Wicked Queer 42

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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?

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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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A pregnant woman, haunted by strange urges and visions, accepts an invitation to dinner that spirals into a bloody, demented nightmare.

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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.

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The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends

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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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