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(Special) Friend
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Emilio J. López
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2016
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Spain / 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Pedro has fallen in love with his invisible friend, his mother seems not to accept it
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A Film About Love
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Dale John Allen
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2016
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UK | 5 mins
A story of friendship, adventure, love and loss through a lived experience of bi-polar.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/160639934
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A Time For Us
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Rain Cuaca
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2016
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Indonesia | 14 mins
A couple who are not all that they seem to be.
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Ab Ovo
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Luca Ferri
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2016
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Italy / 24'
In un paradiso desertico e ostile, tra montagne di sabbia e solitari cammelli in perpetuo cammino, si rinnovano la vita ed una promessa d'amore all'ombra di un albero solitario. Adamo ed Eva hanno ancora una possibilità. L'ultima occasione per guarire e generare una nuova genìa di esseri umani più dignitosi. Nove piani sequenza in super 8 colore in cui abbiamo preso Adamo ed Eva e gli abbiamo fatto rifare tutto, daccapo.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/195432772
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ABC of Travel
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Signe Baumane
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2016
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USA / 1’07
Several same-letter families travel to the San Francisco Airport for a reunion.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/180723709
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Alexis
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Tamara Cáceres
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2016
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18’
Alexis es un niño de 7 años. Va en kinder y le gusta mucho disfrazarse, especialmente de superhéroes como Spider Man y Iron Man. Le encanta jugar con sus amigas y amigos y parece ser un niño feliz. Alexis es un niño transgénero que empezó su transición de Celeste a Alexis en el año 2015. El documental nos muestra la vida de Alexis, su familia y la transición hacia la identidad de género que él siente le corresponde.
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Andrea Landman
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Manuel Yasir Baldoceda Cerdan
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2016
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Perú / 8’
Andrea Landman es el nombre de la belleza y el arrepentimiento, un personaje con muchos secretos que la destruyen por dentro y fuera.
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Angela
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Sean Horlor & Steve Adams
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2016
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Canada / 12 min
This short documentary explores a week in the life of Angela, also known as Easy Break Oven, a roller derby athlete, transgender rights activist and local role model in Alberta, Canada. As she prepares for the first derby match of the season, she begins to see her teammates and her life in a new light.
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Angel's Premonition / Slutnja angela
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Branislav Princip
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2017
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Serbia / 26 mins
Documentary is dedicated to the memory of Dejan Nebrigić, a Serbian peace activist and the first openly gay man in Serbia. He was also a writer, a poet and a theatre critic. He was a co-founder of the first gay and lesbian oganization Aradija in Serbia. Nebrigić was killed in 1999 on his 29th birthday by his ex-boyfriend.
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Annemarie
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Suzanne Vega
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2016
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Watch...https://youtu.be/yq1cdePr3Hc
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Antonette
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Darren Heroux, Ian Barbour
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2016
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Canada / 47 min
This documentary captures the spirit and life story of local trans elder and poet Antonette Rea—in all of its humour, pain, and passion. Antonette culminates in the production of Miss Understood, the interdisciplinary performance showcased at PuSh Festival last year based on Rea’s poetry. At times harrowing, but ultimately hopeful...
Watch...https://vimeo.com/170964986
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Any Other Day
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Tejashri Joshi
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2016
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India / 15 mins
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Approach/Withdraw
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Ker Wallwork, Juliet Jacques
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2016
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UK / 10'
A meditation on the biology of sex and gender. Getting up close and personal with the hormones that make us and change us from the cellular level to the experiential.
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As a Rabbit / Na králíka
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Kateřina Turečková
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2016
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?
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Así es como te dejo
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Sebastián Mejía
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2016
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Colombia / 15’
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Atmosphere - The Show
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Elisabeth Marek
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2016
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Austria / 17mins
Khusen khaydarov worked as a tailor and designer in his native Tajikistan. He had to flee with his partner Komil - an activist in the LGBT community - due to persecution and discrimination. Once in Vienna, they find themselves confronted by racism, xenophobia and anti-refugee sentiments in the media, and decide to change something negative into a thing of high fashion and creativity.
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Aussi fort qu'une bête, aussi libre qu'un dieu
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Julie Sando
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2016
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Suiza / 21´
Su belleza es inamculada y corre peligro en manos de bestias para quien la diferencia es intolerable. Clío, Sísifo y Janus en una lucha mitológica.
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Be Yourself
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Thitipan Raksasat
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2016
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Thailand / 9 mins
Promotional film on Bangkok Gay Club.
Watch... https://youtu.be/YTyLPfTL4us
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Because I Am
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Lawrence Zidyana
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2016
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Zimbabwe, UK / 6 mins
A short film about being a lesbian in homophobic Zimbabwe. Based on a poem by Tinashe Wakapila. Featuring a cast of six women, five of whom are LGBT asylum claimants in U.K.
Watch… https://youtu.be/N62SQ8mvIfU
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Belleza
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David Moreno
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2016
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Cuba / 11’
Dos muchachas se reencuentran cada año en la ciudad de Gibara para vivir un eterno romance. Se aventuran a recorrer las mismas calles y lugares, compartiendo sentimientos e intimidades, con el afán de hallar la dicha de que nada ha cambiado entre ellas. Simulan o no. que el tiempo se detiene y se entregan sin medida, haciendo espacio a la libertad y el amor.
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Bending the Line
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Ruth Goldman
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2016
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USA | 7'19
What does gender sound like? This old school video combines a simple, playful visual aesthetic with complex sound to challenge and queer assumptions about gender: bending the frame and pushing the sound wave.
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Besos de Mazapan
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Ramses Rodstein
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2016
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5:10min
Two chicanx, non-binary trans queers come together for a tender, sexy encounter ignited by marzipan kisses. Featuring original song, Con Besos by El Primo Inocente.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/320833228
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Bi-Sided
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Rob Van Der Haak
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2016
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The Netherlands / 16 mins
Two opposites cross paths and in their own way, try to achieve pure happiness.
Watch... https://youtu.be/WYZ-UIK1tLU
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Blindfolds Feat. Naz Tokio
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Rilan
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2016
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USA / 3′ / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/4bLl5fTSctk
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Brother, Omar Mateen
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Saad Khan
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2016
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USA /4 minutes 40 seconds
A Muslim queer Pakistani immigrant in the US talks about Omar Mateen, drawing parallels of his own identities with that of the Orlando shooter. The speaker reveles his hopes, his fears, and who he is/what he stands for.
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C.R.E.A.M.P.I.E.
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Ines Kramarić, Julia Jarque
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2016
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Germany / 9 mins
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Caged Animal
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Sam Van Pykeren
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2016
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USA / 4 mins
A piece that brings together multiple experiences into one story. Inspired by my friend’s and my own experiences.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/196787895Watch... https://vimeo.com/196787895
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Cakes Da Killa – “New Phone Who Dis?”
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Ben Clarkson
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2016
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USA / 4′ / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/U3ElynnrCxk
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Care
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April Wilson
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2016
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USA, 8 min
At an assisted living facility the last thing Bea and Rose expect, is to find love, but in doing so redefine expectations of life and commitment.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/172344682
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Carla and Hayfa
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Love Intersections
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2016
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Canada / 9 min
Through an intimate and touching lens of looking at the relationship between a mother and her queer daughter, “Carla & Hayfa” investigates the impact of historical trauma on communities of refugees and their queer family members.
Watch...https://youtu.be/LkOBjQl9bnU
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Carol
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Krissy Mahan
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2016
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USA / 6'
This Carol parody is a simple yet spectacular class analysis of the desire in Todd Haynes' already iconic Carol, using DIY techniques and Fisher Price toys to recreate the modern queer classic.
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Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration
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Ricardo Vieira
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2016
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Portugal / 8´52
Robert Tucker runs through the three first short films directed by Terence Davies. From childhood to old age, the trilogy presents a character through formal, narrative and aesthetic recurrences. This video-essay presents the films in a tripartite screen, organizing and putting in dialogue these same recurrences.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/7pbSDuLBLms
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Coheed and Cambria – Island
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Anderson Wright
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2016
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USA / 5 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/_ED4GBcPI9s
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Coming Out of Space
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Francy Fabritz
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2016
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Germany / 16 min.
Two lesbian women from out of space collide on earth. In super-slow-motion they fall on each other and start exploring their new body feeling on earth: weightlessness wanes, gravity starts – a playful encounter with lesbian sex.
