A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS: (from the Audience Feedback Festival)
Best Feature Film: Inside the Oasis: The Story of South Florida’s Gay Mecca
Best Short Film: FINDING YIYI
Best Direction: LOOK AT US NOW
Best Micro-Short Film: ANADROMOUS
Best Experimental Film: TEN POEM PROJECT (AUNTIE)
Best Performances: GIRLS NIGHT IN
Inside the Oasis: The Story of South Florida’s Gay Mecca, 47min., USA
Directed by Andy Perrott
Narrated by Emmy-winning actor Sharon Gless, INSIDE THE OASIS: The Story of South Florida’s Gay Mecca explores the LGBTQ+ community’s evolution in Broward County from the 1950s to the present. Through archival footage and firsthand accounts, the film charts the fight against discrimination, the triumph of visibility, and the fragile nature of progress as newly emboldened political forces once again challenge the community’s hard-won rights.
https://www.instagram.com/lightshipstudios/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-inside-the-oasis
GIRLS NITE IN, 7min., USA
Directed by Sarah J Simon
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-girls-night-in
Ten Poem Project (Auntie), 4min., USA
Directed by Nakoa Taggart, Gabriel Vazquez
Ten Poem Project is a hybrid dance film that brings together poetry, movement, and lived testimony to explore migration, identity, and artistic resilience. Emerging from a larger practice-as-research monograph, the film weaves choreographic performance with personal narrative, poetic text, and visual storytelling. Rooted in the experiences of migrant dancers in the United States, Ten Poem Project reflects on displacement, survival, and the transformative power of dance as both testimony and archive. The work blurs the boundaries of scholarship and art, creating a visceral meditation on how bodies remember and reimagine home across cultures.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-ten-poem-project
ANADROMOUS, 5min., USA
Directed by Ari Grubb
When they find themselves evolving out of their aquarium home, two fish set off on a musical journey of self-acceptance and queer joy, and find community in a freaky fish gay bar in the deepest depths of the ocean.
https://instagram.com/anadromous_film
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-anadromous
Finding Yiyi, 14min., USA
Directed by Kim Caicedo
After losing her grandmother’s cherished dumpling recipe, a 65-year-old woman embarks on a journey to piece it back together, leading her to reconnect with a childhood friend and explore the relationship they never had.
https://www.instagram.com/findingyiyi/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-finding-yiyi
Look At Us Now, 5min., USA
Directed by Noelle Gentile, Kaitlyn Busbee
“Look At Us Now” is the debut music video from 10-year-old, Lulu Grey’s debut album, “Dreaming’ Grey”
https://instagram.com/@lulu.grey.music
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-look-at-us-now
LGBT Los Angeles Film Festival 