| Film |
Year |
Running time |
Description |
Link |
Expiry date? |
Access info |
| 120 BPM |
2017 |
2hr23m |
Director Robin Campillo draws on personal experience of gay activism in 1990s Paris to tell the story of anti-AIDS pressure group, ACT UP, as their campaign of direct action ramps up |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/120-bpm |
28/3/20 |
French with English subtitles |
| A Bigger Splash |
1974 |
1hr44m |
Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. |
http://www.ubu.com/film/hockney_splash.html |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| A Year in Transition |
2018 |
1hr10m |
Trans man and film maker Lorne Clarkson documents their friend Issa’s personal journey as a 20 year old Arab-American trans masculine person. A positive and charming insight into coming out, taking hormones, having top surgery, and finding solace in the trans community.
CN: discussion of surgery and misgendering |
https://vimeo.com/259562788 |
|
In English with English or French subtitles available |
| Aban + Khorshid |
2014 |
16m |
Inspired by true events, Aban and Khorshid is an intimate portrait of two lovers, glimpsing into the world in which they met, moments before their execution for being gay. |
https://vimeo.com/147873227 |
|
In Persian with English subtitles |
| Acid Soda |
2017 |
10m |
A love story between a mouse and a ballerina. |
https://vimeo.com/222200243/3066b4374b |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Alan Bennett's Diaries |
2016 |
59m |
Inspired by his acerbic and often hilarious diaries, this documentary shows Alan Bennett as he has never been seen before. The film follows Bennett to New York, the scene of his early triumph in Beyond the Fringe, to his community library in Primrose Hill which, he despairs, some would rather see turned into a pizza restaurant, to the East Coast railway line, which he would like to see renationalised, and to the village in Yorkshire he calls home. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086kc2c/alan-bennetts-diaries |
31/3/20 |
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| All Out! Dancing in Dulais |
1986 |
23m |
The original 1986 documentary which the film 'Pride' is based on. Radical queers at the time were involved with supporting the miners in the 1985/5 Miners’ strike and we in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners’ Group made a record of our involvement with a mining community in South Wales. |
https://vimeo.com/22972867 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Alone With People |
2014 |
30m |
Growing up gay in the US South, a high school girl seeks the help of a therapist to come out to her family and friends in this coming-of-age story. |
https://vimeo.com/136354421 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Anya Kneez: A Queen in Beirut |
2018 |
11m |
Drag artist Anya Kneez moves back home from New York To Beirut. |
https://vimeo.com/224944116 |
|
In English with English subtitles |
| Apart From Everything |
2017 |
20m |
After a two-year absence and a recent stint in rehab, Fran returns home to Toronto. Struggling to live soberly for the first time in her adult life, she must face the emotional fallout of her disappearance and make amends with the girlfriend and the brother she left behind. |
https://vimeo.com/160495898 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| BalaclavaQ |
Various |
Various |
More than 60 queer artists films. Balaclava.Q is an international queer visual art project & collective that seeks to connect, promote and create platforms for queer artists. |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMzQZCY5Oyl-VJmtOdF6HQ?fbclid=IwAR0lvU7CsxHq0LgTLSrn04W-cnfuNt3r96ljEPUxGpGDRMSjCad7w-ahqmA |
|
Auto-generated captions available |
| Balloon |
2019 |
16m |
In the brutal battlefield of junior high, Sam has always tried to stay below radar. But all that changes when he discovers he has super powers. |
https://vimeo.com/371525503 |
|
In English with English or Spanish subtitles available |
| Beautiful By Night |
2014 |
29m |
A documentary following three older drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie's Lounge in San Francisco's Tenderloin. With Olivia Hart, Collette LeGrande, and Donna Personna. |
https://vimeo.com/106252146 |
|
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| Bedding Andrew |
2014 |
5m |
Short doc about gay sex and disability. |
https://vimeo.com/94185101 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Before Stonewall |
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| Being Marcus |
2019 |
28m |
Observational documentary, providing an honest insight into the experiences of a Deaf trans man. |
https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/being-marcus |
|
In BSL and English with English subtitles available |
| BFI Flare |
|
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Due to cancellation Flare have put their programme online which can be watched for free if you sign up for a 14 day trial version of BFI Player OR free for 7 days with Amazon Prime. |
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/lgbt-britain |
29/3/20 |
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| Brace |
2015 |
25m |
After coming out and leaving his girlfriend, Adam dreams of finding acceptance within London's gay scene.
