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  Amma's Pride 2024

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  A trans woman’s fight to claim her right to marry her partner in Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India, with the help of her supportive mother who is proud of her and wants her daughter to be happy. A sensitive portrait of women supporting each other while struggling with difficult private and public challenges.

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  Wet Sand 2021

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  Elene Naveriani’s beautifully crafted feature witnesses the banality of hate in a remote Georgian village by the Black Sea where everyone knows everyone - or so they think. When Eliko, a long-time yet enigmatic local resident is found dead, his burial becomes a platform for disdain, hostility and love as the villagers, his secret lover and his granddaughter try to make sense of his death (and life). Elene Naveriani’s contemplative study of resilience in the face of prejudice and small-town bigotry is an essential film from a country where LGBTQ+ films are few.

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  Tokyo Godfathers 2003

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  On Christmas Eve, three homeless people (Gin, the alcoholic, Hana the transgender woman, and Miyuki the runaway teen) find an abandoned baby while rummaging through garbage for “presents”. Confronted with this new challenge, this makeshift family of misfits sets out to find and return the baby to its real parents. Satoshi Kon's animé classic is an inspiring celebration of human decency and diversity in how we can relate and care for each other beyond the conventional family ties. Heartwarming and hilarious, Tokyo Godfathers is an absolute Xmas must see.

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  Joyland 2022

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  Denounced in Pakistan as un-Islamic, this poignant and complex debut feature by director Saim Sadiq follows the blossoming romance of a married man and a trans woman in Lahore. 2022 Queer Palme winner in Cannes, Joyland is a captivatingly beautiful and nuanced story about daring to be different in an unforgiving patriarchal society, with brilliant performances by Ali Junejo, Alina Kahn and Rasti Farooq.