupid into Transmutation
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Dexter Boldewijn
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2023
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Netherlands / 13 mins
The edgy and personal graduation film Cupid into Transmutation follows a transgender boy named Caesar living in a big city. On the run from his traumatic past, he tries to make a living as a camboy, until he is suddenly sent into hysteria as his body starts to violently morph and transform beyond all recognition. Follow him in his search for acceptance and identity in this cruel world, focused on normality
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Dale Cooper
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Manuel Marmier
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2023
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France / 4 mins
Like a Dadaist poem: two portraits intertwine, depicting the full or hollow characters of these two homonymous characters: Dale Cooper, the detective and Dale Cooper, the porn actor.
Watch… https://youtu.be/LsiBJyDLeXc?si=HBaUqxmmxV75N5Rv
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Dance Permit (Denied)
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Claudix Vanesix
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2023
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Peru / 10 mins
Claudix Vanesix was born female and now lives as a non-binary trans person. This means it is impossible for them to take part in Los Negritos de Sipsa, a traditional Peruvian dance that is passed down in their family from father to son—thereby excluding them from part of their own culture.
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Darcelle: On Life, Love and Dying
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Christina Carol Dowsett
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2023
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USA / 14 mins
Darcelle, at the age of 91, is the Guinness World Record holder for the oldest working drag queen. On stage Darcelle is harolded as a prominent figure in the Portland, Oregon LGBTQ+ scene but at home Walter Cole is just like anyone else who loves, laughs, and cries. In this short film, friends and family reflect with Darcelle on a long and accomplished life as the end draws near.
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Darlo todo
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Tano Nieto
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2023
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Argentina / 66 mins
“El drag es política pura”, sostiene una de les artistas que protagonizan este documental sobre el arte drag en Argentina a partir del concurso “Miss Lipsync Battle”, que se realiza en el bar Peuteo en el barrio de Palermo. La competencia es un hito de la noche porteña puesto que muches artistas dan allí sus primeros pasos teniendo la oportunidad de compartir escenario con figuras consagradas frente a un público feroz y un jurado de notables. Al mismo tiempo que se registran las distintas etapas del concurso, siguiendo el pulso emocional de cada participante, la película reflexiona y narra una breve historia del drag local, invocando y convocando a figuras que construyeron mitos en la noche. Este registro de la coronación de la Drag 2019 tiene la intimidad y la espectacularidad de la potencia excéntrica y seductora de batallas donde baile y glamour se convierten en una fiesta del vértigo y el deseo.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/RvtM6DQ7WiU?si=mZR6bIlKY3oiafAw
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Day Dream
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Mael Cabaret
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2023
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France / 55 mins
Drag queen in Quebec, Julien becomes DREAM at night. A job of passion. A difficult life. A world that consumes him. For ten years, Julien will try to distance himself from this universe which nevertheless represents his only reason for existing.
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Dealing
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Kendall Alex Payne
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2023
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USA / 12 mins
Dealing is a stoner comedy about a depressed lesbian named Kai, who takes a part-time gig delivering weed, where she is forced to reconnect with humans and learns to love life again.
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Dear Nana
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Han Nguyen
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
In this heartfelt tribute to his late grandmother, a trans man reminisces about growing up queer in a small, conservative town in Vietnam.
Watch… https://youtu.be/8VaTdACtivY?si=4ey4wJPzujDzet8y
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Dena asmatuta dago
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Jone Arriona Lobete
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2023
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Spain / 14 mins
A bathroom with an old aesthetic and pink. In the middle of the bathroom is a bathtub where two young men relax while smoking a joint. As the joint takes effect, they begin to philosophize about the origin and creation of the elements, until the conversation turns to more personal topics
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Denis
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Zoey Black
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2023
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South Africa / 8 mins
Denis is documentary short that focuses on medical and legal issues facing intersex and transgender people in South Africa, and the ongoing human rights struggles that continue to position the community as second class citizens.
We meet Denis Motlatla, who talks through his ongoing struggles with State Departments of Health and Home Affairs, each which had failed him at critical points in his life. Denis’ experience highlights the profound challenges faced by transgender and intersex people when attempting to access basic and crucial civic services. His story is one of overcoming adversity, strength and resilience.
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Devenir Roi
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Manon Selli
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2023
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France / 52 mins
Cha est Drag King : sur scène, velu, grosse voix, gestuelle virile, il s’appelle PowerBeauTom, s’amuse des codes de la masculinité et joue de son personnage pour approcher au plus près de ce qu’il est vraiment, ni homme, ni femme, mais simplement un peu des deux. Assigné femme à la naissance, aujourd’hui s’identifiant comme non-binaire, Cha (23 ans) a beaucoup cheminé pour devenir King, une vie en zig-zags de genre et d’orientations sexuelles. Son père a suivi, sans tout comprendre, mais avec bienveillance. Sa grand-mère a soutenu, comme elle a toujours soutenu les justes causes. Une autre famille est apparue, celle des Kings. Cha s’envole, enfin, et le chante, guitare en main. Mais Cha est-il arrivé à bon port ? La scène Drag King restera-t-elle le seul espace dans lequel il peut se sentir lui-même au quotidien?
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Die Young
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Violet Price
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2023
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USA / 15 mins
A hitman spends his last night on earth wandering around LA and wasting time BS-ing with weirdos.
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Dig Deeper: Ben McKeown
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Mark Street
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2023
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Australia / 55 mins
A deep dive into examining Ben McKeown's connection to his Aboriginality and queerness and how that influences his art leading up to him entering a significant Australian art award.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/796937054
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Dino Hart
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Lizzie Mayes
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2023
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USA / 13 mins
As a Don’t Say Gay bill passes, 12-year-old Dino confronts a surprising truth about their long-lost father.
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Dip
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Luciano Perochena
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2023
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Peru / 7 mins
Trans dancer Denisse witnesses the murder of a sex worker; the chase that follows is portrayed through a stunning voguing choreography.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/wWYWOAx6R2k?si=XQQc8O371OicumtT
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Discipulos de Amor - Luna de Oro
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Wilmer Aburto
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2023
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This short video is inspired by photography series Discípulos de Amor. The portraits from this collection celebrate racialized individuals and all the intersections we represent. Discípulos de Amor photography series aims to create inclusive spaces by bringing visibility and representation to address a history of underrepresentation in media.
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Divas in Dollmation
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Warren Wright
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2023
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30 mins
Cher and Madonna headline the same program. Warrencito’s Diva Dollmatioon showcases some of our favorite female icons but in doll size format. Barbie is back in the spotlight and this program reminds us that she never really left.
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Do I Always Have to Carry My Own Body /
Må jeg alltid bære min egen kropp
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Hedda Virik
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2023
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Norway / 4 mins
A music video of a home shopping hostess struggling to keep her composure as her product fails horribly. She gets washed out to sea, where her deal of the day keeps haunting her.
Watch... https://youtu.be/dU45oLj9ffU?si=5M583SbihE-K95yv
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Don't Break Up Over Text
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Black LGBT+ Plays
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2023
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USA / 17:02 mins
College student, Ricara, makes every attempt to smoke a blunt and get a free meal before midterms, but after her friend, LaTonya, sends a tactless breakup text to their mutual friend, this sticky-icky Saturday proves more icky than any of them expected.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/qKx6QIdcIOU
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Dove Ci Porta Il Vento
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Giuseppe Capudi
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2023
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Italy / 13 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/4Im3S2tH6J0?si=S1n8Dw0OByWjY27c
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Drag You
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Nadia Koro,
Hadrien Daigneault-Roy, Sascha Cowan
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2023
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Canada / 21 mins
An amyl-fuelled reverie where dance meets disco beat dirge for a queer scene being swallowed one new apartment complex at a time. Roy Orbison has never hit this hard.
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Dreaming Bodies /
Traum von Körpern
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Vivian Bausch,
Ella Knorz
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2023
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Germany / 4 mins
It is dark. A body awakens and explores the room. But suddenly the body starts to change…
An experimental short film shot with a thermal imaging camera and written with artificial intelligence.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/814174378
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Echemos a Volar
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Hodei Baile
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2023
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Spain / 23 mins
A día de hoy, la libertad sexual y la autodeterminación de género están castigadas con la detención o la muerte en varios países. El futuro llega en el momento adecuado cuenta la historia de Nelson y su huida a Italia tras una violenta agresión. Nació hace 25 años en Ciudad de Benin, una de las zonas más inestables de Nigeria. En 2018 la comisión territorial que examinó su caso consideró que su testimonio no era suficientemente creíble y rechazó su solicitud de protección internacional. En 2021, Nelson apeló ante el Tribunal de Venecia. A la espera de su veredicto, lo que puede llevar meses, Nelson pasa sus días trabajando, saliendo con amigos y haciendo música, con la esperanza de convertirse algún día en un gran cantante.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/v9Dhq1mPS0I?si=gSN-r1jZLXF47kOh
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Edge /
Skraj
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Edmund Aleksander Krempiński
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2023
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Poland / 18 mins
Based on the true story of Edmund, who deals with various forms of frustration rooted in living as a transgender person in a highly oppressive society. It consists of a series of absurd psychomagical acts leading to the final liberation and allegorical transition into the pearl.
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El Miedo del Adiós
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Luis Antonio Loya Rosas
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2023
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México
Esteban es un chico a punto de graduarse de la preparatoria, él es un chico gay, y está enamorado de Julián, una semanas antes de graduarse él le cuenta a Javier que está enamorado de Julián pero que es demasiado tarde para confesárselo, Javier lo ayuda a razonar que aún no lo es y el decide confesarse a Julián, pero él no se espera para nada la respuesta de Julián.
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El Olvido
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Gabriel Esparza
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2023 |
Spain / 8 mins
En un pueblo de la España vaciada, la ausencia de un hijo que marchó en busca de oportunidades, deja secretos y reproches entre un padre enfermo y una madre que sufre en silencio. |
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El Replicante
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Martín Sichetti
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2023
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Argentina
El Replicante indaga, dentro las convenciones formales del film noir -sobre todo su raíz filosófica- las preguntas sobre la existencia, las maneras múltiples de ser, acerca de los usos de las máscaras y también sobre las estratagemas mediante las cuales nos hacemos invisibles.
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Entredentes
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Daniel Souza Duarte de Sena
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2023
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Brazil / 20 mins
Caio espera seu melhor amigo Hugo para sua despedida antes de uma grande viagem, e aquilo que está suprimido vem à tona essa noite.
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Esteban
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Julián Ulises Peraza May
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2023
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México / 7:51 mins
Bueno, este cortometraje habla de la vida de Esteban un chico que no puede salir del closet, viene de una familia muy religiosa por lo que la ideología de los padres, no van con los gustos y preferencias de Esteban, porque es Gay y no tiene el valor de decirles a sus padres, pero cuenta con el apoyo de su amigo Alex que le dice que el puede y que sus padres lo van a querer tal y como es, la mamá de Esteban desde hace mucho sabe que su hijo es muy diferente por lo que ella sabe que su hijo el gay, esteban al final tiene el valor para decir lo que es y como se siente…
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Et Dans Le Flux, Tu Le Perdras
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Christophe Pellet
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2023
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France / 61 mins
Léo est lassé des reproches de Kaspar qui le pousse à rejoindre les réseaux sociaux pour rendre publique leur histoire d’amour. Leur rupture acte le départ de Léo pour Berlin, une ville dans laquelle il espère renaître au contact d’un milieu alternatif. Mais la ville gagnée par la spéculation immobilière, rejette Léo dans la marge. Des années après, la fille biologique de Kaspar élevée par un couple de femmes, évoque cette histoire d’amour sur une scène de théâtre.
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Et toi tu veux quoi?
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Samia Chougrani
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2023
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France / 2 mins
ala : « Faut que je trouve un mari avant qu’elle ne meure. »
Souad : « Pourquoi ? »
Lala : « Bah, c’est son rêve d’être à mon mariage… »
Watch… https://vimeo.com/668441602
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Et voguent les navigatrices
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Women Collective
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2023
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Canada / 8 mins
Collaborative video designed and realized by six elder lesbian women with the support of artists Sylvaine Chassay, Mathilde Geromin and the support of Suzie Bordeleau, social worker at the CSL. Resulting from a series of cultural mediation workshops, the collective aspect of the narrative is based on the interweaving of the personal stories which, put together, express a collective history of lesbian heritage.
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Eurydice
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Isabella Cintra
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2023
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Brazil / 16 mins
Two girls who once loved each other meet in the field. Throughout the conversation, they go through memories, emotions, sensations, until they can finally let go. The release of a place that no longer belongs to you and that you no longer belong in it.
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Evil Babylon
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Tommy Spaghetteria,
Jeffrey Ray Kieser
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2023
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USA / 22 mins
Evil Babylon is a sacrilegiousx psychosexual science-fiction movie-musical masterpiece. The story of a sexually-repressed evangelical race driver and the cult-like planet that leads him on a journey towards self-acceptance!
Trailer… https://youtu.be/E_MLemOgHdU
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Ex You
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Milina Trišić
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2023
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Serbia / 70 mins
Through the diverse life stories of three transgender individuals, the film poses the question of freedom, understanding, and acceptance in countries torn between traditional principles and aspirations toward the West. Helena is an early retired major, the first military person in Serbia to change her gender. Kamila is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, still hoping transition in Serbia after years of trying. Vuk was baptized in Montenegro as the first transgender person who did not complete transition at that time. His gender transition unexpectedly saved his life.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/794196551
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Exes
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Itay Segal
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2023
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Israel / 20 mins
For some time, Roy has been planning what he would say to his ex when he ran into him. He never imagined that it would happen in his one night stand’s apartment.
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Faire Famille
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Océan Michel
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2023
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France / 90 mins
« Faire Famille » quand on n’est pas dans le schéma traditionnel du couple amoureux hétéro, c’est comment ? Est-ce que deux meilleur.e.s potes qui vivent sur le même palier ça peut devenir une famille ? Océan et sa meilleure amie Sophie-Marie Larrouy vont interroger leur lien d’amitié, leur désir d’enfant et leur capacité à s’engager ensemble, allant à la rencontre de personnes qui ont fait famille « autrement » pour s’en inspirer et inventer leur propre modèle.
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Fallen
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Elena Chamorro
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
Kaiv helps a heartbroken peer, Aline, by revealing an intimate secret.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/jPBvRjTr6XM?si=JGtj2Nd5Zi_0pyUx
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Falling for Greta
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Gustavo Arteaga
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2023
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UK / 11 mins
To doubt is human. To give in, divine. - When love comes knocking Greta's world is turned upside down.
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Fanfarria en Marcha
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Fernando Portabales
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2023
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Argentina / 7:38 mins
La Carroza Loca viene a poner en marcha la fanfarria con un acto de magia que hacemos entre todxs.
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Femme Rage
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Sarah Taborga,
Aïma Paule
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
Femme Rage is a rally cry to all QTBIPOC Femmes, across the gender spectrum, to unleash their rage about living, surviving, and thriving within a cishetero-capitalist-white supremacist-patriarchy.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Nv4dTEvP9Z4
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Ferro’s Bar
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Aline A. Assis,
Fernanda Elias,
Nayla Guerra,
Rita Quadros
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2023
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Brazil / 25 mins
A partir de documentos históricos e entrevistas com lésbicas que viveram e lutaram nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, somos guiadas a um episódio central na formação do movimento lésbico Brazileiro, a “Levante do Ferro’s Bar”, conhecida como “o Stonewall Brazileiro”.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/869258949
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Ficção Suburbana
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Rossandra Leone
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2023
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Brazil / 19 mins
Entre afetos e tensões, o casal Marcela e Camila se relaciona com o cotidiano de suas raízes suburbanas.
