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Wicked Queer 42
Up & Coming — Drawn Together
Shorts from First-time Filmmakers

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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Carrotica
A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways
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Heavy Metal Dream Police
A surreal sci-fi love story about two queer physics students who bond over a love of an action movie franchise - and how badly they want the two main characters to kiss.
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Glitch Baby
Set in the early 90s, Glitch Baby is a short film that takes a quantum genre twist on the usual queer coming-of-age story when an unexpected show of affection on the soccer field leaves a young tomboy humiliated and questioning her place in the universe. In this self-defining moment, she triggers a quantum phenomenon that brings her face to face with a celestial version of herself, and through this encounter, the possibility of self-acceptance
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Shedding
With a new haircut and a new sense of queerness, Bella returns from her first semester at college to her suffocating Dallas hometown, determined to confess her long repressed feelings to her childhood best friend. Instead, she’s dragged to a New Years Eve rager from hell where she finds a cold-blooded creature in the closet.
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The Winds of Anemonia
In the French Alps, Maxine walks alone along the road. When Catherine pulls over, an electric encounter ignites, calling for the storm.
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Pansies
After Caleb is almost caught in the back of a pickup truck with Logan Balfe, he has to keep things quiet while driving Logan home.
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