Outgaze Film Festival 2023

Border Crossings, Intimate Encounters

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5 films in package
Does Your House Have Lions
(Documentary, 48-min) A queer household of activists and academics in New Delhi lives under the shadow of increasing authoritarianism.
Threshold (Limiar)
(Documentary Feature, 77-min) Threshold is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son.
Closed captions available
Arid Zone
(Documentary, 74-min) In 2001, Fernanda was a 15-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student in Mesa, Arizona, considered the USA’s most conservative city. 15 years later, and two months before Donald Trump’s election, she’s back to understand her experience there and to find an America between fiction and cliché.
Closed captions available
Migration
(Short, 9-min) Set in 2020, 70-year-old Pepper rarely leaves her home in New Orleans due to the pandemic. Craving connection, she eventually discovers the meditative aspects of birding and learns that nature can bring people together even when there's distance.
Closed captions available
The Death Spa Experience
(Short, 7-min) The Death Spa Experience takes viewers through an imaginary cosmetic spa procedure that is equal parts mindfulness and satire.
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This film program features 5 films traversing intimacy and transgressing borders - of love, nation states, and mortality.

Does Your House Have Lions (Documentary, 48-min)


Does Your House Have Lions follows the lives of two queer activists and academics in New Delhi. Shot like cinéma-vérité, the film moves around friends and lovers vqueeram lived with during the years leading up to and into the Covid-19 pandemic. Overlapping with the intensifying authoritarian political atmosphere in India, the film documents moments of queer intimacy and togetherness proposing possibilities for resistance against the immense power of the state.


  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    48 minutes
  • Language
    English, Hindi
  • Country
    India
  • Director
    Vishal Jugdeo, vqueeram
  • Co-Producer
    Amshu Chukki, Sandip Kuriakose, Lekha Jandhyala
  • Filmmaker
    Vishal Jugdeo
  • Cast
    vqueeram, Dhiren Borisa, Vishal Jugdeo, Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita
  • Cinematographer
    Nitasha Kapahi, Amshu Chukki, Vishal Jugdeo, vqueeram, Dhiren Borisa, Sandip Kuriakose, Wenceslaus Mendes
  • Editor
    Chelsea Knight, Nic Seago
  • Sound Design
    Chelsea Knight
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