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Fighter
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Irasj Asanti
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2023
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Norway / 8 mins
Mansour dreams of becoming a professional MMA fighter - and at the same time he dreams of Andreas.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/794792258
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First X
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Josiah Polhemus
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
Is a groundbreaking short film about two people taking a chance on dating in a post-pandemic world. The story portrays the vulnerability and anticipation of what it was like to experience that once in a lifetime “FIRST”.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/X1tYU_6TrhE?si=ap02AVyP6jsItrGy
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Flare
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Kate Blamire
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2023
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Germany / 27 mins
Flare is a film made in alignment with the tides of artist Kate Blamie's illness and capacities, and is testament to the healing strength of joy, community, and creativity.
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For I Have Sinned
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Juan Javier Aguirre
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
A disturbing past is revealed in a confessional booth.
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For My Brother: The Legacy of Joseph Beam
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Joshua X Miller
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2023
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USA
A short documentary about the life of 80s activist, writer, and poet Joseph F. Beam. On a journey to discover more Beam, filmmaker Joshua X. Miller learns more about himself and how he is continuing the legacy of the past.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/704768522
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Four Pieces on Being Seen
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Hanna Lappalainen
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2023
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Finland / 11:15 mins
A community dance film where participants articulate their experiences on their queer identity and how they would like to be seen.
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Fragmentasia
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Robin Riad
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2023
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Canada / 3:57 mins
An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.
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Freshwater Bees /
Les Abeilles d'eau douce
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Emma Kanouté
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2023 |
Belgium / 8 mins |
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From the Ground With Love
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Julian Konuk
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2023
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UK / 23 mins
What is the relationship between horror and queerness? Between pain and pleasure? Between death and erotics? Between a hole and a grave?
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Funghi Boost
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Bande James Bond
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2023
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Belgium / 12 mins
A strange quest for magical shroomies and extravagant treasures turns into terrific encounters with a mischievous diamond-loving fairy, unscrupulous gremlins and a thundering Vampirella Kinqueen. From desire to desire, how far will the adventure take us?
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Gen
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Vivian Barton
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2023
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UK / 10 mins
A surrealist journey begins on a dark and mysterious night in this metaphorical expression of self discovery and rebirth.
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Gender Euphoria: Trans people in the Bay Area
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Alex Sharp,
Mia Florendo
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2023
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USA / 6:53 mins
A documentary to showcase the lives of the diverse trans community in the SF Bay Area.
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Género Punky
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P4uxxx,
Gabi Pella,
Silvina Suarez
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2023
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Argentina / 5:19 mins
Trailer de videojuego realizado en BITSY, un engine para diseñar en 8- Bits. El juego narra las experiencias que vive Reid, una persona no binaria, en distintos ambientes relacionados a la escena musical y artística. Realizado para la materia Diseño Sonoro de la Especialización en Arte Sonoro, UNTREF. Todos los sonidos son de nuestra autoría.
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Getting Out of the Box
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Karen Rodriguez
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
Rochester comedian and part-time hockey ref, Amy Stephens returns to reffing hockey after her gender transition.
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Gila Goldstein, Cat Feeder
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Yael Bedarshi
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2023
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Israel / 15 mins
Gila Goldstein (1947-2017) was an actress, artist, singer, one of the first activists in the Israeli transgender community and a feeder of stray cats. This movie was shot as a part of a project about people who feed stray cats in Tel-Aviv. Gila agreed to participate under the condition that the movie will be only about cats.
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Gilipollas
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Joan Bentallé,
Pol Diggler
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2023
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Spain / 7 mins
Lolo and Dick meet again after a long time in a friendly bar and they catch up. To the surprise of both, feelings that they thought were forgotten arise again.
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Girl Blunt
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Clementine Narcisse
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
Two young women decide to use their newly found drug-dealing business to get revenge against a conniving man of their past.
Watch… https://youtu.be/I34MnmhIUwM?si=yWRxukWnrN8FkB2o
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Glitter
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Mauricio Sandoval Ron
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2023
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Argentina / 15 mins
The story of Pato, a young drag who lives with his younger brother Tommy, with whom he has a close and warm relationship. Despite this affection, Pato is afraid to show him his world as a drag and to show himself as he really is, so he locks his room when he leaves the house, to prevent Thomy from entering. One night, Pato goes out to perform at a bar, and Tommy embarks on a mission to explore what his brother is hiding in his room to feel closer to him.
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Godmother – Heimathass
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Paul Scheuffler,
Julian Dieterich
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2023
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Germany / 4 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/_aD3TUg1Xsc?si=CTWWz-6GqWFY8zDo
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Good Morning I’m a Whore!
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Aleksandar Mijatovic
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2023
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Germany / 4 mins
“Good Morning I’m a Whore!” is an animated music video parody of the beloved song “Good Morning Baltimore” from the musical “Hairspray.” The video stars the fabulous Drag Queen and sensation, Sherry Vine. In this hilarious and vibrant music video, Sherry Vine takes center stage to celebrate sex positivity and empowerment with a humorous twist, while meeting up with other glamorous Drag Queens, including some familiar faces from the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise.
Watch… https://youtu.be/fNLFMmgfVkA?si=s0CY1tSsmL4SeaLD
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Guilty
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Kate Hummel,
Rosa Stil
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2023
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Netherlands / 16 mins
When a young woman is raped by a colleague, she is not sure if she wants to tell her girlfriend. After all, if she does not put it into words, perhaps it did not happen.
Zana comes home after a party at work. She gets in the shower and scrubs her body in an attempt to rub off the fact she was raped by a male colleague one hour ago. Her hairs still wet, she gets in bed beside her girlfriend Olivia. She decides to say nothing about it and that it never happened.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/4zyYNI7ojgg?si=lATh4c-yuCWcYfTa
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Halves and Doubles
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Adam Mbowe
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2023
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Canada / 15 mins
Adam and her sibling Khadija share unspoken trauma. Traversing a winding road of emotions, they finally find mutual understanding.
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Harpies
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Tom Chetwode-Barton
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2023
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UK / 4 mins
Go inside Europe’s first LGBTQIA+ inclusive strip club and the community reshaping Britain’s sex industry from within.
Watch… https://www.nowness.com/story/harpies
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He-She-Devil
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Martín Sichetti
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2023
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Argentina / 2:30 mins
En clave fantástica, la protagonista se transforma en otra entidad, que posteriormente se fusiona con el cosmos. El video hace referencia a obras que incluyen una intersección particular entre ‘She Devil’ de 1957 y ‘Lost Highway’ de 1997, que sirven como el punto de partida de una narrativa que trasciende esos contextos y se convierte en algo distinto.
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hi ading
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Dinaly Tran
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2023
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Canada / 2 mins
“hi ading” is a poetic short that provides a glimpse into a love story. Speaking to their parents’ past selves, Dinaly asks and hopes that these past versions might help them realise that decisions they may not understand are still made out of love.
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Him/Hair
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Eloi Genrich
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2023
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Netherlands / 18 mins
Two years ago, Eloi shaved off his long, curly hair, and his bald head confronts him with something he had always secretly known: he is not a she. With clippers marking the starting point, a long journey begins. However, what if the final destination seems to keep changing? Or perhaps it doesn’t exist at all? Armed with a camera in his hand, Eloi discovers that he does not have to travel alone. In his chosen family, freedom and friendship reign supreme, providing a safe haven through shared experiences, laughter, and life. Discarding all forms of pigeonholing, the search for self turns out to be not only incredibly bumpy but also simple, loving, and beautiful.
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Hola, Santiago
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Armando Ibañez
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2023
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USA / 10 mins
Santiago, a Mexican queer migrant who lives happily with his husband in San Francisco, receives a message from Angel, an old flame who reveals that he has written to ask for forgiveness. Santiago must now confront the past to reconnect with the first love who he met when he first arrived in the U.S.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/ScGhY9cfNlA?si=VHmXQjs11bdV3vNT
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Home Movies: Pervy Pets
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Mahx Capacity
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2023
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Germany / 5 mins
Pervy pets Manon Praline and Faiska Meloso can’t keep their paws off each other in this hot, gonzo home movie!
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Hormonal
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Maz Murray
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2023
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UK / 12 mins
When three trans people in a small town in Essex get ripped off by their DIY testosterone supplier, they must come together to undertake a daring hormone heist in this working-class, neo-noir flight of fancy.
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Hotel Orfeo
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Julie Helsen,
Benjamin Laureys
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2023
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Belgium
Wanneer zijn vriend in het hospitaal belandt, besluit Oliver een hotelkamer in de buurt te zoeken. Zo strandt de jongeman nietsvermoedend op het bal van de Orfeo, een hotel waar de grandeur van weleer nog nazindert. De kleurrijke hotelgasten zijn vriendelijk, maar het is duidelijk dat ze iets verbergen. Waar blijft het personeel? En wat is er met de lift aan de hand? Oliver beseft al snel dat dit geen avond wordt als een andere. Het is zelfs maar de vraag of hij Hotel Orfeo heelhuids zal verlaten… Met "Hotel Orfeo" brengt Spot On een gloednieuw stuk uit eigen huis met suspense, mysterie en vooral veel humor!
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House of Enigma
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Slade Warnken,
Ying Dai
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2023
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USA / 11:20 mins
“House of Enigma” is a short film exploring gender on an international scale.
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How Pleasure Feels
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Nadav Levy
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2023
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Israel / 12 mins
“The LGBTQ+ person is like an embryo. There is no one to teach them how to survive, there is no one to guide them or direct them on what is right and wrong, how pleasure is supposed to feel.”
This film presents excerpts from my personal life, from childhood memories to maturity – as an analogy for a child who learns the world anew. Accompanied by my friends from the LGBTQ+ community, who tell from their points of view the norms, the challenges and the search for a sense of belonging in the community.
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Hyphen
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May-Lynn Le
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2023
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USA / 19 mins
A second-generation Vietnamese-American teen must navigate the familial challenges of coming out despite being unable to speak the same language as her grandma.
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I Must Trespass
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Charlie Parchment
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2023
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UK / 1.30 mins
A Reflection of Queerness in Rural Spaces.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/819418539
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If There’s No Tomorrow
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An-Ting Ta
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2023
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Taiwan / 17 mins
Two best friends, Mugen and Bingjie, are both re-taking the college entrance exam. As comrades, they understand and support each other’s dreams. On this day, Bingjie, as usual, goes over to Mugen’s house. They soon shift from earnestly preparing for the college interview to having a few drinks and having a heart-to-heart talk, cherishing these final days of their struggle together. However, a secret is unveiled under the influence of alcohol. On this stormy winter night, their relationship begins to falter…
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If You Say
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Yuri Yagibashi
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2023
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Japan / 25 mins
Late-night radio telephone consultation. Tonight's winner is Kotori Kawai, an aspiring actor. The content of the consultation is "Have you ever liked someone you shouldn't like?" At first glance, it should be a common love consultation, but gradually the clouds become suspicious ...
Trailer… https://youtu.be/UOJWBDYcgYM?si=0Pob9b0IVmUMlVHE
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Il Vuoto
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Luca e Davide Marino
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2023
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Italy / 105 mins
Giorgio and Marco come from two different worlds: the first is the son of a rich lawyer, the second struggles to emerge from the outskirts of a city in the deep south. Both dream of overwhelming love and the desire to emancipate burns within them. The same force that attracted them will separate them.
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In the Basement
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Andrew Scot Frink, Claire Sappone
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2023
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USA / 13 mins
A couple tries to salvage their date night while sheltering in place from a supernatural anomaly.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/9aHkVs08p_I
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In The Sea /
J’irai Dans La Mer
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Lola Fauveau Merle
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2023
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France / 11:55 mins
Yuna est en vacances près de la mer. Elle se sou- vient de l’été tourmenté de ses premières règles, 10 ans plus tôt.
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Inky Pinky Ponky
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Damon Fepulea'i, Ramon Tewake
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2023
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New Zealand / 61 mins
When a young fakaleiti falls in love at St Valentine’s Highschool, she must navigate her way through a world of intolerance and bigotry to find happiness - in an unexpected place.
Watch… https://youtu.be/7pLjWgiFGTc?si=IcSc4ubTJ3fDx0Mk
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Inside Out
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Praline Studio
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2023
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Germany / 10 mins
Hold your breath and dive deep into this ritualistic session with Empress Wu and her dirty girl Manon Praline. The Empress stretch Manon’s hole and pierce her skin with needles, until the two femmes melt into each other, moaning in their carnal bath.
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Insta Gay
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Simon Paluck
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2023
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Canada / 12 mins
A millennial Torontonian is left reeling after breaking-up with a popular gay influencer.
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Into the Den
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Lovelight
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2023
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Brazil / 9 mins
After a night out, Lux Foton wanders around the city and mysteriously falls into Cyber and Mika’s den. Drenched in drool and candle wax, the trio plunges into not-so-human sexual delusions. Featuring Lux Foton, Cyber and Mika with a soundtrack by av Brisalicia.
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Into the Next Tide
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Yaya Xi-lin Wang
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2023
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UK / 10 mins
A mysterious castaway is found on the sea shore by a group of musicians and though welcome to play with them, the call of returning to the sea is greater in this lyrical and dreamy animation.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Intothenexttide
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It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
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Rachel Kempf,
Nick Toti
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2023
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USA / 84 mins
This found footage horror film blends fact and fiction from nearly 20 years of archival video. Following a decades-long fascination with the horror genre, a married couple buys an abandoned duplex to use as a location for filming their low-budget scary movie. They soon notice that random strangers are drawn to the old building, but never approach it, merely standing outside and staring at it in a sort of trance. Delighted to find themselves embroiled in a real-life scary story, the two team up with an old friend and put their years of horror expertise, amateur ghost hunting, and paranormal obsession to use in the hope of discovering why this building holds such a strange power over people.
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It Had to Be You
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Juan Barquin,
Trae Delellis
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2023
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USA / 6 mins
A couple reminisces on the wild night on South Beach that kicked off their ten year relationship.
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It’s Nice That You’re Here
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Oriyana Brand
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2023
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Israel / 10 mins
Forteen years old Einav visits her friend Nuri while her parents are away. When Eli, Nuri’s older sister returns earlier from a trip, she disrupts their peaceful harmony, forcing Einav to confront questions about sexuality and what it means to grow up.
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Iyaan Paatta
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Fabin Thomas
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2023
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India
Based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky called ‘White Nights’, the film presents a narrative located in a corner of conservative, traditional India where there is very little room for nonconformity. Amidst it all is the romance of Kalp and Adi, two men who are tied in a relationship that cannot be shared with the world.
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Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag
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Isabella Kaya Walton
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2023
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UK / 12:37 mins
A film about Isabel Adomakoh Young, known as Izzy Aman in the drag world. We witness Isabel become Izzy, but more specifically on this occasion, Bob Ross. Through thrusting, painting and mimicry we witness a gender bending revolutionary performance alongside a candid and powerful conversation about the queer experience.
