Making a family isn't always straightforward. OUT OF FOCUS fuses home movies, historic footage, and experimental techniques to tell the stories of queer families who despite enduring hardships unique to the queer community, also lead full lives, shaped by tenderness, connectivity, and love.

While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.

Through interactions with a self who has yet to exist, Constanze creates a time capsule for herself in 10 years exploring themes of aging, transition, and consciousness.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the small Pennsylvania town of New Hope was among a few safe havens outside of major cities for gay men to find community. Over 30 years later, the town’s legacy remained, but now for a different community: transgender women.

Space and time distort within the splintering mind of a young transgender woman as her relationship slips away from her. Six months after a suicide attempt, Grace feels another psychotic break coming on. She tries to hide her mental instability from her partner Adrian, but finds that shutting him out also pushes him away.

A striking homage to the legendary New Hope drag queen Mother Cavallucci.