LGBT+
9 films
All the Colors of Youth (Kolorowy film o młodych ludziach)
dir. Agnieszka Kalińska
dok2025
What are today’s young people like? Gen Z is growing up in the age of unlimited opportunities and access to the latest technologies. Yet, their emotional condition shows that growing up in the digital era makes life easier but not simpler.
Read moreAny Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
dir. Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
dok2024
‘I was born but I never lived,’ says an African American R&B singer, who went into exile from the US to Canada in the late 1950s because of transphobia and racism. Using phone calls made just before Jackie Shane’s death, the filmmakers tell the story of her life in hiding and her coming out.
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Beyond Eden
dir. Al Johnstone
dok2025
In the 1970s, following the wave of radical social changes, a group of American lesbians decided to create a world without men, settling far away from big metropolises. After 50 years, some of them return to see what has remained of the place that was to become their new Eden.
Read moreFull Support (Tmicha Melea)
dir. Michal Cohen
dok2024
This place offers more than just a bra fitting. Customers who come to the Jaffa shop are young and old, Jewish and Arab, post-mastectomy and post-plastic surgery, cis and trans. For a moment, the bra fitter becomes their friend and confidante.
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Lovers in the Sky (Amantes en el cielo)
dir. Fermin de la Serna
dok2025
For many years, Cristina and La Bonita have worked as cooks on merchant ships sailing the Peruvian Amazon. However, being transgender still poses a challenge to local customs and beliefs.
Read moreMonk in Pieces
dir. Billy Shebar, David C Roberts
dok
She is an absolute artist whose vocal and performance work has never lent itself to easy classification. Meredith Monk’s music is said to come from another planet. The film is a collage of her extraordinary activities and personal reflections when confronted with the past and the inevitable passing of time.
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Notes from Sheepland
dir. Cara Holmes
dok2023
The film’s protagonist combines, with some difficulty, her artistic career with sheep farming she took up when she inherited the family farm. She is a committed breeder that proudly wears lipstick but juxtaposes it with the work overalls in which she takes her animals to graze in the field. She eludes the gender stereotypes that have been attributed to Irish women over the years.
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Sane Inside Insanity — The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
dir. Andreas Zerr
dok2025
There are more phenomena than are dreamt of by pop culture scholars, such as the musical ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and in particular, its big screen incarnation. On the 50th anniversary of its premiere, this documentary tells the bravura story of the making of the film and its fan base.
Read moreThe True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival
dir. Julie Rubio
dok2024
Today, her paintings are experiencing a worldwide renaissance and remain an inspiration for artists in various fields. And the biography of the Warsaw-born artist is not less fascinating than the paintings themselves. The film pays tribute to Lempicka, who courageously crossed the boundaries set for women in art.
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