37° LFF

IN FROM THE SIDE
by Matt Carter

Country: UK, Year: 2022, Duration: 134'

The world of gay rugby seen from the inside: the beauty, the strenght, the affections, the adventures of two rugby players, who contravene the main rule of not falling in love with a teammate. Tiredness, sweat and mud intersect with the passion of lovers and with personal and team problems. Magnetic performances, and a direction very attentive to the realism of this sport. Heavy drinking and heavy jokes are part of the team's way of being, but these massive athletes soon reveal their vulnerabilities. You may not love rugby, but you can't help but love these men.

IL DECAMERON
THE DECAMERON
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Country: Italy, Year: 1971, Duration: 111'

Nine short stories and a frame, in which the director himself carves out the role of a pupil of Giotto, which bring the vital and mocking, foul-mouthed and promiscuous Middle Ages of the Boccaccio anthology to the big screen. An exuberant and evocative fresco, which looks to fourteenth-century painting and beyond, in which embraces and death, excrement and religion are intertwined, with grotesque and playful results. The first chapter of the "Trilogy of Life", winner of the Silver Bear at the 1971 Berlinale, denounced and tried, was a huge success at the box office and was the progenitor of the so-called decamerotic vein.

GOOD TIMES FOR A CHANGE
by Mick De Paola, Elena Comoglio

Country: Italy, Argentina, Year: 2021, Duration: 45'

Good Times for a Change narrates about the month before the election of Gianmarco Negri in Tromello, in the province of Pavia, who thus becomes the first transgender mayor of Italy, and about the construction of this result, which did not seem granted at all: "a victory against prejudice, against certainties... because everything seemed already written... ". And it tells of a group of non-LGBTQI+ people who believed that all of this was possible and who chose to change, together with Gianmarco. A story of courage, friendship, support and amazement that faces a simple reality: change is possible.

A STAR IS BORN
by George Cukor

Country: USA, Year: 1954, Duration: 176'

For Norman Maine, a Hollywood star in sad decline, the meeting with the unknown singer Ester Blodgett, who avoids a fool for him during a show, has something redeeming: to repay his debt he will launch her in the cinematic firmament, leading her to success. First dramatic role of the extraordinary Judy Garland, who should have turned 100 this year and here plays, dances, sings, enchants: an acute reflection on the Hollywood star system, which is presented in the massively restored version of the 1983, enriched by the audio of the cut scenes and very rare scene photos. A must-see for all musical lovers.

LONESOME
by Craig Boreham

Country: Australia, Year: 2022, Duration: 95'

The silhouette of a cowboy appears on a sunburned horizon. Dusty jeans, cowboy hat and a backpack on one shoulder. Casey, a country boy on the run from a small town, he is heading for the great temptress, Sydney. He looks for a spot to crash. His Grindr chirps a message alert and so meets Tib, a young city lad. both boys will find something they were unconsciously looking for, but neither of them will quite know how to play and handle. Lonesome explores casual sexuality, affection, loneliness and isolation in a world that never was more connected.

HEI VERDEN
HELLO WORLD
by Kenneth Elvebakk

Country: Norway, Year: 2021, Duration: 88

Hello World is the disruptive portrait of three youngsters: Dina 13, Viktor 12, and Joachim 14 years old. They are the firsts to come out in their social group: school, friendship, and city community. They’re queer, they're boats traveling upstream, they fight agaist binarism and gender stereotypes. A documentary that represents the courage and importance of daily visibility, showing us the involving and funny everyday life of three youngsters who celebrate the importance of differences. 

LA FARAONA
by Collettiva+

Country: Italy, Year: 2022, Duration: 98'

La Faraona is the first Italian documentary entirely dedicated to Mario Mieli. Among the many founding fathers of the Italian LGBTQI+ movement, he was the most eccentric, intellectual and irreverent. The documentary reconstructs the stages of Mieli's life with a queer eye, thanks to the testimonies of his closest friends and some selected archive materials, collected in the making of the movie Bitter Years by Andrea Adriatico,and gives access both to the public and to the unpublished private life. La Faraona makes us miss Mario Mieli, one of the most avant-garde activists in our community, more than ever.

SHORTBUS 4K
by John Cameron Mitchell

Country: USA, Year: 2006, Duration: 101'

An emotional exploration of the comic and tragic intersections between love
and sex, in and around a peculiarly different joint. A sex therapist who has
never had an orgasm, a lonely dominatrix, a gay couple undecided whether to open their relationship or not, and many others, converge in a weekly meeting called Shortbus: a crazy nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. A modern masterpiece of sensual freedom and frankness, which candidly suggests new solutions for the doubts of the mind, the pleasures of the flesh and the imperatives of the heart.

