OUT ON FILM 2022 Film Festival — PICTURE PREVIEW

Bros
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Country: USA, Running Time: 115 min
This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.

From the ferocious comic mind of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, 2019's The Lion King, Difficult People,Impeachment: American Crime Story) and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the Neighborsfilms, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes Bros, a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.

Starring Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film — and featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Experience), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Guy Branum (The Other Two) and Amanda Bearse (Married …with Children) — Bros is directed by Nicholas Stoller from his screenplay with Eichner. The film is produced by Judd Apatow, Stoller and Joshua Church (co-producer Trainwreck, Step Brothers) and is executive produced by Eichner and Karl Frankenfield.

Black As U R
Director: Micheal Rice
Country: USA, Running Time: 75 min
Black As U R poses to Black America a highly confrontational and much avoided question. Why do we as a people protest racial injustice, but disregard the injustices experienced by black queer people? In this incendiary documentary, filmmaker Micheal Rice takes the audience on a journey through the homophobia that characterizes many black spaces, both contemporarily and via an autobiographic look into his own upbringing in the south. BLACK AS U R is the first step in confronting the African American community about queerphobia, via the searing stories of queer black people.

When Time Got Louder
Director: Connie Cocchia
Country: Canada, Running Time: 114 min
Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother. This beautiful drama by first time feature filmmaker Connie Cocchia stars Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost).

Mama Bears
Director: Daresha Kiyi
Country: USA, Running Time: 90 min
Did you know there are more than 32,000 mothers in America — many from conservative, Christian backgrounds — who fully accept their LGBTQ+ children? Mama Bears is an exploration of the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears”— whose profound love for their LGBTQ+ children have turned them into fierce advocates for the entire queer community—and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance perfectly exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally important.

Wonderfully Made — LGBTQ+R(eligion)                           World Premiere 
Director: Yuval David
Country: USA, Running Time: 94 min
Directed by Emmy winner Yuval David and produced by Mark McDermott, the extraordinarily moving Wonderfully Made — LGBTQ+R(eligion) is a feature-length documentary that strikes at the root of anti-LGBTQ attitudes by exploring the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics. The film focuses on the Catholic Church because it is one of the largest religious organizations in the world, and because its anti-LGBTQ+ stance is well known and growing more hardline around the world. The narrative of the film is shaped by the process of a fine art project creating unprecedented, photographic iconography depicting Jesus as a member/ally of the LGBTQ+ community, portrayed by multiple LGBTQ+ models of diverse ethnicities, genders, races, sexualities, and identities.  Advocate Producers include Lance Bass, Bishop Gene Robinson, Reverend Mel White, former Ireland President Mary McAleese, Andrew Tobias, Mitchell Gold, and Jane Clementi.

Chrissy Judy                                                                         Georgia Premiere 
Director: Todd Flaherty
Country: USA, Running Time: 96 min
Everybody has that one friend who can’t get their act together, but you can’t help but love them to pieces anyway. For thirty-something Chrissy, that’s his bestie, Judy, an endearing but perpetually messy ride-or-die who’s always got more than a few cocktails in the tank.
After hustling for years together in the New York City bar scene, Judy is convinced that this is the summer their two-queen drag act will finally get its big break. That is, until Chrissy’s priorities suddenly shift, forcing a disillusioned Judy to closely examine his trajectory as a queer artist, and rediscover his true self in the process. In this dark comedy, Chrissy Judy peers into the underbelly of queer culture and examines the struggles gay men face in the pursuit of love, acceptance, romance, and identity.

All Kinds of Love
Director: David Lewis
Country: USA, Running Time: 75 min
Amid the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s upholding of marriage equality in 2015, a long-time gay couple divorce just as everyone else is getting married. After his commitment-phobic husband divorces him, a stuck-in-his-ways gay man tries to start over. When he becomes accidental roommates with a younger hip nerd who is as romantically challenged as he is, sparks fly.

