Congratulations to all the 2021 QueerX Selections

Drama

The midnight bus greets a Boy just trying to catch some sleep, but the Man who boards after has more intimate ideas in mind... plus tip.

Comedy

A mother and son shop for a Bar Mitzvah gift at a 99 Cent store.

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Music Video

A young swing dancer looks for her perfect dance partner.

Drama

Carlo’s laying down. A sunburn on his back. The wind is still. The air is warm. There’s a dryness in the air. He can barely breathe, until he sees Mateus.

Drama

Malek, a young man born into a Lebanese feudalist family, is living a secret love story with the man of his dreams. Facing fierce opposition from the matriarch landowner of the family, Malek strives to hold onto his own identity. Her disapproval and determination to maintain “our dynasty” effectively destroy the relationship. The hopes, fears, longings and desires of Malek and his lover unfold in a surrealist tale of frustrated love.

Drama

Aimee Victoria is a short film conceived and created entirely remotely during the lockdown of 2020 and inspired by true stories of relationships from disabled and LGBTQIA people which never make it to the screen.

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Drama

A mysterious photographer wanders through the São Paulo nightlife, in search of another subject for her work. An unusual encounter will lead to a mix of feelings and sensations.

Feature

Aram, the Iranian Armenian youth who has immigrated to the US in childhood returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one day trip, but harder obstacles are ahead.

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Drama

In this coming-of-age story inspired by true events, Mads, an exuberant tomboy in the 90’s struggles to balance relationships with friends, family, and her own sexuality.

Drama

Brandon, a queer Filipino-American grandson, meditates through his anxiety of having to greet his grandmother Happy Birthday.

Documentary

BEAKMAN & JOK is a short documentary film that explores the complex and fascinating life of Bay Area artist, leather man, AIDS activist and renowned children’s science educator Jok Church. Church revolutionized children’s science education through his internationally syndicated comic strip, bestselling children’s books, and the hit TV show BEAKMAN’S WORLD. Church’s model of science education spread through over 90 countries, reaching millions of children in his lifetime.

Comedy

In a small village, Leo, 17 years-old, has a strong taste for make-up. His big brother, Jules, who fears to be laughed at, stands against this passion. On the night of the open stage, Leo shows up in full drag...

Documentary

Description goes hereSascha's name wasn't always Sascha. But now it is. Sascha doesn't identify as a man or as a woman, but as trans non-binary. A story about what it means to live in a society that wasn't expecting you. A glimpse into a life that allows us to question our own categories. And a film about what it means to be oneself.

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Music Video

The sultry performance of an androgynous lounge singer seduces an audience of strangers lamenting unrequited love, late one night in a dark club.

Drama

Between Two Lines is a story of two men’s journey for identity, set against the back-drop of WWI. This short film epic is told through the eyes of Burt, an Indigenous man serving for the Australian Imperial Forces. Burt’s journey for acceptance of his humanity has lead him to the muddy trenches of war, where after a failed military advance has left him stranded in No Man’s land. A place where many men go and very few survive. It is here that he stumbles across Hans, a German soldier who has also become stuck in No Man’s land. After many attempts to kill each other, and un-der heavy gun fire, the two take cover in separate mortar holes. Unable to kill each other and unable to make it to safety, the two are forced to communicate. Will they still be able to pull the trigger when the time comes? Or will their unlikely bond, born in a place of death, be the very thing that saves their lives?

Comedy

In a world where anything is possible, as evidenced by our former (Reality TV) president, Transgender actress, Candis (Candis Cayne), sets out to become the President of the United States with the help and sometimes detriment, of her incorrigible television producer sidekick, Andrea (Andrea Metz).

Music Video

Nick Saanto and their dancers go to a strange Queer museum. People of the LGBTQIA+ community are locked-up in rooms where visitors can look, scrutinize and judge them. Nick releases them one by one, and gives them the freedom they’ve always deserved.

Documentary

Dani is a non-binary 'dragtivist' of Sri Lankan heritage. Living in San Francisco, they began to explore their relationship to sexuality and gender. After a lip-sync battle win, Dani Boi emerged: a drag king challenging oppressive gender norms. Between chaotic onstage performances and their own personal struggles, Dani fights to be a vital voice for a community in need.

Comedy

Local delivery boy Chunho falls in love after delivering dumplings to Eric, an American lawyer living in Hong Kong. Their love for food and cheesy 70s music bring them together, but the class difference between the two of them eventually gets in the way.

