RESULT SEASON - 1
Official Selection Result of April 2022, Season 1 of Queer Stories International LGBTQ Film Festival
KingDom
Directed by Joanna Vymeris
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds
HERMAN@S (SiblingX)
Directed by Hélène Alix Mourrier
Country: France
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds
PAROLES, PAROLES (Words, words)
Directed by Franck VILLETTE
Country: France
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Fairyocious
Directed by Fabien Ara
Country: France
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
Second Souffle
Directed by Nina Parent
Country: France
Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds
The time of a night
Directed by Alice Fargier
Country: France
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds
Don't Text Your Ex
Directed by Jo Güstin
Country: Canada
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
SPEARMINT
Directed by THIAGO JOSÉ DE CARVALHO FURTADO
Country: Brazil
Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds
HEAVEN
Directed by Maya Shimmin
Country: Ireland
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
The Out-Fit
Directed by Maty Young
Country: United States
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds
Frida
Directed by Aleksandra Odic
Country: Germany
Duration: 21 minutes
Forever Was Now
Directed by Yuval David
Country: United States
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
Angelos At Christmas
Directed by FOTIS ZAMPETAKIS
Country: Greece
Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds
Before the eruption
Directed by Roberto Pérez Toledo
Country: Spain
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
Finding You: A Short Film Series
Directed by Ian Liberatore
Country: United States
Duration: 16 minutes
WO
Directed by Franck Glenisson
Country: France
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
Truthless
Directed by Badou Zhao
Country: China
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds
A Feast That Never Comes
Directed by Maria Juranic
Country: United States
Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
Jem's Dream Home
Directed by Louise-Marie Le Doussal
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 minutes
Scattered
Directed by Reena Dutt
Country: United States
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds
Punch Line
Directed by Becky Cheatle
Country: Ireland
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds
WHAT'S BEYOND THE ABYSS
Directed by WASHINGTON CALEGARI
Country: Brazil
Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds
boy meets boy
Directed by Jonathan MacPherson
Country: Canada
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds
Territory of Fences
Directed by Ricardo Fraga
Country: Brazil
Duration: 24 minutes 50 seconds
Sisterhood
Directed by Tobias Kralmark
Country: Sweden
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Dating Unlocked
Directed by Sam Coyle
Country: Canada
Duration: 20 minutes
Life's A Drag
Directed by Crosby Allen-Jennings
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds
The Misfit
Directed by Julian Maiz
Country: Philippines
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds
Untitled Self Portrait
Directed by Jackson P Bradshaw
Country: United States
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
Harbor
Directed by Margot Bruce
Country: United States
Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
Send Pic?
Directed by James Cooper
Country: Canada
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
QueerTalk
Directed by Stewart Wade
Country: United States
Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds
Jesse James
Directed by Josef Steiff
Country: United States
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds
Winner Result of April 2022, Season 1 of Queer Stories International LGBTQ Film Festival
BEST LGBTQ FILM
Frida
Directed by Aleksandra Odic
Synopsis: An encounter between a young nurse and her patient Frida, who is the same age, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.
2nd BEST LGBTQ FILM
Angelos At Christmas
Directed by FOTIS ZAMPETAKIS
Synopsis: It is Christmas Eve. Angelos, a mysterious 50-year-old man, observes a young boy singing the carols in the streets of Athens. He convinces the child to go with him in his car towards an unknown destination.
BEST STUDENT's LGBTQ FILM
Harbor
Directed by Margot Bruce
Synopsis: Katherine has chosen a life on land with Billie. When Isolde, a selkie (a Celtic mermaid-like creature), has emerged from the sea to spend a weekend with the couple, she brings reminders of the world Katherine left behind. Katherine and Billie's trust and commitment to each other is threatened as Katherine is pulled between the two women. Can she belong in more than one world? Harbor is a queer, modern Celtic/ Norse fairy tale and "ghost" story about living life in the in-between.
BEST GAY FILM
WHAT'S BEYOND THE ABYSS
Directed by WASHINGTON CALEGARI
Synopsis: Lucca suspects that his boyfriend is lying about his identity and is looking for answers.
BEST LESBIAN FILM
Harbor
Directed by Margot Bruce
Synopsis: Katherine has chosen a life on land with Billie. When Isolde, a selkie (a Celtic mermaid-like creature), has emerged from the sea to spend a weekend with the couple, she brings reminders of the world Katherine left behind. Katherine and Billie's trust and commitment to each other is threatened as Katherine is pulled between the two women. Can she belong in more than one world? Harbor is a queer, modern Celtic/ Norse fairy tale and "ghost" story about living life in the in-between.
BEST BISEXUAL FILM
The time of a night
Directed by Alice Fargier
Synopsis: Nora disappeared for several months. One summer evening, she strangely reappears at a party with a certain Samuel. Camille, her best friend, comes to find her, wondering what way to behave. The night goes on, a trio forms and time stands still.
BEST TRANSGENDER FILM
Punch Line
Directed by Becky Cheatle
Synopsis: On the eve of a transphobic attack, a transgender comedian processes her feeling the only way she knows how: through stand-up comedy.