A 4K restoration.

LONESOME
by Craig Boreham

Country: Australia, Year: 2022, Duration: 95'

The silhouette of a cowboy appears on a sunburned horizon. Dusty jeans, cowboy hat and a backpack on one shoulder. Casey, a country boy on the run from a small town, he is heading for the great temptress, Sydney. He looks for a spot to crash. His Grindr chirps a message alert and so meets Tib, a young city lad. both boys will find something they were unconsciously looking for, but neither of them will quite know how to play and handle. Lonesome explores casual sexuality, affection, loneliness and isolation in a world that never was more connected.

HEI VERDEN
HELLO WORLD
by Kenneth Elvebakk

Country: Norway, Year: 2021, Duration: 88

Hello World is the disruptive portrait of three youngsters: Dina 13, Viktor 12, and Joachim 14 years old. They are the firsts to come out in their social group: school, friendship, and city community. They’re queer, they're boats traveling upstream, they fight agaist binarism and gender stereotypes. A documentary that represents the courage and importance of daily visibility, showing us the involving and funny everyday life of three youngsters who celebrate the importance of differences. 

COMIZI D'AMORE
LOVE MEETINGS
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Country: Italy, Year: 1964, Duration: 92'

What is the relationship of Italians with sexuality? What do they think of taboo topics (we are in 1964) such as divorce, virginity, prostitution and homosexuality? From these questions arises a multifaceted investigation, in which PPP collects the testimonies, between North and South, of proletarians, well-known personalities, intellectuals, pushing its keen investigating eye in the countryside, outside the factories, on the beaches, in the cultural salons. A historically interesting and still relevant work of cinéma vérité, which unmasks the hypocrisies and contradictions of a country dominated by Catholic morality.

SWEETHEART
by Marley Morrison

Country: UK, Year: 2021, Duration: 103'

AJ is a seventeen-year-old girl, a truly millennial, and she's inappropriate and unconventional but environmentally aware and very careful to the protection of the planet. Her annoying and conventional family forces her to spend the holidays in a summer village. She is determined not to have fun. When she discovers that the campsite doesn't even have wi-fi, she thinks she's going through the worst week of her life… Until she meets Isla, the charming lifeguard, and she falls madly in love with her. This young love makes her even question her bizarre family. Sweetheart is one of the best and funniest coming of ages of this season.

FASHION BABYLON
by Gianluca Matarrese

Country: France, Year: 2022, Duration: 87'

Gianluca Matarrese breaks down the scenes of the world of fashion and runways and gives us a lively, tender, contradictory and deeply honest movie. For a long time the director follows the worldly life and the work commitments of Michelle Elie (designer and fashion icon), Casey Spooner (performer and musician) and Violet Chachki (winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race"), real resident and celebrities of the most important runways: Milan, Paris, New York. How much does it cost to be yourself and to be a star in a world of appearances?

DANS LA NATURE
IN NATURE
by Marcel Barelli

Country: Switzerland, Year: 2021, Duration: 5'

Are we sure that in Nature one couple is always formed by a male and a female? Actually, in the animal world there are couples formed by two females, by two males and we also have species that change sex at a certain age! A light-toned animation introducing a huge theme.

HALF
by Jacob Roberts

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 10'

Half-Jewish (but his friends remind him that it is the wrong half), Jonah realizes that he is attracted to both boys and girls. Telling his girlfriend is complicated, the results are tragicomic, and there are some implications he didn’t consider either.

THE WINDOW
by Sarah Kaskas

Country: Lebanon, Year: 2021, Duration: 15'

One year after the explosion in the port of Beirut, Basma and Mariam stand in what used to be their bedroom. Looking at what remains of the port, the two try to understand the drama they shared and the reasons for the end of a story.

POR QUÉ NO ME GUSTA EL HELADO DE FRESA
THAT'S WHY I DON'T LIKE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM
by Inés Pintor Sierra, Pablo Santidrián

Country: Spain, Year: 2022, Duration: 9'

Álex stayed at a hotel bar after hours, working; his ex appears, and tries to bring him back to the origin of the anger and self-inflicted contempt that led him to throw himself into his job, fleeing from something he is not guilty of.  

MARIE
by Yudi Zhang

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 15'

After years of absence, Marie gets the haistyle for special occasions, puts on the most beautiful of her clothes and returns for Christmas in the village where she grew up. She shows up at her father’s house, where no one knows her anymore.