Trailer available here
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Jakt
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Maria Lundström
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2023
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Sweden / 15 mins
Father and son meet for the annual deer hunt while searching for some connection they never had. A hidden enemy forces them to face a harsh reality that none of them wants to face.
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Jamie’s Pond
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Reid Sandlund
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
A lonely naiad discovers a crying human child at the edge of their pond and tries to cheer him up. They soon discover they have more in common than meets the eye.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/vbiBh3YE85M?si=h6EvtXKbkG0sIZUu
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Job Seeker /
Se Solicita Empleo
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Manuel Vargas Moreno
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2023
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Mexico / 8 mins
"Job Seeker" is a short film that tells the story of a young autistic man in desperate search of employment in a challenging economic environment. The film begins with him wearing borrowed clothes and styling his hair with water from a public fountain before setting out to submit job applications. However, despite his efforts, he is continuously rejected, and his stack of applications becomes smaller and smaller.
Watch… https://filmfreeway.com/JobSeeker614
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JOE (Just Ordinary Everyday)
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Bailey Vo
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2023
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USA / 13:39 mins
JOE is a drama/coming-of-age film about a high school boy's complicated relationship with toxic masculinity, friendship, sexuality, & mental health.
Watch… https://youtu.be/-lubOtWMpWs
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Joy /
Alegría
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Julieta Tetelbaum
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2023
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Argentina / 11 mins
A journey through the mind of a 65-year-old working-class lesbian who's addicted to sugar and can't stop thinking about her ex-girlfriend from youth. She lives with her partner—a mannequin that she’s built to look exactly like her ex.
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Just Friends
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Elle Martinez-Olson
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
One year after their mutual split, former partners Carly and Jade, reconnect over their love of techno music. Jade invites Carly to their favorite nightclub together. Unable to resist her curiosity, Carly agrees. It’s just one night, what could go wrong?
Watch… https://youtu.be/wd4SDydwi3o
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Just Story Hour
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Lu Yao
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
Drag queen Harmonica Sunbeam is an affable storyteller at a time where Drag Story Hour is a source of controversy and protests.
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Kiki House of Vase
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Syrus Sadvandi
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
The Kiki House of Vase is a ballroom house based in Taipei.
This is a group of voguers which attend events called "balls." However, ballroom is more than a space to dance -- it's where queer people can find unconditional support and a family regardless of their orientation or gender identity.
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Kiss All Summer Goodbye
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Tiange Xiang
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2023
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China / 15 mins
A young girl realizes that it is not necessary to have a boy to make her feel like a woman.
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Knowing Mario
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Emili Ema Sedlar
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2023
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Croatia / 36 mins
Mario Lemešić is a Bjelovar based school cook living with HIV. For years, he’s faced homophobia and HIV-related stigma. The film illustrates his struggled, yet the uncoditional love and support from those that surround him in his everyday life.
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Kordovero 22
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Gal Primack
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2023
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Israel / 20 mins
Two men, brought together virtually, grapple with the challenges of forging a deeper connection within the confines of an implausible, predetermined reality.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Kordovero22
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Kylvan, The Deaf Pup /
Kylvan, Le Pup Sourd
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Sylvain Gélinas
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2023
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Canada / 12 mins
Le jeu de chiot dans le BDSM est un jeu de rôle dans lequel les “chiots” se déguisent et se comportent comme des chiens. Kylvan utilise l’humour pour tenter de sensibiliser le public sur la difficulté à trouver sa place dans cette communauté à Montréal en tant que personne malentendante.
bande annonce
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L*** 404 NOT FOUND
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Lyubov Vetrov,
Tanya Levi
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2023
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Russia / 90 mins
In December 2022 the law against so-called “LGBT-propaganda” in commercials, books, film and media officially came into effect in Russia. This has changed the lives of the Russian queer community forever. We meet people from different russian cities who, in spite of the homophobic law, chose to stay in the country.
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La Fonceuse
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Dominique Montesano
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2023
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Canada / 5 mins
The short film “La Fonceuse” is about two queer people, Ratel who is very much in her head, busy reading people and Nisha who is mysteriously familiar with Ratel. The two meet stuck in an escalator which seems infinite.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/N8_u6quB-w0?si=cs3dKgP1WRLuPz_3
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La hija del Diablo
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Elvira Durango
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2023
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Ecuador, Panamá / 5 mins
Ashly vive en un pueblo de Panamá y ha sido campeona tres veces en torneos de fútbol. A pesar de su talento e inteligencia, debe enfrentarse día a día con la discriminación de sus vecinos por ser bisexual.
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La Libertad de Ser Quien Soy
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Nubia Abi Trejo Aguilar
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2023
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México / 6 mins
¿Te has preguntado alguna vez lo que algunos sienten al ser mirados? ¿Qué pasa por sus mentes?, relatar por qué algunas veces es necesario, aceptar y tolerar a los demás, poder estar ahí para los que lo necesitan, entenderlos. Esto nos cuenta esta pequeña historia en la que podemos ver una situación similar a la que pasan estas personas.
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La Pepa
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Claudio Cordero
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2023
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Perú / 29 mins
Relato en primera persona sobre un cineasta peruano radicado en Buenos Aires que conoce a una mujer trans llamada Pepa, un maravilloso personaje que se convierte en protagonista de su proyecto documental. Frente a la cámara, Pepa cuenta su increíble historia de vida, y luego -sin previo aviso- desaparece…
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La place est prise
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Kay Garnellen
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2023
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France / 21 mins
A funny sex afternoon with a couple of surprises.
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Lala Gothicfish
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Angelina Nayyar
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2023
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Canada / 11 mins
Set against the backdrop of a city undergoing rapid gentrification, a Toronto teenager struggles to save a youth rave scene plagued by substance use and over-policing.
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Las Pequeñas Cosas
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German Diaz
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2023
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Perú / 30 mins
Norman y Benjamin, dos peruanos, se reencuentran en Nueva York después de no verse durante años. Las circunstancias los llevarán a quedar encerrados en una casa donde aflorarán sentimientos nuevos y antiguos. ¿Será posible que esta vez logren formar una pareja? ¿O tendrán que huir nuevamente del hilo rojo de su destino?
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Late Bloomers
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Sarah Ahern
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2023
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Ireland / 9 mins
Sue and Ellie share an unspoken love that is gradually transforming into something much deeper, sweeter and more meaningful. Often when we are the ones closest to the truth, we are the very last people to see it.
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Layla
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Noa Li Sitbon
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2023
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Israel / 22 mins
Layla lives in the shadow of her own name (“night” in Hebrew ). She wakes up when the sun sets and everyone goes to sleep. This is where she feels alive, in the silent night. But this silence will soon be broken by the arrival of Pauline into her life.
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Leave Yourself Behind
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Julius Manipul
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2023
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Canada
A Documentary/Fantasy on Transcultural Queer Kinships between love, hate, loss, dreams and memories.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/74x8Dfk8HGA?si=GyFtW-V9xyktWqTp
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Lee Baby
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Leah Raidt
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2023
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USA / 14 mins
Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple.
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Les fleurs du mâle
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Hadi Moussally
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2023
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France, Spain / 4 mins
"The mysterious creature, Salma, realizes that being herself has repercussions on her life and that she will never be accepted as she is. So she decides to ask the creatress of this world for mercy." The film was shot in super 8 in-camera edited. It was inspired by the letter sent by Charles Baudelaire to the Empress Eugenie after being censored and fined for his book "Les fleurs du mal". The reason of the condemnation: offense to public morals and good manners as well as offense to religious morality.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Lesfleursdumale
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Les Terrains Vagues
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Marie-Ève Drolet
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2023
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Canada / 6 mins
A broad conversation about the preconceived models and ideas that impact the way we experience sexuality.
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Lessons of Tolerance /
Arkasha Nepytaliuk
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Edvinas Pukšta
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2023
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Ukraine / 95 mins
Ten uneasy lessons in a tiny apartment in Ukraine. Teacher Nadia launches an EU-funded LGBT+ acceptance programme. A typically intolerant family hesitantly decides to sign up to receive tempting financial supplements. Their task is to spend 24 non-alcoholic days with Vasyl, who is gay but might also be the best friend, long-forgotten relative, good therapist, attentive social worker, or a plumber photographer. Beer-loving mechanic Zenyk, an actress of a never-been theatre Diana, and impatiently aggressive Denys will tame hate and envy. Through amusing games, they will learn about homophobia, equality, empathy, gender discrimination, and self-fulfilment.
A provocatively ironic mosaic of anecdotical sketches gradually forms a continuous labyrinth of black humour, tenderness, and witty sarcasm.
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Liave It
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Jageshwar Ratnakar Dhoble
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2023
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India / 30 mins
It’s about a guy who completely faces two different experiences in a day through a gay dating app. When he met the first guy who treated him like a shit, he used him like tissue paper and threw him out of his house. our protagonists felt completely broken, then suddenly got a message on his dating app about a meeting, when he heard his loving voice and his unique approach, our protagonist decided to meet him. This second guy treated him like a human being, he explained life philosophy through the process of making tea and that is to live in the moment and leave the bad past.
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Lifebuoy
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Rajitha Hettiararchchi, Kavindu Sivarajha
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2023
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Sri Lanka / 19 mins
Two men, a police lifeguard and a server who works for rich tourists at a beachside resort, share a hidden relationship. A beautiful film that explores homosexual relationships amidst a post-colonial backdrop and culture.
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Lines
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Hanna Trofimova
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2023
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Ukraine / 40 mins
Three different stories of people from the Ukrainian LGBT+ community, united by one war line.
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Living Through
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Tsuyoshi SHOJI
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2023
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Japan / 10 mins
This is a documentary film that documented a potluck of middle aged and senior sexual minorities, held at an NPO Purple Hands. Sexual minorities who retire often find themselves in different states of loneliness because of prejudice and inadequacies in laws to protect them. Many feel uncertain about their retirement. The film’s director wanted people to see how happy the Platinum generation live their lives, so that they would have less worries about their future. The director also wants the audience to listen to their stories, and learn that the understanding in society about sexual minorities is changing bit by bit, and that our future is getting better.
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Love is a Pitch
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Hana Hančinová, Michaela Klanicová
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2023
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Slovakia / 2 mins
A group of quirky thirty-something women with questionable skill sets decide to enter a second-tier football league.
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Lucid City /
Cidade Lúcida
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Adrian Stölzle
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2023
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Germany, Portugal / 91 mins
After Mozambique gained its Independence from Portugal, Benvindo Fonseca and his family moved to Lisbon. Only at the age of 16 he started dancing and in short time made it to the emblematic first dancer category of the Gulbenkian Ballet - the first and only black dancer at the time. At the height of his career, he suffered a severe injury and the doctors predicted that he would never be able to dance again. Reviving the memories of a glamorous yet painful past in the spotlight, the constantly latent reminiscences of colonial history are flaring up in the void of the unspeakable.
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LXS Fantasmas De Mi Placard
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Agustina Arrative,
Malena Miniscalco
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2023
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Argentina / 20 mins
Es viernes 13 en Ezpeleta, conurbano bonaerense. Como todos los viernes, Fer, Juja, Pepo y Robi se juntan después del colegio, a ensayar con su incipiente banda de punk. Diferentes conflictos y preocupaciones les impiden avanzar y el ensayo se disuelve entre tensiones. Pepo intenta estudiar pero no logra concentrarse. Juja lidia con el caos familiar. Fer dibuja mientras se pone al día con sus amigues virtuales. Robi piensa en su ex y se da cuenta que necesita de sus amigues. Todes acuden al rescate y juntes se dan cuenta que la amistad es un refugio.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/g_OXFujqExA
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Lying in Bed Alone, Breathing
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Tris Arthur
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2023
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USA
A documentation of and meditation on the internaland external worlds of gender dysphoria, as experienced by, shot by, narrated by, and written out by the subject at the film's core. Audio description and open captions are implemented throughout the film to create a conversation between the typically inaudible and ineligible voices of the queer body and mind.
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M*STURB*TION(S)
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Le Porn Process 3 avec Clac, Loup, Jamie, Passoir.e |
2023 |
Belgium / 16 mins
Hands dive in, experiment, feel, sweat, slide and rub. A narrative with several voices and several bodies telling their own stories.
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Mabuhay: Musical Broadway Dream
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Fernando Dalayoan
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2023
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Philippines
Joseph Sevillo is a dynamic BIPOC, LGBTTQ* artist who reflects on his dreams and motivations in creating a musical production to represent his diverse community of all-cast Filipino performers.
Trailer... Ma-Buhay! Musical Broadway Dream (Trailer) on Vimeo
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Maghreb’s Hope
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Bassem Ben Brahim
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2023
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Tunisia / 24 mins
Through a fusion of drawing, animation techniques, and real-life footage, these artistic portrayals highlight the experiences of queer individuals from the “BIG Maghreb” region, including Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. These individuals have courageously shattered societal taboos surrounding their gender and sexuality, defying legal, social, and familial pressures, even among those who have chosen to distance themselves from their families.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/871287200
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Majack in Candy Cupid
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Mark Janavel
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2023
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USA / 17 mins
A mysterious beach combing drifter in a purple suit named Majack bestows magic candy unto an unsuspecting civilian named May. Told the candy is a love potion, May sprinkles some on the food of her roommate Beth, who subsequently begins to fall in love with May.
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Making "She Kills Monsters"
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Abigail Donkor
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2023
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USA / 15 mins
A behind the scenes look at how students from Paul Duke Stem High School (Norcross, GA) interpreted the controversial play "She Kills Monsters". Several LGBTQ students played various lesbian/gay characters and they discuss in detail the importance of the play (especially in today's political climate) and specific controversial scenes that were not edited out of the play.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/cV_wYkmPehs?si=c9KeYrMAVfz1UkUx
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Making Waves
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Shane O'Callaghan
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2023
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Ireland / 11 mins
This short documentary was filmed over the course of a weekend gathering on the coast of Co.Clare and explores the experiences, uncertainties and joys of life as an LGBTQ+ person in rural Ireland.
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Maman II
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Four Chambers
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2023
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UK / 20 mins
Softness and wetness and opening yourself up. About consuming and feeding, being merged and joined. One consuming the other, both folding into each other, temporarily one.
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Manchas de Sol
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Martha Mariot
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2023
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Brazil / 18 mins
Adriana leva uma vida tranquila depois da aposentadoria com a esposa Paola. A chegada da filha distante, que não sabe sobre seu relacionamento, a faz confrontar sentimentos complicados.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/lvAwaUZ8F2M?si=5Hd6PDyfEIBDU3k-
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Manting
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Shuyao Chen
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2023
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USA / 16 mins
Manting, a mature woman in her early 60s, remeets her childhood sweetheart at the funeral of a schoolmate. The two women continue their encounter, roaming the nocturnal city.
