Minds
Reflections on art, politics and community.
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Call Her Ganda
Dir-Prod-Scr PJ Raval | USA
Years of imperial rule come to a head in this challenging and moving documentary.
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Cassandro, the Exotico!
Dir Marie Losier | France
Marie Losier captures a beautiful 16mm portrait of an ageing but passionate queer lucha libre wrestler.
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Deep in Vogue
Dir Amy Watson, Dennis Keighron-Foster | UK
Explore the power of dance in an intoxicating portrait of a club scene in the heart of Manchester.
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Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
Dir-Prod Jerry Tartaglia | USA
An experimental film essay springing out of a 20-year project to restore and preserve Jack Smith’s body of work.
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The Fruit Machine
Dir-Scr Sarah Fodey | Canada
A rich and compelling historical account which exposes more than four decades of governmental criminalisation of LGBTQ+ members of the Canadian armed forces.
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The Gospel of Eureka
Dir Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher | USA
Mx Justin Vivian Bond narrates the tale of a Passion Play and a Christian drag show happily co-existing in small-town Arkansas.
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Halston
Dir-Scr Frédéric Tcheng | USA-UK
Director Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I) presents a lavish portrait of American fashion legend Halston, featuring rare archive footage and interviews with those who knew him.
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Light in the Water
Dir Lis Bartlett | USA
The West Hollywood Swim team started in 1982, and this fascinating film explores the team’s history and its development over subsequent decades.
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Making Montgomery Clift
Dir-Prod Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon | USA
Trawling through an extensive family archive, a nephew of the Hollywood star seeks to find the real Monty.
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Mapplethorpe
Dir Ondi Timoner | USA
Matt Smith stars as legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in this full-frontal homage to the devilish bad boy, whose sex life fuelled his career.
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Tongues Untied
Dir-Prod Marlon T Riggs | USA
After its 1989 release and subsequent screening on public television, Tongues Untied polarised critics with its unapologetic portrayal of black gay experience in America.
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The Short Films of Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs was a legendary black gay filmmaker whose poetic style pulled no punches in examining the relationship between race, gender, sexuality, capitalism and the media. This is a rare opportunity to see all three of his early short films.
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Transmilitary
Dir Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson | USA
A glimpse into the lives of four soldiers who risk dismissal or demotion to fight for transgender rights in the US armed forces.
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United We Fan
Dir Michael Sparaga | Canada
A story of ordinary people and the television shows that they love so much they mounted massive campaigns to save them.
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Vision Portraits
Dir-Scr Rodney Evans | Canada-Germany-USA
Gay filmmaker Rodney Evans explores his loss of sight and discovers artists who are blind or visually impaired, in a film of ravishing pleasures.
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Water Makes Us Wet
Dir Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle | USA
Ecosexual lovers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens travel the US in an erotic quest to understand this precious natural resource.
Short film programmes
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Challenge Accepted
These bold shorts show the courage, intelligence and heart of those who have found a way to rise above their circumstances.
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In Place of the Real
Abstractions of queerness make up this collection of experimental short films, showcasing the best in contemporary artists’ film and video.
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Making History
These shorts chronicle the LGBTQ+ past to uncover community histories, evoke forgotten lives and honour legendary pioneers.
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