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The Other Database...

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

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

2019 - UPDATED: January 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unheard Stories Part 2
#Unheard Stories Part 2

Sonal Giani

2019

India / 8 mins
The film explores the issues that transwomen face in Indian society, through the personal experiences of Sonali, a young hijra person living in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Possible Body
(Possible) Body /
Cuerpo (Posible)

Federica Rubio,
Andrea Eichenberger

2019

Argentina / 24 mins
The body is what appears, what manifests. The body is what it is, but what is it? CORP (POSSIBLE) explores the corporeality and its different facets.

(S)he Said That

Mike Hoolboom

2019

Canada / 13 mins
Roaring explosions and images of the solemn, resolute gait of the protesters warm up the atmosphere before a conference begins. The places, displayed and/or heard, overlap and efface every pre-established boundary. By resorting to historical digressions that opens up to a costume drama or even to a futuristic dimension, we return though to the revolution on the march, in which many individuals/“I” look for a “we” from which to restart the society.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/260786067

W Hole
(W/HOLE)

Mahx Capacity

2019

USA / 96 mins
A complete sensory exploration on all levels, powerful, moving and raw. This series of beautifully made, tender, smart, super-sexxxxy shorts created by queer/feminist porn collective AORTA films. Seeks to explore the incredible potency of queer hedonism, specifically how authentic performative kink has the power to transform trauma and grief into body-based joy and orgasms. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/353867769

@Sunny

Ronnie Zidon

2019

Israel / 18mins
On the evening she is awarded the Best Blogger Award, a self-centred online celebrity comes home to discover her partner has changed the locks and doesn’t ever want to see her again. Sunny seeks shelter in the streets of Tel Aviv but soon realizes that however many followers you have, it isn’t going to make you feel any less lonely.

Gaytino
¡Gaytino! Made in America

Dan Guerrero

2019

USA / 75 mins
Mariachi to Merman. Sondheim to Cesar Chavez. Decades of Mexican-American/Chicano and LGBTQ history intersect from a personal perspective in story and song. Touching, provocative and hilarious, Guerrero brings his solo play to the screen after nationwide critically acclaimed performances.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/EWyhhS_Sbhc

1 Contrary 5 Agokwe-Nini

Carmel Whittle,
Howard Adler

2019

Canada
The film is a talk-show style documentary film hosted by the one and only ‘contrary’ Alik Beavers (aka Sharp Dopler), and features 5 Agokwe-Nini guest speakers: Ashley Grenstone, Benny Michaud, Théo Paradis-Ottawa, Kole Peplinski and Carmel Whittle. They discuss gender, sexuality, Indigenous identity, traditional two-spirit roles, terminology, accessing ceremonial spaces, and safe spaces in mainstream society.

16

Kristal Chan

2019

USA / 1 min
After a bad breakup, a young woman transports herself to a dreamy age before broken hearts, when first love was forever.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/322372275

16mm Selfie
16mm Selfie

Karan Suri Talwar

2019

India / 3 mins
All the world’s a selfie and everyone’s a troll. 16mm selfie was made using 16mm film footage from the 1950’s found in forgotten corners of storages in Mumbai’s Thieves Market (Chor Bazaar).

35 Temporary Number
35 [Temporary Number]

Alessio Di Cosimo,
 Juan Diego Puerta Lopez

2019

Italy / 10 mins
Dos personajes, dos mundos opuestos. Diego es un hombre de 40 años, técnico dental, quien vive con su anciana madre luego de separarse con su esposa. Amanda es una trans sudamericana, que vive sola en su piso en los suburbios de Roma al que lleva los clientes que consigue cada noche. Ambos mundos aparentemente diferentes se encontrarán en un momento de pasión y transgresión que culminará con una explosión de violencia y odio.

5x Dehors
5x Dehors

Daphné Charpin Lebre

2019

France / 20 minutes 
Cinq personnes témoignent de l’acceptation au fil du temps de leur identité homosexuelle, 5 récits reliés par le chant et un peu de poésie.

700 Days

Jessie Ray Short

2019

2:32 mins
How long before the dream of health returns? Will it ever come back?

A Comprehensive View Of Sogi Hate Crimes
A Comprehensive View of Sogi Hate Crimes
/ Osgi Gorroto Delituei Begirada Orokorra

Cristina Rueda Balsera

2019

Spain, Guatemala, Nicaragua / 84 mins
This documentary aims to collate and share the main findings of the research study entitled “Strategies for tackling hate crimes due to sexual orientation and gender identity – an overview” and so explore the reality experienced by LGBTI people in different contexts. This work tries to provide a comprehensive view of SOGI hate crimes, emphasising survival actions, confrontation mechanisms and transformation strategies forged from the personal and collective experience of participants.

A Culture of Silence: Being LGBTQ in Catholic Schools

E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

2019

USA
A feature documentary on being LGBTQ in Catholic schools, and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's employment contract for educators. From GLSEN Greater Cincinnati.

A Drive to Top Surgery

Raven Two Feathers

2019

USA / 11 mins
We ride as a fly on the rearview mirror with a young trans person and their family, as they make the drive from their home to surgery. This imminently life changing moment is surrounded by the anxieties and love of a family recognizing a young person coming into adulthood, on their terms.

A Gift /
Vadhai

Rohan Kanawade

2019

India / 22 mins
Khwaja sira (indiginous transgender of South Asia) performances of vadhai, the repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee, to celebrate weddings and births, have long been recognized as vital to these communities’ identities. We follow Guru Amber’s toli (group) as they bring music and movement to their neighborhood streets in Lahore, and take an intimate look at the kinship, beliefs, pleasure, and economies that drive these performances.

A letter to myself or the gender clinic or white people

Jon Ely Xiuming

2019

Sweden / 4 mins
A poetic letter from a nonbinary trans person of color as a reply when getting the first letter from the gender clinic

A Love Letter to Navkiran

Navkiran Kaur

2019

USA / 4 mins
A queer Sikh Punjabi woman sows healing for her younger self.

A Poem to Everyone in My Life Who Misgenders Me (And Thinks It’s No Big Deal)

Devin Gaine

2019

USA / 2 mins
A white able-bodied nonbinary person performs an even toned monologue directed to an absent audience, in front of a static background of a vine cement wall.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/335535979

A Queen of Dragons

Kristina Budelis,
Leandro Badalotti

2019

USA / 10 mins
It’s Drag Queen Story Hour. These kids love it—and so do their parents.

A Room of Oblivion

Dorothy Cheung

2019

Netherlands, Hong Kong / 6 mins
A Room of Oblivion is an experimental film reflecting on the notion of queer memories, and the failure of it, through re-found footage taken in a journey with an ex-partner.

A Spirit in Flight

David Gaynes

2019

USA / 13 mins
A SPIRIT IN FLIGHT tells the inspiring story of Eric Jurado-Diaz, a 56-year old East Hartford man grappling with how to live fully after a diagnosis of ALS (often known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). The film provides an intimate view into Eric's journey and reflections on growing up gay in Puerto Rico, coming out in the army, becoming a small-town drag superstar and maturing into domestic life with a husband and three adopted sons. The devastating diagnosis of ALS and its impending loss of physical mobility will be the greatest challenge of his life. Eric navigates the denial of close friends, the blossoming of new relationships, the growing acceptance of his family and his own journey of loss and acceptance. His resilience, hope and sense of humor show us it is possible to find joy and engage with happiness even in the darkest moments of our lives.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/259039665

A Table for One

Carlos Lobo

2019

Portugal / 14 mins
A solitary man enters a bar in the middle of nowhere. He is running away from his own demons but temptation is lurking just around the corner.

A Wider Screen
A Wider Screen

Joe Hunting

2019

UK / 13 mins
An intimate window into how virtual reality (VR) app VRChat is affecting people's social lives for the better. This whimsical documentary tells the story of a couple that fall in love inside tangible VR, as well as two friends meeting up in real life for the first time.

A Wild Dedication
A Wild Dedication /
Una Dedicatoria a lo Bestia

nucbeade

2019

Spain / 11 mins
As if engaging in an archaeological task, A Wild Dedication presents different objects found in the Woman Welfare Agency’s headquarters in San Fernando de Henares, which was operational from 1944 to 1985. Can a space built for female sexual repression give out traces of rebellion forms? Which affective memory do these “souvenirs” trigger and how can they be integrated in the historic account on the Franco regime, the Spanish Transition and the first years of democracy? 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/350603189

Above the Bar

Kerri Flannigan

2019

Canada / 3 mins
queer coming of age story takes place in a motel above a bar.

Across Beyond And Over 2019
Across, Beyond, and Over

Brit Fryer

2019

USA / 12 mins
Across, Beyond, and Over is a hybrid documentary about two estranged trans men who used to date in middle school reconnecting over a long weekend to develop a film about their past. Through the pre-production process and writing exercises, they are forced to reconcile the differences in how they want to portray themselves, their relationship, and their trans identities.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/309219554

Actions from Queersvall, Sundvall

Eila Wall Boholm

2019

Sweden / 6 mins
This is the story of how a small sleepy town in the north of Sweden was one day awakened by a bunch of queer activists. The city woke up and became a mecca for queers. Those who lived in the city had never imagined that there were so many of them.

Activate NDN Consciousness

Natalie King

2019

Turtle Island / 6 mins
Activate NDN Consciousness combines found footage of harmful Indigenous portrayals with contemporary NDN protest and revolt.
Watch… https://youtu.be/P4M9wynxu6o

Adolescence 2019
Adolescence

Zeb Daemen

2019

Belgium, UK / 15 mins
ADOLESCENCE is a coming-of-age story taking place on the last day of summer in 1950s Cornwall. For James and his best friend Simon, this is also the last day of childhood. James is leaving tomorrow, but there are things that he has never had the chance to say.

Adoracion Adoracion Adoracion
Adoración, Adoración, Adoración

Tarcisio Boquady

2019

Brazil / 8:32 mins
After the elections of 2018 in Brazil, LGBT people are being threatened. A young man is afraid to walk on the streets because he is gay. He has been chased by homophobic guys and he is looking for prootection and a place to feel safe. The only way to pass through it is making magic. This film is a manifesto about love, creative power and freedom to be and exist. Respect human lives.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/316643974

Aldana Y Leon
Aldana y León

María Victoria Andino

2019

Argentina / 20 mins
While selling clothes in a street market, Aldana loses her son León, who was playing on the swings in front of her. When she goes to the police station with a friend to file a complaint, the police ignore her story and she decides to go her own way to get her son back. This decision will make her face her past and the reason she run away from home, taking the child with her.

Alessa 2019
Alessa

Paola García

2019

México / 27 mins 
Alessa Flores, a transgender woman and activist for the rights of trans women, was assassinated on October 13, 2016. This crime has been added to the wave of femicides and transfeminicides that have occurred throughout the country and are now focused on Mexico City.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/337550841

All Naked /
Tous nus

Marianne Khayat

2019

Canada / 2 mins
A journey through our world, freed from all discrimination, categorization and prejudices. Humanity at its full potential, glorious and embraced as it should.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/331803304

All the Signs

Susan Carine, Katie Doyle, Ashley DeSalvo, Samantha Felix, Korbin Kepner, Samantha Roppola

2019

USA / 7 mins
A mocu-drama about two friends solving the theory of love. Is this a possible girlfriend or just another female friend? Maybe it’s not as difficult to figure out the answer as they thought.
Watch… https://youtu.be/mtdSiVSLCjk

All This Time

Monica Mai

2019

USA / 7 mins
An elderly woman attempts to confess her feelings to her friend in the hospital.

Allonzo's Nights /
Les Nuits d'Allonzo

Antoine Granier

2019

France / 46 mins
Two boys meet along a road. A strange desire pushes them to cross the volcanic landscapes of Auvergne together. To explore the mysteries that inhabit those mountains, they tell old stories about condemned sorcerers, about hidden spells and forgotten Sabbats. Haunted by those stories, they become little by little the protagonists they are describing from the past, until those adventures reflect on the present of their encounter. 

Among the Cranes

Astrid Liu

2019

3 mins
Soaring past loneliness, a young queer Asian woman lets go of isolation.

An Abstract
An Abstract

Manoj Thorat

2019

India / 20 mins
An Abstract is a story of Shreyansh Sharma from Pune. Shreyansh identifies himself as an androgynous and gender fluid. The movie talks about his journey from being gay to androgynous and how comfortable and confident he is being himself.

Anami Lee

Diego Iván Andrade Anguiano

2019

Mexico / 13 mins
Anami Lee is a transgender man who is in a difficult process of change, facing a panorama of rejection and inequality. "Lee" tells us how at different times in his life he has come across the task of defining his own identity, leaving aside his fears of what they will say, the opinion of his parents and other loved ones. His testimony is the story of many transgender people who find themselves in the same situation, trying to define and accept themselves.

Androfilia
Androfilia

Ángel Cabrera

2019

Mexico / 15 mins
Five men help me understand this confusing and blurred concept that masculinity can be.  

Apologies for Breaking In

Simon(e) van Saarloos

2019

Netherlands / 3 mins
Looping Caster Semenya’s 800 meter lap: ‘You want to talk about a fair and equal competition? I thought you were going to talk about minimum wage.’
Watch… https://vimeo.com/625710436

Archetype

Four Chambers

2019

USA / 12 mins
A glitched, retro VHS leather dream.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/337739209

As You Wish

Ayelet Lerman

2019

Israel / 10mins
Noga is an intensely spirited teenager. She meets her counsellor, Uri who is trans; a fact which she uses as an excuse to run away. Uri, however, is not about to give up on her that easily. What is she running away from?

At Seventeen

Finley King

2019

USA / 5:15 mins
A catholic school student tests the limits of his desires.

Autorretrato
Autorretrato para que te enamores; pero no

Alba Gastón

2019

Spain / 3 mins
Watch... https://youtu.be/IVDdCMKwKbg?si=-YgBnWaRbmKY3fY4 

Ava On The Bench
Ava on the Bench

Carlos Deth of Mondo Fetiche

2019

USA / 22 mins
Leather Daddy Ashley Paige puts Ava D’Amore on the bench!

Baby Steps

Kira Findling

2019

USA / 8 mins
Through texts, webcam videos, and secret moments, a young woman comes of age online. As she grows, she grapples with gender identity and sexuality, finding new language for herself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/370785857

Balance 2019
Balance

Timothée Crabbé

2019

Belgium / 7 mins
Partenaires sur scène et dans la vie, deux acrobates se retrouvent dans un équilibre parfait : soulever et voler, diriger et suivre… mais cet équilibre est fragile

Barbès

Randa Maroufi

2019

France / 6 mins
Women «intruders» occupy – the time of a mise en scène – the public space. They take on the same gestures, the same postures, as those of the men in such places: they play cards or watch a football match, without minding the passage of time. They occupy the terraces, expose themselves in the strangeness of a public space of exclusion – that of gender.

Bareback

Nor Sanchez

2019

USA / 8 mins
A cowboy’s queer porno fever dream.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/378157247

Renacer 2019
Be Reborn /
Renacer

Agustín Domíngue

2019

Spain / 5 mins
A powerful monologue about women unlocking themselves, reaffirming that the closets are meant for clothes, not for them. Young or old, queer or non-queer they must reclaim their respect and pride.
Watch… https://youtu.be/IlbBOZkkw4Y

Be What You Want - Queer Feminist Artist

James Rosalind

2019

Germany / 13 mins
Berlin, is an open-minded, creative city, home to many queers and artists, chances for networking and collaboration. However, the german creative industries and society are still very much cis-male favoured. Two videographers talk about their experiences of art, work precarity, hope, feminism and community.

Be You

Veronica Leon

2019

USA / 4 mins
With joy and creativity, Alok expands the boundaries of gender.

Bear in a fur coat

Albert Koomen

2019

Australia / 9 mins
Beards and body hair or fur is a big part of belonging to the gay bear community. It’s often seen as integral to identity and attraction. Bear in a Fur Coat profiles three super-hairy bears and explores what it means to them both in their pasts and in their futures.

Beat Goes On

Shanti Avirgan

2019

USA / 9 mins
Beat Goes On is an all-archival, impressionistic portrait of the harm reduction and housing activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY. A fellow activist recalls that “Keith moved from mixing with the government, to threatening the government, to beating the government—all in the space of five minutes.”

By resurfacing and weaving together archival media of Cylar’s own words and actions, this short video distills some of the personal charisma, political savvy and fearlessness that characterized Cylar’s advocacy.

Beautiful Alchemy
Beautiful Alchemy

Teagan Lance

2019

Canada / 16 mins
A “film made by queer and trans people for queer and trans people,” Beautiful Alchemy is a portrait of Renée Yoxon, a queer, non-binary, and disabled singer songwriter. Through music, performances and “day in the life” moments, a shining portrait of an artist emerges.

Because We Were

Lucas Wilson

2019

Canada / 8 mins
Two men explore the ins and outs of their relationship and come to learn that life has no guarantees.
Watch… https://youtu.be/1tmVBxU82W0

Bedroom Bossa Nova
Bedroom Bossa Nova

Luke Naylor-Perrott

2019

UK / 5 mins
Wild imaginations are set to lyrical and sensual music.

Behind The Glass
Behind the Glass

Maria Favola

2019

Italy / 16 mins
Behind the glass is an experimental documentary based on recordings of people who tell us about the discovery of their identity and how they came out to their families and friends. The mannequins that you will see on screen are there for two reasons: to guarantnglish, sub. Italian  ee the anonymity of the people that participated and to let the viewer concentrate on their stories and not their appearance.

Behind the Wall

Werner Schnater

2019

France / 19 secs
Watch… https://vimeo.com/309007352

Being The Storm 2019
Being the Storm /
Siendo la tormenta

Laura Nuwuanda

2019

7 mins
An Afro Colombiana spirals through a storm of self-destruction and the end of an idyllic relationship.

Belonging

Ndelela Kambaja,
Katrin Herche

2019

6 mins
BELONGING is an abstract visualization of a poem by Aaiun Nin, tackling issues of finding one’s self and the connection to one’s roots through the use of the symbolism of orange roses. It tells a story about children of the diaspora as they try to find a place of belonging and feeling home in the western world while holding on to the values taught to them by their ancestors. 
The film can be understood in many ways and the sound is vital as it helps to navigate through the feelings that arise while watching.

Big Flirt

Ina Albrecht

2019

Ireland / 33 secs
An animated short about flirting with your crush.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/460940012

Bitters

Charles Sutter

2019

USA / 14 mins
A chef invites a popular health and food blogger to preview her new menu. But with each new course, the blogger grows more and more concerned that the meal isn’t as it seems.

