Youth Truths

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| Still from: team queen
Curated in association with the youth of Pridelines – see some shorts that embrace the reality of coming out, and living life young and queer in the U.S.
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Saving Marriage
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Massachusetts has always played a key role in American history. The heart of New England now finds itself at the epicenter of a nationwide debate on the future of marriage in America.
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2:37
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Time stops in the brutal world of high school where almost anyone might be a candidate for suicide - a grungy gay boy, a high-strung academic superstar, a vicious popular girl or the school jock.
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The Gymnast
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Winner of 18 audience awards, The Gymnast is a rare and honest portrait of sexual and emotional self-discovery, an unforgettable reminder that coming-of-age can happen at any stage of life.
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2 Minutes Later
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Featuring a lesbian private eye who does all her work in a slinky cocktail dress, a mismatched gumshoe duo are on the trail of a missing famous gay photographer in this happily queer CSI Philadelphia.
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PlanetOut Short Movie Awards
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Celebrates a phenomenal quality of shorts films, including Private Life, Airplanes and last exit. Come and judge for yourselves.
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Nina's Heavenly Delights
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Nina Shah's return to her native Scotland is not a joyous homecoming. She is taken aback when she discovers that half of the family's Indian restaurant, “The New Taj”, was lost to pay a gambling debt and when she discovers that the new co-owner is family friend Lisa things get more complicated.
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Hollywood KINK
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Some of Hollywood's best known movies have impacted our perceptions about leather and kink in ways that people seldom realize and a few movies directly shaped the leather community itself as it grew and shifted.
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Electroshock
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As this powerful based-on-a-true-story opens, we see how Elvira is saved from a suicide attempt, only to be charged later with the murder of another woman. We slowly discover that Elvira could not have killed this woman, a fellow teacher named Pilar, because Elvira loved her.
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Red Without Blue
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The unique and tender relationship of a set of tightly bonded identical twin boys is thrown into confusion when one transitions from Alex to Claire.
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Tick Tock Lullaby
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New movie, new dyke drama. Leave it to Lisa Gornick (Do I Love You) to turn lesbian baby-fever squarely on its head in this infectious blend of wry voice-over worrying-aloud and hilariously staged sexual and social mishaps.
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Boy I Am
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The increased visibility of female to male transitioning (FTM), seems to be taken for granted, or is it? This documentary genuinely gives space to the cacophony of voices that include three young transitioning FTMs in New York City.
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The Two Sides of the Bed
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Explores what happens when some familiar characters, finally ready to commit, discover that their girlfriends have a few surprises up their sleeve.
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LEZPLOITATION
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Its time to revisit the early disco era, so glue on those acrylic nails, slap on some blue eye-shadow and take a trip down memory lane with DJ Triple X’s selection of some classic made-for-straight-men movies that have been reclaimed for the ladies.
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ScriptLAB: Lost Dog
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Mary Guzman (Desi’s Got a New Girl) presents a staged script-reading of her new work in progress. It’s your chance to participate and give feedback.
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What Girls Like
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Obsession plays a key role in our best of women’s shorts program that embraces biological clocks, a passion for soccer, all things furry and a resounding musical rendition.
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
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From Director Jamie Babbitt comes a wacky tear through the mosh-pit of 20- something girlie-activism. Welcome to Clits In Action, an underground feminist collective devoted to bring down the patriarchy, one sexist bikini billboard at a time.
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Futura
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Venture with us to explore the realms of future present and future beyond what you can imagine as we bring together an inventive collection of original sci-fi shorts.
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Running Home
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Still from: Running Home
You may think twice about clicking your heels together and repeating, “there’s no place like home….there’s no place like home…” as we present a collection of thought provoking shorts that evaluate how and where we define home.
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The Chinese Botanists Daughter
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In this sumptuous and groundbreaking romantic epic, forbidden love blossoms on a lush jungle island in modern China. It’s a place of haunting beauty and centuries-old customs, at once a liberating Eden and a repressive backwater.
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