Feature

A small group of super-powered queer friends run a business killing demons in Los Angeles... and sometimes they sleep with the demons, too.

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Documentary

The story of veteran, LGBTQ+ and cannabis activist, Dennis Peron, who fought to get cannabis to HIV/AIDS patients in 1990s San Francisco.

Drama

In the early sixties, a sexually conflicted teenager finds faith and acceptance after escaping the tortures of electrotherapeutic conversion therapy. The events that inspired this story are based partly on historical occurrences and partly on the experiences of the producer and director. In the mid 70's, 13 subjects willingly enrolled themselves in a study of "electric aversion therapy" conducted by a BYU graduate student. Between 1971-1989, gay soldiers in the South African Defense Forces underwent chemical castration and medical torture (including the use of electric shocks) to "cure" them of their homosexuality under a program called The Aversion Project. Shock machines were available for in-home use during the mid 20th century, until the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness. These days, electroshock therapy is a blatant violation of human rights. Instead of these physical methods being used, licensed therapists use verbal lashings under a faux cloak of faith-based lessons. Conversion therapy is becoming more obsolete, but is still legal in more than 40 states. It is our hope this film will shine a spotlight on the horrors of what continues to be a serious, life-effecting issue among LGBT minors.

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Drama

A different kind of coming out. When a young moody Millennial reveals his HIV status in a queer support group, it sends Poe, a not so traditional gay priest who mentors the group, in search of his own inner truth.

Documentary

"Dogana/Chapti" presents narratives of identity, family and sociopolitical perspectives from queer Indian and Indian American women and female-assigned non-binary gender folks. The film's title comes from the 18th century Urdu feminist poetic form, the rekhti, which inspects sexual desires between women and employs terms like "dogana," used to designate a woman’s self-chosen female friend and "chapti," a term denoting the rubbing and clinging of female-to-female intercourse.

Feature

A remote village is gripped with fear. Its residents are going missing one by one. Now a young nurse is in town to care for an ailing Don Filipo. Will he be the next victim?

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Comedy

EAT THE RAINBOW is a musical fable about an odd yet kind man named Bayani who moves into a conservative suburban neighborhood and disrupts the otherwise comfortable homogeny. He doesn’t look or act like anyone else which causes fear and panic and eventually a demand for him to leave the neighborhood. Cousin Wonderlette befriends Bayani and together they take on the opposition led by manipulative and unscrupulous realtor Lobelia Gerber.

Drama

Secrets come to light when Celeste and her girlfriend Sara try an edible marijuana cookie.

Documentary

In a relationship, two women decide that the white partner will carry her partner’s Indigenous child. The film is a dual protagonist, character-driven story in which two women are on a path towards having a child together through the fertility treatment process. The central concept for the story is exploring how this couple will experience and explore building their own family while maneuvering through their difference in race, culture, class and gender roles. êmîcêtôsêt-Many Bloodlines is a film that follows a bi-racial, queer couple from the beginning of their IVF process and the birth of their first child together. Through their journey, they address the effects of colonization on their relationship and family and navigate decolonizing & Indigenizing the pregnancy of a white partner carrying their Indigenous baby.

Drama

A gay man is forced to give up the last remaining vestige of yet another failed relationship: his ex's jacket. But during the post-breakup stuff exchange, belongings are not the only things that get swapped.

Drama

In the life of Fernanda, a possibility of rebuilding her own image opens up. And this happens from an offer of employment that reactivates in her all the relationship of affection that had been built with her mother during her childhood. But Fernanda, who is always in need of negotiating her identity with the outside world, will go through yet another test.

Drama

A drag show in a Parisian bar. The public only has eyes for the queen of the evening, Cookie Kunty. But from the back of the theatre, Baptiste, her boyfriend, may be looking at her for the last time.

Drama

In the early 1980s, Zachary Campbell, a young, aspiring dancer moves to San Francisco. In his pursuit to join a dance company, fate throws him into the arms of choreographer, Jamie Callahan, a San Francisco native who has the dream of owning his own studio. These two form a connection while continuing on their parallel paths, until Zachary notices warning signs on his skin. Told through a series of memories and dance pieces, First Position is a film that shows how the absence of choice perpetuates tragedy when it comes to what you love, whether it be another person, or the art of the craft itself.

Comedy

Charles explores the gray areas of his own sexuality after going through an unexpected breakup.

