Wicked Queer 42

April 3-16, 2026

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All Feature Films

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A Useful Ghost

in person
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
130 min
Thai
Thailand
2025
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.
 min total program
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At The Place of Ghosts

Sk+te'kmujue'katik

in person
Bretten Hannam
81 min
English & Mi'kmaq
Canada
2025
Haunted by the past, siblings Mise’l and Antle are destined to reunite and join forces against a dark spirit that emerges from their shared childhood. Once inseparable, their fractured relationship set by years of silence and a violent episode rooted in homophobia, is tested as they must return to Sk+te’kmujue’kati (the Place of Ghosts) a forest steeped in ancestral memory where time bends. What initiates from trauma soon transforms into an odyssey of healing, as Mise’l and Antle confront their caretaker’s cruelty, the weight of family secrets, and their own deepest fears. Visually stunning and emotionally raw, this extraordinary tale explores how love, even when repressed, can become the fiercest weapon against hate.
 min total program
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Barbara Forever

in person
Brydie O'Connor
102 min
English
USA
2026
An intimate, dream-like, and masterfully crafted look at the iconic life, work, & legacy of the pioneering feminist experimental filmmaker responsible for some of the most prominent early works in the history of lesbian cinema. Tracing her prolific canon alongside never-before-seen documentations of her life and body, the film reveals Hammer’s unconventional attempts to live on forever -- especially through extensive archiving of her films. Directed by Brydie O'Connor, this is the feature realization of the award-winning 2022 short LOVE, BARBARA.
 min total program
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Blood Lines

in person
Gail Maurice
89 min
English, Michif
Canada
2025
Blood Lines is a lesbian romance wrapped up in a celebration of Métis culture — with dialogue in the Michif language, which has only about 1,130 speakers in the world, including Maurice — and centres around an upcoming Métis Day festival. Storyteller and store clerk Beatrice (Dana Solomon) is completely taken by a new woman who arrives in her Métis community looking to find her biological family. Beatrice decides to help Chani (Derica Lafrance) in order to spend more time with her. Meanwhile, a chorus of older women, collectively referred to as “The Grannies,” try to get Beatrice to mend things with her mom, Léonore (played by director Maurice). Léonore’s past drinking problem had soured their relationship and Beatrice is reluctant to repair it, no matter how many years her mom has been sober. Solomon is a striking discovery, conveying so much in this role of a disgruntled daughter who has mostly buried her feelings, while The Grannies usher in lighter, funnier moments. Blood Lines is a singular film — a Métis same-sex romance — with an ending that will leave audiences talking.
 min total program
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Blowie

in person
Sam Lidbetter, Ed Aldridge
75 min
English
UK
2025
A group of sex workers rent a mansion in the middle of nowhere to shoot OnlyFans content. After a tragic accident they are stalked by Blowie - the doll-faced killer. Starring real porn performers, Blowie is a sexy horror film.
 min total program
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Body Blow

in person
Dean Francis
99 min
English
Australia
2025
Aiden, a young cop, embarks on a risky undercover mission where he meets Cody, a captivating male sex worker controlled by a drug lord drag queen. Aiden dives into a perilous world, getting entangled in a deadly police conspiracy.
 min total program
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Bouchra

in person
Orian Yani Barki, Meriem Bennani
83 min
English, French, Arabic
United States, Italy, Morocco
2025
Bouchra, a 35-year-old Moroccan coyote in New York documents her long-distance relationship with her mother in Casablanca, as they explore together the love, pain and secrets that unite them through calls and intimate conversations.
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
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By Hook or By Crook

4K Restoration

in person
Harry Dodge & SIlas Howard
103 min
English
United States
2001
Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is a butch and trans buddy film that follows Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), two gender outlaws living by any means necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation are around every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive, energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity. The film screened at festivals worldwide and won numerous awards including the Audience and Best Screenplay awards at Outfest.
 min total program
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Castration Movie Chapter iii.

Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

in person
Louise Weard
126 min
English
Canada
2026
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. This abridged version of Anthology iii. contains one chapter. In Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift, Izzy (Avalon Fast) seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner (Henri Gillespi) from transitioning.
 min total program
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Dreamers

in person
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
78 min
English
UK
2025
After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair asylum hearing and is convinced that, as long as she strictly follows the rules, she will be released – even if her charismatic new roommate Farah tells her this is a naive mistake. As Isio adjusts to life in the Removal Centre, she finds herself falling for Farah, as well as becoming close to her new friends Nana and Atefeh. When Isio’s asylum application is rejected, Farah suggests they escape together to give their love a chance. Isio initially refuses. But when events beyond their control threaten the promise of a new life, she realises that she has to start playing by her own rules. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal.
 min total program
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Drunken Noodles

in person
Lucio Castro
83 min
English & Spanish
USA & Argentina
2025
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters, both artistic and erotic, open gaps in his everyday reality.
 min total program
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Erupcja

in person
Pete Ohs
71 min
English, Polish
USA, Poland
2025
The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.
 min total program
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Eva

in person
William Reyes
90 min
Spanish
Honduras, Colombia
2025
Eva, a trans woman, takes on the care of her granddaughter after the sudden death of her daughter-in-law. While processing the grief, she tries to help her son connect emotionally with the baby. Amid tensions, reproaches, and silence, mother and son embark on a path toward mutual understanding and the reconstruction of their family bond.
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
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Jaripeo

in person
Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig
72 min
Spanish
Mexico, USA, France
2026
A journey to the hypermasculine rodeos of Michoacán state in Mexico delves into the subconscious of memory, queer desire and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
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Lakeview

in person
Tara Thorne
99 min
English
Canada
2100
A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends
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On the Sea

in person
Helen Walsh
111 min
English
UK
2025
In coastal Wales, a middle-aged family man is unnerved to find himself hopelessly drawn to a younger drifter in this finely drawn erotic drama from British novelist-turned-filmmaker Helen Walsh.
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
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Open Endings

in person
Nigel Santos
110 min
Tagalog
Phillipines
2025
Open Endings is a highly acclaimed 2025 Philippine queer film by Nigel Santos, celebrated for its realistic portrayal of sapphic relationships, focusing on four queer women (exes-turned-best-friends) navigating love, heartbreak, friendship, and chosen family, offering a nuanced look at queer lives beyond typical tropes, and highlighting the depth of lesbian bonds
 min total program
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Really Happy Someday

in person
J Stevens
90 min
English
Canada
2024
Z lives to sing — musical theatre is his whole world, and his star is rising fast. But when a big audition goes off the rails, he’s left questioning everything: his career, his relationship, his voice, and how his identity as a newly trans masc performer fits into it all. Just when it seems like curtains, Z meets a warm, no-nonsense vocal coach who helps him rediscover his sound. Add a new gig as a barback and a charming boss named Santi into the mix, and suddenly life is hitting a different kind of high note. As Z finds a new voice that reflects who he is now, the story becomes a celebration of resilience, self-discovery, and newfound identity.
 min total program
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Son of Sara

in person
Houston Bone
85 min
English
Canada
2025
A pregnant woman, haunted by strange urges and visions, accepts an invitation to dinner that spirals into a bloody, demented nightmare.
 min total program
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The Divine Tragedy

in person
Sergio Tovar Velarde
101 min
Spanish
Mexico
2025
Cristián, a former telenovela actor and refined traditionalist homosexual, is abandoned by his rich husband Carlos after a 24-year relationship and is forced to live with his wild, sexually hedonistic gay half-brother, Roy. The two wildly different men must learn to coexist while trying to rebuild their lives.
 min total program
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The Little Sister

in person
Hafsia Herzi
106 min
French
France
2025
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
 min total program
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

in person
Diego Céspedes
109 min
Spanish
France, Chile, Germany, Spain, Belgium
2025
Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia’s eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.
 min total program
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Uchronia

in person
Fil Ieropoulos
97 min
French, English
Greece
2026
Arthur Rimbaud’s ghost wanders through history, meeting revolutionary figures such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz and Marsha P. Johnson. A layered collage of encounters questioning identity, revolution and the role of the artistic avant-garde.
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All Short Film Programs