LEO LA NUIT
LEO BY NIGHT
by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa

Country: France, Year: 2021, Duration: 22'

Paul goes from job to job, from man to man. He doesn't know what tomorrow will bring. This Wednesday he has to look after his eight-year-old son, whom he didn't raise, but is excited to spend some quality time with his dad.

TOO ROUGH
by Sean Lìonadh

Country: UK, Year: 2022, Duration: 16'

After boozy night, Nick wakes up in a hangover, in his own bed, next to his boyfriend, Charlie: hiding him from the eyes of his dysfunctional, homophobic, religious and racist family will be no easy feat. 

WILDHOOD
by Bretten Hannam

Country: Canada, Year: 2021, Duration: 108'

Finding your own identity puts all the pieces of life back in place, no matter how difficult. This happens to Link, who escaped from a toxic and violent father, leaves with his little brother in search of the mother who had abandoned them. On the way they meet Pasmay, a pow wow dancer boy, who, attracted by Link, follows them on their journey. As the kids travel through the Mi'kmaw Native American territories in Nova Scotia, Link will finally find identity, love and a welcoming community. A journey of growth, hard but tender and full of hope.

NELLY & NADINE
by Magnus Gertten

Country: Sweden, Year: 2022, Duration: 92

For many years their story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable love story. Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together.

PINK NARCISSUS
by James Bidgood

Country: USA, Year: 1974, Duration: 65'

Idyllic and sparkling landscapes are the fantasy refuge of a beautiful young man, in reality a hustler in the public toilets of the disreputable neighbourhoods of the city. Sex for him is a profession and nothing more: like the Narcissus of Hellenic mythology, he cannot love anyone other than himself, by alla means. An absolute cult, nocturnal and camp, which, starting from the lesson of Jack Smith and Kenneth Anger, builds a dazzling and kaleidoscopic aesthetic universe, with pictorial echoes of Gustav Klimt and Maxfield Parrish. Lovers FF's dutiful tribute to director James Bidgood, who passed away a few months ago.

NELLY & NADINE
by Magnus Gertten

Country: Sweden, Year: 2022, Duration: 92

For many years their story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable love story. Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together.

WILDHOOD
by Bretten Hannam

Country: Canada, Year: 2021, Duration: 108'

Finding your own identity puts all the pieces of life back in place, no matter how difficult. This happens to Link, who escaped from a toxic and violent father, leaves with his little brother in search of the mother who had abandoned them. On the way they meet Pasmay, a pow wow dancer boy, who, attracted by Link, follows them on their journey. As the kids travel through the Mi'kmaw Native American territories in Nova Scotia, Link will finally find identity, love and a welcoming community. A journey of growth, hard but tender and full of hope.

NIDHAL
by Bassem Ben Brahim

Country: Tunisia, Year: 2022, Duration: 10'

The story of Nidhal, a young Tunisian homosexual who was an advocate for queer people's rights and freedoms on the radio, and after unsustainable pressures and death threats, had to seek asylum in the Netherlands.

SHALL WE TALK?
by Katya Mikheeva

Country: Russia, Year: 2020, Duration: 5'

It is no secret that belonging to the LGBTQI+ community in Russia is more than problematic. Polina finds the courage to come out with her family, and this move of hers opens a dialogue

ISTEN HOZOTT!
WELCOME
by Anna Forrás

Country: Hungary, Year: 2021, Duration: 10'

In a village in the Hungarian countryside, a homosexual girl runs away from the homophobic fury of the villagers. Inspired by Kadyrov's anti LGBTQI+ violent actions in Chechnya, a breathless long take, created under the supervision of Béla Tarr.

PAXMAL
THE STATION IN-BETWEEN
by Sven Schnyder

Country: Switzerland, Year: 2021, Duration: 19'

Louis, Theo and an urn with the ashes of Samy – husband of the first, best friend of the other one – who was killed in a homophobic attack. They go by train to the Paxmal, in the heart of Alps: a series of bizarre encounters helps them to process pain and find a new direction.

FRANCESKA
by Alberto Cano

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 7'

On a cold night, in the castle of Frankenstein, the scientist Viktor tries to bring back to life his beloved Franceska, with the collaboration of the inseparable and devoted Igor. The experiment takes an unexpected turn. A funny, small, parody of a parody.

OÙ VONT LES SONS
WHERE DO THE SOUNDS GO
by Florent Gouëlou

Country: France, Year: 2021, Duration: 17'

Five friends on a Skype call, waiting for a sixth, which is late. We undestand what gets them together: the memory of Parlez-moi d'amour, a slam evening organized by their friend Clémence, where all of them had opened their heart to the public.