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Maricomio
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Enzo Monzón
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2023
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Argentina, Spain / 20 mins
Angélica siente que la muerte la está rondando y tiene la loca idea de fingir su velorio para confundirla. Pajarito, su mascota humana, la acompaña en todas sus aventuras, siendo su único cómplice. Los amigos, la familia y acreedores asisten, inocentes, a la extraña farsa, pero la muerte no es tan fácil de engañar.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/859123845
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Marta, la musical. Una ópera de Dani Umpi
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Diego Leone
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2023
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Argentina / 36 mins
En 2012, Dani Umpi invito a Diego Leone a hacer una película sobre Marta de la Gente, amiga artista, activista, lesbiana de La Plata. Con ese material Dani hizo una Opera en el Teatro Argentino. Después de varios años, Leone recopiló el material registrado y realizó este documental que reconstruye la realización de Opera, los amores de Marta y esa época platense.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/jBuZ5XFxK-I?si=kDy10jXVy6zh77qx
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Mátria
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Catarina Gonçalves
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2023
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Portugal / 26 mins
A sensory journey to the womb of the island of São Miguel, where Natália Correia, poet, writer and Portuguese deputy, was born exactly 100 years ago. The film, made in her honor, follows three women who embody her spirit through an exploration of the female body at different stages of life.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/809405272
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Massimo
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Matteo Bianchi
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2023
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Italy / 8:57 mins
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Melk
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Niek De Leeuw
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2023
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Netherlands / 4 mins
Melk is a movie about my expectations of being gay. Why do so many people focus on the sex between two men. When you come out of the closet do you have to have a lot of sex with a lot of men or is there still a possibility for a cozy life?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/KQpr9OTxO5I
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Metamorphosis /
Metamorfosi
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Pietro Porporati
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2023
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Italy / 12 mins
Francesco, trapped inside a blossoming female body, harbors a secret he only shares with his mother.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/OAfaNTaykss?si=IlaLkx_x-_pGBwHZ
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Mi Sangre
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Pablo López
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2023
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Spain / 9:27 mins
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Michelle
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Michelle Nou
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2023
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Argentina / 9 mins
Michelle reflexiona sobre su infancia y registra su vivencia en relación con su nueva identidad de género asumida, mientras se prepara para competir en Ballroom, en la categoría Hands Performance.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/zceKguOajn8
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Midnight High Speed
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Yuki Nishio
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2023
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Japan / 22 mins
Trailer… https://youtu.be/CunO1mmEetc?si=tOzQ5f-A9dT3nGvj
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Miss Misery
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Keely Martin
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2023
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USA / 18 mins
After being broken up with by her girlfriend, a willful nineteen year old must recount her past mistakes during a visit with her estranged older sister.
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Mjita Wami
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Anathi Siyungu
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2023
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South Africa / 30 mins
The story follows a young boy name Ziki who is at the park by himself, a boy name Junior by himself having a cigarette caught his attention, just when Ziki was about to light his cigarette, he decides to put his lighter in his pocket and approaches Junior, any excuse to interact with Junior, Ziki ask for a lighter, and after he has received it and lit his cigarette, he begins asking questions just so he doesn’t leave his sight, he invite himself in his seat, and the conversation continues between the two.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/pE6MVyikVI8?si=VMuheRLg29eAL2y7
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Misère sexuelle
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Ingrid Heiderscheidt
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2023
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Belgium, France / 5 mins
A hymn for women to reclaim the streets.
Watch… https://youtu.be/NWRDKVq2sOo?si=19JQmVqyhczc9Ob1
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Mixadxs
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Rose Alves
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2023
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Brazil / 22 mins
A rotina de três DJs na cidade de Fortaleza – Ce – Brazil, responsáveis pela programação musical em bares, restaurantes e festas alternativas, onde desempenham seu papel sem o protagonismo dos clubes mais consagrados ou grandes festivais de música eletrônica. Esses personagens nos mostram a complexidade do universo de Djs, revelando suas rotinas, desafios, expectativas e as dificuldades enfrentadas em um universo repleto de padrões e barreiras como etarismo, transfobia e racismo.
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Moments I Saw in Red
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Penn Balint
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2023
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UK / 2.30 mins
Experimental short shot on 8mm, exploring trauma, PTSD and synaesthesia.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/815764636
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Mommy on Drugs
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David Leo
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
A woman with an addiction to abortions struggles to make ends meet for her next fix.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/948B1hSZVtU?si=x9ju8crIwpQ0Bqkz
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Monitor
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Margo Roe
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2023
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UK / 16 mins
A couple raise a robot baby under observation so that they can receive a license to start a family.
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Moonlit Kiss
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Arthur R Arbetman
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2023
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1 min
A cowboy is in love with the man in the moon.
Watch… https://youtu.be/TCk74Ov69Nk?si=EcuBzv0rAO_fLvdc
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Morning Ode to My Nonbinary Brown King Body
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Leo Aquino
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2023
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USA / 1 min
A poetic and joyful celebration of the queer body.
Watch... https://youtu.be/x_3eF9RFCos?si=AG8SMMttYlMZJRWx
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Morphing Into An/Other
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Zoltán Baráth
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2023
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Slovakia / 5 mins
People from the slovak and hungarian ballroom scene create a safe/r space between their bodies. A place for self exploration and mutual uncovering of one’s self. For them, voguing is one of their main ways of self-expression and connecting with themselves and others. Morphing Into An/Other is about the power in the possibility of being together.
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Mounts Ward the Canoe off
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Shiling Xiong
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2023
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China / 25 mins
Chen Ping takes his boyfriend back to his hometown to visit his sick mother. The conflict between him and his lover reveals the unspeakable contradiction with his mother.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/HtmOYUPRpJE
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Música + Amor + Dança + Sodomia
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Leonardo Menezes,
Rian Córdova
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2023
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Brazil / 76 mins
O filme aborda a melhor idade LGBT+ e o embate entre gerações, a partir das experiências do La Cueva, considerada a boate mais antiga e ainda em atuação da América do Sul.
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Musical Offering /
Una Ofrenda Musical
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Rogelio Navarro
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2023
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Argentina / 21mins
Una ofrenda musical se comporta de la misma manera que una lista de reproducción o una encuesta: hay una serie de canciones, una serie de preguntas. Hay, también, un aniversario que por algún motivo se celebra. Hay un chico que extraña a otro. Hay varias cosas más que -como en las listas de reproducción o en las encuestas- aparecen de modo lineal pero que en la práctica se dan todas juntas, todo el tiempo y tal vez, de a poco, van conformando la idea de algo más grande.
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My Choice
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Inbar Prizant
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2023
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Israel / 14 mins
Reem’s love for football is extremely strong, but because he is transgender, the Football Association is not willing to accept him. The movie tells the story of Reem’s journey and his connection to the football team “Transball” that gave him an opportunity.
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My Heart Is Going to Explode!
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JUNG Inhyuk
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2023
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Korea / 20 mins
After ending a relationship filled with gaslighting, Soojin finds herself feeling conflicted due to the green-haired girl she slept with the previous night while under the influence of alcohol. Amidst the chaotic mess of B-grade humor and clichés, Soojin remains sincere in her love. Even in the midst of complexity, she doesn’t lose her way and races forward, bursting with passion, in this science fiction action romance blockbuster about an alien invasion.
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My Rage Is Underground /
A Minha Raiva é Underground
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Francisca Antunes
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2023
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Portugal / 13 mins
The performer draws a map whilst listening to a composition of city sounds. She creates a new and imagined place where she reflects on trauma and its linking to the city.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/838264321
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My Side of Eyes /
Meu olhar
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Andries Pangestu
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2023
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Indonesia / 21 mins
Yuyun, a drag queen who struggles with self-harm is suddenly attacked by a ghost who makes him slap himself incessantly. However, he still has to carry out a private show devoted to a large family of conglomerates.
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Narciso
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Alejo Duclós
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2023
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Argentina 4:57 mins
Narciso está encerrado en un hotel luego de volver repatriado por la pandemia de Covid19. Desde allí, recuerda sus orígenes.
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Need
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Jonnah Bron
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2023
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Netherlands / 15 mins
A sensual film about a world of sexual freedom and safety. Images, sound and movement coalesce in a luscious choreography. need, a stylish film by Jonnah Bron, is about consent, desire, intimacy and experiment. People wander through various rooms, where they meet, explore and touch one another.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/need446
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Nem Toda Bagunça é Fuá
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coletiva: Oficina Crescendo com a Diversidade
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2023
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Brazil / 10 mins
Crianças de 9 e 10 anos falam sobre as influências da cultura africana no Brazil.
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Never Stop Shouting /
Ne Jamais S’arrêter De Crier
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Abdellah Taia
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2023 |
France /10 mins
L’écrivain et cinéaste Abdellah Taia écrit une lettre à son neveu gay, Brahim, pour l’aider à sortir de la peur, le soutenir, marcher à côté de lui. L’aimer fort. |
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New Threads
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Elspeth Vischer
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2023
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Ireland / 6 mins
Imaginative and informative, New Threads combines archival and contemporary footage of Belfast with firsthand accounts of lesbian lives in the Troubles to imagine invisible queer women in the light of day.
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Nights in the Glitter UnDojo - KAy’s 119th T-shot
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Ann Antidote
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2023
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Germany / 8 mins
KAy Garnellen, a transgender sex worker, gets a special Testo-shot from his friends.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/up8KfjDEmFI?si=8TWjq4uUW8yI_hee
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No Kissing
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Anya Schulman
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
American Anya and British Olivia try to make sense of their relationship but the pandemic gets in their way.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/NoKissing519
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No More Longing
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Connor Lee O’Keefe
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2023
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USA / 16 mins
Seven years after moving from Brazil to California to pursue his love of music and four years after starting testosterone, Jaime Jobim searches for his new voice.
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No puedo tener sexo
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Bel Gatti
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2023
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Argentina / 95 mins
El diario íntimo de Bel niñerx, Bel actxr, Bel hijx, Bel nietx. Desde que se separa de Elvis, su novia drag king, Bel construye este video poema: un diálogo epistolar millenial que a su vez es su gran selfie. Bel conversa con Juana, la bebé que cuida y aprende a hablar. Se reencuentra con sus dildos y se transforma en Sandro. Convoca a su terapeuta, a su corrosiva madre que también es actriz y a un actor drag queen poseído por el mismísimo Andy Warhol. Bel ensaya un beso en la vida real, otro más en la ficción; se sumerge en un infinito de performances que también son duelos y su más catártico acto de fe. Aunque no puede tener sexo, Bel cree que a través de esta película sí lo va a lograr.
Trailer... No puedo tener sexo - #LINK / FIDBA on Vimeo
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Not All Boys Look the Same
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Felix Arlo Conroy
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2023
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USA / 5 mins
This is a coming of age story about a young trans boy, who struggles to come to terms with the way he looks, but with the help of friends and trans content creators, he realizes that he is FTM and starts his journey of self-acceptance.
Watch... https://youtu.be/szeIRJ3-dI0?si=vuCQ9iskfx4HHx5-
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Not Close Enough to You
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Lea Haufler
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2023
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Germany / 3:47 mins
Paula and Hannah have been for a long time friends. For Paula will it at some point become more. And for Hannah?
Watch… https://youtu.be/xHwOdQygnA8?si=1X0IPKVxcuCDYrCg
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Nymphaea
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Jenna Heil
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
Nymphaea is a short film that follows an unexpected and magical turn of events at a summer camp, when a lifeguard discovers a mysterious and beautiful creature in the lake while rescuing a camper.
Watch… https://youtu.be/K51WWdMuOj0?si=niqHv_2NcExj4gXm
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Ode
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Diego Lisboa
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2023
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Brazil / 15 mins
After his father puts up a wall between them due to non-acceptance of his sexuality, Ornir becomes the victim of a hate crime and his last breath of life is trapped in a birthday balloon.
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Offering
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Idan Ohana,
Rotem Plitman
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2023
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Israel / 11 mins
Idan, Dor and Rotem gather for a spontaneous ceremony around the fire. It was Idan’s idea, Dor found the place and Rotem brought a camera – you are witnessing the outcome.
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Oikonomia
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Elora Thevenet,
Octave Lauret
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2023
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France /17 mins
Oikonomia, au nom de l’eau: Dans une dimension parallèle, aux êtres non binaires, une guerre éclate entre les pilleurs blancs à l’œil écarlate et les gardiens de l’eau.
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Olivia
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Francisco José Gallego Expósito
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2023
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Spain / 10 mins
Olivia, a transgender girl, packs her bags to go to town on the eve of the San Juan festival. In an intimate conversation with her mother, she will question the doubts that torment her about her decision to meet her friends at the beach, being a girl for the first time.
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OMOS
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Rhys Hollis
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2023
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UK / 20mins
In a 1594 performance for King James VI, an unnamed Black performer replaced the originally planned live lion, pulling a chariot through the hall. OMOS is a mystical retelling, an homage to many Black performers known to have entertained the Scottish court.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/OMOS531
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Onde Está Mymye Mastroiagnne?
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Biarritzzz
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2023
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Brazil / 17 mins
Uma misteriosa e extravagante cabeleireira perde uma amiga em um metaverso repleto de casas noturnas e seres encantados. Para procurá-la e desvendar o desaparecimento, ela consegue a ajuda de uma outra amiga, enquanto conta suas histórias como strippers que ganharam muito dinheiro até ela desaparecer.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/8jkcJg2e9Cc?si=SFHbJTXdwulBWwcr
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Open Dialogues: Queer Allies
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Freddy Rodriguez
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2023
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USA / 25 mins
Open Dialogues: Queer Allies features the stories and lived experiences of people who identify as LGBTQ+ (Queer) and those who love and support them. Through deeply moving interviews and performances that represent a diverse range of allyship perspectives, Queer Allies illustrates the power of human empathy to change lives. With a performance by Dance Now! Miami and a reading by Terry Dyer from his book, Letters to a Gay Black Boy.
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 Open Up
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Amanda Maddocks
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2023
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USA / 12 mins
After drunkenly sending her best friend a love letter, a closeted high school graduate embarks on a frantic mission to get it back. But is it too late?
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orgy#004: Fuck Your Friends
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Mahx Capacity
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2023
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Germany / 16 mins
Friends that play together, stay together. While getting ready to go out to a play party, Dulce (they/she), Dee (they/he), Oran (they/he), and Priestex (they) can’t help but wonder, “…are there going to be any other Black people there?” Opting for the hotness of a four-way friend fuck, the foursome plays show-and-tell with their favorite toys and end up riding, fucking, beating, sucking, and worshipping each other all evening long. Everyone gets their wishes (and holes) filled…and then some!
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Os Finais de Domingo
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Olavo Júnior
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2023
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Brazil / 9 mins
Domingos, um idoso com a saúde frágil, segue sua rotina solitária em uma tarde de domingo, até que recebe a visita de um amor do passado.
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Our / Their Parade
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Gwendolyn Collins
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2023
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10 mins
A seemingly perfect romance of a queer couple is put to the test when the annual ghost parade comes to town.
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Our Porch
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Zoe Fuller
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2023
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USA / 15 mins
When three roommates discuss their relationships on an autumn night, an abrupt outburst might let outside pressures disrupt their familial safety.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/30RXz7CerwQ?si=3OT5tP9cjqudlV9L
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Out&Proud: a transman’s story
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Mhie Nzima
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2023
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Zimbabwe / 14 mins
“What does a man really make you? The clothes you wear, the beard on your face or muscles on your body?” The voices and struggles of four activists3 against the injustices and discrimination suffered by trans and non-binary people in Zimbabwe. An invitation to know, defend and support the rights of queer subjectivities and to overcome gender stereotypes.
