Projects in genres: LGBTQIA+

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Young activists in Oxford wage a trans-positive graffiti war after discovering TERF stickers dotted around the city. Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Festival 2021

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Sam and Tusker are partners of 20 years, who are travelling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years before, their time together is the most important thing they have. Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020 - Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably. Both a heartfelt love-story and an examination of gender, class and society, 'Ammonite' brings to life in vivid detail the life of a woman unappreciated in her own time. A pioneering paleontologist and passionate fossil collector, Anning’s findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking around the prehistory of the Earth and saw her named as one of the most influential women in British scientific history by the Royal Society after her death. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020 - Closing Night Gala

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I wouldn't have made this if I had not heard counter-tenor Hugues Cuénod at Covent Garden Opera House as a child. The film animates images taken mainly from old photographic plates, to pick up the beat and ripple of the soundtrack, overlaid by the voice of Jimmy Somerville with its astonishing range of pitch and timbre.

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During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns with a new lover in tow. Child’s world is turned upside down. A coming of age story, set in an enchanted Russian wilderness.

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David fakes a marriage with his foreigner friend in an attempt to spare him from the new labour laws imposed by the Brexit deal. His life then takes a twist when he falls in love and he needs to face his family, society and his own troubled mind.

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Siobhan McSweeney (DERRY GIRLS) stars in this character study about a woman who becomes increasingly infatuated with her neighbour.

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A smart, meditative take on the gulf that emerges between ex-lovers. Official Selection BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2021

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Ecstatic lipsynching in downtown bars is a far cry from Donna’s Baptist upbringing in San Jose; now in her seventies, her estranged siblings haven’t even seen her in a dress. Donna is offered a chance to co-write a play about an overlooked episode in queer history, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, in which transgender women Donna knew stood up against police harrassment. She writes a character to be played by a young transgender activist. Praised for her writing and emboldened by her new friends, she heads out of the city to meet her sister Gloria… This intimate and uplifting film is beautifully observed by director Jay Bedwani and features mesmerising moments recalled by Donna in her emerging writer’s voice. Donna is a film that shows the strength that can be drawn from your community and proves: it’s never too late to find your métier and truly blossom.

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GIMME ONE is a 360 virtual reality experience showcasing five UK ballroom artists as they explore ideas around cultural appropriation, empowerment and safe space. Their self-expression is seen through dance using digital volumetric and motion capture techniques, visualising the unique voices of this vibrant subculture.

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We follow HER & HER on their journey seeing just how their differences can compliment each other, what challenges they will need to overcome and how honest conversation and carefree dancing will always win in the end.

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Two opposing gangs. Two individuals from either side of the dispute. They come together and share a moment during a seemingly innocent game of basketball. Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2020