2022 Outfest LA Film Festival Watch Guide
Discover the movies and short films that will screen this year at the 40th Outfest LA Film Festival.
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- DirectorMariano BiasinStarsMartín MillerTeo Inama ChiabrandoAzul MazzeoManuel lives in a small coastal town. He plays bass in a band with his best friends. One of them is Felipe, with whom he shares a strong friendship. Unbreakable bond. Until the time comes to put it to test.
- DirectorCraig BorehamStarsJosh LaveryJulian OliverMathew WatersCasey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find something they have been missing but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it.
- DirectorClara SternStarsAlina SchallerJudith AltenbergerWolfgang BöckAn Austrian woman escapes from the pressure of running her family's vineyard by playing ice hockey. Then a new player arrives to challenge her rigid worldview, leading to a life-changing night on the streets of Vienna.
- DirectorGabriel MartinsStarsCícero LucasCarlos FranciscoCamilla DamiãoA lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
- DirectorRodrigo de OliveiraStarsJohnny MassaroRenata CarvalhoVictor CamiloThe beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil.
- DirectorGustavo VinagreStarsIsabella PereiraPedro RibeiroJonata VieiraThree young queer people drift through a city bled dry by the pandemic and rampant capitalism.
- DirectorJuliana CuriStarsZahy GuajajaraUýra SodomaUýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil.
- DirectorMorris ChapdelaineBob ChristieStarsPat RoccoCharlie DavidPhyllis DillerIn this colorful trip back in time, filmmaker and activist Pat Rocco shares his incredible life story as one of Hollywood's original boundary pushing gay pioneers.
- DirectorMark SlutskySarah WattsStarsAnwen O'DriscollJune LaporteLiane BalabanWhen lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
- DirectorGabriel Bier GislasonStarsDavid DencikEllie KendrickSofie GråbølMaja, a Danish has-been actress, falls in love with Leah, a Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah's mother, Chana, a woman who could hold dark secrets.
- DirectorVictoria Linares VillegasStarsVictoria Linares VillegasMilvio LinaresStephany LirianoThrough a series of re-enactments starring her family and the filmmaker, she traces the forgotten life of her cousin, queer filmmaker and political activist Oscar Torres, blurring the lines between her reality and his.
- DirectorMohammad Shawky HassanStarsDonia MassoudAhmed El GendyNadim BahsounPop clichés are twisted with the love between two men who encounter a polyamorous chorus of lovers.
- DirectorAlli HaapasaloStarsAamu MilonoffEleonoora KauhanenLinnea LeinoThree young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
- DirectorC.B. YiStarsKai KoChloe MaayanYufan BaiFei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsDenis MénochetIsabelle AdjaniKhalil Ben GharbiaPeter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.
- DirectorJuan Pablo GonzálezStarsTeresa SánchezRafaela FuentesTatín VeraIn the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.
- DirectorAdrián SilvestreStarsRaphaëlle PérezAlberto DíazMarc RiberaA young trans woman in Barcelona deals with her transition, dating and daily life.
- DirectorMagnus GerttenStarsTrien de Haan-ZwagermanLola SylmanNadine HwangNelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.
- DirectorEva BelingStarsLevan AkinHarriet AnderssonNils AstherPrejudice and Pride is a rainbow colored roller coaster ride through a stunning collection of films. From Mauritz Stiller's filming of the world's first gay romance in 1916 to Sweden's exciting new wave of Scandinavian transgender films.
- DirectorEva VitijaStarsAnnina ButterworthPatricia HighsmithMarijane MeakerBased on Patricia Highsmith's personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer's life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.
- DirectorRocky PalladinoStarsEmun ElliottAmelia EveIola EvansPhea, a struggling musician and street performer, finds she would do whatever it takes to save her lover in this modern version of Orpheus.
- DirectorRay WhitehouseStarsFrankie Gonzales-WolfeJeff WolfeFrankie Gonzales-Wolfe goes on a personal journey and questions her relationship to her community as she runs for city council in San Antonio, Texas, and attempts to become the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.
- DirectorDavid LewisStarsMatthew MontgomeryCody DukeSteve CallahanSet in 2015 against the backdrop of the Supreme Court's upholding of Marriage Equality, a long time gay couple divorce just as everyone else is getting married. After a commitment-phobic husband divorces him, Max, a stuck-in-his-ways gay man tries to start over. When he becomes accidental roommates with a younger hip nerd who is as romantically challenged as he is, sparks fly. "All Kinds of Love" is a feel-good comedy about people trying to follow their hearts, whether it involves an inter-generational romance, a middle-aged interracial throuple or an artistic trans man looking for love in all the wrong places.
- DirectorBryan DarlingJesse Finley ReedStarsMatt BomerBrian BuzziniParvesh CheenaA nostalgic and colorful peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after mail-order catalogs of the '80s and '90s.
- DirectorBilly PorterStarsEva ReignAbubakr AliCourtnee CarterA delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year.