All Man: The International Male Story 
Directors: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed
Country: USA, Running Time: 83 min
This fascinating new film journeys across three decades of the International Male catalog’s unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner, and GI found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men’s fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree, and trendsetting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions.

Art and Pep
Director: Mercedes Kane
Country: USA, Running Time: 90 min
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are the owners of the iconic bar Sidetrack in Chicago, as well as longtime romantic partners.  They're also civil rights leaders who have been fighting for LGBTQ+ equality for decades, activists during the AIDS crisis and co-founders of Equality Illinois.

El Houb
Director: Sharif Nasr
Country: Netherlands: Running Time: 102 min
Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his traditional parents about being into men. Their reaction inspires a journey of discovery through Karim's isolation as he attempts to break an ingrained culture of silence and eventually locks himself in his parent’s closet. Based on the life of lead actor Fahd Larhzaoui, this new film is darkly comic and bold.

For the Love of Friends
Director: Cara Consilvio
Country: USA, Running Time: 97 min
In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and fear, he returns home to his own HIV diagnosis. Though the run finishes, Brent’s activism never stops, in Atlanta filmmaker’s Cara Consilvio’s exquisite documentary.
Framing Agnes
Director: Chase Joynt
Countries: USA/Canada, Running Time: 75 min
In 1958, a young trans woman named Agnes entered a study about sex disorders at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she needed, by any means necessary. Her story was long considered to be exceptional until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Directed by Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and featuring an all-star cast of transgender artists and performers, Framing Agnes uses re-enactment and genre-blurring storytelling techniques to breathe new life into previously unknown people who redefined gender in the midcentury. Featuring Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard, Max Wolf Valerio, and Stephen Ira.

Grease 2 (1982)
Director: Allan Carr
Country: USA, Running Time: 114 min
Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the leader of Rydell High School's Pink Ladies, a gang of girls who are counterparts of the school's group of greasers called the T-Birds. Stephanie is tired of her relationship with top T-Bird Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), so she breaks up with him and quickly catches the eye of English exchange student Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield). Hoping to win her over, Michael tries to overcome his nerdy ways while holding off the jealous Johnny.

In From the Side
Director: Matt Carter
Country: USA, Running Time: 134 min
Following a drunken encounter, two equally attached men from a cash strapped and divided gay rugby club unwittingly sleepwalk into an adulterous affair but must conceal their growing feelings or risk destroying the club they love. Set amidst the British rugby world, this is a gorgeous and stirring love story, directed by Matt Carter.

Intentionally Erased                                                             World Premiere
Director: Kimya Motley
Country: USA, Running Time: 60 min
Kimya Motley is an educator, activist, author, director, and producer working to end violence against all women and girls. She has directed, co-wrote, and co-produced this absorbing documentary about the experiences of Black trans women in the United States.

Jimmy in Saigon
Director: Peter McDowell
Country: USA, Running Time: 89 min
Generations after his brother’s death, director Peter McDowell uncovers secrets related to Jimmy’s sexuality and drug use. Jimmy died as a civilian in Saigon during the Vietnam War when Peter was only 5 and through hundreds of his letters and a truth-seeking journey that takes him around the world, Peter gets to know Jimmy and finds peace in his own life. This haunting documentary is executive produced by Dan Savage.

Lonesome
Director: Craig Boreham
Country: Australia, Running Time: 95 min
In this sexually explicit drama, Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find something they have been missing but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it.

Love Island                                                                            World Premiere 
Director: Myles Clohessy
Country: USA, Running Time: 90 min
The perfect summer vacation escape away from COVID locked down NYC quickly spirals out of control for a group of friends on the infamous, picturesque, LGBTQ party haven of Fire Island, as they find themselves slowly being picked off one by one by a manic, obsessed killer, played with menace by Jonathan Bennett.