HVEM ER KATHARINA
THIS IS KATHARINE
by Ida H. Eldøen

Country: Norway, Year: 2022, Duration: 15'

"Do I like Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves better?" "How does a lesbian walk?". What are the models for teenagers like Katharina, who assumes to be a lesbian, but can rely only on cinema and TV references? A self-portrait that invites to embrace each one their own difference.

ET TU CHERCHES QUOI DE BEAU ICI?
I SHOULD FEED MY CAT
by Abram Cerda

Country: Belgium, Year: 2022, Duration: 16'

In the greyish light of Brussels, Stefan, a Chilean guy who has lived there for 15 years, goes, unconvinced, to meet Loïc, a guy from Grindr, but he understands that the guy would like to do chem sex; Stefan is not at all persuaded, and wants to leave, with the excuse of feeding the cat...

STARFUCKERS
by Antonio Marziale

Country: USA, Year: 2022, Duration: 14'

Two unnamed men, a producer and a blonde guy from Hollywood Boulevard, aspiring actor; a date that is not exactly an audition, but a power play, which gets complicated when a third person arrives and the balance is reversed.

TANK FAIRY
by Erich Rettstadt

Country: Taiwan, Year: 2021, Duration: 9'

In Taiwan it is a common thing to come across people who supply gas cans to street food trucks and old buildings, but nobody does it like the magical Tank Fairy: daring, in stilettos and with and a healthy helping of glitter, she is pure inspiration for little Jojo. 

SHTAIM
TWO
by Astar Elkayam

Country: Israel, Year: 2021, Duration: 75'

In her stunning debut, director Astar Elkayam tells the physical and emotional challenges of two women who decide to start a family. Bar and Omer embrace the experience in an optimistic way, going through the catalog of potential donors and approaching the insemination process with humor. But it’s not easy for them to get pregnant and a deep sense of failure begins to grow. 

FINLANDIA
by Horacio Alcala

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 90'

Sometimes it’s necessary to stop and admire the beauty and to have the sensitivity to show it. In the 21st century, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico, lives a community of sensitive, beautiful, and vulnerable people called the Muxhes. They take care, educate and work for the community. Fun and eccentricity are their law. They make their own clothing designs and flaunt them like true queens on the cover of magazines. When Spanish fashion designer Marta crosses their path by chance, a new world unveils to her. This is their story.

JIMMY IN SAIGON
by Peter McDowell

Country: USA, Year: 2022, Duration: 90'

Jimmy was a boy who left for the Vietnam War and died under unclear circumstances in Saigon in 1972. His younger brother Peter McDowell, director of the documentary, was only five when Jimmy died and from that moment the whole family stopped talking about him. The documentary is the result of a 10-year effort to break the silence and the shame that was spinning around the figure of Jimmy. Through old photographs, letters and interviews with Jimmy's closest friends, the director manages to bring an almost forgotten queer existance back to life.

DANS LA NATURE
IN NATURE
by Marcel Barelli

Country: Switzerland, Year: 2021, Duration: 5'

Are we sure that in Nature one couple is always formed by a male and a female? Actually, in the animal world there are couples formed by two females, by two males and we also have species that change sex at a certain age! A light-toned animation introducing a huge theme.

HALF
by Jacob Roberts

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 10'

Half-Jewish (but his friends remind him that it is the wrong half), Jonah realizes that he is attracted to both boys and girls. Telling his girlfriend is complicated, the results are tragicomic, and there are some implications he didn’t consider either.

THE WINDOW
by Sarah Kaskas

Country: Lebanon, Year: 2021, Duration: 15'

One year after the explosion in the port of Beirut, Basma and Mariam stand in what used to be their bedroom. Looking at what remains of the port, the two try to understand the drama they shared and the reasons for the end of a story.

POR QUÉ NO ME GUSTA EL HELADO DE FRESA
THAT'S WHY I DON'T LIKE STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM
by Inés Pintor Sierra, Pablo Santidrián

Country: Spain, Year: 2022, Duration: 9'

Álex stayed at a hotel bar after hours, working; his ex appears, and tries to bring him back to the origin of the anger and self-inflicted contempt that led him to throw himself into his job, fleeing from something he is not guilty of.  

MARIE
by Yudi Zhang

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 15'

After years of absence, Marie gets the haistyle for special occasions, puts on the most beautiful of her clothes and returns for Christmas in the village where she grew up. She shows up at her father’s house, where no one knows her anymore.

