LGBTQ+ Shorts

LGBTQ+ Shorts

11 Episodes

Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.

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LGBTQ+ Shorts
  • Transeltown

    Episode 1

    Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
    Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina Emerson

    Dante transported to Times Square: a morbid and tender love story begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.

  • Social Butterfly

    Episode 2

    Directed by Lauren Wolkstein • 2013 • France
    Starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Camille Claris, Ulysse Grosjean

    A thirty-year-old American woman crashes a teenage party in the South of France, leading the guests to wonder who she is and what she is doing there.

  • Blood Below the Skin

    Episode 3

    Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2015 • Canada
    Starring Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan S. Reesh, Marissa Castillo

    Countdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change for three girls. While two of them fall in love with each other against all expectations, the third is forced to mot...

  • 100 Boyfriends Mixtape

    Episode 4

    Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States

    In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of ...

  • Call Your Father

    Episode 5

    Directed by Jordan Firstman • 2016 • United States
    Starring Craig Chester, Jordan Firstman

    Usually a reserved guy, Greg struggles to keep up with young, unpredictable Josh on their first date. But as things heat up and spiral out of control, the two men must confront the generational divide that...

  • Walk for Me

    Episode 6

    Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
    Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda Holder

    A teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?

  • Flores

    Episode 7

    Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
    Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome

    Drenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...

  • The Red Tree

    Episode 8

    Directed by Paul Rowley • 2018 • Italy
    Starring Leo Gullotta

    This haunting, lyrical documentary recounts the long untold story of gay men who were imprisoned on a remote island by Mussolini’s Fascist regime in the 1930s.

  • Would You Look At Her

    Episode 9

    Directed by Goran Stolevski • 2018 • Republic of Macedonia
    Starring Sara Klimoska, Igor Angelov, Antonija Belazelkoska

    A teenage tomboy challenges the patriarchal code of her conservative Macedonian town when she dares to take part in a religious ritual traditionally reserved for men in this emp...

  • Dirty
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    Episode 10

    Dirty

    Episode 10

    Directed by Matthew Puccini • 2020 • United States
    Starring Morgan Sullivan, Manny Dunn

    High school boyfriends Marco and Graham cut class for a romantic rendezvous in bed—but things don’t go quite as planned in this tender, emotionally raw snapshot of two queer teenagers navigating intimacy toge...

  • Polygraph

    Episode 11

    Directed by Samira Saraya • 2020 • Israel
    Starring Samira Saraya, Hadas Yaron, Fidaa Zidan

    Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army, has been reporting on their relationship. Their affair is further strained b...