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Color's of Love - International Queer Film Festival announce the OFFICIAL SELECTION LIST. We received around 67 films around the word.
LGBT - Gay Films
The Dance
Directed by : Sarah Jayne Portelli
Submission Category : LGBT - Gay Films
Synopsis: A father, who has come out later in life, tries to learn to dance to impress his date, when he is visited by his estranged daughter.
Views from the Airplane Window
Directed by : Kit Reilly
Submission Category : LGBT - Gay Films
Synopsis: Told through a lens of movement vignettes and no dialogue, this film explores a once real life relationship of a queer couple and the brief but meaningful moments of tenderness they shared. This project is part of the 9 part dance film series "Turbulent Kingdoms."
SWEAT OF AUGUST
Directed by : Armando Di Lillo
Submission Category : LGBT - Gay Films
Synopsis: Ascanio's lonely life goes unstable when he accepts to meet an attractive man known on a gay dating app.
LGBT - Lesbian Films
Hello Midnight
Directed by : OLGA ROSSA
Submission Category : LGBT - Lesbian Films
Synopsis: Natalia travels from Poland to London to gain inspiration for her latest book, but after meeting Sofia that’s not the only thing she gains.
Heartbreak
Directed by : Fernando García Pliego
Submission Category : LGBT - Lesbian Films
Synopsis: Julie, a French-Algerian girl who works as a carer for the son of a wealthy couple, sees the peaceful coexistence of the house in danger when the husband confesses Julie that he is in love with her.
El puzzle que no armaremos
Directed by : Ernesto Melendez
Submission Category : LGBT - Lesbian Films
Synopsis: Luna (35), cineasta, llega a buscar sus últimas pertenencias donde Consuelo (41), su ex pareja y artista visual, con la cual vivía y acaba de terminar una relación de seis años. El encuentro entre ambas hace inevitable ahondar en las heridas que ha dejado la separación y sobre cómo abordar su relación con Almendra (8), la hija biológica de Consuelo, que ha crecido con dos madres. ¿Podrán llegar a un consenso?, ¿ o se transformará este encuentro en una última despedida?
Périphérie
Directed by : Thibault Bru
Submission Category : LGBT - Lesbian Films
Synopsis: Éva and Soraya are expecting a happy event. While she has just passed her term, Éva refuses to be triggered. Driving her car, the couple wanders on the Parisian ring road until Éva opens up about the situation she is going through.
LGBT - Bisexual Films
WAITING FOR NOTHINGNESS
Directed by : LINKUN LI
Submission Category : LGBT - Bisexual Films
Synopsis: “I dream of a man every day, but I have never seen him. I didn't know who he was, I just knew that I was going to wait for him to appear in this city. Then I finally waited for him, because I made the most meaningful decisions of my life.”
Pink and Tinged with Lavender
Directed by : Regan Lavin
Submission Category : LGBT - Bisexual Films
Synopsis: When seemingly platonic best friends Gen and Clem find a series of love letters written between their great-grandmothers in the 1930s, they go on a quest to uncover more about their hidden relationship. The two get more than they bargained for when they find there may be more to their own friendship than they initially thought along the way as they strive to do what their ancestors could not and accept their queer love.
LGBT - Transgender Films
Transpassing
Directed by : Fiori van Rijswijk
Submission Category : LGBT - Transgender Films
Synopsis: 30-something-year-old Quinn expects his transition and second foray into puberty to be nothing short of euphoric, but in a world where his anxieties and emotional baggage talk back to him, he realizes the road to becoming a self-made man comes with its own set of self-made problems.
Aleeya
Directed by : Nina Mahesh
Submission Category : LGBT - Transgender Films
Synopsis: Aleeya follows a transgender woman as she embarks on a day long journey to buy a gift for her lover, while attempting to persevere through India’s societal inequities and prejudice, as well as the growing rape culture of male youth.
How to Spell Dad
Directed by : Kristen Anderson-Sauve
Submission Category : LGBT - Transgender Films
Synopsis: A family adjusts to a transgender dad at the beginning of his transition.
LGBT - Sexual Diversity Films
Swivel
Directed by : Lois Norman
Submission Category : LGBT - Sexual Diversity Films
Synopsis: Swivel
What if, you can be all of who you are and still allow another? That just for one night, judgement no longer exists? What if, an intimacy of touch, a truth of want, Swivels around your doubt and trusts? What if, love is not a gender, it is a swivel of the heart?
Swivel is a short gender fluid dance story by Award winning director Lois Norman, starring the trailblazing Iron&Sparks. With visceral Cinematography by Canadian Teryl Brouillette, powerful Sound Design by UK's Jemma Cholawo and New Zealand's Helen Mountfort moving cello score, Swivel is a brave leap of faith, that moves to express the courage it takes, to explore sexuality and self with true equality, acceptance and compassion.
Swivel had its World Premiere at Queer North Canada 2019 and has since won over 30 outright Winner Awards and many more Award Nominations in nearly 100 film festivals!
‘Beautiful, tender, iconoclastic’
Beeston Film Festival 2020 – B’Oscar Nominee: A Better Place
‘This moved me to tears! One of the most stunning pieces of dance-on-film I have probably ever seen – in fact, the best one I have seen.’
Catfish Shorts –Winner, Splash Award 2020
‘A beautiful and tender expression of love that deftly danced around our notions of gender.’
Bendigo Queer Film festival -Winner Best International Short Film 2020
‘Poetic & Beautiful.’
Brighton Rocks Film Festival – Best Art House Film 2019
Love Lingers
Directed by : WASHINGTON CALEGARI
Submission Category : LGBT - Sexual Diversity Films
Synopsis: Isolated at home, Jonas reflects on his relationship with his boyfriend and best friend, who are hospitalized during the pandemic.