Love Without Fear (Amar Sin Miedo) 
Director: Juan Jose Frausto
Country: USA, Running Time: 120 min
Love Without Fear is a sexy romantic story about Josh Adams and his self-discovery in the city of Taxco, Mexico, as well as an intimate depiction of two men from different parts of the world that unexpectedly are drawn to one another. When Josh meets musician Leo, his life changes in this erotic, humane drama.

Manscaping
Director: Broderick Fox
Country: UK, Running Time: 62 min
An Afrofuturist, a naked fetishist, and a community activist walk into a barbershop… Black American visual artist Devan Shimoyama, Australian fetish barber/porn producer Richard Savvy, and transgender Canadian barber Jessie Anderson are three queer men reimagining the traditional barbershop and restyling masculinity along the way.

Mars One
Director: Gabriel Martins
Country: Brazil, Running Time: 115 min
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she's cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father's ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it's time to leave home.

Maybe Someday
Director: Michelle Ehlen
Jay, a non-binary 40-something photographer, attempts to move across the country to start her  life over again in the midst of separating from her wife. Along the way, she takes a detour to stay with her high school best friend who she used to be secretly in love with and befriends a charismatic gay man who has long given up on love. Struggling to move forward with the next chapter of her life, memories of the past resurface as Jay grapples with the inevitable cycles of love, loss, and letting go.

Miles From Nowhere 
Director: Jono Mitchell
Country: USA, Running Time: 76 min
During an annual cabin retreat, a dying man must confront past mistakes after learning he may not know his friends as well as he may think. This thoughtful drama from prolific Atlanta director Jono Mitchell features an impeccable ensemble cast.

Nana’s Boys 
Director: Ashton Pina
Country: USA, Running Time, 78 min
When an explosion rattles NYC into a lockdown and without power, Amari and Q are forced to confront the fragility of their partnership. Ashton Pina has set out to create an intimate and honest reflection on the experiences that cause pressure on a relationship. NANA’S BOYS is a bittersweet love story about two Black men, who despite their history, current circumstances and sometimes callousness attitude have a deep care for each other.

Nelly & Nadine
Director: Magnus Gertten
Countries: Sweden/Norway/Belgium, Running Time: 92 min
Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly's grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine's unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.

Pat Rocco Dared
Directors: Bob Christie, Morris Chapdelaine
Country: Canada, Running Time: 90 min
In the 1970’s Playboy magazine dubbed Pat Rocco the King of the Nudies, but he is much more than an erotic filmmaker. Rocco is an activist, artist, filmmaker, and entertainer. He’s the whole Hollywood package, with one more story to tell: his own. He arrived in Hollywood with his parents at the age of eleven. By seventeen he knew he was gay, had moved away from home, and was living out of the closet. It was 1951. Having sung in choirs as a youth, he managed to find gigs in radio, nightclubs, theatres, and church basements. With his true talent and undeniable charisma, he made his way to television variety shows, starring alongside legends like Phyllis Diller.

Sissy
Directors: Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes
Country: Australia, Running Time: 103 min
Cecilia and Emma were tween-age BFFs who were going to grow old together and never let anything come between them, until Alex arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, modern millennial woman... until she runs into Emma for the first time in over a decade. Emma invites Cecilia away on her bachelorette weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia's weekend a living hell.

So Damn Easy Going
Director: Christoffer Sandler
Countries: Sweden/Norway, Running Time: 91 min
Eighteen-year-old Joanna needs her ADHD meds to keep her mind in order. When she can no longer afford her medication, she must get creative in her hunt for money. Amid this, she meets charming and confident Audrey. This encounter changes her life in this award-winning crowd pleaser.

Swallowed 
Director: Carter Smith
Country: USA, Running Time: 93 min
After a drug run goes bad, two childhood friends must survive a horrific night in a backwoods hell of drugs, bugs, and obscene intimacy Jena Malone and Mark Patton (A Nightmare on Elm Street) headline the cast in this queer horror nightmare.

