Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival OUT ON FILM Announces Lineup

Out on Movie offered by GILEAD and WABE has introduced THE LINEUP of movies and occasions for the thirty fifth Anniversary version of the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ movie competition.

The Oscar® qualifying movie competition, which was not too long ago included on MovieMaker Journal’s “50 Movie Festivals Well worth the Entry Charge” checklist, as soon as once more provides a various choice of movies from extremely anticipated studio efforts to unbiased movies, and worldwide to native Georgia and Atlanta productions as a part of its rigorously curated hybrid presentation.

Going down September 22-October 2, Out on Movie will open with Nicholas Stoller’s comedy Bros co-written by and starring Billy Eichner, with Todd Flaherty’s Chrissy Judy taking the Closing Night time slot.

Highlight screenings embody Micheal Rice’s Black As U R, Connie Cocchia’s When Time Acquired Louder, Daresha Kiyi’s Mama Bears, and the world premiere of Yuval David’s Splendidly Made – LGBTQ+R(eligion) from govt producer Mark McDermott, and advocate producers together with Lance Bass

Out on Movie’s lineup consists of 40 options (23 narrative movies, 17 documentaries) and 16 shorts packages with 143 movies representing 27 international locations. Almost all of those movies might be obtainable for nationwide streaming.

Colman Domingo might be available to obtain this yr’s Out on Movie Icon Award, and extra particular occasions will embody a fortieth Anniversary screening of Grease 2 and the movie competition’s first screenplay competitors, sponsored by Warren Gump.

Screenings will happen on the Landmark Midtown Artwork Cinema, Out Entrance Theatre Firm, IPIC Theaters Colony Sq. and Position Name Theater.

Out on Movie Pageant Director Jim Farmer stated, “Our thirty fifth Anniversary presentation will hit all of the notes that Out on Movie has develop into celebrated for over the previous 4 a long time, with an exquisite mixture of movies from around the globe, in addition to from our superb metropolis of Atlanta.

We have an excellent honoree in Colman Domingo who in some way will handle to be available in the midst of his extremely packed manufacturing schedule, and new wrinkles in retailer, together with our very first screenplay competitors coupled with a queer filmmaker celebration.”

Out on Movie will open on Thursday, September 22 with Nicholas Stoller’s Bros, the primary romantic comedy from a serious studio about two homosexual males possibly, presumably, in all probability, stumbling in direction of love, co-written by and starring Billy Eichner.

The Georgia premiere of Todd Flaherty’s darkish comedy Chrissy Judy will happen on Closing Night time, Sunday, October 2. The movie follows two homosexual males as they face a crossroads with their two-queen drag act, which can trigger certainly one of them to and rediscover his true self within the course of.

Centerpiece screenings embody Micheal Rice’s documentary Black As U R places a mirror as much as Black America a asking the query: “Why can we as a folks protest in opposition to racial injustice, however disregard the injustices skilled by black queer folks?”

Daresha Kiyi ‘s festival-favorite documentary Mama Bears focuses on the moms of LGBTQ+ kids through the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears”- whose profound love for his or her LGBTQ+ kids has turned them into fierce advocates for the complete queer community-and Tammi Terrell Morris, a younger African American lesbian whose battle for self-acceptance completely exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally vital.

Daresha Kiyi will attend the screening and take part in a post-screening Q&A. First-time filmmaker Connie Cocchia’s When Time Acquired Louder follows a younger lady who leaves dwelling and her autistic brother for school and finds herself torn between the brand new life she is establishing and her love for dwelling and household.

The movie stars Willow Shields (The Starvation Video games) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Misplaced). Connie Cocchia will attend and take part in a post-screening Q&A. Emmy winner Yuval David’s documentary Splendidly Made – LGBTQ+R(eligion) will make its world premiere at Out on Movie.

Produced by Mark McDermott, with advocate producers together with Lance Bass, the movie appears to be like on the root of anti-LGBTQ attitudes by exploring the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics with a deal with the method of a fantastic artwork venture creating unprecedented, photographic iconography depicting Jesus as a member/ally of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Director Yuval David and Govt Producer Mark McDermott might be available to speak in regards to the movie post-screening.

Extra world premieres embody Kimya Motley’s documentary Deliberately Erased in regards to the experiences of Black trans girls in the US. Following the screening, Out on Movie will host a panel dialogue to broaden upon the dialog illuminated by the movie. Myles Clohessy’s thriller LOVE ISLAND follows a gaggle of buddies as they try and survive what started as an idyllic pandemic getaway to the LGBTQ get together haven of Hearth Island, as they discover themselves methodically being focused and killed by an obsessed madman.

Particular occasions at Out on Movie might be led by the presentation of this yr’s Icon Ward to Colman Domingo. A 2022 Emmy Award, two-time Movie Impartial Spirit Award, Gotham Award, SAG Award, Critics Alternative and NAACP Award nominee, Colman Domingo not too long ago gained a Hollywood Critics Affiliation Award for Finest Actor in a Restricted Collection/Anthology and an Imagen Award for Finest Supporting Actor in a Drama for his work in Euphoria.