BlinDate

Itzik Amar

2019

Israel / 5 mins
A couple emerges from a bar after a successful date. When the man tries to take more than what the girl is offering, the tables are turned, and he is given a lesson on power dynamics.

Blocked

Kevin Yee

2019

USA / 3 mins
Fearful of putting out mediocre content, comedian Kevin Yee battles major writer’s block when attempting to make his sophomore follow up film.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/60T7An1IrEo

Blood is the Mother of Qi

Adam Austin

2019

5 mins
An amalgamated family culture slides into small rituals performed in a kitchen.

Bloom

Almog Ganot

2019

Israel / 11mins
A young student returns to his Kibbutz apartment one afternoon only to realize he can’t find his keys. His predicament forces him to hit a momentary pause on life’s rat race and in a fleeting, lyrical moment, he is able to connect with his innermost feelings and pluck up the courage to do something he’d been keen on for a long while.

Blossomed

Synthia Hogan

2019

USA / 3:25 mins
This experimental film blends a lush landscape with freestyle dance to narrate the quintessential stage of blossoming.

Blow Job

Jeffrey Braverman

2019

USA / 1 min
A business lunch takes an unexpected turn of events.
Watch… https://youtu.be/iXO5od3_YfE

Blue Lips /
Lèvres Bleues

Philippe Hamelin

2019

Canada / 7 mins
Using synthetic images, the gorgeous animation, Lèvres bleues (Blue Lips) reconstructs the memory of a loving moment.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/457011698

Bodies Without Bodies in Space / Ciała Bez Ciał W Kosmosie

Rafal Morusiewicz

2019

Austria, Poland / 42 mins
A temporarily scattered trip into the childhood and teenage past of filmmaker Rafal Morusiewicz. Growing- up, his queer anxieties and affects were largely informed by the plots of the moving images he would watch on the two, color and black-and-white, CRT TV screens at his family home. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/298796954

Body Language

Adam van Dusen

2019

USA / 4 mins
Body Language documents the relationship between discovering queer identity and the body for three individuals.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/303624867

Brazils Forbidden Shirt
Brazil’s Forbidden Shirt /
A Camisa Proibida

Diego Mello,
Igor França,
João Pedro Castro,
Rafael de Moura Machado

2019

Brazil / 11 mins
Brazil is known as the football country, due to its passion for the game and its international success. But on a closer look one realizes how it is also filled with homophobia, excluding LGBTQ+ people from the game, from the stands, and in a curious way even excluding a number from the jerseys. Things are finally looking up – hats off to the LGBTQ+ footballers for holding their ground. 

Breakup in 9 Scenes

Leil Zahra Mortada

2019

Lebanon / 15 mins
On the morning you disappeared, the morning you sent that message and deactivated your account, I wrote „Breakup in 9 scenes“. An audiovisual exploration of disappointment: How does one live disappointment? What is the physical action associated with disappointment? Anger is much easier. Sadness is much easier. Hatred is the easiest. But I don’t hate you. You are too innocent to hate.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/365568095

Brunch on Bikes

Ethan Folk,
Ty Wardwel

2019

Germany / 2:30 mins
Freshly-fucked foodies dial up a special delivery.

BSXL
BSXL

Chanel Shuffler

2019

USA / 1 min
A latinx bisexual female resisting collapse endures passive everyday microaggressions that compromise her emotional environment.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/321918668

Build Yourself a Birthday Party

Jason P. Schumacher

2019

USA / 5 mins
Cleo is anxiously trying to plan her own birthday party.

Burn the House Down

Giselle Bailey,
Nneka Onuorah

2019

France / 44 mins
When one of us wins, we all win—and BURN THE HOUSE DOWN sets out to prove that. Giselle Bailey and Nneka Onuorah’s immersive documentary follows Kiddy Smile and several Parisian dancers as they prepare to perform in his next concert (which also features FABULOUS’ Lasseindra Ninja). After DJing for Emmanuel Macron in a T-shirt that read “Fils d’immigrés, noir et pédé” (which translates to “son of an immigrant, Black and gay), Smile was the subject of extraordinary praise and backlash. But he and his friends won’t let that faze them. As they discuss contemporary racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and the art that binds them, these rising stars make it clear that they won’t stop until everyone knows Paris is still burning.

Canada Park /
 منتزه كندا

Razan AlSalah

2019

Canada, Palestinian Territory / 8 mins
I walk on snow to fall unto the desert. I find myself on unceded indigenous territory in so called Canada, an exile unable to return to Palestine. I trespass the colonial border as a digital spectre floating through Ayalon-Canada Park, transplanted over three Palestinian villages razed by the Israeli Defense Forces in 1967.

Caravagyo

Ana Manana, Joana Lourenço

2019

Portugal / 10 mins
Caravagyo is a duo of Portuguese-Brazilian DJs, Beatriz Valleriani and Kamila Ferreira. They debuted at the iconic Fine Arts Faculty parties, introducing Brazilian funk to Lisbon. By creating an alternative and safe space with a strong feminist and queer message, they combine global and local sounds to connect a community who identifies and expresses itself through this music genre.

Carmín Sangre

R.B. Lima

2019

Brazil / 20 mins
La vida diaria de cuatro mujeres luchando por sobrevivir y encontrar aceptación en un entorno cada vez más hostil y una sociedad prejuiciosa.

Carving Space

Annie Dean-Ganek

2019

USA / 16 mins
Follows the grassroots skateboarding organization, Unity and affiliated queer skate activists, including 2019 U.S.A. Olympic Skateboarding team member, Lacey Baker, as they provide spaces and voices to the often-overlooked queer community.

Casarnos
Casarnos

Bruno Montenegro

2019

Peru / 5 mins
Bruno es un chico transgénero que no cree en el matrimonio, pero hace unos meses se enteró que sus amigas de Iquitos Almendra y Luko se casaron en Argentina y volvieron a Perú, así que decidió viajar a Iquitos para resolver sus dudas.

ChakalmexChakalmex

Joelle González Lager

2019

México / 17 mins
The Chacal are young proletarian indigenous men, seen as masculine, virile, and sexually charged, who have become the objects of desire in the gay community of Mexico City, raising uncomfortable issues around the role of race and class in voyeurism.
Entrevistas desparpajadas alrededor de la identidad impuesta a un grupo social y sexual del país

Change Chou's Dream

Kuo Yu Chen

2019

Taiwan / 6 mins
The beginning quotes the story of Change Chou's dream butterfly. Our fantasy of love is whether we only come from the model that we want the other person to be the projection of our own inner desire.

Cheesy Films /
Kitschige Filme

Eline Gehring

2019

Germany / 8 mins
Rosa meets Nico. Both girls are falling in love with each other. But today, commitment is hard to find.

Chinx

James Quedado

2019

USA / 5 mins
Chinx is a journey into the strange, challenging, and often discriminatory world of online hookup culture. Our guide is Del, a 40-something Filipino, stepping out into an unfamiliar dating landscape after years of singlehood and “self-discovery” to find gay hookup apps a place readily designed to exclude people like himself.

Chloé Viau - Militante transgenre / John Banks - A Life of Engagement

Simone Beaudry-Pilotte

2019

Canada / 18 mins
Paying homage to our queer foremothers and fathers, our trailblazers and rabble rousers, this quartet of short docs covers a lot of ground: from local luminaries John Banks (organizer of Montreal’s first pride march) and trans educator Chloé Viau; to a creator of Canadian art salons and last but not least, a trans woman simply named Agnes, who, in the 50s was a pioneer in seeking sex reassignment surgery.

Chrishna Ombwiri

Claire Doyon

2019

France / 12 mins
Where the vegetal, aquatic and human world converge, and the spirits watch over, the boundary between reality and myth becomes blurred, like the one between genders. Filmed on the banks of the Ogooué river in Gabon, Chrishna/Ombwiri through the testimony of a young man who started a gender change process takes us in a liquid universe populated by legendary and ancestral creatures, androgynous figures in metamorphosis, extraordinary amphibians, such as the Homeric sirens, famous for their beauty and their singing, or the Krishna deity, an entity of female appearance but male.

Colombia

Manuela Andrade

2019

Brazil / 16 mins
Carmen is a Colombian actress who moves to Recife and becomes fascinated by the city's artistic atmosphere. Julia is an unemployed journalist who's about to leave Brazil, let down by the country's political landscape. Their meeting turns their worlds upside down.

Commander

Aitan Ebrahimoff

2019

UK / 5 mins
Set in a timespace where historical past meets speculative future, Colonel Pike encounters hybrid beings (animal-human) in a shingle interzone. Paralysed by naivety Pike is alienated and becomes the subject of perverse ritual.

Communion

Luca Asta

2019

UK / 10 mins
Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith; these are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion. A peaceful film to reflect on the wonders of the body.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/348434650

Como Si Fueras Verdad
Como Si Fueras Verdad

Jesús Pedraza Madrid

2019

México / 25 mins
Ángel y Ethan están a punto de tener una cita para arreglar las cosas entre ellos y resolver asuntos pendientes del pasado. Sin embargo descubrirán que a veces las cosas no son lo que parecen, y que cuando alguien realmente quiere formar parte de tu vida, hará hasta lo imposible por permanecer en ella.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/336396784

Compass Needle /
Vadakkunokki Yanthram

Prithvi Konanur

2019

India / 13 min
A video portrait that tries to retrace the coming out of a gay Muslim man in Southern India, whose conservative family has largely accepted him.

Condom On

Andraž Čok

2019

Slovenia / 35 mins
HIV prevention and personal story of an HIV-positive person.

Consonance

Dani Chaparro

2019

USA
A queer-directed, acted, and produced experimental film that meditates on a quote by James Baldwin, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read… It was books that taught me the things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. Only if we face the open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

Conversation Behind The Scenes
Conversation behind the scenes

Giulia Zumpano

2019

Italy / 40 mins
Il documentario segue la storia di Dario Pasquarella, regista e attore non udente, e della sua compagnia. Attraverso il suo lavoro, Dario cerca di riunire la comunità dei sordi e degli udenti, che di solito sono separati da una mancanza di comunicazione. Nei suoi spettacoli usa entrambe le lingue, la LIS, la lingua dei segni e la lingua parlata, per narrare storie in cui i sordi e gli udenti possono vivere in simbiosi.

Corps En Construction
Corps en construction

Elora Bertrand

2019

France / 4 mins
Bodies under construction is a filmed manifesto made by Elora Bertrand, a non binary cinema student about our trans bodies, their beauty, their glory and their ability to evolve with us along the way.
Watch… https://youtu.be/fIwJJUHfFBQ

Cozmo
Cozmo

Ilhan Soydemir

2019

Germany / 3 mins
Cozmo feels uncomfortable being in public with his boyfriend. After realizing he is not the only one affected by the situation he decides to overcome his fears.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/319580779

Creation

Bia Vilela,
Luiza de Andrade

2019

Portugal / 4 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/319971158

Cruise Night

Isaac Wurmann

2019

Canada / 8 mins
While car enthusiasts line the sidewalks on Sunday night to watch jacked up rides cruise down Portage Avenue, a different kind of cruising takes place in the parks, parking lots, and side streets. Cruise Night is an experimental short film and sound art project that’s part of an ongoing exploration of public sex, queer geographies, and car culture in Winnipeg.

Daddy in the Refrigerator

Jung In-Hyuk

2019

South Korea / 21 mins
Yeon lives alone with her curse that’s been on her ever since she was little. One day Dae, met at a lesbian club, suddenly comes to Yeon’s house. Yeon likes the bulldozer-like way Dae acts, even though she is concerned at the same time that the curse might hurt Dae. The concern becomes a reality, and Dae is harmed. Yeon finally decides to get rid of the curse that has been harassing her for a long time.

Dana Tzompantli Y Carnaval
Dana, Tzompantli y Carnaval

Fernando Colín Roque

2019

France, Mexico / 19 mins
The methodical polarisation between life and death raises the question of the metaphysical meaning of life. The drama involves a Mexican transvestite who goes to northern France to soothe the pain of his/her mother’s death and also to discover whether the carnival, like death, makes us all equals.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/341777465

Dancing Bodies

Elisa Monteil,
La Fille Renne,
Laure Giappiconi

2019

France / 6 mins
Dancing Bodies is a joyful and sexual ode to sisterhood.

Danielle

Joaquín Flores

2019

Peru / 3 mins
Danielle, quien es discriminada por su madre, le confiesa que está tomando testosterona. Luego de escuchar la reacción de su madre, ella decide refugiarse en las memorias compartidas con su pareja, quien sí acepta su género y su sexualidad. 

Dany Turcotte, l’urgence de vivre

Geneviève Tremblay

2019

Canada / 45 mins
Long before he was the “fou du roi” of the massively popular Radio-Canada show Tout le monde en parle, doling humorous reactions to up-to-the-minute discussions, Dany Turcotte was a hard-working CEGEP student honing his improvisational skills with other talented comedians. It is with a handful of these fellow students – notably, Dominique Lévesque, Marie-Lise Pilote, and Émile Gaudreault – that Turcotte would go on to form “le Groupe sanguin” in 1984, creating such indelible, adored characters as the mystical and extremely “relaxed” hippie of indeterminate sex, Dany Verveine.

De Gris To POSITHIVO
De Gris to POSITHIVO

Juan De La Mar

2019

Colombia / 18 mins
Juan overcomes the shock of the HIV positive diagnosis and comes back to life.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/JCIR7dt24hg

Deep Dive

Boris Gavrilović

2019

Germany / 18 mins
Shared apartment, separate lives: Nadine and Josef have been together for several years, but they still haven’t understood what it means to live together. When Josef confesses to Nadine that he is also interested in men, the relationship begins to take a turn. A portrait of a quiet relationship crisis.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/VDyti2cbd7s

Dennis The Man Who Legalized Cannabis
DENNIS: The Man Who Legalized Cannabis

Brandon Moore

2019

USA / 19 mins
The story of veteran, LGBTQ+ and cannabis activist, Dennis Peron, who fought to get cannabis to HIV/AIDS patients in 1990s San Francisco.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/418560336

Desnudos George X
Desnudos

George X

2019

México / 49 mins
7 mexicanos sin ropa y sin restricciones, comparten sus pulsiones desde lo más prohibido hasta lo más excitante. Su salida del closet, fisting, erecciones, celibato, brujería y más.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/3DDQ1eKxVpQ

Despues De Clases
Despues de Clases

Gabriel Elettore

2019

Argentina / 6 mins
Elena runs intensively and escapes. While fighting against her asthma, Patricia tries to reach her and she witnesses a situation that can no longer be hidden.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/314358432

Diane Torr: Becoming King

Heni Cloake

2019

UK / 7 mins
A moving portrait celebrating the life of working class Drag King rebel Diane Torr, using archive footage and her own words.

Die grosse Um_ordnung

Sabian Baumann

2019

Switzerland / 30 mins
Der Film "die grosse um_ordnung" dokumentiert die Aufführung des gleichnamigen transdisziplinären, kunstaktivistischen Projekts, das sich für die Umverteilung von Privilegien stark macht. Die Performance fand im Mai 2018 auf dem Helvetiaplatz in Zürich statt.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/287279544

Dinner Mahlzeit
Dinner / Mahlzeit

Simon Maria Kubiena

2019

Austria / 3 mins
The first-born using make-up and dressing up as a woman triggers a dispute situation with the father at a family dinner.

disquiet

Sam Ku

2019

5 mins
A queer, nonbinary Asian bounds toward self-definition.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/307646602

Dissidence

C. Carmona

2019

Puerto Rico / 17 mins
Since the Cups closed several years ago, few nightspots on the island focus specifically on serving women in the LGBTTQIA + community. The people interviewed in this documentary yearn for safe nighttime spaces to dance, enjoy, and socialize with other queer women. In the absence of these establishments, the Nok Nights proposal has emerged, a party organized by queer people that seeks to provide a safe night environment specifically for women from the LGBTTQIA + community. However, it is a sporadic event, as it does not have a place or fixed dates. So where do queer women go the rest of the nights?

Do Peito Da Pele

Rudolfo Auffinger,
Keythe Tavares

2019

9 mins
D’après le poème de Francisco Mallmann “What We Will Do With It” (2018), une sorte d'invocation à Dieu, par deux “bichas” (pédés) issu.e.s d'un milieu évangélique. Un film expérimental au croisement du pop art et du détournement queer décolonial, dans l'encadrement d’une croix chrétienne.

Doll Parts

Four Chambers

2019

USA / 12 mins
Bimbo aesthetics flow into a psychedelic femdom-acid fever dream.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/363126142

Dolphin

Em Baker

2019

Australia / 10 mins
How do you tell someone you like them when the default assumption is that you're straight? What do you do with your crushes on women when the world says you're not queer enough for them to matter? And why are we looking for dolphins at St Kilda beach?

Double Duble
Double / Dublê

Fernanda Reis

2019

Brazil / 11 mins
A recently separated couple decides to hire "doubles" through an app in order to settle the terms of their divorce.
Watch… https://youtu.be/3zssr1h0GSY

DragNostra
DragNostra

PV Vidotti

2019

Brazil / 13 mins
A bank robbery done by mafia drag queens.

Dream Boy

Kevin Anthony

2019

USA / 28 mins
Max goes out with the boyfriend of her dreams -Jason- in secret: he is everything he wants and everything he doesn't need. 

El Chico del Frente

Marilina Giménez

2019

Argentina
Marilina 43 años, directora de cine, lesbiana, investiga sobre chicos trans y no bianrios  para realizar su próximo documental. Para eso recorre parques, discotecas y marchas donde busca personajes jóvenes y libres. Al conocerlos se cuestiona su propia elección de género y sexualidad, obligándose a bucear en su memoria para encontrar lo que está oculto.

Emilia 2019
Emilia

Diego Lomelín

2019

México / 14 mins
Emilia llega al cumpleaños de Ana, una amiga a la que no ha visto en 20 años. Emilia convive con los invitados. Su curiosidad la hará descubrir un secreto que guarda esta familia aparentemente perfecta.

Emma 2019
Emma

Saskia Hennecke,
Grace Tourville  

2019

USA / 12 mins
A multi-talented transgender student navigates life at the historically Catholic and conservative University of Notre Dame.

Enby Enterrupted

Sara Strachan,
Jack Fitzgerald

2019

Australia / 11 mins
Two Enby best buddies match with the same unicorn hunters on Tinder, but have they met their match?

End of Story

Frankie Symonds

2019

USA / 12 mins
Part introspective free-fall, part homage to the filmmakers who nurtured me, this movie uses several series created in the last two years as material to consider the powers of context, order, and sensory overload in considering a story.

