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Shorts
Small but perfectly formed.
(When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
A joyful twist on Ntozake Shange’s 1976 play, this programme celebrates queer Black girlhood across the spectrum: playful, romantic, chaotic and unapologetically free.
Til the World Stops Turning
A celebration of some of this year’s best LGBTQIA+ short films from the UK and Ireland.
This Is Home
In this programme of shorts films by Indian directors, queer people find support, community and acceptance – sometimes in the unlikeliest of places.
Edges of Belonging
From queer immigrants striving to find their place in the world to a solitary farmer’s quiet existence and a young man’s erotic fixation, this programme explores lives on the margins, and the ways people forge bonds, find intimacy and meaningful connections, and a place to belong.
Fragments of Us
A collection of UK shorts exploring desire, trauma and identity. Through moments of connection, courage and honesty, they illuminate the struggles and triumphs that shape our most vulnerable selves.
Having the Last Laugh
When life gives you lemons, laughter is a tonic. Here are trans tales of levity, liberation and looking for love, featuring fundraising sexcapades, gender-flipping frolics and bodily autonomy in abundance.
She Got Claws!
Trans Femmes fight back with curses, crime, cults and cunning monstrosity in this seductive selection of high-femme shorts. Dolls, its late-stage capitalism embrace your inner creature!
All These Liberations
Stories of hope and determination against the odds, by and about queer people, from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
Heavenly Havens
Carving out spaces to thrive and survive, this programme is a paean to the nightlife that seduces and sustains us, and the creation of places we can truly call home. Contains strobe effects/flashing lights.
Immodest Acts
The sacred meets the profane in this collection of shorts that explore the intersections and, more often, the collisions of faith, identity, religion and queer desire.
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