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2021 Maryland Film Fest

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Part of our Pride Night special event! Watch this program with Baltimore is Burning here, and join in on our virtual Pride Party at 10:15pm on Friday, May 21, streamed live for free on Twitch.

A selection of short films about LGBTQ+ self-love, relationships, and communities. These contemporary shorts span various genres and identities; the program tells stories including searching for love in the French countryside, visiting a dreamlike diner full of doppelgängers, experiencing a majestic cotillion ball, and hearing first-hand accounts of gay history at the site of one of America's greatest tragedies. These films deal with themes of trust, loneliness, belonging, presentation, and self-actualization.

Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!

Total Run Time: 87 minutes

This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Programmed by Festival Programming Associate, Garrett Stralnic.

Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, depictions of sexual situations, harassment, implied violence.

8 films + livestream in package

A repressed person, living in a city, confronts his internal struggle as it bleeds through into his public persona, creating a collision amongst external social norms, suppressed identity, and the surrealistic worlds of a distressed psyche.

Two trans masculine folks in a newly open relationship navigate their insecurities, desires, and expectations as they prepare to host brunch for friends.

Closed captions available

LIGHT ON A PATH, FOLLOW

Joaquín, a transgender person living in rural 1990s New England, is 8-months pregnant.

Closed captions available

On the eve of her cotillion ball, a young Black girl grapples with her queer identity and questions her purity.

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IT'LL BE OVER SOON

When the pandemic hits, two men are forced to evaluate their unexpected long distance relationship.

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Five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized landscape of the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

Closed captions available

LILAC LIPS, DUTCHESS COUNTY

A fantastical and playful modern retelling of Narcissus in rural New York.

Q&A - QUEER STORIES

Part of our Pride Night special event! Watch this program with Baltimore is Burning here, and join in on our virtual Pride Party at 10:15pm on Friday, May 21, streamed live for free on Twitch.

A selection of short films about LGBTQ+ self-love, relationships, and communities. These contemporary shorts span various genres and identities; the program tells stories including searching for love in the French countryside, visiting a dreamlike diner full of doppelgängers, experiencing a majestic cotillion ball, and hearing first-hand accounts of gay history at the site of one of America's greatest tragedies. These films deal with themes of trust, loneliness, belonging, presentation, and self-actualization.

Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!

Total Run Time: 87 minutes

This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Programmed by Festival Programming Associate, Garrett Stralnic.

Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, depictions of sexual situations, harassment, implied violence.