FilmPride on TV took place from Monday 8th to Sunday 14th August (then repeated 9th-21st), every night at 9pm, on Latest TV in Brighton, Northern Visions in Belfast, Sheffield Live! in Sheffield and KMTV in Kent. All channels Freeview 7 & Virgin Media159.
Our shows were also available to livestream anywhere in the world at thelatest.co.uk/latest-tv
Monday: Family
M(other)hood
Dir: Bea Goddard – 16:34, UK
Spring 2021 is a season of transformation for ex-dancer Jack López – a nonbinary, transmasculine parent of four children. Starting testosterone at 43 and readying himself for top surgery, it is a period of huge physical change, but Diego, Frida, Issac and Emilia see Jack as “mummy” whether he has a moustache or not.
Trailer available here
GAyME
Dir: Rani Gijbels – 4:12, Belgium
Through a board game loosely based on “The Game of Life”, a little girl tries to find her own path, while up against a dominant mother trying to decide her life for her.
Octopus
Dir: Ella Glendining – 12:31, UK
Mini returns to the seaside town in which she grew up for the funeral of one of her closest friends, Frank. Frank’s death is beyond tragic, but not a complete surprise to those that knew him best. Having moved away and unexpectedly started a family, Mini is guilt-ridden that she hadn’t seen Frank in the year since she had her baby, a year which has been fraught with adjusting to her new identity as a mum.
My Mother’s Girlfriend
Dir: Arun Fulara – 14:45, India
Renuka and Sadiya, two working-class women in love with each other, enjoy their day out celebrating Renuka’s birthday. After a fun-filled day, they head home to spend the night together. But unknown to them, Renuka’s son, Mangesh, is around. My Mother’s Girlfriend is the story of what happens when these two relationships collide.
Trailer available here
Tuesday: Self (Part 1)
Punch Line
Dir: Becky Cheatle – 10:14, Ireland
On the eve of a transphobic attack, a transgender comedian processes her feeling the only way she knows how: through stand up comedy.
Trailer available here
The Cost Of Living
Dir: Alice Trueman – 12:38, UK
Lily, a disconnected, neurotic fitness-freak, has a brush with death and comes face-to-face with her worst fear. But Death appears to Lily as a femme fatale and Lily finds herself unexpectedly giddy with desire. The force she has tried to distance herself from now appears in the doorway of every room – Lily can no longer deny her own mortality – soon the fear gives way to rapture and a desire to transcend…
Trailer available here
Embrace
Dir: Latesha Merkel – 5:18, US
Embrace is an animated short film about asexuality. It explores the common asexual experience of feeling isolated and confused by one’s own orientation, but also the joy that comes from knowing one’s self and connecting with the asexual community.
Pride Flag Emoji
Dirs: Vee Smith, Sadiq Ali, Donald Dalziel – 9:09, UK
A party within a party, this short film celebrates queerness, outsider sensibilities, experimental circus and video art. Fast-paced and quirky, these hyper-saturated vignettes are a collection of micro-stories; our childhood moments that lead us to who we are now, times when we felt lost but had to pretend to be ok, how we define ourselves outside of sexual spaces and moments we broke free of stigma.
Trailer available here
Made Up – A Trans Origin Stories
Dir: Valiant Endeavour Lynch-Mathew – 4:52, UK
A colourful exploration of Trans awakening. The stories we tell ourselves, the things we’re told about us, the faces we wear along the way. Making that all make some kind of sense is, difficult. Would a puppet and dragon help? Can it be done?
This Is Katharine
Dir: Ida H. Eldøen – 15:00, Norway
At a young age, Katharine starts thinking she might be gay. To find her sexual identity, she turns to movies and tv, and from the representations she creates an image of how she should be. An image that is far from the shy and scared girl she really is. Through an all-knowing voiceover, we hear her story, her thoughts and feelings, and we take part in her journey to find and to free herself.
