Filmed in Cambodia over the course of five years, Lotus Sports Club (72 mins) is an inspiring coming-of-age documentary about Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women’s team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team.

Território is focused on identity, memory and territory; exploring the complexities of being and belonging within a diaspora. These works also examine themes of displacement, cultural synthesis, and the search for home. As part of What Has No Space Is Everywhere, a selection of nine films from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela and the UK.

Movimento is dedicated to movement and bodies; showcasing dance and performance pieces that embody the dynamic nature of the queer Latinx diaspora. As part of What Has No Space Is Everywhere, a selection of nine films from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela and the UK. This programme will have filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A mediated by Dieter Deswarte.

This event examines the Ottoman Empire’s scramble to participate in late 19th century interimperial competition and neo-Ottomanism and its impact across Asia and Africa. Along with a performance lecture co-curated by archivist Êvar Hussayni, focusing on Kurdish genealogies, colonial violence in archives and their relationship with the trajectory of Kurdish feminisms and  identity. 

(Re)Framed Youth is a screening and discussion of two landmark LGBTQ+ films Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts (1982) & Reframed Youth (2013).

TGirlsonFilm presents a screening of "Hookers on Davie" (dir.Cole & Dale,1984). The only documentation of Davie Street, a red-light stroll in Vancouver, known in the 80s as the "prostitution capitol of Canada."