Drama

A queer teenage boy takes his younger sister on an adventure wearing face paint and glitter on her tenth birthday. These colourful bandits move through their environments experiencing small joys while turning a blind eye to reality. It isn't until their celebration is interrupted that the cost of their freedom is exposed.

Comedy

An introduction to four unique queer, trans and genderqueer voices as featured in the Fruitbowl Podcast.

Drama

Issa, 20 years old, is a bout to get out from jail, when he meets Gaetan a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet…

Comedy

After getting dumped, Maia seeks solace by crashing with her best ex Alex.

Music Video

A love letter to gay love, NYC, and heartbreak.

Drama

Falsetta Knockers (aka Kevin Clarke) crawls out of the crypt to mark the closing of The Stud Bar's legendary 9th & Harrison location, a notorious San Francisco landmark for drag, performance, and nightlife which fell prey to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Drama

Emotionally driven story of two strangers who lock eyes in a cafe and have to deal with unexpected feelings.

Music Video

A song about love and loss, being so consumed with someone that you lose yourself in the process.

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Drama

After Tau comes to a realization about their sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will ever be the same between them.

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Comedy

Hell No is the story of two estranged brothers, Frankie and Roberto, who after Frankie's divorce try to reconnect. While they are getting ready for a night out they encounter two ghosts in Roberto's apartment.

Music Video

This ballad is born from real feelings and inspired by father-son love, acceptance and self-love.

Music Video

"High Road No. 6" is a queer romp, where Virago and her guitar are framed by fashion-forward gay cowboys against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Bay. Written in response to the legislative attacks against transgender people, "High Road No. 6" is about escaping the entrapments and negative forces wanting to take you down!

Drama

Hugo, a young actor is asked to improvise narrating a story where he’s the actor and director at an audition. He unfolds a tale that explores sex, disease and self-emancipation.

Drama

Inspired by a true story, “I Bleed” is the intimate confession of a person living with HIV. Whirlwind of emotions. The first sensations. An animation film which tries to demystify issues that, to this day, persist in society’s imagination about the virus.

Drama

In his first weekend of living in the place he’s always dreamed of, Stevie is excited to get out and explore the Bay Area. Before he can leave the house, he witnesses the drama of his two gay roommates as they insist he join them on their separate visits to places they each deem essential. During this day, Stevie is challenged to dismantle the misconceptions he’s constructed about the places his roommates adore which inevitably primes him to re-evaluate his place as a gay Black man. As the day progresses Stevie becomes curious about his roommates’ relationship and mistakenly heightens the tension between the two which leads to a troubling situation involving law enforcement.

Documentary

At dawn, a cannon shatters the silence. The horses gallop across the beaten ground. Eva, 21, wants to join the Imperial HorseGuards, a historical reenactment of a Napoleonic regiment reserved for men.

Comedy

After moving from small-town Louisiana to New Orleans, Ted navigates the city using a dating app.

Drama

It's summer in the Portuguese countryside, where the local festivities take place. Chico is haunted by a hate crime committed in his village against a boy who was secretly close to him. Throughout this journey, Chico, pressured by his friends, tries both to follow their social standards and hide his fears and desires.

Documentary

Immersive documentary INFERNO delves into the fantastical world of artist Gui Taccetti, whose deeply personal work channels the anxiety of growing up gay in staunchly Catholic Brazil.

Documentary

Personal Poem about being 21 in San Francisco in 1986 during the AIDS pandemic. It takes the audience on emotional roller coaster from dread to power. Using overlays to cross two communes, Faries and My San Francisco life. This 2020 film is based on found footage of self-shot film from 1986, and found under my bed!

Drama

A confused teen must confront his father's homosexuality.

Drama

JULIET tells the story of a transgender teenager, Serena. Extremely shy and always in the background, she has a dream of playing the female lead in her high school’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Serena signs up to audition, which unleashes a torrent of teasing, bullying and sabotage. Still, she musters the strength to push forward with the secret support of the most popular boy in school, who will play Romeo. However, when Romeo shames her in front of his friends to protect his reputation, Serena must find the courage to stand on her own in the spotlight and accept herself just as she is.

Music Video

Singer songwriter Laura McLean evokes the dark soul of a southern coastal town rocked by a horrific hate crime. In her original song for the documentary film Park View “Left for Dead”

Music Video

This is a music video for KingQueen's latest single "Live It Up". The music video starts off with the lead singer Ina sleeping in her bed. We get to enter her dream which is the animated part of the music video and the first thing we see is a poster saying KingQueen's world tour got canceled due to Covid. A meteor crashes into the earth and Ina finds glitter which gives her super powers to fight the virus. She spreads the glitter to the band and to the rest of the world. Everyone comes together to fight the beast.

