The Blessed
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The Shower (La Duche) |
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Chile, 2011, 10 min Language: Spanish with Russian & English subtitles DIRECTOR: Maria José San Martín |
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A couple spends their last morning together in the bathroom. One of them is about to leave the country. The other has decided to stay. But who will take care of the cat? |
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Something Like That (Alguma Coisa Assim) |
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Brazil, 2006, 15 min Language: Spanish with Russian & English subtitles DIRECTOR: Esmir Filho |
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Two seventeen-year-olds go out at night looking for a good time in the streets of São Paulo and end up discovering a lot about themselves and their hidden feelings. Awards: 2006 Best Screenplay Award at CANNES. |
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The Blessed (La Santa) |
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Chile, 2012, 14 min Language: Spanish with Russian & English subtitles DIRECTOR: Mauricio López Fernández |
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María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed". |
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The Keys (Las Llaves) |
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Argentina, 2011, 10 min Language: in Spanish with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Lucas Santa Ana |
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Matías has been separated from Pedro for a few months and after trying several times to take the beautiful Lucho home, he has made it. Lucho is very interested in Matías and wants their relationship to become something serious this afternoon. Will they be able to realize their desires when the past of Matías and Peter come against them in the shape of "the keys"? Awards: 2012 Best film. LIBERCINE. 4º Festival Internacional de Cine sobre Diversidad Sexual y Género |
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Jiboia |
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Brazil, 2011, 18 min Language: Portuguese with Russian & English subtitles DIRECTOR: Rafael Lessa |
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When desire clouds judgment, Aurora, a hairdresser in Sao Paulo's red-light district, discovers that love is only skin deep. Awards: 2011 Best Director, Columbia University Short Film Festival |
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Blokes |
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Chile, 2011, 15 min Language: Spanish with Russian /English subtitles DIRECTOR: Marialy Rivas |
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Santiago, Chile, 1986. Luchito, a 13-year-old boy obsessively contemplates Manuel, his 16-year-old neighbor, whom he can see standing by a window in an adjacent project building. Oblivious of the gaze of his precocious voyeur, Manuel discovers his sexuality with girl from the neighborhood. The window turns into an erotic cinematographic world that awakens a curiosity in Luchito, with disastrous repercussions for Manuel. Awards: 2011Grand Jury Prize, Miami International Film Festival 2011 Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival |
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Mila Caos |
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Cuba, Germany , 2011, 18 min Language: Spanish with Russian & English subtitles DIRECTOR: Simon J. Paetau |
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Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastián, a 17 year old Cuban teenager, transforms into Mila Caos. He suffers from his mother's indifference and dreams that one day she will see him on stage. |
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