Directed by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel ∙ 2018 ∙ United States ∙ 14'

Combining archival footage with dramatic re-enactment, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHA! is a film about iconic Black transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969...

Directed by Askold Kurov & Pavel Loparev • 2014 • Russia • 70'

CHILDREN 404 spotlights the lives of Russian LGBTQ+ youth struggling with decisions to remain in their home country or build a new life abroad, while offering a glimpse at the country's deeply rooted conservatism. In 2013, Russian Pr...

Directed by Rémy Huberdeau ∙ 2014 ∙ Canada ∙ 45'

TRANSGENDER PARENTS is a film about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, to raising infants, toddlers a...

Directed by Richard Shpuntoff ∙ 2016 ∙ United States - Argentina

On the night of July 2, 1990, three young men in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights went out armed with a claw hammer, a plumber’s wrench and a kitchen knife, hunting for “a gay guy to stretch out.” After deciding not to attack a ...

Directed by Lari Jalbert • 2018 • Canada • 20'

Imagine how bodies will relate to each other in the future, how intimacy will be radically different. Imagine trans and queer bodies having access to ways of mutating organically; reshaping their mortal flesh with their own hands or those of others ...

Directed by Lana Lin • 2018 • United States • 98'

THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who...

Directed by Jim Hubbard ∙ 2012 ∙ United States ∙ 90'

UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage and interviews that put the audience on the ground with the activists of the ACT UP Oral History Project. Filmmaker John Hubba...

Directed by Dáša Raimanova and Zofia Brom ∙ 2018 ∙ Poland ∙ 71'

How does it feel to be Black, LGBTQ+ or Muslim in Poland? POLYLAND gives a voice to three strong female characters from different minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be Black, Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the mos...

Directed by Dean Spade ∙ 2015 ∙ United States ∙ 56'

"Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initia...

Directed by S. Leo Chyang and Johnny Simons ∙ 2015 ∙ United States ∙ 75'

As leader of the world’s only LGBTQ+ political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBTQ+ representation in the ...

Directed by Megan Rossman • United States • 2018 • 61'

Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, the all-volunteer organization has striven to combat lesbian i...