After the unexpected loss of his mother, Marcus struggles to reconnect with the world around him. When his best friend, Zane, convinces him to spend one final night at Detroit’s legendary Club Heaven, Marcus reluctantly enters a space alive with music, movement, and community. Drawn into DJ Que’s set and the warmth of the people around him, Marcus begins to confront his grief and discovers an unexpected sense of belonging. Rooted in Detroit’s Black queer nightlife and house music legacy, Heaven In Detroit: A Sanctuary of Sound is a story about grief, friendship, music, and the spaces that become sanctuaries for those searching for connection.

Heaven In Detroit: A Sanctuary of Sound

Amid grief and uncertainty, a young man enters Detroit’s legendary Club Heaven, where the legacy of house music and Black queer culture transforms a night on the dance floor into a journey of healing, belonging, and an homage to the safe havens that have long sustained a community.

It’s been six months since his mom passed and Marion, a struggling painter, stands at a crossroads: accept a coveted art fellowship or remain in his crumbling childhood home that he’s barely holding together. When he loses his job and unexpectedly reconnects with an old friend, Marion is forced to confront the truth that without his mother, his art, and furthermore, his life, lacks meaning. But through an encounter with the past and confirmation from the spiritual beyond, Marion discovers a pathway through the weight of his grief culminating in his greatest masterpiece.

Forward

Struggling with his mother’s recent death, a painter faces an impossible choice: accept a life-changing opportunity or hold onto the home he and she once shared.

Ayo, a non-binary teenager, clashes with their mother, Rose, over joining the Legacy League, an elite organization for high school girls. Rose dreams of giving Ayo all the opportunities she didn’t have as a child. However, Ayo wants nothing to do with the Legacy League’s dress code or rigid gender norms. Ayo would rather spend weekends at their sewing machine, designing wrestling costumes for their favorite performers. Instead, they’re trapped in etiquette classes with the “who’s who” of Detroit. The tension rises at high tea, where Ayo is misgendered by the Legacy League’s chapter president. Ayo feels deeply neglected by their mom, while Rose struggles to understand why Ayo refuses such a prestigious opportunity. Determined to pursue their wrestling dreams, Ayo challenges their membership in the Legacy League and their relationship with their mother.

To Move in My Mother's Prayers

A rebellious, non-binary teenager wrestles with their hardworking single mom over joining the Legacy League—an elite organization for high school girls.

Fem is a quiet, masc-presenting woman who keeps her feelings to herself and moves through the world keeping herself hidden. She didn’t grow up seeing her father much and only later learns she was conceived from a one-night stand—knowledge that shaped their relationship with distance. While she’s learning to drive, her coworker Jonny watches from the sidelines. After the loss of her grandmother, Fem’s hurt turns into questioning the relationship she’s had with her father and his absence in her life. When he comes to town, memories and feelings surface and spark inner-child work. When they finally meet, the wall of fear comes down as she steps into her power and asks the questions she deserves answers to. A stream of questions and the empty quiet of a room when it’s just you and the one person you need answers from. Winston, Fem’s father, is in disbelief—not only because he didn’t raise her, but because his own actions have left him oblivious to who his child has become. He avoids his guilt; as a Jamaican man, he struggles to face the answers coming at him and instead tries to move around them.

If only you knew

After losing someone dear to her, Fem finds the courage to confront her Jamaican father about his absences. A conversation that leads to an unspoken truth.

Tired of feeling the weight of every interaction and morphing into different versions of herself to appease others, Mariama finds a healing voice in Ida, who takes her to task. Mariama is challenged to think about her own complicity and the rituals and traditions that she has left behind.

Through Glass

Feeling exploited and exhausted, Mariama turns to ritual as she is reminded that the best solutions might just be the ones she's overlooked.

Khris, a shy young lesbian working at an art gallery, is desperate to get closer to an attractive co-worker. But every time she almost shares a kiss, a Greek chorus of judgmental church ladies in her mind erupts, mocking and shaming her. As the gallery prepares for a major artist showcase, complications intensify when the featured artist shows interest in her love interest, Evangelina. Caught between desire, rivalry, and the relentless voices of religious shame in her head, Khris must confront both her internal critics and the people standing in her way if she hopes to embrace her sexuality and find love.