Trailer available here
Let Rip: the Beautiful Game
Dir: Lee Campbell – 06:00, UK
Intimate and personal in a really powerful way, part of the poem includes reference to a dad and son (me and my dad) conversation exploring what one is seeing and what the other is seeing about the same action of men in football with one person viewing it one way and the other a different way (making use of the different meanings of the word ‘tackle’ for example). Football as (homo)erotica!
Trailer available here
Violet
Dir: Nadine Asfour – 11:15, Germany
A young art student finds herself struggling with her sexual identity. As she tries to process her feelings in a self portrait, she’s transported into her canvas where she’s forced to face her fears.
Trailer available here
Scrum
Dir: Isabel Allen – 09:35, UK
A reflexive documentary that explores the ruling to ban transgender rugby players from competing at the highest level.
Virgin My Ass
Dir: Adar Sigler – 16:39, Israel
Ophir asks Harel for a small favour that might make him feel like a normal gay guy. OK, maybe not that small a favour. During the somewhat ridiculous, somewhat exciting night the two will spend in bed, they will learn a small lesson in intimacy and belonging to the community.
Wednesday: Self (Part 2)
The Chosen Haram
Dir: Sadiq Ali – 12:31, UK
A story told through circus. Two gay men meet on a dating app, one is bound by his teachings while the other lives a life of excess.
King Night
Dir: Ana Castellón – 23:00, Spain
Alex, a young photography student who does not feel comfortable in her gender expression, will dare to live her masculinity when she meets Penne Zucko, the leader of a drag king band.
Mickey or Minnie
Dir: Krissy Mahan – 1:48, US
Not only does Minnie Mouse indoctrinate children in an imaginary gender binary, she’s ready to physically pounce on gender transgressors at any time!
Happy Birthday, You Made It
Dir: Yuelei Song – 6:22, US
In the stillness of her childhood home, a woman spends her birthday like any other, solitary day – until she becomes lost in a reverie of past memories and dreams.
Ulrichs 1867
Dir: Sven Niemeyer – 9:50, Germany
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was a pioneer of sexology and is known as the “first open gay man” and “LGBTQ+”-activist in Germany. In 1867, he publicly called for the impunity of same-sex sexual acts in a speech, which led to tumultuous scenes among the audience and his speech being broken off.
Trailer available here
Sapphire
Dir: Leanne Hanley – 13:55, Australia
Caught between two worlds, Ethan must confront their inner demons. With the help of therapist, Max, Ethan attempts to transition from crippling obsession to a freedom that can only be found by becoming Sapphire.
Trailer available here
Eliza
Dir: Amy Pennington – 9:37, UK
Appropriating a mockumentary format, Eliza is inspired by lesser known, lesbian, working class, Victorian, ‘poet of the people’ Eliza Cook. Like unfolding a game of exquisite corpse to reveal Alan Partridge, in the get up of a 19th century woman, with the cadence of a camp northerner: Eliza drags the viewer, the unsuspecting public and the artist back / forth through time exploring the overlapping edges of redevelopment, place and queer temporalities.
L’ amour Rebelle
Dir: Leo Crane – 4:20, UK
A dove tumbles through the sky. A figure treads on discarded feathers. An egg hovers & hatches. This mini-opera, animated in charcoal, reimagines Georges Bizet’s Carmen and its enduring relevance to issues of sexuality and conflict.
Trailer available here
Angel / Demon
Dir: Vigdis Nielsen – 16:00, Norway
“God forgives! You can be forgiven! All you have to do is confess, and say I’m sorry.” Maria, 16, is confused: is she going to be loyal to God, or trust her emotions?
Trailer available here
Thursday: Love (Part 1)
Minutes
Dirs: Alix Eve, Olivia Dowd – 14:00, UK
Minutes spans the entire relationship of Harriet and Jordan and is a queer ‘rom-com’ for our times. Developed via several devising and improv workshops, the film uses a series of vignettes to explore communication, co-dependency, self-exploration and queer joy.
