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Doc Shorts

Explore queer stories from around the globe in this gripping documentary shorts block.

Short films showing in this program:

Communion

24 mins

Lesbian friends over 50 travel together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, their desire, and their freedom. Over the weekend, they fully experience the richness of a reality they already carry within themselves, strengthening the bonds that unite them.

Cruising Lesbiana

18 mins

Select characters from Barcelona's flinta community sit in a driving car and and talk about cruising, desire and different forms of spaces. Rough HDV material and selected images draw on the city of Barcelona and a fictional narrative of a cab driver who explores various forms of cruising areas, creating an experimental docu-fiction narrative.

Here, Queer, and On TV

16 mins

Before YouTube, Lavender Lounge lit up public access TV with a ’90s queer and trans dance party and groundbreaking show, capturing San Francisco’s first Dyke March and the first official Pride video. Thirty years later, creator Mark Kliem brings rare footage to light, reuniting the original crew with younger generations when queer history is again under attack.

Making It Fit

5 mins

Making It Fit is a short animated documentary reflecting on the experience of death and mourning in the LGBTQ+ community, and the ways that navigating tradition, grief, and family often necessitates reinvention of funerary and remembrance rituals.

Oh Paulo

17 mins

After failing to capture a boy named Paulo with his camera, filmmaker Cam Archer reflects on recent shoots, what's missing, and what he can't seem to stop photographing.

So Be It

8 mins

Thus animated documentary offers a rare and tender portrait of lifelong queer love by sharing the candid, heartfelt stories of five LGBTQIA+ couples.

Too Disgusting to Be Confused

13 mins

Founded in 1972 by sculptor Andrew Logan, The Alternative Miss World is a celebration of transformation and unorthodox beauty. Starting as makeshift private parties held in his artist studio in an old jigsaw factory, the event married the Miss World competition with Crufts dog show, all with a sense of joy and humour.

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Running Time
81 mins
Language
English, Portuguese, & Spanish
Section
Shorts Programs