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All The Ways We Love

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Women's Short Films

in person
111
 min total program
Love doesn’t arrive neatly. It rushes in all at once. It lingers over Sunday lunch. It hides behind a cover story. It surprises us in reflections — in fishbowls, in family expectations, in the space between you and me. All the Ways We Love is a tender, dynamic collection of short films exploring connection in all its forms — romantic, familial, unexpected, and transformative. These stories capture the quiet glances, bold declarations, complicated dynamics, and deeply human moments that shape how we find and redefine love.
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Experimental Shorts

FREE

in person
90
 min total program
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GTFO: Out of Body and Out of This World

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in person
92
 min total program
A vampire falls in love with the moon, pageant queens and roadkill, Charlie whispers for reprieve, lust becomes cannibal, cowboy seduction abduction, and the horniest breakfast ever served.
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Ghosts and Getaways

FREE

Trans Short Films

in person
96
 min total program
Robberies, demonic summoning, and eighties punk. We’ll weave through trans realities and unrealities, exploring the marks we leave on each other. These eight stories kiss, kill, and kick ass as they ask - who remembers us and how do we remember ourselves?
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Kings Come Get Your Flowers

FREE

Men's Short Films

in person
101
 min total program
Join us in a survey of the gay male reality: job interview anxiety, rural hookups, later in life love and some dancing, but please don't use the blue sponge on the sink, Thanks :)
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Old Endings, New Beginnings

FREE

Queer Asian Stories

in person
91
 min total program
As painful as some chapters are to close, another inevitably waits to unfold. In the fragile space before and during an ending, one can feel suspended or stuck, unsure of what comes next. Even in the ashes, these films suggest that within every ending lies the possibility of a new beginning.
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Stories from our Community

FREE

in person
97
 min total program
Three films celebrating the best parts of Massachusetts: from a bike trip to P-town to portraits of our festival founder, George Mansour as well as the new community hub, The Pryde.
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Tender Revolutions

FREE

Queer SWANA Stories

in person
109
 min total program
These stories unfold in moments of quiet upheaval: a phone call before a wedding, a crisis in a small-town mosque, a young girl’s journey through myth, siblings fractured by grief. Centering queer, trans, and intersex lives across the SWANA region, this program honors the intimate revolutions that occur within families, faith, and the self.
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The Body Knows

FREE

Latinx Short Films

in person
88
 min total program
Seven Latin American short films share a pulse: the body as a site of desire and transformation. Whether fighting supernatural forces, the tender arithmetic of intimacy, or the quiet act of claiming a day for oneself, these films trace the many ways queer lives carve out space: in ballrooms, in beach towns, in the loom, in the night.
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Unruly & Unfiltered

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Comedy Short Films

in person
106
 min total program
Plumbing disasters. Overgrown gardens. Unwanted pests. Unfiltered skin. First periods. Last calls. And maybe even a princess or two. Unruly & Unfiltered is a bold, laugh-out-loud collection of comedy shorts that revel in life’s messiest, most awkward, and unexpectedly tender moments. From cringe-worthy encounters to quietly subversive character studies, these films find humor in discomfort and heart in the absurd.
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Up & Coming — Drawn Together

FREE

Shorts from First-time Filmmakers

in person
86
 min total program
There is something unmistakable about a filmmaker at the very beginning: a willingness to take risks, to let feeling drive the work. This program gathers six student films that capture that quality, each one a promising arrival in queer cinema.
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Screenings & Events

