General - deepa sivarajan

Painting of a man with dark browh hair, a mustache, and glasses. The man's skin is depicted as blue-green to mimic a river, and above the man's glasses you can see the outlines of a city. The title "Half a Life" is at the bottom.

Raised their fists and shouted back "Stonewall was a riot"

Three docu-shorts and one narrative short depict queer and trans legacies of protest

And they were roommates!

oh my god they were (three queer films about) roommates

Poster for the film "Heaven Reaches Down to Earth" depicting a dark-skinned Black man's face with the top half of his face obscured by a sillouhuete of a mountain, atop which stands a hiker, with the night sky above him. There are flames coming up both from below the man's face and above the mountain. The poster also appears to list some of the filmmakers and cast, but the words are written in small cursive and are difficult to read in this version of the image.

Known for giving love away, but I want

Four short films depict different dimensions of queer desire

Reclaiming Indigenous presents and futures

Two mockumentaries and one documentary short highlight Two-Spirit perspectives

Wild again, beguiled again

Three short films deal with the ups and downs of falling for someone who doesn’t love you back

Finding futures in the violent legacies of our pasts and presents

Three films depict different elements of how colonization has impacted how we see gender and sexuality

Nature as (queer) nurture

Two films meditate on the elements around us that can project our queer futures

Skeletons in the closet

Three queer couples face terrifying circumstances in this week’s horror short films

Fairy tale(s &) endings

Kicking this newsletter off with two short films: “How to Raise a Black Boy” and “安可瑪莎 | Encore Martha”

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This is a weekly newsletter where I will be recommending LGBTQIA2S+ short films from around the world! Each week’s recommendations will add up to no more than an hour cumulatively. Who am I, and why am I recommending you films? I’m Deepa, a queer agender Indian-American person in my thirties; please use my name instead…