LEO LA NUIT
LEO BY NIGHT
by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa

Country: France, Italy, Cyprus, Year: 2021, Duration: 22'

Paul goes from job to job, from man to man. He doesn't know what tomorrow will bring. This Wednesday he has to look after his eight-year-old son, whom he didn't raise, but is excited to spend some quality time with his dad.

TOO ROUGH
by Sean Lìonadh

Country: UK, Year: 2022, Duration: 16'

After boozy night, Nick wakes up in a hangover, in his own bed, next to his boyfriend, Charlie: hiding him from the eyes of his dysfunctional, homophobic, religious and racist family will be no easy feat. 

PAXMAL
THE STATION IN-BETWEEN
by Sven Schnyder

Country: Switzerland, Year: 2021, Duration: 19'

Louis, Theo and an urn with the ashes of Samy – husband of the first, best friend of the other one – who was killed in a homophobic attack. They go by train to the Paxmal, in the heart of Alps: a series of bizarre encounters helps them to process pain and find a new direction.

FRANCESKA
by Alberto Cano

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 7'

On a cold night, in the castle of Frankenstein, the scientist Viktor tries to bring back to life his beloved Franceska, with the collaboration of the inseparable and devoted Igor. The experiment takes an unexpected turn. A funny, small, parody of a parody.

OÙ VONT LES SONS
WHERE DO THE SOUNDS GO
by Florent Gouëlou

Country: France, Year: 2021, Duration: 17'

Five friends on a Skype call, waiting for a sixth, which is late. We undestand what gets them together: the memory of Parlez-moi d'amour, a slam evening organized by their friend Clémence, where all of them had opened their heart to the public.

HVEM ER KATHARINA
THIS IS KATHARINE
by Ida H. Eldøen

Country: Norway, Year: 2022, Duration: 15'

"Do I like Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves better?" "How does a lesbian walk?". What are the models for teenagers like Katharina, who assumes to be a lesbian, but can rely only on cinema and TV references? A self-portrait that invites to embrace each one their own difference.

ET TU CHERCHES QUOI DE BEAU ICI?
I SHOULD FEED MY CAT
by Abram Cerda

Country: Belgium, Year: 2022, Duration: 16'

In the greyish light of Brussels, Stefan, a Chilean guy who has lived there for 15 years, goes, unconvinced, to meet Loïc, a guy from Grindr, but he understands that the guy would like to do chem sex; Stefan is not at all persuaded, and wants to leave, with the excuse of feeding the cat...

STARFUCKERS
by Antonio Marziale

Country: USA, Year: 2022, Duration: 14'

Two unnamed men, a producer and a blonde guy from Hollywood Boulevard, aspiring actor; a date that is not exactly an audition, but a power play, which gets complicated when a third person arrives and the balance is reversed.

TANK FAIRY
by Erich Rettstadt

Country: Taiwan, Year: 2021, Duration: 9'

In Taiwan it is a common thing to come across people who supply gas cans to street food trucks and old buildings, but nobody does it like the magical Tank Fairy: daring, in stilettos and with and a healthy helping of glitter, she is pure inspiration for little Jojo. 

SHTAIM
TWO
by Astar Elkayam

Country: Israel, Year: 2021, Duration: 75'

In her stunning debut, director Astar Elkayam tells the physical and emotional challenges of two women who decide to start a family. Bar and Omer embrace the experience in an optimistic way, going through the catalog of potential donors and approaching the insemination process with humor. But it’s not easy for them to get pregnant and a deep sense of failure begins to grow. 

FINLANDIA
by Horacio Alcala

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 90'

Sometimes it’s necessary to stop and admire the beauty and to have the sensitivity to show it. In the 21st century, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico, lives a community of sensitive, beautiful, and vulnerable people called the Muxhes. They take care, educate and work for the community. Fun and eccentricity are their law. They make their own clothing designs and flaunt them like true queens on the cover of magazines. When Spanish fashion designer Marta crosses their path by chance, a new world unveils to her. This is their story.

LA RAGAZZA CON LA PISTOLA
THE GIRL WITH A PISTOL
by Mario Monicelli

Country: Italy, Year: 1968, Duration: 103'

Assunta Patanè, a fiery Sicilian and traditionalist, performs the most classic of elopements with her beloved Vincenzo, in order to bind him into the obligation of a shotgun wedding. But he doesn't think so and escapes to Scotland, losing track of himself. Determined to avenge her honour, Assunta pursues him armed and resolute. But we are in the Sixties and the passage from Sicily to the United Kingdom, at its swinging peak, will open her eyes to her condition as a woman. The Lovers FF pays homage to Monica Vitti with one of her most loved interpretations, in a rare and successful example of Italian female comedy.

