Wicked Queer 41 Program Announcement

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Wicked Queer 41 Program Announcement

Celebrate Queer Joy with Us with the Wicked Queer 41's Program

Boston, April 4-13, 2025

Wicked Queer’s 41st program features over 120 films from around the world acknowledging that through joy, love, education and laughter we create hope in these dark times together. Our theme this year is Community is Resistance.

Wicked Queer has been, since its inception in 1984, a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community to gather, discuss ideas, learn our histories. Most importantly, an opportunity to see ourselves and our lives on the screen. This year’s program acknowledges the vibrancy of our community’s experiences and reminds us that our combined strength is our power. Wicked Queer champions the belief that Queer love and joy is revolutionary and that we will not disappear despite the attempts to eradicate us.

As a community, we celebrate and lift up the riots of our forebears and we will not let the attempts to divide us come to pass. We will do so with laughter, joy, inclusion, diversity and a global perspective that shows we are not alone in this fight.

The Opening Night selections, Allan Deberton’s The Best Friend and Todd Verrow and Charles Lum's Memoriabilia, will screen at the Brattle on April 4th at 6:30 PM and 9:00 PM, respectively.

The Closing Night selection, Outerlands from director Elena Oxman at the Brattle on April 13th at 6:00 PM.

The festival will be screened at the Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theater, Museum of Fine Arts, ICA, Mass Art, BFSR Emerson, and Boston University.

Tickets will go on sale March 28th through the venues with the full schedule available on wickedqueer.org

Official Features

Official Documentaries

Official Shorts

Shorts Before Features

  • Who Raised You (2024) (USA) - dir. Dani Guzman
  • Finding My Voice (2024) (USA) - dir. Rouven Gueissaz
  • Big Bass (2024) (USA) - dir. Drew Dickler
  • Open To It: Open to New Queer’s Eve (2024) (USA) - dir. Benjamin-Shalom Rodriguez
  • Uncomfy (2024) (Canada) - dir. Jessica Hinkson
  • Thank You (2024) (USA) - dir. Nicolle Marquez

Hearts in Motion: Short films from the Americas

  • Wannabe (2024) (Ecuador) - dir. Kat Cattani
  • ¡Salsa! (2024) (Colombia) - dir. Antonina Kerguelén Román
  • Call me Ro (2024) (Mexico) - dir. Carolina Meza
  • Honey To The Moon (2023) (Mexico) - dir. Rob Woodcox
  • Stay Still Or I Love You (2024) (Argentina) - dir. Federico Luis
  • Zagêro (2024) (Brazil) - dir. Victor Di Marco, Marcio Picoli

Bad Rep: Trans and Nonbinary shorts

  • Gender Reveal (2024) (USA) - dir. Mo Matton
  • Notes on Nudes (2024) (USA) - dir. Em Solarova
  • I’m in Love with Edgar Allan Poe (2024) (USA) - dir. Andrea A Walter
  • Ballad of a Blood Moon (2020) (USA) - dir. Jing Niu
  • Lesbian Jesus is Pregnant with Vibes (2024) (USA) - dir. Reid Pope
  • The Princess and the Peacock (2024) (Germany) - dir. Daniel Baker-Wells
  • Bust (2024) (USA) - dir. Angalis Field
  • IYKYK (If You Know You Know) (2024) (India) - dir. Bonita Rajpurohit
  • Holy Curse (2024) (USA, India) - dir. Snigdha Kapoor

Interwoven: Muslim & SWANA Voices

  • Neo Nahda (2023) (UK) - dir. May Ziade
  • All the Men I Met but Never Dated (2024) (USA) - dir. Muneeb Hassan
  • Circle (2024) (Turkey) - dir. Ferhat Ertan
  • Shame (2024) (Lebanon) - dir. Hadi Moussaly
  • Elijah (2024) (USA) - dir. Razid Season
  • Malfouf (2024) (USA) - dir. Omar AlQahtani
  • Hi Mom, It's Me Lou Lou (2024) (Turkey) - dir. Atakan Yılmaz

Slippage: Queer Experiments In Time and Place

  • Victim of Circumstance (2024) (Canada) - dir. Kalil Haddad
  • Homme-Sick (2024) (UK) - dir. Julian Konuk
  • Never Forget Death (2024) (USA) - dir. Tomas Orrego
  • Tiger Lily Mountain Pass (2024) (USA) - dir. Nathan King
  • Puce Praxis (2025) (USA) - dir. Nathan Hill
  • Clear (2024) (USA) - dir. Hogan Seidel
  • Placement Guide Of Human in The Bar (2024) (China) - dir. Wange Na
  • Desert Cruising (2024) (USA) - dirs. Todd Verow and Charles Lum
  • Institution (2024) (USA) - dir. Jonathan Wysocki
  • Y (2024) (Croatia) - dir. Matea Kovač
  • Maitemina (2024) (Spain) - dir. Erik Rodríguez Fernández

