Spanish Premiere
Brazil, 2017, 94′
Graça is a single mother who works as a massage therapist and lives with her two children. When she decides to go after her brother, Luiz Carlos, whom she hasn’t seen in over 15 years due to a quarrel, they meet. He has become Gloria, a beautiful and successful trans. She accepts Graça’s invitation to meet her nephews and eventually realizes that maybe, to be complete, she needs to become a mother.
Spanish Premiere
India, 2017, 52′
Within this hetero-patriarchal world, the women resist with their bodies, with their hearts, their love and desires.
2011.In a small village of West Bengal,India – Swapna and Sucheta-two young women in love with each other – took their own lives. No one from their families came to claim their dead bodies.They remain unclaimed… They had died for love but still live among us, for us.Based on a true story.
European Premiere
Taiwan, 2018, 96′
As same-sex couples, Cindy, Joanne, Charles, and Tim collaborate together to help each other to own a baby. Even though it’s not generally acceptable in many places in Taiwan to be same-sex parents.
Over 25 years after The Wedding Banquet (1993), on the crucial period of Taiwan becoming the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Bao Bao (2018) can be regarded as the most significant LGBTQ film in this generation.
Spanish Premiere
Chile, 2018, 102′
It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for his brother. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives — from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.
Spanish Premiere
India, 2018, 102′
In South India and in a conservative family the love between two boys is debated by the repressive code 377 that exists in the country.
Spanish Premiere
Denmark/USA, 2017, 67′
“This film is made as a gender liberation manifestation, through the artist Miss Rosewood is the intention to give an experience of self-empowerment to live out who you believe you are or what you want to be. There is no specification to this process and the message is of that to free the mind from classification. The images are rough to unsettle the morality of a perfect view to the gender liberation, its intentional to provoke inner conflict with what is freedom.”Helle Jensen.
World Premiere
Catalonia, 2018, 52′
Iago Pericot ‘The Conquest of Innocence’ is a journey through the events that marked his life (Franco’s repression, awareness of his homosexuality, his stay in London during the troubled 60s) and his works (“Rebel Delirium”, ‘Bent’, ‘MozartNu’), which were essential for modernizing the Catalan theater. It is the story of the creative process of an artist who, at 85, wants to continue talking about the world through his art. It is the portrait of his relationship with Josep, his companion for 15 years.
Spanish Premiere
USA, 2017, 100′
Sam (Alan Cumming)is a troubled New York-based artist. A survivor of the AIDS epidemic, his loft is full of souvenirs and memories of former lovers, along with evidence of his time as an activist in ACT UP. He meets a young man, Braeden (Zachary Booth) in a bar and assumes that because of his youth the only reason for him to pursue a sexual encounter is a commercial one. However, it turns out to be the catalyst for a new phase in his life as an artist. Through Sam, a generation deals with the unresolved trauma of loss for those who lived through the 1980s and 1990s. Sam’s grief and anger turn into a sharing of knowledge and experience, expanding the possibilities of intergenerational understanding.
Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, 2017, 82′
2017 sees the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales between adult males, in private. While it would take several decades before homosexuals would reach anything like full equality in this country, this legislation marks the beginning of this journey, through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their ‘condition’. There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All these accounts amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past.
Spanish Premiere
Italy, 1990, 58′
Recovering memory: Barcelona is preparing the Olympic Games of ’92. There are people who transform their lives and at the same time they show us another reality.
The documentary CHINATOWN is a witness of the pre-Olympic Barcelona transformation: as a cosmopolitan city and that of some citizens such as Carmen de Mairena, who lives in the red-light district and exhibits the human squalid conditions and wealth values. Together with Nino Spaghetti, both are the main characters of this city transformation and at the same time its personality.
Spanish Premiere
France, 2017, 86′
A young, modern and very happy woman falls in love with beautiful Cecile. The only cloud in this perfect picture: her 76 ex-girlfriends and crazy family! This film has the ambition to be the first mainstream romantic comedy where the central couple consists of two very funny women.
Spanish Premiere
Puerto Rico, Venezuela, 2016, 113′
Teresa is a vegetarian lesbian and a successful astrophysicist living with her fiancé, Daniela in the Canary Islands. After years of auto-exile, she goes back to her rural home in Puerto Rico to invite her family to her wedding. The Díaz family is a conservative clan that owns a Poultry Processing Plant. Unwilling to reveal their secrets, no one in the family is who they say they are, which is why Teresa opts for lying.
FIPRESCI’s Award, 32 Festival de Cinema de Guadalajara (Mexico)
Spanish Premiere
Mexico, 2017, 103′
An old house in a traditional neighborhood of Guadalajara is inhabited by five people who share the expenses, dreams and a part of their lives, while observed by Schrödinger, a cat that seems to be part of the place. Through its eyes, we know the conflicts of these boys from different regions of the country and opposite cultures, who left their home in search of a life of their own, finding a dysfunctional family on the way.
Awards: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Lola Amores) Guadalajara International, Special Honorary Award (Maguey LGBT Competition) 2017
Spanish Premiere
Cuba, France, Colombia, 2016, 105′
The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days. The story goes on in the East of Cuba, in the early 80’s. It deals with the friendship that arises between two people who, apparently, are very different, but who gradually become aware that the things that unite them are more important than the ones that separate them.
European Premiere
USA, 2016, 86′
A misanthropic woman is forced in sensitivity training and forms an unlikely friendship with the bubbly woman who is assigned to be her coach.
European Premiere
Cuba, 2016, 50′
Caibarien was one of the most prosperous Cuba fishing villages. Now their progress seems due, rather, to the LGBTI activism of many of its inhabitants. For that reason, the Russian Roxana Rojo says that the former Villa Blanca is stained pink in the middle of the national gray.