JIMMY IN SAIGON
by Peter McDowell

Country: USA, Year: 2022, Duration: 90'

Jimmy was a boy who left for the Vietnam War and died under unclear circumstances in Saigon in 1972. His younger brother Peter McDowell, director of the documentary, was only five when Jimmy died and from that moment the whole family stopped talking about him. The documentary is the result of a 10-year effort to break the silence and the shame that was spinning around the figure of Jimmy. Through old photographs, letters and interviews with Jimmy's closest friends, the director manages to bring an almost forgotten queer existance back to life.

DEATH AND BOWLING
by Lyle Kash

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 64'

Every Thursday evening the Lavender League Bowling Club takes the field with the intention of have their opponents contemplating their defeat: with purple and gold uniforms and perfect hair, the League is a club for lesbian old ladies led by Susan, the matriarch of the group. Susan's confidant is a trans guy that everyone calls X, who moved to L.A. to be an actor. When Susan dies, her trans son Alex will appear for the first time, upsetting the life of X. Death and Bowling is a dystopian film, an investigation into trans desire and into the importance of visibility, halfway between John Waters and David Lynch.

BENEDICTION
by Terence Davies

Country: UK, Year: 2021, Duration: 137'

Siegfried Sassoon, a fighter in the First World War, a fierce critic of his government's attitude towards the conflict, a star of the most illustrious social circles, ruled by privilege and plasure, and a homosexual in eternal struggle with his condition, is the protagonist of this lyrical and powerful biopic. Terence Davies has an empathic and yet moving portrait of Sassoon, a public figure of undoubted importance and a man in constant conflict with the principles of a hypocritical and cynical, fascinating and cruel society, capable of overwhelming even the noblest of its members.

ARE YOU PROUD?
by Ashley Joiner

Country: UK, Year: 2019, Duration: 95'

Italian closing event of the LGBTQI+ History Month, the first global event that celebrates the queer universe. Are You Proud? depicts the galaxy of Pride, the history of LGBTQI+ movements and related groups in the United Kingdom, with the contradictions represented by Brexit and the homophobic incitements coming from the highest levels of the State since the time of Margaret Thatcher. Revealing the fragility of human rights, not only for the LGBTQI+ community, in a heartfelt and moving investigation on seventy years of achievements, not forgetting those who still do not benefit from them. 

I RACCONTI DI CANTERBURY
THE CANTERBURY TALES
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Country: Italy, Sweden, Year: 1972, Duration: 111'

On the way to Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Pasolini himself) entertains the other pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Saint Thomas Beckett with a series of licentious and salacious tales. The second chapter of the "Trilogy of life", taken from the homonymous founding text of British literature, continues in Pasolini's reconstruction of the fourteenth-century Middle Ages: the scenario changes but not the deliberately provocative representation of a hilarious, grasping and lewd humanity. Here and there, however, a gloomy melancholy previously absent peeps out. Golden Bear in Berlin.

ELSA
by Albert Carbó

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 12'

Elsa is six, and she wants to be free and happy. She knows that she is different from the majority, and the gifts from her grandmother are always wrong: but she is a princess, like the Elsa of Frozen, and she knows that she can be queen in charge of her own life. 

LA MUERTE DE OSO
THE DEATH OF OSO
by Cristian Sitjas

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 25'

Saúl would do anything to save his dog, Oso. But one day he gets a call from the vet: the pitbull is dead. Unlike his own parents, who would like to dismiss the issue quickly, Saúl wants to have the ashes of his friend, but all this has a cost...

LE VARIABILI DIPENDENTI
THE DEPENDENT VARIABLES
by Lorenzo Tardella

Country: Italy, Year: 2022, Duration: 15'

Pietro and Tommaso in a theatre box, during one of those school outings where everyone is easily distracted; Vivaldi's notes fill the room around them and they kiss for fun. Or is there something else? In the afternoon they will try to find out.

SEXUAL DISTANCING
by Dimitris Asproloupos

Country: Greece, Year: 2021, Duration: 16'

Two friends video call regularly: one, more paranoid, never leaves the house; the other tries to be more optimistic, goes out jogging, tries to focus on the good things of life, while outside the city is frozen from quarantine, and social and sexual desperation fill the air

THE IDEALIST
by Martin Drouot

Country: France, Year: 2022, Duration: 10'

A passionate professor is trying to teach his high school students how to express feelings convincingly in front of the camera. But in real life it's quite difficult for himself, when the feelings are his own...