BEST QUEER FILM
PAROLES, PAROLES (Words, words)
Directed by Franck VILLETTE
Synopsis: Some men and women hear words. Words, again and again, the same words. Just words? Those words are discriminatory, homophobic, lesbophobic, transphobic. Some of them will be insulted, despised, harassed, threatened, mugged, tortured, killed. Who are the assailants? Who are the victims? Those words are criminal, murderous, lethal. Deadly. It’s like a slap or a punch in the face. Or even worse.
BEST LGBTQ WEB SERIES
QueerTalk
Directed by Stewart Wade
Synopsis: Follow the eclectic lives of four late 20 something, LGBTQ men living in modern day LA. They get into their fair share of mishaps, some comical, some dramatic, and mostly all somewhat sexual. Their strongest tie it their weekly LGBTQ podcast, also titled QueerTalk.
BEST LGBTQ MUSIC VIDEO
A Feast That Never Comes
Directed by Maria Juranic
Synopsis: Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told through the marriage of music (Ex-Fiancée) and dance (ChrisMastersDance)—functioning as a set of nesting dolls, inviting you to uncover as many layers as you wish. Directed by Maria Juranic.
BEST LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY FILM
HERMAN@S (SiblingX)
Directed by Hélène Alix Mourrier
Synopsis: One night in October 2011 in Mexico, a mysterious bird dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate.
BEST DIRECTOR OF LGBTQ FILM
Fairyocious
The Award Presented to Fabien Ara
Synopsis: SIMON : ”I want to be a girl, mommy.” Alma freezes. She doesn’t know how to react: from now on, her 8-year-old son wants to dress up like a fairy to go to school. She asks for help from her neighbors. Soon the whole building is debating on Simon’s choice for gender orientation.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER OF LGBTQ FILM
Don't Text Your Ex
The Award Presented to Roy Zheng
Synopsis: Surviving a global pandemic being queer, cute and still in love with your ex.
BEST EDITOR OF LGBTQ FILM
KingDom
The Award Presented to Joanna Vymeris
Synopsis: Six drag kings embark on a moustache curling adventure to steal the Monument to Masculinity, a solid gold urinal, in a mad-cap attempt to keep their gentlemen’s club 'KingDom' afloat in times of economic peril...........
BEST SCREENPLAY WRITER FOR LGBTQ FILM
Boy meets Boy
The Award Presented to Simona Atias
Synopsis: Honest, true and raw. Vincent is searching for love in his isolated perfect life. He turns to online dating sites to meet the One! Steven catches his attention. Mystery and anxiousness builds a mood of desperation that transforms to chaos, curiosity and anticipation. A battle between perfection and passion; nervous romance leads to passion triumphing... or does it? Suspense builds as the battle takes place. Victory is in your perception.
BEST SOUND DESIGN FOR LGBTQ FILM
Jem's Dream Home
The Award Presented to Alan Guillemoto
Synopsis: Thanks Jem is living their last days in their house in Vancouver. The pandemic already made it difficult for
the drag queen performer to stay afloat and now, what they have called their home for the last nine years has been
sold and they are asked to leave. The only way they know to cope with this degree of stress and anxiety is to channel
it through their art. Leaving ok, but in one big shinding !
BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR LGBTQ FILM
Jesse James
The Award Presented to Dylan Love, Catherine Nguyen
Synopsis: "Jesse James" traces the moments between a neighbor's phone call and the arrival of the police, when Jesse and his lover test the boundaries of their relationship and come face to face not just with what they are losing but with what they have already lost -- when Jesse can no longer save his relationship but only himself.
JURY's SELECTION AWARD
Sisterhood
Directed by Tobias Kralmark
Synopsis: A trans woman discovers that her neighbor, a transphobic CIS woman, is being treated badly by her husband and tries to help her. After first being rejected and then abused by the CIS woman, the trans woman decides to do one last good deed, offering the CIS woman some cake. The warm but tentative gesture leads the CIS woman to examine herself and ask for forgiveness and help. When the CIS woman's man then appears, the situation becomes critical and the trans woman decides in the moment to hit him with her baseball bat. The man faints and wakes up taped in the kitchen doors. The trans woman and the CIS woman unite in their newfound friendship and understanding for each other.
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR's CHOICE AWARD
Send Pic?
Directed by James Cooper
Synopsis: Everybody has secrets they want to hide from their family. Especially, when it comes to the contents of their mobile apps. Julie, a divorced mother, snoops into her son's phone, discovering a shocking detail in his life. Jeremy lies to his mother to avoid further explanation, but it turns into an awkward revelation. They just want to be happy in their lives. Why are they pretending to be somebody they aren't?
AUDIENCES CHOICE AWARD
Life's a Drag
Directed by Crosby Allen-Jennings
Synopsis: Life's a Drag
BEST PERFORMANCES AWARD
The Misfit
The Award Presented to Vin Amodia
Synopsis: When a closeted all-boys high school student [starring Vin Amodia] grabs an opportunity to express his effeminate side, how do his friends [co-starring Bo Oliva, John Sainz, and Kyle Cabahug] react when they see him being this way for the first time?
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