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
2pm – 4pm
Brother
Dir: Aleksei Borovikov (he/him) – 17:16, US
With his wedding to Carlos approaching, Tony, a young immigrant to the US, invites his conservative elder sister to the ceremony – a fateful decision that forces Tony to choose between his family and his happiness.
Trailer available here
Public Displays of Affection
Dir: Callum Roome (he/him) – 9:49, UK
A short documentary exploring the experiences and opinions LGBTQ+ people have about publicly displaying their love for their partners.
Trailer available here
The End
Dir: Fernando Reinaldos (he/him) – 09:36, Spain
In the last years, Carmen has dedicated herself body and soul to caring for her wife Rosa, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. In each gesture, Carmen maintains the hope that Rosa will look at her as she used to do when they were younger.
Trailer available here
Where’s Danny?
Dir: Amy Pennington (they/them)- 15:05, UK
Ho, ho, who? In not, all bright and sunny resort town of Southend, England, suited in drag, TV reporter Barbara Standard, brings you unearthing news about the “GAY SANTA GETS SACK” from 1986. Where’s Danny? is a mockumentary drawing upon Derek Jarman’s painting “Time”, exposing and critiquing the temporal othering of queers during the AIDS epidemic in Britain.
Drew Adair
Dirs: krissy mahan (she)- 01:00, US
Drew Adair, a Black gay man, organized a queer soccer team in 1989 at the height of hostility because of the AIDS crisis. This 60 second short honors Drew in his own words.
Warsha
Dir: Dania Bdeir (she/her) – 15:54, France
Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’ eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
Trailer available here
Five Song Tour
Dir: Chloe Jury-Fogel (she/her) – 12:31, US
A young, nomadic musician living out of her car comes to a crossroads when she reconnects with an ex-girlfriend for one night.
Trailer available here
It’s a Gray, Gray World
Dir: Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib (he/him) – 6:12, Iran
In a completely gray world, the colourful identity of a conservative young man is accidentally revealed by a playful boy. People are terrified of this, calling the police to arrest the young man. But the young man manages to escape, returning the next day to defend his right to freedom.
Périphérie
Dir: Thibault Bru (he/him) – 16:06, France
Éva and Soraya are expecting a happy event. While she has just passed her term, Éva refuses to be induced. In their car, the couple wanders on the Parisian ring road until Éva opens up about what she is going through.
Ordinary
Dir: Atlas O Phoenix (they/them) – 11:43, US
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin.
In a personal, experimental essay, Ordinary asks the question, “Have your eyes really seen (me?).”
A patchwork quilt of intersecting identities, Ordinary weaves together multiple storylines to explore the purpose of identifiers and their meaning. Atlas questions whether identifiers truly identify anyone.
Skate+
Dirs: Otoxo Productions – 6:06, Spain
Skateboarding is a life saver for this group of gender queer youth in Barcelona. As they make their way through a traditionally male-dominated sport, they also learn the true value of community.
Trailer available here
4.30pm – 7pm
Izzy Aman: The Joy Of Drag
Dir: Isabella Kaya Walton (she/her) – 12:36, UK
A film about Isabel Adomakoh Young, known as Izzy Aman in the drag world. We witness Isabel become Izzy, but more specifically on this occasion, Bob Ross. Through thrusting, painting and mimicry we witness a gender bending revolutionary performance alongside a candid and powerful conversation about the queer experience.
Trailer available here
Dog Friend
Dir: Maissa Lihedheb (she/They) – 18:52, Germany
Malik and Phillip ignite a fight that highlights their unequal positions within German society. The date then takes an unexpected turn in this meditation on race and politics.
Egúngún (Masquerade)
Dir: Olive Nwosu (she/her) – 14:10, Nigeria
In search of healing, a young woman returns home, to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
See me: A Walk Through Londdon’s Gay Soho in 1994 and 2020
Dir: Lee Campbell (he/him) – 10:10, UK
See Me includes sections of a walk that I made through Soho, London. As I walk, I listen on headphones to the compilation music tapes that I made when I first came to this area as a teenager in the 1990s. I reflect upon the difference between me in 1994 and me in 2020.
Trailer available here
Life in Love – Cinthia & Robyn
Dir: Abel Rubinstein (he/him) – 13:00, UK
Cinthia and Robyn get real about their two-year relationship to unpack the stereotypes and misconceptions around asexuality and desire.
Jouissance
Dir: Sadeq Es-haqi (he/they) – 22:29, UK
Arash and Rahi are a gay couple from Tehran who have recently moved into a new house. However, their everyday routine is disrupted by the ghost of Rahi’ ex-boyfriend, who died six years ago and is now asking Rahi to continue living with him.
Grace and Sophie
Dir: Timo Willman (he/him) – 08:41, UK
Best friends Grace and Sophie wake up after a house party and realisation dawns: they have slept together. Now, things are awkward.
Minima and the Drags
Dir: Antoine Dabin (he/him) – 52:23, France
The story of a movement exploding on big capital stages, including Paris. What we don’t know is that Drag artists created Pride and initiated every important battle for LGBTQIA+ community rights, as for every ostracized and despised communities. In this documentary, we follow several Drag Queens’ paths, such as Minima Gesté, alias Arthur. He/she is on every battlefront: his/her shows, engineering job, relationship, and his/her commitment to all lost causes.
