COMPETITION
FEATURE award winners
DOCUMENTARY award winners
SHORT FILM award winners
I+N VISIONARY AWARDS
JURY I+N 35
IN COMPETITION
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THE BLUE CAFTAN
MARYAM TOUZANI
FRANCE, MOROCCO, BELGIUM + DENMARK | 2022
In Morocco’s official Oscars entry, Halim’s adoring and well-adored wife grows more ill while the need to complete a client’s lavish, “petroleum blue” caftan grows more urgent, as does Halim’s desire for the skilled apprentice who has big brown eyes only for him.
CAMILA COMES OUT TONIGHT
INÉS BARRIONUEVO
ARGENTINA | 2021
After an intense escape during a protest against abortion laws, Camila’s political spirit is quelled by a family move to Buenos Aires and her enrollment in a “poisonous” private school. But unexpected friendships and romantic trysts across the gender divide awaken her wild side and her commitment to bodily autonomy.
EL HOUB (THE LOVE)
SHARIFF NASR
NETHERLANDS | 2022
Wracked with guilt over abandoning his friend Soufian and caught déshabillé with his boyfriend, Karim launches an all-out emotional assault on his close-minded parents. Refusing to leave their supply closet until they deal with the truth about his sexuality, Karim convenes with the stubborn ghosts of his younger selves.
FRAMING AGNES
CHASE JOYNT
USA | 2022
The Agnes of lore – a young trans girl in the 50s who outsmarted her way to surgery – has been stuck in a binary between cautionary tale and folk hero, co-opted for demonization or celebration. The articulate, affecting Framing Agnes is here to try and understand and complicate that history.
JOYLAND
SAIM SADIQ
PAKISTAN | 2022
The first Pakistani film officially selected for Cannes and Pakistan’s 2022 Oscars entry, Saim Sadiq’s feisty drama extends empathy to each complicated member of Haider’s fractious family and the trans woman he falls for as he trips his way into an erotic dance group, and into love.
LOVING HIGHSMITH
EVA VITIJA
SWITZERLAND + GERMANY | 2022
Acclaimed writer Patricia Highsmith, who wrote the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, shrugged off conventions the way she shrugged off genres. Framed by her unpublished diaries, unparalleled prose, and interviewed intimates, she can be seen as “the forever seeking,” an avid traveller who accumulated accolades and impassioned affairs.
MY EMPTINESS AND I (MI VACIO Y YO)
ADRIAN SILVESTRE
SPAIN | 2022
“Love is in the air,” but… Raphäelle Perez, a French trans woman living in Barcelona, feels shut out. Between medical interrogations and dates that end badly even when men treat her as something more than “alien,” Raphi is desperate for belonging and willing to explore her limits to find it.
MY NAME IS ANDREA
PRATIBHA PARMAR
USA | 2022
At a time when women’s rights are under threat and porn proliferates, little remains as prescient or as powerful as Andrea Dworkin’s life and words, dramatized here by a variety of award-winning personages to put the near-universal experience of women’s violation on trial. And to shake up your worldview.
PAT ROCCO DARED
BOB CHRISTIE + MORRIS CHAPDELAINE
CANADA | 2022
Pat Rocco’s films of the 60s featured plenty of nudity, as this no-holds-barred documentary can attest, yet they transcended pornography, offering groundbreaking glimpses of gay men exploring self-affirming, romantic, and erotic lives everywhere from the L.A. freeway to Disneyland. A vision as utopic as this personal history is comprehensive.
PETIT MAL
RUTH CAUDELI
COLUMBIA | 2022
A seizure, the pain of absence, an altered state of consciousness – Ruth Caudeli’s semi-autobiographical Petit Mal expresses each of its title’s meanings, deconstructing what happens romantically and psychically when a throuple’s central pillar must leave temporarily, forcing the remaining women to reflect on what binds them.
PRIVATE DESERT (DESERTO PARTICULAR)
ALI MURITIBA
BRAZIL | 2021
Fleeing the backlash of a violent outburst, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil through sweltering temps to locate the love of his life. But there’s a catch: he’s never met her, she has cut off all contact, and she isn’t exactly the “Sara” she says she is.
SIRENS
RITA BAGHDADI
USA | 2022
Shery and Lilas met in the middle of a riot. A fitting start for these revolutionary co-founders of the thrash metal quintet Slave to Sirens – the first all-female band of its kind in Lebanon. Women capturing the discontent of their country as their own lives fracture and attractions sear.
STOP-ZEMLIA
KATERYNA GORNOSTAI
UKRAINE | 2021
“They say when you get goosebumps, your soul touches your body.” Introvert Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone.
THIS PLACE
V. T. NAYANI
CANADA | 2022
Canadian director V.T. Nayani’s feature debut, starring Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs) and Priya Guns, is a queer love story about two young women - one Iranian and Kanienʼkehá꞉ka, the other Tamil - living in Toronto and dealing with difficult family legacies.
TROIS NUITS PAR SEMAINE
FLORENT GOUËLOU
FRANCE | 2022
Deep into an 8-year heterosexual relationship, Baptiste is given license to explore his sudden, all-consuming attraction to Cookie Kunty, a vision in and out of drag, the same throaty purr. Brought into Cookie’s swirling, bejewelled world, Baptiste examines his preconceived notions of masculinity and uncovers the performer underneath Cookie’s performance.
WHEN TIME GOT LOUDER
CONNIE COCCHIA
CANADA | 2022
Enriched by raw, gutting mother-daughter performances from Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell and The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Connie Cocchia’s first feature captures one family’s growing pains. Abbie moves away from her brother who has autism and is non-verbal to attend university and is pulled between the elation of a new adventure and their inseparable connection.