Entre Idilio Y Condena
Entre Idilio y Condena

Sofía Riaño

2019

Colombia / 25 mins
La historia sucede en un pueblo de Colombia en 1950. Emilia es una joven que sigue los preceptos del partido liberal. Ella tiene 20 años y sueña con ser parte de la grupo guerrillero en los llanos orientales. Ella tiene un conflicto para hacerse respetar, por lo que suele vestir la ropa de su padre. Además, tiene un primer amor: Noelia, quien es la hija del malvado líder conservador del pueblo.

ESI:
Un derecho en disputa

Ignacio Garcia

2019

Argentina / 15 mins
A través del relato de Lucía, una docente a favor de la ESI, se conoce la historia de Andrea: una docente que elabora un manual propio sobre ESI. Estas dos historias se entrelazan con la odisea de Elías, quien busca mostrar a la ESI como dañina.

Estuario

Sara D. Lugardo

2019

Puerto Rico / 14 mins
Gabriel, un joven gay, tiene un padre que es pastor y lucha por ser aceptado en la iglesia. Su padre tiene que decidir si la iglesia le abrirá los brazos a su hijo.

Evelyn & Pamela

Alexandria Greenhalgh

2019

Australia / 17 mins
Sydney, 1958. As the sun goes down, two women reconnect in a quiet bookshop after spending years apart. Though a life together seems impossible, they try and make the most out of their fleeting moment of contact.

Every Monday

Myat Noe

2019

Myanmar / 6 mins
Two girls in different places have a mysterious connection via one man.

Every Thorn Has Its Day /
Todo rosa tem espinhas

Tadeu Bijos

2019

Brazil / 9 mins
Fábio wakes up with a zit on his forehead. He goes online to see what he should do about it and pimps out his pimple.

Everybody's Type

Isaac Lock

2019

UK / 3 mins
With 30-inch hair, razor-sharp nails and a sensational sashay, Swedish make-up artist Daniel Sällström is every bit the perfect blonde bombshell. After collaborating with director Isaac Lock on Fashion Disciples: Black, he returns in this provocative project to celebrate his siren alter ego, Innitbabes.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/448820844

Exit Beirut
Exit Beirut

Eli Salameh

2019

Lebanon / 7 mins
Even the rarest of connections can seldom define a person’s life. When your heart is somewhere else, you will always live a paradox. This is a story of a special connection between Angela and Joan. Welcome to Beirut at night.

Extract from Third Shutter

Goodyn Green

2019

Germany / 7 mins
Feast on this delicious slice from the final instalment of Berlin-based pornographer Goodyn Green's Shutter trilogy.

Eye Candy
Eye Candy

Katharina Kraft

2019

Germany / 60 mins
Documentary about a strong woman in a once male-dominated sports, who fights to get respected as entertainer, athlete and homosexual woman.​​​​​​​
Trailer… https://youtu.be/5gNywsxUs7k

Eyes Lily Ash Sakula
Eyes

Lily Ash Sakula

2019

UK / 4 mins
Eyes is a mixed-media animation about moving though the world as a non-binary person. It explores the tension between being looked at and being seen through a day in the life of Jig. A collaboration with the young people of the Indigo project, a queer youth group based in East London.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/342037326

Fabulous Farmer
Fabulous Farmer /
Pasyonistang Magsasaka

Alfredo Del Rosario Ruzol

2019

 Philippines / 5 min
As a gay/bisexual farmer and his live-in partner expect their first child, he seemed to have taken both his roles and responsibility sincerely – as the provider to his soon to be a big family, and as an aware farmer.

Faith Alone
Faith Alone

Jess Kung

2019

USA / 10 mins
This critical examination of the church as an institution is told creatively through the dual perspectives of the trans masculine director and their mother, an unconventional minister.

Family First
Family First

Marco Mucig

2019

Italy / 7 mins
Marco, a young skater, cruises through the buildings of Milan. He seems to have everything he could wish for: a beautiful girl by his side and friends to share his passion with. But he’s looking for something else.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/334388965

Far Longe
Far / Longe

Mariana Stolze

2019

Brazil / 7 mins
During 2018’s presidential election in Brazil, a young woman expects her mother for dinner. But a homophobic social media post makes her rethink this mother-daughter relationship.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/388104084

Far Away

Mitko Karakolev

2019

UK / 4 mins
A man’s solitary existence comes to an end as he decides to go on a journey in search of companionship and love.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/332989273

Fără Perdea

Anca Iordănescu, Andreea Nițu

2019

Romania / 3 mins
How is bar sport seen in Romania through the eyes of those who practice it and not only.

Felfel Lahmer
Felfel Lahmer /
Piment Rouge

Saadia Gacem

2019

Algeria / 30 mins
A reflection on being a woman caught between two codes: that of the family and that of her own family. Two codes that feed off each other. Prohibitions, injunctions, rules of good behavior for women, dictated by lawmen, family and society. Felfel Lahmer creates a space for confrontation and gives body and voice to the women who gather to study, comment on – to decipher – the tacit, but no less implacable laws, prescriptions and customs imposed on them in absentia. An instrumental absence that has served to foster and legitimize female oppression that is here deconstructed to generate unexpected short-circuits and to draw precious "escape routes".

Female Pleasure Circle
Female Pleasure Circle

Erika Lust

2019

45 mins
Five self-determined women break the taboo of female masturbation in an intimate masturbation class followed by an all-female orgy. Shattering the belief that sex is all about fulfilling male desire, Female Pleasure Circle is fiercely tackling social issues - The Lust way. “Masturbation is self-care and there is absolutely nothing shameful about it.”

Fertilizer

Ben Simpkins

2019

USA / 16 mins
As he puts an emotionally abusive relationship behind him, Michael finds a new calling in writing about the misadventures of gay dating.
Watch… https://youtu.be/ZLHYN6_2GDI

Finding Norm

David Cork, Glenn Quentin George, Ashton Pina

2019

USA / 8 mins
Devastated Norm, newly single after his longtime boyfriend breaks up with him on Thanksgiving evening, baby-steps his way back into dating and bachelorhood as he tries to…

Fish Peixe
Fish /
Peixe

Yasmin Guimarães

2019

Brazil / 17 mins
Marina is a young woman that works in Belo Horizonte doing deliveries on her bike. Sweet and personal, Fish celebrates queer femininity and sisterhood.

Fisting Club
Fisting Club

Shu Lea Cheang

2019

Germany
Fisting Club' takes the eight rules from 'Fight Club' (1999) and shows fisting sex as a self-emancipation act.

Float

María Matiz Borda

2019

Columbia.
Simona and Lucas are two friends who decide to go away for the weekend. Lucas claims to be queer, but Simona doesn’t get that grey area, specially because he has always dated men. They drive to the countryside where they meet Alex, an androgynous teenager to whom Lucas is attracted. With Alex in between, the uncertainty of the nature of their relationship surfaces. They must face their feelings for each other and their own sexual identities, making decisions that put their friendship to the test.

Float Bitch

Princess Bouton,
Evan James Benally Atwood

2019

USA / 9 mins
A short film that explores a black transfeminine filmmaker/performer’s relationship to her own self-worth and ego. The film pushes the idea that by centering yourself in your artwork, specifically for those who are typically “othered” in most narratives, one is committing a gorgeous and radical act.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/320912896

Floating Deep Down Summer
Floating Deep Down Summer

Hyelin Cho
조혜린

2019

Korea / 22 mins
Photographer Hye-ri, who is preparing her photo exhibition, is confused after receiving a wedding invitation from an old friend and former lover, Suyeong. Joohyun, who is in charge of Hyeri's exhibition, knows how to be confident of her gender identity and does not hide her feelings. Hye-ri, who thinks she can't be honest with herself, gets wet with such Joohyun.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/IMoh8yoAWEI

Flohplage
Flohplage

Christoph Hans, Markus Ott

2019

Germany / 8 mins
Berlin, late 80s. Secret Agent Dave waits for an anonymous source to exchange top secret information, but mistakes his middleman with Thorsten, who's looking for a romance.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Uh0xJWJfB5M

Fluidità

Leana Paparella

2019

Canada / 4 mins
Fluidità consists of a visual exploration of the fluidity of sexuality told through the story of an Italian granddaughter-grandmother relationship.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/332737594

Fluidity

Clyde Petersen

2019

USA / 2 mins
SassyBlack sings it true with this deep groove in adulation of fluid beings. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/0tryc5LPx9w

Fluir 2019
Fluir

Martí Aguer Ymbert

2019

Spain / 15 mins
Among the trees, a soldier struggles to survive, but when he finds someone, it is his enemy…

Food with Friends

Fiza Jihan, Mina Halim

2019

4 mins
A nonbinary Coptic Egyptian and a Muslim Pakistani queer friends dive into community, queerness, and diaspora with food.

Foodgasm #1 2 3

Florence Freitag

2019

Germany / 1 min
Une bouche et une pasteis de nata: la volupté portée à son paroxysme.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/274210425

Forgotten By The Moon
Forgotten by the Moon /
Ni la luna los vio pasar

Nora Caro

2019

Mexico / 24 mins
Migliaia di migranti centroamericani si dirigono a nord ogni anno con un unico obiettivo: sfuggire alla violenza e alla povertà. L’ambiente circostante non sarà a loro favore, poiché criminalità organizzata e i narcotrafficanti sono in agguato. I loro sogni sono l’unica cosa che li tiene in piedi.

Fragments 2019
Fragments / Zerreler

Seyhmus Altun

2019

Turkey / 3 mins
Fragments of a passionate yet tumultuous relationship. Roger and Ivy love each other but their relation ostracized and rejected by a part of a society comes to an end. Although not anymore a couple, the love for each other hasn’t faded and Roger decides to give Ivy his last gift.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/gdf-4uAZ0z0

Framing Device

Andrew Patterson

2019

Canada / 27 mins
Framing Device is a nearly half-hour video timeline structured (or framed by) the need for perhaps one or three individuals to maintain a high-level secret. Framing Device is therefore a work about social media and also Google downloads
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/359558489

Freaky Friends

Nicholas Tufts, Aidan Vair

2019

Canada / 19 mins
A conservationist/cryptozoologist and his begrudging co-host help local Canadian cryptids with their problems, all while educating kids on wildlife, healthy relationships, nutrition and acceptance.
Watch… https://youtu.be/PY_2iqd2gN0

Freedom Liberta
Freedom / Libertà

Savino Carbone

2019

Italy / 30 mins
In a Bari where the effects of the new, heavy migration policies decided by the new Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, are starting to be felt, Savino Carbone follows the lives of two asylum seekers, forced to flee Senegal and Nigeria because they are homosexuals. In fact, in the two countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the LGBT community is forced to deal with widespread intolerance and a penal code that provides for imprisonment and, in some cases, even stoning. In the background the Apulian capital engaged in the electoral campaign for the Europeans, which brings the leader of the League to the city, and the fiftieth anniversary Pride of the Stonewall riots. But above all the Libertà district, defined on several occasions by the press as a difficult district due to the massive presence of foreign communities.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/394396814

From A to D /
De A a D

Maria João Paiva

2019

Portugal / 10 mins
The phase of female puberty seen and felt by different generations of women. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/gpjFlzAnBK8

Fuck

Vern Haas 

2019

3 mins
A one-word journey through an unsuspecting freshman’s sexual trials, tribulations, and revelations during her first semester of college.

Genesis

María Sánchez Martínez,
Juan Agustín Greco

2019

Argentina / 14 mins
Karen and Alexis are a couple from Victoria, a small town in Entre Rios. Today they are raising their daughter Genesis, breaking through as a trans family.

Geni Cecilia Engels
Geni

Cecilia Engels

2019

Brazil / 15:15 mins
Fran Lopez (Ivan de Almeida) é um cantor que faz muito sucesso graças a composições capazes de exaltar a alma feminina. Porém, o que ninguém sabe é que a verdadeira criadora das composições é Geni (Ângela Côrrea), uma mulher.
Reunimos uma equipe de profissionais mulheres, para realizar um filme com olhar artístico sobre a questão do espaço social da mulher na contemporaneidade.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/405029377

Gently Jennifer
Gently, Jennifer

Katie Doane Avery

2019

USA / 9 mins
When Jennifer and Madison sneak a peek at a porn collection, a model stirs a deep desire in Jennifer.

Genuine

Kristina Maca

2019

Germany / 15 mins
A snapshot of life: an evening in a lesbian couple’s relationship. This is the day they finally move in together. What could possibly go wrong?

Glitter Honey

Marit Östberg

2019

Germany / 15 mins
An arousing and sparkling exploration of the body and how to touch the world in a new way.

Going My Home

Shin Jong-hun

2019

South Korea / 26 mins
HIV-positive Yong-geun returns to his hometown to celebrate his father's birthday. When he meets a stranger at a motel, an emotional journey begins.

Golden Beads
Golden Beads

Milena Martinovic

2019

USA / 4 mins
It’s Mardi Gras day in New Orleans. It’s a celebration of life, freedom and living in the moment. When a  girl decides to be spontaneous and bring another girl home, she realizes she doesn’t just want casual sex. She waits for her text in the days after, realizing that having having had the experience is valuable enough in the end.

Goodbye Fantasy

Amber Bemak,
Nadia Granados

2019

Mexico, USA / 15 mins
Goodbye Fantasy is about two bodies in relation to each other as they let go of multiple cinematic universes they occupy together. Transforming from a fantasy body to a dreaming body to a dying body, they enact different constellations of social and political power as they relate to each other within the tight construct of the frame. 

Grown Without Water

Xochitl Rodriguez      

2019   

USA / 10 mins
As the sun breaks over a purple mountain, a woman wakes from a dream in the middle of the West Texas desert.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/450217087

Guest House 2019
Guest*House

Ömer Tevfik Erten

2019

Turkey / 10 mins
Trans individuals, who are deprived of their right to work due to their gender identity, become a more vulnerable group in Turkey, especially in cases involving illness and old age.
In 2012, following the initiative of the Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association, the Trans Guest House was opened for trans individuals who are in distress, have no place to stay, and are exposed to violence. The short documentary film “Guest*House”, together with the photographs Ömer Tevfik Erten took in the guesthouse in 2014, is the gateway to the trans solidarity organized for the sustainability of the Trans Guesthouse and the search for a “safe space” for the people who temporarily host the guest house.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/373929526

Gynecologia Autodefensa / Autodefense Gynecology

Julia Ostertag

2019

Germany, Mexico / 16 mins
Gynepunk is an autonomous research project about the history of gynecology, which opens direct practical access to a self managed DIY knowledge about our bodies as well as an active and radical proposal to give a twist to patriarchal history. 
Trailer… https://youtu.be/LtW-ag1T6aA

Habit

Amanda Vigil

2019

USA / 9 mins
A queer Catholic woman of color ripens into her own truth.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/fJ4BzmE6BWg

Háblame de Verdad

David Montero

2019

Spain / 3 mins
Dos compañeros de piso se encuentran de noche en la intimidad: ¿Dónde está la verdad?

Handler is crazy

Olivia Dreisinger

2019

Canada / 32 mins
A short documentary following Koyote Moone and her medical and psychiatric service dog Banner. This film explores issues surrounding non-visible disabilities and discrimination against service dog teams.
Watch… https://youtu.be/uqloMVJ9zBk

Handmade Mountain Michèle

Pearson Clarke

2019

Canada / 6 mins
Michèle Pearson Clarke explores the emotional fallout of being both early to gay marriage and early to gay divorce. Fifteen years after same-sex marriage became legal, she and friends reflect on its personal and political meaning in this experimental film.

Hard /
Naporno

Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafia

2019

Slovenia / 6 mins
The short film "Naporno" is an attempt to question the status quo of normative heterosexual pornography. The people who made the film take us on a journey of images made to give pleasure to the people who watch them: from “naive” erotic filming to close-ups of porn actresses and queer fetish images. How do people on both sides of the screen feel?

Haunted Flowers

Gato Rodriguez, Rachel Walker

2019

2 mins
A young nonbinary Latinx daringly descends into the echoes of an overwhelming love.

Heal Me Cura Me
Heal Me / Cura-me

Eduardo Varandas Araruna

2019

Brazil / 16:42 mins
Adolescent seeks a religious psychologist for therapy to cure his homosexuality. Both reach the ultimate consequences to reach the goal.

Heart Throb

Q

2019

USA / 8 mins
A trio of polyamorous dominatrixes take matters into their own hands when one of their partners can’t get the medication they need.

Heat Aiko Nuki
Heat

Aiko Nuki

2019

Mexico / 4 mins
Autobiographical erotic transition; a visceral process of disturbing and teasing touches of self pleasure.

Heel Tip Heel
Heel Tip Heel /
Tacón Punta Tacón

Eduardo Luzuriaga

2019

Mexico / 15 mins 
A 22-year-old student wants to cross-dress for the first time and participate in a gay beauty event. His 38-year-old partner, a professional transformer, gives him advice and tells us about his experience in the world of competitions and the life of the transvestite. 
Trailer… https://youtu.be/_pkggGMNexk

Hex Your Ex

Cassie Rubio

2019

USA / 7 mins
When a young woman refuses to move on from her failed relationship, her strong-willed mother and a coven of queer witches take matters into their own hands.

Him

Carter Truitt 

2019

4 mins
Jasper mysteriously appears in Matthew's room in the middle of the night. Matthew attempts to figure out why his crush is acting so weird.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/281536917

His Eyes Behind Mine

Ziwei Qin

2019

United States / 6 mins
Based on a personal story. An emotional journey through love, sex, obsession, and violence.

HIV Healing Inner Voices
HIV: Healing Inner Voices

Martin Moberg, Jada-Gabrielle Pape

2019

Turtle Island / 27 mins
This thoughtful portrait shows Indigenous people living with HIV who are fighting the stigma of intersectional, intergenerational trauma by connecting to traditional spirituality.

Home

Christina E. Lang

2019

USA / 5 mins
For an aromantic and asexual biracial Chinese woman, everyday moments that create home propel her into the world.

Home

Tyle Aaron

2019

USA / 8 mins
A boy goes home to discover who his mother has become.

Homegrown

James Dixon

2019

Canada / 4 mins
Homegrown complicates the notion of history as a stable and coherent narrative by creating a disorienting collage using juxtaposed images and audio fragments.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/40700836

Honor Black Trans Womxn!

Seyi Adebanjo

2019

USA / 5 mins
This short film is a call to center Black Trans Womxn, protect and celebrate Black Trans Womxn. The Hands Off Trans Bodies Rally was held on May 24th, 2019, because 3 Black Transgender Womxn were murdered within 8 days of each other. What would it look lie if Black Trans Womxn were allowed to thrive?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/339496179

Horticult

Will Hamilton

2019

5 min
A fake documentary depicts a strange community of humans in 1970’s England who believed they had become plants.