European Premiere
Philippines, 2015, 100′
The film is about a life style photographer and a student activist caught up in a relationship amidst contrasting ideals and principles.
World Premiere
France, Argentina, 2016, 53′
Mariela Muñoz was born named Leonardo. Transexual, he was imprisoned and fighted for his personal condition, and devoted himself to bringing up 17 children who were left to his charge with dignity. Mariela was the first transgender person who got the official documents in Argentine.
European Premiere
USA, 2016, 89′
A charismatic Xicana lesbian seduces and alluring Puerto Rican woman, only to find herself recreating her tumultuous past.
European Premiere
USA, 2015, 100′
A contemporary film noir, set in West Hollywood…
In Los Angeles, it’s sometimes hard to tell your friends from your enemies, and all of Dusty’s friends, it seems, are capable of murder.
European Premiere
Colombia, 2015, 88′
Lucia, a married woman, after the sudden death of her estranged brother Andrés, goes through an emotional crisis. At the funeral, Lucia cannot bear to see him being buried and escapes to Andrés’ apartment. There she meets Mariana, Andrés fiancée, who has been using the apartment as a hideout since the wedding day. Slowly the two women begin to help each other mourn their loss and grow to love one another. After going on a road trip together, Lucia realizes she no longer wants to be married and decides, once and for all, to follow her dreams next to Mariana, the love of her life.
European Premiere
USA, 2016, 66′
“We felt like every day was wonderful and anything could happen.” Rich and distinguished stories unfold among the lives of long-term survivors who have learned how to celebrate, heal, love, and thrive after the devastation of the early AIDS crisis (…)
Survivors are still affected by the trauma of not only their diagnosis but also the loss of community and way of life. Nobody knew they would grow old with AIDS.
Collaborator
Spanish Premiere
USA, 2016, 97′
A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.
World Premiere
Catalonia, 2016, 105′
Emma and Toni are two brothers who when they became orphans should take over the family business: a riding school. Emma is still young and Toni takes an uncontrolled and promiscuous gay life, so Ramon, the foreman, and his son Aaron, are the ones who keep the business going on. Problems arise when both brothers fall in love with Aaron and he feels pressured by his father’s homophobia.
Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2015, 79′
This film is asking the question of affilation on different levels, it is a Buddy-Movie about an unlikely friendship. Ibrahim, young, gay, & Turkish, falls in love with “Ali”, a wrestler and criminal, German & straight. A kind of lovestory develops between the two men that surpasses both of them.
USA, 2015, 101′
Two Girls. One Gun. The Mafia. Because coming out to family is hard, but coming out to FAMILY is funny. Alto is a quirky romantic comedy set in the midst of an unanticipated run-in with the New York Mafia. Improbable love, the Mafia, and family traditions… proving the most surprising discoveries often come when we least expect it, in the midst of murder plots, federal investigations, and oh yeah, lasagna.
USA, 2014, 55′
The film explores the difficult relationship expectations on women in our society. When a young married woman begins to realize that true love and the relationship she wants isn’t what society would like her to think. It’s not until Christine meets Jen at work that her repressed sexuality reawakens.
Mexico, 2014, 110′
Four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
India, 2015, 110′
The first gay film made in Bollywood. Will Ayan have the courage to come out about his sexuality? Will a Pakistani family ever accept a homosexual son and especially when he is in love with a Hindu Indian man? Film about Love. Love which is above gender, race, culture, religion, language and territorial boundaries. Contrast of gay cultures: From India and Pakistan to Norwegian lesbian friends.
Catalonia, 2015, 64′
Mario and Sergio are pregnant. They don’t have uterus, neither ovaries nor mammary glands, however they are longing to become parents. This Family Story explains their long way as parents candidates. From the very beginning when they feel a strong instinct until the birth of their beloved son, Galileo, by means of surrogated pregnancy.
Spain, 2014, 66′
“El Mejunje de Silverio” is a cultural centre located in Cuba. Rock concerts, exhibitions, theatrical performances, and children’s shows are held there… But the venue is best known as a meeting place for the LGBT community, thus creating a fascinating melting pot of transexuals, children, artists, rock ‘n’ rollers…
Greece, 2015, 55′
Jhony C, aged 25, from Barcelona is an actor in gay porn films with sadomasochistic practices. Evangelidis, the Greek filmmaker, follows him during a fictitious day with his thoughts about life and love. Jhony’s lonely lifestyle, with no lies, longings, dignity and respect to others. In summary, its about a pure life like the tattoo on his body.
USA, 2015, 79′
When Jamie finds out her girlfriend Jill has spent time exploring BDSM, her insecurities about falling behind in the bedroom push her to propose that they start going to underground clubs. Jamie decides to use the pseudonym Sally so she can stay anonymous but still look like she’s using her real name, which apparently she thinks makes her look cool. Identifying as the butch one in a traditional butch/femme couple, “Sally” assumes she will take the dominant role in their escapades, with Jill as her submissive, but Jill has ideas of her own.
Cuba, 2014, 104′
In 90’s Havana, a nurse and a home builder hopelessly in love, live happily married. A circumstancial fact of her past life, will put their feelings to test and undermine the most elemental principles.
Canada, 2014, 86′
Maurice Lesmers (Maxime Desmons) has left a troubled past in Paris behind him and moved to North Bay Canada to start a new life. He has managed to build a wall between himself and the outside world, refusing to even pursue a meaningful relationship with Michael (Jean-Michel Le Gal). Maurice begins tutoring a young student named Allan (Alex Ozerov), who is quickly becoming infatuated with his new teacher.
