Name: SHORTS PROGRAM 3: QUEER IT UP!
Start: 2023-11-02T17:15:00-07:00
Location: Regal LA Live

SHORTS PROGRAM 3: QUEER IT UP!

Downtown Film Festival L.A. is Los Angeles’ premiere independent film festival. Established in 2008 as a nonprofit organization, the festival is dedicated to showcasing independent cinema in the historic center of the Creative Capital of the World. DTLAFF also celebrates the renaissance of downtown L.A. and its unique cultural diversity.

[ARCHIVE] DTLA Film Festival

15th Annual DTLA Film Festival: Nov. 1-5, 2023

Regal LA Live

Comedy

A filmmaker walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Have you checked our the comedy lineup at the 2023 DTLA Film Festival?" (Rimshot.) Ok, our filmmakers can deliver a one-liner better than we can, but see for yourself at this year's festival!

Day 2 - Thursday, Nov. 2nd

The 2nd day of DTLA Film Festival offers the kind of lineup that DTLA Film Festival is famous for -- a selection of features, documentaries and shorts across all genres, and all making their Los Angeles theatrical premieres. See you at the festival.

SHORT PROGRAMS

DTLA Film Festival's 2023 short-film lineup offers a lot of something for everyone -- from horror to comedy, social justice to animation. Jump into our shorts (!) and try them on for size.

I﻿T&#x27;S A DATE<a href="https://vimeo.com/777206594" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">T﻿HAT DARK DAY</a> City councilor Victor mysteriously disappears in Sao Paulo during a day that turns night because of meteorological phenomena and smoke from forest fires. Weeks go by, and Fabio grows closer to Louise. He is a trans man and a caregiver for the elderly. She is ill and living far from her family in France. While aiding Louise (a cis woman), Fabio&#x27;s relationship with her matures into understanding, affection, and exchange. He becomes her rock. Fabio&#x27;s memories and dreams offer a closer look at his coming-of-age and his dilemmas about sexuality and gender. The story unfolds in a country with a polarized society and under political and financial turmoil. While Fabio must overcome the recent end of a romantic relationship, Louise feels the pangs of loneliness and her near death. Now Fabio and Louise have each other to rely on and learn to say their goodbyes. “That Dark Day” has won the “Silver Rabbit” award - Audience’s Choice for Best Brazilian Short Film - at MixBrasil Festival of Diversity Culture 2022I﻿NGLORIOUS LIAISONS Tonight is the night for Lucie, Maya and their friends. Even Jimmy came: he is here for Maya and everybody knows it. But at the moment when everything is supposed to happen, Maya and Lucie finds out they have hidden feelings for each other, tender and confused, who trouble to find their place in this evening punctuated by alcohol that flows freely, the compilations that rock and the hormones that boil.<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xv3U0jRxY4QoUrmNwXMc8hzBco-flek3/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">U﻿NNAMED</a> Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition, but in addition to her family&#x27;s opposition and the society&#x27;s inappropriate view of this issue, she has more difficulties There is something more important to come. she, who played in the country&#x27;s national volleyball team for a while and is now in the Bartar league, if she does this, she will be removed from professional volleyball forever due to her short stature compared to men, and not only will she lose her professional future, but also her livelihood and her family who are under her care will be in trouble.C﻿UXBALL Sam finds something in the dirt.H﻿OW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.

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