His burgeoning freedom is soon challenged when he meets Rocky, a handsome stranger who is harboring a secret that he desperately wants to share with Adam.
As their bond strengthens and Rocky prepares to reveal his secret to Adam, their fledgling romance is ruptured by a cataclysmic event that forces the truth to come out in the most explosive manner. |
https://vimeo.com/131741261 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Catherine Opie |
2019 |
15m |
Catherine Opie shares the emotional and political motivations for her provocative and influential photography. |
https://vimeo.com/350734594 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Cecil And Carl |
2016 |
15m |
Previous LQFF Audience Award winner. Cecil has lived alone in a giant house ever since Carl, his partner of 43 years, was diagnosed with advanced dementia and admitted to a nursing home. Not about grand gestures of love or being gay, this story focuses on commitment and the duties that come with it. |
https://vimeo.com/144881960 |
|
In English with English subtitles available |
| Chelsea Girls |
1966 |
3hr14m |
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen. |
http://www.ubu.com/film/warhol_chelsea.html |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Chocolate Babies |
1996 |
1hr23m |
The first major production from Stephen Winter, a perpetual upender of queer cinema, Chocolate Babies is an outlandish, effervescent portrait of queer New Yorkers at the height of the AIDS crisis. For all its rip-roaring flair, the film’s emotional core still packs a tender wallop. |
https://vimeo.com/62632619 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| CineQ watch parties |
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CineQ are hosting watch parties each night at 7pm |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/232066437709671/ |
29/3/20 |
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| Curtain Down |
2017 |
15m |
A love story that takes a surreal but tender look at gender, identity and ageing as our hero is forced to choose between career and love. |
https://vimeo.com/161462593 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Danny Didn't Feel Like Himself Anymore |
2018 |
5m |
Animation. Danny doesn't fit in the box they've been put in. |
https://vimeo.com/272843538 |
|
No dialogue |
| Danny's Parade |
2007 |
15m |
If you are fourteen years old - and gay - life can be boring. It drives Danny Hoekzema from Bovenkarspel up the wall. Many of his friends are still in the closet and meeting someone in a pub is out of the question. So Danny, who no longer makes his sexual inclination a secret, bends things to his own will. He plans to participate in the annual gay event in Amsterdam, the Canal Parade. For this purpose, he arranges a gay boat for teenagers. |
https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/866c424b-4b04-4886-91ec-2e53c606ea50/dannys-parade |
|
Dutch with English subtitles |
| Dottie Gets Spanked |
1993 |
30m |
Early Todd Haynes short film. An artistic six-year-old boy in 1960s America is obsessed with The Dottie Show. His father is concerned about the show's sexual influence, especially the boy's fascination with a spanking scene. |
https://youtu.be/RF_4prniOkY |
|
In English, auto-generated subtitles available. |
| Double Lucky |
2018 |
25m |
Children of gay parents talk about growing up, fitting in, coming out, and how their "normal" differed from their peers. |
https://vimeo.com/276215465/1d0e852049 |
|
In Dutch with English subtitles |
| Dragtime |
1997 |
1hr10m |
Feature documentary about the lives of NY drag artists Varla Jean Merman, Candis Cayne, Lady Bunny and Lypsinka. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDlhwYJcpg |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Enraged by a Picture |
2005 |
14m |
Enraged by a Picture features a photography exhibit that causes a stir and provokes an outcry on a subject that is particularly taboo: being black and being a lesbian. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSMCBWDKSU |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| Feel Good |
2020 |
2hr30m |
Not a film but a TV series - all episodes available to stream free. The series follows recovering addict and comedian Mae, who is trying to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of her life. |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/feel-good |
|
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| Five Films for Freedom |
2020 |
1hr2m |
Self-expression, homophobia in rural communities, coming out as a teenager, and finding love later in life - this year's short films look at an intersection of LGBTIQ+ perspectives to explore love and acceptance. |
https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/fivefilmsforfreedom |
29/3/20 |
Multiple languages, all with English subtitles available |
