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Amor maldito
Duas jovens mulheres, Fernanda, uma executiva, e Sueli, uma ex-miss, se apaixonam e decidem morar juntas. Porém, Sueli se cansa do relacionamento amoroso que leva com Fernanda e envolve-se com um jornalista. A moça engravida do amante e ele a…
José
José lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where, dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living one’s life as an openly gay man is hard for José to imagine. His mother has never had a husband and is determined to…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
Pixote: A Lei Do Mais Fraco
Pixote, a child from the streets of São Paulo, is arrested by the police and sent to a juvenile detention center where he and the other adolescents endure abuse and sexual violation by police officers. When two runaways are murdered and the police…
Favela Gay
Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words. Living in eight slums (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro, these members of the LGBTQ community – two transgender women, a crossdressing man, a travesti (in South America, a person who was…
Mãe só há uma
A vida do adolescente Pierre vira de cabeça pra baixo quando ele recebe uma denúncia e é obrigado a fazer um teste de DNA. Após o resultado, descobre que a mulher que o criou não é sua mãe biológica, e sim uma estranha que o roubou na maternidade.…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
El acompañante
Daniel Guerrero (interpretado por Armando Miguel) tiene sida y está interno en el sanatorio de Los Cocos al sur de La Habana. El boxeador Horacio Romero (Yotuel Romero), sancionado por dopaje, es su acompañante, quien le vigilará noche y día para…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Atempa, sueños a la orilla del río
Tino desea lograr su sueño: ser Reina Muxe. Siendo niño homosexual asume el rol de niña para desarrollar su feminidad adolescente, busca solucionar su pasado y su economía pese a las carencias sociales. Esta película es un retrato de San Blas Atempa,…
Tags: Zapotec / zapoteco
Café com canela
Violeta lives in a tight-knit community in Bahia, Brazil. She is far from the only one struggling with grief and loss: there is also a grandmother entirely dependent on care, a woman desperately searching for love and a young doctor who – after 20…
Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of “identity” through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and…
Bixa Travesty
A documentary that follows Ms Linn da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo. (IMDB)
Las herederas
Marcelo Martinessi's film is an autumnal study of a reclusive Paraguayan woman in her 60s who takes tentative steps to reconnect with the world after the companion who has long overseen her affairs goes off to prison. A restrained, stately character…
Tags: Feminism / Feminismo
Dólares de arena
Noelí, una joven dominicana, viaja todas las tardes a las playas de las Terrenas. Allí, junto con su pareja, busca la manera de sacar ventaja y ganar algunos dólares a costa de alguno de los centenares de turistas que rondan el lugar. Entre sus…