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Comment on peut supposer que Dieu était bien intentionné, malgré les avalanches, les moustaches et les petits tracas du quotidiens
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Dauverné Marie
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2016
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Canada / 6’
Watch...https://vimeo.com/127991687
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Counter Charge
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Alex Hovet
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2016
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USA | 13:00
In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate on Patti in a complex of libido, love, and gender expression that leads Larry/Patti on an investigation of duality. bell hooks' meditations on love attempt to guide them, but are rejected and re-purposed by the game's instinct. Blocked by his own ego and the constructs of the game in which he wanders, Larry's desires are continually repressed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/145794196
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Cuando sea grande
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Brunella Bertocchi Ramírez
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2016
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Perú / 4’
Ariel, un niño soñador, visualiza cómo desea su vida en un futuro. Lista desde sus deseos fantasiosos hasta la mención de un plan de vida con otra persona. Hacia el final, nos revela que la persona con la que busca compartir esto es otro niño: Diego.
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Decisiones
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Rut Angielina G. Fuentes
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2016
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Spain / 1’ 45’’
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Dessous de Table
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Daphnée Perrain
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2016
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Belgium / 6 mins
Toute chamboulée, une table qui n’a pas perdu sa langue
devient le témoin de la vie animée de la Maison Arc En Ciel.
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Diario Blu(E)
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Titta Cosetta Raccagni
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2016
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Italy / 28’
Sono gli Anni ’90: la Guerra del Golfo, l’imporsi sulla scena politica italiana della Lega Nord, la scomparsa del Pci, le (dis)avventure dell’Inter. Intanto per radio passa “Smells Like Teen Spirit” dei Nirvana. Ma se si è adolescenti tutto è tangenziale rispetto al reale cuore delle cose, capire chi si è e diventarlo. Una trasformazione che coincide con i primi innamoramenti, difficili e disperati soprattutto per chi sente la propria diversità. Diario sentimentale di un coming out e di una faticosa scoperta di sé.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/169244207
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Dirty, Sexy Comics
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Robert Chandler
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2016
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USA / 96 mins
They're not just comics. They're not just porn. They are our desires. Our struggles. Our stories. The men who have created gay erotic comic book stories have been turning on readers and documenting gay history in a way no one else has by created time capsules of desire. These are the unsung heroes of the gay community: creative, determined and unapologetic. And they were REALLY good at what they did. They knew how to turn their audience on. They knew how to be gay. And they fucking knew how to WRITE and DRAW! Dirty Sexy Comics tells the story of these hot comics, the brave men who made them, and the history of a struggling but tenacious community.
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dragThequeen
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Emilio González
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2016
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México / 11 mins
Every weekend the center of Mexico City becomes an unparalleled circuit party, the party can start anywhere but always ends here. Sexual diversity here, is the reason for celebration and worship. The “Drag Queens” lead the celebration from the bar, superior and colossal, almost divine. Three characters (Ikki Love, Drag Moon and Luna Lansman) explain the de nition of “Drag Queen” while using their own face as canvas, canvas of their character: the woman which they’ll become all night.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/aEW9t-0lnT8
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Dressed as Girl
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Anna Mae Gordon
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2016
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USA / 21 mins
Rejected by popular girls and bullied by teachers, Fern and Katrina receive a sign that guide them to a whole new kind of sisterhood in this wacky farce.
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Eclipse
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Viet Le
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2016
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Filmed in Hanoi on the fortieth anniversary of the military engagements in Southeast Asia (2015), thinking about still-present pasts, the ghosts of history and modernity.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/159464930
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Edney
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João Roberto Cintra
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2016
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Brazil / 15’32”
Edney vive sozinho, num apartamento pequeno e trabalha lavando pratos. À noite, ele é só Ney: se veste como Ney Matogrosso e se entrega à nostalgia de músicas que contam sua história. Até um rapaz entrar em seu mundo e revirar sua cabeça. Suas duas vidas se misturam: lembranças e o presente, dia e noite, tentando viver e entender esse amor.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/wdOALlh1wfA
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Eggism
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Coco Schwarz & Alina Mann
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2016
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Switzerland, 5min
Body becomes a canvas for sensual nevertheless abstract drawing with ink and egg inspired by the “story of the eye” from Georges Bataille. Analog synthesizer music composed by Coco Schwarz leads the overall sensory experience.
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Eli (Parts 1 and 2)
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Sarah Jenny Johnson
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2016
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UK
Part 1: Elijah is 32. He is a female to male transgender person. He has been transitioning for one year. This is the start of his story…Part 2: Elijah is 34. He is a female to male transgender person. He has been transitioning for three years. This short film is the 2nd instalment in a series of short films about his transition…
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/176027953
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Embrace / Yakap
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Margo Manolo
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2016
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Philippines | 13'
Alee learns that the truth is loudest in the silence when an unexpected encounter alters her plan of coming out to her conservative mother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/6zsYSQhrQoE
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Everything is Allowed / Vale tudo
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Eduardo Wahraftig
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2016
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Brasil / 4’
Una colección de historias de amor cortas, todo tipo de amor.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175234448
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Familiar Memories
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Pol Merchan
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2016
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Germany / 3 min
Based on a flea market find of Super 8 family archives. A father is placed at the center of the image, staging himself in front of the camera as a smug tyrant. A voiceover recontextualises the images by telling a story of what is not visible.
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Familiar Strangers
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Eric Peter
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2016
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Philippines / 13 mins
Thinking about the divinity which trans women and -men in many different cultures worldwide once had, Ram says everyone needs to reclaim that very divinity right here and now to empower themselves and progress.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/154869879
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Fanstasme
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Thomas Bussion
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2016
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France / 4’
A shopping spree with big rewards
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Fantasma Cidade Fantasma
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Pedro B. e Amanda Devulsky
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2016
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Brazil / 14′
O barulho do estacionamento 11 ecoa pelo parque no centro da cidade. É bom poder contar com você.
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Faux Solo
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Nancy Lee
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2016
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Canada / 4 min
Empty space, a human body, and 8 articles of clothing. FAUX SOLO explores the dialogue and collaboration made between the body, sound, clothing and space. Each article of clothing dictates the next move into the unknown space, becoming acquainted with the space with each accumulated piece. The sounds emphasize the impact of the colliding costumes and contrasts to the space surrounding it. It attempts to accent the feel of each moment, while supporting the shape of the entire piece as a whole. Simultaneously, the body is on view yet it is also the tool for manipulating the clothing and environment - the subjective/objective, personal/public is continually emphasized and revealed.
Watch...https://youtu.be/Hby418Qv18g
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Fifteen Again
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Jordy Estrada
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2016
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USA / 5 mins / Music Video
Watch... https://vimeo.com/154839004
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Fluid
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Whei Zhou
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2016
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14m
An experimental film in which a bisexual woman from China explores her identity.
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Fragments of a Roundtable: Pink Life discusses archiving (yuvarlak masa fragmanları: pembe hayat arşiv tartışıyor)
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Esra Ozban
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2016
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Turkey / 5'
How do we archive when our lives must remain hidden? How do we archive when our past is a secret? This short DIY doc from the trans movement in Turkey is packed with powerful questions.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/221641206
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Fuck the Facism
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Jorge Benavides
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2016
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Germany
This activist porn focuses on racism, tyranny and genocide with the help from strap-ons and floggers.
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Fuck the Fascism
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Basura Maria
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2016
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Chile / 8 mins
Radical porn violently condemning colonialism, genocide, slavery and tyranny.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/235902642
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Gayish
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Kenan Hunter
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2016
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6 mins
On a quest to discover her sexuality, a young girl creates a scheme that will allow her to experiment, and hopefully, reveal her sexuality. The film follows her journey from her apartment to a community pool, where there, she takes a leap of faith that nearly takes her life.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/197293308
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Get Ready!
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Muriel Alves
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2016
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Brasil / 15 mins
The story of the first class of a pre-university course aimed at transvestites and transsexuals, told through high heels, hairpieces, pens, notebooks, prejudices and dreams.
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Golden Tuna – The Montreal Sessions
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Jenny Cartright
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2016
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Canada / 10 mins
After leaving Berlin, French multidisciplinary artist Golden Tuna surfs Montreal's cold and dark wave to find inspiration.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/162305857
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Heaven
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Luiz Roque
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2016
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Brazil | | 10 mins
The film depicts a world gripped by a new viral epidemic, and reflects on the stigmatising rhetoric of anti-AIDS campaigns in the 1980s.