Watch… https://youtu.be/5y6R_jMJvGM?si=lQHU9V0AKrc5j1VO
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Pamela
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Marina Carrasco,
Daniel Muchiut
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2023
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Argentina / 60 mins
Pamela es peluquera, chivilcoyana, contadora de anécdotas inagotable, amiga, compañera, hija, esposa y mujer trans. Este documental nos relata su mundo en primera persona, transitando el camino hacia la aceptación de su familia, sus vecinos y su comunidad. Desde que era una niña en los años ́70 y jugaba con su amiga del barrio a las muñecas e iba al mercado vestida de mujer, pasando por su adolescencia donde comienza a juntarse con sus compañeras en la casa de sus padres, antes de ir al baile, porque era ahí donde podían ser quienes eran; hasta su cambio de DNI, su casamiento y su presente. ¿Cómo y por qué nos asombra su vida? Estas preguntas quedan instaladas desde el principio hasta el final del film.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/859833079
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Particles
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Piano Particles
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2023
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Germany / 3 mins
Creates a shimmering musical kaleidoscope, combining orchestra and pop into a colorful cosmos of sound.
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Passion of X
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Camille Ora-Nicole Elston
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2023
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USA / 18 mins
Passion of X is a visual poetry anthology highlighting the joy, freedom and expanded understanding of being a trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer person of color. It is made up of five parts, each featuring an original poem created by trans, genderqueer, and/or nonbinary writers. Each part delivers the message through a different medium: animation, photography, narrative film, dance, and performance.
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PDV (Punto De Vista)
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Hedonistas
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2023
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Argentina / 6 mins
Velva no consigue dormirse y busca a una webcamer para que la acompañe en su insomnio. En la oscuridad de su habitación, encuentra una trasmisión en vivo: una mujer recostada, casi sin ropa, se toca en su pantalla. Luego de acabar con ella, Velva consigue finalmente dormirse.
Watch… https://filmfreeway.com/PDV
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Pedro y Héctor
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Lucas Martinelli
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2023
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Argentina / 5 mins
Pedro y Héctor se conocen un día. Pueden volver a verse, o no. Lo importante es sentir el sol.
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Peixe Vivo
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Bob Yang,
Frederico Evaristo
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2023
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Brazil / 12 mins
Junior aguarda a chegada de sua boia para que possa finalmente entrar na piscina.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/880504104
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Peixe Vivos
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Bru Fotin,
Bob Yang,
Frederico Evaristo |
2023 |
Brazil / 16 mins
Thamirys e Raphael acompanham as filmagens do curta-metragem “Peixe Vivo”, protagonizado por seus filhos Agatha e Gustavo — duas crianças trans de 8 anos.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/880504803 |
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Perfect Flowers of the Scum Generation
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Wilde Davis
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2023
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USA / 18 mins
A queer triptych following a clan of revolutionary femmes inspired to cause chaos by their hatred of this butch hustler named Hollywood. It’s an experiment in degradation, the film degrades and decomposes as it progresses until it bleaches and burns to ruin. It’s a practice of cinema as magick.
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Personality Under Construction /
Ličnost u izgradnji
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Bruno Lovrenčić
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2023
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Croatia / 11 mins
As an actress prepares to step onto the stage, she delves deep into her subconsciousness. She begins to question her own past and reflects on her relationship with a friend, a connection that served as the foundation for the monodrama she is about to perform.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/xTr_reJkYVM?si=JtqzXlnB-2el9c5H
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Piece by Piece /
Stück für Stück
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Reza Rasouli
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2023
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Austria / 9 mins
Two teenage friends stroll around the neighborhood, simply passing the time together, but piece by piece new perspectives and identities are revealed.
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Pineapple
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Sophie Saville
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2023
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Australia / 15 mins
Imagine all the pressures of starting a new school, and now add some further challenges – all the students are from different cultural and language backgrounds, have fled from conflict zones with their families and are at the mercy of pending asylum claims. At this Red Cross school in Denmark, each child has a harrowing tale of adversity and survival. The teacher, Dorte, becomes a champion for the children, etching a safe and nurturing space for them amidst otherwise turbulent existences. AT HOME IN THE WORLD is an intimate and engaging film that provides a vital addition to the global conversation on the current refugee crisis.
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Pipás
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Lili Tóth
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2023
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Hungary / 9 mins
The notorious assassin is haunted by the murder victims and memories of when he himself was a victim of abuse.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/812064155
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Pirenopolinda
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Izzi Vitório,
Tita Maravilha,
Bruno Victor
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2023
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Brazil / 24 mins
In Pirenópolis, Goiás, the Celebration of the Divine has been taking place for 200 years. Tita was born in the small town and has precious memories of the party. Years later, the transvestite multi-artist intends to rebuild and re-traditionalise the party under an affective decolonial bias.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/wFat5aqN5pU?si=qYh1JTxcNtZUmK3_
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Pista
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hiperlinque
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2023
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Brazil / 14 mins
Climax is different! Ledah and Clemix activate the sounds that groove José, Larissa and Luxúria in a seductive dance that transforms the dance floor into a sensual space of lust and affection.
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Playout
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Alessandro Toscano,
Fabrizio Nacciareti
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2023
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Italy / 22 mins
PLAYOUT is a short documentary which, starting from the experience of its five protagonists, takes us inside the team which presents itself not only as a tool for access to sport, but also as a political means for the entire transgender community to claim its identity and all rights denied.
Trailer... PLAYOUT | Trailer sub eng on Vimeo
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Please, God, Heal Her
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Tzlil Golov
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2023
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Israel / 16 mins
Ruth, a religious married woman “in the closet”, undergoes conversion therapy and prays for a miracle which will heal her heart from her love for a neighbor, a religious woman cello player. What happens when God forces her to confront her passion at a decisive holy moment?
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Polyethylene Terephthalate
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Hinata Asai
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2023
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Japan / 15 mins
Ryo and Kaoru recently graduated from university. During a party, they recognize their feelings for one another. The two start dating, although they hide their relationship from family and friends. Initially, their romance goes smoothly. Ryo and Kaoru move in together, creating many special memories.
Watch… https://youtu.be/L9wXYhgFC9s?si=wFKPzocMxVI9pGIz
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Pool
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Sophia Hochedlinger
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2023
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Austria / 20 mins
Two unlike groups of friends meet in a billiard pub and seem to get along at first, until Katharina confronts one of the bar's regulars.
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Pour Exister
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Fabien Lecorre,
Kelsi Phung
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2023
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France / 2 mins
Le plaidoyer vibrant d’une génération de personnes trans et non-binaires pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits.
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Power
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Josh Taylor
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2023
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USA / 12:09 mins
The life of a high schooler in rural Arkansas is uprooted when he discovers that his best friends outed him to his high school as trans.
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Pre-Op Liminality
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Ileana Lam
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2023
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USA / 2 mins
This stream of consciousness animated short explores emotions before and after top surgery.
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Prends-moi dans les bois
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Bande James Bond
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2023
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Belgium / 4 mins
A silky roman-photo through forest, winter and warm nymph mysteries.
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Present Body /
Corpo Presente
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Leonardo Barcelos
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2023
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Brazil / 78 mins
‘PRESENT BODY’ investigates the body as a form of art, expression and identity, creating a contemporary portrait of the possibilities of the body. We closely follow the character's journey, in a kind of subjective diary written on the skin, she registers sensations and reflections, seeking to find and understand her language, as well as that of other performance artists, who lead us to other bodies and other stories. The multiple bodies that make up the documentary are political bodies that create and propose new universes, signaling new ways of being in the world, translating contemporary society in all its complexity.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/PresentBody264
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Pressure Makes Diamonds
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Stephanie Schleicher
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2023
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USA
Do you ever think maybe you ‘‘made it’’ years ago and just didn’t realize it?
When all the other kids in Port Chester, NY went outside to play after school, young Anthony Valbiro raced to his basement rec room…to grab a microphone, turn on the reel-to-reel and croon his heart out. In this film, based on an autobiographical one-man play of the same name, Anthony draws us into the “quest for fame” that was his 1960s childhood. Along the way, we ponder questions about how the people who raise us shape us, what constitutes “success” and at what cost do we pursue our deepest dream.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Idpzsw8qVmg?si=Kus34vzMJKF0hbGS
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Public Displays of Affection
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Callum Roome
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2023
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UK / 9:49 mins
A short documentary exploring the experiences and opinions LGBTQ+ people have about publicly displaying their love for their partners.
Watch… https://youtu.be/lU9NCLwPe3w
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Puma
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Jonangelo Molinari
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2023
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Brazil / 4 mins
A portrait of Puma Camille, the Brazilian capoeirista taking voguing into new explorations in movement.
Watch… https://www.nowness.com/series/they-call-me/puma
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PUP
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Sarawut Intaraprom
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2023
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Thailand / 95 mins
"Note" is a middle-aged man who is lucky enough to have a good-looking younger boyfriend named "Jean." However, he later discovered that he has a sexual preference for BDSM, specifically pup play. Note doesn't want to break up with Jean, but he can't stop himself from wanting to be a dog. He often secretly plays with a Master without letting his lover know. However, things are not as easy as he thought they would be.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/PUP736
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Quando eu cheguei
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Romy Huber
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2023
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Brazil / 6 mins
Um arquivo vivo diz que, na praça por detrás da igreja mais antiga da cidade, havia encontros de sapatões e um busto de uma mulher num monólito.
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Queer Embodiment
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Jon Aagaard Gao
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2023
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Sweden / 15 mins
(as in embodying experiences, as in being gay, do queer, take care, as in creating queer film history without whites with dreads)
The idea actually started in frustration with all the whites with dreads I saw in Queer Moving History – part 2 and then I started digging in my own QMH archives and guess what – there were no whites with dreads!
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Queer Fire
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Clyde Petersen
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2023
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USA / 2 mins
What are the extremes you will pursue to fulfil your desires? Will they push you beyond the capacity of your mortal body?
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Queer Glauben
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Madeleine Corbat
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2023
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Switzerland / 59 mins
Stefanie Arnold ist lesbisch, bekennende Feministin, gläubig und vielleicht bald Priesterin. Als Christkatholikin kann sie das. Doch wird sie es am Ende auch? Wie kämpfen andere queere Menschen wie Ari oder Mentari für ihren Platz in der Kirche? Finden Menschen, die anders fühlen und lieben, überhaupt Platz in jahrhundertealten Strukturen in Kirche und Gesellschaft?
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Queeroslavia
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Marija Cupric
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2023
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Serbia / 6 mins
Where is queer culture hidden in Yugoslav cinema? A critical look into the shaping of queer representation in this region. It was always present but in what way and how visibly. Now these motifs and characters are brought into the light so they can finally be seen and appreciated.
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Queerying Nature
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Aline Magrez
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2023
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Belgium / 66 mins
Poètes et interprètes, éthologues et biologistes : la myriade de perspectives qui donnent voix à la recherche scientifique de ce documentaire pour curieux·ses d’esprit reflète à merveille l’inventivité et l’expérimentation sans fin de la nature. Stimulant par sa foison d’informations, ce film révèle comment toute la biodiversité est animée par l’esprit queer de l’évolution.
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Quiero Ser Tu Madre Eba
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Guerrero Robles
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2023
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Spain / 13 mins
Un ensayo de humor ácido muy sentido y crítico sobre la obsesión por lo biológico, el ciclo perpetuado de madres a hijas y las cuestiones cotidianas de la vida que nos hace necesitar alcanzar la maternidad.
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Quitter Chouchou
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Lucie Demange
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2023
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France / 28 mins
Holidays spent at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful.
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Recuerdos del Ayer
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Brandon Catalán
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2023
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Spain
Juan is a teenager who is sexually attracted to his friend Jeremy, but he is not entirely sure about his sexual orientation, undecided he turns to a psychologist who will help him find out who he really is. Juan had several problems with his brother who heard him whispering in his room that he was gay, the brother did not take it well, this event makes it reach the ears of his father, Juan turns to his girlfriend, because of his attitude and nervousness decides to confess his attraction to men, his girlfriend who does not take it in a good way leaves frustrated and heartbroken. Juan, having the world against him, decides to put an end to his life.
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Reflection of the Cranes
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Juan Ballesteros
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2023
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Venezuela
Lucia, a 45-year-old woman, leads a routine life in her roadside inn, when one day Amelia, a young traveler trying to find part of her past in some local waterfalls, shows up at her reception. When an immediate attraction arises between them, the insecurities of one and the fears of the other will hinder the contact between them. It is only through a game of reflexes that one will be able to approach the vulnerabilities of the other.
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Reflejos En Un Acto Luis
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Enrique Pacheco Arias
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2023
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Chile / 19 mins
Julián, a young Chilean, feels affected by the homophobic crime of a teenager while reliving this sad and stormy situation in his own flesh, receiving continuous threats that lead him to a tragic end.
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Retaguardia Marica Juan
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Ernesto Artuñedo
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2023
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Spain / 3 mins
36 people linked to the LGTBIQ+ community are mobilizing to defend our rights, which are gradually being weakened by far-right policies.
Watch… https://youtu.be/_Gr6a3Rj-dQ?si=uVnO5gSQAIL3CP2J
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Retrieval Loop
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Thomas Ellis
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2023
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UK / 2:34 mins
Through movement, the film dissects feelings of anger, separation, courtship and reunification. The two male characters perform dance of rejection, wooing, lust and tenderness; even pushing the boundaries of gravity itself.
Watch... ‘Retrieval Loop’ by Thomas Humble Ellis (2023) on Vimeo
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Return to Ombabika
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Ma-Nee Chacaby, Shayne Ehman,
Zoe Gordon
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2023
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Canada / 22 mins
A delicately realized meditation on family history, legacy, and colonization that follows activist, artist, and Two Spirit Oji-Cree elder Ma-Nee Chacaby on their journey home to Ombabika, Ontario.
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Ring Around the Orchard
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Adar Leventer
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2023
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Israel / 8 mins
Avner, an old man haunted by his past, returns to the orchard where everything happened. Memory ensues and Avner is transported back to the day he left his best friend Bezik amidst the orange trees.
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Río
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Matías Herrera Córdoba
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2023
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Argentina / 16 mins
Ale is 16 years old and lives with her mother in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina. Her only friend in town is Diana, a 40-year-old trans girl. Ale gets her hopes up by chatting on a dating app with a man who has been with her for more than 20 years. Is he her mother’s friend? Growing up never ceases to be both painful and pleasurable.
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Riopelle Was Non-Binary
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Aimé Majeau Beauchamp
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2023
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Canada / 6 mins
Through a fictional dialogue with Jean Paul Riopelle, this experimental film updates the painter’s heritage by seeking to build bridges with today’s generation. Between a tribute and a self-portrait, Riopelle was non-binary is above all an intimate reflection on the courage to be oneself.
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Road to Theobald /
Camino a Theobald
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Ricky Piterbarg
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2023
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Argentina / 15 mins
While waiting for roadside assistance, Ernesto distracts himself by reading a comic book on a famous torero’s queer romance. A psychic offers him a past life reading which will unleash in him the drive needed to start a sentimental affair with the town’s mechanic.
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Romy & Laure...
