Curated in partnership with OutReels, Queer and Here features stories about the LGBTQ+ experience. From a boy who plays with Barbies, to a 21st century teen meet-cute, to a trippy introspective transgender exploration, and more, this block showcases love being love in all its forms. Runtime: 84 minutes.
Queer and Here
Barbie Boy
Bobby is a bright, imaginative seven year old boy who plays with dolls. One day his father tells him that dolls are for girl. This sends Bobby on a mission to find what he should play with. He must choose to accept his love for dolls or learn to conform.
Bully
Avery, a withdrawn, soft-spoken young man gets baited into attending Gay Pride with a guy he’s been messaging on a dating app. When he discovers the mystery man is his high school bully, he must decide whether to embrace his bully’s advances or risk losing his first crush.
Getting Started
After meeting online, Tori and Joyce finally have a first date. Chemistry ensues immediately, but will their mutual attraction be enough to overcome some of the challenges presented?
Irregular Feminine Forms
After surviving a suicide attempt, a trans woman named Bela must enter her own mind in order to banish her darkest demons once and for all, or stay trapped inside forever.
Love Sick
“Love Sick” is Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of M. Valdemar's mesmerism treatment interpreted as a dark noir tale of suppressed love between two women: a sick patient and the only doctor that is willing to attempt a risky experiment to save her.
Collage
A girl who works in a museum tries to convince another co-worker that two visitors are flirting. And how does she know? Scientific studies say that there are six signs that show one person's attraction to another.
Headrest Talk
Two childhood friends reconnect in a moonlit alley, paving the way for a night that irreversibly alters their perceptions of one another.