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Hijos del peligro
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Roberto Doveris
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2016
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4’
Roberto Doveris es reconocido por haber dirigido “Las plantas” -estrenada en la sección Generation +14 del Festival de Cine de Berlín, donde recibió el premio a Mejor Película-, y realiza este videoclip para el cantautor chileno (Me llamo) Sebastián.
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Him
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Ferran Navarro-Beltran
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2016
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Spain / 3 mins
Max, a deaf 12-year-old, becomes infatuated with his big sister’s boyfriend during a weekend retreat.
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Historical Erasure as Violence
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Hope Dector and Dean Spade
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2016
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USA, 4:27
A faux queen talks about how to take up space in the drag scene as a femme.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/144135575
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Homoamak
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Ainhoa Artetxe
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2016
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Spain / 7 mins
In a world of deep-rooted homosexual traditions, twenty-year-old Xabi returns home after his studies period in Brazil. At dinner, Xabi will confess to his two mothers that he is in love… with a girl.
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I Can’t Breathe
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Zehong Zhu
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2016
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Nepal / 2.50 mins
A short fiction documentary animation about a tradition from Western part of Nepal.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/groups/414513/videos/310217768
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I Grow More Fearless Each Time I Make It Home Unscathed
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Jespa Jacob Smith
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2016
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Canada / 3mins
The difficulties to navigate the world when the labels society gives you are annoying, restraining, painful and threatening.
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I Lesb You
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Patricia Albornoz Ramírez
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2016
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Chile / 17 mins
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I Promise
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Paige McCay
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2016
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USA / 4 minutes, 30 seconds,
Two friends discuss life, love and the pursuit of a brighter tomorrow.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/194060934
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If I say I am, then I really am
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Truus Kaspers, Sander Houwen
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2016
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The Netherlands
Directed by a mother and son team this documentary is a nostalgic and insightful journey of six pairs of queer sons and their mothers. They sit across the kitchen table and talk candidly about their coming-out.
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If this is confusing
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Anakin Tora
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2016
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Sweden | 2’
A homage to shape shifting. An ode to not knowing. A love song for me and me and me, and you too!
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Illegal_The Impact on the Body
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Jorge Lozano
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2016
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Canada | 37 min
This mid-length film from prolific Toronto filmmaker Jorge Lozano offers a compilation of histories of undocumented migrants in Canada: nomadic friends who quickly disappeared into new identities or were forcibly deported. There are approximately 200,000 undocumented migrants in Canada. This video is just a spark of their constant re-invention of freedom, endurance, and resistance.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/240383621
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In a Cage / Im Käfig
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Loic Bruyerer
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2016
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France / 6 mins
Der Bär im Käfig kann nicht singen, der Vogel in der Freiheit kann nicht fliegen. Es entwickelt sich eine Freundschaft, die für beide beflügelnd ist.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lacage
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In the Woods
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Grace Martin
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2016
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USA | 9:09
After the death of their only parent, Michael struggles to be the sole guardian and emotional support system for his younger sister, Cassie, as she deals with her depression.
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Inside Out / Avesso
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Julia Morais & Wil Futuro
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2016
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Brazil / 9 min
AVESSO (inside Out) shows the memories of Tereza in the underground Salvador. Her experience portrays the way young black queer people are dealing with the opressions of a system choosing to express their own narratives…
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/204810295
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It’s Stonewall in my Navel
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Laurel Beckman
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2016
|
USA
Watch...https://vimeo.com/188598472
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Jemima to Jeremy
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Tamara Whyte (Warrgamay)
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2016
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Australia / 15 min
Through his journey to his gender identity and exploring his Aboriginal heritage, Jeremy Andersen tells his story.
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Jessica
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Erika Daniela Lozano
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2016
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México / 8´
Jessica es una mujer joven, trans, feminista, defensora de los derechos humanos. En este documental su madre y ella narran cómo han vivido y luchado por una transición digna.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/221949974
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Junius Frey – “Love Is Love”
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Chris Jacobs
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2016
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USA / 4′ / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/T3ax8oLokXI
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Just Be Gentle
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Bo Chen Li
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2016
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Taiwan / 30mins
In his dying breath, a boy looks back into his memories, reliving the relationships he had with two men.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/MhpN6r-Rj9U
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Just Harry
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Andrea Fraser
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2016
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Australia /15 min
Just Harry is a documentary that tells the stories of pride and courage beneath the scars of pain and discrimination in experiences of community and city life.
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La Luna aún nos acompaña
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Alonso Silva Montero
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2016
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Perú / 6’
Lucho acompaña a su muy cercano amigo, Marco, quién se encuentra gravemente enfermo. Ambos tratan de disfrutar los últimos días que les queda juntos.
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La verdad sobre Ángela
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Manuel Yuta Nagahama Aranda Martínez
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2016
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Spain /23’
La conversación, entre dos viejos amigos, desvelará secretos que son incapaces de pronunciar.
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Lady Porn
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Zoe D'Amaro
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2016
|
9mins
Lady Porn is a journey into the intriguing world of feminist pornography, through the personal and artistic experience of director Jennifer Lyon Bell. The film explores Jennifer’s ideological and creative approach, as well as the empowering impact of her work on female audience.
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Le Coup
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Jacqueline Nassour
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2016
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Lebanon / 11 mins
A story about two girls from different backgrounds who finds one another and express their similarities in a rather strange way.
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Les Papillons Gris
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Anne Ballon
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2016
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Belgium / 16'50
Sue is raised by her 12 year older sister Lily. In a city full of color and a life with ups and downs, the two search for a way to give each other freedom but nevertheless care and suppor for each other. When Lily falls in love with Basil, Sue is feeling forgotten and alone.
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Letters to Eros
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Herbert Fieni
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2016
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Brasil / 30 mins
The documentary is a search for clothing materials from the clubber and crossdresser scene of the 90s in Vitoria. Cartographing in first people the affective becoming that these images-recording trigger in the processuality of assembly of the film, the author turns into object, being immersed in a constant flow of images, grouped under the impulse of Eros to create meetings and relationships between men.
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LGBT
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CupcakKe
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2016
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USA / 3 min.
CupcakKe is rollin’ with the LGBT, ’cause fashion-wise they don’t play, and when they step out, they gonna slay.
Watch...https://youtu.be/hu_XwnAiMXg
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Locked Out
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Paul Vanderburgt
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2016
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Canada / 4 mins
Jack Swift is a twenty-seven year old widower who lost the love of his life in a car accident the night before their wedding. After months of grieving, Jack struggles to gather enough courage to leave his apartment and go on a date. Leading up to the date reminisces about his past love while changing his clothes as well as his mind. After many attempts, Jack finally takes a hesitant step outside. But when he tries to retreat back into his apartment he discovers he is locked out. Out of excuses, he takes a leap of faith and ventures out into the unknown.
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Long-Term Survivor
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José Luis Cortés
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2016
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Puerto Rico / 6 min
In ‘Long Term Survivor’ filmmaker Jose Luis Cortes has imagined a tale of condoms that were never used! It is told by Ivan Terrible – standing naked and fully painted in black and white – while watching his reflection in a broken mirror. Ivan’s tale is in fact his confession of choices made and roads not taken! A confession that unfolds in three parts as he remembers a time in his life before AIDS had a name, to the present time in which he shares the fate of “Patient Zero”. Redemption is not in the cards as Ivan reflects on the price he has paid for love!
Pieza performática documental en la que Iván el Terrible explora los inicios de la pandemia del sida a principios de los años ochenta. Long Term Survivor es un relato de condones que nunca fueron usados y sus consecuencias.
Watch… https://youtu.be/rwAK83O6sGY
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Lord Help Me
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Alsace Carcione
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2016
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USA / 4′ / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/jPGGm-V7qlM
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Love Is: A Message From Uganda’s Gay & Transgender Community
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Katie G. Nelson, Josh Carlon
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2016
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3 min / Uganda
In Uganda, members of the gay and transgender community face discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrests and forced evictions simply because of who they love.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/154595302
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Love Letter-Duet
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Monique Romeiko
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2016
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Canada | 4 min
Like something out of an anthropologist’s dream, contemporary dance artist Monique Romeiko has amassed a treasury of LOVE LETTERs in a dizzying variety of forms. Faced with artifacts in every medium, from the earnest and deeply personal hand-written note to the unscripted, courageously immediate text message, she explores, through dance and film, the mysteries of love connections. What will humans whisper to each other about love?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/289722947
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Marathon Gay Sex For Manly Men
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Johnny Chiba
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2016
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USA / 3 mins
Music Video for TFG the band. Contrary to the song title, "Marathon Gay Sex For Manly Men", there is no actual gay sex in this TFG music video, other than some risqué lyrical content. Stop Motion Animation assistance c/o comix artist Mike Diana. Warning: this video is not safe for work,home or kids!
