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  Pages of a Girl (Páginas de Menina)

  1. A film by Monica Palazzo
  2. Newfest- The New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  3. June 05 - 15, 2008
  4. run time 18 minutes 50 seconds

  In 1955, young Ingrid applies for a job at Machado de Assis Bookstore and meets Silvia, a very beautiful woman who is in town for a while. Their first intellectual affection becomes emotional. It´s a story about the love for books, literature and the will to go beyond what's superficial and the challenge of facing the unconventional. A meeting between two women, carefully aesthetic influenced by...  (more)

  
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  Mirror Mirror

  1. A film by John Winter
  4. run time 10 minutes 29 seconds

  The story of an elderly crossdresser... After so many years together, Joe faces life without Jana. Saying goodbye to yourself is never easy.  (more)

  
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  Gillery's Little Secret

  1. A film by TM Scorzafava
  4. run time 25 minutes

  A female-driven examination of the depth that lies between love and friendship. Gillery returns home for her 20th reunion, where she is confronted by a girl seeking answers. To answer these questions she confronts a past love, uncovering a secret now forced out after eighteen years.  (more)

  
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  Nightwood

  1. A film by Chris Maher
  4. run time 13 minutes

  Late at night, in the Los Angeles M4M chat room, three horned up studs enact a fugue of desire, desperation and deception.  (more)

  
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  yeah no definitely

  1. A film by Dave Snyder
  4. run time 14 minutes 20 seconds

  yeah no definitely is about a young man unable to express his same-sex passion, and the danger he poses on a night when his long-seething emotions finally explode. It's summertime, and Cam, a boundlessly energetic 20-year old, is passenger-side as his best friend Kiff sits behind the wheel of a Ford Aspire circa 1995. A brittle wreck of a car, the Aspire is straining to hit 55 mph on the...  (more)

  
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  The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)

  1. A film by Sridhar Rangayan
  4. run time 40 minutes

  Banned in India, acclaimed worldwide. 'The Pink Mirror' (Gulabi Aaina) - a Bollywood entertainer with a difference : India's first film on Drag Queens is a camp romp about two drag queens and a gay teenager seducing a handsome hunk! The film, for the first time, peeps into the fascinating campy closet of Indian gender-benders and discovers deep emotional bonds. Winner of Jury Award at Fire...  (more)

  
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  Rubb My Chubb: Fat Activism and the Fat Femme Mafia

  1. A film by Alexis Mitchell
  4. run time 9 minutes 30 seconds

  A documentary about the fiery fatties of the Fat Femme Mafia.  (more)

  
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  Possession (Possession)

  1. A film by Hervé Joseph Lebrun
  2. Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  3. September 17 - 19, 2008
  4. run time 24 minutes

  A man, after spying his neighbour night and day, decides to kidnap him. Love and pain, torture and tenderness... A death love story. "You don't want to die? Me neither, believe it or not. Of course I'd love to pass another 40 years with you, in your arms, sniffing your neck, telling you things I've never dared tell a man. What do you think? I'm not doing all this out of the lightness of my...  (more)

  
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  Black Men and Me

  1. A film by Michele Pearson Clarke
  4. run time 6 minutes

  In Black Men and Me, a woman explores her position as a Trinidadian dyke and her complex relationship with black men. Shot in a barbershop, a traditional gathering place for black men, she has her head shaved while she reflects on her black masculinity.  (more)

  
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  Ester

  1. A film by Rut Suso
  4. run time 15 minutes 25 seconds

  We think that we know where we are going with our lives without ever having given much thought to the reaction of our own skin. A woman meets another called Ester and the refelctions of this woman create a sharp, humouristic regression of untimely romantic frenzy. It appears to be on the surface a daily meditation with a simple narrative, however reading between the lines it subtly reveals...  (more)

  
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  Cabalerno (Cabalerno)

  1. A film by Jarrah Gurrie
  4. run time 6 minutes 15 seconds

  A quiet guy coming to terms with his sexuality, gets caught pointing a video camera at his strapping young crush; an olive skinned skateboarder. After an initial awkwardness, the two boys must deal with unanticipated feelings.  (more)

  
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  Checkout

  1. A film by Jenn Garrison
  4. run time 9 minutes

  A smart, fast-paced comedy about sexual competition and identity. Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. However, all is not what it seems at the checkout line.  (more)

  
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  The Secret Life of Houses

  1. A film by David Collins
  4. run time 8 minutes 10 seconds

  While David tours his parents' house with a prospective real estate agent, he comes to terms with his own relationship with the house he had as a boy deep in the throws of sexual exploration.  (more)

  
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  In the Spotlight (In the Spotlight)

  1. A film by Hilary Goldberg
  4. run time 11 minutes 30 seconds

  "in the Spotlight" Hilary Goldberg's latest short film flips the noir genre, an aspiring author Olive (Michelle Tea) is offered the chance to be the front person for a literary hoax by a sinister duo Kate Lady Luck (Guinevere Turner) and Bell Wartock (Clint Catalyst), and discovers a far worse fate than rejection. 16mm B&W Film Noir/Metafiction  (more)

  
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  While You Are Here (So Lange Du Hier Bist)