House of AS

Leah Shore

2019

USA / 1 min
An homage to BALL/Vogue
Watch… https://vimeo.com/365371481

Hron A Country Of Ghosts
Hron: A Country of Ghosts

Dani Tardif

2019

Canada / 63 mins
A queer heterotopian science-fiction movie about war, but more so a story about love. It starts when Dimos Horacki, a non-binary trans reporter from the Borolian empire, arrives in the mountain regions of Cerracs to write news of the forfronts of the war. Though the Empire presumes they will be able to expand their borders, they will be confronted by resistance on land that was assumed to be uninhabited. It is the story of love that unites people who believe that living together and organizing differently is possible, but that they must fight together to preserve their way of life.

Hug Matheus MurucciHug

Matheus Murucci

2019

Brazil / 16 mins
In a ghetto neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, a group of friends make preparations for a birthday party.

Hugs from hell

Incanti & IBRIDO Workshop

2019

Italy / 2 mins
lavoro di animazione che ci racconta di vari incontri …. infernali!

Huracán Bertha

Daniela Ema

2019

Argentina / 15 mins
Documental que trata sobre la vida de Berta Rodas, una trabajadora social que es también actriz en la fiesta gay más grande de Argentina.
Watch… https://youtu.be/nW7YM1mNnLA

I Am Kavi

Kavi Dhan

2019

India / 3 mins
A South Asian transgender filmmaker strides into who he is and what identity means to him.

I am Samantha

T Cooper

2019

USA / 5 mins
Director Cooper gathered twenty-seven trans actors together to tell a universal human story about the journey to find identity, acceptance, and love by singing “I Am Samantha" by singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, which was inspired by his friend Samantha Williams, whom he met randomly at a coffee shop in New York City
Watch… https://youtu.be/tQWwpzck8Tk

I am They

 Fox & Owl 2019   UK / 61 mins
A feature-length documentary that follows the story of Fox and Owl, as they explore the many issues facing non-binary trans people in the UK today. Through a protest-wedding Fox and Owl set out to raise awareness of the wider issue of lack of legal gender recognition in the UK, and speak with many other non-binary people about the challenges they face.
Watch… https://youtu.be/D_zyn_oUN9M?si=LuqI-DifVG_dTQuw 

I Can Explain It

Hernán González

2019

Argentina / 11 mins

I Dream /
Yalani Dream

Yalini Dream,
Krissy Mahan

2019

USA
Artist Yalini Dream – Lankan Tamil Blood, Manchester-Born, Texas-Bred and Brooklyn-Brewed – performs a poem of refugee/migrant love for the self and the world, through dance and a hiphop beat.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/96651070

I Have to Think of Us as Separate People

Christopher Berntsen, Stephen Ira

2019

USA / 4 mins
An intimate exploration of a complex relationship between two gay men, one cis, one trans, where the filmmakers fracture and blend their own bodies and voices to create a split screen projection collage.

I Identify As Me

Tina Colleen, Monick Monell

2019

USA / 3 mins
A chorus of gender-diverse women & people who are queer & trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) whose stories allow reflection on the truth that the intersectionalities of gender & people are infinite.
Watch… https://youtu.be/pinT25FVynM

I Never Said It Wasn't Allowed

Michal Beer

2019

Israel / 17 mins
For a year and a half, I filmed moments of my life, divided in this film between my parents’ house and my own. I attempted to stand in the gap between these two worlds, a gap in which my personal conflict takes place; I find myself overcoming and compromising, struggling and giving up. With the help of the camera, I tried to go out on a journey with my father. I don't know how this journey will end since I’m not really sure if it ever began.

I Want To Be Understood And Ignored
I Want to be Understood and Ignored

Shadi Rabahi

2019

Lebanon / 13 mins
Shadi, a 27 year old nervous stand-up comedian, grapples with strange tendencies. His close friend knows his secret and tries to help, his girlfriend wants commitment hoping it would improve their sex life, and he visits his barbershop, much more often than needed. It is a little story of acceptance and longing to be understood and ignored.

I, Will / Eu, Will

Ieda Lagos

2019

Brazil / 17 mins
In the heart of Belo Horizonte, the city moves in a chaotic and loud way, but someone stands out in the middle of the crowd. From that point we will see a fragment of Will’s life.

Im Sanjo
I’m Sánjo / Nján Sánjo

Jijo Kuriakose

2019

India / 15 mins
‘Nján Sánjo’ documents the life of a dynamic young man named Sanjo in a transphobic suburban locality. Sanjo's insights spill over the struggles with his gender idenity, lack of inclusive spaces and minimal awareness of trans masculine identities in Kerala. Sánjo, who was gender assigned female at birth also shares his passion for mathematics, hockey etc. and how they were key to his survival and realising his gender identity.

Ibex Man

Niv Fridman

2019

Israel / 5mins
A short film about love, death, and chips. It is also a story of two men who love ibex even more than they do each other.

Ice

Lee Seong-wook

2019

Korea / 27 mins
Two guys are wondering around in a resort town in order to deal ‘Ice’. On the way to the place, one of them are fear if a cop is following them.

iLove

David Mora

2019

Spain / 2 mins
ILove talks about love, about two strangers who share the same bus line. Also a bit of stalkers , of how when we like someone we 'spy' on them, we chase them, we dream of them ... In short, how we imagine a life with that person

In the Dark

Rory Midhani

2019

Germany / 4:37 mins
A chance encounter in the basement darkroom of a Berlin cruisebar, set to a track by Russian queer party band Sado Opera.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/324693281

In the Margins: Illuminating Islamic Queerness

Layla Abdul-Jabbar

2019

USA / 8 mins
An experimental animation that gives voice to the realities of intersectionality when moving through and occupying space.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/330068119

Inqueeri

Alexandra Rose

2019

USA / 5 mins
This webseries follows the lives of two queer college kids, Teddy and James, as they explore finding their identities in a world of liberal zombies and normative nancies.

Inside Out / Revés

Teresa Martino

2019

Argentina / 13 mins
Damián suffers bullying in silence. In order to survive, he hides his feelings and sexual desire. Trapped by awful circumstances as bullying continues, Damián will have to be brave enough, in order to break free.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/256354996

Interphase

Kenny Tran

2019

Canada / 2 mins
Interphase is a visual poem that metaphorically depicts the reconciliation of past experiences and trauma through the act of deconstruction, repair, and reflection, in which these emotions are conveyed through an anthropomorphic figure that is born and covered by the surrounding flora.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/333031440

Into the Unknown

Daniel Agmon

2019

Israel / 11 mins
A journey into the consciousness of a young man who wakes up in the morning to find last night’s hookup, his “dream guy”, dead in his bed

Inversion

Elyas Askarpour

2019

Iran / 13 mins
An encounter of two people in a hotel room.

Is That All There Is
Is That All There Is?

Chris Molina

2019

USA / 6 mins
Chris Molina copes with a breakup by recreating childhood memories at Disney World, attempting to see if the magic and wonder really is lost forever.

It Could Be Anyone
It Could Be Anyone

James Hutton

2019

USA / 19 mins
Two queer people navigate modern dating life in San Francisco and question the meaning of love

It Started with a Ding

Deanna Buller

2019

USA | 5 mins
Hayley Shaw’s crush finally slips into her DM’s. Question is… is Hayley’s crush gay and really into her?

It’s a Match

Andrea Alvarado

2019

Peru / 9 mins
Luciana acaba de dejar una mala relación, por lo que sigue los consejos de su amiga Lorena, quien la alienta a descargar una aplicación móvil para obtener citas rápidas y allí encuentra al chico perfecto. Luciana está lista para conocerlo, pero las cosas no saldrán como se imagina.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/379321299

Je ne sais pas qui je suis mais je sais ce que j'aime /
Tra Kegro Lafi Sasam Mle Ra Kgro Lafe Beln

Mathieu Morel

2019 

France / 4 mins
I do not know who I am... but I do know what I love. 

Je t’aime Moi Non Plus par les Garçons Sensibles

Isabelle Maurel

2019

France / 5 mins
Vous connaissiez la chanson de Jane et Serge ? Découvrez la reprise bien plus fun des Garçons Sensibles. Un va-et-vient 100% homosexuel à quatre voix, aussi édulcoré que soyeux. Une nouvelle version qui deviendra sans doute aussi iconique que la première, mais qui, en plus, permet de bouger le popotin.
Watch… https://youtu.be/5HH_UjEmuCk

Jess

Agnes Koleman 

2019

Costa Rica, Spain, Czech Republic / 10 mins
Jess is a trans, bisexual, migrant man, with functional diversity, and diagnosed with autism spectrum. In addition, he is the first migrant person in Costa Rica to have his self-proclaimed gender identity appear on his identity card. However, his struggle goes beyond being recognized as a man: Jess lives his gender according to his own terms and claims the right to exist living different intersectionality in a world that forces them to choose a single side of their identity.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/381072426

Jim French The Art Of Masculinity
Jim French: The Art of Masculinity

Sean Boyle

2019

USA / 91 mins
In Jim French The Art of Masculinity, the viewer is taken on a journey into the life and mind of Jim French, the master photographer of some of the worlds most beautiful men. He was a pioneer in the 1960s, creating and establishing a brand that was manly, memorable, visually stunning, and influential: Colt Studios. As the man behind Colt, he photographed bodybuilders and athletes, masculine men with smoldering good looks, and bodies to match.

Juan Alberto Juan Yactayo Sono
Juan Alberto

Juan Yactayo Sono

2019

Peru / 5 mins

Just Call Me Ripley
Just Call Me Ripley

Shannon Noll

2019

USA / 44 mins
Just Call Me Ripley is a coming out story where nobody cries! This comedic web series centers on Ripley who’s group of diverse, queer, wacky friends will support her no matter what she decides about her sexuality – but that doesn’t always make things easier.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/gU0Ax_r0ONM

Just Saffy
Just Saffy

Beth Stokes

2019

UK / 10 mins
16 year old Saffy begins to struggle with her gender identity after moving to a new school with gendered uniform. Never really feeling as though she fits in with the boys or girls, Saffy finds herself treading water in the world of identity. She's in a transitive stage of her life, physically, emotionally, and mentally as she begins to face alienation and gender dysphoria in the face of personal revelation and misunderstanding with her mother.
Watch… https://youtu.be/AmQ9S4u3Vig

Just Us

Tom Birdsey

2019

UK / 5 mins
Love told through memory and the cinematic thrill of rear-projection.

Keine Ausgesprochenen Worte

Jens Kraushaar, Eva Tuchscherer

2019

Germany / 12 mins
Astrid und Dieter erinnern sich an die aufkommende schwul-lesbische Bewegung in den 1970ern.

Kiddy Smile
Kiddy Smile – Slap My Butt

Pierre Saba-Aris

2019

USA / 4 mins
Slap My Butt takes its driving musical heartbeat directly from house classics while expressing the frustration felt by those living in an oppressive society. This visual celebration of open sexuality and queerness is an invitation to get wild and wicked, and to live out your fantasies on the dance floor. 
Watch… https://vimeo.com/327070007

Kings And Queens 2019
Kings and Queens

Rachel Relman

2019

USA / 18 mins
Drag performers and best friends Polly Glamory and Stevie Stars ditch their boring college graduation to compete in the last round of a drag competition. Their relationships with each other and everyone around them are tested as they try to become the best performers in the most competitive drag market in the country.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/321795643

Kinky Kitchen
Kinky Kitchen

Bea Höller

2019

Germany / 2 mins
Have you ever wondered what your kitchen utensils get up to when you are not at home? The short clip trilogy Kinky Kitchen will reveal the juicy truth.
Trailer…  https://youtu.be/CQQihdQEQmA

Kiss In

Nicky Murmann

2019

UK / 4:43 mis
A meditation on the act of kissing and what it means to kiss when queer.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/479348227

Kuraiosa

Nora Alberdi Odriozola

2019

Spain / 27 mins
At the cinema a person sits alone on an empty seat. Lights go off and the projection is on. One at a time, four people show up and talk: four voices, four personalities, four bodies, four rooms; but the real repression:  calling them women.

L Altra Altra Meta
L’altra Altra Meta’ del Cielo-Donne

Filippo Soldi

2019

Italy / 54 mins
L’ALTRA ALTRA METÀ DEL CIELO è un viaggio che prosegue da anni. Ci sono già state due tappe: L’altra altra metà del cielo (2008) e L’altra altra metà del cielo… continua (2011), due documentari che hanno affrontato il mondo dell’omosessualità femminile, cioè una parte minoritaria di quella che è stata definita “l’altra metà del cielo”. Questo viaggio è stato intrapreso da Maria Laura Annibali diversi anni fa ed è dal calore dell’accoglienza riservata ai primi due capitoli che Maria Laura trae la forza e l’entusiasmo di proseguire il cammino. È un cammino che prevede compagni e compagne di viaggio.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/mhq994_J9C0

La Anoranza
La Añoranza

Roberto Segoviano

2019

Mexico / 9 mins 
Rubén, a call and a painting that breaks.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/491412994

La Tete La Premiere
La Tête la première

Théo Abadie

2019

France / 17 mins
Marco, jeune homme de 16 ans, ne vas plus au lycée depuis deux semaines et reste cloîtré dans sa chambre...

La Utopiia De La Mariposa
La Utopía de la Mariposa

Miguel J. Crespo

2019

Mexico / 30 mins
Lukas Avendaño es quizá el artista más importante de la comunidad Muxe, el tercer género de los zapotecas. La poesía, la danza y la antropología son la herramienta que utiliza para enunciarse y expresarse. Desde el 10 de mayo de 2018 su hermano Bruno desapareció de manera misteriosa, encontrarlo entre los 70 mil desaparecidos que hay en México es, para Lukas, una utopía.
Trailer… Trailer La utopía de la mariposa on Vimeo

Lac Daumesnil

Thomas Devouge

2019

France  / 19 mins
Lac Daumesnil is the story of an elective affinity surrounded by distant ghosts. Aurélien and his friend move around a lush botanical garden, discussing on the shores of a picturesque lake, exploring a little neoclassical temple near which they film their playful games with a camera that ends up recording the slow emerging of their fragility.

Lactasia

Val Phoenix 

2019

UK / 44 mins  
Drag queens and goth punks get turned into zombies by the patriarchy's toxic foundation (like, the make-up kind) and they get saved by a butch undertaker who feeds them with breastmilk.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/388337752

Ladies And The Tramp
Ladies and the tramp

Morgana Muses

2019

Australia / 12 mins
Experience a world of pleasure with Morgana and Marina. A beautiful afternoon between friends with good food, great sex and trampolines! Starring Morgana Muses and Marina Lee in an outdoor scene that will really get you jumping for joy.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/352644767

Ladies Gentlemen And Everyone In Between
Ladies, Gentlemen and Everyone in Between

Jad Wadi

2019

Lebanon / 10 mins
In a visual essay of day-to-day props and itineraries in Beirut, the gendered nature of Arabic is exposed. Quotidian elements, whether formally gendered or transformed into something that is, become part of a personal narrative through sound and graphic fragments. This experiment challenges the notion of the binary as Wadi navigates through the city as both male, female, and neither.

Last Ditch

Zoë Schneider

2019

4 mins
“This weight leaves me, in a healthy way. Calmly, easily, without obsession. From 248, to 172. May this spell, make it true."
Watch… https://vimeo.com/359844124

Lazy (Sunday)

Cameron Miller-Desart

2019

USA / 12 mins
Tired of their friends trying to set them up, two friends turn running errands into a fake date, only to find it may not be fake.

Legendary 2019
Legendary

Raishad M. Hardnett,
Cassie Owens, Lauren Schneiderman

2019

USA / 19 mins
An inside look into the effort to preserve Philadelphia's ballroom scene, a Black LGBTQ safe-space that has endured for 30 years.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/444288098

Lemoncholy

Maya Pirulli, Mariluz Rodriguez Jr

2019

USA / 4 mins
A couple finds a back door solution to their intimacy problems.

Lena d'Água - Nunca Me Fui Embora

Hugo Manso, Nuno Galopim

2019

Portugal / 49 mins
She started singing in the 1970s, but it was with the boom of events in the early 1980s that she became one of the most successful pop voices born in Portugal. Her great songs, music videos that made history, difficult times in the meantime, a few ignored albums and an acclaimed comeback, are the core of this documentary, which tells us a life story with visibility from the cradle. After all, she is the daughter of a prominent figure of Portuguese football.

Les voix du dedans

Elina Chared

2019

France / 26 min
Le visage de Marianne n’a pas d’âge. Elle semble être marquée par plusieurs vies. Les diagnostics, les pairs, elle s’en est servie pour créer sa propre relation avec les troubles psychiques. Elle s’invente, ré-invente, performe et parfois désespère mais se relève. Dans ces fragments de quotidien, Marianne nous livre l’intimité de son rapport à ces voix qu’elle entend. Un portrait se dessine, celui d’une femme qui lutte pour exister, dans la beauté de sa singularité.
Watch… https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x71tt3j

Less Lethal Fetishes

Thirza Cuthand

2019

Canada / 9 mins
Grappling with a latent gas mask fetish, Cuthand muses on art world political controversies, toxic emissions from the petrochemical industry, and complicity in repression and pollution as an artist enmeshed in an art and film industry propped up by dirty funders.

L Etern Retorn
L'Etern Retorn

Xavier Mitjana Agustí

2019

Spain / 10 mins
Isaac vuelve a casa después de años en el extranjero. Vuelve al lugar donde nació, un pequeño pueblo de comarcas.

Letters to Claudia

Frida Mesa

2019

México / 16 mins
Claudia is a young woman who spends her days working in a used bookstore. One day, after finding a letter forgotten in a book, she starts a search to deliver it.

Lezzies’ Mime Ménage

Trulee Hall

2019

USA / 3 mins
A surreal, mime-like sport and lesbian make-out session.

Life Is Short
Life is Short /
La vida es corta

Florencia Bastida

2019

Argentina / 23 mins
Lu and Jose dive into a frenetic and useless search. They go after the track of Male, a girl who was supposed to date Jose but she never showed up, just because she fall asleep. The paranoic idea that something might had happened to Male, embark this friends on one endless adventure just the night before Lu holds her last college exam. Because Life is short, it reminds us that in order to denormatise we must destroy what is imposed from above, at least from humor. But always being together.

Lipstick Etsen Chen
Lipstick

Etsen Chen

2019

Korea / 12 mins
Joonwoon is bullied in high school for his effeminate appearance. After his peers throw him into a swimming pool he ends up a laundromat where he encounters the enigmatic Chanmi.  As they go on a little adventure, Joonwon must decide which paths to take, what to take along with him…and what to leave behind.