Watch... https://vimeo.com/187697614
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Marie, je te vois
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Carol Fernandes
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2016
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Brasil / 3’37
Marie, Eu te Vejo is the first short of a series of portraits around visibility, gender identity and sexuality. This first episode follows Marie getting ready to go out in São Paulo, while she talks about her own identity as queer femme.
Marie se prépare pour aller en soirée, c’est le moment pour se livrer et évoquer son identité de femme queer. « Marie, je te vois » est le premier court métrage d’une série de portraits qui explorent les thèmes de l’identité et du genre.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/228167556
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Más Amor Por Favor
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Adalí Torres
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2016
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Perú / 23 mins
Amador explora su identidad a través de un viaje con el que busca desafiar la definición de género. Teme mutar y convertirse en hombre o mujer. El filme es un recorrido por su ciudad, la familia, los pelos, su cuerpo y sus miedos. Una cabrita limeña que interactúa con los miedos de todos nosotros.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Wwnjarm4WXk
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Metamorphose
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Didyer Zarate
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2016
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UK | 2’
London fashion designer Erum Khan has designed an exquisite new nonbinary look for this video.
Watch...https://youtu.be/yDdQl8--5WI
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Mirando por el espejo
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Alexandra Vázquez
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2016
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Paraguay / 9’
El taxista Ramón busca a su hijo desaparecido en las calles de Asunción. Durante su búsqueda, un chico aborda su taxi y cuando se da cuenta de que es gay se niega a llevarlo. Ramón expulsa al chico pero una llamada de su esposa le hace reflexionar sobre su actitud.
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Mixed Salad / Salada Mista
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Estevan de la Fuente
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2016
From 2015!
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Brazil / 4 mins
It comes in all sizes, all shapes, all colors, for all tastes. It’s a feast, nobody leaves with hunger.
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MTFTM
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Philip Shafer/Godmother
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2016
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Germany / 4’
A little music clip by Godmother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/amqfRXhuGb4
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My Femme is a Reflection
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Jai Lei Yee
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2016
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3:43 mins
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My Own Wings
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Katia Repina & Carla Moral
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2016
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US/ Spain/ Ukraine, 8min
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity thought stories of intersex people in USA, Spain and Ukraine. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with “both” sexes but born with a variation from the standard of what is socially accepted as a male or female body.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/240038009
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Nails
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Jack J Faulkner
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2016
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UK / 3 min
An animation about a boy who paints his nails at school for his own pleasure.
Trailer... https://vimeo.com/190592774
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Nos(otrxs)
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Matias Ferreyra
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2016
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Argentina / 21 min
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Novö Yùreï
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Fredster & Fabrizio
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2016
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Trailer… https://vimeo.com/170844151
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O que Seria Deste Mundo sem Paixão?
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Luis Carlos Lacerda
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2016
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Brazil / 72’
Trailer… https://youtu.be/bQi3en3MlhI
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Old Home
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Katharine King So
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2016
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USA / 5:29min
This experimental dance film explores the influence of post-war melodramas on experimental queer filmmakers. It also illustrates the media hysteria surrounding the AIDS crisis as an important time for the destruction of the nuclear home and ceasing the “othering” of minorities in order to move towards a time of queer solidarity and expression.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/163787909
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Orchestra Binária – Galileu
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Mateus Capelo
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2016
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Brasil / 4 mins
ÉssePê, Brasília, Locarno, PopPorn e o bonequinho da faixa de segurança. Os skatistas na Roosevelt, as folhas, a pizza, a prisão coercitiva e o Baiano. A chuva, o farol, o sono, Scovino e o Hudinilson. FILE, SP na Rua, André Medeiros e o céu. Um diário para um canção. Uma narrativa ao nível da memória.
Watch... https://youtu.be/tmI2KXhuttw
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Pare-Choc
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Elsa Aloisio
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2016
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France / 12 min
Serti d’images d’une beauté rare, le poème amoureux qui est le corps central du film, nous plonge dans une superbe réflexion sur l’amour, ses violences, ses chamboulements.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/OyfA0z0VRz0
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Perdón
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Ricardo Silva
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2016
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México / 11’
Daniel se casa con la mujer indicada pero no con el amor de su vida. Un acontecimiento inesperado revela su verdadero amor.
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Performing My Real Truth
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Anna Swanson
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2016
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USA / 13 min.
This film will make three statements. Two of them might be true, and one of them might not be.
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Petite Mort
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Antoine Bieber
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2016
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France / 4’
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/174676028
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Pink
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Dan Davis
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2016
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3 mins
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Poly Amour
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Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi
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2016
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7 mins
How capable are we to love boundlessly? This film explores polyamory, deconstructing conventional stereotypes of the romantic relationship structure.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/193408442
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Primadonna
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Daniele Gangemi, Clelia Scimone, Ludovico serra, Veronica Vescio
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2016
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Italy / 25′
Marco, artista savonese, come un Virgilio dantesco ci prende per mano e ci guida nel mondo delle drag queen assumendo di volta in volta punti di vista differenti. Uno sguardo sincero e chiaro che ci trasporta all’interno di tre diverse storie, di tre vissuti lontani tra loro ma che nascondono un filo conduttore: quello del travestimento, filo comune dell’intero documentario.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/201113465
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Pull
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Eleanor Capaldi
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2016
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5 mins
Pull explores what happens when two people are inexorably drawn to one another.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/196261637
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Pussy Vortex
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Angel Favorite
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2016
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USA / 5 min.
Get on your knees, get between the sheets, and you’ll be caught in the vortex too.
Watch...https://youtu.be/yHqHejoaUyA
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Rainbow Day Camp
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Horacio Marquinez
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2016
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USA / 31 mins
Thousands of young people are pushing the boundaries of gender. In 2015, a summer camp was created in the Bay Area to provide a safe and fun place to express their identity.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/161830685
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Raising the Bar
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Amanda Kindzierski
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2016
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Canada
Greg and Paige, co-managers of a quirky neighbourhood bar, have a tough choice to make, when the bar’s owner gives them the weekend to help the bar out of money troubles.
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Reclaiming Intersex
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Nthabiseng Mokoena, Gabrielle La Roux
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2016
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South Africa | 28 mins
Documentary that is centred on the life, activism and experiences of Mokoena, a black genderqueer and feminist in South Africa.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/54_2e2A_Dls
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Red Leaf / Hoja Colorada
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Kai Tillman
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2016
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Cuba / 7'
A boy who lives happily among friends and family in a small Cuban town creates a secret world to innocently explore his developing identity.
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Repeindre le Monde
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Youssef Gebran
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2016
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France / 43'
Watch… https://vimeo.com/156252097
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Respecter la roue
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Melissa Mollen Dupuis
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2016
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Canada / 5min
Depuis le début de la colonisation certaines valeurs traditionnelles ont été mises de côté et laisse place à l'intimidation et la discrimination envers les Two-Spirits et la diversité. Pour que la guérison se fasse, on doit ramener le respect de la roue de médecine. La roue de la vie.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/174842907
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Revolution (Le Coup)
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Jacky Nassour
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2016
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Lebanon / 11 min.
