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Young and promising Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter Khavaj must flee from Chechnya to Brussels when his brother discovers his homosexuality and promises to kill him. In an episode of silence, the young man finds comfort in the Planetarium, among the silence of the stars. In this documentary, which traces his first months of life in Belgium, Khavaj slowly observes how the last link that ties him to Chechnya disintegrates. The life of yesterday is in past, but the future is not clear yet.
Silent Voice
10
Reka Valerik
France, 2020
51 min
English, French
Madina Mustafina again takes root in the forbidden, taboo territory. The heroine of the picture is a modern 18-year-old girl Zhenya, not burdened with social obligations. As a typical bearer of youth subculture, she is not endowed with special talents and lives an ordinary life of a growing up provincial girl, loves to dance, meets guys, teaches her friends how to kiss. In general, neither the norms of behavior, nor the manner of speech, nor the desire to please, in any other way, does she differ from thousands of other girls. Except for one thing: the girl Zhenya is actually a boy.
Come on, scumbags!
9
Madina Mustafina
Kazakhstan, 2013
67 min
"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the strange daily life of Lydia, born Sergei, a queer ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. She lives with her wife Vasilisa, working for a company that prevents bird strikes in airports. Vasilisa trains horses for the police of Moscow. In a wooden house that she built on her own Lydia tries to recreate the atmosphere of Twin Peaks, the famous David Lynch series she loves, and tries to make her own version. Sasha Kulak, the film's director, faces a question that will upset her concept of a of documentary: how can one extract reality from a dream? Sasha's voice draws us in until she becomes a character in a rare cinematic experience.

A Hawk as Big as a Horse
9
Sasha Kulak
France, 2022
74 min
English
A documentary about LGBT teenagers who want to prove to society that they exist.
Children 404
8
Askold Kurov
Russia, 2014
76 min
Gays from Belarus are trying to live in a country where their existence is denied. The main characters create their own parallel reality filled with alcohol and parties in an escape from loneliness and in search of love.

Pussy Boys
8
Darya Andreyanava, Mikalai Kuprych
Belarus, 2023
94 min
English
A film about the persecution of homosexuals in Chechnya and a campaign against the LGBT community in the republic, as well as about activists who, risking their lives, help victims of torture and harassment escape and leave the country.

The film is available for viewing in Russia.
Welcome to Chechnya
8
David France
USA, 2020
107 min
English
Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their lives together. For many years, their love story was kept a secret even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s granddaughter Sylvie has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.
Nelly & Nadine
8
Magnus Gertten
Sweden, 2022
93 min
English
Olya is an active member of the LGBT community. Her friend Galiya doesn't want politics to rule their lives. They love each other and dream of having a child, but when the State Duma passes a discriminatory law against propaganda of homosexuality among minors, Olya begins to fight for the rights of sexual minorities even more strongly. At the same time, the girl's personal life is being tested.
Olya's love
8
Kirill Sakharnov, Ksenia Sakharnova
Austria, 2014
68 min
English
The word "intersex" refers to people who are born with sexual characteristics that differ from the typical structure of the male or female body. Intersex variation may be noticeable at birth, or it may not become apparent until adolescence or even later. There are about 40 different intersex variations. About 120 million carriers of intersex variations now live in the world. How do intersex people live in Russia?
Doctors and parents decided behind my back which of me to make: a boy or a girl. Intersex people in Russia
7
Elena Pogrebizhskaya
Russia, 2022
85 min
English
An elderly person does not want to fit into generally accepted social roles. Not wanting to deceive himself, defending his beliefs, he refuses to share the values of society.
Freakworld: Nick-femme-fetish
7
Tatyana Zhukova
Russia, 2022
34 min
A lesbian couple living on the outskirts of St. Petersburg are looking for an opportunity to emigrate. That decision was made after the start of the war unleashed by the country in which they were born and raised. However, it is not so east to emigrate with four pets that they will never leave.
Become a bird
7
Lera Papenina
Russia, 2022
17 min
English
Alexei comes to the casting of the "Reality" project, the authors of which offer him to film his daily life on camera, and the young man enthusiastically agrees. Aleksey is an open homosexual, and does not hide his preferences from friends and acquaintances, generously sharing intimate details and difficulties in his personal life with them. His unconventional orientation cannot be understood and recognized by his mother, a quarrel with which Alexey also records on camera. The search for the meaning of the boyfriend's life leads the guy to the film festival. Tarkovsky to the Ivanovo region, where he meets a local guy Grisha, starting a stormy holiday romance.
Butterflies
7
Dmitriy Kubasov
Russia, 2016
79 min
From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history?

This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds.

But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?
Incurable me
7
Nikita Loyk
Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, 2023
67 min
English
The short documentary tells the story of LGBT+ couple. Tosya and Masya have decided to challenge stereotypes and fight for their happiness despite the threats and prohibitions inherent in Russia.
Bans are trends
7
Anonymous
Russia, Israel, 2024
17 min
English
Stories of relationships with men of two girls in love with each other.
Stereometry
7
Danila Nagornov
Russia, 2020
14 min
A genderqueer named Tapir had sex reassignment surgery over ten years ago and has only now found her true self.
I am what I am not
6
Petr Solovyov
Russia, 2016
26 min
Alexei Navalny began his election campaign in the regions of Russia with a trip to Murmansk. Thousands of citizens came to his rally, and in the rain. This is the success of local activists who organized the rally and campaigned selflessly. Alexander Rastorguev and Dmitry Kuvaldin spent several days with Navalny's Murmansk headquarters coordinator Violetta Grudina, an LGBT activist who was attacked because of her sexual orientation.
I am nobody
6
Aleksandr Rastorguev
Russia, 2017
30 min
Young and old, gays and straights, intellectuals and blue-collars, natives and outcasts, they have all experienced love. Five New York City couples, aged 18 to 89, went through the familiar phases of love from charm to separation to addiction to addiction over the course of one year. And director Andresevic documented a year of their lives with humor and sympathy. That is love and everything else. What is further and perhaps more love.
Love Etc.
6
Jill Andresevic
USA, 2010
94 min
Most of the people know Oxana, a trans woman from Chisinau, as a man. Fearing complete rejection from society, she is forced to lead a double life. When her cross-dressing friend was invited to DJ at a local queer party, Oxana decided to attend the event for the first time.
In the Frame
6
Ion Gnatiuc, Artem Zavadovsky
France, Germany, Moldova, Romania, 2018
17 min
English
In the life of 40-year-old Dana, there was one suicide attempt, fights with homophobes, drugs and a broken heart. Living in Russia, she is not afraid to speak openly about her orientation, enduring threats and ridicule. However, Dana does not despair and finds solace in watching TV shows and the big Big Tasty.
The king sized "Big Tasty"
6
Angelina Podorozhnaya
Russia, 2020
13 min
Russian, English
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