Music Video

Drawing inspiration from classic romance films, "Lights, Camera, Action" is a sweet, sexy fantasy about going deep during an audition.

Music Video

Livin' in the Light is a music video for a new original single by Onry, who has been singing in Portland during quarantine and leading civil rights protests as one of the only Black male professional opera singers in the Pacific Northwest.

Comedy

A misanthropic teenager manipulates those around him in search of attention and affection.

Comedy

The candle, the myth, the legend. Mountain Lodge.

Comedy

A lesbian reverie set amidst the backwoods of New England, New Flesh for the Old Ceremony explores the physicality of grief through a macabre fable about a woman whose wife is devoured by and then possesses their beloved pack of dogs.

Comedy

In a world where all that matters is basketball, Pete can't play basketball.

Music Video

Music video for 'Please Boy' by Jay Kay, directed by John Tancredi. In this unabashedly queer narrative Jay Kay explores their gender identity and blossoms into the fairy they always dreamed they could be.

Comedy

Show For Ghosts is an exploration of meta-physical comedy through genderfluid, genre-fluid vignettes. Let writer and performer Em Haverty (they/them, she/her) take you on a journey in this a COVID-era experiment about anarchistic hope in bleak times, produced entirely within the strict timelimit of 2020's second half.

Comedy

Corey's day couldn't be worse. Then he gets a free coffee.

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Comedy

In the euphoria of the end of one of their shows, seven drag queens are confronted with adversities whose violence puts their bonds to the test. Within this community, still subject to hostile demonstrations, SUPREME highlights gestures of tenderness, desire for love and reconciliation through three characters: endearing, beautiful, extroverted and fragile all at once.

Documentary

An intimate portrait of a bio drag queen. Body dysmorphia takes centre stage in this highly visual examination of the selves we invent to navigate the world.

Documentary

Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and LGBT and human-rights activist, was killed in March 2018. While coming to terms with the death of her partner, Monica Benicio continues the fight to give a voice to those who are deemed disposable in Brazil: women, the poor, the LGBT community, and black Brazilians. Marielle’s murder has still not been solved and, as the police investigation drifts, Monica is plunged into a new crisis because of the right-wing anti-LGBT politician Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign to become Brazilian president.

Drama

Jessica has to face everyday prejudice. She seeks in art a way of expressing herself and overcoming her insecurities.

Drama

It is 2079. In the utopic haven of Biamara, a Coven of Black womyn who can conceive without men must consider denouncing one of their own when she chooses to defy the all female code and self produce a male child.

Documentary

An exuberant 72 year-old gay artist named Miguel recalls his time in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic and reflects on art, community and life after such an isolating, traumatic time that affected the entire world.

Documentary

My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with 'both' sexes but born with a variation from the standard of what is socially accepted as a male or female body.

Documentary

A dreamy non-binary artist reflects on community, exploration, and embracing the mercurial seasons of self-blessing in the heart of West Philly.

Documentary

Documentary profiling former members of the Furies, a notorious 1970s lesbian separatist collective that published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power. Featuring interviews with 10 of the original 12 Furies, photography by JEB (Joan E. Biren), and archival materials.

Drama

Grappling with a disorienting world and an intense fixation, Cecily finds herself visiting Realm--a virtual reality facility that allows clientele to create virtual facsimiles of real-life places and people.Description goes here

Drama

Upon arriving at their fencing studio, the Trans-National fencing team finds their studio space destroyed. Heath - the team’s coach - is trying to balance coaching, team and fixing the studio, and their mental health. Heath starts to isolate themselves and the team must go off to the regional qualifiers tournament without a coach.

Documentary

As members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we’re always looking for ways to share our own personal stories, in hopes of spreading more awareness and helping others feel comfortable enough to share theirs. We’re just people like everyone else, whether we identity as non-binary, transgender, gay, lesbian or queer. We live each day eager to share our undeniable capacity for love, and our desire to be loved, and want nothing more than to celebrate each other every day, with everyone, everywhere.We created PROUD TO BE, an 8-minute documentary that ran during Pride 2021. The narrative was concepted as a love letter to our friends, giving those in our community a safe space to talk openly about their experiences, from their own journeys to self discovery to coming out to family, coworkers and friends who could potentially choose to see you in a completely different light. Our unscripted stories were filmed at Mina’s World Cafe, the first QTPOC coffee shop in Philadelphia, where everyone was encouraged to be open and honest, and take a pause to recognize how far they’ve really come, and how special they truly are. Our group of storytellers was intentionally diverse, in hopes of inspiring others to find the courage to speak up, be themselves and follow their very own dreams. While our short documentary initially appeared as social content in June of 2021, it’s also important that these stories are not just “rainbow washed” to be shown during Pride, but shared during the other 11 months of the year, too.

