Most of these films are doing the festival circuit and haven't yet been entered into IMDb...
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Carol Resende
Brazil / 19 mins
Marcia, católica devota de 50 anos, enfrenta seus demônios, incluindo alcoolismo, em jornada de autoconhecimento com amizade inesperada com Paula, enfermeira homossexual.
20:56
Sabino Jerónimo Gazzaniga
Argentina / 5 mins
Una videocarta al tacto, a mi cuerpo, a tener registro propio. A la hora 20:56; la hora exacta en la que me sacaron el útero. A finalmente lograr reconocerme en este infierno.
5 Women and Me
Andy Perrott
20 mins
A young boy finds refuge from his troubled home life when he discovers the magic of television. Along the way he meets 5 extraordinary women.
Trailer… here
A
Kalpit Patel
2024
Canada / 13 mins
In a close-knit community, imagine a teenager’s struggle with asexuality, where faith clashes with personal discovery.
A la carta
Iván Vigara
2024
Spain / 7 mins
En una carta se puede contar más que toda una vida. Iván acaba de tener una cita con Mónica. Al llegar a su casa todo está listo para su primer encuentro sexual, pero en ese instante Iván le entrega a Mónica una carta muy personal con una verdad que ella desconocía.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/902330533
A Quick Fix
Oran Julius,
April Flores,
Manon Praline
2024
Germany / 7 mins
Housewife April Flores' washing machine breaks down. When dykey plumber Manon Praline arrives, April turns on her bimbo charm, and reveals her real intentions. Soon Manon is sliding into April's velvet robe, and she wants that wrench where?!
A Tight Five Hours
Ewan McPherson
2024
UK / 15 mins
As the queer comic Ewan McPherson battles his stammer while performing live, a worker inside his brain tries frantically to prevent the damage caused by negative thoughts by recalling memories of interviews with fellow queer performers and promoters.
Accepte toi comme je suis
Emmanuelle Roberge
Canada / 57 mins
De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, en plein golf du fleuve Saint‑Laurent, se trouve l’archipel des îles de la Madeleine où 12000 âmes vivent loin du continent. Sur l’une d’elles, une jolie maison balayée tantôt par les vents capricieux et tourmentés, tantôt par des rayons de soleil lumineux et réconfortants. Ici, c’est le cocon d’Elise. Une rencontre intime, un plongeon dans cet espace de vie, où l’on suivra son cheminement d’identité de genre, l’évolution de ses pensées et de son regard pour comprendre l’essence même de ce qu’elle vit et de ce qui l’habite. Un témoignage comme rarement entendu.
Trailer… here
Adulting
James Duesing
2024
USA / 8 mins
A queer valentine has a fever dream.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/948783481
Afterglow /
Astaraag
Rahul Biswas
India / 30 mins
The mystic evening light dwells in the moments of afterglow. This afterglow appears as the messenger of the night to us, it sustains for just a short moment in time but gifts us a reddish heaven’s hue. The protagonist, Aditya, is a sad child of a broken home, love having been created and destroyed in his lonely life. In the islands of his dreams the Mother symbol deepens. After separation from Som (his ex-lover) he binds himself to the illusionary fiction of life. In time those illusions are broken with the presence of Aviraj. In the Akhara of the Vaishnavis, Soma is a new member who has come there after her parents’ death. Here she comes face to face with her past. In the midst of life’s play, Tagore’s song recites the truth ... the illusion ties us to pain, and when we try to get rid of it, it hurts.
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Al fin del mundo
AntoniaSanchez Suarez,
IsaacBrand Zuñiga
Chile / 19 mins
Demian (25) es un joven que vive una vida monótona y solitaria en Santiago, dedicando sus días al trabajo y añorando el pasado que vivió con Azul (28) una joven que conoció en el sur y con quien mantuvo una relación durante un verano. Una tarde, Demian recibe una llamada de Aurora (30), una amiga de Azul, quien contacta a Demian para darle una trágica noticia que lo lleva nuevamente hacia el sur, donde debe enfrentar una nostálgica despedida.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/996358091
All Boys Do
Aaron Lovett
USA / 14 mins
A trans drag queen crosses paths with an old flame on the streets of Los Angeles. Over the course of a weekend, the pair act on their unexplored desire for each other.
All That Matters /
Tudo que Importa
Coraci Bartman Ruiz
Brazil / 20 mins
All That Matters tells the story of three Brazilian families of trans people and their processes of understanding and celebration of their identities. These mums, dads and grandparents take a step forward and decide to fight for a society that respects and values diversity. Directed by a filmmaker who is herself the mother of a young trans person, the film connects generations by showing stories of love, transformation and learning.
Allergic to
KWON Sumin
South Korea / 27 mins
Haesoo, allergic to lying, experiences her first kiss with Siyeon. However, she feels uncomfortable about the kiss and their sexualised touching. Seeing herself different from others, Haesoo thinks, “Do I not love Siyeon?” and feels confused about her love. Because she is uncomfortable with the word ‘love’, her back is getting more severe allergicreaction.
Trailer… here
AMORHONGO
(mush love)
Edgar M Garcia
2024
Puerto Rico / 13 mins
A woman's resolute decision to get pregnant due to her husband's infertility, becomes an awakening to the couple's frustrated sexuality.
An Afternoon to Take a Portrait /
Uma Tarde Pra Tirar Retrato
André Sandino Costa
2024
Brazil / 24 mins
Três amigos de longa data marcam um encontro semanas antes de um deles mudar-se para outra cidade .A meta é através de uma sessão de fotografias diminuir a saudade e fortalecer o apoio mútuo em um momento dramático do convívio em sociedade e ao mesmo tempo projetar ações futuras com a esperança de que este momento irá passar. Márcio Januário ,Carlos Oxalá e José Roberto Pacheco, homens negros, gays acima de cinquenta anos são os protagonistas dessa história.
Trailer… Here
Angelo
In 1990s Athens, Angelo, an Albanian young man working at a record store, is eager to begin anew. The fleeting encounter with a client draws him into a world that feels strangely familiar. But will that cost him much?
Annapolis: In My Lifetime
A look behind the scenes as Annapolis “Comes Out” in 2019 with the capitol city’s first pride parade. Long-time Annapolis residents Jeremy Browning, Mark Hildebrand, Eric Lund, JB McLendon, Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley, and many others share their experiences with the local LGBTQIA community and the founding of Annapolis Pride as they prepare to honor Pride Month and acknowledge the legacy of the Stonewall Riots.
Application To Be Lars Von Trier’s “Female Girlfriend/Muse”
USA / 15 mins
August 11th, 2023 filmmaker and Dogma95 founder Lars Von Trier posted a video on instagram seeking applications for a, “female girlfriend/muse.” Later that week I visited Rose, my 75 year old best friend, neighbor, and muse, to film an application. Lars has yet to respond.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/906538870
As Fado Bicha
This is Justine Lemahieu’s encounter over several years with Lila and João, the two artists and activists from Fado Bicha band, whose songs embody and give voice to LGBTQIA+ stories and struggles. Backstage, words and glances intersect, questioning our relationship with appearances, gender norms, language, andsexuality.
as to not die in these places /
pra não morrer nesses lugares
Márcia Bellotti
2024
Portugal / 29:39 mins
"as to not die in these places" is a documentary about Brazilian Queer immigration in Portugal. Marginal and dissident subjectivities are presented in a film that combines performativity with reflections on invisibility, resistance, and freedom.
Trailer… Here
¡Ay! Cordero
Agustina Akman,
Cielo Iturralde Carrera, Mercedes Maudet
Argentina / 4 mins
The repression of desire is portrayed in a being inhabited by a duality present in everyday life, a young butcher who explores his femininity surrounded by blood, death and violence.
Baise Platine
Johan Gayraud
France / 5 mins
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/928745070
Batucada
Sara Lizz
2024
Brazil / 3:34 mins
É sempre assim quando você está por perto
Faz aparecer um mar num deserto
Meu coração não quer calar no meu peito
É batucada até de madrugada
Being Her
Maheshkumar Munjale
2024
India
A short documentary that explores a 200-year-old ritual in Ahmedabad’s ‘Saduba-ni pol’, where male members of the Barot community wear female attire and perform Garba during Navratri. It questions whether this act is merely fleeting or a deeper embrace of femininity.
Beyond Hatred and Power, We Keep Singing
Germany / 92 mins
In these times of authoritarian and patriarchal interventions that stifle democratic voices, constitutional rights and personal freedom, this film is about resistance through songs and lyrics. As eloquently put forth by Maya Angelou, these are the ballads of those who raised their voices against the power-wielding forces who spread hatred and animosity. The film has been carved as a collage of many non-hierarchical spaces that exist around us.