As well as, Domingo is a Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League, and NAACP Theatre Award nominated, OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award successful actor, playwright, director, and producer. A prolific and ubiquitous presence on display and stage in recent times, Domingo has made an indelible impression in movies resembling Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Road Might Speak, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Lee Daniel’s The Butler, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Nate Parker’s Delivery of a Nation, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, and Janicza Bravo’s Zola.

Domingo has additionally made his mark on tv in Worry the Strolling Lifeless, Euphoria, and The Knick. As a author, his performs and musicals embody “Dot,” “Wild with Completely satisfied” and “A Boy and His Soul,” Upcoming initiatives embody the fourth season of his sequence, Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s, in addition to the debut of his new sequence West Philly, Child, for which he’ll write, direct and govt produce for ALLBLK/AMC+.

Colman Domingo will even star within the Netflix/Larger Floor movie Rustin as Bayard Rustin in 2023. He additionally will star as ‘Mister’ within the Warner Brothers/Oprah Winfrey/ Steven Spielberg produced The Coloration Purple musical movement image, filmed in Atlanta and due subsequent yr as nicely. Colman Domingo will take part in a “Dialog on Movie” following screenings of his brief movies New Moon and New Star.

Extra highlights through the thirty fifth Anniversary version of Out on Movie embody a deal with native Atlanta-based movies and filmmakers led by Mercedes Kane’s documentary Artwork and Pep about Artwork Johnston and Pepe Peña, the house owners of the long-lasting bar Sidetrack in Chicago. The longtime romantic companions are civil rights leaders who’ve been preventing for LGBTQ+ equality for many years, activists through the AIDS disaster and co-founders of Equality Illinois.

Jono Mitchell, one other Atlanta-based director, will attend the movie competition together with his newest movie, Miles From Nowhere. The drama focuses on a dying man on a cabin retreat who’s compelled to confront previous errors after studying he might not know his buddies in addition to he might imagine.

Former Atlantan Travis Effective’s newest is the drama Two Eyes which tells the story of three most important characters in three distinct time intervals: a younger artist touring to Montana in 1868 to color the wild, untamed land, a younger photographer in 1979 who befriends a international alternate scholar, and a younger trans musician in 2020. Atlantan Cara Consilvio’s For the Love of Buddies appears to be like at Brent Nicholson Earle, who, in 1986, awoke America to the AIDS disaster and honored the chums he misplaced by working the perimeter of the US.

Lastly, Out on Movie will mix its anniversary celebration with a fortieth Anniversary screening of Allan Carr’s Grease 2. Pageant goers might be inspired to seize their leather-based jacket and put together to sing alongside to “Cool Rider” and the remainder of the beloved rating of this criminally underrated musical together with “Copy,” “Again to Faculty,” “Rating Tonight” and “Flip Again the Palms of Time.”

Matthew Caulfield is the dreamy however nerdy international alternate scholar with eyes for Michelle Pfeiffer’s seemingly unattainable Pink Woman Stephanie if he can simply in some way get round Adrian Zmed’s good hair. If that wasn’t sufficient, on Saturday, October 1 there might be a free-to-the public studying of the successful screenplay from the movie competition’s first screenplay competitors in addition to a queer filmmaker.

The 2022 Out on Movie official alternatives

OPENING NIGHT SELECTION

Bros
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Nation: USA, Working Time: 115 min
This fall, Common Footage proudly presents the primary romantic comedy from a serious studio about two homosexual males possibly, presumably, in all probability, stumbling in direction of love. Perhaps. They’re each very busy.

From the ferocious comedian thoughts of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Road, 2019’s The Lion King, Tough Folks,Impeachment: AMERICAN CRIME Story) and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the Neighborsfilms, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The KING of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Huge Sick), comes Bros, a sensible, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how laborious it’s to seek out one other tolerable human being to undergo life with.

Starring Billy Eichner, the primary brazenly homosexual man to co-write and star in his personal main studio movie – and that includes a wholly LGBTQ+ principal forged, together with Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Expertise), Monica Raymund (Chicago Hearth), Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Man Branum (The Different Two) and Amanda Bearse (Married …with Youngsters) – Bros is directed by Nicholas Stoller from his screenplay with Eichner. The movie is produced by Judd Apatow, Stoller and Joshua Church (co-producer Trainwreck, Step Brothers) and is govt produced by Eichner and Karl Frankenfield.

CENTERPIECE SELECTIONS

Black As U R
Director: Micheal Rice
Nation: USA, Working Time: 75 min
Black As U R poses to Black America a extremely confrontational and far prevented query. Why can we as a folks protest racial injustice, however disregard the injustices skilled by black queer folks? On this incendiary documentary, filmmaker Micheal Rice takes the viewers on a journey by way of the homophobia that characterizes many black areas, each contemporarily and through an autobiographic look into his personal upbringing within the south. BLACK AS U R is step one in confronting the African American neighborhood about queerphobia, through the searing tales of queer black folks.