Two girls from different backgrounds find one another and express their similarities in a rather strange way.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/183613455
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Right of Passage
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Emma Wheeler
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2016
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UK / 14:35
Right of Passage is a personal look at three LGBT refugees resettling in Germany: Ibrahim, Hamid, and Ali. As they share details of the struggles they have faced, both in their countries of origin and now in Germany, we learn about the extraordinary circumstances behind why they decided to seek asylum and what their future holds for them.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/qY2VzVK7ulM
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Rock and Riot
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Chelsey Furedi
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2016
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New Zealand / 3 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/8l8xbqvFPYI
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Roofie
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Cristiano Sousa
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2016
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Brasil / 5’
Un hombre es atraído a una trampa con un cóctel que promete una buena noche de cenicienta.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/191030482
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Rosababy – “eHeritage”
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Alexander Nader
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2016
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USA / 2′
Watch... https://youtu.be/fUYCP64dtC4
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Rosen Marching for Abolition / Rosen en Marche pour L'abolition
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Catherine Tissier
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2016
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France / 86 mins
Rosen Hicher likes to call herself a prostitution survivor. At age 58, she set out to expose the violence and humiliation suffered by women living in fear and darkness. In September and October 2014, she walked across France to raise awareness about her battle: passing the law that reinforces the fight against the prostitutional system. My camera and I walked side by side with her. On April 6th, 2016, the law was voted in, but Rozenn continues to fight. For Rozen, this battle is a path towards resiliance. Can she erase 22 years of "sexual slavery"?
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/200051838
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S.T.A.R.
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Rhys Ernst
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2016
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USA / 5 min
A delicately woven archival portrait of trans activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
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Sacred Water / L’Eau Sacrée
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Olivier Jourdain
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2016
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Guided by Vestine, an extravagant star of radio nights, the film discovers rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out the female body and reveals with humor and spontaneity the mystery of female ejaculation. Sacred Water confronts the western viewer with its own intimacy and immerses you into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in the most secret way: female pleasure.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/VGJecGxmVxg
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Salome
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Benny Rios Arenas y Marlo Barbaran
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2016
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Perú / 13’
Dos hermanos se enamoran a primera vista de la nueva vecina del barrio, ambos la cortejan y terminan en una aventura donde no todo es lo que parece.
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Same But Different
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Louise Leitch
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2016
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New Zealand / 3'32
Best mates must re-calibrate their friendship when one transitions from a man to a woman.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/176234363
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San Berillo
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Maria Arena
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2016
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Italy / 12’ / Episodio 3 / Luci Rosse
Trailer...https://youtu.be/IbFF8dbHc8U
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Sandclock
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Deepak Miglani
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2016
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India / 25 mins
Trailer...https://youtu.be/KpbvmlShw7U
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Sarà Tutta Una Depravazione – Hommage À Dominot
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Daniel Kuhn e Enrico Salvatori
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2016
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Italy / 15’
The life of Anthony Iacono, better known as Dominot, through video materials, pictures and unpublished testimonies.
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Scattered Thoughts of a Young Sex Worker
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Menelas Siafakas
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2016
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Greece | 14 min
The issue of sex work is one that provokes a lot of emotion and controversy. In this documentary by Menelas we hear the views and opinions of a young gay sex worker in Athens today.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/161544823
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Scent of an Orchid
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Rosa Fong
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2016
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U.K. / 21 mins /Documentary
Scent of an Orchid is an exploration of gender and sexuality seen through the life.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/6yhF-zRCmzA
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Schrankschwestern
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Aziza Aba Butain
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2016
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USA / 3 mins
It's crowded in the closet since so many LGBT don't dare to come out...
Watch… https://youtu.be/90Bu-SRG7oY
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Schwartzy
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Aleks Vujosevic
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2016
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Canada / 6 mins
A young man obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to get his prized possession from his oppressive family. Once he does, it becomes more than he bargained for.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/CXimrlFrOSY
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Sea of Love
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JJ Levine
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2016
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Canada | 3’ |English
This work is about radically reimagining parenthood and alternative queer family structures and embracing the tension that exists when seemingly banal gestures are enacted by non-traditional bodies. It’s about my relationship to the photographic medium and its capacity to commemorate the people that I love.
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Seres
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Mariana Palacios
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2016
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Sweden / 14 mins
In the midst of a dance that sounds and a music that moves, the earth trembles between manifestation and concealment, between search and encounter. Synthesis of time, cycles that extend, stripping themselves in a curved space line. The lull and the response of an inner forest that is declared in the chant, in the body, in its own return.
Watch… https://youtu.be/savulnQzdFo
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She Ain't Heavy, She's My Brother
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Yihwen Chen
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2016
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A Malay trans man celebrates his 21st birthday. In a Muslim country where being transgender is outlawed, he only has the unconditional love and support of the women in his family.
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She Did It For Me
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Sabaa Zareena
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2016
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USA / 3 mins
Illusions, intentions and unspoken needs bubble up through She Did It For Me.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/228014025
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Should Abbey Kill Cain
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Kyaka Wilson Kaggwa
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2016
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Uganda / 30mins
Abbey a Celebrated Businessman and a heir to late Adam's Properties adopted Enoch from the streets of Kampala and Introduced him to his blood brother Cain who shares the same sexual orientation. Lamech a family friend and a Christian man couldn't tolerate Enock and Cain’s sexuality, he outs them to the Local Community for Judgment.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/2cSwEOSHPas
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Si Marseille Est Un Estron
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Marc-Antoine Serra
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2016
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France / 15’
« Si Marseille est un étron », produit par Lionel Soukaz repose sur le poème balistique de Liliane Giraudon. Marseille en est non pas le décor mais l’héroïne. Des corps énigmatiques et pourtant ordinaires traversent le cœur de la ville sans nom. Tentative onirique de l’identité sexuelle d’une ville? Un chant d’amour trans-versal redouble l’énigme.
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Silence Is Our Enemy / Sound Is Our Weapon
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Emma Shooshan
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2016
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10 mins
Looping through a collage of intergenerational trauma, genocide, and diaspora, spoken word and music lift up activism and hope.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/154947030
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Skin
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Paul Harnett
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2016
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4 mins
It takes a look at the inner and outer representation we have of ourselves, and how these can sometimes be conflicting. This piece also addresses gender identity, but can be applied to anyone who feels differently on the inside to how they are perceived externally.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/171307491
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So Long! / A Bientôt!
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Da Jing
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2016
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China / 25 min
The main character, Ran Ran, is just about to leave Beijing. With only ten days left, how will she decide to spend the rest of his time?
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Soap Box
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Nizan Shani
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2016
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Israel / 4 min. Hebrew
A teenager takes a look at our reality and wonders how is it that we stand by and do nothing as so much social injustice happens before our eyes. He calls us to wake up.
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Soapcunt
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Finn Peaks
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2016
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Germany / 01.44
This strangely mesmerising little film inspired by the changing anatomy of a trans woman lover takes a humorous approach to trans feminine, lesbian and queer sexuality and explores this subject in a simple and direct way.
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Solidão
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Edu Lima
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2016
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Brazil / 12´36
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Solitude, Darkness, Light
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Kayla Briet
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2016
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USA / 5 mins
In a blend of abstraction and realism, "Solitude, Darkness, Light" explores the confluence of place, time, people and emotions. Contrasting worlds of the future and the past and the still and the moving take the viewer across time in search of a new perspective on the present, as experienced through the lenses of sounds, animation and imagery.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/188713890
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Som Fiskar
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Robin Krey Andersson
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2016
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Sweden / 7 min
It is hard when your first love moves away. Som Fiskar is a lovely story about the difficulties of first love.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/129224295
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Something Something: Home
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Marlene Denningmann
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2016
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Germany / 5’
Trailer...https://youtu.be/DjE3IbWSq7w
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Souls
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Katie McCullough
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2016
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UK / 8min
When Barrie goes to scatter his husband’s ashes at their favourite mountain peak, he is confronted with the sight of a man about to jump to his death from the cliff edge.
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Spectrum London
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Campbell X
Jon Maguire
Tim Porter
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2016
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UK / 90 min.
Hailing from the vibrant, bustling, and gritty streets of London, this web series gives a rare and intimate glimpse into the daily trials and tribulations of those living under the LGBTQ umbrella. Following the lives, loves, and lusts of its diverse cast, Spectrum London will take you on a thrilling and often heartbreaking rollercoaster ride, the likes of which we’ve rarely seen.
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Spill
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Four Chambers
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2016
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UK / 10 Min
Short film about three women and a sheet.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/197544790
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SSTM REL0AD by A.K.A
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Max Rocha
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2016
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Brazil | 1’|No dialogue
A fashion film about an entire range of beautiful genderless clothing from Brazil.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/168940335
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Starring Jane
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Brendan McCann
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2016
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USA / 6 mins
A young drag queen with a background in performance tackles the social repercussions of being transgendered.