Trailer… here
Beyond Norms: Exploring Identity - Masc vs. Masc
Kelly Balch
2024
USA / 24 mins
"Beyond Norms: Exploring Identity" is a captivating mini-documentary series that delves deep into the multifaceted relationships within the LGBTQIA+ community. As societal perceptions of love and attraction continue to evolve, the LGBTQIA+ community is leading the discoveries of such diversity. Yet, amidst this progress, a paradox unfolds—the queer community has created its own stereotypical constructs, especially prevalent in the realms of dating and hookup culture. "Beyond Norms'' aims to shine a spotlight on this phenomenon by exploring the unique, and sometimes "not normal" dynamics within different subcultures, including the lesbian community, queer deaf community, gay community, trans and non-binary community, drag community, and asexual community. Beyond Norms challenges the participants to embrace their vulnerabilities and delve into unconventional aspects of their identities when connecting with the other participants.
Beyond the Binary
Sudesh Abeynayaka
2024
Sri Lanka / 5 mins
A middle-class family gives birth to an intersex child. The rural setting of Sri Lanka is contextualized throughout the film. Here, the father and grandmother are talking in the hospital about the child. They are thinking and debating about what to do. The film portrays the father's demand as a genuine culture shock. The father is torn between traditional beliefs and the welfare of the child, highlighting the complexities of navigating social expectations in a changing world. As the story unfolds, viewers are invited to question their perspectives on gender and identity.
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Beyond the Golden Line
Germany / 19 mins
Midnight. The moon is shining and the night is feverish in the colorful queer club. An injured Black transmasculine pole dancer is interrupted in his performance preparations by mysterious phone calls. Fear of rejection has prevented him from saying who he really is, and kept him away from everything. What if tonight, the magic of his pole offered him the chance to reconnect with the people he loves, and reveal his full radiance?
Black Ibis /
Zwarte Ibis
The Netherlands / 18 min
Black Ibis is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.
Trailer… here
Blue Moon Angels
USA / 10 mins
Dom, a lonely teenage girl, continuously helps cover up the murderous acts committed by her classmate and crush, Nora. As Dom helps Nora cover up another dead body, she finally decides to confess her feelings to Nora.
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Blue Pandora /
Azul Pandora
Cuba / 12 mins
Pandora, a 40-year-old transgender woman living in a residential neighbourhood in Havana, rejects Roy, the teenager who tries to win her over. While caring for a neighbour’s child, she gets an unpleasant surprise that makes her consider whether or not to give Roy a chance.
Trailer… here
Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies
Benjamin Rosenthal, Eric Souther
2024
USA / 9 mins
Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies explores the nature of how we understand our bodies, the ways in which we queer the body, and performative nature of how we explore our identities in mediated space. The work challenges the supremacy of normative human body-to-body contact, by exploring the role that a hybrid human-object-virtual encounter might pose for alternative forms of intimacy and exchange. The use of self-surveillance as a strategy of making and being is critical to our understanding of contemporary bodily experiences in the piece. The lens, the camera, video as both electronic mirror and surveyor, the scanner, generative A.I., and motion capture technology construct the performance of identity - who we are as hybrids and how we exploit our self-awareness and positions. Through the act of making this work, we aim to disrupt the hegemony of stable bodies in search of what might be greater potential. Breaking the intentions of the software and hardware specifications, and revealing the tools of its making, we blast open possibility for new rules and new narratives. The future is undoubtedly queer, and it’s one hell of a party.
Trailer…here
Boi, Trans
Rivanildo Feitosa
2024
Brazil / 15 mins
“Boi, Trans” apresenta a história de Mahhy Silva, que brilha como cantora e puxadora do boi Mimo de São Jorge, em Timon/MA. O curta fala de sua relação com as águas e conflito familiar com a onipresente figura do pai - o que traz reflexões sobre o universo patriarcal em torno da dança e das famílias tradicionais sertanejas. O filme reflete também sobre preconceito, depressão e religião, mas também fala de acolhimento, abrindo portas para novos personagens da diversidade no bumba-meu-boi. A história tem como pano de fundo a opereta A Morte do BOI, uma metáfora para a fase em que vive a personagem - de transicionamento. “O boi vive e morre. Vive e Morre”.
BrainHeart
Noah Wiseman
USA / 7 mins
Michael showshis strange neighbor around town. A growing obsessionleaves Michael spiraling. He must rely on his friend Avaand his thoughtsto get rid of his obsession.
Breaking Silence
Ty Tufts
Canada / 10:45 mins
Cole, a resilient transgender man, navigates his coming out journey within the confines of an all-girls school, while his mother confronts her own emotional struggles. Together, they learn to push societal norms and embrace the power of acceptance.
Brim Broome Boulevard
PJ Magerko Liquorice
USA / 7 mins
In need of some retail therapy? Welcome to Brim Broome Boulevard! When Jasper wanders through a set of mysterious doors on a mystical Halloween night, they embark on a journey of self-discovery where fear and fashion intertwine. Plunged into a fantastical world of high-fashion artistry courtesy of the renowned House of Wiederhoeft, through Jasper's eyes, we invite viewers to embrace the extraordinary, celebrate the beauty of difference, and find inspiration in the unexpected.
Trailer… here
Butch Dyke by A.S. Valentino
Cai Indermaur
USA / 4:35 mins
A transgender darkwave/industrial artist based in Portland, Oregon, is a tribute to butch dykes throughout history.
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By Hand
YOU Junsang
Korea / 14 mins
Anchan and Deokwoo are inseparable friends, one helping the other approach girls and write love letters. Yet their feelings are drifting in different directions. This teenage romance movie delicately unfolds the narrative of “you don’t know how I really feel” with a sense of calm and tenderness.
Trailer… here
Canyon Chorus
Eddie Bauer
2024
USA / 17 mins
Set against the backdrop of Desolation Canyon, UT, Mikah Meyer, a world-record traveler and LGBTQ+ advocate, reflects with three close friends and his mentor, Larry Edwards, on their stories and the power of mentorship within the queer community.
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Casa Preti: Carmina 8/10
Enrico Bellenghi
2024
Italy / 8 mins
Something that has the appearance of a traditional family – mother, father, son, daughter – wanders through the rooms of a baronial villa near Monte Pellegrino, in Palermo: looking out the window, reading the newspaper, watering the plants. However, the constant comparison with objects, sculptures and paintings triggers something else, another family portrait, free and different.
A fashion film of ghosts and ideas of coexistence, commissioned by the fashion house Casa Preti. A work that expands the boundaries of formats and restores tactility and passionate moods throughout shooting on film. A meeting place, pictorial and almost metaphysical, an invasion that becomes dialogue, other possibilities for space and bodies in 7 minutes suspended in time.
Casebre
Henrique Raynal
2024
Brazil / 88 mins
The film tells the story of Benedito (Gregório Benevides), a young man who is unhappy with his own life, facing a great loss and discovering his ancestry.
Chase Me
Sal Ardongde
USA / 3 mins
When runner Tony comes upon a curiously competitive runner, Eva, their encounter turns into a fierce race of athleticism and wits. Who might Eva be?
Trailer… here
Chemsex
Daniel Porto
2024
Brazil / 7 mins
A group of unknown gay men connect via a dating app for casualencounters. The starting point is a chemsex party, where drug useintensifies sexual experiences, but also reveals the depths of humanemotions. The film explores both the fascination and liberating energyof these encounters and the emptiness and loneliness that can haunt agay man’s life.
Cherry, Passion Fruit
Renato José Duque Cereja
Portugal, Bélgica, Finlândia, Brasil / 5 mins
A natureza contém tanto a cachoeira fluindo quanto o fogo devorador. Dentro de uma floresta tropical misteriosa, o desejo toma forma entre o amor e a dor. Você enfrentaria seu desejo assombrador?
Clan /
Kordh
Jaime Lock
On the Isles of Scilly, trans teenager, Cam, feels awkward and out of place among the community. When Teän arrives, Cam finally feels seen.
Trailer… Here
Clementine
Sally Tran
A late-blooming Trans woman reluctantly confronts an assigned-male-at-birth Trans specific life-altering dilemma. With the help of her besties, she attempts to process this debacle in order to determine which path to take on her journey of decolonizing her womanhood.
Clocky
Power
A clock comes to life, plunges into the world, and rescues their trapped friend.
Closet Witch - My Words Are Sacred
Autojektor
UK / 1 min
Experimenting with trans porn, from a trans-viewer perspective.
Watch… here
Cocoon
Holli Xue
2024
UK / 11 mins
Denied mobility and decision-making power, the metaphorical and physical cocoon embodies political depression.
Cold Feet
Anna Vecellio
USA / 8 mins
A woman struggling with intimacy invites her girlfriend over for a sleepover, only to discover there's something much scarier than emotional availability lurking under her bed.
Come Back to What You Know
James Marquez
2024
USA / 2:40 mins
This short animation explores creator James Marquez's experiences of being groomed online happening concurrently with his discovery of his gender identity. With the hazy visuals of his vacant, unfamiliar childhood theme park, the ghosts of his past and present self reclaiming the agency once taken from him, his short film is one of catharsis and retribution.