When Time Acquired Louder
Director: Connie Cocchia
Nation: Canada, Working Time: 114 min
Departing for school, Abbie leaves her mother and father and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she’s torn between her new life and her love for her brother. This lovely drama by first time function filmmaker Connie Cocchia stars Willow Shields (The Starvation Video games) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Misplaced).

Mama Bears
Director: Daresha Kiyi
Nation: USA, Working Time: 90 min
Do you know there are greater than 32,000 moms in America – many from conservative, Christian backgrounds – who absolutely settle for their LGBTQ+ kids? Mama Bears is an exploration of the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears”- whose profound love for his or her LGBTQ+ kids have turned them into fierce advocates for the complete queer community-and Tammi Terrell Morris, a younger African American lesbian whose battle for self-acceptance completely exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally vital.

Splendidly Made – LGBTQ+R(eligion) World Premiere
Director: Yuval David
Nation: USA, Working Time: 94 min
Directed by Emmy winner Yuval David and produced by Mark McDermott, the terribly transferring Splendidly Made – LGBTQ+R(eligion) is a feature-length documentary that strikes on the root of anti-LGBTQ attitudes by exploring the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics. The movie focuses on the Catholic Church as a result of it is likely one of the largest spiritual organizations on the earth, and since its anti-LGBTQ+ stance is well-known and rising extra hardline around the globe. The narrative of the movie is formed by the method of a fantastic artwork venture creating unprecedented, photographic iconography depicting Jesus as a member/ally of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, portrayed by a number of LGBTQ+ fashions of numerous ethnicities, genders, races, sexualities, and identities. Advocate Producers embody Lance Bass, Bishop Gene Robinson, Reverend Mel White, former Eire President Mary McAleese, Andrew Tobias, Mitchell Gold, and Jane Clementi.

CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION

Chrissy Judy – Georgia Premiere
Director: Todd Flaherty
Nation: USA, Working Time: 96 min
Everyone has that one pal who cannot get their act collectively, however you possibly can’t assist however love them to items anyway. For thirty-something Chrissy, that is his bestie, Judy, an endearing however perpetually messy ride-or-die who’s at all times received various cocktails within the tank.
After hustling for years collectively within the New York Metropolis bar scene, Judy is satisfied that that is the summer season their two-queen drag act will lastly get its huge break. That’s, till Chrissy’s priorities instantly shift, forcing a disillusioned Judy to carefully look at his trajectory as a queer artist, and rediscover his true self within the course of. On this darkish comedy, Chrissy Judy friends into the underbelly of queer tradition and examines the struggles homosexual males face within the pursuit of affection, acceptance, romance, and id.

ADDITIONAL FEATURE FILMS (IN-PERSON)

All Sorts of Love
Director: David Lewis
Nation: USA, Working Time: 75 min
Amid the backdrop of the Supreme Court docket’s upholding of marriage equality in 2015, a long-time homosexual couple divorce simply as everybody else is getting married. After his commitment-phobic husband divorces him, a stuck-in-his-ways homosexual man tries to start out over. When he turns into unintended roommates with a youthful hip nerd who’s as romantically challenged as he’s, sparks fly.

All Man: The Worldwide Male Story
Administrators: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed
Nation: USA, Working Time: 83 min
This fascinating new movie journeys throughout three a long time of the Worldwide Male catalog’s unlikely however lasting impression on style, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner, and GI discovered freedom in San Diego, the place he reworked males’s style into one thing cosmopolitan, carefree, and trendsetting. Worldwide Male reached homosexual and straight clients alike because it redefined pictures of masculinity in American tradition, producing income and circulation within the hundreds of thousands.

Artwork and Pep
Director: Mercedes Kane
Nation: USA, Working Time: 90 min
Artwork Johnston and Pepe Peña are the house owners of the long-lasting bar Sidetrack in Chicago, in addition to longtime romantic companions. They’re additionally civil rights leaders who’ve been preventing for LGBTQ+ equality for many years, activists through the AIDS disaster and co-founders of Equality Illinois.

El Houb
Director: Sharif Nasr
Nation: Netherlands: Working Time: 102 min
Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his household dwelling and opens as much as his conventional mother and father about being into males. Their response conjures up a journey of discovery by way of Karim’s isolation as he makes an attempt to interrupt an ingrained tradition of silence and ultimately locks himself in his mum or dad’s closet. Based mostly on the lifetime of lead actor Fahd Larhzaoui, this new movie is darkly comedian and daring.

For the Love of Buddies
Director: Cara Consilvio
Nation: USA, Working Time: 97 min
In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS disaster and to honor the chums he misplaced, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the US. In The American Run for the Finish of AIDS, Brent runs virtually a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and concern, he returns dwelling to his personal HIV prognosis. Although the run finishes, Brent’s activism by no means stops, in Atlanta filmmaker’s Cara Consilvio’s beautiful documentary.

