"Engaging vérité. The ambiance is more lush than impoverished, with the warm colors of Collatos’ cinematography capturing a Rio that can still be inviting and jubilant even when rent is overdue." — Dennis Harvey, Variety "One of the strongest and most impactful…
DC bureaucrat by day, drag queen by night, Muffy Blake Stephyns follows her dream of leading a group of vibrant performers on a crusade for the community.
A rare and provocative glimpse into pre-Stonewall queer life! Produced in 1967, this amazing 22-minute short film introduces us to Misty, Vicky, Sonja and Simone—four transwomen who are subjected to a six-month psychological project and then grilled about their personal lives by a weird guy…
This feature-length documentary brings to the screen the first psychological study of drag performance, set in the oldest surviving female impersonation club in the United States. Seventy-five year old Darcelle XV comforts and confronts her audiences, from the brides gone wild and their nervous male…
Three women struggle to balance life in New York City with the dedication needed to maintain their spots on the world’s best roller derby team.
Queens of Syria (the documentary) tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan,who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, Euripides’ timeless Ancient Greek tragedy about the plight of women in war. Not one of them…
Compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both documentary and fictional sources, set to music, illustrating the huge changes in LGBTQ life in Britain (mainly England) over the 20th century.
This experimental documentary combines a unique visual aesthetic with a powerful collection of interviews and testimonies and speaks to the limits of identity and the violence of mainstream categorizations. Queer Coolie-tudes reclaims the racial slur of “Coolie” and entrances the viewer…
Started in the 1980s as a fabricated movement intended to punk the punk scene, Queercore quickly became a real-life cultural community of LGBTQ music and movie-making revolutionaries. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against…
„Queer Gardening“ ist der erste Dokumentarfilm über queeres Gärtnern und queer-feministische Ökologien weltweit. In dem 80-minütigen Film führen 24 LGBTQIA* Gärtner*innen durch ihre Gärten und erklären, wo und warum ihre Gartengestaltung queer ist.…
Queer Gardening is the first feature length documentary about queer feminist ecologies. In this film, 24 LGBTQIA2* gardeners show their gardens and explain how their queerness affects the design of the spaces. They also speak about how they are queering ecology, as well as the natural-cultural relationship. Ella…
Eine Filmreihe zum Thema LGBTQIA+ In der Filmprojektreihe von und mit LGBTQIA+-Jugendlichen thematisieren diese in Coming-of-Age-Filmen ihr Erwachsenwerden. Inhaltlich geht es in den dokumentarischen und fiktionalen Kurzfilmen um das Lebensgefühl, die eigene Geschlechtsidentität und die…