  1. A film by Stefan Westerwelle
  4. run time 77 minutes

  Georg is an elderly and solitary man whose only contact with the world is via the intermittent visits of Sebastian, a call-boy. When they meet, in addition to the sex, they also share moments of companionship, tenderness, and laughter at the amusing tales Sebastian recounts. This relationship is the centre of the old man’s life: he tapes their conversations to listen to when alone again. Georg...  (more)

  
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  The Gymnast

  1. A film by Ned Farr
  4. run time 96 minutes

  Jane Hawkins (Dreya Weber) was once one of America’s top gymnasts, but events and injury prevented her from fulfilling her Olympic destiny. Almost twenty years have passed in obscurity, working hand to mouth as a massage therapist while slowly disappearing in a passionless marriage. In an attempt to give meaning to her life, she has been secretly trying to get pregnant, against her husband...  (more)

  
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  The Masseur (Masahista)

  1. A film by Brillante Mendoza
  4. run time 80 minutes

  Iliac is a twenty-year-old masseur in a massage parlor that caters to a gay clientele. In here, sex is an immediate consequence of massage. It is the night of December 14, and Iliac's first customer for the day is a homosexual romance novel writer. Outside the parlor, his current girl, a bar girl who works in Japan, asserts her sexual dominion over him. Back home, his estranged father dies, and...  (more)

  
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  Straight Hike for the Butch Dyke

  1. A film by Robyn Paterson
  4. run time 24 minutes

  Can a team of hand-bag swinging straight gals help Libby stop washing her brushcut with hand soap, and move away from rainbow-influenced décor? As the “Femme 4” try to add a little sugar to a tomboy butch, it looks like maybe the makeover’s happening in reverse! This take off of TV’s Queer Eye phenomenon is a comic treat from Down Under.  (more)

  
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  Rock Bottom - Gay Men & Meth

  1. A film by Jay Corcoran
  4. run time 61 minutes

  Rock Bottom follows the journeys of seven gay men struggling with meth addiction and recovery against a backdrop of an emerging second wave of HIV infection. From grappling with the drug's effects on their physical and mental health to wrestling with their darkest sexual desires, Rock Bottom delivers a chilling portrait of a community in crisis. With an unflinching eye the film captures their...  (more)

  
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  Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

  1. A film by Nathan Evans
  4. run time 30 minutes

  On the third of July 1973 David Bowie killed off Ziggy Stardust. The last song he ever sang was Rock'n'Roll Suicide. This film brings Ziggy back from the grave for the Puppetry Promo Bowie never made…  (more)

  
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  little man

  1. A film by Nicole Conn
  4. run time 107 minutes

  Without warning, a family is brought to its knees when they must choose between the destruction of their idyllic family and the life of their infant son. This emotional thriller presents the ultimate dilemma as it places you on the edge of your seat and takes you on the mother of all roller coaster rides: "Beautifully shot, edited, scored and narrated by Conn, 'little man' is a home movie turned...  (more)

  
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  Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School

  1. A film by Irena Fayngold
  4. run time 60 minutes

  Hineini (Hebrew for "Here I am") chronicles the story of one student˙s courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on everyone involved. Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with...  (more)

  
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  In Memory of Me

  1. A film by Samantha Lavin
  4. run time 22 minutes

  After eight years, a young woman reluctantly goes back to her small hometown for her best friend's wedding. When the memories of an affair she had with another woman during high school resurface, her present starts to unravel.  (more)

  
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  Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

  1. A film by Eric Smith
  4. run time 23 minutes

  Like hundreds of other gay men, Eric fled the New York City winters for quick weekend getaways in SOUTH BEACH MIAMI. On one of these trips in 1995 he met IRENE WILLIAMS on LINCOLN ROAD. Her wild and colorful handmade outfits immediately caught his attention. With video camera in hand he began to realize what an amazing individual was inside these clothes. Over the next decade Eric documents a...  (more)

  
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  20 Centimeters

  1. A film by Ramón Salazar
  4. run time 113 minutes

  With an “Almodóvarian” twist and the flamboyance of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, director Ramón Salazar’s 20 Centimeters tells the story of Marieta (Mónica Cervera) a narcoleptic, transsexual woman who longs to get rid of 8 inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous person she dreams to be. When she accidentally falls asleep, usually during the...  (more)

  
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  50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

  1. A film by Stewart Main
  4. run time 90 minutes

  Sweet, chubby, theatrical Billy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as the only son he’s obliged to try. The cows are stubborn and the chores gruelling, but Billy finds escape in a fantasy world playing Lana, heroine of his favourite TV show Adventures in Space. Not everyone approves of Billy’s transformation. On the brink of adolescence, he discovers growing up is more complicated than he...  (more)

  
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  533 Statements

  1. A film by Tori Foster
  4. run time 70 minutes

  After growing up in a small Ontario city Tori Foster decided to travel Canada to talk to 20 women about what it's like to be queer where they live. Her journey spans all ten provinces, beginning in Newfoundland and ending in British Columbia. Each of the women she meets has a unique perspective on all things queer - stereotypes, hairstyles, gender mishaps, and community life, to name a few. Shot...  (more)

  

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