Framing Agnes
Director: Chase Joynt
International locations: USA/Canada, Working Time: 75 min
In 1958, a younger trans lady named Agnes entered a examine about intercourse issues at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she wanted, by any means vital. Her story was lengthy thought of to be distinctive till never-before-seen case information of different sufferers have been present in 2017. Directed by Chase Joynt (No Odd Man) and that includes an all-star forged of transgender artists and performers, Framing Agnes makes use of re-enactment and genre-blurring storytelling methods to breathe new life into beforehand unknown individuals who redefined gender within the midcentury. That includes Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard, Max Wolf Valerio, and Stephen Ira.

Grease 2 (1982)
Director: Allan Carr
Nation: USA, Working Time: 114 min
Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the chief of Rydell Excessive Faculty’s Pink Women, a gang of women who’re counterparts of the college’s group of greasers referred to as the T-Birds. Stephanie is bored with her relationship with high T-Chicken Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), so she breaks up with him and shortly catches the attention of English alternate scholar Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield). Hoping to win her over, Michael tries to beat his nerdy methods whereas holding off the jealous Johnny.

In From the Aspect
Director: Matt Carter
Nation: USA, Working Time: 134 min
Following a drunken encounter, two equally connected males from a money strapped and divided homosexual rugby membership unwittingly sleepwalk into an adulterous affair however should conceal their rising emotions or threat destroying the membership they love. Set amidst the British rugby world, it is a beautiful and stirring love story, directed by Matt Carter.

Deliberately Erased World Premiere
Director: Kimya Motley
Nation: USA, Working Time: 60 min
Kimya Motley is an educator, activist, writer, director, and producer working to finish violence in opposition to all girls and women. She has directed, co-wrote, and co-produced this absorbing documentary in regards to the experiences of Black trans girls in the US.

Jimmy in Saigon
Director: Peter McDowell
Nation: USA, Working Time: 89 min
Generations after his brother’s demise, director Peter McDowell uncovers secrets and techniques associated to Jimmy’s sexuality and drug use. Jimmy died as a civilian in Saigon throughout THE VIETNAM WAR when Peter was solely 5 and thru lots of of his letters and a truth-seeking journey that takes him around the globe, Peter will get to know Jimmy and finds peace in his personal life. This haunting documentary is govt produced by Dan Savage.

Lonesome
Director: Craig Boreham
Nation: Australia, Working Time: 95 min
On this sexually express drama, Casey, a rustic lad working from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in huge metropolis Sydney. When he meets metropolis lad Tib each males discover one thing they’ve been lacking however neither of them is aware of fairly the right way to negotiate it.

Love Island World Premiere
Director: Myles Clohessy
Nation: USA, Working Time: 90 min
The right summer season trip escape away from COVID locked down NYC shortly spirals uncontrolled for a gaggle of buddies on the notorious, picturesque, LGBTQ get together haven of Hearth Island, as they discover themselves slowly being picked off one after the other by a manic, obsessed killer, performed with menace by Jonathan Bennett.

Love With out Worry (Amar Sin Miedo)
Director: Juan Jose Frausto
Nation: USA, Working Time: 120 min
Love With out Worry is an attractive romantic story about Josh Adams and his self-discovery within the metropolis of Taxco, Mexico, in addition to an intimate depiction of two males from completely different components of the world that unexpectedly are drawn to 1 one other. When Josh meets musician Leo, his life modifications on this erotic, humane drama.

Manscaping
Director: Broderick Fox
Nation: UK, Working Time: 62 min
An Afrofuturist, a unadorned fetishist, and a neighborhood activist stroll right into a barbershop… Black American visible artist Devan Shimoyama, Australian fetish barber/porn producer Richard Savvy, and transgender Canadian barber Jessie Anderson are three queer males reimagining the standard barbershop and restyling masculinity alongside the best way.

Mars One
Director: Gabriel Martins
Nation: Brazil, Working Time: 115 min
The Martins household are optimistic dreamers, quietly main their lives within the margins of a serious Brazilian metropolis following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black household, they really feel THE STRAIN of their new actuality because the political mud settles. Tércia, the mom, reinterprets her world after an surprising encounter leaves her questioning if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, places all his hopes into the soccer profession of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions regardless of secretly aspiring to review astrophysics and colonize Mars. In the meantime, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited younger lady and ponders whether or not it is time to depart dwelling.

Perhaps Sometime
Director: Michelle Ehlen
Jay, a non-binary 40-something photographer, makes an attempt to maneuver throughout the nation to start out her life over once more within the midst of separating from her spouse. Alongside the best way, she takes a detour to stick with her highschool finest pal who she was secretly in love with and befriends a charismatic homosexual man who has lengthy given up on love. Struggling to maneuver ahead with the following chapter of her life, recollections of the previous resurface as Jay grapples with the inevitable cycles of affection, loss, and letting go.