| Flash Flood - A Rotoscoped Documentary |
2017 |
6m |
Deep within a rotoscoped dream, three transgender people confront a cataclysmic flood. |
https://vimeo.com/285885237 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Forbidden Lives: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives |
1992 |
1hr24m |
This feature documentary delves into the rich history of Canadian queer women’s experiences in the mid-20th century. Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, the women interviewed in this film recount stories about their search for the places where openly gay women gathered in urban centres. |
https://www.nfb.ca/film/forbidden_love/ |
|
In English with English subtitles available. |
| Foxy Trot |
2018 |
15m |
A married lesbian couple unexpectedly face their relationship issues when they take ballroom dance lessons. |
https://vimeo.com/232069515/d08cfcb443 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait |
1966 |
44m |
Francis Bacon's paintings have been called sick and corrupt. He has also been hailed as the greatest British painter since Turner. This film study - Bacon's first appearance on BBC Television - shows his work and its sources, and critically assesses his paintings. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02t7ck5/francis-bacon-fragments-of-a-portrait |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| gal-dem Chosen Family |
2019 |
28m |
Documentary series produced by gal-dem, the new media publication, committed to telling the stories of women and non-binary people of colour. "Over several weeks we followed artist Travis Alabanza, performance artist Chloe Filani, artist Joy Miessi and writer and DJ Aisha Mirza on personal journeys that underscored the importance of relearning and engaging with queer history and the power that can be found in historical precedent." |
https://youtu.be/oiuE8FIky1A
https://youtu.be/2RqfyTl1uGo
https://youtu.be/5TY_VbQXlkU
https://youtu.be/U7IyzFr2B1A |
|
In English with English subtitles. |
| Gentleman Jack |
2019 |
8h |
BBC TV Series. Halifax, 1832. Rejected by aristocratic Vere Hobart, Anne Lister returns to her shabby ancestral home, Shibden Hall, determined to restore its fortunes and find herself a wife. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00059m9/gentleman-jack |
6/4/20 |
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| Girl Talk |
2018 |
17m |
Girl Talk follows 20-something Mia, as she explores the disparity between emotional and physical intimacy, coming to a head when she meets an intriguing couple. |
https://vimeo.com/264363128 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Guilty Prejudices |
2016 |
1hr29m |
A police lieutenant is determined to uncover the truth after a gay man is brutally attacked and his boyfriend is arrested for the crime.
CN: homophobic language and violence |
https://vimeo.com/236421618 |
|
In French with English subtitles available |
| Harsh Beauty |
2005 |
54m |
Harsh Beauty follows over a period of 3 years the lives of Jyothi, Usha and Hira bai, three hijra/intersex people who live openly as women, and want to be accepted as their true selves. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIz45Uklns |
|
In Hindi and Tamil with English subtitles |
| Homophobia |
2012 |
23m |
An adolescent boy, who serves the Austrian Military Forces, experiences homosexual feelings towards one of his comrades. It's their last night at the Austrian-Hungarian border, socially isolated and armed with loaded weapons. |
https://vimeo.com/41979122 |
|
In German with English subtitles. |
| How To Make A Rainbow |
2019 |
16m |
Over two formative years, a young girl and her mother journey through the joy and struggle of a parent in transition. |
https://vimeo.com/343099753 |
|
In English, with partial English subtitles |
| Hyper Hyper I-Id |
2016 |
17m |
The conceptual short film HYPER HYPER I-Id. explores debates on neoliberalism, self-management and identity politics. Three protagonists attempt to discover a way together, and within their own space of work/identity. With lots of dark humour, poetic language. powerful costumes and settings, and the ongoing beat of petra und der wolf’s music, the film opens up new spaces for queer images. |
https://vimeo.com/182840354 |
|
In German with English subtitles. |
| I Am A Girl |
2010 |
10m |
Every 13-year-old girl dreams of that nice, but hard-to-get, boy. And Joppe is no different, consulting her friend on how to ask Brian out. But just how should she tell him that she was assigned male at birth? |
https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/51433083-b659-4023-94f5-ad2e76cc297a/i-am-a-girl |
|
Dutch with English subtitles |
| I'm Sorry |
2018 |
17m |
Addy and Salka look like they have the perfect relationship, but there's another story behind closed doors. Will Addy be able to ask for (and get) the help she needs?
