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I'm Your Venus and Peaches Goes Bananas
After The Snowmelt
(Xue Shui Xiao Rong De Ji Jie)
(Country: Taiwan, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Lo Yi-shan)
Filmmaker Yi-Shan's friends Chun and Yueh were trapped in a Nepal cave. Chun died before Yueh's rescue. Yi-Shan retraces their steps to the cave where Chun perished, confronting her grief through exploring the setting of their final adventure.
Assembly
(Year: 2025; Director: Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons; Writer: Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons)
Visionary artist Rashaad Newsome merges art, AI, and performance to transform a former military facility into a Black queer utopia. Through immersive storytelling and visuals, the film explores how creativity can heal, unite, and spark liberation.
Enigma
(Country: US, France, Spain, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Zackary Drucker; Stars: Amanda Lear, April Ashley)
April and Amanda allegedly transitioned in the same era – the 1950s - but Amanda found disco lights while April faced the flashing lights of a transphobic press.
Heightened Security
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Sam Feder; Stars: Chase Strangio)
Trans civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio fights back against government attacks on trans youth.
How To Live
(Country: Kenya; Year: 2024; Director: Njoroge Muthoni)
In a country where queerness often lives in the shadows, Muthoni’s lens spotlights Nairobi’s radiant LGBTQIA+ youth creating their own ballroom culture.
Viet and Nam and Queens Of Drama
If I Die, It’ll Be Of Joy
(Si Je Meurs, Ce Sera De Joie)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Alexis Taillant)
An exploration of ageism in the LGBTQ+ community, and the positive realities of ageing.
I'm Your Venus
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kimberly Reed; Stars: Gisele Alicea, Daniella Carter, Gia Marie Love, John Pellagatti Jr., Joseph Pellagatti, Louie Pellagatti, Michael Roberson, Maximo Xtravaganza, Venus Xtravaganza)
Documentary considering the unsolved murder of Paris Is Burning star Venus Xtravaganza.
Mea Culpa
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Patrick Tass; Writer: Patrick Tass)
A cinematic letter from the filmmaker to his mother.
A Mother Apart
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Laurie Townshend; Writer: Alison Duke, Laurie Townshend)
After discovering her mother's letters, Staceyann Chin examines Hazel's past and how her absence shaped Chin's poetry, politics, and parenting. Chin navigates revelations about Hazel while raising her own daughter, Zuri, in an joyful way.
The Muleteer
(La Arriera)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Isabel Cristina Fregoso; Writer: Alfonso Suárez Romero, Isabel Cristina Fregoso; Stars: Andrea Aldana, Luis Vegas, Ale Cosío)
Teenager Emilia lives with her adopted family in the highlands of Jalisco. Feeling stifled by her adopted parents and brother, and arousing the suspicion of others regarding her sexuality, she decides to cut off her hair and flee into the bush, posing as a ‘muleteer’ to survive.
Outerlands
(Year: 2025; Director: Elena Oxman; Writer: Elena Oxman; Stars: Asia Kate Dillon, Louisa Krause, Ridley Asha Bateman, Lea DeLaria, Daniel K. Isaac, Melinda Meeng, Allie Heng, Winter Dewitt, Safia Fredericks, Sedrick Cabrera)
When Cass is asked by an alluring woman to watch her 11-year-old daughter while she goes out of town, Cass is forced to confront the truth of their own tumultuous childhood.
Peaches Goes Bananas
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Peaches, Suri Nisker, Marlene Saldana)
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.
Queens Of Drama
(Les Reines du drame)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Alexis Langlois; Writer: Carlotta Coco, Thomas Colineau, Alexis Langlois; Stars: Asia Argento, Alma Jodorowsky, Thomas Poitevin, Bilal Hassani, Louiza Aura, Raya Martigny, Jean-Biche, Drag Couenne, Nana Benamer, Dustin Muchuvitz, Julia Fiquet, Gio Ventura, Elodie Barthels)
2055. Steevyshady, an overly botoxed Youtuber tells their idol’s mad destiny: we follow pop diva singer Mimi Madamour from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. For half a century these drama queens have sung their passion and their rage high upon a stage.
Sad Jokes
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Fabian Stumm; Writer: Fabian Stumm; Stars: Fabian Stumm, Haley Louise Jones, Ulrica Flach, Jonas Dassler, Godehard Giese, Marie-Lou Sellem, Anne Haug, Knut Berger)
When his co-parent is hospitalised due to severe depression, a filmmaker reeling from a recent break-up is forced to step up.
Sally!
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Deborah Craig)
Sally Gearhart was a radical lesbian feminist (not to mention something of a sapphic Casanova) whose trailblazing vision and ebullient personality were the spark for movements with far-reaching impacts, yet her legacy has also largely been erased from history.
Viet and Nam
(Year: 2024; Director: Truong Minh Quý)
Nam and Việt are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world.
The World According To Allee Willis
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexis Spraic; Writer: Pamela Adlon, Stephen Bray, Julie Brown; Stars: Allee Willis)
Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.
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