Miles From Nowhere
Director: Jono Mitchell
Nation: USA, Working Time: 76 min
Throughout an annual cabin retreat, a dying man should confront previous errors after studying he might not know his buddies in addition to he might imagine. This considerate drama from prolific Atlanta director Jono Mitchell options an impeccable ensemble forged.

Nana’s Boys
Director: Ashton Pina
Nation: USA, Working Time, 78 min
When an explosion rattles NYC right into a lockdown and with out energy, Amari and Q are compelled to confront the fragility of their partnership. Ashton Pina has got down to create an intimate and trustworthy reflection on the experiences that trigger strain on a relationship. NANA’S BOYS is a bittersweet love story about two Black males, who regardless of their historical past, present circumstances and typically callousness angle have a deep take care of one another.

Nelly & Nadine
Director: Magnus Gertten
International locations: Sweden/Norway/Belgium, Working Time: 92 min
Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two girls falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, within the Ravensbrück focus camp. Regardless of being separated within the final months of the battle, Nelly and Nadine handle to later reunite and spend the remainder of their life collectively. For a few years their love story was saved a secret, even to a few of their closest household. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has determined to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen private archives and uncover their outstanding story.

Pat Rocco Dared
Administrators: Bob Christie, Morris Chapdelaine
Nation: Canada, Working Time: 90 min
Within the 1970’s Playboy journal dubbed Pat Rocco the KING of the Nudies, however he’s far more than an erotic filmmaker. Rocco is an activist, artist, filmmaker, and entertainer. He is the entire Hollywood package deal, with yet one more story to inform: his personal. He arrived in Hollywood together with his mother and father on the age of 11. By seventeen he knew he was homosexual, had moved away from dwelling, and was residing out of the closet. It was 1951. Having sung in choirs as a youth, he managed to seek out gigs in radio, nightclubs, theatres, and church basements. Along with his true expertise and plain charisma, he made his solution to tv selection reveals, starring alongside legends like Phyllis Diller.

Sissy
Administrators: Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes
Nation: Australia, Working Time: 103 min
Cecilia and Emma have been tween-age BFFs who have been going to develop outdated collectively and by no means let something come between them, till Alex arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a profitable social media influencer residing the dream of an unbiased, fashionable millennial lady… till she runs into Emma for the primary time in over a decade. Emma invitations Cecilia away on her bachelorette weekend at a distant cabin within the mountains, the place Alex proceeds to make Cecilia’s weekend a residing hell.

So Rattling Simple Going
Director: Christoffer Sandler
International locations: Sweden/Norway, Working Time: 91 min
Eighteen-year-old Joanna wants her ADHD meds to maintain her thoughts so as. When she will not afford her treatment, she should get artistic in her hunt for cash. Amid this, she meets charming and assured Audrey. This encounter modifications her life on this award-winning crowd pleaser.

Swallowed
Director: Carter Smith
Nation: USA, Working Time: 93 min
After a drug run goes dangerous, two childhood buddies should survive a horrific evening in a backwoods hell of medication, bugs, and obscene intimacy Jena Malone and Mark Patton (A Nightmare on Elm Road) headline the forged on this queer horror nightmare.

Two Eyes
Director: Travis Effective
Nation: USA, Working Time: 107 min
Two Eyes explores queerness, gender, & love…artwork and keenness…chasing after your muse…and discovering your true folks alongside the best way. The story follows three most important characters in three distinct time intervals – a younger artist travelling to Montana in 1868 to color the wild, untamed land, a younger photographer in 1979 who befriends a international alternate scholar, and a younger trans musician in 2020.

Unidentified Objects
Director: Juan Felipe Zuleta
Nation: USA, Working Time: 100 min
Peter (New Amersterdam’s Matthew Jeffers) is a flamboyant, misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York Metropolis condominium. However an surprising go to from his upbeat-and presumably unhinged-neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell and onto an impromptu street journey. Their vacation spot? What she believes to be the positioning of an upcoming alien visitation within the wilderness of rural Canada. On their more and more surreal odyssey, Peter and Winona will encounter bickering lesbian cosplayers, shroom-addled survivalists, and even extraterrestrial freeway cops. However the additional they go and the extra their trauma involves mild, it turns into clear that the one factor extra nerve-wracking than being kidnapped is being alone within the universe.

The place Butterflies DON’T Fly
Director: Roman Nemec
Nation: Czech Republic, Working Time: 126 min
Daniel is an odd man who lives together with his endlessly quarrelling mother and father uncomplaining about his future. He retains a distance from different folks, he has no buddies, no person understands him, he’s completely different. He might be turning nineteen and the very last thing he would spend his time on is a preparation for his approaching commencement. Adam is his class trainer. He’s homosexual and lives in a relationship together with his youthful companion David and his strictly guarded secret retains locked behind a door of their condominium. Daniel and Adam dwell in their very own bubbles till a second once they each occur to be collectively in a life-threatening state of affairs.

