DGLFF2018
The Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2018 official selections
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- DirectorJoseph A. AdesunloyeStarsTerry PhetoShingai ShoniwaDenver-Isaac KwasheIt is a multi-narrative feature film set across four storylines that follow a group of characters as their lives begin to unravel. Aisha is in a marriage that has become stale. When her wish to get pregnant finally becomes reality, she receives some very unexpected news. Louie and Gaspard are a gay couple who are happily in love but when Louie's female fiance suddenly shows up in the picture, all that they hold dear begins to fall apart. Adam and Luke are best friends, but an attack on Adam at a party threatens to create a schism between them. Sindiso runs a charity for women to which she has dedicated herself. When the centre begins to have financial troubles with the real risk of closing, Sindiso has to question her fundamental motivations.
- DirectorMélanie LaurentStarsJoséphine JapyLou de LaâgeIsabelle CarréCharlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there's nothing average about how she feels.
- CreatorCharlie DavidStarsNicolas James WilsonJim GarrowCharlie DavidShadowlands is an anthology style series that explores love in three separate stories - a couple renegotiating a relationship, a narcissist grasping to comprehend it, and star-crossed lovers mourning its loss.
- DirectorRomas ZabarauskasStarsDenisas KolomyckisIrina LavrinovicAdrian EscobarAfter his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined
- DirectorFrancisco AguilarStarsClaudia AncapanAfter having suffered discrimination throughout her life, Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells its history, its struggle and the constant abuses that lived on the part of a society that still excludes those it considers different.
- DirectorJan-Willem BreureAnouk PluijmCheyenne LöhnenStarsCheyenne LöhnenAnnine van der MeerDian BiemansThe film explores the the scientific, historical, biological and social aspects behind the female sex drive and female gaze.
- DirectorDavid AustinGeorge MichaelStarsGeorge MichaelEmmanuelle AltDavid AustinGeorge Michael Freedom - The Directors Cut is a deeply autobiographical story of George Michael's life concentrating on the period around the making of his album "Listen Without Prejudice" and detailing his love, his loss, his court case with his record company and his struggle with fame. It is a poignant and intimate portrait of a music icon, narrated and co-directed by George Michael himself just before his death.
- DirectorGabrielle BurtonStarsJohn OlsonCarol Giordano PayneJAC StringerA documentary on drag queens, kings, & transgender performers in Columbus, OH who tackle the complexities of gender expression, identity, sexuality, discrimination, family, & politics--all with humor, pathos, & duct tape.
- DirectorDean HamerJoe WilsonHinaleimoana Wong-KaluStarsJoey Joleen MataeleEva BaronHon. Frederica Tuita FilipeThe story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.
- DirectorLeandro GoddinhoThe journey of a gay African refugee seeking asylum in Germany.
- DirectorDaniel AbmaStarsMalú Cano ValladeresGiselle Odette Diógenes Domínguez RodríguezJuani Santos PerézIn Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malú wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans people find happiness despite intolerance, poverty and prostitution?
- DirectorBarak HeymannTomer HeymannAlexander Bodin SaphirStarsSaar MaozAlonLondon Gay Men's Chorus BandAt 21, Saar was expelled from his religious kibbutz and fled to the UK. There he created a new family with the London Gay Men's Chorus and now, after 19 years, Saar reaches out to his old family in the hope of a reconciliation.
- DirectorQ. Allan BrockaStarsJeffrey A. JohnsJoe AbrahamRena StroberStill Waiting In The Wings follows the trials and triumphs of actors waiting tables in Times Square. While dreaming of the Broadway stage, the reality of slinging hash under florescent lights mixes sweet aspirations with bitter drama. There's no people like show people and there's no telling what can happen when they're pitted against each other. Nick Adams, Ed Asner, Carole Cook, Lee Meriwether, Patricia Richardson, Chita Rivera, Seth Rudetsky, Sally Struthers, Bruce Vilanch, and Cindy Williams round out this heartwarming homage to Broadway with some delightful cameos.