ANDY Y LAS DEMÁS
ANDY AND THE OTHER WOMEN
by Cintia Ballbé

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 17'

Andy plans to visit his three open relationships on New Year’s Eve. She goes from one place to another to prove them, and to prove herself, that they are just as important to her. She wants to cover everything and she may not reach anything at all.

PENTOLA
by Leo Černic

Country: Italy, Year: 2022, Duration: 7'

For a long time Pentola has been bearing his wife’s beans and her asphyxiating care, but it's clear he can't take it anymore: he freaks out, but maybe he'll learn to fly. "It is not easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, You are my superhero". A dazzling story of love and freedom.

HASAHYAN
THE SWIMMER
by Adam Kalderon

Country: Israel, Year: 2021, Duration: 85'

Fatigue and commitment, desire to win and passion, but also statuesque bodies, boisterous senses and the awareness of being human and fragile. Erez is a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, battling to win a ticket to the Olympics. When he meets handsome and talented Nevo, his competitor for the medal, new desires explode. He must deal with an unprecedented challenge, never faced before, more overwhelming and difficult than any competition. What is worth more: a medal or happiness?

GERMINO PÉTALAS NO ASFALTO
BLOOMING ON THE ASPHALT
by Coraci Bartman Ruiz, Julio Matos

Country: Brazil, Year: 2022, Duration: 78'

FASHION BABYLON
by Gianluca Matarrese

Country: France, Year: 2022, Duration: 87'

Gianluca Matarrese breaks down the scenes of the world of fashion and runways and gives us a lively, tender, contradictory and deeply honest movie. For a long time the director follows the worldly life and the work commitments of Michelle Elie (designer and fashion icon), Casey Spooner (performer and musician) and Violet Chachki (winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race"), real resident and celebrities of the most important runways: Milan, Paris, New York. How much does it cost to be yourself and to be a star in a world of appearances?

BORDERLINE
by Anna Alfieri

Country: UK, Year: 2022, Duration: 110'

The portrait of Anna, a young writer who moves from Italy to London. Through an autobiographical, unconventional and fragmented narration, made of back and forth movements, we go through the love story with Robyn. London, Paris, Southern Italy, their relationship is pressing, punctuated by unrelenting passions and deep conflicts that will lead to an inevitable breakup. "How do you survive the end of a relationship?" the protagonist seems to ask us. She takes the audience by hand on this emotional journey.

BORDERLINE
by Anna Alfieri

Country: UK, Year: 2022, Duration: 110'

The portrait of Anna, a young writer who moves from Italy to London. Through an autobiographical, unconventional and fragmented narration, made of back and forth movements, we go through the love story with Robyn. London, Paris, Southern Italy, their relationship is pressing, punctuated by unrelenting passions and deep conflicts that will lead to an inevitable breakup. "How do you survive the end of a relationship?" the protagonist seems to ask us. She takes the audience by hand on this emotional journey.

DEATH AND BOWLING
by Lyle Kash

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 64'

Every Thursday evening the Lavender League Bowling Club takes the field with the intention of have their opponents contemplating their defeat: with purple and gold uniforms and perfect hair, the League is a club for lesbian old ladies led by Susan, the matriarch of the group. Susan's confidant is a trans guy that everyone calls X, who moved to L.A. to be an actor. When Susan dies, her trans son Alex will appear for the first time, upsetting the life of X. Death and Bowling is a dystopian film, an investigation into trans desire and into the importance of visibility, halfway between John Waters and David Lynch.

HASAHYAN
THE SWIMMER
by Adam Kalderon

Country: Israel, Year: 2021, Duration: 85'

Fatigue and commitment, desire to win and passion, but also statuesque bodies, boisterous senses and the awareness of being human and fragile. Erez is a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, battling to win a ticket to the Olympics. When he meets handsome and talented Nevo, his competitor for the medal, new desires explode. He must deal with an unprecedented challenge, never faced before, more overwhelming and difficult than any competition. What is worth more: a medal or happiness?

ELSA
by Albert Carbó

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 12'

Elsa is six, and she wants to be free and happy. She knows that she is different from the majority, and the gifts from her grandmother are always wrong: but she is a princess, like the Elsa of Frozen, and she knows that she can be queen in charge of her own life. 