Youtopia
Director: Scout Durwood
Nation: USA, Working Time: 91 min
Scout Durwood’s musical comedy is sure to make you smile. After a devastating break up an elder millennial inadvertently types a hipster cult. When members begin to disappear, the chief is confronted with the information that her journey of self-discovery might set off the top of civilization as we all know it, forcing her to face her most difficult enemy but: herself.

ADDITIONAL FEATURE FILMS (VIRTUAL)

Nation Love
Director: Wapah Ezeigwe
Nation: Nigeria, Working Time: 45 min
Kambili returns dwelling after fifteen years when his sister, Nneka, writes him a heartfelt letter of reconciliation. Upon his return, he’s confronted by the bitter-sweet recollections of his childhood, his estranged relationship together with his household and his deep affection for his boyhood pal Ifediora. Hopeful that issues would now work for better-he would rebuild his relationship together with his sister and reunite with Ifediora- his expectations are crushed when it dawns on him that Ifediora regardless of being gay has moved on with a girl he’s engaged to and Nneka has nonetheless not modified from being who she is.

Daybreak, Her Dad and the Tractor
Director: Shelley Thompson
Nation: Canada, Working Time: 91 min
When a younger lady with a startling resemblance to John Andrew’s spouse Miranda seems days earlier than her funeral, he begins an odyssey in direction of understanding. His son Donald is now Daybreak, dwelling to mourn her mom and restore the estrangement together with her dad. As Daybreak reconnects together with her sister Tammy and her fiancé Byron, a brand new household order begins to emerge. An historical tractor turns into a spotlight for the mechanically minded Daybreak, however John Andrew’s long-simmering resentments in regards to the tractor heighten household tensions.

Erin’s Information to Kissing Ladies
Director: Julianna Notten
Nation: Canada, Working Time: 90 min.
As center college is ending, Erin, the one out particular person in her grade, and Liz, fellow comedian nerd and monitor star, discover their friendship examined when Liz is accepted to personal highschool and Erin falls laborious for NEW GIRL and ex child-star, Sydni. Erin believes the one solution to save herself from sure doom subsequent yr is to ask Sydni to the massive dance and get in with the favored children, however the plan goes awry when she begins to lose Liz alongside the best way. Erin’s Information To Kissing Ladies is a narrative of friendship, first loves, and deciding what’s vital to you when every thing is altering, all instructed by way of a queer lens.

Recreation on, Queer Disruptions in Sport
Director: Mária Takács
Nation: Hungary, Working Time: 107 min
Homosexual runners, a lesbian boxer, an intersex rower, and a transwoman footballer, all on one staff! Are you able to think about them? They’re athletes whose lives are unseen, unimaginable to society. Lately, LGBTIQ+ folks in sport have develop into extra seen but so many nonetheless keep within the closet, particularly in skilled sport. The movie portrays 5 protagonists from 4 completely different international locations, every disrupting beginner sport with their homosexual, lesbian, trans and intersex identities. They speak candidly about their sports activities journeys, their particular person experiences, and their personal life.

A Journey to Satisfaction
Director Christopher Wesley Moore
Nation: USA, Working Time: 57 min
After a decade of not having a delight in Jackson, Mississippi, an area delight committee is shaped to plan the most important and most secure delight Mississippi has ever had because the COVID pandemic threatens to cancel the occasion for the third time.
Screens with:
The Hollidays in Mississippi
Director: Christina Huff
Nation: USA, Working Time: 35 min
The Hollidays in Mississippi focuses on the connection between Eric White (GoDiva Holliday) and Justin Tyler (DeePression Holliday), two drag performers born and raised in small-town Mississippi. Whereas the movie highlights the significance of queer households (the households we create exterior of our organic households) by way of the lens of White and Tyler, this story will in the end observe the distinctive relationship between White and Tyler. The 2 drag performers work collectively to create and have a good time queer area in small-town Mississippi. Nevertheless, when COVID-19 stops them of their tracks, White loses his ardour for present directing and passes the baton onto Tyler to complete his legacy of constructing queer communities in Tupelo, Mississippi.

No Siren Left Behind
Administrators: Shirin Barghi, Martine N. Granby
Nation: USA, Working Time: 31 min
No Siren Left Behind is a documentary brief chronicling the historical past of New York Metropolis’s oldest and largest women-run motorbike membership – its place in queer historical past, the lives of its members, and THE SISTERHOOD of a selected household.

Our Dad, Danielle
Director: S.E King
Nation: USA, Working Time: 98 min
Danielle Pleasure “DJ” Healey was fearful of being her true self for 57 years, fearing she would lose her spouse, two daughters, and prestigious legislation profession. She virtually died attempting to defend these she cherished from her actuality. For over half of her life Danielle had privilege and energy on the skin whereas struggling tremendously on the within. The normal nuclear-family dream in idyllic Sugar Land, Texas was without end modified as soon as she REVEALED in 2017 to her Fb neighborhood the key she’d saved for many years: Danielle is trans.