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Stella
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Eylissia Winn
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2016
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UK / 10 mins
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Stuart Timmons' City of West Hollywood LGBTQ History Mobile Tour
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Jason Jenn
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2016
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16 mins
Jason Jenn and a spirited crew of over a dozen costumed performers complete the Stuart Timmons historic tour of West Hollywood, and they created this entertaining -- and educational -- film as a way to share it with everyone in town.
Trailer...https://youtu.be/p9r4wGcwjnY
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Stupefied
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Alba Roland Mejia
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2016
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5 mins
My film uses the conventions of a horror film to show the deep fear and darkness that comes along with sleep paralysis. With a cast of unique individuals I plan on taking the audience on a suspenseful trip through Enoch’s dream. This cast will help my film give the audience a unique experience. Dark shadows and dim lighting give off the feeling of deep and endless solitude. Feelings of helplessness, and loss of control overcome the main character as she is in the grasp of the entity, Nommo.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/-lse3-jb1r8
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Submerged / Sumergido
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Isaac Flores
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2016
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Venezuela | 14 mins
Se recomienda escuchar el cortometraje con un sistema de audio que tenga Subwoofer, o con audífonos; para poder disfrutar los sonidos de baja frecuencia del corto.
Watch...https://youtu.be/-TibvPklty8
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Sudor
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Omar Zuniga Hidalgo
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2016
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Chile
Based on the novel with the same title by Alberto Fuguet, “Sudor” tells the story of a writer and describes the relations in the universe of literature, press and publications.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/192994946
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Suitable / A Medida
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Florencia Castaño
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2016
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Argentina / 10 mins
In 1964, Carla (26) is a dressmaker, she devotes much of her life to her workshop. That morning Teresa (24), a childhood friend, visit Carla to ask her to make a dress, her own wedding dress. Carla, who had begun to feel attracted by Teresa not received the news well.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/181311297
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Sunday
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Danilo Curro
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2016
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Italy / 23’
Fasasi Sunday lascia la sua casa, la Nigeria, perché non è più possibile per lui, come per molti altri, restarci.
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Sunday
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Jacob Hylton
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2016
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Cole, a young gay man with strong faith and a close relationship with God, suddenly finds himself at a personal crossroads when he falls in love with Zack whom he fears may not accept his spirituality.
Watch... https://vimeo.com/194239040
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Superhomosexuals
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Dew Kim & Luciano Zubillaga
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2016
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Argentina, Uruguay / 14 mins
Cyberspace grows without limits, yet mental time is not infinite. Webcam star Alan do Oro opens up a world to come, where flesh, sexuality and intimacy meet the immense possibilities of cybernetics and the posthuman. Sensuality is in slowness, and the space of information is too extensive and fast to elaborate upon it intensively and deeply. At the point of intersection between electronic science fiction and organic cybertime lies the fundamental matter of contemporary porn.
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Swing Maniacs Genova
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Max Pitruzzella and Thomas Blacharz
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2016
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Watch...https://youtu.be/2h6OBEExq0k
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Swing Set
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Heather Hutton
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2016
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9 mins
Swing Set is an unrequited love story about a struggling artist and her wealthy ex-girlfriend who try to rekindle their failed relationship, but they can’t due to a power struggle over socioeconomic differences.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/182498502
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Swirl
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Ryan Logan
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2016
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USA / 7 mins
SWIRL is the story of a boy's first crush told through dance, exploring the journey your mind takes the first time you touch someone you love.
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Take Me to Church
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Dew Kim & Luciano Zubillaga
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2016
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UK / 8 mins
In Take Me to Church, electronic cyberspace connects a sadomasochist experience with Christian practice: a man exploring voluntary kidnapping becomes confused between fear and sexual pleasure. He realizes that his sexual desire is a kind of death and the ceremony is sacred. For George Bataille, religious sensibility always links desire closely with terror, intense pleasure and anguish. We see an energy in the story which, when harnessed to a devotion to something or someone, gives the devotee, the submissive, the masochist, the martyr, an ability to do something special, to step outside the limitations of the human.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/167665099
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Talking Too Loud
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Abel Rubinstein
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2016
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Music Video
Watch...https://youtu.be/yRvJtkr37zA
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Tami T - Eat Me When I Bleed
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Julia Thelin
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2016
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Sweden, 3.30 min
I can’t go for five days and five nights without a tongue in between my thighs. So eat me when I ask you to. Eat me, this shouldn’t bother you. Eat me when I bleed.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/170500382
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Taz’s Story
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Headspace / String Theory / Elle Marsh
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2016
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Australia / 4 min
Taz Clay speaks about his experience growing up. Taz shares his struggles with drugs and alcohol, grief and identity, and how he came out the other side with a new outlook on life.
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Tell Me Why You Obsess Me / Dis moi pourquoi tu m'obsèdes
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Naima Chebahi
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2016
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France / 3 minutes 28 seconds |Music Video|
Man, woman; black, white; straight, gay... We are all the same constantly fighting between our dark side and the light in us
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Telton 7
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Glen Fellman
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2016
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USA / 12 min
Watch... https://vimeo.com/177735107
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The 100 Blows
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Gabrielle Lenhard
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2016
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USA / 3 Min
How to give a perfect blow job?
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The Art of the Morning
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Nathan Hauch
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2016
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5:41 / Canada
A lyrical look at how one person prepares for the day ahead, savouring each moment.
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The Bench
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Harrison J. Bahe
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2016
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USA / 8 mins
The Bench follows the rise and fall of a modern day relationship across a span of one year.
Watch... https://youtu.be/kccTRp4h-AQ
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The Call of the Void
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Four Chambers
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2016
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UK / 14 Min
Watching someone you love have sex with someone else: Security, uncertainty, love, sex.
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The Closet
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Zameer Kamble
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2016
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?
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The Confession
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Hsuan-Chi Kuo
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2016
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25min
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The Crash Pad Behind The Scenes: Viceroy & Munnin
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Shine Louise Houston
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2016
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USA; 8 min.
Get a behind-the-scenes peek of trans couple Viceroy and Munnin chatting post-scene at the Crash Pad. Their silliness and clear affection for each other will leave you smiling just as much as the scene will leave you feeling steamy!
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The Daughter I Never Had
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Tommy Cowell
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2016
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UK / 5 min
A lady meets a charming drag queen on Canal Street in Manchester and she complains about age and stuff…sometimes it is not a bad idea to talk to “strangers”.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175435974
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The Driver
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Matthew Baren
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2016
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China | 18 mins
A woman sets out one night from her home in the city on an erratic and ill-fated journey to the seaside, engaging in a series of violent confrontations with the people she encounters along the way - and in the process questioning our sense of safety, desire, truth and purpose in life.
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The Encounter / Encuentro
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Diana Elizabeth Castellanos (Gabrielle Esteban)
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2016
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Ecuador / 11 mins
Diana was born in the Chinese year of the water dog and Gabrielle was born in the year of the metal tiger. Diana is from Colombia and Gabrielle from Ecuador. Two very different people: but together they confront social prejudice, gender violence and their own fears, discovering that to be happy, no road is obvious.
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The Entanglement
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Nicole Thorsley
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2016
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Canada / 5 mins
The story of Andrea, a young scientist, who creates a machine that allows her to send messages to herself from an alternate reality. Through the process she discovers the life she could have led and the dangers that arise from her choices.
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The Garden of Loved Ones
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Janette López
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2016
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Mexico / 6:49
Blanca, a young woman searches far and wide for a beloved person in Mexico. She meets a little girl on her journey, who guides her in the right direction. The reunion turns out to be bittersweet and Blanca has a tough decision to make.
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The Gay Agenda
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Tanner Fell, Marissa Blair
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2016
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11 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/167673215
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The Hardest Word
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Nev Brook & Emily McDonald
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2016
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UK | 7 min
George Montague is fighting for an apology over his arrest in 1974 under anti gay laws. This is his story…
Watch...https://vimeo.com/212966747
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The Horseman & The Body
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Wu Meng Han
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2016
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China
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The Need / Potrzeba
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Wojciech Olchowski
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2016
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Poland / 5′
Każdy czegoś potrzebuje. Zazwyczaj czegoś innego…
Bohater filmu odkrywa czego tak naprawdę pragnie od niego dwójka jego przyjaciół.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/203862498
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The Neighbourhood
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Raymi Sambo
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2016
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15 mins
The Neighbourhood is a story about a black man that moves into an upper-class neighbourhood together with a young blond girl. The neighbours are suspicious about the very intimate way the man carries on with the girl.