Beyond Kinsmen – Men Searching for Love, Understanding, and Revenge: Mens Shorts Program

  • Tiger Lily Mountain Pass (2024) (USA) - dir. Nathan King
  • Beicon (2024) (Spain) - dir. Jose Montero
  • Last Night (2024) (USA) - dir. Ryan Mack
  • Mélange (2024) (USA) - dir. Deshon Leek
  • Crazy Love (2024) (USA) - dir. Tyler N. Thomas
  • Palindrome (2024) (Canada) - dir. Krit Komkrichwarakool
  • American Double Joy (2024) (USA) - dir. Xin Jiang

Planting our Flag – Documentary as Perseverance: Queer Docs Shorts

  • The Princess and the Peacock (2024) (Germany) - dir. Daniel Baker-Wells
  • Butch (2024) (UK) - dir. Jordan Rossi
  • Cornfed Punk (2024) (USA) - dir. Zade Mullin
  • Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way (2024) (US Guam) - dir. Hao Zhou
  • American Problems, Trans Solutions (2024) (USA) - dir. Nazenet Habtezghi
  • Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr (2024) (USA) - dir. Kimberly Reed

Laugh, Cry, and Embrace the Chaos: A Collection of Unforgettable Comedy Shorts

  • Die Bully Die (2024) (Australia) - dirs. Nathan Lacey and Nick Lacey
  • I'm the Most Racist Person I Know (2024) (Australia) - dir. Leela Varghese
  • Egg (2024) (USA) - dir. Jamie Kiernan O'Brien
  • Solers United (2024) (UK) - dir. Sara Harrak
  • King Ed (2023) (USA) - dir. Nick Fascitelli
  • Match Dot Mom (2024) (USA) - dir. Tara Parian
  • The Space You Need (2024) (UK) - dir. Sam P. Jackson

First Impressions: A Showcase of New Queer Filmmakers

  • Euphoric (2024) (USA) - dir. Cam Killion
  • Kocham Cię (2024) (Netherlands) - dir. Denise de Lange
  • The River (2024) (France) - dir. Elise Levy
  • A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian (2024) (USA) - dirs. Carmela Marie Murphy and AJ Dubler
  • Divine Intervention (2024) (UK) - dir. Ravenna Tran
  • DTF? (2024) (USA) - dir. Jess McLeod

Uncharted Desires: Women's Shorts

  • Seagulls Cut Through the Sky (2024) (Portugal) - dirs. Mariana Bártolo and Guillermo García López
  • Morgen doen we het beter (Tomorrow Will Be Better) (2024) (Netherlands) - dir. Jottum Kok
  • Composure (2024) (USA) - dir. Grant Windy Raun
  • Before I Do (2024) (UK) - dir. Gitika Buttoo
  • Dandelion (2024) (USA) - dir. Fiona Obertinca
  • Baby Gay (2023) (USA) - dir. Arielle Frances Bagood
  • F*CKED (2023) (UK) - dir. Sara Harrak
  • Fish (2024) (UK) - dir. Ian Yarwood

Unspoken Connections: Queer Asian Stories

  • Kokuhaku (2024) (Spain) - dir. Adrià Guxen
  • Three (2024) (USA) - dir. Amie Song
  • J Is for Just an Afternoon Thunderstorm (2024) (Taiwan) - dir. Yung Hsiang Chuang
  • Pehli Date (2024) (India) - dir. Sulagna Chatterjee
  • Saigon Kiss (2024) (Vietnam) - dir. Hong Anh Nguyen
  • Scrapped Fabric (2024) (Philippines) - dir. Jake Muñoz Consing

Love, Lust & Lost Causes: A Collection of International Shorts

  • Carpobrotus (2024) (France) - dir. Simon Frenay
  • Wet Hair (2024) (Germany) - dir. Julian Dieterich
  • Coffee Grapefruit Cacao (2024) (France) - dir. Dominique Preusse
  • Pillow Chocolate (2023) (UK) - dir. Charlie Tidmas
  • Don't Go (2024) (Spain) - dir. Miguel Muñoz Gascón
  • Flex (2024) (Belgium) - dir. Kaat Vanbaelen

WQ:41 GTFO

  • Lady Parts (2024) (USA) - dir. Ariel McCleese
  • Little One (2024) (USA) - dir. Lindsay Carpenter
  • What A Body Could Do (2024) (Germany) - dirs. Mila Starosta, Hadrien Daigneault-Roy
  • You Don’t Have To Apologize (2024) (Brazil) - dir. Franco Cavazale
  • Spookable (2024) (USA) - dir. Jonathan Andre Culliton
  • Wet Hair (2024) (Germany) - dir. Julian Dieterich
  • Fifi la Comette and the Cosmic Dancers (2025) (Belgium) - dir. Victoria Jadot

Official Throwbacks

  • Teorema (1968) (Italy) - dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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