CN: intimate partner abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) |
https://youtu.be/VariiiCvfQs |
|
In Icelandic with English subtitles |
| If She Grows Up Gay |
1983 |
23m |
A blue collar African-American mother, talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7E_GeguQiA |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| Iris Prize film library |
Various |
Various |
30+ Welsh short films including Côr Blimey by South Wales Gay Men's Chorus, which documents the choir's successful journey to compete at the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival. |
http://www.ffilmcymruwales.com/index.php/en/news-and-events/668-13-new-lgbt-short-films-available-for-free |
|
auto-generated captions |
| I Want To Kill Myself |
2015 |
9m |
This short, quietly devastating film by Vivek Shraya, a Canadian trans woman, is a solid introduction to her consistently compelling poetry and film. |
https://vimeo.com/198124732 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 |
2011 |
57m |
Documentary following the story of teenager Jamie Campbell, who wants to be a drag queen. Inspiration for the musical and upcoming feature film, There's Something About Jamie. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012p4kc/jamie-drag-queen-at-16 |
27/3/20 |
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life |
2018 |
1hr31m |
Originally released under the title 'The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar' this 2018 doc follows Jonathan Agassi, one of the world's most successful gay porn stars. This is a rare and intimate look at the world of porn and escorting, as well as on a unique relationship between a mother and son. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000frcl/storyville-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-porn-superstar |
25/3/20 |
In English and Hewbrew with English subtitles available |
| Kenneth Anger short films |
1949-2010 |
Various |
Collection of films by gay occultist film maker, Kenneth Anger. |
http://www.ubu.com/film/anger.html |
|
No spoken dialogue in most films |
| Kiss of the Rabbit God |
2019 |
14m |
A Chinese-American restaurant worker exhausted by his job finds himself intrigued by a customer who seems to visit him in dreams. |
https://vimeo.com/298076755 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Last Men Standing |
2015 |
1hr6m |
Surrounded by the ghosts of a generation lost to the AIDS epidemic, eight gay men search for meaning in a life they never expected to have. |
https://vimeo.com/158080641 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Leitis In Waiting |
2018 |
56m |
Shown at LQFF 2019. A feature documentary and short film about an intrepid group of transgender women rising to reclaim their righteous place in a South Pacific Kingdom |
https://www.kcet.org/shows/pacific-heartbeat/episodes/leitis-in-waiting |
|
In English and Tongan with English subtitles available |
| Leo: Becoming a Trans Man |
2017 |
24m |
Assigned female at birth, 15 year old Leo is one of the first children in Britain to be prescribed a new treatment – hormone blockers – to help him achieve what he feels is his natural gender identity of becoming a man. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0559vr5/leo-becoming-a-trans-man |
25/5/20 |
In English with English subtitles available |
| Leroy |
2017 |
20m |
On an estate in North London, Leroy, a socially awkward misfit, finally realises his passion for dancing after finding a mixtape in his dead grandfather's belongings. |
https://vimeo.com/278454272 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Let's Be Friends |
2018 |
9m |
Connor, the new kid in school, is a lonely boy whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Beadie. When Connor brings Beadie to school, despite his father’s warnings, a run-in with a bully leads to horrific consequences. |
https://vimeo.com/267067585 |
|
In English with English subtitles available |
| LGBT Britain |
Various |
Various |
This colourful and challenging collection explores screen representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives over the past century. |
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/lgbt-britain |
|
No subtitles, some are labelled as silent |
| Little Potato |
2017 |
14m |
Masculinity, movies, and what happens when a Russian mother becomes a mail-order bride to an unpredictable American man. |
https://vimeo.com/273586165 |
|
In English with English or French subtitles available |
| Lockdown |
2019 |
12m |
Struggling with feelings for her best friend, fourteen-year-old Marie stages an almost perfect plan. |
https://vimeo.com/367670191 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Love Intersections |
