LGBT+

15 films
We live in a world where, what sexual orientation we have matters a lot, unfortunately, most often to the disadvantage of non-heteronormative people. Directors_ are not afraid to show the harsh realities of the LGBTQ+ community, but more often they give them a chance for a happy ending.
  • 27

    dir. Flóra Anna Buda
    anim2023

    Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

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  • Abraham (Ebrahim)

    dir. Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini
    fab2023

    A short, dramatic conversation. A man is trying to elicit some information from a clearly scared woman. Where is she? In a cave. With a fire burning at its entrance. How did she get there? And, first and foremost, what happened to Abraham? The teenage boy went missing. He is not at home. There are only burnt women’s clothes.

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  • Amma's Pride

    dir. Shiva Krish
    dok2024

    Srija, a transgender woman from a small town in the south of India, is trying to get her marriage recognised. Unfortunately, her fight for justice, the media’s interest and the inconsideration of many people overshadow her relationship. But even when the problems start to mount, Srija can still count on the unconditional support of her mother.

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  • Babylonia (Babilonia)

    dir. Duda Gambogi
    dok2024

    It is a hot night in Cuba. During her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa, Elizabeth de Victória must confront all the difficulties that precede a live performance.

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  • Baldiga - Unlocked Heart (Baldiga - Entsichertes Herz)

    dir. Markus Stein
    dok2024

    In the 1980s, West Berlin was the European LGBT+ capital. Jürgen Baldiga, a photographer, poet and activist, became its co-founder and chronicler. The archival materials he left behind were used to tell a neurotic story about himself and the community living in the shadow of AIDS. Age rated: 18+

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  • Better This Way (E Mai Bine Așa)

    dir. Emanuel Pârvu
    fab2023

    Sixteen-year-old Adi is taken for a physical examination. He has obvious traces of beating, his face is lacerated and it is evident that he has been whipped. He does not say much. The police find out very soon that the motive behind the assault was his sexual orientation. In a small community, this is a reason to be ostracised, and for the family, especially his religious father, it is dishonour.

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  • Comme Des Cowboys

    dir. Julia Sadowska
    fab2024

    Can one’s adolescent love which ended with separation flourish again after years? Julita and Stacy parted ways, but now they meet again at a stud farm where Julita is working together with her mother. Stacy comes to participate in an important competition. The infatuation is back, but is it worth the reopening of old wounds?

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    Awards:Golden Hobby-Horse
  • Diamond Beauty

    dir. Anna Korom
    fab2023

    Maria is addicted to plastic surgeries. Successive augmentations do not satisfy her and she wants new ones. Her nose, lips or facial fillers are never perfect. Now, she is looking forward to the opportunity of a date with her former love. But where to find money if she is drowning in debt?

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    Awards:Silver Dragon
  • Everything Needs to Live [PL audio description] (Wszystko ma żyć)

    dir. Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko
    dok2024

    Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world – that’s the motto of Anna, the strongest woman in the world, who loves animals. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Anna joined by a group of volunteers are doing everything possible to save as many wounded and abandoned animals as they can in these difficult days.

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  • Fahnenflucht

    dir. Emil Ahlhelm, Konradin Schuchter
    dok2023

    If you are a man, you have only two options during a war – stay and fight or leave to save your life. Not everyone wants to lay down their life for their homeland and this should be respected. A story of people who refused to participate in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine on account of their beliefs.

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  • Flores del otro patio

    dir. Jorge Cadena
    fab2022
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  • Monogamia

    dir. Ohad Milstein
    dok2023

    The director observes his senior parents whose relationship burned out a long time ago, for which his mother tries to compensate with shopaholism. The son initiates a psychodrama featuring his parents and at the same time tests his own marriage, which is falling into a routine. Is monogamy still the best form of a relationship?

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  • Ouvidor

    dir. Matias Borgström
    dok2023

    In Ouvidor, the largest art squat in Latin America, 120 artists from different countries resist constant eviction threats from a government with fascist tendencies in Brazil, while internal tensions are fueled by Red Bull's sponsorship of their Art Biennial.

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  • Stimulants & Empathogens (Stymulanty & Empatogeny)

    dir. Mateusz Pacewicz
    fab2024

    Antek fell in love head over heels. The object of his affection is Kuba, a teenage drug dealer. The boys have nothing in common. How to initiate a meeting? Antek does not take drugs, but he is in love, so he continues to buy fixes. Eventually, the boys have a chance to spend a longer evening together. Can anything go wrong?

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  • Teaches of Peaches

    dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer
    dok2024

    Peaches, who is a performer, provoker and a sassy lady, does not slow down in the sixth decade of her life. To the contrary, her tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her album ‘Teaches of Peaches’ was an explosion of creativity. For the filmmakers, it was an opportunity to find out more about this rebellious artist, an icon of feminism and queer culture. Age rated: 18+

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    Awards:Golden Heynal