Documentary

A documentary film showing a young woman traveling from repressive conditions in Russia to explore her homosexuality in Tel Aviv during their famous Pride parade.

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Documentary

This movie isn’t capable of avenging the deaths, of redeeming the suffering, of being a game-changer and changing the world. There is no saving. This is a barricade! Not a Bible.

Drama

Being raised in an evangelical family, Christian in his late thirties still feels guilty for being gay. After a fight with his pious father, Christian discovers his long suppressed, feminine side: a drag queen named Christi Himmelfahrt – and hell, she’s angry! Save the Queen is written by Fabian Wallenfels, who also plays the leading character Christian – as well as his alter ego Christi. The short film is meant as the teaser for a comedy-drama series in 8x30 minutes.

Documentary

A queer fantasia on the slippages of memory, scholarship, meaning-making, and the transcendental.

Drama

Drama

A first-of-its-kind silent LGBTQ film in India, Sisak makes waves before the visuals of this short hit the shore. Set in the fast-paced environs of the usually bustling Mumbai local train system, it details a romance that develops slowly and intoxicatingly, nestled in the silences and quiet comforts of the end-of-day train journeys.

Drama

Alex, a young Harlem Renaissance artist and writer, plays around at love and life until he meets Beauty, appropriately named, who makes no bones about his same-sex desires. Troubled and confused, Alex wavers on the brink of passion until a challenge posed by his girlfriend forces his hand.

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Documentary

A love-letter to a New York City in the not-too-distant past where the only apps were served before dinner and the thrill of gay sex was always just around the corner or on a pier or in a back room or even Hoboken, New Jersey.

Documentary

Sweet Sweet Kink takes a sweet, sweet peek into the kinky world of bondage, dominance, and sadomasochism through four different stories of intimate connection, consensual exploration, and deep self-reflection.

Documentary

This year, more than 400 pride events around the world were canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But Taiwan is fighting the virus effectively and decided to host a pride parade for the world.

Drama

In a world where children bond with magical teddy bears that eventually transform into their perfect, human life partner; an optimistic and strong-willed young woman struggles when her teddy mate subverts expectations.

Music Video

Created under quarantine, the music video for “That’s What We Do” uses a tripod, some wigs, two tubes of old lipstick and a lot of FEELINGS to tell a deeply lesbian story of love, loss and ugly-crying through a mystical karaoke session.

A young softball coach finds himself at a crossroads, throw the pitch or throw in the towel.

Drama

A spoiled teenager boy starts a secret search for a mysterious man to do his deceased father a last and unexpected favor.

Drama

Carey, a 14 year old boy nervously prepares for his first dance as his parents reminisce about their own. When Carey's mother (Tasha Smith, EMPIRE) tasks Carey's father (Malik Whitfield, THE TEMPTATIONS) with getting the perfect picture of Carey and his date, a moment of tension arrises as Carey becomes elusive and tries to thwart his father's objective.

Drama

A day in the life of Silas - a young queer trans person who is trying to navigate home life, life in the queer community, and figuring out their pronouns.

Drama

As a vampire looks for his next hookup on a gay dating app, his night takes an unexpected turn.

Documentary

“Through The Windows” is a documentary about Twin Peaks Tavern, the bar that changed the face of the gay community in the 70’s by opening its windows, and the men who dared to be seen. By weaving together the stories of this historic bar, the first known gay bar in the United States to open its windows to the outside, and the stories of some of the bartenders and patrons who have been going there for almost 40 years, we create an impactful film with stories that are disappearing with the generation that experienced them. Through the interviews, we get glimpses into the gay community from a time that is almost forgotten — when there was no language to describe what it meant to be gay, when gay bars were only down back alleys, and when being gay was still not only taboo, but illegal. Throughout the interview process, we were inspired by these stories, but what we also came to realize, is the impact that Twin Peaks has had not only on the community within the bar and the patrons we interviewed, but on the culture of gay bars in the Castro and the community as a whole. The bar has come to be a cornerstone within the community - a place that changed the face of gay bars in the 70's, a refuge during the Aids crisis in the 90's, and throughout it all, a gathering place: our very own "Cheers for Queers.”