Various |
Various |
Love Intersections is a media arts collective made up of queer artists of colour dedicated to collaborative filmmaking and relational storytelling. They produce intersectional and intergenerational stories from underrepresented communities – centering the invisible, the spiritual, the metaphysical and the imaginary. This collection includes previous LQFF faves Carla & Hayfa and Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits. |
https://loveintersections.com/videos/ |
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Subtitles available |
| Margueritte |
2017 |
19m |
Oscar nominated and previously screened at LQFF 2018.. An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past. |
https://vimeo.com/341649588 |
|
In French with English subtitles |
| Maya Deren's Sink |
2011 |
30m |
Experimental film tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film by Barbara Hammer |
http://www.ubu.com/film/hammer_deren.html |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Memories of Maurice |
2016 |
11m |
A fond(ish) rememberance of the late Maurice Dobson, a gay sweet shop owner from Barnsley. |
https://youtu.be/_H6mfnEfWRI |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| Memory of You |
2015 |
12m |
Adam is going to dinner with his wife, when he is disrupted by something from his past. A story about a love that never was, shot in one single take. |
https://vimeo.com/111971099 |
|
In Swedish with English subtitles available |
| Misdirection |
2019 |
14m |
Camila is your average college freshman with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a big, gay crush on her roommate. |
https://youtu.be/6xiLjWa6V0k |
|
In English with English subtitles available |
| My Prairie Home |
2013 |
1hr16m |
In this feature documentary-musical by Chelsea McMullan, indie singer Rae Spoon takes us on a playful, meditative and at times melancholic journey. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, the film features Spoon crooning about their queer and musical coming of age. Interviews, performances and music sequences reveal Spoon’s inspiring process of building a life of their own, as a trans person and as a musician |
https://www.nfb.ca/film/my_prairie_home/ |
|
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| National Film Board of Canada |
Various |
Various |
NFB have tons of free films to watch on all kinds of topics, including LGBT films from all different genres; animation, documentary, fiction, experimental, etc |
https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/sexuality-and-reproduction/sexual-minorities/ |
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Subtitles available |
| Natives |
2013 |
20m |
Comedy drama. Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a couple to be kept secret. As Rachel's attempts to connect with the parents become more and more desperate, Anita begins to question whether her background is what attracted Rachel to her in the first place. |
https://vimeo.com/82531615 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Night Star |
2007 |
13m |
Traditionally, Zulu woman were barred from household chores during menstruation, and the maidens were isolated in the girls hut, a time for rest and contemplation called Ukuya Enyangeni, "going to the moon." Lindiwe's dreams are disturbed by her desire for the Amamqhikiza, her "guide" during this time. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1uDn2fYzCc |
|
Zulu with English subtitles |
| Now TV |
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7 day free trial with a bunch of LGBT movies available. Includes A Moment in the Reeds, previously shown at LQFF 2018 "While helping his father renovate their summer home, Leevi meets and falls for Tareq, a Syrian architect turned handyman who is building a new life in Finland. A sensual and romantic take on human connection." |
https://www.nowtv.com/stream/lgbt |
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| Olly Alexander: Growing up Gay |
2017 |
60m |
In this eye-opening film, popstar Olly Alexander explores why the gay community is more vulnerable to mental health issues, as he opens up about his own long-term battles with depression. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p057nfy7/olly-alexander-growing-up-gay |
25/6/20 |
In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| Once Upon A Zipper |
2015 |
18m |
Rachel falls for the bridal shop employee helping her try on wedding dresses. |
https://vimeo.com/136882316 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Other Black Boys |
2019 |
16m |
A queer, black college student is forced to confront the masks he wears from day to day when an old friend comes to visit. |
