Young, Queer & Restless
Young, Queer & Restless
Thu, Sept 2, PROG – 1
Seven short documentaries, most of these are made by queer, non-binary, first-time or student filmmakers focusing on queer youth narratives that capture their anxieties of growing up with a queer or gender-non conforming identity, and also highlight their creative expressions, optimism and zeal for a better world.
THE SILENT B (B Não é de Biscoito)
Dirs: Hilda Lopes Pontes, Chris Mariani
16 min | 2020 | Brazil | Portuguese Four next-gen people have a candid chat about the myths, taboos and stereotypes regarding bisexuality that prevail in society and even in LGBTQ+ community. As one of the persons in the film has said – it is all about people with whom you fall in love, you care, you feel horny, irrespective of their sex and gender.
16 min | 2020 | Brazil | Portuguese Four next-gen people have a candid chat about the myths, taboos and stereotypes regarding bisexuality that prevail in society and even in LGBTQ+ community. As one of the persons in the film has said – it is all about people with whom you fall in love, you care, you feel horny, irrespective of their sex and gender.
VISIBLE
Dirs: Elena Hutchison, Chisom Ukoha, Autumn Love
6 min | 2020 | USA | English A student-filmed documentary grown out of the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Visible is a story chronicling the lives of trans and non-binary young people as they face one of the most difficult years in history. The film seeks to answers how quarantine affects gender presentation–and most importantly– hopes to shed light on a community easily forgotten in the shadows of the pandemic.
6 min | 2020 | USA | English A student-filmed documentary grown out of the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Visible is a story chronicling the lives of trans and non-binary young people as they face one of the most difficult years in history. The film seeks to answers how quarantine affects gender presentation–and most importantly– hopes to shed light on a community easily forgotten in the shadows of the pandemic.
ABOUT QUEENS AND OTHER COLORS (De reinas y otros colores)
Dir: Juan H. Zuluaga
17 min | 2020 | Guatemala | Spanish With a necessity to express themselves, five young men gathered in an abandoned house share their experiences, frustrations, dreams and opinions on what it is like to be a Drag Queen, in a conservative country like Guatemala.
17 min | 2020 | Guatemala | Spanish With a necessity to express themselves, five young men gathered in an abandoned house share their experiences, frustrations, dreams and opinions on what it is like to be a Drag Queen, in a conservative country like Guatemala.
THE DRAG MANIFESTO
Dir: Felipe Follador
6 min | 2021 | Netherlands | English Three drag artists, from a new generation of performers, discuss the art of drag and share their drag manifesto.
6 min | 2021 | Netherlands | English Three drag artists, from a new generation of performers, discuss the art of drag and share their drag manifesto.
CROSSINGS (Traversées)
Dir: Amandine Le Goff
18 min | 2020 | France | French
Léon reflects on his gender identity when he wears a one-piece bathing suit to a local swimming pool.
PERSONAJE PERSONAJE
Dir: Renata Rezende, Begoña Izquierdo
35 min| 2020 | Spain | Spanish
A brief collage portrait of a young queer artist who deals with the intimate problems of maturing, while lending his body to other entities during his performances, in his quest to break with conventional establishment transformism.
FROM ME TO WE (Eingondagi Eikhoida)
Dir: Neeraj Churi
11 min | 2020 | UK, India | English
An uplifting film about the journey of Sadam as he battles his internal and external demons growing up gay in Manipur, India. Fighting homophobia, rape and drug addition, he raises to change the very society that was responsible for his downward spiral.
Made as part of NYFA Documentary filmmaking course, the film was made using zoom interviews during lockdown in India and UK.