Lipstick And Leather Amy Oden
Lipstick and Leather

Amy Oden

2019

USA / 32 minutes
An exploration of the alt-drag community in the nation’s capital and how these performers are spreading their influence across the East Coast.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/458582138

Little Walter Whispers

William Moran

2019

USA / 14 mins
Walter is an aloof teenage boy who finds relief from his daily life by posting relaxation videos on Youtube. One day, Walter comes face-to-face with his high school crush: a too-cool-for-school skater boy named Wade. What happens next will challenge the fragile, gentle world Walter has created for himself.

Lost Love Memories
Lost, Love, Memories

Antonio Scarabaggio

2019

Italy / 7 mins
While the conflict rages on French Lands, the German troops arrive at Arras surrounding the territory and wiping out everything that counteracts their will. On the Battlefield the German Eirik Vonmets and the English James Williams are engaged in the uncontrolled search of one other risking their own lives, heedless of the dangers all around them. At the end, the final goal will be achieved: they’ll finally be able to live as free men.

Love and Death in Montmartre

Evans Chan

2019

Hong Kong / 109 mins
Qiu Miaojin is an icon of the Chinese-speaking lesbian community. The essayistic documentary traces the writer’s short life in Taiwan and Paris, quoting from her works and interviewing her companions, publishers, translators and teachers. Her suicide in 1995 at the age of 26 immortalised her. The flim embeds her conflict-laden life within the struggle of the Taiwanese LGBTIQ* movement, which today, 50 years after Stonewall, recently achieved the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Love Lies Bleeding

Angel I-Han Teng

2019

Taiwan / 15 mins
It’s been five years Laura hasn’t seen Hattie since they abruptly broke up due to Laura’s betrayal. Visiting Los Angeles for her touring exhibition, Laura grabs the chance to stay in Hattie’s apartment as a reconnection.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/367112900

Love Undivided Clare Clovechok
Love Undivided

Clare Clovechok

2019

Canada / 14:29 mins
Love Undivided explores the perspectives of three people living ethically non-monogamous lives.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/497178974

Loveislove

Al Zaher

2019

México / 1 min
Que trata del amor libre e incondicional.

Loves

Katsutomo Inadu

2019

Japan / 18 mins
Katsuya, who is the mother of a Philippine pub, was in love with Kuroda, who works as a black dress there. Katsuya continues to struggle desperately as he is gay and the faith inherited from his devout Christian mother. Where should I arrive without being able to throw away the "God" that my mother gave me?

Loving Our Language: Pride in Disability Culture

Jen Sungshine,
David Ng

2019

Canada / 6 mins
This film explores queerness and disability, looking at the ways that culture and language are also part and parcel of many other communities.

Luca M W D
Luca M/W/D

Hannah Schwaige, Ricarda Funnemann

2019

Germany / 7 mins
Society generally distinguishes between two sexes: male and female. In Germany there is a new law for a new legal gender “divers”. Divers refers to a gender spectrum between male, female and beyond. “I feel my own sex very changeable, it never feels like I am a man or a woman. But only a body to which belongs a spirit and a mind that creates“ this is how Luca describes themself. Thus Luca unites alleged characteristics of both classical sexes in his appearance. Although Luca has experienced antipathy and even physical violence, because of his appearance – Luca would never stop being themself. The first time Luca felt really accepted was in theatre. In the theater, Luca found a way to develop more empathy. An effect that may someday be passed on to people who object to Luca’s looks, beliefs, and way of loving them.

Madly In Love With My Best Friend
Madly in Love with My Best Friend

Erika Lust

2019

21 mins
"I think I'm madly in love with my best friend, but of course, she doesn't know. I'm not sure if she even likes women... She is the coolest person I've ever met, so sexy, so modern, so confident. Everything I lack, she has.

Maintenance /
Mantenimiento

Juanita Rodriguez

2019

Puerto Rico / 6 mins
A nosy neighbor visits her gay neighbor. How will it go?

Make A Wish
Make a Wish

Chen Ke Yun

2019

Taiwan / 25 mins
A story of two young friends trying to figure out their relationship as one struggles with his sexual identity and the fear of coming out.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/VS0nb8Obcl4

Maliblue
Maliblue

Edson Contreras

2019

Mexico / 6 mins
Audiovisual exploration that approaches the Drag scene in Morelia, where design, fashion, art and freedom make up its histrionic side.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/346768352

Manolo le decían

Venjamín Villalobos Baranda,
Tomás Duarte Álvarez,
Melisa Lantadilla Gallardo

2019

 Chile / 9 mins
ualañé es una pequeña ciudad del campo chileno. Si usted pregunta por el SIDA ahí, lo primero que le van a decir es que no saben nada. Luego les dirán que sí saben, pero sólo por lo que han escuchado. Al final, todos dicen que la culpa fue de Manolo.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/1LCJJK-a4go

Maricon Fernando Ferres Lopez
Maricón

Fernando Ferres López

2019

Spain / 25 mins
“Maricón” es un falso documental que cuenta la historia de Juan López, un hombre homosexual represaliado por el Franquismo. El cortometraje se narra en primera persona, a través de la visión de un estudiante que está haciendo un documental sobre Juan. El estudiante va dando su interpretación sobre él, lo que significa su historia, así como la manera en la que se va desarrollando la relación de confianza que se genera entre ambos.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/xtMjHP-PqOM

Mark

Sarah Hill

2019

USA / 50 mins
Who was Mark? We know Mark was a Husband, Father, Friend, Patient, and a Musician, despite limited scholarly writing about his life. Created through this absence, Mark is a cinematic, non-linear, historical fiction account of a Trans masculine musician who might have existed.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/288880630

Marlene Super Hero
Marlène Superhero

Gael Nayt

2019

France / 9 mins
2019, Paris, at night, under the Alexandre 3 bridge. Maxime, eleven years old, thinks of jumping into the Seine. A caped and masked woman, speaking English, stops him in his suicidal gesture and sermonizes him.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/710720813

Mask4masc

Shakeil Rollock

2019

Canada
Watch... https://vimeo.com/314066509

Maya Aleksei Ivanchenkov
Maya /
Майя

Aleksei Ivanchenkov

 
2019  The Russian Fedration / 14 mins
Maya keeps fighting for her right to be a woman officially. She deals with her insecurities, fear of uncertainty and the society’s hostility without losing her faith and optimism. Will Maya’s dream come true? 

Melody

Anne Wheeler

2019

Canada / 12 mins
Newfoundland; 1984. Two young women find themselves in an impossible situation. With no one to turn to and against all odds, the pair take the road trip of their lives.
Based on the story Melody by Lisa Moore, from her 2002 collection of short stories, Open.

Memories Revealed /
Memorias Reveladas

Quentin Worthington

2019

France / 23 mins
From Buenos Aires to Hanover, this photo-novel reveals the struggles, lives spent in exile and grief, but also the happy memories of trans women like Magali, Maria Belen, Ivana, and Carla, who work to protect a treasure trove of seven thousand photos: the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina.

Mermind

Shiue Jen Chang

2019

Taiwan / 4:45 mins
On Halloween, a day where anyone could be anything, a child prepares the perfect costume to fulfill their dream.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/339159232

Metal Heart

Frigid

2019

Canada / 3 mins 
Another spectacular output from Montreal’s DJ Frigid.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Sz25OLNoFkI

Metamorphosis

Marte Gunnufsen

2019

Norway / 25 min.
We follow two queens on the Chicago drag scene as they’re getting ready for the stage.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/286342433

Métis Femme Bodies

Chanelle Lajoie

2019

Canada / 5 mins
Métis Femme Bodies is an exploration into the experiences of what has become a repressed identity in both Indigenous and femme forms. Métis Femme Bodies offers voice to those denied such luxury; allowing the subjects to represent themselves and correct misleading narratives imposed by greater power structures.

Mi Arma Jesus Pascual
Mi arma

Jesús Pascual

2019

Spain / 6 mins
Tradition and subversion. Folklore and revolution. The passion of a young drag queen for the cultural elements of his homeland, Andalusia, and the problems involved in incorporating them into his own artistic expression.

Mia Sorella Saverio Cappiello
Mia sorella

Saverio Cappiello

2019

Italy / 15 mins
Una ráfaga de golpes de nudillos une a Vanni y Cosimo, dos hermanos inseparables apasionados por el Muay Thai. El día de la pelea está cerca, pero esa noche algo sale mal. Cosimo tiene una nueva novia, y Vanni no puede manejarlo.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/WYxxClaeMcI

Miseducated

Kevin Pinckney

2019

USA / 15 mins
MISEDUCATED follows the life of Anton, a private school boy from the hood. In this LGBTq+ coming of age story, Anton finds himself in his first love triangle hich also includes his "straight" best friend Dillion.

Moan-A Lisa

Connor Kurth

2019

USA / 1 min
A Japanese American becomes the target of an offensively kinky fetish.

Mono Omar Flores Sarabia
Mono

Omar Flores Sarabia

2019

México / 17 mins
Mono, un decadente bailarín, conoce a Ángel, quien parece ser su última oportunidad para escapar del oscuro mundo en donde vive. Obsesionado con su juventud perdida, Mono sabe que dejar ir a Ángel significará el principio de su fin.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/I-sCMXvvM9o

Monsters

Steven D. Jackson

2019

UK / 4 mins
We all have monsters - but how do we deal with the problem? Where do we go or who do we talk too when we have doubt, anxiety or depression?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/377623202

Motherstruck

Micaela Birmingham

2019

USA / 16 mins
Staceyann Chin embarks on a wild road toward motherhood in this series, based on her one-woman play directed by Cynthia Nixon and produced by Rosie O’Donnell.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/g_ATWDRfTcU

Mowitowak

Megan Feheley

2019

Canada / 4 mins
Mowitowak questions how the filmmaker is perceived by those who may wish to do them harm.

Mr Ji Lukas Calabrese
Mr. Ji

Lukas Calabrese

2019

 USA / 8 mins
Mr. Ji is a wheelchair bound dog as eccentric as the NYC neighborhood he lives in.

Music Box

Tasya Abbot

2019

4 mins
A young Peruvian/Jewish lesbian living far from home explores her grandparent’s relationship with her identity.

My Crazy Boxers

Krissy Mahan

2019

 USA / 8:45 mins
Suicidal - or just a working class butch dyke caught in the wrong underpants? Seems that the boxers were the bigger problem, according to my treatment team. This video is based on actual meetings with hospital staff while in a psychiatric hospital system.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/333886573

My Duck

Edita “Aster” V. Delgado

2019 

Germany / 7 mins
Sixteen-year-old “tomboy” Ning-ning grows up on a duck farm in the Philippines and has to help her father a lot. Recently, though, she has been spending more and more time with a girl from school. But one day, her father discovers something that shatters Ning-ning’s world…

My Grandmother’s House

Megan Wilton

2019

4 mins
A pansexual Black woman and her aunt climb from generations of child sexual abuse and domestic violence toward power.

My Mind Wonders When You’re Looking

Gein Wong

2019

Canada

My Mother Resents Me
My Mother Resents Me /
Mi Madre Me Tiene Rabia

Victoria Linares Villegas

2019

Dominican Republic / 7 mins
Victoria, an only daughter, tries to decipher her mother's resentment towards her by parsing through old photographs and new footage.

My Trans Journey

Elizabeth Trojian

2019

Canada / 25 mins
Transgender icon Dr. Carys Massarella helps patients work to overcome personal challenges and thrive in their transitions.

Nay

Melinda James

2019

USA / 1 min
An intimate portrait of Renee.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/322118624

Negative Worlds

Edmund Hardy

2019

UK / 3 mins
A changing and fragmented band of characters go in search of another world within this one. A collage film, moving through multiple genres and multiple years.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/e_nL7PYjwDg

Nest Eszter Janka
Nest

Eszter Jánka

2019

Germany / 8 mins
They wander through an infinite emptiness. A couple and she, the woman. They feel an inexplicable bound, in the night, in the world: outside. Their encounter can only occur in the empty room. One by one they can enter the space and find each other again. In their world, they are not completely alone, Pig is observing them. Three bodies, their existence doesn’t affect the sphere, their world was already complete. And empty. The nest bursts. Melancholy echoes.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/312984821

Neutral

Maggie Nielsen

2019

USA / 3 mins
Z is a happy child, on the cusp of blissfully ignorant peace with themselves and those around them. With the help of some imaginary friends come to life from their picture book, Z meets other kids at the park and they slowly begin to realize that they don't quite fit in with the stereotypical playtime of either child- boy or girl. When they need to go to the bathroom, they are faced with a decision that has been building up the entire day.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/339663259

New Ways

Jonas Hegi,
Jonas & Julien

2019

UK / 8 mins
A four-part voguing odyssey with the father of the House of Milan, Benjamin Milan featuring original music by Gaika.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/366487262

Nida

Fawzi Swaid

2019

Netherlands / 29 mins
Nida is queer woman from Pakistan who left her husband and escaped to The Netherlands three years ago. Having experienced a life in fear in her home country she has now reached a place where she can finally be herself.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/375876658

No Consigo Olvidarte
No Consigo Olvidarte

Sebastián Sario

2019

Brazil / 4 mins
Summer love is that which is impregnated in your body. That burns your skin and burns you night and day. It's that powder that starts in January and lasts all year long. It is dawn not knowing where and in the arms of a delicious stranger in a Rio de Janeiro motel facing the sea. Because loving in summer is for the needy, for those who fly over the beaches like seagulls desperate to eat. It is living intoxicated by the sweaty and firm bodies of Rio's beaches. Breathing that dense air, dense like a broth heated and reheated over and over again, a delicious mixture of vegetation, passion fruit and sweat. To love in Rio de Janeiro is to not be able to stop looking and looking at the shapes of the wonderful city, so intoxicating. Nuts, plants, fruits, lumps, more lumps, men who smell like men, penises, fat and thick penises that want to jump out of their bathing suits.

No Dominion
No Dominion: The Ian Horvath Story

Margaret Mullin

2019

USA / 40 mins
This documentary salutes the life and accomplishments of the late dance champion and AIDS activist Ian (Ernie) Horvath. 
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Tk22TKeiUdQ

No Es Coma
No Es Coma

Tamara Lucarini

2019

Spain / 15 mins
José Ramón, victim of a serious accident, receives the visit of Agustín, who takes the opportunity to talk about old times.

No Fems 2019
No Fems

Tyler Vogel

2019

USA / 8 mins
For feminine gay men we not only receive the pressure from society to be masculine, but also within our own community.Within the gay community there is a huge divide between masculine and feminine men. A lot of these problems root from social media where masculine men will post captions like “masc 4 masc” and “no fems” on their social media pages. We must hear human stories by those affected to be more accepting.

No Hay Einstein Con Falda
No Hay Einstein con Falda

Marisa Tane Hernández López

2019

Mexico / 5 mins
Documental biográfico acerca de la vida de Deborah Dultzin Kessler, importante astrofísica mexicana de origen judío, precursora en la investigación de los hoyos negros y cuásares que son núcleos activos de galaxias. A una temprana edad fue diagnosticada con una malformación genética, que derivó en la amputación de su pierna derecha. A pesar de esta limitación y de dedicarse a una profesión mayoritariamente masculina, ha superado estos obstáculos y ahora es miembro de la Unión Astronómica Internacional, órgano encargado de las definiciones de nombres de planetas y otros objetos celestes.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/E-kZU0At-20?si=ZD5_7MqoRbAn6NVq 

Noi Benedetta Valabrega
Noi

Benedetta Valabrega

2019

Italy / 54 mins
On the background of a worldwide historical event, the Valabrega family opens its eyes to how much relational dynamics among the family have been repeating themselves for generations. The sons try with all their strength to free themselves from the influences or their parents, but sometimes they do not succeed in breaking the scheme of transmission of acquired characters. Today, the three sisters want to stop the mechanism and to anticipate the showdown. Therefore they start a trip together with their father retracing the road that Bruno and Ugo, Benedetta’s granfather and his brother, took to run away from the war crossing the enemy lines. But unlike the brother’s one, their trip will try to mend a wound that is still open.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/IhxXPLZ6iQs

Noise Ruido
Noise / Ruido

Samuel González

2019

Chile / 20 mins
"Teacher, what is AIDS?" is the question that generates a noise throughout the school, revealing misinformation and lack of sex education among students and parents.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/nppuHg2A7GI

Notes From CARA
Notes from CARA

Filippo Gobbato, Alessia Foraggio, Claudio Selicato, Paolo Rosi, Giacomo Fausti, Sarah Mathon

2019

Italy / 30 mins
Notes from CARA takes us to a refugee camp in Sicily where we meet a restless multitude of migrants, each with their own unique path.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/316799194

Now it's Up to You

Felipe Kuri

2019

Mexico / 16 mins
José Ángel runs from his own house to his partner, Raymundo; he grows up in the face of abuse and returns for his own.

Nunca Nos Dijeron La Verdad
Nunca nos dijeron la verdad

Rosa Blas Traisac

2019

Spain / 22 mins
Piloto de una serie en el que se nos presenta a Berta, una joven profesora que ha decidido cambiar de planes y comenzar una nueva vida con su pareja, pero antes de dar el paso final tiene que ir a su casa natal en la sierra madrileña para tener una importante conversación con su padre.

Ô Criatura: Navigating (dis)location

Andréa Monteiro

2019

Canada / 9 mins
“Ô Criatura: Navigating (dis)location” is a documentary that captures an East Van Latinx artist’s reflections on identity and belonging, and on how social, cultural, and discursive realities influence her life.

Of The Ruins You Leave Me
Of the Ruins You Leave Me /
Et des Ruines que Tu Me Laisses

Antoine Vazquez

2019

France / 20:30 mins
In this mediative documentary go beyond the city, past the tourists and to the ruin, where the sounds of leather and spit fill the air as anonymous men cruise and quench their thirst… until to the city they return.

Off the Highway Like Another Deer

Sofia Higgins

2019

USA / 9 mins
A brilliant collage of shattered elements, revealing a deeper truth about sex and gender.

Office-Ally Confused

Whitney Williams

2019

USA / 1 min
How do you address a workplace microaggression when the other person knows exactly what they did wrong?
Watch… https://youtu.be/EpwwVy_lJZw

Oklahoma is Black

Melinda James

2019

USA / 4 mins
A meditation digs up nuanced portraits of abundant Black life.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/340352070

Olga S Self Insert Fanfiction
Olga’s Self Insert Fan Fiction

Ella Sanderson, Georgette Stefoulis

2019

Australia / 3 mins
Olga is bored of the monotony of her life. When she finds an escape through her fanfiction, her fantasies run wild, becoming increasingly power hungry and ridiculous. Today, fanfiction.net. Tomorrow, the world. Why would she ever go back to reality?