https://vimeo.com/385579329 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Outdooring |
2019 |
18m |
A young man attends his nephew's Ghanaian baptism with a plan: steal the donated money and keep a deep secret hidden from his family. |
https://vimeo.com/337190771 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Paris Is Burning |
1990 |
1hr16m |
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality. |
https://youtu.be/xf6Cn2y2xEc |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| Pay It No Mind |
2012 |
55m |
The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson |
https://vimeo.com/41327842 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| People Open A Box of LGBT Myths and Gasp, Cringe and Laugh at What They Find |
2019 |
12m |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people living in the Middle East and North Africa share their responses to myths and stereotypes about LGBT people in the region |
https://vimeo.com/344114774 |
|
Various languages, with English subtitles |
| Pink Narcissus |
1971 |
1hr4m |
A beautiful sex worker fantasizes about a variety of gay sex scenarios, in which he himself plays all the protagonists. |
https://youtu.be/t5j3a6qjqNM |
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No spoken dialogue |
| Pose |
2019 |
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Series 1 & 2 available. Pose is set in the world of 1987 and "looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the rise of the luxury universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world." |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0003g1h/pose |
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In English with English subtitles available. Audio description available. |
| Pria |
2017 |
22m |
Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood. |
https://vimeo.com/292074983 |
|
In Indonesian and English. Indonesian parts are subtitled, no English subtitles available. |
| Pronouns |
2016 |
10m |
A Chicago teenager decides to reveal their true identity during a spoken word performance. |
https://vimeo.com/146870232 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Queer As Folk |
1999 |
7h |
Not a film obvs but all episodes available to stream free. Set in and around the Manchester 'scene', this groundbreaking Channel 4 drama written by Russell T Davies, documents the lives and loves of young gay men Stuart, Vince and Nathan |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/queer-as-folk |
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In English with English subtitles available. |
| Queer Britain |
2017 |
33m |
In a bid to understand what queer is and why it is becoming an umbrella term, Riyadh meets the people who use the label. From the iconic queer club night Sink the Pink to the trans man educating others on masturbation, Riyadh finds himself amidst a queer revolution. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p052q803/queer-britain-series-1-6-queer-and-proud |
25/5/20 |
In English with English subtitles available. |
| Queer Heroes |
2016 |
5m |
A celebration of queer figures in both historical and contemporary times who have helped push forward arts, politics or science.
A collaboration between 14 animators, the structure is based on the old Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpses.
Each animator was given a hero to animate, passing on their last frame to the next animator to form their first frame and so on. |
https://vimeo.com/185201333 |
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No Dialogue |
| Rabbi Knows Better |
2018 |
5m |
On the Sabbath, is a wife allowed to spank her husband if he's begging? Are two drag queens allowed to sew if it's an emergency? Avoiding work can be hard work. |
https://vimeo.com/298794895 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Rafiki |
2018 |
1hr23m |
Opening night film from LQFF 2019. In Nairobi, the daughters of two opposing politicians fall in love. |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/rafiki |
11/4/20 |
English/Swahili with subtitles |
| Riot Not Diet |
2018 |
18m |
A short film by Julia Fuhr Mann
Riot Not Diet creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze.
The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves.
They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation.
In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement! |
https://vimeo.com/244649777 |
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In German with English subtitles. |
| Rituals for Change |
2018 |
44m |
A series of rituals created by artist Emma Frankland to explore gender transition and the fluid notion of change.