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Drama

Drama

Roger Banks is a 26-year-survivor of HIV. While quarantined in his NYC apartment, during the first COVID-19 outbreak in NYC, Roger reflects upon a lifetime spent searching for answers. Roger’s fear and isolation provoke spirits of friends and family to visit him while he experiences intense flashbacks of his youth and the AIDS crisis.

Drama

The very best places to visit, takes photos and fall in love in São Paulo!

Feature

‘TRADE’ tells the story of two men, one a streetwise hustler, the other a straight-laced lawyer, who meet and form a relationship that brings to light who they really are. As their relationship deepens and their lives intertwine, the complexity and dangers of it reveal themselves in ultimately tragic ways.

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Documentary

Following the day-to-day lives of four Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island transgender men and women; this is the story of how they changed the perceptions of themselves and those closest to them. So, what happens after you ‘come out’? We find out as these characters explore their religion/culture, dating/relationships, medical transformations and work towards their careers. Their body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria has challenged them in all areas of their lives but after transitioning they are experiencing a new type of identity. It's comical, sad, uplifting, romantic, stressful and an all out hormonal roller coaster.

Documentary

Drama

After leaving Brazil, César meets Martin at an empty cafe in Tallinn, Estonia. In front of them, the uncertain infinity of the sea.

Feature

Inspired by a true story, performing artist Reinaldo Alvarez (Ricardo Alvarado) breaks away from an abusive relationship, only to find himself in a web of lies and twisted advances by his new neighbor, Carl Irving (Patrick Devaney) in this disturbing psychotic thriller.

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Documentary

Venture Out is a story of overcoming odds, the power of resilience, and ultimately, the ever-lasting effects of LGBTQ community building. The Venture Out Project, founded by Perry Cohen, is a non profit organization that brings LGBTQ folks together outdoors on wilderness trips. In sharing Perry’s story, and hearing from the other TVOP participants, we get a glimpse into the healing qualities of nature and life-saving community bonds that are being forged as a result of Perry’s work.

Music Video

In this chilling neon music video, Racquel tells us a story of love lost in plain sight and how no one has her own back like she does.

Music Video

A collaboration with Fox Fisher and Rowyn Judd featuring an original song by Rowyn. This piece was filmed over the course of 6 months, prior to top surgery and after top surgery.

Documentary

Sereena confronts stigma and stereotypes on a daily basis being a transsexual in today’s society. In this short hybrid documentary, Sereena refuses to justify who she is and turns it back onto us and asks – what do you see when you look at her and can you look past the superficial and see the real her?

Music Video

During a global pandemic, the killing of one man sparks the biggest social movement in history. Cities all over the world erupt in protest, fueled by centuries of racial tension. In Los Angeles, a queer black woman is determined to capture the movement through her lens, so she hits the streets, camera in hand. What she discovers is a diverse world of impassioned protesters from all walks of life, coming together to make themselves heard.

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Documentary

A group of tween girls chant into megaphones, marching in the San Francisco Trans March. Fists clenched high, they wear brown berets and vests showcasing colorful badges like “Black Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty.” Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units including being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice. Started by two fierce, queer women of color, we follow them as they face the challenge to grow the organization, both pre/post the 2016 election.

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Documentary

How to exist in a sexist and listener structure? Gabriela, Celma and Klicia, three deaf women with different realities, share their struggles and trajectories in the deaf feminist movement.

Drama

Five friends meet on Skype on the initiative of a sixth, which is slow to appear. Little by little, we discover what binds them together: the memory of the "Tell me about love", a slam evening organized by a certain Clémence, and during which everyone ended up giving themselves up.

Documentary

In the underground hip hop scene of New York, the old adage “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” rings true for many rappers seeking to make a name for themselves. But in a scene that struggles to stay genuine in the face of clout chasers and rising rents, making it has taken on a more ambiguous meaning. In this short documentary, three queer women reflect on the creativity, community, and hustle required to make it in a culture that has left them to their own devices. “Where My Girls” is an homage to the everyday struggle facing marginalized artists and the scrappy DIY attitude that first gave rise to hip hop.

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Documentary

A young man speaks about his experience with HIV/AIDS and how he has embraced his stigmatized status.