LGBTQ Films: Features, Documentaries, Shorts
Gay Directors. By Emanuel Levy (Columbia University Press)
The LGBTQ+ category had a strong showing at the 2024 Sundance Fest, thanks to such titles as:
Rose Glass’s Kristen Stewart starrer Love Lies Bleeding;
Will Ferrell’s road trip documentary Will & Harper that finds the comedy superstar on a 17-day road trip with his newly out trans friend Harper Steele;
the Alex Hedison-directed and Jodie Foster-produced ALOK about the gender nonconforming poet, comedian, speaker and writer;
the short film “Bust” from writer-director Angalis Field, starring Pedro Pascal’s little sister Lux Pascal;
Jules Rosskam’s short film “Desire Lines,” about trans masculine identity and sexuality;
Amrou Al-Kadhi’s Layla, about a struggling Arab drag queen who falls in love for the first time;
Peter Sillen’s documentary competition entry Love Machina, a story centering on Martine and Bina Rothblatt, who attempt to take their courtship beyond “till death do us part”;
Esteban Arango’s Ponyboi, written by and starring River Gallo as an intersex prostitute on the run after a drug-riddled entanglement goes sideways over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey;
Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian, about an aspiring writer turned queer sex worker, age 25;
Theda Hammel’s debut feature, Stress Positions, starring John Early;
A documentary short titled “Merman,” about a Black queer man, aged 59, living in Palm Springs.
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