Two Eyes
Director: Travis Fine
Country: USA, Running Time: 107 min
Two Eyes explores queerness, gender, & love...art and passion...chasing after your muse...and finding your true people along the way. The story follows three main characters in three distinct time periods – a young artist travelling to Montana in 1868 to paint the wild, untamed land, a young photographer in 1979 who befriends a foreign exchange student, and a young trans musician in 2020.

Unidentified Objects
Director: Juan Felipe Zuleta
Country: USA, Running Time: 100 min
Peter (New Amersterdam’s Matthew Jeffers) is a flamboyant, misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from his upbeat—and possibly unhinged—neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell and onto an impromptu road trip. Their destination? What she believes to be the site of an upcoming alien visitation in the wilderness of rural Canada. On their increasingly surreal odyssey, Peter and Winona will encounter bickering lesbian cosplayers, shroom-addled survivalists, and even extraterrestrial highway cops. But the further they go and the more their trauma comes to light, it becomes clear that the only thing more nerve-wracking than being abducted is being alone in the universe.

Where Butterflies Don’t Fly
Director: Roman Nemec
Country: Czech Republic, Running Time: 126 min
Daniel is an odd guy who lives with his endlessly quarrelling parents uncomplaining about his destiny. He keeps a distance from other people, he has no friends, nobody understands him, he is different. He will be turning nineteen and the last thing he would spend his time on is a preparation for his approaching graduation. Adam is his class teacher. He is gay and lives in a relationship with his younger partner David and his strictly guarded secret keeps locked behind a door of their apartment. Daniel and Adam live in their own bubbles until a moment when they both happen to be together in a life-threatening situation.

Youtopia
Director: Scout Durwood
Country: USA, Running Time: 91 min
Scout Durwood’s musical comedy is bound to make you smile. After a devastating break up an elder millennial inadvertently forms a hipster cult. When members start to disappear, the leader is confronted with the knowledge that her journey of self-discovery may trigger the end of civilization as we know it, forcing her to face her most challenging enemy yet: herself.

Country Love
Director: Wapah Ezeigwe
Country: Nigeria, Running Time: 45 min
Kambili returns home after fifteen years when his sister, Nneka, writes him a heartfelt letter of reconciliation. Upon his return, he is confronted by the bitter-sweet memories of his childhood, his estranged relationship with his family and his deep affection for his boyhood friend Ifediora. Hopeful that things would now work for better-he would rebuild his relationship with his sister and reunite with Ifediora- his expectations are crushed when it dawns on him that Ifediora despite being homosexual has moved on with a woman he is engaged to and Nneka has still not changed from being who she is.

Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor
Director: Shelley Thompson
Country: Canada, Running Time: 91 min
When a young woman with a startling resemblance to John Andrew’s wife Miranda appears days before her funeral, he begins an odyssey towards understanding. His son Donald is now Dawn, home to mourn her mother and repair the estrangement with her dad. As Dawn reconnects with her sister Tammy and her fiancé Byron, a new family order begins to emerge. An ancient tractor becomes a focus for the mechanically minded Dawn, but John Andrew’s long-simmering resentments about the tractor heighten family tensions.

Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls
Director: Julianna Notten
Country: Canada, Running Time: 90 min.
As middle school is ending, Erin, the only out person in her grade, and Liz, fellow comic nerd and track star, find their friendship tested when Liz is accepted to private high school and Erin falls hard for new girl and ex child-star, Sydni. Erin believes the only way to save herself from certain doom next year is to ask Sydni to the big dance and get in with the popular kids, but the plan goes awry when she starts to lose Liz along the way. Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls is a story of friendship, first loves, and deciding what’s important to you when everything is changing, all told through a queer lens.