Compass Rose & All that Glows
Celeste Gersten
2024
USA / 11mins
Once upon a time isn’t our start, it repeats itself over in cycles, like a spinning clock. This is the plight of Yaphet and Pallu, unbeknownst to them. In the present, the cycle continues. They are separated, and hope grows dim.
Concerned
Hazel McGuire,
Jenny Roche
2024
Ireland / 13 mins
Concerned ponders the gap between public 'concern' around gender, identity, child andparent roles, and the private reality of those who are actually concerned; gender nonconforming people and their families - all told through the filmmakers' own personal daughter/mother relationship.
Courtside Bouquet: The Legacy of Leigha Rose
Jasmine LeBlanc
2024
USA / 7 mins
Buoyed by family, a queer Black woman charts her years playing basketball.
Cowgirls
Emily Alegria
2024
USA
A short Western about Evelyn and her father, Jerry, who live and work on a ranch in Montana. Jerry, concerned that his daughter may be lonely, brings on a girl from the town nearby to work for the summer. The two women form a relationship unexpected by all and unknowingly find what they’ve been looking for within each other.
Crave
Lois Norman
2024
UK / 5:13 mins
a lick away from love now…
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past and parts of her: a lost truth drips through…
Crave explores female queer love and the self-gaze that frees it.
Crayon
Juno & Becca Lutz
2024
Brazil / 13 mins
Mel is a trans artist who uses her drawings as a refuge. When her self-portrait, Crayon, comes to life, the protagonist is stalked by him.
Cris
Jonay García
Spain / 9 mins
Far from the party crowd, somewhere in the house, they kiss passionately. Everything seems to go well until it doesn’t.
Criss Cross
Zahira Chaudry
2024
USA / 5 mins
A deep dive into the intricacies of queerplatonic friendships.
Cuadro
Juan Martín,
Fran Frías
2024
Spain / 2:32 mins
En un estudio impecable y estéril, un grupo de artistas aguarda a su modelo. Cuando este llega, rompe todas las expectativas, desafiando las normas establecidas y dejando fluir sus emociones en un mundo que lo oprime.
Dancing Dhamaal!
Nimisha Sanjeevani-Chandrashekhar Mahatme
USA / 5 mins
A Bollywood inspired hybrid animated music video about Aadarshini, an anxious Indian-American girl, who feels out of place at an Indian wedding until she learns to make space for herself in her culture through Parvati, a traditional dancer who catches her eye.
Trailer... here
De Bräckliga Ögonblicken
Elli Malmenborg
2024
Sweden / 20 mins
Även de närmaste relationerna skapas av bräckliga ögonblick. Hur ska man minnas dem alla?
Even the closest relationships are created of fragile moments. How to remember all of them?
De Ontmoeting - Marleen
Jop Leuven
2024
Netherlands / 7 mins
In group therapy sessions, Lena tells about the relationships that have determined her life: with her father, with her first boyfriend and with Marleen, who helped Lena change with an open attitude.
Trailer… here
Dear Georgena
Cat Haines
1 min
A letter written to Georgena, a transsexual woman who lived in Esterhazy in 1994, and wrote a series of letters and articles I found in archived copies of the Saskatoon-based LGBTQ+ publication Perceptions. This film features Super-8 footage that was hand processed with caffenol.
Watch… here
Dear God /
Dear God - Music Video
USA / 10:39 mins &3:32 mins
A short story about a man coming to terms with his authentic self at a later age.
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Dear Money: A Trans Perspective
USA / 5 mins
Three trans siblings share about how money has impacted their lives and their gender-affirming care.
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Dearly Departed
The Netherlands / 3 mins
A queer comedy horror about accidental death, interfering ghost hunters, and how joy can be found despite the hand the (after)life might deal you.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/985658375
Decomp Disco
Russell Sheaffer
2024
USA / 5 mins
Taking place entirely on “Cybill’s Disco Jet,” “Decomp Disco” places us in the midst of a disco-fueled quarrel between two women in 1978.
Degenere /
Degenerado
Sara J Asprilla Palomino
Dorotys dream was to dance and be recognized as the woman she was, but death came first. Her best friend Misael, a sixty-year-old gay man, will make it happen. Misael creates the first diverse folk dance group, questioning traditions that are defended by cultural values in order to erase theirqueerness.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/730149460
Devouring Stones Up Close
Cat Rider
2024
USA / 9 mins
A dance film that serves as an expression of feminine rage and channels the spirits of those whose land we walk, create, and dance on.
Dirt Pride
Christina Rosetti
2024
USA / 11 mins
A community of bikepackers sets off in Washington’s Olympic National Forest to make friends, learn outdoor skills, and celebrate Pride their way.
Discolight Vigil
Stuart Blue
USA / 11 mins
A young man attends the unconventional funeral of a childhood friend.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/889242399
Disconnect
E8 and Janice Kei
2024
Hong Kong, UK / 4 mins
This is the reminiscence of two souls, narrating in memory their own truths and fantasies of their stories together.
Double Life
Mellie Parks,
Trinity Byonie
2024
USA / 5 mins
Max, a 22 year old man leads a double life; working in the hypermasculine corporate world in one life yet performing as a drag queen in another, realizing the duality of both existences.
Drumbeat of Our Hearts
Cynthia Gutierrez
2024
USA / 4 mins
A queer Nicaraguan-Salvadoran mother on an expedition to reclaim Indigenous identity.
Easy Way Out
Camryn Garrett
2024
USA / 7 mins
Twenty-something New Yorker Grace frequently lies about being a lesbian in order to deflect catcalls or unwanted pickup-lines. But when a man at a bar doesn’t believe her, she has to pretend to date a random customer, one she might actually develop feelings for.
Eden
Simone Hile-Bassett
2024
USA / 10 mins
Following the rediscovery and subsequent monetization of the Garden of Eden, as people who can afford it begin migrating back at top dollar, a young woman has to choose whether to follow their brother on the one-way journey or continue to live in a broken world.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/928659837
El Buen Gusto
Matías Leiva
Chile / 24 mins
Marco, un diseñador de vestuario desmotivado, decide una noche salir a cazar sueños y así encontrar nuevamente su inspiración. Cuerpos y anhelos se cruzarán en su camino.
Trailer… here
Embrasse-moi
Hristo Todorov
2024
France / 12 mins
In a sporadic encounter between two men and just when one of them is about to leave, he encounters an unexpected detail that leaves him stunned.
Emergency Contact
Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene
2024
USA / 10 mins
Haunted by a devastating heartache, an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke realizes that grief is an expression of love she can never outrun.
Encuerados
Orlando Bedolla
USA / 11 mins
Encuerados chronicles the year-long involvement of seven Latino men in the leather scene, primarily focusing on the historical attainment of the first Latino man winning the title of Mr. Los Angeles Leather, Leo Iriarte. By showcasing the legacy of Leo, Encuerados takes a deep dive into the leadership of seven trailblazers, empowered to create representation in leather competitions such as MLAL, IML, and events, such as Up Your Alley, Folsom, CLAW LA, andPride.
Trailer… here
Erik(a)
Saioa Miguel
2024
Basque Country / 12 mins
Erik(a) likes to go unnoticed. Also, do not openly answer the question about who you are or how you define yourself. A search process has been allowed that few dare to go through. Through this short documentary film, Erik(a) inhabits different moments of her life through archive images, analog photographs, onlyfans videos, Google Maps and virtual personal diaries.
Espejo
Leandra Pascuzzi
2024
Mexico / 6 mins
In this emotional story, an individual tired of living repressed accepts her true identity as a transgender woman, however, she decides to hide it from her partner and when she discovers the truth, both are forced to face society’s prejudices and reevaluate their relationship. Together, they will struggle for acceptance and happiness in a world that is often unkind to those who aredifferent.
Everything is easy, Everything is hard
Pamela C. Saade
2024
France, Lebanon / 6 mins
Omar returns from a date with Alex, and he seems somewhat disconnected. A little game with Alex makes him burst and start talking about everything he experienced abroad.
Exchange
Grant Petrey
2024
UK / 5:17 mins
The nocturnal city reveals a machine of desiring forces linked to the spectacle of capitalism. In the consuming night, the dazzlement of the city as a networked flow of information and surveillance is revealed. Affective forces create and shape the experience of this machinic city, but within this illumination and control, seeking out the liminal, queer spaces of desire becomes more urgent.
Exile
Eliza Knaggs
2024
Australia
Claire is banished to the streets after her father finds out she is gay.
Exhale
Sara Lopez Martinez
2024
USA / 4:29 mins
A trek through the growing pains of releasing and reconciling with your true self.
Falling in Love With The Feeling of Drowning
Freddie Segura Glavey
2024
USA / 6:23 mins
Exploring the nostalgia in grief and the friends that offer safe harbor.
Familiar Touch
Ember Haskings
2024
UK / 5 mins
When her boyfriend neglects her, an emotionally broken trans woman has a rebound with her future self.
