FilmPride is back at We are Fabuloso for the Pride weekend! Screenings are free to We Are Fabuloso ticket holders.
We are located in the Community Village in Preston Park. All our films include English subtitles. Please note, our screenings are 15+ only.
Fabuloso in the Park is Brighton & Hove Pride’s official fundraiser for the Brighton Rainbow Fund. To find out more about Brighton & Hove Pride, visit brighton-pride.org/pride-festival
1pm – 3pm
Eating Papaw on the Seashore
Dir: Rae Wiltshire (he/his), Nickose Layne (he/his) – 17:57, Guyana
A poignant film set in the Guyanese countryside, where two queer boys, Asim and Hasani, navigate a world of hidden love. A chance discovery disrupts their lives, forcing them to confront the fear and complexity of societal judgment.
Trailer available here
Welcome to Celibacy Club
Dir: Campbell Moore (she/her) – 16:10, US
Unlike seemingly everyone around her, teenage girl Emmy has no desire to stick her tongue down anyone’s throat, since she’s asexual. Seeking a community she can better relate to, Emmy ends up joining her school’s most sex-negative club, Celibacy Club. Little does Emmy know, Celibacy Club isn’t full of asexual-spectrum teens. It’s full of the horniest of the horny: sexually-repressed ones. Through the friendship, innuendo, and “Virginity Rocks” shirt-wearing church boys she finds there, Emmy learns to stop hiding her asexuality and fight for her community’s space.
Trailer available here
Unbroken
Dir: Kathy Moore (she/her) – 4:55, Australia
A visual journey through song of some challenges that are faced around gender discovery. Based on a true story.
The Microcosm
Dir: Joe Ingham (he/they) – 13:13, UK
London, 1966. A woman exposed as a lesbian can expect to lose her job, her lodgings, her family. But in one subterranean corner of Chelsea, the Gateways club offers a safe haven for women to dance, express themselves and love who they want. Or does it? Maureen Duffy published The Microcosm in 1966, turning her probing gaze to London’s first and infamous lesbian hang out. 56 years later, Maureen’s words are brought vividly to life by two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson.
Trailer available here
AIKĀNE
Dirs: Daniel Sousa (he/him), Dean Hamer (he/him), Joe Wilson (he/him) – 13:54, US
A valiant island warrior, wounded in battle against foreign invaders, falls into a mysterious underwater world. When the octopus who rescued him transforms into a handsome young man, they become aikāne, bound by love and trust, and an epic adventure begins.
Trailer available here
Lola vs Ed
Dir: Lars Brinkman (he/she) – 10:10, Netherlands
A drag-thriller about Lola, a drag queen who gets in the cab with Ed, a quiet taxi driver. He gets confronted with his prejudices and desires by the colorful Lola. The two lonely souls try to get closer to each other during a taxi ride through Amsterdam by night.
Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits
Dir: Jen Sungshine (she/her), David Ng (he/him) – 5:18, Canada
Duane Stewart-Grant, who is from X̌àʼislakʼala (Haisla) and nuučaan̓uł (Nuu-chah- nulth) First Nations in Canada, explores his identity as someone who is “Two Spirited” – a queer, indigenous identity. He talks about how before the colonial era, First Nations people revered the “Two Spirit” identity, as they were viewed as embodying both the female and male spirits.
Chavo
Dir: Alecio Araci (he/him)- 15:00, Sweden
Tommy’s grill is a meeting place for the Romani community. Here a motley crew of people gather to eat and talk. When a young man visits the restaurant one evening, rumors begin to spread and Tommy is forced to revisit traumatic memories.
Well Proud
Dirs: Yorgo Glynatsis (he/his), Charlene Frost (he/her) – 19:23, UK
A short docuseries film from Metro charity exploring mental health and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ identifying, Black and Global Majority members of the community in Lewisham, UK.
Rural Butch Femme Rap
Dir: Krissy Mahan (she/her) – 3:50, US
In this short, humorous animation, a working class, rural lesbian couple happily plan their upcoming date night, in an ode to the joys of queers living with the land. Sung to the tune of 2008’s “(You Can Have) Whatever You Like” by T.I.
3.30pm – 5.30pm
Buddy
Dir: Niels Bourgonje (he/him) – 11:25, Netherlands
When a young man is asked by his ex lover to support him during an HIV test, he sees an opportunity to find out if there’s still a chance for reconciliation.
To My Next Lover
Dir: Kieran Charnock (he/him) – 3:26, New Zealand
This will not end well! A poet forewarns their next lover of what lies ahead. Based on the poem “to my next lover” by Paula Harris.
