The Dry Land

Chase A young man learn about people mentality towards success

Unimaginable "How much does love have to hurt before it is not love?" is the question that plagues Antonio as the past demons of domestic violence resurface at the hands of his partner, Kirk. Antonio hides his physical and emotional pain from his all-knowing mother, Cynthia, who suffered such a tremendous amount of abuse at the hands of Antonio's father that Antonio became a nurse to heal pain that he could not heal as a child. Antonio is jolted out of his denial by one of his patients, Michelle , who is also, a frequent victim of domestic violence. While Michelle does not consider herself a victim, but as simply part of a couple that "loves hard and fight hard", a critical incident involving Michelle at the clinic forces Antonio to confront his own situation and reevaluate the "magic and tragic" of his life with Kirk before it is too late.

The Transparent Although Zehra was pregnant with her lover Onur when she was only 18, she left him. Nowadays, she lives with her son Anil and husband Görkem in a coastal town close to the city. One day she realizes that she was raped suspiciously. A private investigator follows this suspicious event. With a surprise visit by Idil, a childhood friend of hers, all the secrets of the past will emerge from all internal calculations on passion, betrayal and love.

Ti@s Inspired by the discrimination suffered by his uncle Ramón because of his sexual condition, John Petrizzelli uses the screen to narrate the life of different people who have something in common: sexual-diversity. The stories feature from the anecdotal to the transcendental, looking for the intimate world of old age without losing sight of the life of each character with different ways of looking at aging, loneliness and death.

Three to Infinity: Beyon... Gay marriage is here. Transgender visibility, acceptance and rights are increasing. And the next frontier has arrived: People whose gender is neither male nor female. In increasing numbers, of all ages and ethnicities, people are referring to themselves as agender, gender neutral, gender queer, and more. Facebook's profile list now offers a choice of 52 genders. 'Three to Infinity: Beyond two genders' is an 84-minute documentary that immerses the viewer in a world where gender is a spectrum of possibilities, where stereotypes fall, and where the future is the present.

Throuple A conflicted young couple, a poly amorous trio trying to dig a hole, and a mysterious recluse spin a tale of love, murder and madness.

Miopia

Symmetry SYMMETRY is a dance-opera film shot inside CERN, the largest experimental particle physics facility in the world. With the cathedral-like majesty of the Large Hadron Collider as his theatre, a modern physicist searches for the smallest primordial particle and discovers a love without end. SYMMETRY UNRAVELLED is the accompanying documentary about the collision of art and science in the world's largest machine: the particle accelerator. Complementing the dance-opera film SYMMETRY, a common curiosity at the crux of man's fascination with the unknown is revealed.

Leftovers Norma and Virginia were lovers for almost fifty years. They died isolated; the vibrant pre-Stonewall lesbian community of their youth long gone. A love story about the unforeseen trajectory of lives lived outside the mainstream told through the 2000 snapshots left behind.

Symbiofaerietaxiplasm od... Symbiofaerietaxiplasm is an experimental documentary on the beginnings of the radical faerie movement in Austria. It follows the appropriation of a queer subculture that emerged in the 1970s San Francisco gay scene in an contemporary austrian environment. The film team collaborated with the faeries from 2012 to 2014. During that time faeries found their place in Lower Austria, but also invited the international faerie community to the first international Faerie gathering "The Sound of Faeries" in the alps. The film shows the faeries at public events, their faerie shows, everyday live at their sanctuary, their gathering and various ceremonies. It also appropriates their artistic ways to express central issues of the movement in a cooperative manner. Taking the faerie idea of creative- and experimental spaces and their potential for self-development very serious the movie adopts open artistic forms, making experimental use of the cinematic space.