In Celebration of Wicked Queer's 35 years we are revisiting films that made an impact on our culture and continue to resonate. Angela Robinson's debut feature film (an expansion on her award-winning short film of the same name) stunned the queer festival circuit when it debuted in 2005. Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to become the newest members of the elite national-defense group, D.E.B.S. (aka Charlie's Angels with lesbians). Angela Robinson has gone on to be one of the foremost out queer directors working in the industry today (PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN, WQ 2018). Come and check out her first feature film.

Birds of The Borderlands follows four Arab queers as they risk their place in their families, communities and even countries to be themselves. Hiba is a Bedouin trans-girl fleeing her tribe before they discover her secret transition; Youssef is a gay Iraqi refugee murder-witness, waiting in hiding for UNHCR to hand him his fate; Khalaf is a gay Imam turned LGBT activist forced to seek asylum abroad after a vicious assault from his family; Rasha is a young Jordanian feminist who finds herself in a relationship with Jordan, the Australian filmmaker who is determined to help the film’s characters but doesn’t understand the price paid for freedom in a country where honor can still be thicker than blood.

Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they'll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.