Five Films For Freedom: previous programmes
Five Films For Freedom is an online celebration of global LGBTQIA+ stories, in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual rights, in partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
We celebrated our 10th anniversary programme in 2024 showcasing five LGBTQIA+ themed short films from around the globe making them available for the world to watch online for free, as we do every year over a 12-day period. Here's our programme from the decade leading up to this year.
2023
Eating Papaw on the Seashore Dir. Rae Wiltshire and Nickose Layne (Guyana)
Just Johnny Dir. Terry Loane (UK – Northern Ireland)
(Currently unavailable)
Buffer Zone Dir. Savvas Stavrou (UK/Cyprus)
All I Know Dir. Obinna Robert Onyeri (Nigeria/USA)
Butch Up! Dir. Yu-jin Lee (South Korea)
2022 Programme
Frozen Out, dir. Hao Zhou (China/USA)
All Those Sensations In My Belly (trailer), dir. Marko Djeska (Croatia)
Sunday (trailer), dir. Arun Fulara (India)
Birthday Boy (Vuelta al Sol) (trailer), dir. Judith Corro (Panama)
2021 Programme
Pure (trailer), dir. Natalie Jasmine Harris (USA)
Victoria (trailer), dir. Daniel Toledo (Spain)
Trans Happiness is Real, dir. Quinton Baker (UK)
Bodies of Desire, dir. Varsha Panikar and Saad Nawab (India)
Land of the Free (trailer), dir. Dawid Ullgren (Sweden)
2020 Programme
After That Party (trailer), dir. Caio Scott (Brazil)
Pxssy Palace, dir Laura Kirwan-Ashman (UK)
134 (trailer), dir. Sarah-Jane Drummey (Ireland)
When Pride Came to Town, dir. Julia Dahr, Julie Lunde Lillesæter (Norway)
(Currently unavailable)
Something in the Closet, dir. Nosa Eke (UK)
(Currently unavailable)
2019 Programme
Carlito se va para Siempre (trailer), dir. Quentin Lazzarotto (Peru)
Ladies Day (trailer), dir. Abena Taylor-Smith (UK)
Crashing Waves, dir. Emma Gilbertson (UK)
A Normal Girl, dir. Aubree Bernier-Clarke (USA)
(Currently unavailable)
I (EG), dir. Hall Tryggvadottir (Iceland)
(Currently unavailable)
2018 Programme
Goldfish (trailer), dir. Yorgos Angelopoulos (Greece)
Landline, dir. Matt Houghton (UK)
Univited (trailer), dir. Seung Yeob Lee (Korea)
Handsome & Majestic, dir. Jeff Lee Petry & Nathan Drillot (USA)
(Currently unavailable)
Goddess, dir. Karishma Dev Dube (India)
Currently available via this link: https://freethework.com/video/77k3ghw0wCXUKmM3oDdl
2017 Programme
Crush, dir. Rosie Westhoff (UK)
Heavy Weight, dir. Jonny Ruff (UK)
Still Burning, dir. Nick Rowley (UK/France)
Jamie, dir. Christopher Manning (UK)
(Currently unavailable)
Where We Are Now (trailer), dir. Lucie Rachel (UK)
2016 Programme
Xavier (trailer), dir. Ricky Mastro (Brazil)
Take Your Partners, dir. Siri Rodnes (UK)
Swirl, dir. Peterson Varga (Philippines)
(Currently unavailable)
Breathe, dir. James Doherty (UK/Irish)
The Orchid (trailer), dir. Ferran Navarro-Beltrán (Spain)
2015 Programme
An Afternoon (En Eftermiddag) dir. Søren Green (Denmark)
(Currently unavailable)
Chance, dir. Jake Graf (UK)
Code Academy, dir. Nisha Ganatra (USA)
Morning Is Broken (trailer), dir. Simon Anderson (UK)
True Wheel, dir. Nora Mandray (France)
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