Familiar Unknowns /
Retrouvailles inconnues: Les francoqueers à Vancouver avant et après l'an 2000
Amélia, an emerging non-binary filmmaker, has been given 2 months given and a research grant to find out more about francophone queer life in western Canada. As the only participant from (what is colonially known as) British-Columbia and with only 3 weeks left, the pressure is on: Amélia rushes to find any traces of francophone queer people in Vancouver before the year 2000, the year they were born. Amidst this chaotic research effort, they find André, an older French-Canadian gay man that lived in Vancouver for 25 years. Through their conversations, Amélia unlocks André's hidden personal visual archive, that proves that, indeed, francophone queers were alive and thriving years before they were born. This documentary shows how Amélia put together a presentation about their own queer ancestors through screen capture, archival footage, interviews and narration that ends up changing their own view of themself as a queer french-canadian in the west.
Fishy
Nicole de Meneses
2024
USA / 20 mins
Fresh off a recent break up, Erica is a scientist that believes in hard data and cold facts. All bets are off when warm hearted Marina, a mermaid from the wrong side of the cove swims into her pool and summons a tidal wave of emotions Erica isn't ready for.
Freedom of Movement
Fadl Fakhouri
USA / 23 mins
A poetry film that draws comparisons between haflat shabab (Palestinian bachelor parties), Oakland California's illegal rave scene, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/935746649
Fruits of the Spirit: a Gathering Film
Georgia Day
2024
UK / 16 mins
When Maddy and Carys get outed to their church worship band, they have to fight to stay together, in the face of an institution that wants nothing more than to see them apart. Can they hold onto faith when it seems that their faith doesn’t want them? 'Fruits of the Spirit' is a dramatic tale of hope, perseverance, and religious intolerance – a tale that is familiar to many.
Fuck This Shit, Love Me!
Daniel Path
2024
Czech Republic / 7 mins
"FUCK THIS SHIT, LOVE ME!" is a romantic comedy that tells the story of a teenage girl navigating the modern dating world. Emma pours out her frustrations into her diary about the challenges of finding true love in a world where bad dates follow worse ones, and dating apps bring more despair than hope. But what if what Emma really needs is not what she's been so desperately searching for? The film reveals that love can come unexpectedly.
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FuReality
Aly Labbé-Hervieux
2024
Canada / 4 mins
A journey into Aly’s world and their personal growth through the eyes of their new furry, Eden.
Gamètes
Nova Lov
2024
Belgium / 15:51
To finally start her hormonal transition, Nova needs to go through one last step: the freezing of her gametes. To support her in this difficult masturbatory endeavour in a hospital ward, Matos, Estech and Aimé-es decide to accompany her. Armed with their cameras, lights and colour gel filters, the dream team of CLAP! infiltrates the ART service to make this trial the most pleasurable as possible.
Gametes is an ode to T4T loves, mixing documentary and fiction to highlight a little-known stage of MtoF transitions.
glide by LILY CHOU-CHOU
Bart Seng Wen Long
2024
UK / 6 mins
A rubber gimp and its warden exchange their favourite YouTube recommendations.
Good Ally x MMDA
Sean Sean McGuire
2024
USA / 4:42 mins
Good Ally is the debut video from band MMDA (Peter Kalisch & Aaron December) and is an exploration of homo nationalism and neoliberal approaches to queer and trans rights which favor politeness over liberation.
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Grand Dandy (For Ezra)
The Campbells
USA, UK / 4 mins
Grand Dandy is a special film based on the poem “For Ezra” about the real life experience of non-binary author Libro Levi Bridgeman and their love letter to their grandson, Ezra. The film follows the playful and tender moments of their daily routines as a queer grandparent with their grandson. And while it captures slices of their everyday life, it also explores the question, how to tell a child you are queer and non-binary? This film also highlights the importance that the common bond of any child with a queer relative is the same and endearing as any family.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/997083277
Grandmother's Eyes
victoria 程
2024
USA / 4:14 mins
For a queer Chinese person, lingering memories swell during a bus ride.
Green Castles
Anto(n) Astudillo,
Kelley Van Dilla
2024
USA / 35 mins
Green Castles follows Polo in their day-to-day life while they navigate medically transitioning, looking for work, and living alone in a lonely city. Though they find caring for plants easier than caring for themselves, an elder wise woman, Tia Silvia, constantly checks in on them and helps them on their journey. Every night Polo has the same dream: that they’re slowly turning into a being made of plants. Green Castles, the first collaboration between Anto(n) Astudillo and Kelley Van Dilla, represents a deepening of friendship through exploration of shared synchronicities in their lived experiences as trans and queer filmmakers. Anto(n) and Kelley also collaborate in building trans+ community, and healing care-centred filmmaking environments.
Grounded
Andrea “Andy” Whipple
USA / 6 mins
A pre-transitioned trans boy is transformed into a harpy and learns the importance of knowing one’s limits. He realizes that although he doesn’t have his ideal body, he can work with his body to create a life that’s worth living.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/928967077
Guapito, Divino
Miguel St. Michael grapples with criticism over his previous single with Cynthia Lee Fontaine, within the Tejano Market triggering a transformative journey sparked by a flashback to a Juan Gabriel interview. The narrative unfolds in a captivating concert, where the cumbia rhythm sets the stage for a poignant queer Tejano romance. This tale resonates with resilience and love, offering an unexpected twist to St. Michael's narrative of self-discovery and purpose.
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Handle With Care
Kelsey Dang
2024
USA / 4:17 mins
A Black woman traverses the terrain of a broken heart.
Here Come the Dykes!
Devon Blackwell,
Paul Moakley
2024
USA / 15 mins
From 1979 to 1984, photographer JEB (Joan E. Biren) created a slideshow entitled ‘Lesbian Images in Photography’ aka The Dyke Show.
Hermaphrodite
Samuel Bester
France / 10 mins
Based on Hermaphrodite from Book IV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by Marie Cosnay.
Hey Dad
Taiwan / 5:36 mins
I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe it might be the right time by then.
Trailer… here
High Diver /
Turmspringer
Germany / 5 mins
At the Baltic Sea, Tuan and Felix discover their love for water as young children. They soon become divers, as this allows them to spend their hours after school together at the indoor swimming pool. However, when they face each other at the Olympics, their athletic future is at stake. But when Felix unexpectedly suffers a serious injury, Tuan - despite the immense pressure to win the gold medal - decides for his partner.
Hole Theory
USA / 12 mins
Hole expert Ashely Paige and expert hole Corey More star in this visceral meditation on the gloriousness of holes. With interdimensional illustrations by Oona Taper and sound design by Paleo Pony aka Jonah Rosenberg, Hole Theory explores the cosmic unknowability of that which engulfs. “Holes are the original time travel. You come out more yourself than you were when you entered: rearranged, holy, new. Holes make you whole.” Trust us. We know holes.
House /
Casa
Argentina / 13 mins
Azula is an artist from Venezuela who found a new voice in the Ballroom scene in Argentina, a cultural space that helped them recognize and express themselves as a non-binary trans person. Through the organization Socio Ballroom, Azula supports the LGBTIQ+ community.
Humano Sin Cabeza
Enrique Gimeno
Spain / 70 mins
Es un proyecto entre el documental y la ficción en el que el propio director narra cómo recupera su carrera y la cabeza en tres años. Pseudodocumental de autoficción rodado en Etopía, Zaragoza.
I Feel (For) You /
Los siento
Bella Cintra
Spain / 7:08 mins
Noa, Kim, Izan, Débora, Andra, Kika, Laurent and Lola introduce themselves and recount how their feelings and desires have been marginalized throughout their lives, especially after transitioning. The sounds, the voices, the images… everything envelops us in this display of love composed of the feelings of the couple, two individuals discovering their freedom together.
I Have Something To Get Off My Chest
Cedar O'Dowd
USA / 8:27 mins
A trans man as he recovers from top surgery and his partner takes on the role of his sole caregiver. Live action blends with experimental animation.
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I Kiss Your Hand, Madame /
Kezét Csókolom
Jeremy Luke Bolatag
Hungary, Portugal, Belgium / 18 mins
After living a heteronormative life for fifty years, Mónika finally goes through with her orchiectomy. The filmmaker follows Mónika’s first steps in her gender-affirmation journey: her new relationship with her body and with her biological 11-year old son, Gabi, as she also navigates the repressive Orbán regime in Hungary.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/893244432
I’m a Faggot /
Sóc maricó
Javier Riera,
Miguel Vingur
It is easier to live in our own imagination than accepting our reality. But, what would it be like to live inside this imagination where anything is possible?
Trailer available here
I'm In Love with Mother Nature
The Salt and Pepper Collective
A wildly joyful exploration of how queerness, nature, creatiivty, spirituality and self-expression evolve and interconnect as we age.
if this were purgatory
Honey Birch
Gossip, identity, politics, and romance. Following a group of friends to a club, this film waits with them, eavesdropping on the voice of a queer club queue. Exploring the idea that queer people, by nature of being marginalised, exist on the borders, this docufiction is a tentative invitation to the fantasy of the London queer club scene. It poses the queue as a liminal space where queerness is visible and vulnerable to the eyes of the general public.
