The 12th annual American Documentary and Film Festival (AmDocs) will take place March 30–April 3, 2023 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, and here is a special selection of LGBTQ films that will be screened as part of the festival:
¡Nails!
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
When Catalina develops a crush on another girl in her Quinceañera court, her fingernails grow at a superhuman pace — a blessing in Black and Latina beauty culture, but a curse for a lesbian (at first glance).
It’s A Gray, Gray World
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
In a completely gray world, the colorful identity of a conservative young man is accidentally revealed by a playful boy. People are terrified of this, calling the police to arrest the young man. But the young man managed to escape, returning the next day to defend his right to freedom.
Before Her Body Left
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
A trans woman scrutinizes her reflection in the mirror, a battle between the self and the allo-self, in a surreal dream occurs. Meanwhile, her desires become an alien, breast floating, tentacles trembling, constantly luring her to the outside world.
Salman Toor’s Emerald Green
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
In a light-filled Brooklyn studio, acclaimed Pakistani born artist Salman Toor is at work on a new figurative painting that’s going to be shown alongside canvases by art historical heroes like Johannes Vermeer at the Frick Madison in New York City.
In Bloom
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
Audi Culver and Ivy Siosi work as if at play, at their own pace, and they document their process and the world around them, watching it unfold into a life beyond their wildest dreams.
Hope Acre
April 1, 4:30 p.m.
A queer, women-owned, small farm in Sebastopol, CA finds hope through fostering and creating space for community.
Kenyatta, Do Not Wait Your Turn
March 31, 6:30 p.m.
Malcolm Kenyatta, the self-described “poor, Black, and gay kid from North Philly” is running for the United States Senate. But this race is about more than taking on Malcolm’s political competition. It’s about taking on an entire system. The film examines a key question facing our nation: what does it mean to be “electable”?
Lesbians on the Loose
March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Lesbians on the Loose (LOTL), a free lesbian magazine started in 1989 as a grassroots 8 page black & white newsletter that became Australia’s longest-lived Lesbian magazine. During the 1990s a key shift occurred in Australian gay publishing with the rapid expansion of free city-based newspapers which coincided with the growth of a visibly more diverse gay and lesbian community.