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.

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Til the World Stops Turning

A celebration of some of this year’s best LGBTQIA+ short films from the UK and Ireland.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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All These Liberations

Stories of hope and determination against the odds, by and about queer people, from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

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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.

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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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