Penumbra (2023)

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Recently widowed Mary Bassett and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenly, Mary’s wealthy and estranged mother Isabella comes to visit upon receiving a devious letter from the eldest daughter. Mary resents her mother’s attempts to help them out of their financial difficulties. In the end, more than money will be needed to heal deep wounds and rampant scarlet fever.

Imaginary Heroes

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Saturday Church

Ulysses is a shy and effeminate boy who finds himself coping with new responsibilities as man of the house after the death of his father. Living alongside his mother, younger brother, and conservative aunt, Ulysses is also struggling with questions about his gender identity. He finds an escape by creating a world of fantasy filled with dance and music. Ulysses' journey takes a turn for the better when he finds a vibrant transgender community.

Phoenixes

At the dawn of his first deployment to Afghanistan, a charismatic and endearing soldier decides to train the Phoenix, his 13-year-old son’s soccer team.

Boys Don't Cry

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Malvarosa

Malvarosa is the poignant story of a family’s struggles in life. It tells of Rosa who lives in the slums near the railroad tracks, with her mother and five brothers. Her mother wallows in guilt and depression, when her drunkard father is run over by a train. Though she is set to marry her fiancé, Rosa chooses to put her family’s needs before her own. Rosa’s brothers also carry their own burdens, except for one, the youngest, Avelino who helps Rosa shoulder the weight of the family’s problems.

Me, Them and Lara

A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.

Among The Trees

Two brothers, who have not seen each other for a long time, meet again at their mother's grave. The opportunity for their re-connection is threatened by the emerging ghosts of the past.

Drifting

Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.

Honey Boy

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.

Ponyboi

Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.

X&Y

An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female.

Los fritos

Juan, a young man from Quito with extremist ideals, rejects his roots, and constantly tries to be someone else; soon the height of Quito will put him in the place where he belogns.

The Glass Menagerie

Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a gentleman caller appears, things move to crisis point.

Rukus

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, Rukus is a queer coming-of-age story set in the liminal spaces of furry conventions, southern punk houses, and virtual worlds.

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign as outspoken trailblazer for the trans community.

Subliminal

A young man wanders and explores his mind through his past to understand his future.

Tucked

An aging 80 year old drag queen forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they realize how to truly be themselves.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

And the Breadwinner Is...

A mistaken identity leads to a promising opportunity when breadwinner Bambi comes home to her own funeral. Instead of correcting the comical mistake, Bambi, together with her dysfunctional family, decide to keep up the ridiculous act of her death in order to claim her 10 million peso life insurance in hopes of finally turning their dream life to reality.

Loving Someone

Only son, Carlitos, suddenly finds himself the man of an all-female household when his father dies of a heart attack. He falls in love with an offbeat girl and is forced to make a choice between following his heart or risk losing the love of the family which has nurtured him all his life.

Solitude Ability

Aki is an adolescent who is still unsure of their identity. When Aki moves to a new school, they meet and begin to spend time with Kiita. As the two spend time together, Aki eventually comes to terms with the feelings that have been building up in their mind like stagnation.

The Runaway

When Jasmine, a runaway teen, accepts a lift from a stranger, Mick, an older man searching for reconnection and forgiveness within his own family, she finds herself caught up in a messy situation and very far from home, coming to realise that running away is not always the solution.

We're All Going to the World's Fair

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

Before I Change My Mind

1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.

Chaos. Murder. Despair.

Chaos, Murder, and Despair have walked among humans for eons, tasked with sowing discord among them. However, the thrill of Earthly life has long faded, and with it, their power. Only one way exists to reclaim it: resurrect their long-dead sister.

Cinereous Money

A father of a family becomes involved in the crime of money laundering. Stressed by illegal businesses and the constant questioning of his wife, he will decide to take a break from the mafia, without knowing that it is impossible.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast to her mother, Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school. Life in the harbor is peaceful until a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair's tender relationship.

Under My Skin

Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a straight laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.

Happy Wednesday

A young man who claims to work in an office job must accept the consequences when his lie is discovered by his father who visited him in Jakarta.

El pozo

Pilar is autistic since she was four years old, now she is 26. The father wants to send her to an Institution , but the mother refuses, this creates a rift in the couple. The family is breaking up: Alejo, the youngest son, has conflicts at school and with his friends. Pilar suffers from increasingly frequent attacks that makes their living really impossible. Finally, they put her in an Institution. She will find another way to live, but something will happen that will change the course of the family.

Consuelo

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The Stranger

A coming-of-age story that navigates the journey of a family in which the young son grapples with questions about his gender identity.

James and Alice

James is a hardworking filmmaker in advertising and his girlfriend Alice works in banking. Against their parent's wishes, the two marry and the movie revolves around the misunderstandings between them caused by their busy lifestyles. Things take a turn when James meets with a freak car accident.

Stand Up for Your Friends

An Irish anti-homophobic and transphobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week.

Torrey Pines

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen's life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fueled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, twelve-year-old Petersen is taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.

L'Ombre au tableau

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Sobre Todo A Mi Familia

A teenager has to undo the mess his older brother made and protect his family even if he has to stand against dangerous thugs.

Her Satanic Majesty

A gorgeous woman allegedly ruins a neurotic man's youth, leading him to reminisce about his life of chaos and desolation.

Larut

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Pronouns in Bio

Through a collection of video diary entries spanning more than a year, Pronouns in Bio delivers an offbeat and charming reflection on transness and identity. Part documentary, part video essay and part musical, the film follows director and star Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner, a recently out transgender, autistic woman, as she navigates the first year of her transition. Note: Lucy uses the name Frankie during the film but has since started using the name Lucy.

Pieces of my life

Josué, a 15-year-old boy, visits his mother, with whom he doesn't have a good relationship, which leads to certain conflicts. Being in his old house, Josué remembers moments from when he was a child, which brings him closer to her.

Wilting at the Roots

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects begin to drive a wedge between him and his daughter, who needs him more than ever.

Les corps aqueux

An experimental film exploring gender identities excluded from the binary system. By constructing a theatrical space including fabricated sets and props, invented radio interviews, vignettes of archival footage, as well as overlays, the film explores the relationship between body and self. In this in-between space, uncertainty can finally have free rein.

The People's Joker

An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.