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The Offering / Ofiarowanie
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Konrad Bloch
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2016
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Poland / 14 mins
A young priest is not ready to teach about love. Firstly he has to understand what love really means for him.
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The Outer Rim
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Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy
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2016
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USA / 5mins
After the events of Episode VII, General Leia stops at The Outer Rim bar for a drink to help her forget all her problems.
Watch...https://youtu.be/TcqOX3TMiIU
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The Peculiar Kind
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Alexis Casson
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2016
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USA / 19 mins
Based on the web series of the same name this illuminating documentary candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations. Expanding on the conversations and discussions raised in the series Alexis Casson’s film explores race, religion, community, queers in the media and much more.
Watch...https://youtu.be/opgOEdEaBYo
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The Personal Things
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Reina Gossett
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2016
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USA / 3 min.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy gets animated and speaks words of wisdom everyone should hear.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/192223519
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The Phantasmagoria of Offense: The Male Version
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Jess Irish
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2016
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USA / 7 min.
An animated lyric about the costs of censorship.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/165605346
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The Raccoon
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Tang Shi
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2016
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China, Taiwan | 69 mins
There are too many memories to talk about in our youth, too many unexplicable feelings. Fortunately you are by my side. We met in our wonderful age, this must be a miracle that God arranged.
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The Secret Story : How Medical Marijuana was Re-Legalized in the
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Brian Applegarth
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2016
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USA / 16 min
The true story of one of our community's genuine heroes, Dennis Peron, who, along with many dedicated supporters, risked incarceration repeatedly in their decades-long campaign to make medical marijuana available to all kinds of ailing people, especially people afflicted with AIDS.
Watch… https://youtu.be/1YRxfa_b2Sk
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The Story of Ziggy
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Samora Mabuya
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2016
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South Africa / 5 mins
The Story of Ziggy briefly outlines the life of a woman in mid-transition to becoming a man, exploring the challenges of black South African gender identity in a complex youth society.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/193574851
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The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
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Elizabeth Martin
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2016
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An exploration and an exercise in learning: learning how to be autonomous, learning how to make videos, learning how hormones affect life. Filmed during the filmmaker’s first months on testosterone, this film hopes to document the life of a person who is transmasculine, who is an ex-gay cowboy. This film posits traditional transition narratives are much more subtle than contemporary language and science can convey.
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The Thinking Body
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Kadambari Shivaya
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2016
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India / 81’
La danza è lo stato dell’essere che trascende il proprio fisico, che scaturisce in stati profondi di menti risonanti in uno spettro senza tempo. Le forme di danza classica indiana forniscono un mezzo perfetto per le interazioni di emozioni in totale armonia, indipendentemente dal tempo, dallo spazio e dal sesso.
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The Tie That Binds
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Lanchi Le
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2016
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USA / 22 min
After the death of her father, Allison must come back home to a mother who sent her away to a conversion therapy camp. Allison and Lorene must find a new balance between them after death and must struggle through the reality of the betrayal that costed Allison her identity.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/171848527
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The Transgender Widow
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Cressandra Thibodeaux
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2016
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USA
“The transgender widow”, a feature-length documentary, follows Nikki Araguz-Loyd and her court case from 2010 – 2015, as she battles to be recognized as her deceased husband’s spouse in the State of Texas. The film begins in 2010, when Nikki Araguz is denied the benefits of her deceased husband, a firefighter killed in the line of duty, because Nikki was born a male.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/178106893
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The Visionists of Boston
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Josh Kastorf
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2016
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USA / 16 mins
The Visionists were a small circle of young artists that were meeting in a “queer kind of place” in the Boston area in the 1890s. Though the group has nearly been forgotten, its members left an important legacy through the work they created and the people they inspired.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/181954573
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Three
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Henger Lin
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2016
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Watch... https://vimeo.com/179195448
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Three Minutes with Myself
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Chen Qiu
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2016
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China / 3 mins
Artist and filmmaker Chen Qiu explores the relationship between her body, her camera and herself.
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Through Gay Eyes
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Connor Crosby
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2016
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USA / 33 mins
“Through Gay Eyes” is a film project that gives a voice — a veritable revelation — to the embedded furtive lifestyle of gays. This documentary film will encompass personal stories that tap every realm of life and social context. ”Through Gay Eyes” extends beyond “coming out” stories and delivers a profound realization that there still exists a silent and stifling vein in our society. Gay partners, parents and individuals tell their stories and rip the veil – emblazoning a promise toward our perpetual path of the Civil Rights Movement. “Through Gay Eyes” wrestles with poignant and consuming questions that affect every member of society — bringing forth the invisible into a tangible piece of reality.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/167330081
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Tigger!
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Marvin Wayne
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2016
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Spain / 10 mins
Tigger! it's one of the outstanding personalities of the new burlesque that has reappeared in the off-off Broadway in New York. Second part of the burlesque series started with "Dirty Martini".
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Tiptoeing
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Matanel Lustig and Yarden Kashtan
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2016
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Israel / 10 mins
Eliezer Leibowitz is an ultra Orthodox Jew. Eliezer is torn between his religious beliefs, and his sexual inclinations and hobbies, which he hides under the bed.
When he sees an advertisement for a dancing audition, he decides to sign up under the name "Eli". During his dance he is able to break through his religious world, but does he really want to pass the audition?
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Todo sexo es político
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Antonella Centurion
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2016
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Argentina / 22 mins
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Too Wide
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Moyin Saka
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2016
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UK / 7 mins
This deceptively simple film has many layers. Cleverly shot through a surveillance camera, it references the feelings of being under constant social scrutiny that many trans people and cis women feel. Travis Alabanza demands the right of freedom from the gender binary through spoken word narration. I loved this film – how many times have we dressed to go out and faced the world feeling good, feeling sharp, on a high, to then step out into the street and be ridiculed or asked to defend our choice of expression?
Watch...https://youtu.be/FvUHs19s_Xg
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Touch
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Mischa Badasyan
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2016
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Germany
Watch...https://vimeo.com/178876570
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Tournures
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Sebastien de Buyl
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2016
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Belgium | 8min
In another social setting where gender is reversed, a man tries to free himself from a torrent of prejudice, alienation and stigma. Embodying emancipation, claiming sexual equality.
Wtch… https://vimeo.com/165424385
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Trans Diary Contemplation Series - #1 Voldemort
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Alvis Choi
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2016
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Transness and transition - what does it mean to the artist as a non-binary trans creature?
Watch...https://vimeo.com/148134256
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Trans Etherium
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Aja Pop and Joseph Liatela
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2016
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A film about metamorphosis, in which the artist embodies a human-like creature enduring a tormented birth, who overcomes bondage from a world not made for them. The artist undergoes multiple forms of rope bondage and a progression of physical transformation–symbolizing both the emotional limitations and safety of remaining closeted. Drawing a parallel to the artist’s experience of deferring medical transition and the pain of becoming other.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/178274435
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Trans’Action
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KAy Garnellen
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2016
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Germany | 10 min
Between dream and reality, Trans’Action is a fantastical gender bending experiment. With Emy Fem, Sadie Lune and KAy Garnellen.
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Transitioning: Transgender Children
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Olivier Semonnay
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2016
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Spain / 52 mins
In a series of frank and revelatory interviews, Oliver and Montserrat take an incisive look into the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people, ranging in age from eight to young adulthood. Their cinematic approach to documentary storytelling draws in the viewer with alluring visuals that enliven the oral histories of individuals and families navigating their way through uncharted territory. Sharply edited, this briskly paced film embarks upon a journey down the many eddies in a pool of gender identities.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/199130495
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TransParent
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Adel Clemente
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2016
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After ten years abroad, a sudden death in the family compels a trans woman to return home and see her son for the first time as herself.
Philippines
Watch...https://youtu.be/VnyVERZ_MkM
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Trigeni III: The Mother
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Agapi Kousten
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2016
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Greece
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Tunnel of colors / Tunel Koloretsua
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Deiane Moreno
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2016
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Basque Country / 11′
Miren is preparing her wedding. One day she meets an old friend from university. An encounter that will lead to know herself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/169191445
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Two
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Carlos Marroquin
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2016
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Finland / 6’28
Two men work their feelings in a woodshop.
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Two
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Rotem Plitman
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2016
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Israel / 13 mins
Ellie, an insecure teenage girl finds herself spending time in the company of the lead singer of a band she admires. The two's relationship develops over the course of the night.