Ijin
Noam Shimashita
This 7-minute documentary film portrays my journey from female to male, highlighting the transformative power of Japanese characters, Kanji, in reshaping my perspective on the past, present, and future.
In Search of Light
Daniel Pinheiro
Portugal / 5 mins
A portrait of the self-deprecating mental processes often connecting guilt with (homo)sexual desire.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/981497601
In the Closet
Vannah Smalley
USA / 20 mins
Quinn, while cleaning out their childhood closet, reflects on the keepsakes they associate with their gender identity struggle. We watch, from the closet, a series of flashbacks that results in their decision to identify as trans and achieve that gender euphoria they’ve been searching for.
In The Clouds
Hongyu Chen
China / 17 mins
The story follows Kang, who adopts the unconventional disguise of cross-dressing to accompany his boyfriend Du on a visit to Du's grandmother's home.
In the interval
Æryka Jourdaine Hollis O'neil
USA / 24 mins
Both an intimate family portrait and a cinematic collage of Black and trans collective memory and (be)longing, meditating on themes of safety, bodily autonomy and generations of compounding loss across time andmedia.
In The Name Of Love I Will Punish You
Exsell Rabbani
A mother sacrifices her savings to send her son into the military, but her world shatters when he transforms into Sailor Moon. Desperate for a solution, she turns to a shaman for help.
Into The Bloo
USA / 15 mins
Into The Bloo is a music documentary short film that captures drag musician; Lagoona Bloo (David Brumfield) as they prepare for a show and tell us their story of loss and triumph in the intimate confines of their dressing room.
The untimely deaths of both David’s parents become a precursor for their onstage persona, and a liberation from a traumatic past.
Trailer… here
Is Gay Marriage Next?
USA / 16 mins
A woman looks for the lesbian couple on the historic cover of a 2003 Newsweek magazine to thank them for inspiring her.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/901898324
Kuuk Aah?
While cooking, Anjali realises that they have run out of salt. She asks Adarsh to fetch a packet of salt. Adarsh is the husband of Anjali. Anjali is the wife of Adarsh.
Landing On Ice
Hong Kong / 23 mins
Hong Kong figure skater Wing-yee travels to Toronto alone for advanced training, aspiring to compete on the international stage. Despite the warm welcome and encouragement she receives there, very soon Win-yee faces setbacks and realises she is falling behind her peers. It is the friendship and support of warm-hearted Christy that eventually helps Wing-yee through her initial confusion and self-doubt, and she gradually develops a fondness for this beautiful roommate.
Trailer… here
Larry (They/Them)
Canada / 103 minutes
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty, a series of self-portraits documenting their transition during hormone therapy. Mirroring Philomène’s autobiographical approach, LARRY (THEY/THEM) highlights the cinematic power of the artist’s vibrant, colour-saturated images and, above all, their willingness to share their story with authenticity and vulnerability. Gender non-conforming identities, body diversity and the challenges of self-affirmation are also explored through an exclusive foray into Philomène’s family and community.
Beyond the story of individual transformation, the film chronicles a society that is likewise transitioning, evolving as it grows. A celebration of those who refuse to conform, LARRY (THEY/THEM) is a luminous and engaging portrait of the complex, often misunderstood multiplicity of trans and non-binary identities and experiences, bringing to the screen one of the most inspiring and original voices of their generation and an LGBTQ+ community icon.
Leave the Doll in the Car /
Deixa a boneca no carro
João Victor Almeida
Brazil / 15 mins
From an old email written by the director, wishing not to be gay, João Victor modifies his childhood’s pictures using collage to explore LGBTQIAP+ fantasies of dissident identities that clash with conservative society imaginary. The director is motivated by realizing that some feelings are shared among people in the community.
A partir de un viejo e-mail escrito por él, deseando no ser gay, Almeida modifica fotografías de su infancia mediante el collage para explorar fantasías de identidades disidentes que chocan con el imaginario de una sociedad conservadora. A partir de sus reflexiones, el director se entusiasma al darse cuenta de que algunos sentimientos son compartidos entre las personas de la comunidad.
Trailer… Here
Leisure, Utopic
Beatrice Gibson
UK, Italy / 2 mins
Bernadette Mayer published more than thirty poems and essays between 1968 and 2021, before dying in 2022. In Utopia, from 1984, she imagines an alternative world, a uchronia without disease, without money, in which the doors are all large and the windows are all open. A woman makes her son read an edited version of the poem, instructing him on pronunciation errors and drawing, with a sudden surreal sketch, what utopia could mean 40 years later.
Beatrice Gibson models in two minutes a new chance for images and poetry in cinema. Leisure, Utopic is a haiku of hope because every individual in the world has a story, as at the end of Mayer’s poem: “even me”.
Line of Reverence
Ashante J. Ford
USA / 4:44 mins
A Ghanaian woman communes with her ancestors during her day of devotion ritual.
Loitering with Intent
Eve Jablonkay
USA / 88 mins
A deeply thoughtful and intimate look at a group of male dancers and sex workers in West Hollywood.
LOLO
Ana Gabriela Gutiérrez Salgado
México / 15:30 mins
LOLO works on a quiet farm in Xochimilco, but their non-binary identity is constantly challenged and questioned. One day while selling produce at the local market, they reconnect with an old friend, KAT. She presents them with some friends, a bit of affection and the chance to be free-spiritedly themselves.
Trailer… Here
Love Bound
Shanshan Chen
2024
UK / 80 mins
LGBTQ+ activist Qiuyan Chen became an unexpected celebrity due to her courageous legal battle against homophobic university textbooks in the 2010s. However, this newfound fame came at a price: she was outed by her tutor, subjected to conversion therapy by her parents, and monitored by the Chinese government. To escape these pressures, Qiuyan left for the UK, where she met her partner Bling: but her struggles were far from over. Interweaving reflections on Qiuyan’s sexuality and relationships, Shanshan Chen’s documentary examines this inspiring activist’s commitment to building a close-knit community designed to support queer East Asian people in the UK: a solo endeavour that evolves into a movement with a growing support base. Love Bound is a compelling story about love, resilience, and the ongoing struggle for a better world.
Trailer… here
Love in Transition
Warangkana Chomchuen
2024
USA / 23 mins
Jane of Ukraine and Love of Thailand fell hard for each other, unaware of the twists and turns to come. Jane underwent a gender transition from a man to a woman, months into their relationship.
Watch… here
Love's Lyric
Maria Celia Garcia
2024
USA / 4:38 mins
An older Latina drifts through the memories of a love lost.
Malfouf
Omar Alqahtani
2024
USA
Henan, ingrained in her ways, confronts her repressed desires when she meets a queer weaving instructor.
Matinee Baby
Thom Hilton
2024
USA / 19 mins
A gay movie theater worker is confronted by a procession of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors.
Mecha Meraki
Babi Astolfi
2024
Brazil / 4 mins
In a robotic society moved by the consumption of colorful mechanic members, an insecure gray robot faces the pressure to find the perfect piece forhimself.
Meu Valor É Não Te Amar
Daniel Manhães
2024
Brazil / 9:25 mins
Francisco não se sente amado por Rafael e cobra afeto. Rafael incomodado com a cobrança diz que quer se separar. Francisco não querendo perder seu amor, tenta contornar a situação e convencê-lo a ficar.
Monument
Maksim Avdeev
2024
Germany / 15 mins
1.5 years after fleeing Russia for being queer, filmmaker Maksim Avdeev breaks the silence with their nationalist father over thephone.
Mother
Meg Shutzer,
Brandon Yadegari Moreno
2024
USA / 23 mins
In San Francisco, a city known for its queer community and bustling gay nightlife, there hasn't been a lesbian bar for almost a decade. Driven by nostalgia for a time when queer women had spaces, self-identified dyke Malia Spanyol sets out to build one for the next generation of women and femmes.
My Horoscope Says I Should Go Ahead With What I’m Doing
Aderet Fishbane
USA / 5 mins
A personal exploration of trans nonbinary self creation in community, trying to understand the intimacy and intensity of change in the body and in bodies of friends.
Myrna’s Secret Spies
Andy Perrott
2024
USA / 27 mins
In this 6th installment of a series of short "telenovela style" film comedies, we find Myrna pregnant about to have the baby of her deceased husband, Oscur, who was shot at the altar during their wedding by Myrna's arch nemesis Heidi Ho. Heidi was attempting to kill Myrna's Mama who tried to drown Heidi for stealing yet another of Myrna's great loves. The joy of the baby's arrival is quickly dashed when Myrna, her maid Ping and her Mama and Papa discover one of the delivery nurses is an imposter who steals baby Oscur. The madcap rush to find the baby is filled with twists and turns and some deep-seated revelations from the Juana family's past.
Nelson Sullivan: A Portrait of Downtown
Aimy Stevens
2024
UK / 14:57 mins
Video artist, Nelson Sullivan, took hours of footage of queer New York in the 1980s. This archive material has been used to create a fascinating and moving portrait both of the artist and the queer scene at the time. Includes a very young RuPaul and others.