CN: discussion of sexism and transphobia |
https://youtu.be/5Oj4yjsYQBI |
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In English with English subtitles available |
| Safety In Numbers: A Trans History |
2018 |
16m |
What was it like to be transgender before there was such a thing as a trans community? Pioneers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s reflect on their personal experience, while young people in the community today offer their own stories. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwS7LqfJys |
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In English with English subtitles available. |
| Sanctus |
1990 |
18m |
The fragility of the human body, as seen thru X Rays, is explored in this documentary by Barbara Hammer <3 |
http://www.ubu.com/film/hammer_sanctus.html |
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No dialogue |
| Screaming Queens |
2005 |
56m |
Documentary by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman about the San Francisco Compton Cafeteria riot of 1966, where drag queens and trans women spontaneously revolted against police harassment in the diner that served as a nightly refuge. The film contains interviews with many of the women who were there as well as some footage from the era. (some footage contains outdated language) |
https://youtu.be/G-WASW9dRBU |
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In English with English subtitles available |
| Shakedown |
2018 |
1hr12m |
Shakedown chronicles explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. The story functions as a legend where money is both myth and material. Cumulatively, questions arise about how to diagram the before and after of a utopic moment. Directed by Leilah Weinraub. The first non-adult film to stream on pornhub (in case you were wondering about the link) |
https://www.pornhub.com/shakedown |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Short of the Week |
Various |
Various |
Catalogue of LGBT short films including previous LQFF faves Landline and Pink Boy |
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/channels/lgbt/ |
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Some with subtitles |
| Skate Bitches |
2012 |
17m |
Skate Bitches is a short DIY film inspired by the 1986 Danny Plotnick film Skate Witches. |
https://vimeo.com/43638418 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Sleepover |
2018 |
8m |
A film about friendship and the longing for something more. |
https://vimeo.com/227643351/11c961b625 |
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In Swedish with English subtitles |
| So Long Suburbia |
2016 |
1hr4m |
So Long Suburbia is a campy queer coming of age teen film by Samuel Shanahoy. After her mother gifts her a one-year transit pass, a disillusioned 17-year-old decides to participate in her own adventures, providing they don't take her very far from home. |
https://vimeo.com/195164161 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Splendid Case of Doubt |
2018 |
4m |
Just your average love story between a furry and a dodgems operator. |
https://vimeo.com/241854499 |
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No dialogue |
| Step Up And Be Vocal |
2001 |
60m |
A documentary by Uta Busch and Sandra Ortmann.
Interviews from 1999 with some queer artists, activists and bands about queer punk, feminist concepts and actions. Filmed during a trip to San Francisco. |
https://vimeo.com/69761978 |
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In German with English subtitles. |
| Stoop on Kent Ave |
2018 |
7m |
On the verge of nineteen, Dakota faces a quarter-life crisis sitting on a stoop. A conversation with a stranger ensues. |
https://vimeo.com/271389856 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Summertime |
2015 |
1hr45m |
Set in 1971, Limousin farm girl Delphine moves to Paris and meets radical feminist and teacher Carole. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008kc2/summertime |
30/3/20 |
French with English subtitles |
| The Attendant |
1993 |
10m |
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera. Short film by gay British film maker Isaac Julien. |
http://www.ubu.com/film/julien_attendant.html |
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No spoken dialogue |
| The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye |
2011 |
1hr12m |
A documentary on artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the transformations the pair underwent for their Pandrogyne project |
http://www.ubu.com/film/p-orridge_lady-jaye.html |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| The Bisexual |
2018 |
3h |
Yeah we know, it's a TV series (not film) :-p Leila takes a break from her decade-long relationship with her partner Sadie and begins to explore her own bisexuality, though she struggles to come out to her friends. |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-bisexual |
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In English with English subtitles available. Audio Description available. |
| The Black Lesbian Handbook |
2015 |
40m |
10 part mini series - a lively guide to the underground Black Lesbian scene in Britain and the US. |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-black-lesbian-handbook/ |
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In English with English subtitles available. |
| The Garden |
1990 |
1hr32m |
Derek Jarman's lyrical, experimental film follows a young gay couple whose fate echoes the Passion of Christ in the barbaric way they are harried, persecuted, tortured and ultimately murdered. |
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-garden |
28/3/20 |
English subtitles available |
| The Infamous T |
2017 |
30m |
The Infamous T examines an intimate year in the life of Jonathon, a young gay man finding himself while living at the intersection of queer and black identities and struggling with a lifetime of homelessness. As he struggles to balance his family of origin and family of choice, stay in school, and be his most authentic self, Jonathon discovers that home is more than four walls, and friendship can transform us. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UvnXLMKf6Y |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| The Japanese Sandman |
