Take Bad News Bears and set it on Bend it Like Beckham’s playing field, and you’ve got Guys and Balls, a light-hearted send-up of all the macho sports movies your straight friends forced you to see. Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” The final game is a delicious clash of straight machismo and gay fabulousness that will have you both laughing and cheering down to the ultimate showdown. In German with English subtitles. Description adapted from the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

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A heartrending drama about the status of lesbians living under religious oppression and one woman’s valiant efforts to free herself. Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a woman, flees to Germany. Trying to enter the country with forged documents, she is immediately arrested, but her prospects improve when she takes on the identity of a male detainee, Siamak, and assumes his temporary permit of sojourn. She takes an illegal job in a factory, where she meets Anne, who is very concerned about “Siamak’s” wellbeing. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close, and Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity.

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This collection of Transgender Short Films is part of this years Gay & Lesbian Fest

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