April 3-16, 2026

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At The Place of Ghosts

FREE

Sk+te'kmujue'katik

Fri, Apr 03, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Haunted by the past, siblings Mise’l and Antle are destined to reunite and join forces against a dark spirit that emerges from their shared childhood. Once inseparable, their fractured relationship set by years of silence and a violent episode rooted in homophobia, is tested as they must return to Sk+te’kmujue’kati (the Place of Ghosts) a forest steeped in ancestral memory where time bends. What initiates from trauma soon transforms into an odyssey of healing, as Mise’l and Antle confront their caretaker’s cruelty, the weight of family secrets, and their own deepest fears. Visually stunning and emotionally raw, this extraordinary tale explores how love, even when repressed, can become the fiercest weapon against hate.
Bretten Hannam
81
 min
English & Mi'kmaq
Canada
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Blood Lines

FREE

Sat, Apr 04, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Blood Lines is a lesbian romance wrapped up in a celebration of Métis culture — with dialogue in the Michif language, which has only about 1,130 speakers in the world, including Maurice — and centres around an upcoming Métis Day festival. Storyteller and store clerk Beatrice (Dana Solomon) is completely taken by a new woman who arrives in her Métis community looking to find her biological family. Beatrice decides to help Chani (Derica Lafrance) in order to spend more time with her. Meanwhile, a chorus of older women, collectively referred to as “The Grannies,” try to get Beatrice to mend things with her mom, Léonore (played by director Maurice). Léonore’s past drinking problem had soured their relationship and Beatrice is reluctant to repair it, no matter how many years her mom has been sober. Solomon is a striking discovery, conveying so much in this role of a disgruntled daughter who has mostly buried her feelings, while The Grannies usher in lighter, funnier moments. Blood Lines is a singular film — a Métis same-sex romance — with an ending that will leave audiences talking.
Gail Maurice
89
 min
English, Michif
Canada
 min total program
in person
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Stories from our Community

FREE

Sat, Apr 04, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Three films celebrating the best parts of Massachusetts: from a bike trip to P-town to portraits of our festival founder, George Mansour as well as the new community hub, The Pryde.
 min
97
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Bouchra

FREE

Sat, Apr 04, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Bouchra, a 35-year-old Moroccan coyote in New York documents her long-distance relationship with her mother in Casablanca, as they explore together the love, pain and secrets that unite them through calls and intimate conversations.
Orian Yani Barki, Meriem Bennani
83
 min
English, French, Arabic
United States, Italy, Morocco
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
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Body Blow

FREE

Sat, Apr 04, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Aiden, a young cop, embarks on a risky undercover mission where he meets Cody, a captivating male sex worker controlled by a drug lord drag queen. Aiden dives into a perilous world, getting entangled in a deadly police conspiracy.
Dean Francis
99
 min
English
Australia
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Old Endings, New Beginnings

FREE

Queer Asian Stories

Sun, Apr 05, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Brattle Theater
As painful as some chapters are to close, another inevitably waits to unfold. In the fragile space before and during an ending, one can feel suspended or stuck, unsure of what comes next. Even in the ashes, these films suggest that within every ending lies the possibility of a new beginning.
 min
91
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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FROM
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Ghosts and Getaways

FREE

Trans Short Films

Sun, Apr 05, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Robberies, demonic summoning, and eighties punk. We’ll weave through trans realities and unrealities, exploring the marks we leave on each other. These eight stories kiss, kill, and kick ass as they ask - who remembers us and how do we remember ourselves?
 min
96
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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FROM
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Tender Revolutions

FREE

Queer SWANA Stories

Sun, Apr 05, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Brattle Theater
These stories unfold in moments of quiet upheaval: a phone call before a wedding, a crisis in a small-town mosque, a young girl’s journey through myth, siblings fractured by grief. Centering queer, trans, and intersex lives across the SWANA region, this program honors the intimate revolutions that occur within families, faith, and the self.
 min
109
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Eva

FREE

Sun, Apr 05, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Eva, a trans woman, takes on the care of her granddaughter after the sudden death of her daughter-in-law. While processing the grief, she tries to help her son connect emotionally with the baby. Amid tensions, reproaches, and silence, mother and son embark on a path toward mutual understanding and the reconstruction of their family bond.
William Reyes
90
 min
Spanish
Honduras, Colombia
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2001
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