Trailer available here
One Like Him
Dir: – Caitlin McLeod -15:59, UK
A Jordanian man (Karim) must find a way to tell his childhood friend and first love (Ramzi) the truth about what happened twenty years ago, when a single moment changed both their lives. When he can’t find the words, the conversation repeats, becoming increasingly surreal until he loses control.
Silent Pride
Dir: Kristy Philipps – 5:25, UK
Sammy can’t speak BSL. If she wants Ffion to stay she’ll have to find a new way to communicate, one which pushes her to confront feelings she’s suppressed since the day they met.
Chariot Riders
Dir: Kate Jessop – 5:20, UK
A film about a boy’s feelings of love for his best friend, another boy. The second of two films based on the theme of Love Works: exploring South Asian LGBT+ relationships in contemporary Britain commissioned by Bobby Tiwana.
SIA
Dir: Ashlei Shyne – 12:22, US
A poetic short film that follows Nola & Sia, a Black queer female couple whose vibrant life together is upended when a global pandemic threatens to tear apart their entire world.
Trailer available here
Pussy Cruising
Dirs: Masa Zia Lenardic & Anja Wutej – 7:30, Germany
What would cruising among lesbians look like? Cruising seems to be a normal part of the gay culture and we all know scenes from famous gay films where men cruise in parks or other public spaces. At the same time, cruising is barely practised among lesbians. Why? Pussy Cruising tackles this topic in a humorous way and takes you on a flirtatious journey between vibrant fantasy and mundane reality.
Trailer available here
For I Am Dead
Dir: Patricia Delso Lucas – 18:19, Belgium
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
Trailer available here
Static Space
Dirs: John Klein, Kate Black-Spence – 28:43, US
Jamie lives an autopilot existence in Indiana until Noa’s distant voice comes through her ham radio…from space. Two women who couldn’t be more different are about to learn a powerful connection can change everything.
Trailer available here
Friday 12th: Love (Part 2)
Very Slightly Included
Dir: Patricia Kelly – 10:30, Ireland
In this quirky dark comedy, Eva finally brings the perfect girlfriend home to meet her family. Well, she may have one very slight flaw…
Trailer available here
Between Us
Dir: Cailleah Scott-Grimes – 17:12, Canada
Kei longs for a “normal life” in rural Japan. But for a transgender man who is jobless in his own hometown, getting to normal is one steep climb.
Trailer available here
What’s Beyond the Abyss
Dir: Washington Calegari – 24:19, Brazil
Lucca suspects that his boyfriend is lying about his identity and is looking for answers.
Trailer available here
Veils
Dir: Erika Nakayama – 17:57, Japan
Ayumi and Sayaka, a lesbian couple, are looking forward to having a wedding-style photoshoot to celebrate their five-year anniversary. But after experiencing narrow-mindedness in a photography studio, will they get to enjoy their own slice of happiness?
The Player
Dir: Carl Medland – 30:00, UK
A gay tongue in cheek black comedy. Carl and Tom hook up on a dating app, only to soon discover that when Tom arrives at Carl’s doorstep, no one could have predicted the games that were played.
Time & Again
Dir: Rachel Dax – 27:19, UK
Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up.
Trailer available here
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Saturday: Feature Documentary
One of the Guys
Dir: Doris Buttignol – 01:32:23, France
It was as Virginie that corporal Vincent Lamarre enrolled in the Canadian Army. As he did his coming out to his superiors, he surprisingly founds his hierarchy back him unconditionally as his family did. The movie relates Vincent’s sexual transition with the support of his chain of command. What defines a man? His testosterone? His penis? His warrior spirit? The way people look at him?
Sunday: Feature Documentary
Pronouns in Bio
Frankie Shaftain-Fenner – 01:03:54, UK
Frankie, a recently “out” transgender, autistic woman, reflects on her past mental health struggles as a teenager, whilst fighting medical gatekeeping as she hopes to start her transition. Shot over one year, the film is an intimate portrait of one trans person’s thoughts and feelings as they discover their true self.
