Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award:
Best Feature Film: SERPENTINE PINK
Best Short Film: EMERALD CITY
Best Student Film: MEN ON THE MOON
Best Direction: Velipādu: The Revelation
Best Story: THE GENDER SYMPHONY
Best Experimental Film: FORever feroshUS
Best Documentary Film: TRANS
Best Performances: THREEDOM
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MEN ON THE MOON, 19min., Canada
Directed by Raghed Charabaty
Two astro-biologists take care of a flowering pink magnolia on the moon. A renaissance romance grows between them until they receive notice of an incoming solar storm that threatens their secret affair with fire, lust and broken hearts. In the flames, desire and reality blend to revive the memory of the beloved.
https://www.charabatyfilms.com/moon
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Velipādu: The Revelation, 25min., India
Directed by Jijo Jessy Kuriakose
Against the sensory landscape of central Kerala Johnny, a soon-to-be priest must navigate his way out of his dissonant life towards self-discovery. The film reanimates Malayali gay desire through an expressionistic use of Christian music, intimate tastes and unabashed touches, while depicting delicate specifics of same-sex fondness. Resisting the popular narratives, the film discusses plural possibilities of romantic relationships. Interspersing semi-autobiography with fiction, Velip?du: “The Revelation” is a bitter-sweet rhapsody that sings of love and faith– both lost and regained like some Miltonic Paradise.
https://instagram.com/jijojessykuriakose
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THREEDOM, 7min,. USA
Directed by Garrett Hopkins
A young couple finds themselves lost in their own relationship. Brought to frustration and confusion one of them shares the idea of an open relationship. Reluctantly the partner agrees and actually travels a new road learning about themself. Perhaps they just needed to find each other, in someone new.
https://www.youtube.com/@GarrettHopkinsMedia
https://www.instagram.com/garretthopkinsmedia/
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FORever feroshUS, 13min,. USA
Directed by Naya Ryan Rashad
Shae, a man murdered in a homophobic attack, awakens in a mysterious room where the entirety of his life is projected across a series of screens. As he journeys through these memories, he must reach the final screen to uncover the truth about his death. But to get there, he must make peace with the life he’s lived.
https://www.instagram.com/nayaswordofmouth/
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TRANS, 15min., USA
Directed by Alan Joseph Chriest
A precious life is born. Innocent and beautiful. Assigned at birth a gender based on their anatomy. But the phrase born a boy or girl may not be correct.
http://www.powersplashproject.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080736485910
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THE GENDER SYMPHONY, 14min,. USA
Directed by Phoebe Hemenway Legere
Filmed on the streets of Venice, the Gender Symphony follows the hapless servant Columbina as she toils under the tyrannical Dr. Pants—an alchemist obsessed with unlocking the secrets of wealth. When Dr. Pants stumbles upon an ancient incantation promising limitless riches, the spell summons not gold, but a powerful witch determined to teach him a lesson in humility.
http://www.phoebelegere.com/
https://www.facebook.com/phoebelegere
https://www.twitter.com/legere
https://www.instagram.com/phoebelegere
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EMERALD CITY, 21min., USA
Directed by Josef Steiff
Two young men cross paths on the back roads of the American Southwest and despite their different backgrounds, find common ground along the Border.
https://invisibilitypro.com/
https://facebook.com/inVisibilityPro
https://twitter.com/josef_steiff
https://instagram.com/josefsteiff/
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SERPENTINE PINK, 78min., USA
Directed by Vivian Sorenson
A dark surreal experience. A first of its kind, vortex of a lesbian?? John Waters film meets Yellow Rose meets early Almodóvar on a Lynchian induced trip??in the Mojave desert.??Serious Lost Highway vibes!
https://hardknockprod.com/serpentine-pink/
https://www.facebook.com/serpentinepinkfilm
https://twitter.com/HardKnockProdCo
https://www.instagram.com/serpentinepinkfilm
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