By Hook or By Crook

FREE

4K Restoration

Sun, Apr 05, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is a butch and trans buddy film that follows Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), two gender outlaws living by any means necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation are around every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive, energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity. The film screened at festivals worldwide and won numerous awards including the Audience and Best Screenplay awards at Outfest.
Harry Dodge & SIlas Howard
103
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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FROM 2026
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Jaripeo

FREE

Mon, Apr 06, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Brattle Theater
A journey to the hypermasculine rodeos of Michoacán state in Mexico delves into the subconscious of memory, queer desire and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig
72
 min
Spanish
Mexico, USA, France
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Open Endings

FREE

Mon, Apr 06, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Open Endings is a highly acclaimed 2025 Philippine queer film by Nigel Santos, celebrated for its realistic portrayal of sapphic relationships, focusing on four queer women (exes-turned-best-friends) navigating love, heartbreak, friendship, and chosen family, offering a nuanced look at queer lives beyond typical tropes, and highlighting the depth of lesbian bonds
Nigel Santos
110
 min
Tagalog
Phillipines
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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FROM 2025
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A Useful Ghost

FREE

Mon, Apr 06, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
130
 min
Thai
Thailand
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Dreamers

FREE

Tue, Apr 07, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Brattle Theater
After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair asylum hearing and is convinced that, as long as she strictly follows the rules, she will be released – even if her charismatic new roommate Farah tells her this is a naive mistake. As Isio adjusts to life in the Removal Centre, she finds herself falling for Farah, as well as becoming close to her new friends Nana and Atefeh. When Isio’s asylum application is rejected, Farah suggests they escape together to give their love a chance. Isio initially refuses. But when events beyond their control threaten the promise of a new life, she realises that she has to start playing by her own rules. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal.
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
78
 min
English
UK
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2026
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Uchronia

FREE

Tue, Apr 07, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Arthur Rimbaud’s ghost wanders through history, meeting revolutionary figures such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz and Marsha P. Johnson. A layered collage of encounters questioning identity, revolution and the role of the artistic avant-garde.
Fil Ieropoulos
97
 min
French, English
Greece
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2025
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Little Sister

FREE

Wed, Apr 08, 2026 @ 8:15 pm
Brattle Theater
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
Hafsia Herzi
106
 min
French
France
 min total program
in person
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Kings Come Get Your Flowers

FREE

Men's Short Films

Thu, Apr 09, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Join us in a survey of the gay male reality: job interview anxiety, rural hookups, later in life love and some dancing, but please don't use the blue sponge on the sink, Thanks :)
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101
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Son of Sara

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Thu, Apr 09, 2026 @ 8:30 pm
Brattle Theater
A pregnant woman, haunted by strange urges and visions, accepts an invitation to dinner that spirals into a bloody, demented nightmare.
Houston Bone
85
 min
English
Canada
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

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Fri, Apr 10, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia’s eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.
Diego Céspedes
109
 min
Spanish
France, Chile, Germany, Spain, Belgium
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Erupcja

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Fri, Apr 10, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.
Pete Ohs
71
 min
English, Polish
USA, Poland
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Blowie

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Fri, Apr 10, 2026 @ 8:30 pm
Brattle Theater
A group of sex workers rent a mansion in the middle of nowhere to shoot OnlyFans content. After a tragic accident they are stalked by Blowie - the doll-faced killer. Starring real porn performers, Blowie is a sexy horror film.
Sam Lidbetter, Ed Aldridge
75
 min
English
UK
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in person
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The Body Knows

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Latinx Short Films

Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 1:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Seven Latin American short films share a pulse: the body as a site of desire and transformation. Whether fighting supernatural forces, the tender arithmetic of intimacy, or the quiet act of claiming a day for oneself, these films trace the many ways queer lives carve out space: in ballrooms, in beach towns, in the loom, in the night.
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88
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Drunken Noodles

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Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters, both artistic and erotic, open gaps in his everyday reality.
Lucio Castro
83
 min
English & Spanish
USA & Argentina
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Barbara Forever

