Five queer black women families raising children reveal The Gift of Family. After a job loss, a South-Asian lesbian couple finds themselves Legally Challenged to hold onto their love. Unsaid words and unexpressed emotions flare in a series of letters that are Undeliverables. In the heat of desperate times, Help Wanted doesn’t apply to a genderqueer Asian looking for employment. A smoking talented jazz trumpeter sets it off In The Key of D when she makes a decision that will change her life forever. Queering sex and resilience, Fat Femmes seduce With Conviction

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In this Indonesian-styled Priscilla Queen of the Desert, our transsexual superhero goes up against Mr. Storm, The National Morality Front, and his deadly burqa-clad wives. A dark wit pervades this daring, camp-filled first feature from director Lucky Kuswandi. Is it a curling iron? Is it a hair dryer? No, it’s Madame X – the world’s first trans superhero! The trans, Adam, leads a regular life as a hairdresser until she’s suddenly chosen by destiny to f ight a transphobic gang who commits hate crimes in the night life of Jakarta. highly original and kitschy film fueled with great energy, self-irony and a heart of gold. (Description courtesy of MIX Copenhagen.)

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Look at Me Again is a road movie that whisks us away to the wild, semi-arid expanse of north-eastern Brazil. Our tough, cool travelling companion is Silvyo Luccio (‘… I was born a woman, became a lesbian and am now a man’), a thinker in the throes of transition and transformation who finds himself on a journey back into his religious-fundamentalist, deeply prejudiced, traditionalist past. At the heart of old wounds, humiliation and trauma lies an anxiously awaited encounter with a daughter and the hope of familial reconciliation. Look at Me Again portrays a vibrant human being full of resilience, who has broken free of the sexual catechism’s stale trinity of hetero-homo-bisexuality in order to set off on a different path in search of new horizons. Before him lies a baking hot road through regions marked by grinding poverty, ardent religious faith, superstition and bloated machismo, as well as several encounters with some extraordinary people. (Description courtesy of the Berlinale: The Berlin International Film Festival.)

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