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Onda Nova and Really Happy Someday
A Body To Live In
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Angelo Madsen; Writer: Angelo Madsen; Stars: Fakir Musafar)
Describing his gender as ‘between the cracks’, Fakir Musafar (1930-2018) quested for enlightenment through transformative gender play and extreme piercing. Coining the term ‘Modern Primitives’ in 1979, he merged sexuality with spirituality via a controversial grab-bag of physically gruelling ceremonial practices from religions around the globe. This documentary tells his story.
Cherub
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Devin Shears; Stars: Benjamin Turnbull)
On a trip to an adult store, Harvey comes across the gay magazine Cherub – for ‘big men and their admirers’. He discovers an opportunity to build new confidence in himself and his body.
A Few Feet Away
(A Metros De Distancia)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Tadeo Pestaña Caro; Stars: Max Suen, Jazmín Carballo)
20-year-old Santiago has a penchant for hook-up apps. His phone always at hand, he scrolls constantly to see who’s available and nearby. Over course of one night, going from tentative trysts to sex clubs, he searches for something seemingly out of reach, regardless of the proximity of his next hookup.
Hot Milk
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz; Writer: Deborah Levy; Stars: Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps, Fiona Shaw, Vincent Perez, Yann Gael, Patsy Ferran, Yorgos Tsiantoulas, Korina Gougouli, Vasilis Tsigristaris, Paris Thomopoulos, Dimitris Oikonomidis, Denia Mimerini, Electra Sarri, Kostas Tatarakis)
Rose and her daughter Sofia journey to a Spanish seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer. As Sofia embraces an affair with an alluring stranger, tensions with her overbearing mother threaten their fragile bond.
Memorabilia
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Charles Lum, Todd Verow; Writer: Charles Lum, Todd Verow; Stars: James Kleinmann, Justin Ivan Brown, JJ Bozeman)
From the confines of his hospital bed, a dying man sifts through his mind’s extensive archives, attempting to recall every one of his many lovers.
Trans Memoria and Ponyboi
Onda Nova
(Country: Brazil; Year: 1983; Director: Ícaro (Francisco C) Martins, José Antonio Garcia; Writer: Ícaro (Francisco C) Martins, José Antonio Garcia; Stars: Carla Camurati, Cristina Mutarelli)
The sheer existence of newly formed football team Gayvotas means defiance in a repressed society that despises them. For these women, modesty is a stranger, liberation reigns supreme and sexuality is fluid – their lives presenting a gloriously free alternative to the oppressive regime.
The Pleasure Is Mine
(Country: Argentina, Brazil, France; Year: 2024; Director: Sacha Amaral; Writer: Sacha Amaral; Stars: Max Suen, Sofía Palomino, Katja Alemann)
A charismatic young hustler makes a living selling drugs and stealing from the people he hooks up with.
Ponyboi
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Esteban Arango; Writer: River Gallo; Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Indya Moore, Murray Bartlett, River Gallo, Keith William Richards, Bryant Carroll, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jari Jones, Moisés Acevedo, NaTonia Monét, Annie Henk, Stephen Moscatello, Miles Coreas, Kevin Matthew Mcdonald)
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
Really Happy Someday
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: J Stevens; Writer: J Stevens, Breton Lalama; Stars: Breton Lalama, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Xavier Lopez, Ali Garrison, Katharine King So)
Once a rising star of musical theatre, a young man has to find his voice, career and identity all over again after his transition.
Rent Free
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Fernando Andrés; Writer: Fernando Andrés, Tyler Rugh; Stars: Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Zeke Goodman, Sarah J. Bartholomew, Temple Baker, Annabel O'Hagan, Jeff Kardesch, Frank Mosley, Kristin Slaysman, Bill Wise, Neal Mulani, Carson Barwinkel, Megan Bitchell, Macon Blair, Lorelei Linklater)
This freewheeling comedy follows down-on-their-luck Gen Z best friends Ben and Jordan as they
mooch off of their friends’ and acquaintances’ hospitality, all while grappling with love, heartbreak and awkward flings.
The Silence Of My Hands
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Manuel Acuña A; Writer: Lena Guarini, Manuel Acuña A; Stars: Rosa María Casillas Madrigal, Sai Yunuen Medina Soria)
Saira, an immigrant living in California, and Rosa, the first deaf law student in Guadalajara, Mexico, are trying to make a long-distance relationship work.
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
(Country: Philippines, Italy, Singapore; Year: 2024; Director: Petersen Vargas; Writer: Petersen Vargas; Stars: Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino, Gold Aceron, Miguel Odron)
When an old man dies the sex worker he was with decides to fulfil his last wish.
Trans Memoria
(Country: Sweden, France; Year: 2024; Director: Victoria Verseau)
An intimate documentary diary, which sees the director return to Thailand and to the year 2012, when she underwent gender-affirming surgery.
Truth Or Dare
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Maja Classen; Writer: Maja Classen)
Lust, love, kinks, consent and community are all explored in this experimental documentary, set across Berlin’s sex-positive spaces and private homes.
Where You Find Me
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Willi Andrick, Juan Bermúdez, Isis Rampf, Anna Schröder; Writer: Willi Andrick, Juan Bermúdez, Julia Goldsby, Isis Rampf, Anna Schröder; Stars: Isabella Krieger, Thea Ehre, Paula Essam)
A doctor seeks escape in Berlin’s club scene while a defiant club manager juggles parenthood and protest.
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