Nice to See You
Caitlin Barlow
2024
USA / 3:49 mins
A Latina’s café shift bubbles over into an uncomfortable walk home.
No es tan difícil
Irene García Torres
2024
Spain / 11 mins
Amanda and Christine have an intimate relationship, but an unexpected visitor interrupts their time together.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/837811416
Non-Binary Mission Play KD-230922-SP
USol Kang
2024
Korea, Republic of / 11 mins
When it's time to perform, I am going to sexualize myself in front of you with my non-binary body. If you agree to participate, Please pick out the mission note. After selecting the mission note, You MUST proceed with the mission. I will become a SUB(Submissive), a tool to carry out the mission and play the mission with you. You can participate with your partner or friends simultaneously, but you must practice one at a time. An alcohol swap is available to clean the SUB(Submissive) before you master it. The mission was based on the archive collection of other people's desires (fetishes, erogenous zones) through research. As you are exercising the mission, you are carrying out the desires of others to me. After a while, I will appear as the image of other people's desires. After completing the mission, Please feel free to use me. Give me a drink, slap me on the cheek, pet me, and adore me. Anything the MASTER wants is fine. Today, by mutual consent, you will be the SUB(Submissive) who carries out the mission I have instructed and, at the same time, the DOM(Dominant) who uses me.
Novanta giorni
Alice Malingri
2024
Italy / 57 mins
Ninety days to make a life-changing choice. Women of all social backgrounds go to the Cervello Hospital in Palermo for a voluntary termination of pregnancy while the pro-life center ostracizes this practice. Nurse Antonietta guides the women on their path into having an abortion with pills and sanitary pads, while the women of the anti-abortion movement carry on their battle by offering layettes and showing photographs of newborn babies. Two opposing worlds united by a race against time.
The director tells stories, hopes, desires, doubts and fears of some women who are facing a life changing choice. Untangling the difficulties that follow their decision, the women protagonists confront guilt and the whys of their choices. The female body is absent and present at the same time, crossed by tensions and uncertainties.
Novelette is Trying
Giselle Miller
Canada / 100 mins
Vancouver’s first Black queer web series introduces Novelette, a cynical, anti-social, and newly single bisexual woman who reluctantly takes on a roommate to help with the rent on her East Van apartment. At first, the extroverted, outspoken Audre seems like the wrong choice. But, although their personalities clash, Audre’s boldness soon rubs off on Novelette in the best way, encouraging her to dive back into the dating pool.
Object(s) of Desire
Liberty Antonia Sadler
UK / 4 mins
An intimate colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ is a three performer portrait & poem film.
Old Fashioned /
Meio Antiquado
Murilo, a lonely man in his 40’s, participates in a threesome and has no idea that, after this new experience, life has a surprise in store for him. This short film is about the times we live in and the relentless search for our other half.
Trailer… Here
On The Other Side Of
Mia Felić
2024
Croatia, Estonia / 6 mins
The work explores the transgender body in transition through the alternative photographic process Mordançage. The mordançage, using its tremendous chemical pressure alters the silver gelatine prints, causing them to undergo slow, gradual transformation. The tissue of the body and of the print breaks and a new life, new forms areborn.
Open Dialogue: Generation QueerZ
Freddy Rodriguez
2024
USA / 19 mins
Open Dialogues: Gen QueerZ captures the LGBTQ+ narratives of eight South Florida students who are part of Generation Z. The fourth film in the Center’s Open Dialogues series, Gen QueerZ gives voice to students who are among the first generation to be “out” while attending school and living at home. Their stories reflect a diversity of gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and academic studies while exploring allyship, threats, and the dynamics of being out at home with family.
Trailer… Here
Painted Ones
Julia Husain Nacario
2024
USA / 4:36 mins
A Visayan tattoo artist traverses and unlocks Indigenous Filipinx histories through ink.
Papi’s Pregnant
Oliverio Rodriguez
2024
USA / 82 mins
Papi’s Pregnant chronicles filmmaker Oli Rodriguez’ conception and navigation of getting pregnant as a transmasculine identified/non-binary person.
Trailer… here
para Carlos
Carlos Cipriano
2024
Brazil / 15 mins
Você foi embora sem me dar a chance de dizer adeus. Só agora que viajo sozinho pra longe de Goiás é que posso fazer essa despedida. Te escrevo essa carta pra isso.
Parida por el mar
Santiago Aldunate
2024
Chile / 18 mins
Los traumas, en ocasiones, resultan imposibles de reconstruir por completo; nuestro cuerpo, como mecanismo de defensa, los borra, dejando huellas en el inconsciente. Jeana nos guía en un viaje por la infancia, en sus palabras ‘la herida más grande que todes llevamos dentro’. A partir de una performance de su propia vida, nos relata los personajes que alguna vez la habitaron, entre imágenes entrecortadas y superpuestas, que se repiten, avanzan o retroceden, ilustrando la complejidad de la memoria cuando se enfrenta a lo inombrable.huella indeleble en el camino hacia un futuro en el que la moda y la humanidad se reinventen.
Personal Mythologies
Susan O’Brien
USA / 4 mins
Painter Dominique Castelano reflects on her trans identity through folklore from her native Philippines in this visually rich portrait.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/909805490
Pic Pic
Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand
Canada / 6:49 mins
Pic Pic is an experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching. The haptic relationship with the pin screen reveals forms and a primitive language that evoke a sensual relationship with the device.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/898199735
Pieces
Germany / 4 mins
A confused, two-dimensional misfit, unloved in their 2D home, ventures into the 3D world. Desperate to feel loved and find a safe space, they start losing touch with reality.
Watch..here
Polar
UK / 2 mins
An avalanche changes a polar bear's life, sending him on a journey across a barren fantasy world. A rich narrative exploration of mental health.
Inspired by testimonials on bipolar disorder, this disorienting frame by frame animated short gives life to the experience of millions through fantasy, vivid colour, and metaphor.
Pole Me Up B!tch
USA / 15 mins
While facing substance abuse, Casey from Texas pursues his passion for pole dancing in Boston.
Prism: A Nonbinary Documentary
USA / 5 mins
A gentle exploration across the nonbinary spectrum.
Queer Exile
Germany / 10 mins
After fleeing Egypt in the wake of the 2011 revolution, an activist seeks refuge in Berlin, yearning for a fresh start and the promise of safety and freedom. Yet, his journey leads him to a refugee camp situated in an area frequented by far-right groups staging anti-refugee demonstrations. Caught in the crossfire of hostility in his adopted home and the longing for his former life, he grapples with the complexities of his identity and the challenges of walking down a queer path. As he reflects on his past and contemplates his future, he confronts profound questions about belonging, sacrifice, and the true meaning of freedom.
Queer (Un)Belongings
Euskadi / Basque Country / 108 mins
Film in two parts consisting of interviews with seven artists who live in the Basque Country, identify as LGBTQ+ and are marked by different histories of migration. In the first part, the participating artists are Gerri Cruz, Atic H. Deba, Camila Téllez and Anaís Córdova Páez, while the second part features Komba Mingomba, Styles Osunde and Leo Bueriberi. The project focuses on the intersections between queerness, artistic practices and migrancy with the intention to create discourse on these issues in the Basque context and to break with linear and simplifying imaginations of belonging, be it in terms of gender, sexuality or geo-political territories.
Trailer… here
Quem sabe nesse carnaval
Brazil / 24 mins
Neste conto de Carnaval, Flora, uma viajante chilena de 54 anos, vai a Fortaleza para aproveitar o feriado e recuperar sua individualidade após o fim de um casamento de 30 anos. Ela fica com Sami, um jovem apaixonado por videogames, que largou a faculdade para perseguir o sonho de se tornar streamer, mas que odeia o Carnaval apesar de viver ao lado das festividades. Neste fragmento de road movie, assistimos a um encontro improvável de dentro da casa de Sami, impulsionado pela época do ano, onde a prudência das “boas maneiras” dá lugar a amores efêmeros, com a fantasia de que os desejos são satisfeitos entre noites inesquecíveis e a ressaca da Quarta-feira de Cinzas.
Raposa
Margot Leitão
Brazil / 15 mins
Em uma pequena casa no interior do Ceará, mora Raposa, uma mulher com um jeito peculiar que chama a atenção de Lelé, um faz-tudo que trabalha na casa ao lado. A relação entre eles muda com sons estranhos vindos da casa de Raposa.
Red Rose Aroma
Albania / 15 mins
Fiori, a provincial girl, forms a deep emotional connection with Era a librarian who happens to stop by at her florist shop. Their friendship grows more when she helps her discover the beauty of the riviera.