Do I Know You From Someone?
Dir: Gwen Rathbone (they/she) – 11:28, UK
A trans woman is set up on a blind date by her best friend, only to realise her date is a woman from her past, before her transition.
Idiot Fish
Dir: Hakim Mao (he/him) – 23:55, France
On the road to their holidays, Jimmy and Guillaume replay their first meeting. Jimmy becomes a lost hitchhiker, Guillaume a lonely driver. They will pretend they don’t know each other anymore, in order to play to meet and seduce each other again. Until a third player joins the game…
Steal Your Girl
Dir: Kitty Richardson (she/her) – 4:25, UK
In this music video, a heart-broken, queer young woman is pining for the love of a straight girl who is in a relationship with a good-for-nothing man.
Hornbeam
Dir: Mark Pluck (he/him) – 16:50, UK
Under the cover of darkness, two strangers bond over a shared secret. But how well do they really know each other?
Trailer available here
Now, Daphne
Dir: Johann G. Louis (he/him) – 21:10, France
A young woman, Daphne, drives through the desert landscape. It’s nighttime. She meets people who seem to know her without being able to give her a name. Who is Daphne? Could it be that a ghost has walked in the footsteps of her past?
Picturesque
Dir: Will Hextall (he/him) – 16:28, UK
A blind queer woman goes hiking with her girlfriend. Together, they embark on a life affirming journey, visiting beautiful places in the Lake District, learning to forgive and discovering how to embrace love and disability.
Out Out
Dir: Sarah Louise Worth of Highly Sprung (she/her) – 9:30, UK
A bold new dance film that unlocks the voices of Coventry’s LGBTQIA+ community. Bringing to the mainstream voices that are often hidden, in a celebration of togetherness and coming out. Created using a verbatim script based on real stories, contributed by 14-30 year olds in Coventry’s LGBTQIA+ community.
Trailer available here
The Secret Lives of Lesbians’ Cats
Dir: Kate Jessop (she/her) – 01:38, UK
What do cats talk about when their owners aren’t around? What do they really think of their lesbian owners? The Secret Lives of Lesbians’ Cats is the new episode of Planet Pussy Willow, the feminist sci-fi development of the multi award winning comedy adult animation series Tales From Pussy Willow.
6pm – 8pm
Another Sunday
Dir: Eugenia Sampedro (she/her) – 11:19, Spain
Júlia experiences intimate relationships very differently from Clara, her partner. This fact will cause her to doubt, making them realize that they no longer share the same lifestyle and, ultimately, questioning their own relationship.
Life in Love – Nick & Kaiden
Dir: Abel Rubinstein (he/him) – 13:00, UK
Exploring the euphoria of early love, Nick and Kaiden talk queer communities and choosing each other over the freedom of being open.
Monsters
Dir: Maddie Lock (they/them) – 10:00, UK
‘Monsters’ blends personal essay with unnerving imagery, in the hopes of taking the current narrative surrounding trans and queer people as ‘monsters’, and juxtaposing this with childhood videos, amusement parks, and slugs… ‘Monsters’ was inspired by queer-theory, such as Richard Dyer’s work on the queer-coding of vampires.
Hex the Patriarchy
Dir: Anne Brashier (she/they) – 06:06, US
Fed up with being bullied in high school, demisexual and asexual best friends Bex and Wren strike back with a bit of magic that has unintended consequences.
Trailer available here
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
Dir: Neal Suresh Mulani (he/him) – 15:25, US
On his 25th birthday, Cary brings his friends to the desert and requests one gift: for them to list everything they hate about him. A reckoning ensues.
Requiem
Dir: Emma Gilbertson (they/them) – 24:54, UK
Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It’s a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves. Starring Bella Ramsey (“The Last of Us”).
Trailer available here
KingDom
Dir: Joanna Vymeris (she/her) – 22:54, UK
Six drag kings embark on a moustache curling adventure to steal the Monument to Masculinity, a solid gold urinal, in a mad-cap attempt to keep their gentlemen’s club KingDom afloat in times of economic peril. Unsurprisingly, the mission doesn’t quite go according to plan.
Flores del Otro Patio
Dir: Jorge Cadena (he/him) – 15:46, Switzerland
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.
Trailer available here
Boob Cockpit
Dir: Erin Orion Kay (she/her) – 02:13, US
Titillating Wonders! Mystifying Frights! Astounding Discoveries! Boob Cockpit, a long-lost American science fiction television series, follows the adventures of a gravity-defying, Double D class spaceship and its plucky Pilot; escaping booby traps at every turn.