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Romy Alizée,
Laure Giappiconi
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2023
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France / 19 mins
After years of love, Romy & Laure face a major issue: boredom. Fortunately, every Saturday night, they go to the movies! That Saturday, a mysterious film will change the course of their lives and question their certainties . Is the key to happiness really on the other side of the screen?
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Roses
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Coral Knights
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2023
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UK
Rosa’s evening plans take a unexpected turn and she finds herself wasting time in her small Cornish town while her daughter occupies her house for a friends only 18th do.
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Rural Butch Femme Rap
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Krissy Mahan
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2023
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USA / 3:50 mins
In this short, humorous animation, a working class, rural lesbian couple happily plan their upcoming date night, in an ode to the joys of queers living with the land. Sung to the tune of 2008’s “(You Can Have) Whatever You Like” by T.I.
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Sainte Sultana
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Rita Moll
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2023
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France / 25 mins
Mado, a fierce pistolera, travels the roads of a wild country, a Provençal Wild West, on her bicycle, flanked by her two faithful acolytes. She is entrusted with a new mission: to escort Eisabèu, who has just murdered her husband, on a last pilgrimage where the widow will pray for her victim’s soul.
Mado, farouche pistolera, parcourt à vélo les routes d’un pays sauvage, un far west provençal, flanquée de ses deux fidèles acolytes. Elle se voit confier une nouvelle mission : escorter Eisabèu, qui vient d’assassiner son mari, pour un dernier pèlerinage où la veuve priera pour l’âme de sa victime. Prières et repentances faites, Mado devra exécuter Eisabèu.
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Sam and the Universe
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Alicia Ramirez
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2023
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USA / 13 mins
Sam and The Universe is a queer sci-fi film about a non-binary person named Sam who goes on a birthday trip with friends, despite hating their birthday. The film explores mental health, friendship, and the experience of feeling alienated even around the people that love you the most.
Trailer... Sam and The Universe Trailer on Vimeo
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Same Old Lang Syne
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Zack Paslay
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2023
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USA / 6 mins
Two men nearing 30 reconnect by happenstance on Christmas Eve.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/gACr_CTVbAQ?si=KnO9I71e_wu27dgF
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Sanai
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Akanchha Karki
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2023
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Nepal / 14 mins
Two teenage girls separated by the caste system fight against society to play their favorite instrument Sanai, forbidden to be played by women, while also keeping their friendship alive.
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Sandcastle
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Idan Argov
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2023
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Israel / 7 mins
In the middle of his fitness training, Dor’s imagination sweeps him into other realms – between fantasy of liberated sexuality and normative family life. A meeting with a child raises the possibility of creating his own alternative way of leaving.
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Sangre Mía
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Isabel Rosales
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2023
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Mexico
Valeria y Ximena son dos niñas criadas en una familia repleta de mujeres. Con 10 años, Valeria próximamente comenzará a menstruar; no sabe cuándo, pero sí sabe cómo será. Acompañada de la historia de su madre, abuela y tías, el documental explora cómo una niña rompe con una historia generacional llena detabúes y estigmas en torno a la menstruación.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/n6Nw1bF33lY?si=vGe-jjPUOzFBRmMq
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Sapir’s Story
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Sapir Mishell
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2023
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Israel / 11 mins
In the film, I tell about the process I did in my life, my gender transition. How it all started, how I felt, how it progressed and where I am today.
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Save the Last Dance for Me
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Noah Dolinsky
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2023
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Israel / 25 mins
Two young women cross paths as they each try to chase after their dreams. The friendship that develops leads them to re-evaluate their lives.
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Say No to Craft
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David Lawrence
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2023
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Australia / 17 mins
Billy’s therapist recommends he dip his toe into the world of arts and crafts; naturally, it sends him to hell.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/SayNoToCraft
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Scaffold
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Billy Klotsa
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2023
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UK / 11 mins
Fragments of bereavement and collapsing love appear in an isolated house between the land and the sea. Death arrives. The landscape shivers. What holds us close in moments of rupture?
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Scaffold586
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Scorpion Grass
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Jamie Chi
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2023
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Hong Kong / 17 mins
A chance encounter between Yan Yan, a local lesbian and Rosario, a migrant from the Philippines, brings back memories of a romance which Rosario has buried for many years.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/nQyQPvFFLlM?si=JaCrvpVXjV1dbCU6
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Scouts Honor
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Benett Holgerson
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
In this documentary and meditation on trans sisterhood, two tight-knit roommates (Mila and Fenyx) get ready for their night out. As they inject hormones, bicker, put on makeup, and smoke a little too much weed, we get an intimate glimpse into their loving, yet flawed relationship.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/796361994
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Scratch That
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Yaniv Lavi
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2023
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Israel / 19 mins
Since his boyfriend left him, Yotam hasn’t slept alone. He developed an obsession for dating apps and spends his nights in the arms of strangers. One day he discovers he’s been infected with an insufferable skin disease and realizes he’s got no choice but to stop his way of living for a while. His journey into the midst of his first night alone will find him and his obsession in very dark and itchy places.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/8_KJVDf3PF0?si=Z0MbXQY5k7oZI1p9
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Se Não Posso Dançar, Esta Não É a Minha Revolução
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Lillah Halla
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2023
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Brazil, Germany / 23 mins
Qual canção mais representa este momento da sua vida? Em seis retratos, protagonistas se encontram com uma câmera-espelho, nos oferecendo uma dança tão íntima como o mundo que as rodeia.
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Se Saprai Starmi Vicino
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Patrizia Lazzari
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2023
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Italy / 13 mins
Anna lives suffering from Matilde’s absence. Memories, dreams, visions overlap, eliminate the boundary between reality and fantasy, transform absence into presence. The memories of a happy past full of shared projects contrast with the desolate silence and solitude of the present. The narrative does not follow a sequence of events but accompanies Anna on her journey within herself, telling a story of emotions rather than facts.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/7hPDQvVWffk?si=nULeEFZ0KaOZ7l03
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Sebastien Delage - Dale Cooper
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Manuel Marmier
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2023
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France / 4 mins
Comme un poème dadaïste: deux portraits s’entremêlent, mettant en scène les personnages pleins ou en creux de ces deux personnages homonymes : Dale Cooper, le détective et Dale Cooper, l’acteur porno.
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Section 28 and Me
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Tom Marshman,
Paul Blakemore,
Sam Halmarack
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2023
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UK / 8.30 mins
Exploring the lasting impact of Section 28.
Watch… https://youtu.be/VWcaoCEy5Ck
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Seeking Arrangement
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Quinn Cavin,
Roberto Rodriguez
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2023
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USA / 9 mins
Danny, a young Mexican-American wrestling with his sexuality, is desperate for twenty-five dollars for a mysterious Craigslist arrangement. Standing in his way is his conservative mother, clouded by her concerns for what her son is up to. As Danny pursues the elusive arrangement, he finds himself navigating a deeper journey of self-acceptance and identity.
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Sehnsucht in Mir
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Julian Wonn
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2023
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Germany / 10 mins
Dita Rita Scholl has been an actor and pioneer of queer performance art since the 1970s. Having experienced frequent rejection throughout life, Rita developed a strong longing for physical and emotional touch. This short documentary provides intimate insight into the search for human connection and how this endless hunger can be satisfied through tantric rituals.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/870014033
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Seven Inches
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Yen-Chu Chen
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2023
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Taiwan / 6 mins
Two men discover being fooled by each other on a hook-up date.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Ez8tjQ3H5Ig?si=BIuIzG9kIx9RHnxo
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Shadi
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Moria Rabbani
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2023
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Israel / 9 mins
Nervous and desperate after being kicked out of her apartment, Shadi takes to the lonesome streets of Tel Aviv, looking for a place to call home.
Trailer... SHADI TEASER on Vimeo
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Shall We Talk?
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Yi-Shen Kang
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2023
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Taiwan / 28 mins
I grew up in a broken family, which was fragmented due to my father’s emotional violence. Communication conflicts between my parents affected me and my brother under the same roof. During my upbringing, the four of us in the family became more distant and were unable to communicate properly with each other. As I grew older, I explored my gender identity, but found it difficult to balance my identification with my original family, so I decided to face why my family became like this. With the help of a camera, I opened up my own heart and the hearts of my family members, and found a way for each of us to express ourselves.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/nwz1w2q9L0I?si=AbQr0WFm-RrpxSFs
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Shee
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Lia Campbell
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2023
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UK / 10 mins
Shee and Magnus deal with the aftermath of an unplanned pregnancy in a country where same-sex couples face significant barriers to parenthood.
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Shideh
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Nazanin Vahed
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2023
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Iran / 14 mins
A young barber boy who is interested in one of his clients decides to reveal this interest and faces challenges along the way.
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shifting bodies to fluid fiction
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Daniela Gutmann
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2023
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Austria / 3 mins
Sensual Super 8 interventions reimagine the body as an abstracted landscape, adrift of conventional associations.
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Shred
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Giovanna Trujillo
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2023
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USA / 12 mins
A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in Southern California. In their local skate community, they find cathartic release, chosen family and mastery of empowerment.
Trailer... SHRED, 2023 Documentary/Creative Non-Fiction Finalist on Vimeo
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Siniestro
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Canción Diez
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2023
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México
Un joven llega a su departamento para hacer sus tareas frente a la computadora en una tranquila tarde que se verá interrumpida por una serie de sucesos terroríficos que acabarán con la armonía que impera en su hogar.
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Sir Valence Presents: Watching U
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Sir Valence (Aka G Yi)
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2023
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USA / 5 mins
Log into the hellish Zoomscape of drag dæmon, Sir Valence, and their concussed/concursed post-police brutality exorcism of the masks we wear and the selves we’ve sold to surveillance capitalism.
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Sissy
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Caleb Harwood,
Simon Paluck
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2023
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Canada / 10 mins
An intimate exploration of a child and father navigating grief through gender expression.
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Sixteen
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Tammy Leviav
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2023
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Israel / 5 mins
Two high school friends who study in the same class, once close friends but now distant, find themselves locked together on the porch and forced to spend time together. But was this an unexpected situation or a deliberate one?
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Skin To Skin Talks
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Pradeep Mahadeshwar
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2023
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Ireland / 12 mins
'The dark skin alien landed in the unknown, unfamiliar and unique landscape from the infinite darkness…' Completed as part of the artist's residency at IMMA, Skin To Skin Talks explores themes of alienation, otherness and outsiderness using abstract imagery, prose and sensation-invoking techniques to reflect on the intersections of race and sexuality.
Watch... ‘Skin To Skin Talks’ by Pradeep Mahadeshwar (2023) on Vimeo
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Slam, from heroin to meth /
Slam, Del Caballo a La Tina
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David Pascual
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2023
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Spain / 67 mins
The scourge of the 21st century that is taking many people ahead every weekend. A global health problem with testimonials from addicts and professionals in prevention and psychology programs.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/slamfromherointometh
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Snugglzs - Occupy All Sheets
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Alex Armao
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
"Occupy All Sheets" is the first music video written and directed by Pittsburgh, PA-based singer/musician/producer Snugglzs. Featuring a cast of over 20 musicians and performers from Pittsburgh's queer underground arts scene, the video sees the song's author moving through many different sets and personas before coming to a punishing end.
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Soft Bwoi
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Danny Bailey,
Alizée Ndiaye
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2023
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UK / 6 mins
SOFT BWOI is a short art/experimental film that explores the existence of black males in our society and the restrictive parameters in which they have been given to survive in. Through the creative lens of yardie, dancehall and sound system culture, the film is for black men to observe the negative stereotypes that are associated with them and the toxic traits they have prescribed to. Angling for our community to self define what it means to be black and male by inviting vulnerability and the divine feminine to discover SOFT BWOI.
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Sol de Invierno
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Ivan Rafael Cruz Figueroa
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2023
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México / 60 mins
On New Year’s Eve, Nahúm faces the rude awakening of heartbreak. Between parties and casual encounters, he wanders the streets of a city where winter is everything but cold.
En la víspera del fin de año, Nahúm se enfrenta al crudo desperar del desamor. Entre fiestas y encuentros casuales, recorre las calles de una ciudad donde el Invierno es todo, menos frío.
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Spell for a Queer Home
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Amanda Madden
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2023
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USA / 40 mins
Director Amanda Madden offers this spacious and beautifully made film as “a spell to conjure a sense of queer home for myself, my community and the collective – to know that we are enough, that we were never meant to do this alone, that queer home is possible, radical, and happening.”
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/812154600
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Stalking athens
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Officer Flower
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2023
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Germany / 11 mins
A Berlin tourist visits Athens. Breaking into an abandoned stadium, they witness the aftertaste of the Olympic Games 2004. After years of desertion, the stadium hosts again a sporty encounter.
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Staying Single is Surrendering to Your Ego
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Tzlil Golov
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2023
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Israel / 8 mins
A young lesbian girl, a student at the girls’ seminary in Safed, studies Torah and undergoes conversion therapy in an attempt to change her sexual orientation and establish a holy Jewish family.
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Steal Your Girl
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Kitty Richardson
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2023
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UK / 4:25 mins
In this music video, a heart-broken, queer young woman is pining for the love of a straight girl who is in a relationship with a good-for-nothing man.
Watch… https://youtu.be/IsE_VyWxkzI
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Stonewall Postal Action Network
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Sarah Elizabeth Drummond
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2023
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UK / 12 mins
Austin Allen ran one of the UK's largest postal LGBT action networks from his bedroom in the 1990s.
Stonewall Postal Action Network (SPAN), is a short documentary, telling the story of Austin's activism, his letter writing campaign and the packing up of his life work for an archive as he contemplates his legacy from his new home in rural Wales.
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Storm’s Show
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Teodora Đorđević,
Milica Marković,
Ana Bašić
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2023
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Serbia / 19 mins
Stefan is an employee of the Leoni factory in Kraljevo, where he works every day, except Sundays. On Sundays, Storm, his alter ego and drag persona, comes to life. Storm isn’t afraid to be who she is: fierce, brave, confident, everything that Stefan is weak at. We follow Stefan during his transformation into Storm, as well as their performance, while he introduces us to what it means to be Storm and what the life of a drag artist in Serbia looks like.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Stormsshow
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Strange
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Ken OCHIAI
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2023
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Japan / 15 mins
One evening a shy suburban Tokyo high school student, Odeko, meets a tearful Kuma dressed in drag in a park.
As their earnest friendship develops, Kuma’s struggle to live confidently with himself changes Odeko’s timidity as well.
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Strass
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Julián Lassa Ortiz
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2023
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Argentina / 7 mins
One night Tomás and his boyfriend Piter hide in the bathroom of a run down bar after being attacked on the street. Locked there they feel safe but the tranquility is soon interrupted by a mysterious shadow that Tomás must face.
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Sujanth Ravichandran
Fluid Forms
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Juli Sophie Strobeck
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2023
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Germany / 17 mins
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Summer Within
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Summer Minerva,
Adam Golub
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2023
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USA / 83 mins
Summer Minerva, an independent researcher, multidisciplinary artist, public speaker, and educator from Staten Island takes us on a journey to southern Italy to connect with her ancestry. On this journey she discovers the Femminielli, an ancient folkloric 3rd gender, and those who are keeping the Femminielli traditions alive and well in Napoli. Life affirming community and power is found in this identity existing and being accepted for centuries.
