Movies: Lgbtqia

Garden of Des Moines is an intimate interview-style short film that follows drag performers in Iowa as they navigate the challenges of being queer in a conservative state. Through personal stories, the film explores the difficulties they face, from p...

On an ordinary day, Alana is the last girl chosen in her PE class. In the afternoon, she goes to the house of a distant classmate, with no intention of making friends. While they build a model, smoke and even kiss, Alana observes the family up close ...

It's a 5 a.m conversation. HIM (25) et THE OTHER (25) are lying on a bed, with pieces of board games scattered on the floor. THE OTHER asks questions and HIM answers. Eventually, the conversation turns to sexuality- how, in his teenage years, HIM re...

Natália and Isabela are girlfriends and a sertanejo music duo, just starting out in Belo Horizonte. During a weekend dedicated to creating a new album, the pressure to make something commercially viable and the fear of failure bring out insecurities ...

A short film about rupture — about someone who defies the system and reclaims her life. The narrative portrays the everyday oppression of late capitalism, exploring the emotional and physical exhaustion of Alana, who finds refuge and the courage to c...

Two young women meet online and decide to meet for the first time. Rita is a visually impaired woman and Luiza is going through a delicate time in her life. Throughout this meeting, the two share experiences, create bonds and, in the process, Luiza f...

Margot and Victoria are now used to arguing, they can't help but think back to their relationship....

At 15, John and Nicolas decide to learn about love together; Matteo falls in love with the village priest; and Gabriel secretly draws naked men... Seven European shorts on the theme of homosexuality and early teenage love, selected by the Marais Film...

Mona is a 22 year old trans girl from a small village in France. She puts needles attached to peacock feathers in her skin, under bright lights, late at night. She bleeds, half naked, in front of small crowds of people. Sometimes they faint whilst wa...

Faced with a decision about their future in a non-LGBTQ+ affirming church, a young queer Welsh theologian seeks clarity around their calling to Christian ministry....

After a party, two girls are left to clean up the mess and face their feelings. One wants to talk, while the other doesn't. To decide their fate, they play a game of rock-paper-scissors. Will they come together and finally open up or will they contin...

Devastated by the loss of her wife, Marina revisits the memories they shared together while facing the uncertainties of a future without her....

"Can one describe a landscape well if one does not travel it from top to bottom, from the earth to the sky, and then from the sky to the earth," asks Jean-Luc Godard, sampled on "Being"? With a minimum of imagination, it evokes landscapes, this elec...

Using found footage from her wedding, a woman tells the story of how she realized she might be attracted to girls. Exploring the complicated emotions that came with that realization....

On a bio diverse wasteland, threatened by a looming layer of bitumen, the Beast of the Earth emerges in a prophetic saltation. Through vivid gestures, caught between heaven and earth, the Beast presents the harbingers of mankind's destiny....

Stan has had a long day. First, his annoying crush, Mickey, throws an unwanted party at his house. Second, his homophobic girl-bully, Eve, keeps spreading rumors that he's some kind of freakazoid. And third, a masked figure shows up and starts brutal...