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The Other Database...

We do strive to include every film that has been screened at the LGBT film festivals around the world.

Life does become a little more difficult when they [the films] don’t have an IMDb entry...therefore, they end up here...films in dire need of publicity/promotion/marketing...

2011 - UPDATED: October 2023

 

 

¡Qué Te Den Por Culo!

Chico Morera

2011

Spain / 7 mins
Cuando se vive en pareja, cualquier cosa puede desencadenar una discusión...
Watch...https://youtu.be/vU6-MWBK8n4  

Able

Sandra Alland

2011

6:20 mins
In "Able," Sandra Alland uses stop-motion photography and recorded voice to create a metaphoric and literal vision of barriers to access. The text mixes poetry with benefit applications, border control terminology, and medical and blood donor questionnaires. Notions of disability, race, class, gender identity and sexuality intersect to ask the question: Who gets to be "able"? Part of Tracey Moberly's Tweet-Me-Up at Tate Modern, 2012.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/72506820

Ain’t I a Woman

Kebo Drew

2011

USA / 9 mins
This film celebrates the luminous enduring beauty of Black Femmes and Black transgender women.

Am

Lala Miñoso

2011

Cuba / 13 mins
Lala Miñoso nos muestra a través de este corto algunos sujetos que pueblan el mapa de lateralidades sociosexuales: el proxeneta, la(el) prostituta(o), el foráneo que llega en busca de paraísos sexuales, y la doble moral del supuesto «macho a toda prueba» que abunda en tales ambientes.

Amor a Primera Hora

Nacho Gil

2011

Spain / 5 mins
Video ganador de la III Edición del Concurso "safe REC&PLAY safe" organizado por stop sida que promueve el sexo más seguro entre hombres y utiliza Internet para implicar al colectivo homo/bisexual en la creación de mensajes preventivos.
Watch...https://youtu.be/QHDSNERt_uY

At Least You Know You Exist 

Zackary Drucker

2011

USA / 16 mins
At Least You Know You Exist is a site-specific exploration of a fixed space where everything is in a state of change. In this 16mm film, totemic mystical objects act as a collection of mysterious sculptures in different states of mutation, and rich layers of feverish history interface with a new vision of transgender performativity.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/207668938

Beastliness Deborah Kelly
Beastliness

Deborah Kelly

2011

Australia / 4:25 mins
'Beastliness' 2011 is an animated video made from photomontage works in which a fantastic bestiary of creatures and women dance and morph, becoming each other and consuming each other. Kelly re-mythologises the feminine into the hybrid creatures that have lurked within the human imagination over millennia and through doing so questions the assumptions and fears that have swirled around gender roles and rules in western culture. She does so through the hyper-contemporary visual language of digital media while also referring to early 20th century photo-montage pioneers such as Hannah Hoch and the Dada movement. In moving from the natural to the unnatural and the supernatural, Kelly makes the point that nothing may be what it seems and that how we view each other is always mediated through cultural and social conditioning.
Watch… https://youtu.be/nP02KcZrKuw

Being-Lucy poster
Being Lucy /
Essere Lucy

Gabriella Romano

2011

Italy / 68 mins
The Lovers Film Festival's tribute to Lucy Salani shortly after her death. Based on her autobiographical book (Il mio nome è Lucy. L'italia del XX secolo nei ricordi di una transessuale), this documentary gives us an intimate portrait of the author herself, who endured the years of Fascism and the dreadful experience of being interned in Dachau. The only Italian trans woman who survived the horror of Nazi-Fascism. She became a symbol of the Italian Transgender movement thanks to the inestimable political value of her life.

Boyfriend

Rithea Phichith

2011

Cambodia / 14 mins
"Boyfriend" is a short fiction film about a strange relationship between an elderly lawyer and a young university student. This relationship doesn't go without confusion or prejudice of people around them.
Watch... https://youtu.be/XLow6Mj0o5I

Cab Ride

Farrah Khan

2011

Canada / 5 mins
Deeply personal, the artist’s relationship with her driver father, sharing her lesbian identity.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/32244606

Chistes de Mariquitas

Roberto Pérez Toledo

2011

Trailer...https://youtu.be/DOXwSKNuAE8

Code A

Burak Karacan

2011

Canada / 1 min
This piece was inspired by my curiosity of the probable patterns the ayran* would make on the inner surface of the bottle after I shook and put down a half-full ayran bottle on my desk. (* Ayran is a popular cold beverage of yogurt mixed with water and often salt.)