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Sunday's Child
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Vanessa Nicholson
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2023
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USA
A female martial artist who supports herself through sex work comes face to face with a violent challenge on the way to an underground fight. Upon arriving home and confiding in the one person she trusts, her girlfriend Reanne, Sunday is faced with a series of flashbacks and internal conflicts as she tries to reconcile her identity as a fighter, sex worker and now a victim of aggravated assault.
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Sweet Green
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Phillip Vernon
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
A couple on the rocks hopes a simple night out at the movies will smooth things over, but things get dicey when they're hangry and running late.
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T4T
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Emily M Van Loan
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2023 |
USA / 3 mins
Trans folks find comfort, joy, and a new level of intimacy in each other's arms.
"T4T" is a term within the queer community for trans folks who seek relationships with other trans folks.
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Take Me There
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Elliot Slade
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2023
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USA / 21 mins
A night of dating, romance, and love in San Francisco.
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TEL.1717-1771
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JO Yunji
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2023
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Korea / 28 mins
Anna lived a lonely life until she received a phone call that led her to meet Noa, her meant to be partner. At first, it seems like they are equally happy, but as time passed, their temperatures as lovers begin to diverge. This film is like a melancholic and sad essay for those who experience the feeling of being in love, particularly those who feel more passionate than the other. Although set in summer, the directing powerfully evokes the feel of a cold winter in every scene.
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Test Sequence
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Anne Golden
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2023
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Canada / 5 mins
Un remix de sons et d’images issus des archives Prelinger qui expose la technologie et les machines.
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The Angel
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Dorian Wood
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2023
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USA / 18 mins
This heady sex positive exploration of intimacy, self fulfillment and the pursuit of pleasure is an embodiment of queer magic via an interweave of sex-positive rituals.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/pmLLJ8Fxmws?si=lefYlZkKhjBZlR90
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The Appearances by Ass /
La apariencia por el culo
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Carlos Cara
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2023
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Spain / 8 mins
What would happen if Erik lost that armor called toxic masculinity?
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The Art of Making Simple Complicated
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Karla Enriqueta Noriega,
Maria Jose Noriega
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2023
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Mexico / 15 mins
Makos, a full grown adult, is visited by her mother from Mexico. She has to decide if it is time to come out of the closet, after almost 30 years in secrecy.
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The Barman’s Daughter
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Shawna Virago
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
Experimental Music Video.
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The Boat Is My Friend /
Le Bateau Est Mon Ami
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Edouard Trefert
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2023
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France / 10 mins
In 1831, on a british merchant ship, James Franklin dies from a sea accident and leaves behind his lover, Tom.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/845724889
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The Book /
El Libro
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Cristian Cabrera
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2023
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Argentina / 5.30 mins
In Buenos Aires in 1985, Tomás, a fifteen-year-old student, took a prohibited book from the school library. Now, her mother, Mariana Montiel, is face to face with the school director. The biggest problem is not the book. But the possibility that Gonzalo, the young man's teacher, has encouraged him to take it. Why would he encourage him to take it? For the school director there are dangerous books, and especially dangerous teachers. But for Mariana, Gonzalo is the person who provides the greatest support for her son and his possible sexual inclination.
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The Character /
Le Personaje
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Samuel Gonzalez |
2023 |
Chile / 22 mins
David is given the role of the transvestite in the annual school play. As he prepares for the role, bullying becomes his main enemy. |
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The Dancer
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Ryon Horne,
Tyson Horne |
2023 |
USA
The compelling story of Gerard Alexander, a professional modern and ballet dancer whose life held incredible promise before he ended up homeless in Atlanta.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/QccIL6UL2bQ?si=whR1OvBlTtIMNz4v |
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The Dinner /
La Cena
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Jesús Martínez “Nota”
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2023
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Spain
There are some issues which cannot be left for later! A recently out son shares some awkward and unexpectedly hilarious moments at dinner with his parents.
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The Electric /
Les Electriques
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Joy Feldman
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2023
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France / 2:51 mins
The date ends with coffee at his apartment. There Suzanne unexpectedly meets his sister Florence, and suddenly everything is different.
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The Feels - An LGBTQ+ Short Film
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Destiny Jackson
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2023
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USA / 19 mins
A pessimistic college student gets paired with her crush for an assignment and finds the courage to tell her how she feels with the help of her enthusiastic best friend.
Watch... https://youtu.be/TPthWthqA2o?si=JAhemVwig8qXvGtQ
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The Flag
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Miha Mohorič
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2023
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Slovenia / 48 mins
Every year in Ljubljana, during the Pride Parade, we hang big rainbow flag from the Ljubljana castle tower. Each colour symbolizes a different component of the LGBTIQ+ identity, all of which illustrate the diversity of the LGBTIQ+ community. Film shows eight individuals, through their personal stories and the attitude of LGBTIQ+ people towards the flag.
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The Hanky
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Ramses Rodstein
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2023
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USA / 9:48 mins
The Hanky brings together two handsome strangers together for a sizzling and spontaneous hookup.
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The King Dreams the King
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Will Aitken
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2023
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Canada / 5 mins
Un ancien roi met tant de temps à construire son palais qu’il devient son mausolée. Il se souvient de sa vie, des jours froids, d’autres plus chauds, de son désir inextinguible de pouvoir… de son insatiable désir tout court.
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The Last Lesbian Library
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Christina Isabel Rodriguez de Conte
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
The dystopian film imagines a time in the way too near future when LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights have been radically altered and the younger queer generation no longer has access to the wisdom of the elders that came before. This short film follows two baby dykes as they search for the elusive "Lesbian Baby Making Recipe" and the hope for a queer future.
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The Lesbian Darkroom Fisting Operetta on Venus
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Lasse Långström & The Homosex Syndicate of Precarious Avant Garde Artists
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2023
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Sweden / 10 mins
From a feature erotic fantasy musical under production.
The angels have given the Captain of the Sea Butches the holy assignment to travel to a lesbian bar on Venus to get hold of the strongest vibrator in the whole universe – the weapon needed in the fight to destroy the tall tower of the evil gentrifiers. But to get to the vibrator she first has to offer her hands to the two terrifying and tempting Tentacle Femmes, and they just invited her to the darkroom…
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The Lesbian Valley /
Den lesbiske dalen
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Marin Håskjold,
Christa Barlinn Korvald,
Io Sivertsen
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2023
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Norway / 5 mins
Sliteneliten's music video about the Lesbian Valley.
Watch... Sliteneliten - Den lesbiske dalen (musikkvideo) on Vimeo
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The Little Piratemaid
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Luke Beatrice
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2023
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3 mins
The Little Piratemaid is about what it’s like to discover yourself as a trans person in a cis-normative world—even if that world is one of pirates and mermaids! This short film focuses on the moments of realization, the initial stages of transition, and the courage it takes for a little pirate girl to simply be herself.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/iS9XeEwa5tA?si=RQETcmmp0HHJQ514
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The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eisenstein
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Mark Rappaport
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2023
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USA / 27 mins
What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Garbo and Sergei Michajlovič Eisenstein, could have declared their love for each other? The world's most famous actress, an honorary Russian citizen of cinema for her many performances; the world's most radical director, who could have immortalized her face in one of his famous close-ups? Sphinx Garbo did not want to be alone: she just wanted to marry the great Sergei. Perhaps she could have played Trotsky or Pancho Villa in one of his films. Perhaps their friends Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and Josef von Sternberg would have approved their love. Maybe they could have had a child together. Maybe all this could still have happened, in a Mark Rappaport film.
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The Pathway to the Goats
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Marta Orlando, Clémentine Roy
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2023
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Germany / 9 mins
Water, nature, sexualities, and alternative codes of communication.
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The Sea is a Woman
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Tom Talisman Zuta
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2023
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Israel / 8 mins
Mazu, a young, emotionally detached woman, embarks on a journey around town, seeking to physically reconnect with her body. As she feels her body in the sea waves, she discovers new layers of different sensations as well.
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The Secret Lives of Lesbians’ Cats
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Kate Jessop
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2023
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UK / 1.30 mins
How do exasperated felines escape from their humans’ relationship dramas?
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The Treadmill Switcher
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LeeAnne Lowry
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
A woman walks on the same treadmill every day becomes fascinated by a person with a unique workout routine, until the person switches treadmills and runs directly next to her.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/PdTNICSguxs
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The Undetectable Wrestler
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Jeremy Word
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2023
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USA / 27 mins
Joshua Simmons retired from professional wrestling after testing HIV+. 7 years later, after maintaining his HIV+ undetectable status, he decides to enter the ring professionally again. This short film shows Joshua's journey, struggles and his relentless path towards redemption.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/ZxcwBB8ERZo?si=Z2SFR2RmmMxlimNS
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The Way
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Odeya Laske
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2023
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Israel / 7 minds
A part of a course on documentary journals in Bezalel Academy. This film talks about self-acceptance in the face of a family that does not accept, a personal and exciting journey with the same camera that photographed me as a child.
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The Wisper of Freedom
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Anna Ahaliieva
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2023
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Slovakia / 16 mins
The plot of the film takes place in the 80s of the last century in Czechoslovakia. The story shows the necessity of hiding the love between two women, which would have been unacceptable to society at that time. Certain circumstances force two protagonists to keep their shared feelings a secret and adapt to a "traditional" life, which is against what their hearts feel.
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Their Own Life /
Leaving Life /
Uit ‘T Leven
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Tim Dekkers
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2023
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Netherlands / 80 mins
The LGBTQ+ community has long struggled with the “scourge” of suicide. Data from the Dutch crisis hotline - 113 Suicide prevention - show that nearly half of all LGBTQ+ adults in the Netherlands have entertained suicidal thoughts at some point in their lives, a figure five times higher than that for the country’s adult population in general. The number of people who have actually attempted suicide is four times higher than average. For transgender people, the figures are even more shocking.
Yet within the rainbow community as a whole, the topic of suicide still seems to be taboo. The filmmakers want to break down this taboo. For the past two years, they have been following three individuals as each of them went through a jet-black period. Will they manage to get their lives back on track? Can they set an example for others in mental distress?
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There Are Things to Do
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Mike Syers
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2023
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USA / 18 mins
Urvashi Vaid, an outspoken immigrant, lesbian and woman of color was an LGBTQ+ superhero who believed in human rights for all people and helped shape the modern day gay rights movement.
Trailer... THERE ARE THINGS TO DO (trailer) on Vimeo
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Three Attempts of Love
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Idan Rubin
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2023
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Israel / 10 mins
Kobi and Oron got married in the city hall in New York, realized that they had a lot of love to give and a real desire for a future generation, and thus found themselves embarking on a journey towards their destination, becoming parents.
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Throckadacia
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Blake Lucius Griffey
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2023
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USA / 13 mins
Sterling and his co-host begin filming their variety talk show as usual, when an unexpected visitor arrives. The man at the door is Sterling’s ex-lover, flowers in hand. But the show must go on.
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Tidy Bed
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Danilo Bastos Godoy
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2023
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Portugal, Germany, Brazil / 15 mins
Is it possible to identify the ghosts of our past? In a remote beach house, a young man must deal with his own family who hides his older cousin's suicide attempt.
Watch... https://filmfreeway.com/TidyBed
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Till This Morning
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Anna Maria Hawa
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2023
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Israel / 7 mins
Hoping to “introduce” her partner to her father, Yasmin brings her partner, Lena, to her father’s grave where she finds herself spiraling into a whirlwind of emotions.
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Toda Noite Estarei Lá
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Tati Franklin
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2023
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Brazil / 72 mins
Impedida de frequentar o culto de sua preferência, Mel não desiste de professar a sua fé. Toda noite, ela prepara cartazes e os leva para a porta da igreja, à espera do dia que poderá voltar a entrar. Ao longo de anos marcados pela ascensão de um governo ultraconservador e pelas dificuldades trazidas por uma inesperada pandemia, o documentário acompanha a luta da cabeleireira transexual por fazer valer o seu direito constitucional à liberdade religiosa.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/881192023
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Todo Sobre Ti
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Joselyn Martinez Zapata
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2023
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México / 5 mins
Elizabeth no es aceptada por su madre debido a su orientación sexual sin embargo para ella lo único importante en su vida es su pareja sentimental llamada sara.
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Tony&Denise: Cinematic Memoir of Denise D'Anne
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Brian J Favorite
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2023
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USA / 26 mins
This 26-minute experimental documentary film tells the life of pioneering transgender labor activist Denise D’Anne.
Left in a Brooklyn orphanage, then foster care, followed by a reluctant return to his mother, Tony Albanese grew up confused and lonely. Having endured harassment in the army, then ten years as an executive secretary for the Southern Pacific Railroad, Tony decides, in 1968, to realign his gender identity and to start anew in San Francisco. Now Denise D'Anne, she commits her life to furthering labor causes, sexual and gender freedom, and a multitude of women and environmental issues, including the launch of one of the first organized recycling programs through her work with the San Francisco Department of Human Services and city government.
Based on Denise's autobiography, GOING THE DISTANCE: THE LIFE OF DENISE D'ANNE, this film is a cinematic-memoir-love-letter about a gender-feminist-social-environmental-justice pioneer and narrated in her own words.
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Tous Ces Gens, Toda Esa Gente
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Billy Joly
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2023
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Argentina / 35 mins
En un viaje de regreso a Europa, lleno de emotividad y nostalgia, mi padre y yo nos reencontramos con todas aquellas personas que, a lo largo del tiempo, han ido conformando nuestra familia elegida. Toda esa gente, somos las personas en quienes mi padre, Stef, indudablemente, ha dejado una huella.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/1jb7NuAng-A
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Toxico
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François Zabaleta
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2023 |
France / 66 mins
Ce sont les derniers mois de la vie d’un homme. Quentin Debeaumont. Soixante-et-un ans. Écrivain célèbre et célébré. Il vit une passion amoureuse et sexuelle telle qu’il n’en a jamais vécue avec un homme de soixante-six ans, Pavel Rădulescu, un ouvrier d’origine roumaine devenu chef d’entreprise, adepte de la lutte gréco-romaine. Celui-ci d’abord refuse ses avances. Il est bisexuel ou homosexuel, la question n’est jamais tranchée. Il finit par les accepter mais sous une forme insolite, ritualisée.
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Transa y fronteira, ensaio sobre imágenes sidosas
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Nico Luna |
2023 |
Argentina, Brasil / 12 mins
En una bitácora de imágenes y sonidos, un joven HIV+ relata su vivencia en la frontera entre Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay
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Transformación
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Manuel Alejandro Castillo
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2023
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Perú / 14 mins
Óscar, un joven dibujante, se encuentra en un limbo en su vida en cuanto a su sexualidad y la falta de inspiración para su futuro cómic. En este camino de dudas, conoce a Petra, su amor platónico, quien le ayudará a concluir su propia historia.
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Transit
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Jiz Lee,
Vanniall
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2023
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USA / 4:57 mins
Hotel guests discover a room for two…
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Transliterar la muerte – Acto I
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Francisco Gonzalez Cholaky,
Gabrielle Caucota
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2023
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Argentina / 10:47 mins
Gaba es una artista trans no binaria de la ciudad de Córdoba. En un contexto post-pandémico y de re-despertar cultural en la ciudad, reflexiona a través de la música y de la performance sobre la herida de su pasado y la construcción de nuevas identidades en la actualidad.