A Run for Extra
Director: Ray Whitehouse
Nation: USA, Working Time: 82 min
As a transgender lady in Texas, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe anticipated to come across resistance to her marketing campaign for metropolis council. She didn’t anticipate questioning her relationship to id, activism and civic engagement. On the marketing campaign path, she finds herself on an surprising journey of self-discovery and therapeutic.

The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook
Director: Robert James
Nation: USA, Working Time: 80 min.
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook tells a narrative of historic activism and neighborhood artwork by way of the works of two San Francisco artists and long-term AIDS survivors. Throughout one of many darkest intervals in US historical past, two males resolve to deliver pleasure and colour to a damaged neighborhood for which a whole motion has emerged. Supporters, fellow activists and members of the queer artwork neighborhood be part of the movie to assist paint this vivid portrait of perseverance, compassion and outrageous dime-store style.

SHORT FILM PROGRAMS (IN PERSON)

EVERYTHING UNDER THE RAINBOW SHORTS

The Baldwin Archives
Dir. Tory Devon Smith and Laura Seay, 8 min, U.S.

Beast
Dir. Urvashi Pathania, 9 min, U.S.

Physique Language
Dir. Odu Adamu, 10 min, U.S.

Church Camp
Dir. Andrew D. Bourne, 14 min, U.S

Coming Out with the Assist of a Time Machine
Dir. Naman Gupta, 15 min, U.S.

Half
Dir. Jacob Roberts, 11 min, U.S.

Exhausting
Dir. Robin Takao D’Oench

Leatherboy
Dir. Jack McGreal, 8 min, U.S.

Taffeta
Dir. Lovell Holder, 11 min, U.S.

Troy
Dir. Mike Donahue, 16 min, U.S.

TRANSEXCELLENT

100% USDA Licensed Natural Selfmade Tofu
Dir. Gbenga Komolafe, 14 min, U.S.

Do I Know You from Somebody?
Dir. Gwen Rathbone, 11 min, U.Okay.

How To not Date Whereas Trans
Dir. Nyala Moon, 12 min, U.S.

Simply Benjamin
Dir. Paige Murphy, 24 min, U.S

Pronouns in Bio
Dir. Frankie Shaftain-Fenner, 20 min, U.Okay.

Transit: A New York Metropolis Fairytale
Dir. Emily Dinova, 18 min, U.S.

LET’S LAUGH AGAIN

Brutal
Dir. Sam McConnell, 13 min, U.S.

Cock N’ Bull 3
Dir. Nathan Adloff, 24 min, U.S.

F^¢okay ‘Em R!ght [email protected]¢okay
Dir. Harris Doran, 12 min, U.S.

Homosexual Haircut
Dir. Jude Hope Harris, 7 min, U.S.

Homosexual Historical past Tour
Dir. Adam Enright and Aaron Fuksa, 7 min, U.S.

The Syed Household Xmas Eve Recreation Night time
Dir. Fawzia Mirza, 11 min, U.S.

Tank Fairy
Dir. Erich Rettstadt, 10 min, Taiwan

Unicorn
Dir. Matt Porter, 14 min, U.S.

BEING WHO WE ARE

Shut-Up
Dir. Benett Holgerson, 15 min, U.S.

Dads
Dir. Martin Luca, 5 min, U.S.

Overseas Uncle
Dir. Sining Xiang, 20 min, U.S.

The Letter Males
Dir. Andy Vallentine, 9 min, U.S.

Parrot
Dir. Kyle B. Thompson, 11 min, U.S

Punch Line
Dir. Becky Cheatle, 10 min, Eire

Ripples
Dir. Dylan Mitro, 20 min, Canada

Queer Parivaar
Dir. Shiva Raichandani, 27 min, U.Okay.

Sequin
Dir. Averi Israel, 4 min, U.S.

TAKING A STAND

CANS Cannot Stand
Dir. Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, 18 min, U.S.

Daybreak, A Charleston Legend
Dir. Ron Davis, 34 min, U.S.

Peach Paradise
Dir. Shiva Raichandani,12 min, U.Okay.

Rooted Out
Dir. Julie Casper Roth, 27 min, U.S.

INSPIRATIONS

Blind Angels: Richmond, Virginia
Dir. Umbreen Butt, 9 min, U.S.

Love, Barbara
Dir. Brydie O’Connor, 15 min, U.S.

One Raise at a Time
Dir. Flo Singer and Ben Dame, 9 min, U.S.

Taking THE LONG ROAD HOME
Dir. Qiydaar Foster, 35 min, U.S.

Twinkleberry
Dir. Daisy Ifama, 12 min, U.Okay.

LATINEXTRAORDINARY

Azulejos
Dir. Maria Paula Arboleda, 19 min, U.S.

