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Departures

Parting isn’t only sweet sorrow; it can be liberating, confusing, mysterious, tender, or dangerous. The characters in these exquisite LGBTQ+ dramas from around the globe all are setting out anew or leaving something behind… but each journey is uniquely thrilling, and singularly fraught.

Short films showing in this program:

Freed

21 mins

Twenty-year-old Issa (Alassane Diong) is about to get out from jail, when he meets Gaëtan (Yoann Zimmer) a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet.

Marlon Brando

20 mins

Best friends Cas and Naomi are graduating from high school and spend every second of their days together. Within their friendship they experience a feeling of ultimate safety. But when their future plans are seemingly different, their relationship wobbles.

Nowhere

20 mins

A young Palestinian woman reunites with her long-lost brother in Tel Aviv, discovering the unimagined truth behind his exiled existence.

Sunday

10 mins

When the middle-aged Kamble makes his weekly visit to the neighborhood barber shop, it’s not just for a shave. He can’t wait to be touched by Jaan, the new barber-boy he has a crush on. It’s the highlight of his otherwise dull existence as a married man leading a dual life in a society that abhors homosexuality.

Unliveable

20 mins

In Brazil where a trans person is murdered every three days, Marilene searches for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.

Who Can Predict What Will Move You

9 mins

Two boys caught in a rivalrous relationship spend one last night together in Brooklyn.

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Running Time
100 mins
Section
Shorts, Streaming
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