Trailer… here
Release
Lau Zautsen
2024
Netherlands / 22 mins
Young Bo goes on a sexual journey in a gay sauna. His escapades become wilder and darker until he reaches a breaking point.
resonant (videoperformance)
Resonantes Ruido Trans
2024
Colombia / 4 mins
This song, emerging from the earth with strength, foretells us of a future of encounters and sonorous clashes, of exploration in vibrational waves, and of dreams in a Tibetan bowl. Here is the file, the echoes, the remaining moss of a place that claims, seduces, and bewitches. Today our sounds embrace trans memory, and hug our hug, accompanying our walk in the mountains.
Rockland Palace
Robert Philipson
2024
USA / 5:13 mins
Rockland Palace hosted the largest of the drag balls in not only Harlem but New York City during the Roaring Twenties. This stylized reimagining of the ball contextualizes snippets of conversation actually heard at the drag and published in the scandalous gay novel, The Young and Evil, in 1933.
Sagrada Travesti do Evangelho
Júlia F. Cândida
2024
Brazil / 18:49 mins
Manuela anda tendo pesadelos terríveis. Ela suspeita que sua alma esteja morta. Talvez fazer um filme sobre isso resolveria?
Saturn Return
Daniela Zahlner
2024
Austria / 30 mins
The historic Saturn films, produced in Vienna 1906–1911, were the first films ever to be made in Austria, and amongst the world's first erotic / pornographic ones. Here, ten films are restaged and appropriated in a contemporary setting.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/947822447
School Birds
Quentin Corker-Marin
2024
UK / 6 mins
Burnt out by the pressures of conforming to an isolating world, a primary school teacher is unable to find meaningful connection in life. At breaking point, he gives into his inner desires and begins to dance. Will the school's janitor accept him? Can he find the strength to accept himself?
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/SchoolBirds
Scrapped Fabric /
Retaso
Jake Muñoz Consing
2024
Philippines / 11 mins
Fearing her mother’s disapproval, a teenage trans girl secretly sews a prom dress from her mother’s scrap fabric.
Sea of Memory /
Kai Hali’a
Angelique Kalani Axelrode
2024
USA / 9 mins
Through layers of space, time and memory across the ocean and ʻāina (land) on Maui, a diasporic Kānaka (Hawaiian) remembers how to connect back to themselves, their family and their lover.
Trailer… Here
Seasonal Delusions
Baby LeStrange
2024
USA / 6 mins
Baby LeStrange is crazy about Pumpkin Spice. Things go from a normal day getting coffee to a campy horror story. Baby LeStrange turns into a deranged pumpkin head character terrorizing the neighborhood. Was it real, or did Baby drink a bad batch oh pumpkin spice latte.
She Keeps Me Warm
Lee Rach
2024
USA / 8 mins
Trapped in a snowbank, a recently broken-up couple find solace in a tender moment of intimacy before their rescue.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/928298905
Skin Beneath Sand
Katy Alberdingk Thijm
Netherlands / 6 mins
Two young women are lying on an empty beach, where a silent battle ensues. Boundaries between tenderness and aggression, jealousy and admiration fade in a choreography, shot in black and white.
Sobra Tanta Falta
Augusto Ramos
2024
Brazil / 9:16 mins
Daniel é um jovem gay que pela superproteção de seu pai, tem muitas inseguranças. Após a morte de sua esposa, Jorge cria Daniel sozinho, através da sua masculinidade imposta e de cuidados excessivos. Num dia comum, Jorge acaba flagrando Daniel se despedindo de Igor de maneira carinhosa. No ápice do seu desespero ele volta para casa e agora precisa decidir em como vai enfrentar essa situação com seu filho.
Sole
Ana Berdeja
2024
Mexico / 15 mins
As an embalmer dreams up dialogue with a teenage trans boy she's been told to put in a dress, she struggles to honour the dead without wounding his grieving family.
Soma and Rasmus
Germany / 15 mins
The queer lovestory is about the special relationship between a gay protagonist and his lesbian friend and the great test their friendship has to face when something significant changes between them.
Split Ends
Slovenia / 14:54 mins
Špela (26), who has undergone chemotherapy due to lymphatic cancer, and her friend Hannah (26) are casually socializing in Špela's college dormitory room. Through their conversation, we become aware of our own fragility and insecurities, even when it comes to the most mundane matters, such as visual appearance.
Trailer… https://filmfreeway.com/SPLITENDS746
Spins, Splits, Stories
Ireland / 5 mins
Leon Pinto, a singer and pole dancer from Australia, shares his personal story of growing up in Australia and Ireland, culminating in a captivating performance at The George. A film that invites you to take a moment and revel in his raw and heartfelt recollection.
Straight From the Throat
Ryan Luis Fuller
USA / 6 mins
Luis attempts to notify anonymous people he slept with of his positive oral gonorrhea test results while navigating moving forward with his life. STRAIGHT FROM THE THROAT highlights the realities of hook-up culture, sexual health, relationships, and communication.
STP
Brook Lee Karner,
Pat Shafer
USA / 7 mins
3 boys,Lil D, Cam, and Eggstrut around LA recording a day of shameless perversion,debauchery and castration.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/950088537
Sweethearts
Rainer Sellien
2024
Germany / 20 mins
Suse and Ulla are happy together. Together with Ulla's son Karl, they live in the country and enjoy the summer. One day, Tom comes by. Tom is Suse's ex - and he is on his way to a rehab clinic. But as the morning progresses, it becomes clear that Tom is not really happy with the fact that Suse has broken up with him. And Suse's hope that Tom will have grown up a little as a result of the planned rehab is soon dashed.
Watch… Here
Teledoc Campus - Ik zeg je eerlijk
Eva Nijsten
2024
25 mins
Captivating documentary about a gay teacher who has converted to Islam and candidly discusses sexual and religious diversity with his pupils. But how do the children react when he tells them about his private life?
The Apprentice /
La Discípula
Rafael Martínez-García
2024
México / 21 mins
Tamara, una exitosa escritora, se encuentra batallando para escribir su siguiente novela, con la que, además, celebrará sus primeros 25 años de carrera. Mariana, su mejor alumna en la escuela de literatura, podría convertirse en su salida a tan agobiante bloqueo creativo.
Tamara, a successful writer, is struggling to write her next novel, which will also mark her 25th anniversary in her career. Mariana, her top student from the school of literature, might become her way out of this daunting creative block.
Trailer… Here
The Bend
Sarah McCarron
2024
USA / 11 mins
A trans man migrating from Tennessee to Minneapolis gets stranded in rural Wisconsin and encounters a fisherman. Unsure whether he is safe, he ultimately finds help, a shared humanity, and makes his way to his chosen family.
The Canary
Camilo Silva
2024
USA, Canada / 19 mins
The Canary is a poignant documentary short portraying a Michigan library worker and mother of a transgender child as she confronts the rising tide of book-banning in her community. In the face of mounting censorship threats in the United States, from contentious school board meetings to community debates, courageous librarians find themselves at the forefront of a battle to protect the freedom to read. Set against the backdrop of her community library's impending closure due to censorship attempts and escalating threats against librarians, The Canary intimately explores the personal challenges she confronts, illuminating the profound impact of censorship on her family. Interweaving the imminent loss of the Patmos Library, fervent book-banning efforts, and her personal narrative, the documentary invites audiences to witness contemporary censorship challenges through the eyes of a dedicated library worker. Metaphorically likening the librarian and her library to a ‘canary in the coal mine’, the film serves as a vital warning sign in today's America and a pivotal moment in the fight against book-banning.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/919598672
The Day of Amala /
Quarta de Amalá
On a Wednesday morning, Suiá, a 19-year-old transgender woman, and Rai, an 18-year-old cisgender woman, embark on the journey of preparing the Amalá ritual. After the ritual, they go home together. As they get home, a passionate kiss triggers insecurities in Rai that shakes Suiá. In the next morning, Rai returns determined to make things right.
The Debutante
Veronica Moonhill
USA / 14 mins
In a bid to avoid her debutante ball, a girl teams up with a hyena and hatches a murderous plan for it to go to the party in her place. Based on a story by Leonora Carrington.
The Dream with Sofa
Korea / 20mins
Taesan and Dongju are a long-time couple. As they prepare to move, they find an old sofa on the street and bring it home. Their cramped apartment, now filled with the sofa, the couple preparing for their move, and their dreams, are depicted with an air of detachment. The film captures their emotions with a unique rhythm, floating in the air.
Trailer… here
The Flower Duet
USA / 5 mins
Directed by Artist Eddie Jelinet this art visual film is an homage to the musical piece of Leo Delibes “the flower duet”
Trailer...http://www.eddiejelinet.com/
The Inescapable Desire of Roots
Lam Li Shuen
Singapore / 6 mins
A man with hair growing wildly over his body is taken by manic expressions of ecstasy and anguish. He struggles with the hair becoming a mode of his subjugation, while being overwhelmed by the explosive jubilance of its sprouting. A bizarre vision of discipline and the body in Singapore.
Trailer… here
The Journey Home
In two parallel worlds of light and darkness, a liberated trans man enjoys a lush idyll while a creature is warped out of shape by its bindings.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/905366876
The Legend of the Dun Cow
A camp and luscious exploration of butter and the sensorial experience of agricultural practice. Combining intense documentary footage with tableaus and original music, the film is a playful take on the place of the cow in the Irish consciousness.