Game on, Queer Disruptions in Sport
Director: Mária Takács
Country: Hungary, Running Time: 107 min
Gay runners, a lesbian boxer, an intersex rower, and a transwoman footballer, all on one team! Can you imagine them? They are athletes whose lives are unseen, unimaginable to society. In recent years, LGBTIQ+ people in sport have become more visible yet so many still stay in the closet, especially in professional sport. The film portrays 5 protagonists from 4 different countries, each disrupting amateur sport with their gay, lesbian, trans and intersex identities. They talk candidly about their sports journeys, their individual experiences, and their private life.

A Journey to Pride
Director Christopher Wesley Moore
Country: USA, Running Time: 57 min
After a decade of not having a pride in Jackson, Mississippi, a local pride committee is formed to plan the largest and safest pride Mississippi has ever had as the COVID pandemic threatens to cancel the event for the third time.
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The Hollidays in Mississippi
Director: Christina Huff
Country: USA, Running Time: 35 min
The Hollidays in Mississippi focuses on the relationship between Eric White (GoDiva Holliday) and Justin Tyler (DeePression Holliday), two drag performers born and raised in small-town Mississippi. While the film highlights the importance of queer families (the families we create outside of our biological families) through the lens of White and Tyler, this story will ultimately follow the unique relationship between White and Tyler. The two drag performers work together to create and celebrate queer space in small-town Mississippi. However, when COVID-19 stops them in their tracks, White loses his passion for show directing and passes the baton onto Tyler to finish his legacy of building queer communities in Tupelo, Mississippi.

No Siren Left Behind
Directors: Shirin Barghi, Martine N. Granby
Country: USA, Running Time: 31 min
No Siren Left Behind is a documentary short chronicling the history of New York City’s oldest and largest women-run motorcycle club - its place in queer history, the lives of its members, and the sisterhood of a chosen family.

Our Dad, Danielle
Director: S.E King
Country: USA, Running Time: 98 min
Danielle Joy “DJ” Healey was terrified of being her true self for 57 years, fearing she would lose her wife, two daughters, and prestigious law career. She almost died trying to shield those she loved from her reality. For over half of her life Danielle had privilege and power on the outside while suffering tremendously on the inside. The traditional nuclear-family dream in idyllic Sugar Land, Texas was forever changed once she revealed in 2017 to her Facebook community the secret she’d kept for decades: Danielle is trans.

A Run for More
Director: Ray Whitehouse
Country: USA, Running Time: 82 min
As a transgender woman in Texas, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe expected to encounter resistance to her campaign for city council. She did not anticipate questioning her relationship to identity, activism and civic engagement. On the campaign trail, she finds herself on an unexpected journey of self-discovery and healing.

The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook
Director: Robert James
Country: USA, Running Time: 80 min.
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook tells a story of historic activism and community art through the works of two San Francisco artists and long-term AIDS survivors. During one of the darkest periods in US history, two men decide to bring joy and color to a broken community for which an entire movement has emerged. Supporters, fellow activists and members of the queer art community join the film to help paint this vivid portrait of perseverance, compassion and outrageous dime-store fashion.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE RAINBOW SHORTS

The Baldwin Archives
Dir. Tory Devon Smith and Laura Seay, 8 min, U.S.

Beast
Dir. Urvashi Pathania, 9 min, U.S.

Body Language
Dir. Odu Adamu, 10 min, U.S.

Church Camp
Dir. Andrew D. Bourne, 14 min, U.S

Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine 
Dir. Naman Gupta, 15 min, U.S.

Half 
Dir. Jacob Roberts, 11 min, U.S.

Hard 
Dir. Robin Takao D’Oench

Leatherboy 
Dir. Jack McGreal, 8 min, U.S.

Taffeta 
Dir. Lovell Holder, 11 min, U.S.

Troy 
Dir. Mike Donahue, 16 min, U.S.

TRANSEXCELLENT

100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu 
Dir. Gbenga Komolafe, 14 min, U.S.

Do I Know You from Someone? 
Dir. Gwen Rathbone, 11 min, U.K.

