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AMORHONGO
(mush love)
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Edgar M Garcia
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2024
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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.
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Barbette + Fontaine
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John-Carlos Estrada,
Zak Zeh
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2024
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USA / 14 mins
A century apart, two drag icons unite through art, resilience, and a shared legacy of self-expression and freedom. Leading the cast is Cynthia Lee Fontaine of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies
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Benjamin Rosenthal, Eric Souther
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2024
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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
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Chemsex
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Daniel Porto
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2024
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Brazil / 7 mins
A group of unknown gay men connect via a dating app for casual encounters. The starting point is a chemsex party, where drug use intensifies sexual experiences, but also reveals the depths of human emotions. The film explores both the fascination and liberating energy of these encounters and the emptiness and loneliness that can haunt a gay man’s life.
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Cocoon
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Holli Xue
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2024
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UK / 11 mins
Denied mobility and decision-making power, the metaphorical and physical cocoon embodies political depression.
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Disconnect
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E8 and Janice Kei
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2024
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Hong Kong, UK / 4 mins
This is the reminiscence of two souls, narrating in memory their own truths and fantasies of their stories together.
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Exile
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Eliza Knaggs
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2024
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Australia
Claire is banished to the streets after her father finds out she is gay.
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Good Ally x MMDA
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Sean Sean McGuire
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2024
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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.
Watch… https://youtu.be/n_ukV6Aq8SU?si=VCNxuFu0a5enL7h1
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Love Bound
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Shanshan Chen
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2024
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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
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Malfouf
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Omar Alqahtani
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2024
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USA
Henan, ingrained in her ways, confronts her repressed desires when she meets a queer weaving instructor.
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Matinee Baby
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Thom Hilton
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2024
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USA / 19 mins
A gay movie theater worker is confronted by a procession of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors.
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Nelson Sullivan: A Portrait of Downtown
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Aimy Stevens
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2024
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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.
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O Pomar
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Ana Manana,
Joana Lourenço
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2024,
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Portugal / 14 mins
End of the summer. Laura works at the pear harvesting, a family business. Carol, an old friend, arrives at the village to spend a few of her vacation days with her friends. That night, when Laura catches them stealing pears, she is confronted regarding her true intent.
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Release
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Lau Zautsen
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2024
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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.
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Rockland Palace
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Robert Philipson
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2024
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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.
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School Birds
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Quentin Corker-Marin
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2024
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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
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Sucker’s Death /
Śmierć frajera
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Krzysztof Grudziński
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2024
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Poland / 20 mins
A member of a nationalist organisation lives in a quiet town with his lone mother. His life is all about hitting the gym and working in a local store. Other members of the group make fun of him because of his homosexual brother, who escaped to Warsaw. One unfortunate day he’s blackmailed into planting explosives on the route of the Warsaw pride parade.
Trailer
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The Bus Driver
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Ku Ki
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2024
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Myanmar / 22 mins
A bus conductor and his wife struggle to make ends meet, having to cope with long working hours and daily power cuts in Myanmar. Yet, this queer couple seems to be completely integrated into their community, despite LGBTQ+ people being legally persecuted by the military regime.
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The Voice of Fear
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Henrique Arruda
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2024
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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.
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Under the Cherries
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Frida Retz
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2024
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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.
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Watsonville Drag Story Time
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Rita Carmona
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2024
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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.
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