Joselyn, a Mexican transgender immigrant woman, crosses the Mexico/U.S. border to flee increasingly dangerous conditions in her hometown. She attempts to adjust to her new home in Queens, New York, but finds similar oppressive conditions in the U.S. After the murder of her best friend she falls into deep depression. Joselyn finds a community of… Continue reading Short Film: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, 14min., USA, LGBT/Drama
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Director Biography – Francesca Tasini (LOLA)
FRANCESCA Tasini is an Italian actress and screenwriter from Pieve di Cento (BO). After graduating in educational sciences at the University of Bologna she spent three years in Berlin studying the art of miming and clowning. Right after she continued her theatre studies at the Galante Garrone academy (Italy) and at the Dimitri theatre academy… Continue reading Director Biography – Francesca Tasini (LOLA)
Short Film: LOLA, 20min., Germany, Drama
Lola Barth is a beautiful transgender person with a very intense past.She has been in a relationship with her boyfriend Johnathan for about five years. They lived together, and about a year ago, they started the adoption process. To become a mother is the biggest dream of Lola, and she is willing to do everything… Continue reading Short Film: LOLA, 20min., Germany, Drama
Director BIO: Andrew Hassenruck (BEING BLACK)
At present I am a gay long-term foster dad to two wonderful boys. I am also an award winning Film Editor with over 35 years of Broadcast experience. I now edit films from home for clients all over the world. I make Film Portraits where I sit with individuals and capture the essence of them… Continue reading Director BIO: Andrew Hassenruck (BEING BLACK)
Short Film: BEING BLACK, 5min., UK, Drama
Wayne is a proud black, Afro-Caribbean, gay man living in the UK. His father was also a proud man, moving to the UK in the 1950’s was his duty to the ‘father country’. For Wayne being a UK citizen now doesn’t make him proud and is a different story.
Short Film: UNDERNEATH, 23min., Germany, Drama
Derya’s strictly religious family from Turkey abandoned her, when they found out that Derya expressed romantic feelings for another woman. Since that day on Derya struggles with her inner conflicts; torn between the constraints of her religion and the love to her Partner. She is imprisoned in her own emotional Chaos, this drives her to… Continue reading Short Film: UNDERNEATH, 23min., Germany, Drama
La Ráfaga (THE GUST) Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from LGBTQ+ Festival
La Ráfaga (THE GUST), 30min., Puerto Rico, Drama Directed by Edgar Garcia Weeks after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, a lonely middle-aged man finds himself obsessing with his neighbor, a young closeted and tormented athlete who insistently pursues his attention. The movie deals with fragility issues of living in a forgotten paradise, in the world’s… Continue reading La Ráfaga (THE GUST) Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from LGBTQ+ Festival
Ekaant (Solitude) Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from LGBTQ+ Festival
EKAANT (SOLITUDE), 6min, USA, Romance Directed by Swapnil Pagare ‘Manasi’ a poet and ‘Sudha’ a housewife are deeply in love with each other but the restrictions of the society has put chains around their relationship. Ekaant (Solitude) is expression of their secluded extramarital lesbian affair and poetic recital of first moment of closeness.
Pastel Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from LGBTQ+ Festival
PASTEL, 16min., Switzerland, Drama Directed by Michael Guillod Elisabeth catches her son James kissing a young man. She now faces a life struggle. She decides to fight for what she believes to be sickness and cure her only son from his presumed homosexuality.
Anything For My Mother Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from LGBTQ+ Festival
ANYTHING FOR MY MOTHER, 13min., USA, Drama/Family Directed by Alex Meridy Mercedes is a loving Mother with an aggressive cancer. The family is going through financial struggle that causes conflict specially between her two sons Franco and Agustin.