Code E

Burak Karacan

2011

Canada / 2 mins
Burak Karacan’s Code E was inspired by the question, “Can I obtain a moving image from a single photograph?”
Watch… https://youtu.be/BW5I4kub08Q

Disease of Manifestation

Wu Tzu-An

2011

Taiwan / 9 mins
This work is an argument initiated by Wendy Brown’s article Resisting Left Melancholy. There is the thingness of the thoughts that can be seen as the lost object. Extending this idea, the thingness of thoughts that comes from one’s personal or collective memories could become a pathological fixation. 

I lived in the absence twice /
J'ai habité l'absence deux fois

Drifa Mezenner

2011

Algeria / 24 mins
Drifa Mezenner films the weight of the absence of his brother Sofiane, who illegally left Algeria for England in 1992. He recounts Algeria, a stagnant present and a past that is forcefully removed, under the illusion of thus being able to move forward, instead exposing to the risk of making the same mistakes again. And it also recounts absence, the two different forms of exile: the externalized one of the brother who has been away for thirty years, and the inner one of those left waiting, watching the younger ones lose faith and flee. Two forms of exile that speak of a missing country which can come into a fuller existence again only when Algerians will no longer be forced to leave.
Watch… https://youtu.be/HWtLEw7ViPo

Ki SS

Thunska Pansittivorakul

2011

Thailand
“Farang” (foreigner) consider lips-to-lips kissing as good and Thai-style kissing as bad. The fact of one preference over another is a sign of lack of understanding between people. “KI SS” is a video installation that interprets this quote from a Thai book on kissing traditions by Sathirakoses.  
Watch...https://vimeo.com/92194670

Killer Plastic-o. Tu ti faresti entrare?

Stefano Pistolini

2011

Italy / 50 mins
A full immersion in one of the most famous club of Milano and maybe of Italy: Plastic through the words of its founders, DJs, goers and celebrities.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/yVUqk5quRGk

Kissing Frogs

Christina Svien

2011

Denmark, Turkey / 14 mins
Kissings Frogs is a documentary about gay life in Beyoglu, Istanbul. Represented of two generations, each sharing their story.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/19781958

Knotty Boy

Chelsea Downs

2011

USA / 10 mins
Rik realized at a young age that he had a fascination with the fetish-kinky, which was not so much accepted by his English-German parents. Never the less, the world around him needed to be explored. At the age of 16, with his first car and a girlfriend, he had the freedom needed to find out more.

Loss

Benjamin Guibault

2011

Lifes painful lessons

Love Without Borders

Max Anatskaya

2011

Belorussia / 3 mins
The video perfectly shows the harmonious love of heterosexual and homosexual couples. Primarily intended for the Belarusian audience to make aware of the supposed rights of equality for the members of LGBT Community.

Many Classic Moments

Fuyuhiko Takata

2011

Japan / 3 mins

Michael’s Coming Out Story

The Youth Panel

2011

Michael’s story is that his family is in crisis. Their lives have been on hold since the death of his brother twelve months ago. They have never properly dealt with it as a family and now everyone is walking around with their feelings bottled up inside. The situation comes to a head when Michal’s father finds out that Michael is gay and suddenly a years’ worth of painful truth comes rushing out.
Watch...https://youtu.be/7kll6IIkYYE

Pink Boys

Bennet Pimpinella

2011

3 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/30148360

Plan Perfecto
Plan Perfecto

Tavo Ruiz

2011

Mexico / 8 mins
Alejandro has a perfect plan for ending his relationship with Manuel, but not everything seems to be as it looks.
Watch...https://youtu.be/HBsJ4Su8XeY

Scripts

Hieu Tran

2011

USA / 10 mins
Hunter, a punctual hopeless romantic, subconsciously juggles the rules he has for dating on a blind date. However, hiS expectations are contradicted as he spends his night with laid-back Taylor. Hunter listlessly does his hardest to impress his date but continues to maneuver through instances of the evening where his social rules of dating are not applicable.
Watch...https://youtu.be/7r-OwhdooZI

She is my Son

Irene Nduta

2011

Uganda / 5:12 Mins
When a father realizes that his son is an intersex child, he seeks the guidance of his own father who advises him not to tamper with his child's sexuality. 24 years latter his son wants to be a man without fully grown female breasts.

