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Tuli

Philippines | Directed by Auraeus Solito

In remote barrios of the Philippines, traditional circumcision rites are still carried out on young boys. Daisy‘s father, specialized in these procedures, often takes out his unhappiness with his life on his daughter by forcing her to remove the little boys’ foreskins. In order to get back at her father, Daisy flaunts her love affair with another woman. Worse, she decides to get pregnant by the only boy in town who is not circumcised.
Courage to ...
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Tuzdan Kaide

(english) The Pillar of Salt

Turkey | Directed by Burak Çevik

A pregnant young woman who lives in a sort of cave is looking for her vanished sister, yet this plot summary hardly does justice to the charm, richness and radical nature of Burak Çevik’s first feature – all of which a result of the liberties he takes in creating an extravagant cinematic world to tell this story. The protagonist leaves her almost fairytale-like cave to set out across a river, taking up her sister’s trail. This trail leads her to ...
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Two Girls Against the Rain

Cambodia | Directed by Sao Sopheak

A captivatingly courageous and touching film about a lesbian couple in Cambodia.The two women have known and loved each other since the time of the Khmer Rouge. The deep bond existing between them and their strength have helped them overcome all different kinds of resistance, including that of their families.
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Tytöt tytöt tytöt

(english) Girl Picture

Finland | Directed by Alli Haapasalo

“Shouldn’t you feel it at first glance?” - “How depressing would it be if that was true!”
It’s Friday night and just like every other week, best friends Rönkkö and Mimmi are busy beating back the darkness of the Finnish winter with an irrepressible lust for life and love. With her quirky wit, Rönkkö stands out at every party and has no trouble getting the boys’ attention – yet how do you turn desire into fulfilment? When Mimmi loses her te...
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Uli

Colombia | Directed by Mariana Gil Ríos

Rafaela accompanies her older sister on a visit to a boy. As the two older ones retreat, Rafa begins to explore the house. She meets queer girl Uli and her pet, and has the opportunity to find freedom in an unfamiliar place.
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Ulrike Ottinger - die Nomadin vom See

(english) Ulrike Ottinger - Nomad from the Lake

Germany | Directed by Brigitte Kramer

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the international art world to the sleepy town of Konstanz. It all began on the shores of Lake Constance where Ulrike Ottinger was born and where she still often spends time. Filmmaker Brigitte Kramer chose to begin her film at Lake Constance since she too shares Ottinger’s birthplace and a great love of ...
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Ulrike's Brain

Germany, Canada | Directed by Bruce LaBruce

Referencing sixties B-movies like "They Saved Hitler’s Brain" and "The Brain That Would Not Die", "Ulrike’s Brain" finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’...
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Umsonst gelebt - Walter Schwarze

(english) A Life In Vain - Walter Schwarze

Germany | Directed by Rosa von Praunheim

This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My camera recorded his first public account of his five-year incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was in his fifties when he met Ali in his hometown of Leipzig; the two men became partners and re-mained close until his demise. And yet, Walter told me, he felt he had lived in vain ...
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Un año sin amor

(english) A Year Without Love

(german) Ein Jahr Ohne Liebe

Argentina | Directed by Anahí Berneri

Pablo is a writer and is HIV positive. When he learns that he will probably die within a year he starts to write a diary. The object of the exercise is not so much to create a piece of literature as to try to define his personal status quo. Pablo wants his diary to describe, like a compass, all the different directions in which his disease and his struggle for control over his body has led him. Pablo’s task is also bound up with the desire to eas...
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Un gif larguísimo

(english) A Very Long Gif

Spain, Norway, Greece | Directed by Eduardo Williams

Recorded with a swallowed pill camera, the video Un gif larguísimo (A Very Long Gif) is an observational journey through the landscape of the digestive system, combined with a detailed zoom into cities and people moving in the limits of our vision, filmed with a powerful telephoto lens. These disparate image spaces sustain each other with the tension of celestial bodies. The sound of overlapping movements through different human agglomerations of...
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Un invincible été

(english) Invincible Summer

Belgium | Directed by Arnaud Dufeys

Sixteen-year-old Clément spends a hot summer evening home alone by the pool. Determined to lose his virginity, he swipes through guys’ profiles on Grindr...
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Un movimiento extraño

(english) An Odd Turn

Argentina | Directed by Francisco Lezama

Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who works as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with the employee of a currency exchange office.
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Una Mujer Fantástica

(english) A Fantastic Woman

(german) Eine fantastische Frau

Chile, United States, Germany, Spain | Directed by Sebastián Lelio

Marina and Orlando are in love and plan to spend their lives together. She is working as a waitress and adores singing. Her lover, twenty years her senior, has left his family for her. One night, when they return home after having exuberantly celebrated Marina’s birthday at a restaurant, Orlando suddenly turns deathly pale and stops responding. At the hospital, all the doctors can do is confirm his death. Events follow thick and fast: Marina find...
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Una Noche

United States, Cuba, Great Britain | Directed by Lucy Mulloy

A single night can feel very long sometimes, especially if you’re on a tiny raft, can’t swim and are surrounded by sharks. There are just ninety miles of water between Cuba and Florida. Desperate to leave, plenty of Cubans choose make this risky trip across the sea. So too Lila’s twin brother Elio. Lila always thought he could ever leave her – after all, they’ve been together ever since they were born. But of late he’s been distracted and has had...
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Unbound

Canada | Directed by Claudia Morgado Escanilla

Some women love theirs, others hate them. And then there are those who take theirs to a plastic surgeon. Fifteen women comment on their relationship to their breasts.
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Uncle Howard

Great Britain, United States | Directed by Aaron Brookner

After Howard Brookner, director of two documentaries and a feature film, died from AIDS related illnesses at the age of 34 in 1989, his slender oeuvre was in danger of being forgotten – until his nephew Aaron decided to preserve his uncle’s legacy and to digitalise his first film, the cult classic Burroughs: The Movie (1983). This endeavour led to the discovery of a number of other gems stored in the godfather of Beat’s legendary ‘bunker’ in New ...
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Uncut

(german) Unbeschnitten

Canada | Directed by John Greyson

Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosen...
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Unfriend

Philippines | Directed by Joselito Altarejos

A 15-year-old boy stands on the edge of the roof of a building site; his hand playfully reaches into the air. Beneath David lies the city and behind him his friend Jonathan who is two years older and looks on, captivated by the sight of his friend. David lives with his grandmother who divides her time between housework and TV shows. Warm and humorous, she supports her grandchild’s openly gay life, but he prefers to withdraw into his Facebook worl...
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Unter Männern - Schwul in der DDR

(english) Among Men – Gay in East Germany

Germany | Directed by Markus Stein, Ringo Rösener

UNTER MÄNNERN – SCHWUL IN DER DDR addresses the question of how gay men lived and could live their lives under ‘real socialism’, where GDR ideology considered homosexuality to be a remnant of bourgeois decadent morality and harmful to a socialist society. In this documentary we meet six men who talk openly about their social and intimate experiences, some for the first time, and get to know several individuals who could hardly be more diverse, or...
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Untitled (Human Mask)

(english) Untiteld (Human Mask)

France | Directed by Pierre Huyghe

A macaque monkey, trained to work as a waitress at a restaurant in Japan, sits alone in a deserted dining hall. Waiting amid the dystopian setting for her moment to perform, the monkey seems trapped within her role, forced to enact the human condition.