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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19:51Episode 1
Transeltown
Episode 1
Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina EmersonDante 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.
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14:41Episode 2
Social Butterfly
Episode 2
Directed by Lauren Wolkstein • 2013 • France
Starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Camille Claris, Ulysse GrosjeanA 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.
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32:54Episode 3
Blood Below the Skin
Episode 3
Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2015 • Canada
Starring Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan S. Reesh, Marissa CastilloCountdown 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...
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08:38Episode 4
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 ...
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19:11Episode 5
Call Your Father
Episode 5
Directed by Jordan Firstman • 2016 • United States
Starring Craig Chester, Jordan FirstmanUsually 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...
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11:34Episode 6
Walk for Me
Episode 6
Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda HolderA teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?
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Flores
Episode 7
Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge JácomeDrenched 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...
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21:53Episode 8
The Red Tree
Episode 8
Directed by Paul Rowley • 2018 • Italy
Starring Leo GullottaThis 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.
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18:50Episode 9
Would You Look At Her
Episode 9
Directed by Goran Stolevski • 2018 • Republic of Macedonia
Starring Sara Klimoska, Igor Angelov, Antonija BelazelkoskaA 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...
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Dirty
Episode 10
Directed by Matthew Puccini • 2020 • United States
Starring Morgan Sullivan, Manny DunnHigh 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...
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Polygraph
Episode 11
Directed by Samira Saraya • 2020 • Israel
Starring Samira Saraya, Hadas Yaron, Fidaa ZidanYasmine, 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...