Gender and sexuality

Grandmamauntsistercat

Zuza Banasińska reinvents the famous Slavic witch Baba Yaga through a clever montage of films from Łódź’s Educational Film Studio, containing sexist content. Questioning their own non-binary identity through an unsettling voice-over that tells the story of a matriarchal family, they unleash the queer dimension of images tasked with conveying a normative conception of identity.

I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.

Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)

In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.

Y'a une étoile

Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, undertakes in an artistic process the search for a rural queer community in his native Acadie. During his wanderings, he will find, behind heteronormative rural landscapes, people determined to live their differences without having to leave their hometown or deny their cultural identity to get there. Samuel will leave with the conviction that the ...

Outside Center

After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his homosexual identity.

The Sketch

"Upon arriving in Paris, I began learning two languages: French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I met Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I sketched her outlines, I discovered that I was also learning to draw myself." - Tomas Cali

Dad Can Dance

David was a ballet dancer, and for 45 years, almost nobody knew. In _Dad Can Dance_, his son discovers long-buried family secrets about their shared love for movement in this self-affirming story that explores the joy of being an artist.

A Bird Called Memory

A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...

Queerying Nature

For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.

First Months of Freedom

Cat, a transgender woman from Tennessee, got off parole in 2020. This film documents her first months of freedom in the pandemic. The piece was composed from phone videos, Skype calls, archival material, and original footage. Cat shares stories from her childhood and her life inside men's prisons, including her relationship with her husband and former cellmate who remains incarcerated. 

Três Tigres Tristes

São Paulo, in a dystopian future not so far from the present. A virus is circulating, attacking mainly the brain and the ability to remember. Three young queer friends drift through a city bled white by the pandemic and rampant capitalism, remembering their dead lovers, sharing their experiences with HIV, getting make-up tips for masked faces and finally reuniting with other social misfits in t...

Never Silent Again

_Never Silent Again_ is a minimalist documentary art work centered on the liberation of speech and listening. The project is inspired by the role played by social media in the #MeToo movement.  Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these media reveal voices that have remained muted or stifled for a long time, expressing an impressive amount of anger and desires. In this vein, this fi...