Trailer… Here
The Martyr /
El Mártir
A young man’s obsession with the half-naked figure of Jesus Christ leads him down a dangerous path of self-harm and masochistictendencies.
The Notch
Mina Sadati
2024
Iran / 20 mins
Despite the love they have for each other, a young Iranian couple are going through a separation because of the different sexual desires and gender identity that the husband has been noticing in the past years.
The Popstar Water Deer and I
Sasha Lee
2024
South Korea / 17mins
Although globally rare, the water deer is common in Korea and typically encountered when it suddenly jumps out and gets hit by a car.
The Princess and the Peacock
Daniel Baker-Wells
Germany / 13 mins
A portrait of an extraordinary queer trans woman; and a rare and intimate glimpse into the transformative world of FLINTA (femme, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, asexual) freak-show.
Trailer… here
The Unfinished Film
Mary Tilden
USA / 14 mins
After losing the apartment of her dreams to an alt-right landlord, Phoebe calls up her best friend Fran for consolation, and the two embark on an adventure as Fran attempts to convince Phoebe that finishing their long-neglected film project will solve both of their problems. The Unfinished Film is a heartfelt and comedic ode to queer friendship.
The Voice of Fear
Henrique Arruda
2024
Brazil / 6 mins
In how many worlds has your fear trapped you? This film may not give you an answer, but it'll show you some of mine.
The Way She Sounds
Halen Llewellyn King
2024
Canada / 3 mins
A love letter to oneself and the journey to becoming who you are.
The Weaver
Mistress Iris,
Paul Flé
France / 9 mins
In Mistress Iris & Paul Flé's atmospheric short film, "The Weaver," an alluring dance takes an unexpected turn, blurring the lines between passion and peril. The narrative begins innocuously enough with two women, Melissa (Lara Mistretta) and Iris (Mistress Iris), returning home, presumably from a date. At the outset, Melissa appears to take on the role of seductress, choosing music and initiating a provocative dance for Iris.
These Kids Don't Get It, Ma.
Elle Jung
USA / 6:28 mins
A trans woman attempts to translate a poem to her mother over the phone. Subtitles escape containment. Diegesis explodes.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/960676115
They Shoot Horses
Ryan Harman
2024
USA / 7 mins
A determined athlete faces a grueling rooftop gym class, pushing his limits to secure his name at the top of the board, but at what cost? As he battles physical and emotional exhaustion, this workout becomes a test of his willpower and resilience.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/910464443
Threaded
Naaman Azhari
2024
UK / 5 mins
From a young age, Faisal has been marked by his indecisiveness. Each birthday, his mother would lovingly knit him a sweater in a different color, symbolizing the various paths he could take in life. These colorful threads tell a story of a boy growing up under the warm and watchful eye of a mother who wishes only the best for her son.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/948900947
Time Before Kevin
Raine Gado
Philippines / 9 mins
Set in a near future, Kevin, a young scientist haunted by his childhood memories, attempts to construct a time machine that brings him back to his past. After numerous setbacks, the machine springs to life! But to his surprise, the machine takes him to a realm saturated with pictures of his adolescence, where his memories had become toxic to the core of his true self. Kevin attempts to enter each memory, but cannot bare seeing his younger self burdened with the suppression of his true identity. With a new way to assure and be the hero to his younger self, he is determined to change the story that had already been written.
Trailer… here
Time Capsule
Constanze Brodbeck
USA / 5 mins
Through interactions with a self who has yet to exist, Constanze creates a time capsule for herself in 10 years exploring themes of aging, transition, and consciousness.
Trailer...here
Time to Dilate
Kim Nayoung
South Korea / 22 mins
Two lovers, Myung-ki and Do, break up because of a secret Myung-ki’s been hiding. When they meet again, this secret cannot be ignored.
Trailer… here
To Glow at H.U.M. University
Naya Ryan
2024
USA / 5:29 mins
A queer Black student stows their powers from new classmates.
Transition to Death
Nate Newman
2024
Vietnam / 20 mins
With the help of a strange witch and an armoury of deadly sex toys, an undead trans stripper seeks gory, grindhouse revenge.
Tusi Taxi
Omar Beretta
2024
Argentina / 11 mins
Postcards from a bourgeois family: Joel, his dealer, his mother and his guardian angel. A taxi ride to a destination they don't want to escape from.
Trailer… here
Two Little Mice /
Hai Con Chuột
Nguyen Anh Thach
2024
Vietnam / 16 mins
In an old apartment in Saigon, a 25-year-old man named An has a close friend, Chuột, over to hang out and spend the night. An has secretly loved him for a long time, but tomorrow Chuột will be getting married. An knows that this is the last night they will be close to each other.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/911510796
Último México
Alejandro Schonfeld
2024
Argentina / 19 mins
Mariano y yo nos separamos. Habíamos estado juntos nueve años. En estos videos estamos promediando nuestra relación. Estamos de viaje, estamos enamorados, sabemos que el amor se acaba pero no que se nos va a acabar también a nosotros. Yo quería hacer un documental, un diario de viaje. Hoy en estos videos encuentro otra cosa. Una intimidad que ya no existe, detenida en el tiempo.
Un Buen Día
Aritz Et
2024
Basque Country / 6 mins
A man walks purposefully towards the place in the mountain where his husband died. Today is his birthday. One call could change everything.
Under the Cherries
Frida Retz
2024
Denmark / 16 mins
In an absurd landscape where the grass is alive, and flowers grow out of asses, a goat and a goddess explore gender, sex, and power.
Unexplored
Bryn Woznicki
USA / 13 mins
Digital artist Lex Carre documents her struggle with anxiety through work that she posts anonymously online. Her pieces capture the attention of cunning curator Andrea Caulfield, who offers mentorship in exchange for control of Lex’s career.
When Lex’s mental health starts to spiral from the pressure, Andrea assumes ownership of her work—prompting Lex to plot a psychological showdown against the exploitative mentor who stole her art and nearly destroyed her mind.
Velipadu:
“The Revelation”
India / 26 mins
Against the sensory landscape of Kottayam, Johnny, a soon-to-be priest, must navigate his way out of his dissonant life and towards self-discovery. The film reanimates Malayali gay desire through an expressionistic use of Christian music, intimate tastes and unabashed touches, while depicting delicate specifics of same-sex fondness. Resisting the popular narratives, the film discusses plural possibilities of romantic relationships. Interspersing semi- autobiography with fiction, Velipadu: “The Revelation” is a bitter-sweet rhapsody that sings of love and faith, both lost and regained like some Miltonic Paradise.
Trailer… here
Walk
Beth Ashby
2024
USA / 6 mins
A fashion designer with social anxiety conjures an imaginary dominatrix to force her to face a career-defining presentation and move forward.
Watsonville Drag Story Time
Rita Carmona
2024
USA / 10 mins
Watsonville Drag Story Time follows the first official bilingual drag story time in Watsonville, CA. After an anonymous hate letter was published in a local newspaper, security and support for the queer community and this debut event becomes more important than ever. Local organizers work together to curate a powerful family friendly event.
We Deserve an Empire /
Merecemos Un Imperio
Mauricio Maldonado
Colombia / 23 mins
Scrap metal thieves prepare to excavate an abandoned mine for gold.
Trailer… here
What we have done What we have left undone
Catherine Crouch
2024
USA / 75 mins
Examining the racial history of All Saints in Indianapolis and exploring how racist policies and actions continue to impact the congregation in uneven ways, this film combines stories from community members historicized with archival footage documenting neighborhood changes that impacted the racial make-up of the congregation and the internal dynamics of the church.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/894731398
Where do we go
Jade Blackthorne
2024
USA / 3:30 mins
On a quest to find a restroom, a trans woman is obstructed by an AI device.
Where to Piss
Karter Masuhara
2024
UK / 8 mins
A trans man wants to use the men’s bathroom for the first time, however, he’s hindered by his own fears and insecurities. He shares these fears to his friend shown through imaginary scenarios.
Whitewash
Jerry Hsu
USA / 13 mins
After being accepted into the Ivory Estates, a queer Asian man moves in with his new fiancé and discovers that he’s the only person of color in the neighborhood and soon uncovers the estates' secrets.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/930302389
Would you be down to study sometime?
Sofia Fabio Mendieta
2024
USA / 4 mins
A shy Asian girl adrift in her studies finds an inspiration beyond books.
You Don’t Have toApologize /
Não precisa pedir desculpa
Franco Cavezale
2024
Brazil / 16:48 mins
Rafa is a young transgender gay man living in a small town. He has resigned himself to the belief that he will never find another guy who accepts him, until he meets Henrique, a boy from São Paulo who seems to see Rafa for who he truly is. However, after the events of one night that lead to Rafa’s death and subsequent return as a supernatural being, he realizes that he will never be accepted by cisgender society. Fueled by this realization and the circumstances of his death, he seeksvengeance.