On Animals and Cleaning

Zafire Vrba

2019

 Sweden / 7 mins
Sweden, like most countries, is built on fascism. In the first half of the 20th century, Sweden was world-leader in eugenics, and provided the German Nazis with “research” during the 2nd World War. The Swedish state sterilized tens of thousands of people within their obsession with cleaning and hygiene. Today, the fascist obsession with cleaning lives on. There are absurd designs in Sweden that try to fool us to think that “less is more”, that there is such a thing as “blond wood”, or that design, or even a line, can be “clean”. On Animals and Cleaning brings up Sweden’s dirty secrets through the absurd performative act of cleaning. The film is based on a performance with the same name.

Once upon a time in Easter house

Paul Cochrane

2019

UK
In the East End of Glasgow, a teen boy confronts his secret after falling in love for the first time.

Ondas Mareadas

Inés Aledo Ricarte, Amaia Araiztegi Mendibe, Jone Garitano Orue

2019

Basque Country / 6 mins
Mariana has something to tell us.

One Corner Within A Radius Of 3 Meters
One corner within a radius of 3 meters

Yoshiaki Sajima

2019

Japan / 25 mins
Mamoru doesn't want to be gay at work. One day, Tomoki, who was previously at the gay bar, joined the company. Two people gathered together at a drinking party held by a friend when Mamoru's motivated feelings were raised against Tomoki, which had a “very” behavior. Mamoru hits Tomoki with his previous anger.

Open Your Eyes:
An Anthem for Pride

Julia Jansch

2019

USA / 4 mins
This spoken-word film celebrates the meaning of pride and pays homage to those that came before.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/344839891

Orgy 001
Orgy #001

Teen Wolf

2019

11 mins
Under the light of a beautiful afternoon, bodies kiss, touch, and nibble each other, only to finish panting, shaking and radiating.

Our Service, Our Stories:
The Evolution of the LGBT Military Experience

Bill Anderson,
Neil Beecher,
Bill Duckworth,
Belita Edwards,
Ed Imparato,
Michael La Borde,
Warren Tymony

2019

USA / 21 mins
Featuring LGBT veterans who served between 1951 and 2017, this short documentary was made by a small group of senior veterans at the Los Angeles LGBT Center to ensure that the history of those who served is preserved and shared.

Our Transition
Our Transition

Connor O'Keefe

2019

USA / 9 mins
The filmmaker explores his transition to male and coming out at 13 years old by reliving the experience through the perspective of his parents.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/334451506

Ouroboros

Dwam Ipomée

2019

France / 8 mins
A cycle of alternating power dynamics. Three people, a sexual push and pull, tough and gentle, fighting, playing, changing.

Out of the Shadows

Rafael Samanez

2019

USA / 14 mins
Joselyn, a Mexican transgender immigrant woman, finds a community in Queens, New York, and together they fight to lift themselves out of poverty by attempting to open the first trans-owned cooperative salon in the United States.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/301349302

Outrun the Sky

Alvin Agarrat

2019

USA / 73 mins
“Outrun the Sky" (tells the stories of five Black gay men living with HIV in the most impacted cities for HIV across the South (Miami, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Jackson Mississippi). The film not only profiles the men -their diagnosis, treatment and support - but it also tells the story of the cities they navigate to receive care and support. “Outrun the Sky” seeks to humanize people living with and through HIV epidemic. 
Trailer… https://youtu.be/RYKaChY3-KQ

Overflow

Aorta Film

2019

USA
Shay Knox is overwhelmed by pain, pleasure, and pure sensation.

Pahichan

Yajaswi Rai

2019

Nepal / 7 mins
Story of Rukshana Kapali, Pahichan, shows how struggle for her identity is part of routine work for the 19 years old trans woman in Nepal.
Watch… https://youtu.be/U36mU_Hkw_Q

Pan Con Leche
Pan con Leche

Cancion Diez

2019

Mexico / 3 mins
The first love is never forgotten and less on hot nights, is the phrase confirmed by Víctor, who receives an unexpected visit from his first boyfriend. The light of the moon illuminates the love that the happy ex-couple gives each other, as if it were the first time, but the first rays of the sun make Victor return to his reality.

Paperthin Lucia Florez
Paperthin

Lucia Florez

2019

Peru / 16 mins
21-year-old Anton left his hometown in East Russia to move to New York City after facing violent attacks and persecutions because of his gender identity. Now, while starting his transition to a woman, Anton applies for political asylum in the US with the dream of starting from scratch and creating a free future.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/359920121

Paradise Lost

José Luis Cortés

2019

Puerto Rico / 11 mins
Ivan the Terrible viscerally and hauntingly explores his own expulsion from paradise, portraying himself under the influence of Crystal Meth. A visual triptych that explores expulsion (the journey), the search for the lost, and recovery. As in Milton's poem, the rapture detaches the subject from his nature; in the poem beauty is lost and in the short humanity itself is put at risk. But this is not a portrait of dissolution. On the contrary, it is a narration in the artist's own voice that tells in a heartbreaking way an experience with the substance and anchor, without a doubt, the humanity of his proposal.

Part Three

Kaya Joan

2019

Canada / 4 mins
“Part Three" explores a dreamscape world, parallel to our own. A human enters this world through a portal.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/392283766

Paula

Marianne Hänni

2019

Switzerland / 5 mins
Paula goes back to work after a fun night out.

Pillow Fight

Noa Sagi

2019

Israel / 7 mins
What starts off as a pillow fight between four childhood friends on a trip, escalates into an emotional confrontation between two of them.

Pink And Blue Charlotte Firmin
Pink and Blue

Charlotte Firmin

2019

UK / 3 mins
Short animated documentary, with a very expressive and experimental style. Pink and Blue highlights the life of a Transgender man, his experiences of growing up and his story of coming out.
Watch… https://youtu.be/JPQkfFZ7KZU

Pink Barong
Pink Barong

Veronica Velasco

2019

 Philippines / 5 mins
Eric discovers - and accepts - his father’s secret identity after his death.

Player

Sabrina Duarte

2019

 Brazil / 6 mins
With a song on their lips and pride in their hearts, a trans-women choir sings in solidarity against the violence towards trans-women in Brazil. Featuring Brazilian trans rapper and multimedia artist Linn da Quebrada, this music video is a way to affirm the life of the trans- woman in all spaces.

Plum Circus

Katrina Daschner

2019

Austria / 12 mins
A circus and artistes of the sort one knows only from dreams: peculiar, eccentric, mysterious, but also brutal, bloody, and horny; that’s how the performances in Plum Circus by Katrina Daschner can be described.

Plus Andrew J Rodriguez
Plus

Andrew J Rodriguez

2019

14 mins
When Zaire’s life is upended by a sudden HIV diagnosis, he carries the burden alone, struggling to tell his closest friends.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/335478425

Prazer Casa 08
Prazer, Casa 08

Ekatala Keller

2019

Brazil
A filmmaker and astrologer, inspired by the intimacy of pleasure, unveils human nature through actual testimonials and stories, based on the astral map. The film reveals that, regardless of the particularities of each, we all want the same thing: to love and to be loved. Desire and be desired. Pleasure, who are you?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/xQzRTWxn5_U

Pride & Prejudice & Gays

DiDi Rizzo

2019

USA / 17 mins.
Gender swaps. Cross-dressing. Drag. Georgian era glamour with a contemporary flare. This period dramtire follows Darcy, a proud, rich, and austere woman who is determined to win the spirited Lizzy Bennet’s hand despite the objections of Darcy’s class-conscious aunt Lady Catherine, played by celebrity drag queen Shea Couleé.

Pride Orgullo 2019
Pride /
Orgullo

Virginia Burgos, Chus Gómez

2019

Spain / 5 mins
Una madre y una hija ven la televisión a la hora de comer. La madre se preocupa por su hija, le pregunta por su novio, por su ocio. La nota un poco triste, callada, se preocupa por ella. Nada es más importante para una madre que la felicidad de su hija. Siempre que no pase determinados límites.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/-eraqiTfx6Q

Pride Prom

Robyn Di Giacinto

2019

Pride Prom is a short documentary that follows the lead organizer of the first LGBTQ+ Pride Prom at Marquette, a Catholic Jesuit university.

Progressive Genitalia – the infomercial slideshow
Professor Rory

Mille Bostedt

2019

Sweden / 5:55 mins
Progressive Genitalia – the infomercial slideshow is a presentation film for the futuristic company Progressive Genitalia. Progressive Genitalia, a futuristic company that creates your dream genitalia using biotechnology and CRISPR/cas9. The film is usually shown in combination with a performance by Professor Rory who is the scientist behind Progressive Genitalia. In three simple steps you design and create your dream genitalia. The film shows a slideshow of different Alien-like genders like an order catalog and explains their functions. At the end, the professor undresses and reveals his own modified genitalias. Those of you who only watch the film can, based on what is said, imagine what it looks like.

Prom Night

Sam McGowan

2019

Australia / 10 mins
Billie, a 17-year-old non-binary teenager, prepares to attend a formal for underage queer youth for the first time. As they choose their outfit and get their hair done, they reveal how they navigate the awkwardness of adolescence while also dealing with the anxieties that come with being young and queer.
Watch… https://youtu.be/0scCYJ0L9ZM

Protected Sal Rubio
Protected

Sal Rubio

2019

USA / 8 mins
A young skater and older gentleman discuss life, community, and activism while getting tested at a HIV clinic.

Pussy Play

Les PéPé.e.s

2019

Belgium / 6 mins
We play with our bodies like we play with our images. A pussy is actually quite beautiful, too bad it's hidden!

Que si Monogamia

Tavo Ruiz

2019

Mexico
Monogamia is a prison between love and hate.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/WU1uI_-KDMQ

Queer

Romi Kim

2019

USA / 4 mins
Whispers of queerness in a young woman’s coming out story, an intimate narrative that holds her first kiss, first love and feelings of exclusions. She navigates and explores both the negativity around the word ‘queer,’ and her struggle to identify within it.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/306121002

Queer Kidz

Roda Abdalle

2019

Sweden / 10:40 mins
A gang of friends has found a safe zone in a basement where the stressful reality of the outside world cannot reach them. When a Christmas party comes up, the friends gets an opportunity to show who they really want to be and they must decide together whether to participate or not. How can you dare to be yourself when the outside world does not accept it?

Quite Easy 2019
Quite Easy

Konstantin Schumann

2019

Germany / 12min
Max awakes from a nightmare, in which he had lunch with his family and a girl was holding his hand so strong, that he couldn't remove it.

Rabbits 2019
Rabbits

Luca Metodo

2019

Italy / 20 mins
Giulio is a boy from the street and his cousin, shy and introverted. In the Neapolitan suburbs, both will grapple with their sexuality, maturity and the gray areas of adolescence.  

Radial Point

Sa­ron Ardern-Sodje

2019

USA / 2 mins
Despite their attraction to one another, two women struggle to make the first move. That is, until they are faced with a physical manifestation of their feelings for one another; a force of attraction that draws everything around in towards it.

Radio City Lounge

Rich Kane

2019

USA / 6 mins
Salt Lake City's Radio City Lounge was known as the oldest gay bar west of the Mississippi.

Radio Romance
Radio Romance

Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka

2019

France / 4 mis
Un couple d’amoureux essaye de s’embrasser sans y parvenir, tout en parcourant un Beyrouth onirique et dystopique. Une métaphore d’une ville et d’un monde, où bien des amours restent interdits à cause de l’homophobie, de la xénophobie et de toutes formes de racisme.

Rainbow Voices 2019
Rainbow Voices

Jack O’Donnell

2019

New Zealand
This documentary showcases the influential people in New Zealand’s turbulent Rainbow history. From staring down thousands of protestors, to Parliament narrowly passing bills to give LGBT people fundamental rights; these are stories of those who fought for and won significant change. This film was made to coincide with the reopening of the ‘Rainbow Room’ at New Zealand Parliament. It seeks to influence, inspire and give courage to those facing similar battles around the world. Prior to the 1980s, the Rainbow community of Aotearoa New Zealand was severely oppressed. Our wider society condemned individuals for being their true selves. The future seemed bleak. The following decades saw a huge transformation thanks to the courageous voices within the Rainbow community. This film pays homage to, and tells the stories of, those unique individuals and politicians who fought for an inclusive society. Change is possible – all it takes is a voice.

Re:Production

Christian Gordine

2019

UK / 6 mins
A dystopian future in which male sexuality,have been increasingly desensitised and dehumanised.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/315518716

Real

Josephine Baltzersen

2019

Austria / 22 secs
How do lesbians have sex? Can they have “real” sex?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/325845491

Reclaiming Pride

Robert Menefee

2019

USA / 25 mins
On June 30, 2019, there were two NYC Gay Pride marches. The big old march had a large police presence, sidewalk barriers, and corporate sponsors. The new smaller march was more open, with fewer police, and with no “rainbow capitalism.” The smaller march followed the route of the first pride march of June 28, 1970 - from the Stonewall Inn to the Great Lawn of Central Park.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/384198394

Reel Teens:
Blue Moon

Doria Focareta, Violet Wright

2019

USA
Reel Teens Doria and Violet take to the Blue Moon Bar to learn about Drag. Cindy Crotchford, Bambi Deerest, and several other celebrated Pittsburgh queens tell their stories and invite us to learn more about their community.

Reverse Panya Zhu
Reverse

Panya Zhu

2019

Thailand / 10 mins
In this dreamlike and sensitive short, writer Aim is haunted by a past relationship. When she reunites with her estranged ex-lover, will she finally be able to move on?

Ricecake

Yuko Fedrau

2019

Canada / 8 mins
A short documentary about Shay Dior, a key player in Vancouver's queer asian community.

Ritual

Kieran Medina

2019

USA / 1 min
In a world that tells us we shouldn’t love ourselves, the rituals we create to become are an act of radical self love.
Watch… https://youtu.be/Hv5hkfBTgZo

Roan

Thùy Trang Nguyễn

2019

Germany / 12 mins
The tender relationship unfolds between an elderly Vietnamese grandmother and her granddaughter, who was born and brought up in Germany. While they spend a day together at grandmothers apartment in Berlin-Reinickendorf, they begin to share small discoveries of everyday life and larger, existential questions. 

Roberta Cowell’s Story

Melissa Joan Clifford

2019

UK / 1:10 min
A short detailing the life and achievements of one of the most prolific British Trans Women of the 20th century.

Rosa Shock

Eric Bitencourt

2019

4 mins

Roses

Joao Queiroga

2019

USA / 2 mins
In “Roses” director João Queiroga merges performance and documentary media to poetically tell the story of his first sexual experience as a young teenager in performative documentary film.

Run!

Malic Amalya

2019

USA / 13 mins
RUN! is a mythography of nuclear technology, pesticides, and the question of transgender individuals fighting in the United State’s military. Filmed at the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated, along the edges of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, at the abandoned Black Hole Museum of Nuclear Waste.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/257884898

Sadulous

Alejandro Morales

2019

USA / 30 mins
Alejandro hasn't left his apartment in weeks, but the outside world keeps paying him visits. A repairman, a drug dealer, an overzealous personal trainer, a Grindr hookup, a friendly neighbor, a delivery guy, a hotline operator, and a couple of concerned friends join Alejandro in his shambolic apartment to help him live his best worst life.

Safehouse II

Ariella Tai

2019

Canada / 12 mins
safehouse ii uses video, sound and text to consider blackness, social (dis)order, refusal and the compulsions to labor as they exist in relationship to care work. 

Sal + Vinny

Lucia Plaza

2019

USA / 10 mins
Two mobsters are punished by a ruthless boss.

Say It Out Loud /
Dillo ad alta voce

Zaccaria Ofelia Zanin

2019

Italy / 9 mins
Francesco finds the courage to face the truth about himself.

Secreto

Andrea Vera

2019

Peru / 6 mins
Un adolescente escolar cae en el chantaje para no que revelen sus preferencias. Un llamado de atención sobre lo terrible del bullying.

Secrets Of Seenagers
Secrets of Seenagers

Abhigyan Mukherjeemin

2019

India / 44 mins
A documentary that commemorates the life of senior gay men in India.

Section Féminine

Estelle Carbonneau

2019

France / 14:16 mins
Rencontre avec l’équipe de football féminin du FC Paris Arc-En-Ciel où les points de vue sur la féminité, la construction des identités et le regard des autres s’échangent au fil des entraînements et des compétitions.

Self Portrait

Faun Harjo 

2019

USA / 3 mins
"Struggling with gender identity, sexual orientation, and cultural identity has been a normal aspect of my life. Being pulled in and out of native culture and feeling like my queerness was unwelcome by my people, I separated myself for years. Now I explore my relationship with my culture by decolonizing myself and others by sharing my identity openly and honestly."
Watch… https://youtu.be/tEhO8lDeEKI

Self Worship Asia Brown
Self Worship

Asia Brown

2019

6 mins
A boldly feminist and genuinely provocative exploration of one sexual trauma survivor’s journey back to their body through the universal language of dance.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/387629995/39ae95d315

Sex l'air de rien

Les PéPé.e.s

2019

Belgium / 11 mins
Oh, mornings, and always feeling so horny... But how to have sex in peace, in a shared common room. Well... no big deal, the same way we have breakfast.

Sex Shop Isabel Casanova
Sex Shop

Isabel Casanova

2019

Spain
Natalia enters a sex shop ready to rent a movie to surprise her partner. Suddenly a girl enters for whom Natalia feels a strong attraction and can no longer get out of her head.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/334975497

Shattered Salty Cheri
Shattered

Salty Cheri

2019

USA / 5 mins
How many queers do you need to change a light bulb?

Shine On

Francisco Coronil

2019

Chile / 7 mins
Sofia, a girl evades her complex family reality in social networks.

Together with “La Jisus” her favorite influencer will be transported to a musical world full of glitter and glamour

Siblings in Transition

Penn Zacharias, Alex Zacharias

2019

Canada / 6 mins
A brief documentary about siblings Penn and Alex Zacharias, who spend a day together and describe their shared journey of coming out as transgender.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/298796089

Side Hustle

Jennifer Zahlit

2019

USA / 15 mins
Sexual tensions rise between two female ex-coworkers at the funeral of their restaurant manager.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/412913705

Silly Puppy

Damian Brinley

2019

Australia / 4 mins
The Silly Puppy has a hangover and tries to distract himself with drugs and porn. When that wears off Puppy puts on his mask and skates into the heart of the city. A chance encounter enables him to see he is not the only puppy in town. A short film by Australian director Damian Brinley, Silly Puppy playfully explores how sometimes all it takes is a split-second of connection with one of our own kind to remind us we are not alone.

Singing for Our True Heart

Helena Cohen-Robertson, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger

2019

Australia / 10 mins
Behind the Gay and Lesbian Singers of WA are heartfelt stories of personal struggle and triumph that have connected together through singing.

