A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS: (from the Audience Feedback Festival)
Best Feature Film: Caracas Avenue
Best Short Film: Benção, Pai (Bless Me, Father)
Best Story: Two Full Hands
Best Music Video: Take it or Leave It
Best Visual Design: Silim
Best TV Web Series: #Farelife – Season 1
Best Cinematography: Under the Stars
Best Direction: Arlington
Best Performances: Intoxxicated
TWO FULL HANDS, 12min., USA
Directed by John Colon
A single mom who tries her best to keep her work and life balanced. Even though there are a lot of difficulties, she still receives the warm supports from strangers who treat her as part of the family.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-two-full-hands
Benção, Pai (Bless Me, Father), 17min., Brazil
Directed by Ed Lopes
The film follows the story of Antônio (Ed Lopes), a gay evangelical man married to Sandra (Ayala Rossana), an equally devout housewife who lives under the silence and emotional control imposed by her husband. While Antônio brings male sex workers into their home during Sandra’s absence, as she attends religious services, she finds herself trapped in a reality where she has no voice or space to confront the psychological abuse she endures.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-bencao-pai
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, 3min., USA
Directed by Alex Chacon
This music video speaks to the all-too-common matter of people dealing with rejection simply because they have decided to be true to themselves, to be authentic and be who they are. It is a project designed to bring hope, energy and resilience to those who are marginalized and minimized by others who choose to, nor cannot accept them or make any attempt to understand and love them. Our target audience it turns out to be the emerging generations.
https://instagram.com/sarahjames_music
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-take-it-or-leave-it
SILIM, 17min., USA
Directed by Alexander Cruz De Ocampo
HAYDEN HAN is a Californian travel influencer with ten million internet friends and no one to call. On the eve of his first Christmas after a deep personal loss, Hayden flees to the Philippines in hopes of escaping his rapidly devolving personal life. His desperate bid for human connection propels him through a roiling Manila night that brings him face to face with the last person he wants to see: himself.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-silim
#FareLife – Season 1, 22min., USA
Directed by Brian Hogan, Tyler Stirling
#FareLife gives us a peak inside the lives of Connecticut strangers from all walks of life as they ride from place to place with everyone’s favorite FareRide driver, affectionately called “buddy”. From drag queens to estranged parents to drunk strangers, follow “buddy’s” adventures as he navigates the streets and the pitfalls of living, in this zany, touching and often times irreverent ride of a lifetime.
https://instagram.com/TheBrianHogan
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-farelife
UNDER THE STARS, 7min., USA
Directed by Jason G Mercado
In the forgotten corners of the city, a young homeless addict named JD drifts through nights haunted by silence, addiction, and disconnection. Alongside Max, a hardened street survivor, and Luna, a mentally ill woman caught in a cycle of delusion and innocence, JD stumbles through a grim urban purgatory. When tragedy strikes under the glow of streetlights and stars, JD is forced to confront the cost of invisibility — and the fragile spark of hope that may still exist.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-under-the-stars
ARLINGTON, 18min., USA
Directed by Freddie Paull
After surviving a tragic act of violence, Arlington retreats to a remote cabin in Vermont, hoping to disappear into the quiet. His reclusive neighbor Owen carries his own unspoken grief, and their uneasy connection begins to blur the line between refuge and reckoning. As winter closes in, the two men are forced to confront the weight of what they’ve lost—and what it might take to return to the world. Arlington is a stark, intimate drama about trauma, guilt, and the fragile possibility of healing between strangers.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-arlingtonj
INTOXXICATED, 16min., Canada
Directed by Olivia Bronwyn
Maddie and Rachel fall in love through their connection with music and understanding on grief. When Maddie’s drinking worsens she decides to quit out of love for Rachel. Unable to keep herself from the bottle she lies to Rachel, and after an explosive argument where Maddie becomes violent, Rachel decides to leave her. After Maddie’s various failed attempts at getting sober she decides to check into rehab, taking her life into her own hands and facing her grief head on.
https://www.instagram.com/intoxxicatedshortfilm
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-intoxxicatied
CARACAS AVENUE, 92min., Colombia
Directed by Juana Jimenez del toro
Caracas Avenue tells the story of four children in the 1980s who, rejected by their parents for their sexual orientation, are thrown out onto the streets, where they are sexually exploited by a pedophile and begin to commit crimes and engage in prostitution to survive. They dream of traveling to the United States, and amidst their harsh reality, that dream persists. When they arrive in Bogotá, the American dream ends when they are denied visas. The course of their lives takes a drastic turn, and they end up in Bogotá’s red-light district, in the Santafé neighborhood, where they become transvestites. As time passes, their lives take different paths.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-caracas
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