Shorts Program: Reel Queer Lives
Run Time: 105 min.
Directors Dave Quantic, Odu Adamu & Todd Henry in Person
Six brilliant short documentaries chronicle the realities of Queer life in the USA and abroad.
This short film program includes the following films:
BODY LANGUAGE (10 min) BODY LANGUAGE is a candid conversation about body image and body experience for Black gay, queer, and same gender loving men.
dir Odu Adamu • United States • English • 2022
MALDITA. A LOVE SONG TO SARAJEVO (27 min) In Maldita, a love song to Sarajevo, Bozo Vreco, the most revolutionary artist of the Balcans sings to life, to overcoming obstacles…
dir Raúl de la Fuente Calle, Amaia Remirez • Spain • English, Spanish • 2022
MORE THAN A FEELING (5 min) A diverse cross-section of queer people describe discovering the pleasures of self-pleasure for the first time.
dir Dave Quantic • United States • English • 2022
PARADISE (29 min) “Paradise” revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood.
dir Minki Hong • Republic of Korea • Korean • 2023
FIRST MONTHS OF FREEDOM (9 min) Cat, a transgender woman in Tennessee who has been institutionalized since she was four years old, got off parole in 2020.
dir Kriss Li • Canada • English • 2021
PERMISSIBLE BEAUTY (23 min) Placing Black queer experience at the heart of a highly collaborative process we will create richly layered portraits of contemporary figure
dir Mark Thomas • UK • English • 2022
Brattle passes not accepted. SNAP/EBT will be accepted at the door.