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Un Eden Para Lady Helena
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Carina López
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2016
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Es una historia sobre el amor no correspondido de un muchacho gay por quien es su mejor amigo.
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Un Nuevo Error
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Jesús Miguel Pedraza Madrid
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2016
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México / 37´
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/161668571
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Under the Same Moon / A Mesma Lua
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Victor Oslo
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2016
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Brazil | 12 mins
Some friends are planning to humiliate André, who is openly gay, at the graduation ceremony. Will Van be honest and come out?
Watch... https://youtu.be/uLtivGKrCPo
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Unsteady
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David Javier
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2016
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X Ambassador’s emotional track ‘UNSTEADY’ perfectly underscores a couple at their breaking point. “UNSTEADY” speaks to everyone who’s contemplated walking away from a love that may or may not be worth fighting for.
Watch...https://youtu.be/GsVXnCGij5o
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Us
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Avery Archie
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2016
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USA / 10 mins
This comedic web series explores the lives of Joshua and Avery, a unique duo in Los Angeles, as they explore Uber, exercise, and privilege.
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Vacio/a
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Carmen Rojas Gamarra
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2016
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Peru, Spain / 5 mins
Vacío/a is an experimental piece that speaks of a sentimental breakup, told through an IKEA catalogue. What happens with the objects, once bought? What people do they arrive to, and what stories do they become a part of?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/5AjM6bkZ_qE
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Vague
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Mariah Garnett
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2016
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USA / 5 mins
"What are you looking at?" You'll never quite be sure in Dynasty Handbag's hilarious send-up of Madonna's magnum opus, recast in a semi-professional queer art context where no afternoon hike is what it seems…
Watch...https://vimeo.com/175141849
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Variations on Breathing
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Jean Carlo Ramirez
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2016
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4 mins
How can we embrace our true selves amid an ocean of false social constructs and unconscious biases? Borrowing from Vrijmoet’s “Non-Ordinary Reality” painting series and Le Boeuf's compositions for prepared piano, “Variations on Breathing” leads the viewer from the deep sleep of unknowing through a physical and moral struggle to free the self. Metaphors for transformation are explored through the lens of Ramirez's immersive maximalist cinematography, improvised movement, the shedding of aqueous skin, and the transition from full immersion in water to surfacing for air.
Watch... https://youtu.be/3jNCGJYZnxs
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Vibrator
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Wes Chew
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2016
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Canada | 5 min
Two women play out the power dynamic in their relationship in a supernatural way.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/155339252
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Vicarious
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Dan Windsor
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2016
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6 mins
Two grieving friends exchange haunting visions of an impending outbreak, in which a mandatory skin suit uploads every bodily sensation to a government cloud.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/177112689
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Vildman – Bambino Selvaggio
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Alexi Carpentieri
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2016
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A real story of a young Swedish guy who built his “realm” on sex. An extreme ride showing freedom, youth and the power of sex.
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Virginia Woolf’s Personal Assistant
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Carly Usdin
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2016
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UK / 3 mins
Watch...https://youtu.be/HGtan19QjoQ
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Vivien.Liebe.
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Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber
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2016
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Germany / 13 mins
When a baby gets underway in a threesome, the only question there is to answer, is whether all of them can refrain from being selfish and give love to multiple people simulaniously.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/175885074
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Wait Up
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Louisa Fielden
Prinze George
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2016
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USA / 4’
Watch...https://youtu.be/QPYICtFLBeY
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Waltz Me Trust Me
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Marie Losier
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2016
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France-USA / 5’
Still shot. German composer Felix Kubin, wearing a blue suit and a red shirt, plays the piano without piano. A halo of mystery surrounds the origin of the music he plays: enchantment, magic or trick? This remains a puzzle. The only thing we know for sure is Kubin’s great agility. A medium shot shows him tapping his fingers with dexterity, in a reminiscent manner of famous Jerry Lewis’s typewriter scene. Through this short whose aesthetics reminds of Georege Meliès’ films, Marie Losier addresses the power of music in a philosophical and playful way, while paying tribute to special effects from the silent era. Kubin will be the protagonist of Marie Losier’s next feature, which is currently being edited.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/314060554
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Wanker
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Grace Blick
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2016
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4 mins
In pursuit of the perfect relationship, a girl purchases a synthetic version of herself from the cloning company ‘U2U’. Although it would seem the pair are the most compatible match, soon the clone becomes more comfortable in the world than her original and begins to outgrow the life she was created to live.
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Warning Shot
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Tina Takemoto
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2016
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USA | 10m
One death. Three versions of the crime. James H. Wakasa, a 63-year-old Japanese American bachelor, was shot to death by military police at Topaz internment camp during World War II. Was it justifiable homicide, an accidental fatality, or second-degree murder? This queer experimental film essay uses the Rashomon effect to juxtapose three conflicting accounts regarding the circumstances and cause of his death.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/142545992
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What’s in a Label?
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Rob Eagle
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2016
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UK / 6 mins
WDIYFF veteran Rob Eagle returns with a new film exploring the relationship between labels and generations. We get to see three pairs of intergenerational LGBTQs debate how the language we’ve used to identify ourselves has developed and changed over the years.
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White Nights
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Mark Thiedeman
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2016
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USA | 70 min
The classic love story by Fyodor Dostoevsky is transposed to a world of glittering dance floors and neon lights in the second feature by Arkansas filmmaker Mark Thiedeman. WHITE NIGHTS is a pseudo-musical, queer adaptation of a tale of love at first sight and all the inexplicable, operatic confusion it brings. As a hopeless daydreamer falls for a mysterious young man obsessed with his former lover, he finds himself compelled to help — and in doing so, falls madly in love.
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Who We Are
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Raphael Niederhauser
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2016
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Germany | 7 min
Jonas is bullied at school. But he tries to ignore it – telling himself that it is not that bad. What should happen at the end? But when the relation to he boyfriend starts to be affected, he has to decide between standing up for love and staying a victim.
Watch...https://youtu.be/UbJV5wCN2qg
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Who Will Hear my Sigh?
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Mel Vee
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2016
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Canada / 5:12 mins
A woman, reflecting on her experiences as a maid in Canada, wonders who will listen to hear story; who will hear her sigh? Made as part of the 2016 Herland Video Production Workshop presented by Telus Optik Local, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and Spring Street Films.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/184773245
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Why We March
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Dina Boyer
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2016
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This is a preview trailer for a documentary about the history and meaning of San Francisco’s annual Trans March. Archival footage will be mixed with interviews of folks who go to the Trans March. The finished documentary titled “Why We March” will highlight the symbolism, the sounds, the people, the issues and the diversity of the Trans March in San Francisco.
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Won’t the Real Transformer Please Stand Up?
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Namita Aavriti & Gee Imaan Semmalar
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2016
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India |6’| Hindi
A superhero film about trans* lives.
Watch...https://youtu.be/p6eM0S1P0yI
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Xanh
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Sal Tran
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2016
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Xanh’s main goal is to save up money for top surgery. Their mother is a garment seamstress who polices Xanh’s gender presentation and performance through the creation of feminine clothes. As their mom starts to criticize what they choose to wear, Xanh experiences a series of nightmares and finds their dreams literally shattered.
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Yandaixie Street No.10
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Shu Qing
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2016
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China | 20 min
A love story between a writer (Liang Ze) and a pet shop owner (Hang Hang), based on a novel by Jian Zou Pian Feng.
Watch...https://youtu.be/M-Zf4ls14KY
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Yes, Jesus Loves Me
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Jayden Marre
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2016
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Yes, Jesus Loves Me explores the life of Frosty, a young Christian with same-sex attraction. He discusses his belief in God, views on Christians in the media, doubts and struggles as a gay Christian and Jesus’ love for all people. The film also features two Christians and an ex-Christian who present their experiences with Christianity and Homosexuality.
Watch...https://vimeo.com/188810575
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You Say You Love Me
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Quinton Lavery
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2016
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South Africa / 4 min
Watch...https://youtu.be/Jj1Xfzf6FmU
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You, Me, Us
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Danylo Hauk
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2016
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USA
Elizabeth keeps her biggest secret locked in a room until he tries to break free.
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Ysa Yaneza – “Tea”
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Bart
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2016
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USA / 4′ / Music Video
Watch... https://youtu.be/Xl7AeQqGSzY
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