Watch… https://youtu.be/dpuodh0ewN4?si=NuLNO5ePiXjV7PXa
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Transmission: Lisa Stephen Friday
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Emma Underwood
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2023
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USA / 7 mins
A transgender glam rocker must overcome her struggle of self-acceptance to share her story, a story of hard fought, hard won self-actualization and power in order to preserve an important part of transgender history.
Watch... Transmission: Lisa Stephen Friday on Vimeo
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Travessias
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Ana Graziela Aguiar
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2023
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Brazil, Cuba, / 22 mins
Uma carta de amor que une Brazil e Cuba. Uma viagem para entender os sentimentos e transformações passadas por uma pessoa próxima. Justin, um homem trans, auxiliará nesta travessia.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/870884207
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Twin Sparks
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Ollie Yao,
Heather Yun
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
When a forest child’s inner fire spirit breaks loose, they frantically try to catch it before damage is done. Inspired by co-director Ollie Yao’s experience growing up trans, this is a beautiful tale of radical self-acceptance.
Trailer... Twin Sparks - Official Trailer on Vimeo
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Two Souls
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Myat Noe
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2023
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Myanmar / 21 mins
Two gay lovers, now living as political refugees from Myanmar (Burma) in a Thai border town reunite. But the scars and traumas of their experiences under military coup in their native country, as well as changing sentiments, challenge their relationship.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/TwoSouls271
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Two Stories of Dublin, Queer
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Alan Power
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2023
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Ireland / 6 mins
Two individuals share their personal stories about living in Queer Dublin through a series of voice messages and snapshots of 35mm black and white film photography, capturing the essence and experience of the city, its people and their stories.
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Uma Tarde Pra Tirar Retrato
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André Sandino Costa
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2023
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Brazil / 42 mins
Três amigos marcam um encontro com a crença de que uma sessão fotográfica diminuiria a saudade e fortaleceria o apoio mútuo em um momento dramático do convívio em sociedade. Márcio Januário, Carlos Oxalá e José Roberto Pacheco, homens negros, gays acima de cinquenta anos, são os protagonistas dessa história. Trailer... https://youtu.be/KQEAgrY9cv8?si=iFUU0EYtWac9WrEi
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Una amiga
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Marta Matute
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2023
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Spain / 24 mins
Lucía takes Paloma to her family’s country house for the first time. During the weekend, Rubén, Lucía’s brother, unexpectedly turns up with his boyfriend. As Lucía does not publicly accept her sexual condition, Paloma is forced to pretend, once again, that they are just friends.
Trailer... UNA AMIGA - Trailer on Vimeo
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Unnamed
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Iranmehr Salimi
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2023
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Iran / 13 mins
Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition, but in addition to her family’s opposition and the society’s inappropriate view of this issue, she has more difficulties. There is something more important to come. Zainab, who played in the country’s national volleyball team for a while and is now in the Bartar league, realizes that if she does this, she will be removed from professional volleyball forever due to her short stature compared to men, and not only will she lose her professional future, but also her livelihood and her family, who under her care, will be in trouble.
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UnNamed
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Ehud Mordehay
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2023
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Israel / 60 mins
01.08.2009: An armed man bursts into the “BarNoar”, an LGBTQ youth club, and opens fire. The bullet that hit me, turned my life upside down. 13 years later – I embark on a journey where I revisit old wounds, deal with the trauma and talk with my family for the first time about that evening and the secrets revealed in its wake.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/fqv1vy0tRG0?si=R6Z9PjlvWLCchWRV
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Untitled, Michael
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Adam Zvi
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2023
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Israel / 9 mins
Michael, a young trans man, is positive he’s gotten a divine order from an angel that came to him at the Western Wall and commanded him to live as a man.
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Unveiling the Rainbow: Long Beach Pride's 40 Year Evolution
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Breanna Finch
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2023
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USA
A local documentary about the history of Long Beach Pride!
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Up in the Wind
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Haoyuan Yang
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2023
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China / 10 mins
In the face of his homosexual identity, the passing away of a loved one, and the changes in his surroundings, Yang holds up his camera to try to find a way out, despite his confusion, frustration, and anxiety.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/QGv9_wwpl4w?si=llRLQJoY8thOj6Hk
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Vagary
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Ross G. Hewitt
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2023
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USA / 2 mins
Through the remembrance of a dream, a teenage boy discovers his attraction to a male college student.
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Vale of Summer
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Ari Sells
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
Trans and nonbinary best friends Cole (transgender YouTube star Ryan Jacobs Flores) and Asterid (Sol Joun) wrestle with goodbyes during their final summer camping trip together. Vale of Summer is an honest and refreshing ode to queer-trans friendship and self-determination.
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Vapor Trails
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Willow Skye-Biggs
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2023
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USA / 11 mins
It is 1997 amidst the backdrop of distant violence. Two displaced trans-lesbian lovers find transcendence through connection.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/daUSa85vshU?si=K_cPxZcfRclhJfgi
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Venus
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Bar Fedelman
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2023
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Israel / 9 mins
The film depicts a delusional chase through the streets of Tel Aviv after a successful drag performance by the film’s hero David when he is raped by a fan. David, a well-known drag artist, feels lonely without his home and family. He feels disconnected from his body and in particular from his sexual orientation. The film follows the dark hallucinations he experiences, and the desire for some kind of intimacy even if it means risking his life.
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Vestido de mujer
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Dalila Real
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2023
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Argentina / 5:35 mins
El título de una noticia sobre un travesticidio decía: «Vestido de mujer para morir de amor.»
La frase inspiró una canción y posteriormente este video. Por el derecho a ser quienes somos, a elegir nuestra identidad.
Watch… https://youtu.be/VpMnLF7C1Zs?si=_wD5ZHAATu6q6t4S
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Videotrash
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Nicolás Alvarez,
Joaquín Ostrovsky
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2023
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Argentina / 10 mins
Economía circular audiovisual. Serie de video ensayo sobre el archivo-basural de los gif que explota lo queer subyacente en cada desecho cultural acumulado en la nube gris del capitalismo digital.
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Violet Purge
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Yannis Do Couto
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2023
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France / 16 mins
While a comet is about to put an end to humanity, Adée wants to bring Mélo to the Violet Purges, the last part before the end of the world; Mélo wants to save Adée by taking her to the Bunker. The two will set out together, in the grip of their anxieties and their desires.
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Visions of Acid /
Visions d’Acide
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Laurens Saint-Gaudens
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2023
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France / 10 mins
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Voces Amigas
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Canción Diez
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2023
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México
Por años la comunidad LGBTIQ+ ha luchado en contra de la discriminación que sufre en diferentes ámbitos de la sociedad, pero pocas veces se ha hecho una introspección para ver qué es lo que realmente sucede en el interior de la misma comunidad.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/RPTU_UwVVBo?si=GoZw6U4jdcFz-mLG
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Volver a Bailar
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Pamela Simeone
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2023
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Chile / 10:48 mins
Después de haber terminado su relación debido a la distancia, Camila llama a Javiera en su cumpleaños, con la intención de saber si existe la posibilidad de volver a estar juntas.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/8z2ukk6w9EY?si=i9Otn5j9fjyEnJEJ
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Volver a Lobos
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Julia Lucesole,
Bel Gatti
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2023
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Argentina / 14:26 mins
Una noche de verano se produce un azaroso reencuentro de un grupo de amigues en su pueblo natal. Mientras recorren las calles vacías, se proponen refundar el lugar y ensayan intentos. El pueblo nunca fue territorio para las disidencias, pero ahora elles vuelven para vivir en comunidad y lo lograrán.
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Vorāre
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Ella Sombre Pedro Duro
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2023
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France / 10 mins
A merger of flavours in this double menu, seasoned with a splash of BDSM, creates a hybrid physicality in which pleasure and desire develop freely.
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Vreemdelingen
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Rishi Chamman
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2023
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Netherlands / 14 mins
Hindustani Milan develops feelings for Syrian refugee Ahmed.
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Wait Your Turn
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João Carvalho
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2023
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Germany / 14 mins
A young man tries to bear with his intense menstrual pains while stuck in the waiting room of an administration. He feels exposed, until his own gaze takes over the screen, turning his need for pleasure and care into a common cause, a collective fantasy. Wait Your Turn is an invitation inside the subjective perspective of a trans man navigating pleasure and pain in public space.
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Watching You Without Me
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Lia Danon
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2023
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Israel / 15 mins
A story of friendship between two girls, each of whom deals with the difficulties of being a woman. As they attempt to correct the patriarchal reality in which they live, their friendship begins to cross boundaries between sisterhood and sexual attraction.
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We are the Earth
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Zoé Rose
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2023
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France / 5 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/6OIiukwQ8D4?si=DULlgK8zuNCX3twX
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We Are the Future /
Nós Somos o Amanhã
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Luffe Steffen
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2023
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Brazil / 113 mins
The 80s. A group of students face discrimination at school. Separated by their differences, they try to survive bullying, pursued by ethnic, gender, sexuality, physical shape, behavior issues. Until one day, music teacher and futurist Clara Celeste lands to show that everything can be different. By experiencing empowerment, such characters come together and are finally able to live their identities with freedom. But the school, normativity and the monster of conservatism are watching. Can our heroes win the battle against bigotry?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/prelL7ysMwI?si=HTvqeBZe836Ov6QT
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Wedding March
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Amir Cohen
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2023
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Israel / 4 mins
A chance encounter between two young guys in the park creates a romantic opportunity, a potential for love. Many temptations whisper around. Will it finally be a successful match? Or just another passing moment?
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Wegen Hegel
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Popo Fan
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2023
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Germany / 14 mins
Philosophy student Ping’s plan to have a socially distanced hookup mid-pandemic is derailed by a particular book.
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Well Read
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Emily Friedman,
Tori V Bennett
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
Celebrating both literacy and queerness, the video for Well Read playfully explores the notion of sapiosexuality - the attraction to someone based on intellect rather than gender expression.
Watch… https://youtu.be/voNW_BzICm0?si=OEpZ_Ca8WMhigL39
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What Became of David Burkett?
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Duane Michals
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2023
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USA / 3 mins
Memories of an old friend are filled with questions and longing.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/827425208
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Where do Lesbians Go to When They Get Older?
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Andreja Gomišček
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2023
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Slovenia / 9 mins
In a poetic and engaging way, Andrea Gomišček's film interrogates the age of old age through two protagonists. How they experience it as lesbians, how this period changes their relationship to time. Is it defined in memories - as something to have, or is it in looking into the future? And what about ageing on the margins, within the lesbian community?
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Where the Birds Cry /
Gde ptice plaču
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Jakub Andrzej Venda
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2023
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Poland / 16 mins
14-year-old Szymon lives in a seaside village. The boy is experiencing one of the most turbulent stages in his life – puberty. He spends his holidays traveling with his finger across a globe, looking for a safari, walking on the beach, or meeting his friends. The boy’s monotonous life is being disrupted by an unexpected visit from his childhood friend. From that moment on, the boy develops the need to explore his sexuality. Seemingly ordinary meeting on a cliff turns into his first summer romance.
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Whiterock
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Kyle Reaume
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2023
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Canada / 13 mins
WHITEROCK is a 2023 experimental documentary that traverses a relationship that outwardly appeared loving, warm, and enviable. But inward, a secret laid in the shadows, growing wings.
The film utilizes a technique known as cinemanarrative dissonance - when the cinematic language as a story telling tool is in direct conflict with the story being presented.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/IIvdSYfof90?si=7VBOcBj5uctymAhj
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Who Am I Becoming?
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Odu Adamu,
Payton Royce
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2023
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USA / 12 mins
A self-portrait of actor Payton Royce as he looks back on his life from childhood to his transition. Royce's own video diaries alongside home movies and interviews with family offer a glimpse into the life of a man who uses his voice to speak his truth and support others in celebrating who they are.
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Word by Word
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Lourdes Miere
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2023
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Canada / 9 mins
Word by Word is a short documentary following the creative journey of Robyn Sidhu, a spoken word poet.
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Women Dancing in The Night
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Yaxin Zhu
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2023
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UK
A poor writer is writing a romantic fantasy book. This film portrays the push and pull between the writer and the woman he is writing about. They both want different things. He wants her image of beauty to be his ‘Big Love’ but she is in love with another female character.
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Worthy
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Zainab Boladale
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2023
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Ireland / 3 mins
Sewa is a black woman struggling to get over her ex-girlfriend. Through her monologue we experience the emotional rollercoaster of a first break up.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/Worthy862
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Yes, it happens
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Lyubov Vetrov,
Tanya Levi
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2023
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Russia / 15 mins
A short film from present day queer Russia.
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Yisrael is Lovesick
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Yisrael Rohn Rigler
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2023
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Israel / 16 mins
When Yisrael came out as bisexual, his ultra religious parents hugged him, but to this day they don’t accept his sexuality. In this film Yisrael is going on a journey following his fantasy – to find true love.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/jfPO5XlIt0o?si=muu85KW2oFNaWSmE
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Yo en Pasado
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Aaron Alessandro Carbajal Diaz
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2023
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Perú / 20 mins
Después de enterarse de que la pandemia ha llegado a su fin, un joven con ansiedad decide reconstruir su vida.
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You Belong to Me
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Barak Rivkind
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2023
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Israel / 4 mins
After partying all night, 25 year old Ori isn’t ready to face the real world. When leaving the club, he is pursued by a mysterious figure threatening to pull him back to reality and face his previous obligations.
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You're Loved
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Carys Mullins
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2023
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USA / 60 mins
Three transgender youths, alongside mental health professionals and allies, tell their stories of resilience in an era of increasing injustice to inspire the positive action necessary to protect and give hope to trans kids – something they desperately need to survive.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/tGDEgoe7Rcg
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Zeke’s Magic Plant Shop
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Lucas Marchi,
Keaton Hanna
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2023
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USA / 4 mins
In this delightful animated world of wizards and plants, love dares to conquer a magic spell gone wrong!
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Zon in de nacht
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Anne Vaandrager
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2023
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Netherlands / 28 mins
What if your life is a play? In this formal documentary experiment, Anne Vaandrager probes her grandfather’s secret, which also confronts her with her own identity.
When director Anne Vaandrager investigates her grandfather’s secret, she is confronted with her own identity. Can she break free from the shame that was handed down from generation to generation? Playing with the boundary between fiction and reality, Vaandrager personally confronts her father to break the cycle of silence. With the help of theatrical staging, she initiates a conversation about her grandfather’s past, in an attempt to reshape her family history.
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Zwart Geluk, Blaka Koloku
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Rafik M. Opti
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2023
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Netherlands / 21 mins
A Black angel watches Amsterdam, while documentary filmmaker Rafik M. Opti moves across the city, asking several inhabitants what Black freedom means to them. This yields miscellaneous portraits.
What does it mean to live independently as a Black citizen in Amsterdam? And which obstacles have to be overcome in the process? This is the starting point of this poetic documentary, inspired by Afrofuturism, in which filmmaker Rafik M. Opti moves across the capital on foot, asking members of different subcultures about happiness, independence and their vision for the future. The film smoothly strings these miscellaneous conversations together, producing a dynamic portrait of Black identity, when Black freedom is celebrated.
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