How Not to Date While Trans 
Dir. Nyala Moon, 12 min, U.S.

Just Benjamin
Dir. Paige Murphy, 24 min, U.S

Pronouns in Bio 
Dir. Frankie Shaftain-Fenner, 20 min, U.K.

Transit: A New York City Fairytale 
Dir. Emily Dinova, 18 min, U.S.

LET’S LAUGH AGAIN

Brutal 
Dir. Sam McConnell, 13 min, U.S.

Cock N’ Bull 3 
Dir. Nathan Adloff, 24 min, U.S.

F^¢k ‘Em R!ght B@¢k 
Dir. Harris Doran, 12 min, U.S.

Gay Haircut 
Dir. Jude Hope Harris, 7 min, U.S.

Gay History Tour 
Dir. Adam Enright and Aaron Fuksa, 7 min, U.S.

The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night 
Dir. Fawzia Mirza, 11 min, U.S.

Tank Fairy 
Dir. Erich Rettstadt, 10 min, Taiwan

Unicorn 
Dir. Matt Porter, 14 min, U.S.

BEING WHO WE ARE

Close-Up 
Dir. Benett Holgerson, 15 min, U.S.

Dads 
Dir. Martin Luca, 5 min, U.S.

Foreign Uncle 
Dir. Sining Xiang, 20 min, U.S.

The Letter Men
Dir. Andy Vallentine, 9 min, U.S.

Parrot
Dir. Kyle B. Thompson, 11 min, U.S

Punch Line 
Dir. Becky Cheatle, 10 min, Ireland

Ripples
Dir. Dylan Mitro, 20 min, Canada

Queer Parivaar 
Dir. Shiva Raichandani, 27 min, U.K.

Sequin  
Dir. Averi Israel, 4 min, U.S.

TAKING A STAND

CANS Can’t Stand 
Dir. Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, 18 min, U.S.

Dawn, A Charleston Legend            
Dir. Ron Davis, 34 min, U.S.

Peach Paradise 
Dir. Shiva Raichandani,12 min, U.K.

Rooted Out 
Dir. Julie Casper Roth, 27 min, U.S.

INSPIRATIONS

Blind Angels: Richmond, Virginia 
Dir. Umbreen Butt, 9 min, U.S.

Love, Barbara 
Dir. Brydie O'Connor, 15 min, U.S.

One Lift at a Time 
Dir. Flo Singer and Ben Dame, 9 min, U.S.

Taking the Long Road Home 
Dir. Qiydaar Foster, 35 min, U.S.

Twinkleberry 
Dir. Daisy Ifama, 12 min, U.K.

LATINEXTRAORDINARY

Azulejos 
Dir. Maria Paula Arboleda, 19 min, U.S.

Hijo 
Dir. Oscar Perez-Chairez, 33 min, U.S.

Novena 
Dir. Fernand Lopez, 15 min, U.S.

Six Feet Apart 
Dir. Monty Cole, 13 min, U.S.

AROUND THE WORLD

All the Awards I Never Gave You 
Dir. Ciao Scott, 17 min, Brazil

I Am Leo 
Dir. Tajo Hurrle, 18 min, Germany

Little Sky 
Dir. Jess X. Snow, 14 min, Canada

Makassar is a City for Football Fans 
Dir. Khozy Rizal, 20 min, Indonesia

Paternity 
Dir. Vicente De Ramos, 5 min, Spain

Swim 
Dir. Michael Gamarano Singleton, 9 min, U.K.

FOR THE LADIES

The Birth of a Beautiful Butch 
Dir. Gia-Rayne Harris, 3 min, U.S.

Blue Hour 
Dir. Stacey Rushchak, 27 min, Poland

Eye of the Veil 
Dir. Dorothy A. Atabong, 23 min, Canada

Melting Point 
Dir. Mindy Stricke. 5 min, Canada

Oisín 
Dir. Alba Fernandez, 21 min, Ireland

Second Parent 
Dir. Penny PJ Chen, 16 min, U.S.