Sissy Fatigue

Oscar Oldershaw

2019

UK / 6 mins
A dance film that takes a trip from fetishised femininity to feared creature of transgression.
Watch… https://youtu.be/jLK3APoDmB0

Soba Chans Morning
Soba-chan's Morning

Sergey Vlasov

2019

Japan / 5 mins
It was supposed to be a usual morning of a Tokyo married couple...

Solarity Marianne Verrone
Solarity

Marianne Verrone

2019

USA / 8 mins
A lesbian couple in a long-distance relationship ponder ideas of proximity, perception, and intimacy in this cosmic reverie.

Something About Me /
Algo Tenía

Belen Mentasti

2019

Argentina / 13 mins
Nighttime unravels the innermost thoughts, feelings and memories of this seemingly secure couple. Does the pillow talk disguise a deeper conflict?

Something else

Élodie Roy

2019

Canada / 3:56 mins
An exhausted young woman is confronted with social constructs that fail to include or represent her.

Somewhere in Outer Space this Might Be Happening Somehow

Paulo Malafaya

2019

Portugal / 17 mins
"A visual poem where I document and reflect upon the last year and a half of my life, selecting and organizing videos that I've been shooting with my handheld camera since then. An ode to myself and to my surroundings, influenced by Jonas Mekas' diaristic films and the introspective and intimate character of Lukas Moodysson's Container film monologue".

Sorry

Max Yu

2019

China / 13 mins 
Li Peiyan is forced to walk in her trans daughter Dou Xun’s footsteps to piece together the identity of Dou Xun and confronts what role she may have played in her only child’s sudden disappearance.

Soy ese imaginario chico

Valentino Bruno

2019

Spain / 14 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/a0mEDy-S3Wo

Spellbound Ulrike Kaffei
Spellbound

Ulrike Kaffei

2019

Germany / 9 mins
A short film exploring the emotional landscape of a shibari session.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/360990050

Square One

Emily Jo Sargent

2019

UK / 12 mins
A semi-autobiographical film about the writer/director’s experiences of being in a closeted relationship.

STD

Hani Assaf

2019

Norway / 16 mins
How much drama do you get when Sifa Syphilis, Sida HIV and Norrea Gonorrhea are stuck in the same prison cell sharing stories by playing Truth or Dare?

Stereotypy Estereotipia
Stereotypy /
Estereotipia

Inés Espinosa

2019

Spain / 15 mins
Animals are in captivity - as a result of a human choice. A paranoid choreography shows an apparently invisible, but ultimately clearly recognizable behavior pattern and questions the deprivation of freedom.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/0ZPrXKqAKOY

Still Drifting

Lisa E. Williams

2019

6 mins
Can a couple come together after all they have been through?
Watch… https://youtu.be/J7GcYaS2_RE

Stinkhorn

Hilary Harp,
Suzie Silver

2019

USA / 13 mins
This psychedelic and perverse part-animated Western descends into magical pony play. Rural queer imagination unleashed.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/363649707

Stonewall Forever
Stonewall Forever

Ro Haber

2019

USA / 21 mins
Fifty years after Stonewall, filmmaker Ro Haber gathers perspectives from across the queer spectrum — including those whose stories are traditionally left untold — on the legacy of that watershed event in LGBTQ history.
Watch… https://youtu.be/l1mZNNDri1I

Stonewall with a T

Samy Nemir Olivares

2019

USA / 80 mins
A unique historical overview of the Trans community through politics, community building, activism and citizen journalism. This film follows grassroots community leaders who have continued the legacy of pioneers like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson; as well as many other fearless trans activists. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/321478137

Straight Ish Nicholas Horne
Straight-ish

Nicholas Horne

2019

USA / 8 mins
Lee is a young girl who has a strained relationship with her father. Fortunately, she gets along with her older brother, Kendrick. Some time has passed since the two have seen each other. One day, Lee encounters an issue and needs Kendrick. The two have always been too stubborn for their own good, yet they have always been truthful to one another. This might give Lee the extra push to accomplish her goals, including accepting her sexuality.

Stranger Mario Podpora
Stranger /
Obcy człowiek

Mario Podpora

2019

Poland / 20 mins
Marcin is a professional soldier who is offered to participate in a mission in Kosovo. His partner Kamil doesn’t agree with the departure, though, so he puts his partner in a position where he has to choose between the love of his life and a career opportunity. And the whole situation gets even more complicated when Marcin’s mother gets involved and makes any decision completely impossible.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/-KFDBqZJCZQ

Strangers in the Night

Calden Harber,
Camilla R. Nicolaisen

2019

Canada

Strong Wounds

Catherine Crouch

2019

USA
Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives.
Trailer... https://youtu.be/BbdGgCGgyro?si=GYcHYbGtVOhY_srn 

Such A Good Friend Carmina
Such a Good Friend

Carmina

2019

France / 10 mins
When Carmina admits that she rarely receives oral sex, Kali decides to help her out!

Such Farewells

Takaaki Watanabe

2019

Japan / 14 mins 
Luka and her girlfriend Nagi were parting ways when Luka’s brother visits with sad news. For Luka, there was more than one goodbye that day.

Suenos Jazmin Ontiveros Harvey
Sueños

Jazmin Ontiveros Harvey  

2019 

USA  / 2 mins
25 words: A woman dreams of an earthquake moments before it hits, saving her life.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/354781212

Sunset In Cloudy Days
Sunset in Cloudy Days /
Pôr do Sol em Dias Nublados

Eduardo Martins

2019

Brazil / 19 mins 
Leonardo discovers that “love” is in relation to Felipe, a young man older than him. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/DGlx2Dx5xTE

Sunset Park Warehouse
Sunset Park, Warehouse

Dazhi Huang

2019

USA / 9 mins
Miguel, a community college student, encounters his ex-lover Boris, a Russian warehouse truck driver, at an industrial area in Sunset Park, Brooklyn through Grindr. After hesitations, they reconnect.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/382247128

Sunshine in the Ruins

Chou Yu Cheng

2019

Taiwan / 12 mins
In the afternoon, Zih Sin and Sheng Ya are not interested in the explanation about hundred-year village, so they ignore their tour guide to wandering around here. It’s surprising that everything is fantastic in the ruins for them. Therefore, they decided to leave the group and make an unmanned explorations in this village by themselves...
Watch… https://vimeo.com/641015723

Surex Sandrine Maltais
Surex

Sandrine Maltais

2019

Canada / 12 mins
The serendipitous reunion of Arianne, Sophia and Émile at a photo exhibition quickly turns into a celebration. However, Arianne finds herself caught in a power play of unspoken tension with her old friends.

Swipe Jeff Schick
Swipe

Jeff Schick

2019

USA / 8 mins
A dark comedic foray into science fiction, this genre bender of a film follows Cheryl, a newly single bachelorette as she navigates digital dating and attempts to find love in the not-so-distant future.

Tacos y Tacones

Matthew Benjamin Ramos

2019

USA / 8 mins 
Follow Alexis and her friends Iris and Chavela, sex workers in their 40s and 50s, each with unique perspectives about their life and dreams.

Tales of a Pretty Black Ass

Juicebox Burton / Oppressed Juice

2019

USA / 8 mins
One Black Twink exams the ways they are seen; through the lenses of race, sex work and desire.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/331363744

Tandem

Vivian Altman

2019

Brazil / 11 mins
The intimacy of Hugo and Magda (a long standing couple) who are resigned to living out their fantasies independently of one another.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/367143743

Tant Que Nos Coeurs Battent
Tant que nos cœurs battent

Jason Mégrelis

2019

France / 5 mins
L’histoire de deux jeunes femmes qui sont dans une quête sans fin de sensations fortes et de liberté, faisant soudain l’expérience de la mort. Mais tant que leur amour survit, même une étincelle peut les ramener à la vie.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/347507518

Te Dire

Laura Bustillos 

2019  

Mexico  / 4 mins
A song dedicated to our culture, the ruins, and to nostalgia. Filmed in the old Cine Victoria where my mother used to watch films as a child.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/330335935

Teri

Lyn Chick

2019

Australia / 74 mins
The beginning of Teri, the journey of a visually impaired man to find himself.

Tessellation - A Take on Intersectionality

MK Veniegas

2019

USA / 3 mins
A genderfluid queer Pilipinx grafts complexity onto their lush life.

Test Room

Pedro Antunes

2019

 Portugal / 4 mins
In the dark, the flash lights were brutally invasive while trying to film the bodies through the camera. 

Thanks but no, thanks /
Merci mais non merci

Alessandra Beltrame

2019

France / 12 mins
Nicole, a 27-year-old girl, cracks her life open to ponder over life, identity and responsibility.

The Awakening El Despertar
The Awakening /
El Despertar

Juan Pablo Gélvez Bustamante

2019

Colombia / 28 mins
His education prevents him from accepting himself and now he will have to decide if what he feels sexually is something real. 

The Awakening /
Przebudzenie

Wojciech Olchowski

2019

Poland / 16 mins
Adam and Paweł’s relationship is dramatically changing, which is causing questions about LGBT community acquiring legal rights for custody in Poland. This movie is a part of “Right to family life”, a social awareness campaign.

The Calamus Emotion
The Calamus Emotion

Stiofan O’Ceallaigh

2019

UK / 9 mins
Incantations, time travel and Walt Whitman in a visually arresting experimental work.
Watch… https://youtu.be/wQhSE2Mc1ZU

The Closet

Joshua Malisos

2019

USA
A depressed, closeted gay teenager is trapped inside a dark closet and has to find the strength and courage in order to get out.

The Color of the Stars

Paul Uhlig

2019

Germany / 14 mins
Four little aliens are confronted with the invasion of a robot army, trying to steal a the color in the universe. They narrowly escape the attack on their home planet, but the real adventure hasn't even begun.

The Dance of the Insecure Narcissus /
A Dança do Narciso Inseguro

Ana Matos

2019

Portugal / 8 mins
A lonely young woman is faced with a television advertisement that takes her into a surreal world in which she undergoes a series of physical and psychological changes in an attempt to find the love of the "other". Throughout this process, she finds the love she seeks so much within herself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/512068530

The Day I Started to Die Every Night /
El Día Que Comencé a Morir Cada Noche

Gustavo Márquez Tapia,
Gabriel Olvera Ramos

2019

Mexico / 10 mins
This is the story of a theater, banner of the struggle of a subculture of the LGBT community and why it is currently closed. 

The Door She Opened

Richard O’Connor

2019

USA / 3 mins
In 2018, at the age of 63, Dee Westenhauser came out as a transgender woman. But growing up in El Paso, Texas in the 1950s she remembers having a hard time fitting in. One weekend, her parents decided to take her to her aunt Yaya’s house. Aunt Yaya saw a kindred spirit in Dee, and gave her an opportunity that no one else would: a safe, loving space to be herself.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/350374747

The First Day of Summer

Dor Y. Levy,
Oron Golan

2019

Israel / 8 mins
It’s the first day of the summer holidays and Yotam, a teenager, is left in a large, imposing villa all on his own; until a surprise run-in with a prowler – his classmate – changes things.

The Flesh’s Hunger / A Fome Da Carne

Marcello D’Avilla 

2019

Brazil / 5 mins
What is your flesh hungry for? Short video celebrating the power of the bodies.

The F-Word

Chang-Min Jonathan Hyon

2019

USA / 6 mins
Jaime is a non-binary grad student starting their first day of school. They are expecting the worst from homophobia and transphobia but learn how good intentions can still isolate a person. This is a story about how looking solely at identity can be affirming and distancing at the same time.
Watch… https://youtu.be/zc2n9DZIG7s

The Garden Collective
The Garden Collective

Sara Wylie

2019

Canada / 22 mins
The Garden Collective follows the formerly incarcerated women of the Prison for Women Memorial Collective as they work to build a memorial garden on the grounds of the former prison in Kingston, Ontario.

The Hook Up

Michael V. Smith

2019

Canada / 6 mins
An experimental documentary featuring four gay men from two different generations: two nearing age 70 and two 20-somethings. Striking close-up visuals create a powerful sense of intimacy and connection as the men discuss how hooking up has (and has not) evolved for gay men.  Recommended for mature audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Hosts

David Bonderoff

2019

USA / 18 mins
Jason gets way more than he bargained for when looking to rebound.

The Ideal

Georgianna Luttrell

2019

Canada / 9 mins
Through the world of Phoenix Grey, we explore traditional concepts of masculinity and the relating stereotypes that exist within the LGBTQ community and how social media is used to present a certain type of 'ideal'.

The I-Land

Fabrice Coppin

2019

France / 39 mins
More than coming out of the closet, this is the testimony of a desire that springs from the intimate”.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/323280904

The Imaginary Woman La Mujer Imaginaria
The Imaginary Woman /
La Mujer Imaginaria

Laura Tatiana Benavides

2019

Colombia, Estonia / 12 mins
The witchy, earth goddess, dyke, lesbian quest into womanhood animated through poems, questions and songs of rejection, rupture, reflection and love.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/330856342

The Keys to My House /
Les Clefs de Chez Moi

Ella Martin-Gachot,
Ray Van Huizen

2019

USA / 25:30 mins
The LGBTQ community in Paris to understand perceptions of home as well as how the community fits into the weave of public life.
Watch… https://youtu.be/UQbWWzsjxiQ

The Liberation Man

Scott Dance

2019

UK / 6 mins
Scott Dance’s latest documentary on a sensitive issue reveals what it is like to be a Queer Muslim in 2019 in a heartfelt and fascinating interview with the LGBT activist and Gay Muslim, Khakan Qureshi. How has he used his differences strategically to help queer South Asians like him?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/319931672

The Lying Truths

Matthew Oliver van Diepen

2019

Canada
A young child finds themself at a mysterious desert oasis and must confront a monster to find freedom.

The Millennial Experience
The Millennial Experience

Alex Crozier

2019

USA / 51 mins
The Millennial Experience is a feature length documentary that focuses on cultural appropriation vs appreciation, LGBTQIA+ culture, and feminism, within the Millennial generation. The dance sequences in the film are adapted from director Alex Crozier's stage production MILLENNIALS which focuses on the aforementioned themes.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/yVqZ1SV6dY4

The Nap /
La sieste

Mickaël Gloro

2019

Belgium / 14 mins
As a young man sleeps during a hot afternoon, a world drives around him. 

The Note

Tiril Myhre Skår

2019

Norway / 11 mins
Lea and Elise are best friends, even though they seem to be from completely different worlds. One day, Tommy, a boy from school, comes up to Lea during soccer practice with a note for Lea to give Elise. He asks her if she can ask Elise to be his girlfriend. Lea says yes to help him out, but quickly realize her own emotions will interfere with the situation.

The Old Man and the Bucket

Tomasz E. Rudzik

2019

Poland / 13 mins
Encounter between an old man and a queer cafe owner.

The Only LGBTQ+ and Women's Safe Space In Beirut

Tania Safi

2019

Australia, Lebanon / 6 mins
Out queer Lebanese woman, Dayna Ash, became tired of not being able to hold her own partner's hand in the country she loves. That's why she created the volunteer-run Haven For Artists; a space in the heart of bustling Beirut that persecuted and marginalised groups can come to, where trans individuals can find work, and where people can create art and advocate for a better, more inclusive Lebanon.

The Pizza Topping

Ethan Folk,
Ty Wardwell

2019

Germany / 4 mins
Horny Pizza orders up a Hungry Boy.

The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi
The-Poets-Visit-Juana-Bignozzi /
Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi

Laura Citarella, Mercedes Halfon

2019

Argentina / 90 mins
A poet dies. Another poet, a younger woman, receives as an inheritance the mandate to divulgate her work. A team of women filmmaker joins her. That strange triangle begins to make a film which, oddly, does not take the form of an investigation but of a more complex and subtle portrait. As expected, questions arise, but also revelations, secrets reappear and a lingering uncertainty that ends up becoming a goal. Thanks to these lateral strategies, the poet Juana Bignozzi emerges in the film in all her glory.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/jUFiqUq5eMw

The Procedure

Ed Andrade

2019

Brazil / 7 mins
Norman, a normative straight man, is building his courage to visit a post-cosmetic clinic, ran by Azagatcha collective. The procedure he's undergoing may change his life.

The Reverence

Four Chambres

2019

USA / 15 mins
This orgy is an act of ritual celebration that intertwines smoke, sweat and bodies.

The Ritual of the Sex Magick Warriors

Maximilian Suillerot

2019

Canada / 14 mins
The Sex Magick Warriors risk it all to carry out a ritual that exposes the hardships of this army of lovers and reveals their sensual strategy for self-preservation.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/350032232

The Secret Gardener

Lorena Russi

2019

USA / 3 mins
A garden party goes off the rails when ladies who brunch devolve into ladies who munch. 
Watch… https://youtu.be/HB4y5z3C3Vc

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Belle Krupcheck

2019

USA, 17 min.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves is a 16mm experimental film exploring self harm, coming out, and private pain.

The Stroker

Pilvi Takala

2019

Finland / 15 mins
The Stroker is based on Takala’s two week-long intervention at Second Home, a trendy East London coworking space for young entrepreneurs and startups. During the intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant named Nina Nieminen, the founder of cutting-edge company Personnel Touch who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace.

The Tide La Marea
The Tide /
La Marea

Gisella Barthé

2019

Perú / 8 mins
Una mujer que imagina, que distorsiona su propio universo, sensaciones, sonidos, colores. Una santa que confiesa su amor.

The True Identity Of Silkworms
The True Identity of Silkworms /
La verdadera identidad de los gusanos de seda

Javier Del Álamo

2019

Cuba / 3 mins
"The true identity of silkworms" deals with the discovery of Sara's gender identity through curiosity and approach to places not intended for her sex and in a context that does not allow the correct development of a gender identity own. The film questions the naturalized exclusion and discriminatory behaviors that society reproduces.
Watch… https://youtu.be/zMapJ6XJdAY

The Visible

Atikah Zainidi

2019

Brunei / 3:42 mins
A short documentary exploring what it is like to be a girl in Brunei.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/328211467

The War Inside Her La Guerre En Elle
The War inside Her /
La guerre en elle

Yara Atz

2019

Switzerland / 15 mins
Can she forget? How can she go on living when the present keeps reminding her of the traumas of the past? Nour meets Alice on the lakeshore in Switzerland, but it is Syria that keeps haunting her, Syria she cannot get rid of.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/OWjiy1tAh5A

There Is A Wolf In The Park Of The King
There is a Wolf in the Park of the King /
C'è un Lupo nel Parco del re

Virginia Nardelli

2019

Italy / 53 mins
It is said that a wolf roams in the Park of La Favorita in Palermo.
No one has ever really seen it. Yet people swear they heard it howling at night. Is it a fantasy? Is it an expression of superstitions and tales? Many stray dogs live in the park. Two sisters take care of them every day. Among the thick branches and crowns, certain people hand secrets out, kids play hide-and-seek, runners pass by and some prostitutes wait for sporadic clients in the sunlight.

