Movies

  • Visibility Sucks!

    Movie

    Visibility Sucks is a 24-hour glimpse into the life of an artist suffering from a major identity crisis after a global pandemic sends him plummeting from the limelight to working in a grocery store. Shard, the protagonist, takes the viewer on a surreal journey as he tries his best to regain a sen...

  • THANDO
    Movie + 1 extra

    THANDO

    Movie + 1 extra

    After Reza, a non-binary rising performing artist from a township in Soweto, begins to settle into Johannesburg when Mase, a writer struggling to understand his identity, unexpectedly arrives into his life. Through their brief introduction they suddenly begin to reveal intimate vulnerabilities th...

  • Flock

    Movie

    Flock is a trans-created dramatic thriller about a man traveling to Maine to rescue his lover from a lethal cult.

  • Hell By Any Other Name

    Movie

    A viral video detailing a reoccuring nightmare reveals a portal into hell. One viewer tries it hirself and, after passing through to the other side, confronts the demons that await hir.

  • Dont @ Me (Please)

    Movie

    don’t @ me (please) is a SlamFam Ensemble digital show that explores the “unprecedented times” we have been living in by blending poetry and film. Together, our ensemble of poets will ask all the burning questions that we need the answers to right now: how do you measure growth and progress when ...

  • Blk Wmn Bng

    Movie

    A film about Black Women having the freedom to live in their truths without apology or permission.

  • Loneliness in the Late Night (LITLN)

    Movie

    A young woman reluctantly confronts her feelings as she revisits a complicated relationship with an old flame.

  • Enraptured

    Movie

    A woman takes the time to fulfill her partner's sexual desires.

  • Wake Up, Jaleela

    Movie

    Wake Up, Jaleela is a short film about a girl trapped in a nightmare determined to wake up. In order to escape the dream, she embarks on a journey that challenges her to reasses the waking world.

  • To Cross the Sunset

    Movie

    Everything changes when the matriarch ensuring everyone’s survival decides it’s time for her to die.

  • Fear Rules This Forest

    Movie

    In a forest that turns all of its inhabitants into trees, two sisters and their grandmother have eked out a means for survival. But, one sister yearns for more.

  • Black Pill
    Movie + 1 extra

    Black Pill

    Movie + 1 extra

    In a near-future techno-dystopia, a trans shut-in named Ven orders a box of pills off a shady website that promises to make their aberrant and strange fantasies a reality.

  • Drive Slow
    Movie + 1 extra

    Drive Slow

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Drive Slow", follows a teenager from the South-Side of Chicago attempting to finish his college essays. As he struggles to boil down his complex surroundings in 500 words, his friends' disparate opinions, racist news narratives, and the threat of lingering danger only complicate the process.

  • Filmmaking While Femme Roundtable Talk

    Movie + 1 extra

    This International Women's Day join women and femme-filmmakers Ashley O'Shay, Elena Valentine, Stephanie Jeter, and host, Sarah Minnie as they discuss their journeys in the film industry, how they have thrived over the years, challenges they've overcome, and more.

  • For the Love of Monsters

    Movie + 1 extra

    While visiting her American relatives, Chidinma, a soft-spoken Nigerian girl, notices a shadow slinking around the house. She avoids it, spending very little time in her room and not sleeping at night. But she fails and the creature comes for her. Her aunt and uncle refuse to believe that there’s...

  • 35
    Movie + 1 extra

    35

    Movie + 1 extra

    In this social thriller, Tonia Stanwell finds herself on a nightmarish quest through a mysterious government agency to get to her 36th birthday. As our protagonist navigates this surreal and absurd world hellbent on preventing her from getting to 36, we examine the social issues and portray the v...

  • Itchy IOUs
    Movie + 1 extra

    Itchy IOUs

    Movie + 1 extra

    Shot entirely within brightly-coloured constructed sets, Liang Luscombe’s new surreal situational comedy, Itchy IOUs (2020) follows two women, Fran and Sol, as they struggle with the twisted world of personal debt. Set in a parallel universe featuring puppets and giant mouths, Sol can’t stop her ...

  • Lipstick City
    Movie + 1 extra

    Lipstick City

    Movie + 1 extra

    A visually sumptuous exploration of the drag persona of model Shea Couleé, this short film is an arresting display of dance, music, and fashion. When high end fashion model Miss Couleé discovers evidence that her powerful husband, Mr., isn't the faithful man she thought she married, she teams up ...

  • Sweaty Scales
    Movie + 1 extra

    Sweaty Scales

    Movie + 1 extra

    Sweaty Scales created by Liang Luscombe

    In a world akin to the surreal vignettes of Peewee’s Playhouse, Sweaty Scales takes us through a series of portals to tell the story of a pair of lovers. Asian American advertising art director Lisa meets Oliver at his 30th birthday party in which he seduc...

  • Ghosts and Where They Lay

    Movie + 1 extra

    Ghosts and Where They Lay contemplates memory, possession and the act of letting go. This story follows a ghost stuck in her past and the two teens who have ‘captured’ her as they recognize that holding on, to power, the past, or idolization, does not, in fact, grant satisfaction. Through non-tra...

  • Viktory
    Movie + 1 extra

    Viktory

    Movie + 1 extra

    A young girl uses dance to balance the ups and downs of foster care, challenging expectations and pushing the boundaries, to define for herself the meaning of family.