FREE

Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
An intimate, dream-like, and masterfully crafted look at the iconic life, work, & legacy of the pioneering feminist experimental filmmaker responsible for some of the most prominent early works in the history of lesbian cinema. Tracing her prolific canon alongside never-before-seen documentations of her life and body, the film reveals Hammer’s unconventional attempts to live on forever -- especially through extensive archiving of her films. Directed by Brydie O'Connor, this is the feature realization of the award-winning 2022 short LOVE, BARBARA.
Brydie O'Connor
102
 min
English
USA
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Really Happy Someday

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Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Z lives to sing — musical theatre is his whole world, and his star is rising fast. But when a big audition goes off the rails, he’s left questioning everything: his career, his relationship, his voice, and how his identity as a newly trans masc performer fits into it all. Just when it seems like curtains, Z meets a warm, no-nonsense vocal coach who helps him rediscover his sound. Add a new gig as a barback and a charming boss named Santi into the mix, and suddenly life is hitting a different kind of high note. As Z finds a new voice that reflects who he is now, the story becomes a celebration of resilience, self-discovery, and newfound identity.
J Stevens
90
 min
English
Canada
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Unruly & Unfiltered

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Comedy Short Films

Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Plumbing disasters. Overgrown gardens. Unwanted pests. Unfiltered skin. First periods. Last calls. And maybe even a princess or two. Unruly & Unfiltered is a bold, laugh-out-loud collection of comedy shorts that revel in life’s messiest, most awkward, and unexpectedly tender moments. From cringe-worthy encounters to quietly subversive character studies, these films find humor in discomfort and heart in the absurd.
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106
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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The Divine Tragedy

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Sat, Apr 11, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Cristián, a former telenovela actor and refined traditionalist homosexual, is abandoned by his rich husband Carlos after a 24-year relationship and is forced to live with his wild, sexually hedonistic gay half-brother, Roy. The two wildly different men must learn to coexist while trying to rebuild their lives.
Sergio Tovar Velarde
101
 min
Spanish
Mexico
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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On the Sea

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Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In coastal Wales, a middle-aged family man is unnerved to find himself hopelessly drawn to a younger drifter in this finely drawn erotic drama from British novelist-turned-filmmaker Helen Walsh.
Helen Walsh
111
 min
English
UK
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Up & Coming — Drawn Together

FREE

Shorts from First-time Filmmakers

Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Brattle Theater
There is something unmistakable about a filmmaker at the very beginning: a willingness to take risks, to let feeling drive the work. This program gathers six student films that capture that quality, each one a promising arrival in queer cinema.
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86
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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All The Ways We Love

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Women's Short Films

Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 3:00 pm
Somerville Theater
Love doesn’t arrive neatly. It rushes in all at once. It lingers over Sunday lunch. It hides behind a cover story. It surprises us in reflections — in fishbowls, in family expectations, in the space between you and me. All the Ways We Love is a tender, dynamic collection of short films exploring connection in all its forms — romantic, familial, unexpected, and transformative. These stories capture the quiet glances, bold declarations, complicated dynamics, and deeply human moments that shape how we find and redefine love.
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111
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Castration Movie Chapter iii.

FREE

Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Brattle Theater
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. This abridged version of Anthology iii. contains one chapter. In Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift, Izzy (Avalon Fast) seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner (Henri Gillespi) from transitioning.
Louise Weard
126
 min
English
Canada
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in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Lakeview

FREE

Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Somerville Theater
A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends
Tara Thorne
99
 min
English
Canada
 min total program
in person
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GTFO: Out of Body and Out of This World

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Sun, Apr 12, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
Brattle Theater
A vampire falls in love with the moon, pageant queens and roadkill, Charlie whispers for reprieve, lust becomes cannibal, cowboy seduction abduction, and the horniest breakfast ever served.
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92
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Experimental Shorts

FREE

Wed, Apr 15, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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90
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
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Best in Show Showcase

FREE

Thu, Apr 16, 2026 @ 7:15 pm
GSU Auditorium at Boston University
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in person
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