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Slipping through my fingers all the time

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Four queer films come out to their parents

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Still from the short film “Clash”, showing two people of color dressed up in 18th century English aristocratic garb and hairstyles, dancing around with croquet mallets in a park. The shot has horizontal lines running through it to mimic tv feedback and static.

I heard the deleted scenes are the scenes, and the scenes are the deleted scenes

Four queer short films get meta about filmmaking

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I hereby pronounce you a (queer) community

I hereby pronounce you a (queer) community

Five short films find empathy, solidarity, and messiness in LGBTQIA2S+ spaces

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Movie poster for the Netflix film “Ajeeb Dastaans”. The poster shows framed photos against a wood wall. Three of the framed photos are cut off, but the one that is visible shows two women looking in opposite directions, the one in front (Aditi Rao Hydari) shown much smaller while the one behind (Konkona Sen Sharma) takes up most of the frame.

Be gay, do revenge

Three films about a kind of (queer) wild justice

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(Queer) friendship is magic

(Queer) friendship is magic

Three films get by (sometimes) with a little help from their friends

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This could be the start of something new

This could be the start of something new

Three films about resets, restarts, and beginnings

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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

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And they were roommates!

And they were roommates!

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

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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

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Reclaiming Indigenous presents and futures

Reclaiming Indigenous presents and futures

Two mockumentaries and one documentary short highlight Two-Spirit perspectives

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