ANIMATION EXPLOSION

Bi the Way 
Dir. Amir Ovadia Steklov, 15 min, Germany

Black Box 
Dir. Alana Mango, 4 min, U.S.

The Girl Behind the Mirror 
Dir. Iuri Moreno, 12 min, Brazil

It’s a Gray, Gray World 
Dir. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib, 6 min, Iran

Inner Wound Real
Dir. Carrie Hawks, 15 min., U.S

The Magentalman and The Gentlemint 
Dir. James Crang, 5 min, U.K.

¡Nails! 
Dir. Eliana Pipes, 5 min, U.S.

New Moon 
Dir. Jeff Le Bars and Jérémie Balai, 11 min, U.S.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Beautiful Stranger 
Dir. Benjamin Bellor, 26 min, France

Firsts 
Dir. Jesse Ung, 17 min, New Zealand

Naked Men in the Woods 
Dir. Paul Ploberger, 30 min, Austria

Too Rough 
Dir. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, U.K.

Veils 
Dir. Erika Nakayama, 18 min, Japan

Too Rough 
Dir. Sean Lìonadh, 15 min, U.K.

HOMEGROWN SHORTS

Amina 
Dir. Shanrica Evans, 13 min, U.S.

Capacity 
Dir. Marlee Archer, 7 min, U.S.

Held Together   
Dir. Alvin Agarrat, 16 min, U.S.

I Can Tell You Anything 
Dir. Kevin Anthony, 12 min, U.S.

Making a Scene 
Dir. Jono Mitchell, 12 min, U.S.

My Abortion Saved My Life 
Dir. Ruby Fludzinski and Tiler Wilson, 9 min, U.S.

One Days 
Dir. Alexandra Faith, 7 min, U.S.

Perfect First Date 
Dir. Kyle Hamlin, 11 min, U.S.

Pierce Me           
Dir. John e. Kilberg, 10 min, U.S.

HORROR SHORTS – THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

The House Sitters 
Dir. Sydne Horton, 22 min, U.S.

Infested Hearts 
Dir. Michael Varrati, 17 min, U.S.

Mom, If I Were a Vampire 
Dir. Deborah Chuang, 17 min, Taiwan

White Wedding 
Dir. Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, 16 min, U.K.

CONNECTIONS - DRAMA SHORTS

Iago and Tristan 
Dir. Miguel Ibáñez Monroy, 12 min, Spain

The Letter Men 
Dir. Andy Vallentine, 9 min, U.S

Like Father, Like…
Dir. Urvashi Pathania, 12 min, U.S.

Masaru 
Dir. Ruben Navarro, 12 min, U.S.

North Star
Dir. P.J. Palmer, 30 min, U.S.

The Spirit God Gave Us 
Dir. Michael Donte Jemison, 20 min, U.S.

FOR THE LADIES 2 (Virtual)

Frida 
Dir. Aleksandra Odic, 21 min, Germany

Keep/Delete 
Dir. Krizz Gautier, 19 min, U.S.

Killing Myself 
Dir. Jillian Junco, 12 min, U.S.

Static Space 
Dir. John Klein and Kate Black-Spence, 28 min, U.S.

A LITTLE BIT OF THIS, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT (Virtual)

The Drawer 
Dir. Tonika Huff, 16 min, U.S.

Fever
Dir. Angele Scott, 19 min, U.S.

Fireworks
Dir. Sam McGowan, 15 min, Australia 

Lumber 
Dir. Harry Sabulis, 11 min, Australia

Man & Wife 
Dir. Rahul Roye, 8 min, India

Man of My Dreams 
Dir. Tristan Scott-Behrends, 5 min. U.S.

The Truth of a Thousand Nights 
Dir. Chris Molina, 15 min