2007 |
12m |
Both wry travelogue and heartbreaking tale of love lost, The Japanese Sandman adapts a letter William S. Burroughs wrote to Allen Ginsberg in 1953. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzhGCv1vBE |
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In English, auto-generated subtitles available. |
| The Performance of Drowning |
2011 |
10m |
On a trip to "Crippled Children's Camp," Terry Galloway falls for the deep-end swimming instructor, nearly drowning as she learns to perform her newly discovered queer, differently-abled identity in the Frameline36 animated film The Performance of Drowning. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkYZTiF0thY |
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In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| The Queen |
1968 |
1hr5m |
The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition. |
https://youtu.be/R1TBmMEvvhY |
|
In English, auto-generated subtitles available. |
| The Real Thing |
2017 |
7m |
A soldier returns home to meet his daughter, who transitioned while he was on tour. |
https://vimeo.com/223044638 |
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No dialogue |
| The Things You Think I'm Thinking |
2017 |
15m |
A black male burn-survivor and amputee goes on a date with an able bodied man for the first time since his accident. |
https://vimeo.com/374292554 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| The Watermelon Woman |
1996 |
1hr30m |
Cheryl Dunye plays a version of herself in this witty, nimble landmark of New Queer Cinema. |
https://www.kanopy.com/category/29301 |
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available with a Leeds Beckett logon (plus many other educational institutes) |
| Time And Again |
2018 |
28m |
Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g2w0/time-and-again |
February 2021 |
English with captions |
| Tooth And Nail |
2018 |
22m |
A sister makes a bargain with her terminally ill brother. He agrees to let her use his sperm if she comes out to her family that night. |
https://vimeo.com/291415973 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Two Spirits |
2007 |
22m |
Joey Criddle is a Two Spirit man fighting with other LGBTQ Native Americans to reclaim the place of honor that many Two Spirits once held prior to colonization. The film follows Joey as he leads parallel lives - one as a co-director of the Two Spirit Society of Denver and the other as a father attending the Mississippi wedding of his Pentecostal son. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY21Iirhp5o |
|
In English with auto-generated subtitles available |
| Un Chant D'Amour |
1950 |
25m |
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. Jean Genet's only film. |
http://www.ubu.com/film/genet_chant.html |
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No sound, no spoken dialogue |
| UR Dead To Me |
2017 |
10m |
If there’s one thing Jordan knows from delivering dried bouquets, it’s that while every relationship is different, they all share one thing in common; they end. When faced with an enlightening delivery message, Jordan must learn the value of the inevitable cycles of life, death, love, and loss in the process. |
https://vimeo.com/243546406 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Vamanos |
2015 |
12m |
A woman whose butch-identified girlfriend recently passed away butts heads with the deceased woman’s mother, who insists on burying her daughter in a dress. |
https://vimeo.com/150081605 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Venus |
2016 |
6m |
Venus Dimilo, a female drag performer, deals with issues of disability and empowerment. |
https://vimeo.com/171120916 |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| Vicarious |
2016 |
6m |
Animation in which two grieving friends exchange haunting visions of an impending outbreak, in which a mandatory skin suit uploads every bodily sensation to a government cloud.
CW: sexual content (language/discussion of), discussion of violating boundaries and consent |
https://vimeo.com/177112689 |
|
In English, no subtitles available |
| Vow of Silence |
2018 |
28m |
A heartbroken composer takes a vow of silence to win back the heart of her ex girlfriend. Vow of Silence features an original score by Be Steadwell. |
https://youtu.be/NGfATcO3ZZE |
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In English, no subtitles available |
| We Are Queer |
2013 |
30m |
A portrait of the queer artist, who goes against the dominant vision of gender roles, challenges the binary categorization of gender, and develops a unique activist voice. This documentary explores the link between artistic creation and identity claim. |
https://vimeo.com/156241956 |
|
In English with French subtitles available |
| Welcome To My Queer Bookstore |
2009 |
19m |
Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Gin Gin’s Bookstore is the one and only bookstore dedicated to the LGBTQ community in the Chinese-speaking world. The director explores the lawsuits and the discussion this iconic space has ignited, as well as its place in gay culture: hosting numerous public forums, book signing and promotional activities for queer films and television shows. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG743S90aq4 |
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In Chinese and English. English subtitles available for Chinese speaking parts, autogenerated subtitles available for English speaking parts. |
| West Yorkshire Queer Stories |
2019 |
48m |
West Yorkshire Queer Stories has been gathering oral histories from a diverse range of LGBTIQ+ people across the region, as part of an archiving initiative supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Yorkshire MESMAC. Part of their collection includes films and videos. |
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WDPsjyrfTEDXVc9F6 |
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English with subtitles |