LGBT - Documentary Films
The Talk
Directed by : Ella Saini
Submission Category : LGBT - Documentary Films
Synopsis: “The Talk” showcases the experiences of three LGBTQ+ youth learning about sex health under an inadequate sex-ed curriculum. Each subject opens up about their knowledge surrounding sexual health, gender identity, the not so honest information they were taught in their classrooms and its impact on their self-image.
Flashes of Beauty: Livia
Directed by : Steve Gatlin
Submission Category : LGBT - Documentary Films
Synopsis: With the darkness of night serving as an impromptu studio, award-winning cinematographer/photographer, Steve Gatlin, and polymath, Livia Wolfe use common public places and spaces, mixed with light, shadow, movement, and the bare human form to create a flash of beauty in the world around them.
“Flashes of Beauty: Livia,” is a short, intimate documentary co-produced by Livia Wolfe and Steve Gatlin. It features a collection of black and white, time-lapse photography captured with retro film cameras. In interview format, it explores the life of LGBTQ+ human rights activist, and transgender woman, Livia Wolfe. She’s also a TBI/mental health advocate, fashion week runway model, actress, producer, media/fashion coordinator, speechwriter, photographer, and personal celebrity chef.
For 19 years, Steve Gatlin has been creating photographs of nudes in a public nighttime landscape. The photographs and documentaries encompass, “The Beauty Project.” Everyone involved has volunteered to keep this ongoing project possible, which in-turn helps people to better define how we see beauty.
Each episode provides insight into personal stories, backgrounds, and lives lived… while never shying away from the fact that each of these people are not living with shame for their body. And they are preserving forever, the beauty of everyone! Come witness an evolution in beauty and the deconstruction of stereotypes. How do YOU define beauty?
Letters to Myself
Directed by : FEDERICO UNTERMANN
Submission Category : LGBT - Documentary Films
Synopsis: On the 10th anniversary of her HIV diagnosis, poet Marina Vergueiro travels to Cuba to study cinema and discovers the story of Caridad, a woman who 20 years ago injected herself with HIV-infected blood when she discovered she was a lesbian and had no support from her family.
Intrigued and curious by Cari's story and in order to understand her own traumas caused by the infection, Marina looks for her everywhere and, faced with the difficulty of finding her in a Cuba devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic, understands that the search is much more intimate than she initially thought.
LGBT - Animation Films
Simon, I Know a Place
Directed by : Johan Oettinger
Submission Category : LGBT - Animation Films
Synopsis: LGBT themed stop motion video made by WiredFly studios (DK)
A story of two men falling in love and fighting to get to a place where both feel safe and 'home'. Music by Martin Baltser
Purple Hours
Directed by : Vaughn Oeth & Allison Jowers
Submission Category : LGBT - Animation Films
Synopsis: A regency-era ball is being held, but the host, Edwin, is nowhere to be found. Sequestered in his private study downstairs, he dances with his partner, Pascal, and they bask in each other's company - until Pascal asks a question Edwin wasn’t ready to answer.
LGBT - HIV based Film
Women on Watch
Directed by : Richard E. Haywood
Submission Category : LGBT - HIV based Film
Synopsis: A mini documentary about the untold contributions lesbians made during the A.I.D.S epidemic
Letters to Myself
Directed by : Marina Vergueiro
Submission Category : LGBT - HIV based Film
Synopsis: On the 10th anniversary of her HIV diagnosis, poet Marina Vergueiro travels to Cuba to study cinema and discovers the story of Caridad, a woman who 20 years ago injected herself with HIV-infected blood when she discovered she was a lesbian and had no support from her family.
Intrigued and curious by Cari's story and in order to understand her own traumas caused by the infection, Marina looks for her everywhere and, faced with the difficulty of finding her in a Cuba devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic, understands that the search is much more intimate than she initially thought.
Among Sorrows and Songs
Directed by : Andy Motz
Submission Category : LGBT - HIV based Film
Synopsis: Among Sorrows and Songs follows Mark as he delivers HIV medication to various clients who are all facing obstacles of their own revealing the realities and intersecting struggles of living with HIV in contemporary society.
LGBT - Music Video
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Isaiah M. Brown - Rose Colored
Directed by : Michael Sapieja
Submission Category : LGBT - Music Video
Synopsis: A pretty rose with deadly thorns is half as sharp as a lover's scorn.
Slow
Directed by : Thomas CASTAING
Submission Category : LGBT - Music Video
Synopsis: A woman wakes up in the limbo of her past and faces the weight of her mistakes under the gaze of her partner and her daughter.
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DO IT 4U - Dyan Tai (featuring AnSo)
Directed by : Shaun Parker
Submission Category : LGBT - Music Video
Synopsis: Filmed at the iconic Sydney queer venue The Red Rattler, DO IT 4U is the new music video by Dyan Tai, featuring rapper/vocalist AnSo and a Queer/Asian cast. Sung in both English, and Korean, and paying homage to Asian pop, DO IT 4U tells of best friends Dyan and AnSo and their quest for love. Through performance and song, their friends unite in an euphoric celebration as they dance into the summer break! DO IT 4U is musically driven by a chilled piano-house pop track utilising the Southeast Asian percussive instrument, the Gamelan, alongside guitars by Japanese-Australian Artist, Ander from Natto Logico. Honest, joyous and touching, DO IT U4 captures the beginnings of fresh love.
Tossing and Turning
Directed by : Matschi Becky
Submission Category : LGBT - Music Video
Synopsis: The song "Tossing and Turning" describes a state of speechlessness between night and day.
In the video, Becky cannot escape the attraction of an amusement park. What Becky finds, however, are only closed rides.
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