He Who Has Two Souls (Celui qui a deux âmes)
Director Fabrice Luang-Vija | 2015 | France | 17 min
In this gorgeous animated tale, an Inuit man hunts like the best of men and sews like the best of women. Tension builds like a taut bowstring about whom he should take as a partner, and the arrow hits home when he meets his match.
Do Not Think For A Moment
Directors Adria Siu and Vivian Wang | 2015 | USA | 4 min
Challenging stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and race, three Asian American women share their experiences, frustrations, and identity amid the backdrop of San Francisco’s Castro District and other neighborhoods.
Libertad
Director Brenda Avila-Hanna | 2015 | USA | 9 min
Libertad is a short documentary featuring the incredible Alejandra Santiago, an indigenous transwoman from Oaxaca whose life journey transcends multiple borders.
Performing Girl
Director Crescent Diamond | 2013 | USA | 25 min
Performing Girl tells the compelling story of D’Lo, a performance artist originally from Southern California and raised by Sri Lankan parents who struggled with his gender variance through childhood and adolescence. Through animation, intimate family interviews, and poignant excerpts from D’Lo’s performances, the film illustrates the evolution of a family’s unconditional love.
Be Fabulous, First Stop: Sexitude
Director Meghan Ryan | 2015 | USA | 5 min
Welcome to Sexitude, a body-positive, sex-positive, age-positive dance class in San Francisco, created by D’Arcy Drollinger. The participants in the class represent all shapes, sizes, genders, sexual orientations, and fitness levels, and definitely know how to werk a look in neon spandex, fishnet stockings, and gold booty shorts.
Pick Up
Director Joshua Alan Rogers | 2015 | USA | 20 min
Jesse is a driver for “Pick Up”, a ride-sharing service in LA. He’s begun falling for a very handsome regular passenger, but the secret Jesse decides to share may steer them both off course.
Spunkle
Director Lisa Donato | 2016 | USA | 11 min
Tensions rise when a woman and her wife ask her brother to be the sperm donor of their baby…or the uncle…or the Spunkle!
Spoilers
Director Brendon McDonall | 2016 | Australia/UK | 22 min
Leon and Felix are strangers on a plane who find they have an uncommon connection. But seizing the moment requires they first have to resist playing out their entire future in their heads in this delightful Welsh Iris Prize winner.
These C*cksucking Tears
Director Dan Taberski | 2016 | USA | 16 min
Meet Patrick Haggerty, the man behind the world’s first and only gay-themed country music album, “Lavender Country”, 40 years after its release, in this rollicking and moving SXSW 2016 Jury Award-winning film.