Pink Oz. (Ounces)

A young woman taunted by a Greek chorus of church ladies is forced to confront her hesitancy to intimacy when she develops feelings for a co-worker.

SCORED follows Jacob, a Black queer composer in LA, who accepts a new film scoring job— only to find that the project unexpectedly stirs his own unresolved grief. As artistic compromise, exploitation, and a fraying relationship with his partner Bae begin to take their toll, Jacob is forced to confront the emotional cost of staying visible— and the quiet unraveling that comes with translating pain into performance.

SCORED

A young Black gay composer lands the opportunity of a lifetime to score a short film about grief, only to find himself navigating an industry that prizes his sound but silences his voice. As Jacob immerses himself in the project, his music begins to echo his own unspoken pain, forcing him to confront the weight of loss, love, and the quiet compromises that come with being seen but not truly heard.

Unable to sleep, Sonia falls into a familiar ritual: scrolling through photos of her ex-girlfriend long after she should have moved on. But when the Sonia inside those memories suddenly steps out of the pictures, the two versions of herself spend the night confronting heartbreak, nostalgia, and the stories we tell ourselves about the past.

Enough

Sonia can’t stop scrolling through photos of her ex-girlfriend. But when a sleepless night bends reality, she’s forced to face what she’s really holding onto.

Ireland has earned a global reputation for progressive change—decriminalising homosexuality, passing the Marriage Equality Referendum, introducing the Gender Recognition Act, and providing free HIV care through its public healthcare system. Against this backdrop, a new generation of LGBTQIA+ immigrants is reshaping what it means to live, love, and heal in Ireland. Out of Shadows is an experimental short documentary that traces the emotional and transformative journeys of queer immigrants living with HIV. It reflects on migration as both rupture and rebirth—on the nostalgia for languages, lands, and lives left behind, and the slow process of rediscovering the self within a new culture, under the same sky. These are stories of courage and quiet resistance, shaped by the pursuit of safety, dignity, and belonging in a country still learning to fully embrace its diversity. Through evocative imagery, personal testimony, and performative intervention, the film confronts queer experiences of migration, intimacy, sexuality, health, bodily exposure, and visibility. It foregrounds grassroots organising, peer-led support, and artistic expression as vital counter-spaces of care, resistance, and empowerment within systems that often fail queer migrants. At its core, Out of Shadows is a tribute to the queer migrant spirit—resilient, tender, and ever-evolving. It centres voices too often pushed to the margins: asylum seekers, economic migrants, people living with HIV, and queer people of colour. These are queer stories in motion—shaped by memory and movement, and actively reshaping the future.

Out of Shadows

Three queer immigrants living with HIV share their journeys of finding safety, identity, and community in Ireland. Set in Wicklow and Dublin, this short documentary explores resilience, stigma, and the power of visibility.

Swann Queen is a short fiction film inspired by the real story of the world’s first drag queen, William Dorsey Swann. Swann hosted drag balls with their brother, Daniel, in late 1800s Washington, DC, which were routinely raided by police, and Swann and others were often arrested and jailed. In Swann Queen, Billy Swann and their brother Dan are getting ready to host their third masquerade ball. Billy hopes their neighbors don’t find out about tonight and call the authorities on what’s surely to be a lavish affair. When the cops eventually raid the ball, Billy must decide whether to run and hide, or resist and fight.

Swann Queen

At a ball hosted by the world’s first drag queen, the category is: run or resist.

Set in an old petite apartment in Busan. Every corner carries memories between two teenage girls, Hana and Mina. Flashbacks intertwine with the present, when Mina comes back to her old home almost a decade after her first migration to Guatemala. She is compelled to revisit buried regret, longing, and gratitude from her immature first love.

Last Day of Us

Returning to sell her old family home, a Korean Guatemalan immigrant confronts buried memories and lingering emotions, ultimately finding closure within its familiar walls.

In Jamaica—where legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals are virtually non-existent and trans communities face profound risk—Jacqueline grapples with the impending transition to her female identity while mourning the loss of contact with her son, Michael. As hostility closes in around her, she is forced to confront what it means to live authentically in a society that denies her dignity, safety, and belonging.

River Mamma

Set in Jamaica, River Mamma follows Jacqueline, a trans mother torn from her son by her fundamentalist father and shaken by the violent death of her lover. As her world closes in, she must decide who she can be—and what she is willing to risk.

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