Total Runtime: 107 min
Content Warning: DD, DS, IDB
Experience this collection of films centering stories and perspectives from across the LGBTQA+ community. Navigate through romances and intimate looks into the lives of queer and trans individuals as they figure out their journeys in these vulnerable and insightful shorts.
Wouldn’t Make it Any Other Way
Directed by Hao Zhou
United States | 2024 | Documentary Short | 20 min | WA State Premiere
Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre and reconnect with distanced parents.
My Fantasies Keep Me Up
Directed by Celina de Leon
Canada | 2024 | Experimental Short | 5 min
In this fanciful and imaginative experimental video, a person struggles to figure out what is a dream and what is reality, as they dive into their fantasies of becoming a butterfly among the flowers.
Bobo in Bliss
Directed by Vivian Ip
United States | 2024 | Narrative Short | 16 min | PNW Premiere
Bowen, a Singaporean teenager studying in an American boarding school is visited by her traditional parents and younger sister. While the visit includes the anticipated Annual Fall Dinner at her boarding school, it is evident that they may not have left on the best of terms; the tension is piercing. The dramatic central question: is Bowen able to reconcile the differences between their values and her affirming self-discoveries.
Divine Intervention
Directed by Ravenna Tran
United Kingdom | 2024 | Narrative Short | 17 min | PNW Premiere
To get the promotion of their dreams, a mischievous earth-bound angel must get two ex-best friends to finally admit their love to each other.
Elijah
Directed by Razid Season
United States | 2024 | Narrative Short | 19 min | PNW Premiere
Haider, a Bengali Muslim taxi driver faces the reality that the American Dream may never be his. Grueling hours, rude customers, a collapse in medallion values and suicides among fellow drivers continually chip away at his hope for the future. Under this backdrop, crisis spills into his family life as his daughter, Shoshi, is consumed by her own struggle, a desire to live life fully as man in a transphobic immigrant culture.
Māhū
Directed by Lisette Marie Flanary
United States | 2025 | Narrative Short | 30 min | PNW Premiere
MĀHŪ: A Trans-Pacific Love Letter is about an innovative theater production by master hula teacher, Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne, which aims to reclaim and celebrate the traditional place of honor and respect given to māhū (transgender) people. The film explores the history of the Hawaiian term māhū by interweaving the multi-media stage performance featuring the hula dance, chant, and contemporary music around intimate interviews with the artistic collaborators of the show who are all acclaimed Hawaiian transgender artists.