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How to Survive a Plague

The story of how activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 110/85 min.

Year of production: 2012

Activism American History Conflicts Education Health History Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Personal Story Politics Science Society

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Flee

Amin had an extraordinary child refugee journey from Afghanistan. He is facing a painful secret he kept hidden for 20 years, threatening to derail his life and his soon-to-be husband

Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Language: Danish, Russian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2021

Author's POV Biography Children Conflicts Current Affairs Ethnography Family Human Rights Immigration and Migration LGBTQIA+ Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Social Justice Society War

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Stories of Our Lives

A series of vignettes based on true stories collected for the Stories Of Our Lives project.

Director: Jim Chuchu

Language: English, Swahili (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 60 min.

Year of production: 2014

Activism African Cinema and Culture Arts and Culture Conflicts Gender Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Personal Story Religion and Spirituality Romance Sexuality Society Women Youth

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The Freedom To Marry

The epic and surprising story of same sex marriage in America; the most successful - and perhaps most inspiring - civil rights movement of our time

Director: Eddie Rosenstein

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 86 min.

Year of production: 2016

Activism American History Anthropology Current Affairs Education History Human Rights Law and Justice LGBTQIA+ Politics Sexuality Society

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The Case Against 8

A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore

Director: Ben Cotner | Ryan White

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 112 min.

Year of production: 2013

American History Anthropology Conflicts Gender History Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Politics

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Ballerina Boys

“Ballerina Boys” is a portrait of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a dance company of male ballerinas who present dazzling parody of classic ballets changing the world one pirouette at a time

Director: Chana Gazit | Martie Barylick

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 53 min.

Year of production: 2020

Arts and Culture Diversity LGBTQIA+ Social Justice

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It’s Always Been Me

A touching and timely story about two young people who don't identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, and about the importance of an understanding family when making choices that will change the rest of your life

Director: Julie Bezerra Madsen

Language: Danish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 79 min.

Year of production: 2023

Gender Health LGBTQIA+ Personal Story Social Justice

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Dear Fredy

Dear Fredy explores Fredy Hirsch's life, a brave Jewish gay man who created a daycare in Auschwitz, bringing brief joy to children amidst terror. His enduring spirit faced immense persecution and planned a failed uprising, marking a significant chapter in gay history

Director: Rubi Gat

Language: Czech, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 74 min.

Year of production: 2017

Biography European History History Holocaust Jewish Studies LGBTQIA+

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Indianara

"Revolution can be done with peace, love and beer, but if it’s not working, we’ll throw stones, we’ll set fire and break glass!" Indianara, a bigger-than-life revolutionary character and her group who lead a fight for the survival of transgender people in Brazil.

Director: Aude Chevalier-Beaumel | Marcelo Barbosa

Language: Portuguese (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 84 min.

Year of production: 2019

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I Am a Woman Now

The story of the first generation of transsexuals, as told by five women who underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1950s Casablanca.

Director: Michiel van Erp

Language: Dutch, English, French, German (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 86/55 min.

Year of production: 2011

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Bambi, a French Woman

From birth in Algiers, Marie-Pierre wanted to wear dresses, rejecting her given name, Jean-Pierre. At 17, discovering a drag show changed her life. Becoming Bambi, she became a cabaret legend in 50s and 60s Paris.

Director: Sebastien Lifshitz

Language: French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2021

Arts and Culture Biography French Cinema and Culture Gender History LGBTQIA+ Personal Story

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Jerusalem is Proud to Present

Plans to hold the International World Pride celebration in Jerusalem in 2006 were disrupted by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims, united by their objection to LGBT events in the city they consider holy.

Director: Nitzan Gilady

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 60 min.

Year of production: 2007

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God’s Fool

A biography of the author Scott Symons.

Director: Nik Sheehan

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 69 min.

Year of production: 1997

Biography LGBTQIA+ Personal Story

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Before the Last Curtain Falls

The exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of trans cabaret artists and drag queens in their sixties and seventies, who summon the courage to take the stage one last time.

Director: Thomas Wallner

Language: English, French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 86 min.

Year of production: 2014

Arts and Culture Gender Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Sexuality Society Women

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The Fight

At this defining moment in American history, THE FIGHT follows a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

Director: Elyse Steinberg | Josh Kriegman | Eli B. Despres

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam

In the '60s, hippies ignited a sexual revolution. In 2020, Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-German feminist imam, faces fatwas and bullets for sparking a similar change in Islam. Her global journey fights extremism, fostering peace and love within the faith. Join her revolution!

Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

Language: Chinese, English, German, Norwegian, Turkish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2021

Activism Asian Studies Conflicts Current Affairs Gender Globalization Human Rights Law and Justice LGBTQIA+ Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Politics Religion and Spirituality Sexuality Social Justice Society Women

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The Holy Closet (Aron HaKodesh)

7 stories of LGBTQ people who chose to remain religious Jews and to build their lives, relationships, families, and everyday activities according to the Jewish religion.

Director: Moran Nakar

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 58 min.

Year of production: 2023

Family Gender LGBTQIA+ Religion and Spirituality

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To Russia With Love

Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi, a law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors” was passed in Russia. Gay Olympians were confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defense of their Russian comrades or compete in silence

Director: Noam Gonick

Language: English, Russian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 80 min.

Year of production: 2014

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Call me Kuchu

In Uganda, David Kato and his fellow LGBT activists work to defeat new legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by death.

Director: Katherine Fairfax Wright | Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 87/58 min.

Year of production: 2012

Gender LGBTQIA+ Sexuality Society

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Do I Sound Gay?

Journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching journey, confronting his anxiety about "sounding gay" by comprehensively exploring the linguistic, cultural and historical origins of the stereotype of the gay voice.

Director: David Thorpe

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 77 min.

Year of production: 2014

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Third Person

Suzan isn’t either-or. Suzan isn’t both. Not quite male, not quite female. At 35 years old Suzan discovers this for the first time

Director: Sharon Luzon

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2015

Gender Health Human Rights LGBTQIA+

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How to Say Silence

An old photograph launches a cross-generational journey, revealing how national values were enlisted in early-days Israel for the patriarchal control over women’s bodies and wombs. With her grandmothers’ painful stories, the director breaks the bond of silence.

Director: Shir Newman

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 59 min.

Year of production: 2021

Family Gender LGBTQIA+ Personal Story Women

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Kenya: The Struggle for Justice

After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a transgender sex worker, embarks on a journey of struggle and the pursuit of justice.

Director: Gisela Delgadillo

Language: Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2022

Activism Biography Current Affairs Gender Human Rights Law and Justice Latin American Studies LGBTQIA+ Politics Sexuality

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Unforgivable (Imperdonable)

A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang deals with his sexuality inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay

Director: Marlén Viñayo

Language: Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 36 min.

Year of production: 2020

Anthropology Crime Diversity Investigative Journalism Latin American Studies LGBTQIA+ Religion and Spirituality Romance Sexuality

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