Hijo
Dir. Oscar Perez-Chairez, 33 min, U.S.

Novena
Dir. Fernand Lopez, 15 min, U.S.

Six Ft Aside
Dir. Monty Cole, 13 min, U.S.

AROUND THE WORLD

All of the Awards I By no means Gave You
Dir. Ciao Scott, 17 min, Brazil

I Am Leo
Dir. Tajo Hurrle, 18 min, Germany

Little Sky
Dir. Jess X. Snow, 14 min, Canada

Makassar is a Metropolis for Soccer Followers
Dir. Khozy Rizal, 20 min, Indonesia

Paternity
Dir. Vicente De Ramos, 5 min, Spain

Swim
Dir. Michael Gamarano Singleton, 9 min, U.Okay.

FOR THE LADIES

The Delivery of a Lovely Butch
Dir. Gia-Rayne Harris, 3 min, U.S.

Blue Hour
Dir. Stacey Rushchak, 27 min, Poland

Eye of the Veil
Dir. Dorothy A. Atabong, 23 min, Canada

Melting Level
Dir. Mindy Stricke. 5 min, Canada

Oisín
Dir. Alba Fernandez, 21 min, Eire

Second Dad or mum
Dir. Penny PJ Chen, 16 min, U.S.

ANIMATION EXPLOSION

Bi the Method
Dir. Amir Ovadia Steklov, 15 min, Germany

Black Field
Dir. Alana Mango, 4 min, U.S.

The Lady Behind the Mirror
Dir. Iuri Moreno, 12 min, Brazil

It is a Grey, Grey World
Dir. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib, 6 min, Iran

Inside Wound Actual
Dir. Carrie Hawks, 15 min., U.S

The Magentalman and The Gentlemint
Dir. James Crang, 5 min, U.Okay.

¡Nails!
Dir. Eliana Pipes, 5 min, U.S.

New Moon
Dir. Jeff Le Bars and Jérémie Balai, 11 min, U.S.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Lovely Stranger
Dir. Benjamin Bellor, 26 min, France

Firsts
Dir. Jesse Ung, 17 min, New Zealand

Bare Males within the Woods
Dir. Paul Ploberger, 30 min, Austria

Too Tough
Dir. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, U.Okay.

Veils
Dir. Erika Nakayama, 18 min, Japan

Too Tough
Dir. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, U.Okay.

HOMEGROWN SHORTS

Amina
Dir. Shanrica Evans, 13 min, U.S.

Capability
Dir. Marlee Archer, 7 min, U.S.

Held Collectively
Dir. Alvin Agarrat, 16 min, U.S.

I Can Inform You Something
Dir. Kevin Anthony, 12 min, U.S.

Making a Scene
Dir. Jono Mitchell, 12 min, U.S.

My Abortion Saved My Life
Dir. Ruby Fludzinski and Tiler Wilson, 9 min, U.S.

One Days
Dir. Alexandra Religion, 7 min, U.S.

Good First Date
Dir. Kyle Hamlin, 11 min, U.S.

Pierce Me
Dir. John e. Kilberg, 10 min, U.S.

HORROR SHORTS – THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

The Home Sitters
Dir. Sydne Horton, 22 min, U.S.

Infested Hearts
Dir. Michael Varrati, 17 min, U.S.

Mother, If I Had been a Vampire
Dir. Deborah Chuang, 17 min, Taiwan

White Marriage ceremony
Dir. Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, 16 min, U.Okay.

CONNECTIONS – DRAMA SHORTS

Iago and Tristan
Dir. Miguel Ibáñez Monroy, 12 min, Spain

The Letter Males
Dir. Andy Vallentine, 9 min, U.S

Like Father, Like…
Dir. Urvashi Pathania, 12 min, U.S.

Masaru
Dir. Ruben Navarro, 12 min, U.S.

North Star
Dir. P.J. Palmer, 30 min, U.S.

The Spirit God Gave Us
Dir. Michael Donte Jemison, 20 min, U.S.

FOR THE LADIES 2 (Digital)

Frida
Dir. Aleksandra Odic, 21 min, Germany

Preserve/Delete
Dir. Krizz Gautier, 19 min, U.S.

Killing Myself
Dir. Jillian Junco, 12 min, U.S.

Static Area
Dir. John Klein and Kate Black-Spence, 28 min, U.S.

A LITTLE BIT OF THIS, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT (Digital)

The Drawer
Dir. Tonika Huff, 16 min, U.S.

Fever
Dir. Angele Scott, 19 min, U.S.

Fireworks
Dir. Sam McGowan, 15 min, Australia

Lumber
Dir. Harry Sabulis, 11 min, Australia

Man & Spouse
Dir. Rahul Roye, 8 min, India

Man of My Goals
Dir. Tristan Scott-Behrends, 5 min. U.S.

The Reality of a Thousand Nights
Dir. Chris Molina, 15 min