They / Them / Their *

Rudy Seddon-Wilson

2019

UK / 2 mins
Zoe explores drag’s empowering effects through their alter-ego Cyanide Homicide and reveals the vulnerability beneath the performance.

This Is A Teenage Love Letter
This is a Teenage Love Letter

Tessa Hill

2019

Canada / 7 min
A young woman writes a letter to her past, to love, and to what the future might hold.
Watch… https://youtu.be/t70hkiNFlYs

This is for Us

Shanel Edwards

2019

USA / 7 mins 
A choreographed visual film of resilience that centers Black Queer Femme radical joy and intimacy in between friend groups. cultivated magic between healing through tea, glitter, whiskey and a good belly laugh. Black Queer Femme’s have always known how to thrive despite ANY attempts to kill us. Lucille Clifton says: “Come celebrate with me that everyday/something has tried to kill me/and has failed.”

This Love is on Fire

Cassils

2019

USA / 4 mins
This Love Is On Fire was directed by Cassils and features Mistress Sheree Rose. The video portrays an intergenerational power exchange steeped in female sexuality, featuring sex workers across age spectrums. With abject encounters that sizzle and smolder, This Love is on Fire traces the matriarchal lineage of female dominance in a political moment charged with suppression of women’s rights.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/344659228

Three (or More) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-Intersectionality. Pt1

Angela Anderson

2019

37 mins
The first chapter of this ongoing audio-visual research project emphasizes the urgent necessity of redefining value in the face of economic models that are driving the current climate crisis and the ongoing disruption/destruction of ecosystems, with blatant disregard for the embodied knowledge these ecosystems cultivate and nourish.

Tiefe Kümmernis

Shyam L. Jones

2019

Austria / 5 mins
Ben (Alter Ego, Tiefe Kümmernis) is a drag queen and art historian who puts extravagant fashion and queer history in the spotlight on her tours of the renowned Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Till death do us a party

Shirmaine Ong

2019

UK / 7 mins
After coming to the conclusion that their friend’s funeral didn’t live up to who she was, Ethel and Margaret decided that they’d very much like to be in-charge of how they go. 

Time is of the Essence

Emma Lee

2019

5 mins
Queer Asian friends wander through time and healing.

To My Son @ 21

Pete C OKeefe

2019

USA / 4 mins
A father gathers old photographs and reflects on his son's 21 year journey into adulthood.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/280804577

To You From Me

O. Chang 常

2019

9 mins
A film about two young trans men fighting for and believing in who they are, daring to take the step away from written words to the outside, to breathe in the fresh air and live.

Touching An Elephant
Touching an Elephant

Lara Milena Brose

2019

Germany / 15 mins
The parable “The Blind Men and the Elephant” serves Ritah, a twenty-year-old lesbian refugee, as a metaphor for the absurdity of the German migration system.

Trans Monogamist

Russell Sheaffer, Joshua Byron

2019

USA / Ep. 1- 7 min, Ep. 2 - 6 mins
A Sex and the City–inspired, Gilmore Girls–loving, DIY-embracing series that riffs on the creators’ real-life adventures and conversations and inserts nonbinary characters into a the rom-com genre from which they have been historically excluded.
Watch… https://youtu.be/L6DnoVC2tYg

Transit

Stella Asmon

2019

USA / 5 mins
Corey’s first night out having fun ends up in a shady gyno run.

Translating Beauty
Translating Beauty

Anita Ayres, Elizabeth Trojian

2019

Canada / 45 mins 
The millennial generation has given rise to new voices and brought visibility to the transgender community – a part of society with a unique relationship to beauty. Translating Beauty explores beauty as a concept but through the lens of trans women and how their unique connection to it is working to redefine beauty standards for all women.

Tranversales
Tranversales

Rafaella Gneco, Jorge Garrido

2019

Spain / 12 mins
TRANSVERSALES es la continuación del premiado cortometraje DIVERSXS, en el que diferentes jóvenes hablaban al mundo de sus realidades, visibilizando sus diversidades y conviviendo con ellas como pilar más fundamental y visible. Jóvenes LGTBIQ, con VIH, migrantes, en definitiva, jóvenes diversos que utilizan el lenguaje de esa diversidad para construir entendimiento, resiliencia y empatía. 

Tras / Trans

?

2019

Ireland / 95 mins
Max and Victoria are boyfriend and girlfriend. They met in the Gaeltacht, and have been seeing each other for a few years. Victoria studies film and Max studies biotechnology. They also happen to both be trans. 

Tras is a radical little documentary for a few reasons, not least that it’s in the Irish language. But its power is in the quiet strength of the protagonists. As Max and Victoria grow up as their true selves, we watch the people around them adapt.

Traviatas 2019
Traviatas

Alejandro Villalobos

2019

Mexico / 15 mins
Traviatas visibiliza y celebra a la Comunidad Trans, rompiendo los estereotipos preestablecidos, sensibilizando a la sociedad a través del cine.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/373039713

Trinidad Maldita 2019
Trinidad Maldita

Sac Medina

2019

Mexico / 3 mins
Miguel and Enrique, a gay couple become addicted to drug use without measuring the consequences. 

Trunk /
Chacon

Ben Chapman, Adrian Jordan Chacon

2019

Spain / 2 mins
What's hiding in these swimming trunks?

Truth and fact

Eunseon Han
한은선

2019

Korea / 15 mins
So-eun, a witness to a traffic accident in Juha, is investigated at the school. So-eun only shuts her mouth to a detective asking what happened that night. That night So-eun accidentally comes to the truth of the case...
Trailer… https://youtu.be/c9CdSjW6-hA

Twisted Machine

Carolyn Wu

2019

Canada
A Chinese-Canadian lesbian teenager captains her hockey team against the will of her mother, while dating her powerhouse jock of a teammate in secrecy. 

Two Starboard, I vomit /
À tribord, je vomis /
يميي البييی

Tarek Sardi

2019

Tunisia / 6 mins
Three people reveal their deepest secrets, somewhere between deception and unspoken truths.

Ukulele Girl

Nicole De Meneses

2019

USA / 6 mins
After passionately warbling in the park, all bets are off when haters mess with her dog.

Ultraslut

Helena Lea Manhartsberger, Katharina Neuhaus

2019

Germany / 15 mins
Introducing Lia: a transgender, sexually radical activist who struggles with depression and likes BDSM. Lia’s gender is a political issue, something she is faced with every day. The traumatic experiences of her life gnaw at her – at the same time, she dares to fight her pain with pain.

Un Dia Sin Ti Oscar Arce
Un Dia Sin Ti

Oscar Arce

2019

Mexico / 4 mins
On this day, Tomás must face the fact of leaving his relationship, but how?

Un Eden Para Lady Helena
Un Edén para Lady Helena

Carina López 

2019

Ecuador / 5 mins
A young man’s unrequited love for his best friend, with stunning imagery.

Una Misma Post Cuadrado
Una Misma

Farah Villafan

2019

Mexico / 8 mins
Sofia and Alicia discuss their future as a couple, but are there too many obstacles in their way?
Watch… https://vimeo.com/350209713

Unbecoming Navid Mashayeki
Unbecoming

Navid Mashayeki

2019

Canada / 19 mins
We all try to be something, to become someone. Unbecoming follows Logan’s journey as he fights to “unbecome” everything he’s been until now, that wasn’t really him in the first place.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/421208522

Unbecoming Boy:
After Taylor Swift

JJ Chan

2019

UK

Unexpected

Daniele Guerra

2019

UK / 2 mins
A chance encounter between two young men leads to a chase - and an unexpected result.

Unfold

Daniel Antebi

2019

USA / 4 mins
Through glimpses from the past, we watch as the relationship between a young female dancer and her ex develops and ends. Sparked by a chance encounter on the street and spilled out on the dance floor, this visceral, organic, rigorously corporeal piece paints an entire history through movement. In its simplicity, the film asks us: What makes a relationship? Why do they end? What do you remember most? This is a lovely piece about opening up and letting go.

Unhinged

Stephanie Leschek

2019

USA / 5 mins 
During their game night, a couple fights about not fighting in front of their friends.

Unmask Rainbow Riots
Unmask

Rainbow Riots, Petter Wallenberg

2019

Uganda / 5 mins
"Unmask", composed and produced by Petter Wallenberg featuring spoken word poetry by Ugandan poet Duncan Free Speech. The video is directed by Wallenberg and filmed in Uganda, where it's illegal to be gay. This is the last single release from the album ”Rainbow Riots”, written and produced by Petter Wallenberg, featuring queer voices from some of the world’s most dangerous places for LGBT people. It is out on iTunes, Spotify and all major digital platforms.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/353460483

UnUnited Movoly
UnUnited

Movoly

2019

USA / 67 mins
UnUnited follows the fight for LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church. Although this major United States denomination has struggled with its policy for years, its worldwide congregation seems no closer to changing its doctrine of non-inclusion despite the fact that many of its American and European churches are welcoming of LGBTQ+ people.
Watch… https://youtu.be/kQjlyV-99_0

Večernij sjurpriz

Elvira Shesternenko

2019

Russia / 55 secs

Venus vendrá

Ángel Molina

2019

Cuba, Paraguay / 10 mins
Gabriel (29), receives a prediction that announces the end and grants him one last wish. Scared, Gabriel runs home to try to save his most precious asset: a VHS with the memory of his first love. Upon arrival, Gabriel is seduced by his past and is transported to a place without time.

Vincy

Hugo Kenzo

2019

Hong Kong / 7 mins
Music. Love. Queerness. Asian identity. The meaning of those terms in the words of non-binary singer-songwriter Vincy.

Virtual Guard La Guardia Virtual
Virtual Guard /
La guardia virtual

Daniela Aguinsky

2019

Argentina / 15 mins
Girl meets girl ... through a security camera. Can Miriam leave the totem and realize her fantasy? Or will she let the unscrupulous Karen stay with Brendas love?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/RpUc7AAyPVs

Vivian & Valerie

Patrick Broderick, Jordan Service

2019

USA / 4 mins
Official music video for "Vivian & Valerie" by Gabe Lopez. The video features our two leading queens getting into drag for a night out on the town. Gabe Lopez is a singer/songwriter and producer and has written/produced for Belinda Carlisle, RuPaul's Drag Race, New Kids On The Block, TWICE, KPOP artists and TV/film.

Vivir

Rex Córdova

2019

Mexico, Canada / 20 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/366527639

Wakiloo

Medienprojekt Wuppertal

2019

Germany / 8 mins
Watch… https://vimeo.com/321435110

Wal-acks: Coming Out as 2-Spirit

Dustin McGladrey

2019

Canada / 5 mins
Wal-aks Keane Tait, who leads Nisga’a cultural dance groups, talks with Dustin McGladrey about his devotion to his culture, making things work, the piercings that honour his 2-spiritness and his identity as a 2-spirit Nisga'a person. McGladrey also directs the short video. 

Walk With Me 2019
Walk With Me

Jennifer Meier, Valerie Scheidegger, Arnold Wagner

2019

Switzerland / 7 mins
The owner of the diner "Bonnie's Diner" makes a new acquaintance with Darcy. As the two of them get to know each other better, Death makes its rounds and crosses out the names of the souls he has collected.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/346843112

Walking A Fine Line
Walking a Fine Line

Meti Oker

2019

Switzerland / 4 mins
Walking a Fine Line is the celebration of one person’s sexploratory journey.

Waltz Me Trust Me

Marie Losier

2019

France, USA / 5 mins
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

We are all drag queens

Sylvie Dreyfus

2019

Puerto Rico / 15 mins
This documentary seeks to demystify the idea of ​​transformism. Marcos Garay's artistic diversity, and each of the roles he plays on a daily basis, serves to link the close relationship between what the artist does on stage and what we all do on a daily basis outside of it. Between performances and professional opinions, the actor takes us on a revealing journey through which we understand that, after all, we are all drag queens.

We are Not a Single Species

Paul Hurley,
Paul Samuel White

2019

UK
How might we queer the processes of urban regeneration? How might we consult with nonhuman as well as human communities? Artist Paul Hurley recorded a number of walks with humans, cats, dogs, plants, Siri and the weather, as part of a residency at University of Bristol's Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. This intriguing and amusing film, produced with Paul Samuel White, sniffs around the city and its multispecies geographies, histories and futures.

We Dig!

Fox Fisher

2019

UK / 10 mins
Built from conversations with trans women and transfeminine people around the world, the play We Dig by Emma Frankland and Company centers around the actual excavation of a giant hole in the historic Ovalhouse Theatre—a literal representation of a queer community needing to bury itself for protection.
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What Makes An Artist Tick
What Makes an Artist Tick?

Nancy Rosenblum

2019

Canada / 7 mins
Painter Rachel Yoder of British Columbia paints grids, lines and squares. But why?

Find out why a line is so much more than a line. It's what makes Rachel Tick.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Eden Roman Ascher

2019

Israel / 11 mins
At her small neglected apartment, Miriam’s troubled sleep is interrupted by a phone call. On the other side of the line, her daughter Lior weeps. Miriam, at first aggressive and hesitant, is caving to Lior’s begging and goes to pick her up from southern Tel Aviv. She doesn’t know where the journey after her daughter will take her, nor what will she find at its end. 
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/517080732

Where My Girls
Where My Girls

Mads Engel

2019

USA / 22 mins
A love letter to the every day work and artistic process of self-made rising talents, three queer women and their community reveal their aspirations and cultural work in New York’s underground hip hop scene.
Trailer… https://vimeo.com/492682799

Whipping Boy

Tiffany Scott-Maddox

2019

6 mins
Whipping Boy follows a day in the life of a 'house boy' whose life is dedicated to serving the powerful women who work in his dungeon, and the warm, sweet and intimate bonds that form between them.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/352460177

Who Is Mei Li Galvan
Who is Mei Li Galván /
¿Quién es Mei Li Galván?

Sofia Medrano

2019

Argentina / 12 mins
Mei Li spends her time between her house and the hair salon, in the neighborhood where she was born and lived all her life, Lomas de Zamora, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mei Li has created an authentic, solitary and enigmatic universe, mixing elements of old times, scents and cultures. She enjoys the simplicity of everyday life, imbued with oriental symbolism, surrounded by plants, wind chimes and animals, in the midst of a modern, chaotic and western world.
Watch… https://youtu.be/JGP9Ws-1QmQ

Whole Again

Emily Yarnall

2019

Poland
A brief look at Polish Transgender Rights and the fight for normalcy.

Why Do I Feel Like A Boy
Why Do I Feel like a Boy? /
Proč se cítím jako kluk?

Kateřina Turečková

2019

Czech Republic / 27 mins
Ben is a 16-year-old trans man who does not intend to hide his identity under the pressure of society. This reality affects his whole family.

Winged Miracle

Zahra Mir Rzazadeh

2019

Azerbaijan / 7.35 mins
A daughter attempts to visit her convicted poet father in prison. She brings a series of drawings to give to him.

Wishes

Amy Jenkins

2019

USA / 5 mins
The secret yearnings of a child for an alternate identity are traced through a decade of birthday wishes filmed by their mother.

With Love

Logan Henderson

2019

4 mins
A Black Two-Spirit person thrusts their community beyond wildfire smoke.

Woman On The Threshold
Woman on the Threshold

Dan Steadman

2019

USA / 13 mins
In this short inspired by an old episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” Faye, haunted by the death of her beloved Dolores, considers taking her own life when she suddenly encounters the Grim Reaper.
Watch… https://youtu.be/BtLagu6yMn0

Worth

Sara Prinz

2019

2 mins
Watch a child grow up through choreographic scenes and metaphorical vignettes representing the journey towards self empowerment, all while drapped in NO SESSO clothing.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/Ro2Ztf5eVhU

Wrath

Gianna Gianna

2019

3 mins
Watch as Gianna Gianna brings monstrosity and vulnerability into collision.

Wrestling Blues

Yarli Allison

2019

UK, Hong Kong / 6 mins
In this blue wrestling ring, no one seems to be living in reality. Their minds enter a deeper consciousness which explores the sexual and suicidal propensities of the human mind.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/462660017

Y'a personne qui nous regarde

Les PéPé.e.s

2019

Belgium / 26 mins
A trip to the forest can be refreshing, invigorating... and potentially arousing. Especially when you're armed with cameras, lubricant, gloves and a zoom. That's enough to invent a few stories to share behind (un-)closed doors.

Yehuda

Tal Boniel

2019

Israel / 24 mins
Tal and Guy would like to have a child together. Tal revisits an old childhood memory in which he is leafing through family photo albums in search of any traces of his brother who had died at the age of three months. His quest for his brother forces Tal to confront his parents who are still struggling to come to terms with Tal’s family unit and his relationship with Guy.

Yes?

Lizzy Bailey

2019

Australia / 16 mins
This film follows a group of LGBTIQ+ friends in the months leading up to, during and after the 2017 Australian marriage equality vote.

You Are a Letter, Written Not with Ink, but with the Spirit

David Leal

2019

UK / 4 mins
Michelle, a trans woman who started transitioning later in her life, finds in faith the strength to welcome her true self.

You Me and Him and Him

Patrick Boyd

2019

USA / 19 mins 
Will is in an open relationship with four other men. When Will decides to sleep with someone else without telling the group, tensions arise and the very nature of their relationship is called into question.

You were afraid

Alberto Pérez

2019

Mexico / 4 mins
"You were afraid" is the story of discrimination and uncertainty of two women living with HIV who struggle to form an identity with dignity. 

You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby

2019

33 mins
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually rich film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy. With a score that follows the span of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from moments of harrowing loss to those of poignancy and dark humor. Her life is told through voice over, narrated by performers who range in age from nine to sixty-nine, and is beautifully illustrated with images of animals (including humans), insects and landscapes.

Your Heart Breaks: “Our Forbidden Country”

Wes Hurley, Vincent Pierce

2019

USA / 4 mins
The newest music video from Your Heart Breaks (Clyde Petersen, WE’VE BEEN AROUND, Translations 2016; TORREY PINES, TWIST 2016) travels back in time to the forbidden world of queer hookups then and now.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/309705977

Zero As You Are
Zero As You Are

TOKOI Miyuki

2019

Japan / 84 mins
An elementary student takes a red backpack to school one day simple believing it to be pretty, until she realised the colour was gender specific and coded as male, beginning a sense of disharmony. The protagonist of this documentary is diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age 14, and based this diagnosis she wins an appeal for her middle school to accept her as a male student by the name of Takamasa.