2025 New Orleans Film Festival

Queer-rated Shorts

Available in 24d 03h 16m 28s
Available October 24, 2025 12:00 AM UTC
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5 films in package
Miss
It’s been four days since Sophie came out as trans to her partner Jess. Together they seek a place away from it all for Sophie to take her first steps out in the air as a woman: a gas station outside of the city. Based on true events.
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Hold Me Close
A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life's joys and pains together in the home they share.
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Skin on Skin
Two men displaced in the hell of the German meat industry. Something lies between them. Something makes them dream again.
Newbies
Two broken strangers wrestling with their queer identities meet on the subway just after midnight. A poetic journey through the past few hours of their night reveals how they got here, and what broke them.
Magid / Zafar
Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy British Pakistani takeaway.
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Queerness thrives in the spaces between: the ruptures, the margins, the cracks where boundaries slip and borders blur. These shorts trace lives lived beyond the binaries, finding beauty in the unstable, the fluid, and the in-between. Together they form a portrait of queer possibility—tender, unruly, and unapologetically alive.

"Hold Me Close" explores the unique power and complexity of the relationship between two Queer Black womxn, Corinne and Tiana. Utilizing audio the couple self-recorded every day over the course of a season, Corinne and Tiana experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share. Depicted through elegantly composed tableaus of domestic scenes of the couple shot on super 16mm film, paired with searingly intimate documentary audio of the womxn from life within their home, the film bears witness to the distinct constitution of their love.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    19 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
  • Producer
    Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
  • Cinematographer
    Aurora Brachman
  • Editor
    Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
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