Shoga Yangu Hissan Muya
Shoga Yangu

Hissan Muya

2011

Tanzania

Susana

María Eugenia Prieto

2011

Chile / 19 mins
Susana is a transvestite who begins to make a living in the sex industry. She accidentally sees her father take the services of a companion, who later appears to have been beaten. Susana decides to open up to her mother.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/58556445

Tenso

Dácio Pinheiro

2011

Brazil / 5 mins
Baseado no movimento “Tenso” da Sonata para piano de Camargo Guarnieri, o curta do pianista Antonio Vaz Lemes explora a relação entre a tensão musical e a tensão física.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/49652423

The Humping Pact, Sacra River Dolomites, Italy Mission

Diego Agulló,
Dmitry Paranyushkin

2011

Germany / 9 mins
Watch...https://vimeo.com/54519760

The Last Kiss El Ultimo Beso
The Last Kiss /
El Último Beso

Nico Aguerre Garbarino

2011

Spain / 4 mins
Ricardo y Antonio disfrutan de una romántica jornada de playa, hasta que uno de ellos se echa a llorar.
Watch...https://youtu.be/jH_NN5VXatU


The Night At The End Of The TunnelThe Night at the End of the Tunnel

Toby Ross

2011

USA / 63 mins
The fascinating connection between darkness and sex is discussed by several panels made of experts and intellectuals. Meet and hear what the hottest men from the Toby Ross Films have to say. Why do closet cases make for such good cinematic subjects? Is it okay to be turned on while being afraid for your life? Why do some choose a life of sleaze?

The Same 4 Letters

Phil Cramp

2011

UK / 15 mins
A short documentary film that provides an insight into the LGBT community in the UK, their fight for equality and how they are perceived by society.

The Straight Gay Ying Yang
The Straight Gay Ying Yang

Toby Ross

2011

USA / 63 mins
What is it about straight guys that drive certain gays gaga?

Three Drops of Holy Water /
Tres Gotas de Agua

Jose Alfaro,
Marco Castro-Bojorquez

2011

Interviews of 3 different immigrant mothers and them coping up with their child’s sexuality...
Watch...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtHcbmvjAg

Tiras de mi Piel

Ayoze Cabrera

2011

Spain / 11 mins
Esta pieza documental pretende proporcionar soporte a una autobiografía ácida, honesta, controvertida, y vital y manifiesta con claridad lo perteneciente al mundo de lo sombrío, de lo velado, al mundo de lo invisible... En un simple acto de valentía sin precedentes, el protagonista aprovecha una fecha clave en su vida para compartir, ante la cámara, sus facetas más susceptibles, más desconcertantes, estigmatizantes y humanas.

Tomorrow Everything Will Be better /
Mañana Todo Sera Mejor

Javier Acha

2011

Spain / 7 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/27186979

Where We Were Not:
Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story

Jessica MacCormack,
Alexus Young

2011

Canada / 6 mins
In Feeling Reserved Alexus shares her story of a ‘starlight tour,’ a practice of police brutality against First Nations peoples in Canada where individuals are driven out of town, stripped of their coats and shoes, and left to freeze to death. In Alexus’ case, a couple happened to drive by her and she was saved. Nonetheless, the emotional scars remain, and many people were not so lucky. The realization that these murders are a continuation of the genocide of First Nations peoples today is horrifying for all. This work highlights the systemic violence at play and the silencing effect it produces.
Watch...https://youtu.be/65odUpYQpNM

Yo Soy Asi

Christina Svien

2011

A film about Karina and her life living as a transgender in Chile.
Watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLph0o53Qk  

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