Wicked Queer 40
virtual encore is live!
April 15-30, 2024

This shorts program seeks to highlight the lesser told trans stories, especially those told by trans people themselves. The stories often found and repeated in the world are not often the stories that resonate the most with the living trans experience. Transport yourself out of that narrative and into a more authentic trans experience.

This collection of short documentary films highlights our histories, our current realities and our activism in our collective fight for a better future.

Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it.

Pakistani Muslim Mariam and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy.

While having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demos and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut. Imagining their lives as a film, will bring the two face to face with the pending conflicts in their colorfull friendship.

This program is dedicated to BIPOC resilience. We endure bias and turn it into beauty, pain into progress, slavery into strength, discrimination into dance, mistreatment into music and marches. Yet, after everything we've been through we hold our crowns high; and still, we rise.