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Lesbian Space Princess
Strap in for an endless stream of sapphic jokes, addictive pop songs, and candy-colored animation in the Teddy Award-winning LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS. Saria, an introverted princess (voiced…
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Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
Set in the heart of the bustling Manila, a heavily populated bus terminal, seedy movie theatre, and back alleyways serve as the track where a group of hustlers and sex workers spend their…
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Plainclothes
In this Sundance award-winning romantic thriller set in 1990s New York, an undercover police unit is tasked with entrapping gay men cruising in restrooms. But when a closeted young officer…
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This Is Ballroom
Directed by ballroom filmmakers, THIS IS BALLROOM is an insider gaze at the universe of Ballroom culture in Rio de Janeiro and its outskirts. Fifty years after its inception in New York…
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Newborn
NEWBORN is a deeply moving and quietly electrifying film that turns a moment of new life into a high-stakes emotional crucible. When a couple in Mexico City gives birth to an intersex baby,…
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Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at Frameline and Croatia’s official Oscar submission, Ivona Juka’s bold, unflinching drama is a visceral exploration of art, identity, and…
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Lust - Shorts Program
To yearn, desire, and crave; these short films show us what it means to truly lust. In MUSES, a dancer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer now attracted to another.…
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Dreamers
Love blooms in the most unlikely of places in this gripping and timely sapphic masterpiece that tells the story of Isio, a Nigerian undocumented immigrant who finds herself in a detention…
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The Silence of My Hands
Rosa, the first deaf law student in Guadalajara, and Saira, an immigrant from California confronting her gender identity, try to stay together despite their realities and the distance that…
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If You Should Leave Before Me
Equal parts fantastical, heartfelt, and quietly devastating, IF YOU SHOULD LEAVE BEFORE ME is a stunning meditation on grief, love, and the strange things we do to avoid pain. After a…
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Boys Be Brave
Reminiscent of the TV show HEARTSTOPPER, BOYS BE BRAVE tells the story of Jin-woo, a top student and a grade-A recluse who refuses to date anyone unless they’re his perfect type. One day,…
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Departures
When Benji meets Jake at an airport, all he expects is a steamy night together. But when Benji falls for Jake, he embarks on a romantic journey that is fraught with complex power dynamics.…
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Outerlands
Cass, a nonbinary gig worker drifting through a rapidly changing San Francisco, juggles bartending shifts, drug deals, and scooter rides past the city’s fading queer landmarks. Played with…
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Rains Over Babel
Winner of Best Film at Inside Out Toronto and a standout at both Sundance and Rotterdam, RAINS OVER BABEL is a genre-defying, visionary debut from Gala del Sol. Set inside the hottest…
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Sandbag Dam
This stunning tale of second chances features a forbidden small-town romance set in a village endangered by rising rivers and restrictive community traditions. Marko, a young athlete, has…
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Queer Joy - Shorts Program
Building a chosen family and community, supporting one another, and coming out: a selection of shorts dedicated to queer joy. HUSTLEWEEN explores vibrant community and Black trans euphoria…
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American Schemers
In Chicago director Jack C. Newell’s latest feature, roommates and lifelong friends Kara and Oly have been making their way in New York City in the same shared business: robbing the homes…
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Really Happy Someday
REALLY HAPPY SOMEDAY captures the profound journey of transitioning by showing both what can be lost and the incomparable, beautiful new life that starts afterwards. Z, a trans man with a…
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It's Dorothy!
Since Dorothy Gale started her epic journey down the Yellow Brick Road over a century ago in THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, she’s become a celebrity, a brand, and a beacon for marginalized…
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Dreams in Nightmares
Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford (TEST PATTERN) and featuring a cast of majority queer and trans Black performers, DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES blends lyrical visuals, sharp performances, and a…
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Drive Back Home
Set in the winter of 1970 in Canada, a grumpy small-town plumber is forced to drive 1,000 miles to bail out his estranged and quirky gay brother (Alan Cumming). DRIVE BACK HOME chips away…
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Censurada
Set in 1960s Spain, CENSURADA tells the hopeful love story of Salome, a piano player in rural Spain who joins the church as an organist after her brother’s death. When Salome meets Miranda,…
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A Night Like This
A NIGHT LIKE THIS follows two strangers: Lukas, a broke actor, and Oliver, a spoiled entrepreneur, who collide at a pub and decide, for reasons neither can fully explain, to spend the night…
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Baby Gays - Shorts Program
Growing up is hard, growing up queer is harder. Whether it’s searching AM I GAY QUIZ on the family computer, getting shipped off to family, or having a mysterious (and quite fabulous?) fox…
