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Realness & Revelations

Love is constant; how we love is unique. From vogue to poetry, from the cotillion to the club, from South Africa to São Paulo, these Black and brown queer stories celebrate how culture shapes the way we love.

– ALLEGRA MADSEN

Short films showing in this program:

Closets

18 mins

A middle-class Indian couple work on learning and accepting their son’s sexuality to create comfortable ground for him to come out of “the closet,” but when the actual truth comes out, they can’t come to terms with it.

Heaven Reaches Down to Earth

10 mins

After Tau comes to a realization about their sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of thoughts and emotions in Tumelo. Nothing will ever be the same between them.

Little Sky

14 mins

Chinese American pop star and drag sensation Sky (Wo Chan) returns to the city they were raised in to find their estranged immigrant father. Haunted by their childhood memories, Sky risks their non-binary identity to end the cycle of violence in their family.

More Happiness

13 mins

In a late-night conversation, a young woman asks her mother about the simple and complicated notions of love and happiness. Her mother’s response unearths and reexamines fragmented memories of an old flame.

Noor & Layla

13 mins

Noor and Layla are breaking up. Is it the end of the road for these two Muslim women… or is it just the beginning?

Perifericu

20 mins

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBTQ+ in the city of São Paulo. Between vogue and poetry, from church to city access, the dreams and uncertainties of youth flood their existences.

Pure

12 mins

On the eve of her cotillion ball, a young Black girl grapples with her queer identity and questions her purity.

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Running Time
100 mins
Section
Shorts, Streaming
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