In Theaters

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Virtual Festival

-CENTERPIECE FILM- SUMMERTIME

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a...

AIDS DIVA: THE LEGEND OF CONNIE NORMAN

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film IN THE IMAGE OF GOD Director: Bianca Rondolino; 15 mins FLORIDA PREMIERE The number and range of people involved in...

AT THE END OF EVIN

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film SHEDDING SKIN Director: Katherina Harder; 17 mins WORLD PREMIERE Moving from a small town to Tehran, Amen is...

BEYTO

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

Talented, hunky swimmer, motivated apprentice, and cool buddy Beyto appears to have a bright future ahead of him. But when the only son of a...

BOY MEETS BOY

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film NOAMIA Director: Antonia Galdamez; 29 mins Harry has been partying for 48 hours when he meets Johannes on the dance...

CALAMITY, A CHILDHOOD OF MARTHA JANE CANNARY

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE The great American frontierswoman Calamity Jane, renowned for her sharp-shooting skills, daredevil nature and rejection...

CAN YOU BRING IT: BILL T. JONES AND D-MAN IN THE WATERS

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

Beginning in 1980s New York City, this film chronicles the love story between dancers Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the diverse dance...

DISTANT PLACE, A

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Nothing really is as it appears from a distance. And so is Jinwoo’s quiet life - tucked away in the beauty of the...

ENFANT TERRIBLE

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIER When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich in 1967 and...

EVERYTHING AT ONCE (TODO A LA VEZ)

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been together for thirty years....

EXTINCTION OF FIREFLIES, THE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

WORLD PREMIERE Set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend and legendary TV diva,...

FIRST DEATH OF JOANA, THE (A PRIMEIRA MORTE DE JOANA)

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE Late summer 2007, South of Brazil. Thirteen-year-old Joana needs to unravel a mystery: why had her great-aunt Rosa never...

GOOD MAN, A

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

FLORIDA PREMIERE Benjamin, a trans man still transitioning, and Aude are happily living in Brittany. The couple is about to step into...

HUSTLER WHITE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

Bruce LaBruce ( Saint Narcisse , also screening in OUTshine – Maimi) teams up with photographer Rick Castro in a wild re-imagining of...

I AM SYD STONE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

Hollywood heartthrob Syd Stone finds a connection that immediately creates drama onscreen and off. Syd Stone, a former A-List Hollywood...

ISAAC

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film RED BAY Director: José A. Cortés Amunarriz; 29 mins NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Nacho and Denis meet after sixteen...

JOE GIVES UP AND MOVES TO MONTANA

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film SELF TAPE Director: Daniel Armando; 18 mins WORLD PREMIERE LA can be a hard place to live, and Joe is about to give...

KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND STORY

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film BEING SASHA Director: Manuel Gübeli; 35 mins Born in 1944 in Philadelphia, Glenn Copeland was never afraid of...

MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that...

MAN WITH THE ANSWERS, THE

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

Victor is a hunky, twenty-something ex-diving champion now working in a furniture factory and living with his sick grandmother in a seaside...

MY BEST PART (GARCON CHIFFON)

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

US PREMIERE Nothing is going right anymore for Jérémie’s comedy and acting career. His love life is similarly bleak because of his...

My Fiona

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

Best friends for life, Jane and Fiona have done everything together since kindergarten - Jane following wherever Fiona will lead. Left...

MY FIRST SUMMER

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE 16-year-old Claudia has grown up in isolation from the outside world. Stranded on a remote property after her mother's...

NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND (NARZISS UND GOLDMUND)

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother...

ON THE FRINGE OF WILD

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

TRIGGER WARNING: This film deals with youth suicide and may not be suitable for all individuals. WORLD PREMIERE Shakespeare once said, "what...

ONCE A FURY

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE The Furies were a 1970s lesbian feminist collective that advanced the notion of lesbian separatism to correct what they...

P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE A box of letters held in secret for nearly 60 years ignites a 5-year exploration into a part of LGBTQ+ history that has...

PLAYDURIZM

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Something happens. Something the best of us would want to forget. And that’s exactly what Demir does when he wakes up...

POPPY FIELD (CAMP DE MACI)

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

Cristi, a young gendarme from Bucharest, keeps his homosexuality secret since it is a stigma among military ranks. He is in a long-term...

RAW! UNCUT! VIDEO!

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

WORLD PREMIERE Legendary leatherman Jack Fritscher met Mark Hemry in 1979 at Harvey Milk’s birthday party and the two fell head over heels...

SAINT-NARCISSE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Commencing with a crotch shot before launching into a rambunctious laundromat sex scene, Saint-Narcisse puts us on...

SANTA & ANDRES

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

Publicly gay novelist Andrés has been banned by the Cuban government from writing another word. With a political rally coming up, they...

SEE YOU THEN

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film GOD’S DAUGHTER DANCES Director: Sungbin Byun; 25 mins FLORIDA PREMIERE Kris, a transgender computer programmer,...

SHORTS - IT'S LADIES' NIGHT

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

LEAP (SALTO) Director: Juan Baio & Eino Antonio 3 mins, Spanish w/English Subtitles, Argentina, 2021 On the rooftop of a massive building,...

SHORTS - IT'S RAINING MEN

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

HAKUUMACAATO Director: Kulan Farah 17 mins, English and Somali w/English Subtitles, Australia, 2020 An ex Somali soldier suffering from...

SHORTS - REEL STORIES: LADIES' DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE Director: Ciara Lacy 12 mins, English, USA, 2021 This Is The Way We Rise is an exploration into the creative...

SHORTS - WHERE THE MEN ARE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

EDEN Director: Tavo Ruiz 15 mins, German w/English Subtitles, Mexico, 2021 Eden is the queer re-telling of Adam and Eve’s story in modern...

SUBLET

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

New York Times travel writer Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) visits Tel Aviv to research his latest article, get some space from his...

TEACHER, THE (EL MAESTRO)

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film THE EPHEMERAL Director: Jorge Muriel; 20 mins EAST COAST PREMIERE Natalio is a passionate and dedicated primary...

TOVE

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. Modern...

TRIPLE THREAT

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE Youthful dreams of Broadway stardom meet the realities of adulthood in Triple Threat , the story of three long-time...

TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE This is a story of two of the greatest writers of the past century, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, who are...

WALK WITH ME

Wednesday, April 28th @ 12:01 am - Sunday, May 2nd @ 11:59 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE At the age of 30 and with a young daughter, Amber Evans is forced to start over after she builds up the courage to leave...

WOJNAROWICZ: F*CK YOU F*GGOT F**KER

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

As much as any other artist whose work takes on denial and neglect, David Wojnarowicz used his unique skills as a writer, painter, and...

WRITTEN ON WATER

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film I USED TO WRITE WITH MY LEFT HAND Director: Luzzo; 11 mins NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Happily married but still haunted...

YES I AM: THE RIC WEILAND STORY

Saturday, April 24th @ 12:01 am - Wednesday, April 28th @ 11:59 pm

INCLUDES the short film ABOVE THE TROUBLED WATER Director: Joseph Cohen; 38 mins EAST COAST PREMIERE The story of Ric Weiland’s life and...

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