LA MUERTE DE OSO
THE DEATH OF OSO
by Cristian Sitjas

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 25'

Saúl would do anything to save his dog, Oso. But one day he gets a call from the vet: the pitbull is dead. Unlike his own parents, who would like to dismiss the issue quickly, Saúl wants to have the ashes of his friend, but all this has a cost...

LE VARIABILI DIPENDENTI
THE DEPENDENT VARIABLES
by Lorenzo Tardella

Country: Italy, Year: 2022, Duration: 15'

Pietro and Tommaso in a theatre box, during one of those school outings where everyone is easily distracted; Vivaldi's notes fill the room around them and they kiss for fun. Or is there something else? In the afternoon they will try to find out.

SEXUAL DISTANCING
by Dimitris Asproloupos

Country: Greece, Year: 2021, Duration: 16'

Two friends video call regularly: one, more paranoid, never leaves the house; the other tries to be more optimistic, goes out jogging, tries to focus on the good things of life, while outside the city is frozen from quarantine, and social and sexual desperation fill the air

THE IDEALIST
by Martin Drouot

Country: France, Year: 2022, Duration: 10'

A passionate professor is trying to teach his high school students how to express feelings convincingly in front of the camera. But in real life it's quite difficult for himself, when the feelings are his own...

ANDY Y LAS DEMÁS
ANDY AND THE OTHER WOMEN
by Cintia Ballbé

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 17'

Andy plans to visit his three open relationships on New Year’s Eve. She goes from one place to another to prove them, and to prove herself, that they are just as important to her. She wants to cover everything and she may not reach anything at all.

PENTOLA
by Leo Černic

Country: Italy, Year: 2022, Duration: 7'

For a long time Pentola has been bearing his wife’s beans and her asphyxiating care, but it's clear he can't take it anymore: he freaks out, but maybe he'll learn to fly. "It is not easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, You are my superhero". A dazzling story of love and freedom.

GERMINO PÉTALAS NO ASFALTO
BLOOMING ON THE ASPHALT
by Coraci Bartman Ruiz, Julio Matos

Country: Brazil, Year: 2022, Duration: 78'

NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT
by Petter Næss

Country: Norway, Year: 2021, Duration: 107'

Kasper Berntsen has everything a man could ask for: he is a successful stand up comedian, he has a regular gig at the city’s top comedy club, his best friend and manager Erik Elisabe is a marvelous crossdresser and he has a beautiful girlfriend. But one day everything changes. Kasper is laid off, his girlfriend leaves him and his doctor calls him to inform him that he has cancer. In the most dramatic moment of his life, Kasper turns his existence upside down. Nothing To Laugh About makes you feel like you’re taking a ride on a very emotional roller coaster. It breaks every rules and makes you smile like the most incredible queer manifesto. 

IL FIORE DELLE MILLE E UNA NOTTE
ARABIAN NIGHTS
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Country: Italy, Year: 1974, Duration: 130'

"The truth does not lie in a single dream, but in many dreams": Pasolini concludes the "Trilogy of life" by adapting a selection of short stories from the homonymous and famous Arab anthology for the big screen. PPP's latest exploration of the Middle Ages, who here becomes exotic and mysterious: a kaleidoscope of beautiful images composing a game of interlocking joints in which the themes of sex, in all its forms, and death as its counterpart return. He had legal troubles, like the previous chapters, a minor success with the public and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

HETERO
by KJ Kieras, Bentley Eldridge

Country: USA, Year: 2021, Duration: 84'

Seattle, five friends have little time to save their high school gay club from closing: by order of the principal they must diversify it by "recruiting" hetero students. There's Quinn, the tough but tender leader; Sarai, the lovely lesbian best friend; Zel, the voice of reason; Mickey and Cohen, all flair, stoicism and communist manifesto. To achieve this quixotic goal of gaywashing, everyone becomes the "gay best friend" of selected peers as they go through the ups and downs of being a queer teenager. A TV series written and directed with energy and intelligent lightness by two 19-year-old teens.

EL FANTASMA DE LA SAUNA
THE PHANTOM OF THE SAUNA
by Luis Navarrete

Country: Spain, Year: 2021, Duration: 92'

Javi comes to a sauna club looking for a job. He'll find out a place full of secrets, the biggest of them being a strange man who will fall in love: the phantom of the sauna! In a tribute/parody of the famous musical The Phantom of the Opera, this delirious and entertaining film sees Antonia San Juan shining in the role of the owner, with a very low consideration of her clientele. One does not stop having both high and low cinematic references, watching this compendium of musical, soap opera, kitsch drama and Iberian madness à la Almodovar. Enter the sauna and enjoy yourself, with lightness.