Annual LGBTQ Shorts Night
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 | 7:00 PM | 112 MIN. | FREE
Join Reel Out Charlotte for our annual LGBTQ Shorts Night, a free community event highlighting a variety of the best new short films from the United States and beyond.
VOTE FOR BEST SHORT - VIEWERS CHOICE AWARD
You will receive a paper ballot to choose the film YOU think represents the best short among those shown. How you vote and the criteria you use are up to you. Vote for the film that moved you, the film you thought had the best production value, or the one you thought had the best plotit’s up to you!
FEATURED SHORTS THIS YEAR:
Gays, Yes!
Scott Calonico | 2025 | 11 min. United States
Reboot
Tyra Pacheco | 2024 | 3 min. United States
Dragfox
Lisa Ott | 2024 | 14 min. Switzerland, United Kingdom
Circle
Ferhat Ertan | 2023 | 10 min. | Turkey
That’s Family Puppett | 2022 | 13 min. United States
Clementine
Sally Tran | 2024 | 14 min. United States
Parallel Lines
Danny Wascou | 16 min. United States
Yellow Inside
Jade Denise Dixon | 2024 | 13 min. United States
Scattered
Neil Fennell | 2025 | 8 min. United States
I don’t know if i’ll have to say everything again
Vitória Fallavena, Thassilo Weber 2024 | 14 min. | Brazil
THURSDAY, MAY 15
Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between The Lines
RYAN MAH, DANNY BERISH | 2024 | 80 MIN. | CANADA DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH
THURSDAY, MAY 15 | 6:00 PM
“Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines” contemplates both the professional and personal successes and tragedies of Canada’s most esteemed architect, who’s approach to site and adherence to the importance of landscape was unprecedented.
Please join us afterward for a talkback hosted by Queer Design Collaborative.
THIS FILM IS PRESENTED BY QUEER DESIGN COLLABORATIVE.
Thank You to our 2025 Raffle Prize Donors
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Holiday Wish Foundation
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Tonya Simpson
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Trinda Simpson
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Vanity Nail Bar
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FRIDAY, MAY 16
Most People Die on Sundays
IAIR SAID | 2024 | 75 MIN. | ARGENTINA, ITALY, SPAIN | DRAMA SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
FRIDAY, MAY 16 | 6:00 PM
David, a young middle-class Jewish man—corpulent, gay and afraid of flying—returns to Buenos Aires from Europe for the funeral of his uncle. On his return, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father’s respirator, the only thing that has kept him alive for years. David will oscillate between living in close quarters with his mother, alienated by the pain of the imminent loss of her husband, and a voracity to fill his existential anguish, occupying his hours learning to drive, seeking low-cost medical treatments, and trying to have sex with any man who shows him a little attention.
#300 Letters
LUCAS SANTA ANA | 2025 | 90 MIN. | ARGENTINA ROMANCE DRAMA | SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
FRIDAY, MAY 16 | 8:25 PM discovers a different Tom and the great love story they were living collapses under the title of “The Jero Project.” But all pain has an end and the hope of a new love could be the cure for their suffering.
Jero (25) and Tom (25) are the perfect couple everyone wants to be. Jero takes care of his aesthetics and his cryptocurrencies. Tom is alternative and loves poetry. On the day of their first anniversary, Tom abandons Jero and, as his only explanation, leaves a box with 300 letters. Jero, reading them,
THIS FILM IS PRESENTED BY CINE CASUAL.
The Rebrand
SUNDAY, MAY 18
KAYE ADELAIDE | 2024 | 79 MIN. | CANADA | HORROR-COMEDY | ENGLISH
SUNDAY, MAY 18 | 2:00 PM
An eight-months-pregnant videographer hired to document the comeback of cancelled lesbian influencers soon uncovers their deranged agenda.
Light Up
RYAN ASHLEY LOWERY | 2024 | 91 MIN. | UNITED STATES DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH
SUNDAY, MAY 18 | 4:00 PM
Light Up is a film that tells the stories of same gender loving men and a transgender woman who found their superpower by living their truth.
Please join us afterward for a talkback with Director Ryan Ashley Lowery and Rayvon Moore, Chaplain of Charlotte Black Pride.
SUNDAY, MAY 18
Sunday Shorts Showcase
SUNDAY, MAY 18 | 6:30 PM | 96 MIN.
Round out your Reel Out Charlotte experience by watching four unique short films from around the world.
FEATURED SHORTS:
Amma’s Pride
Shiva Krish | 2024 | 20 min. | India
Amma’s Pride chronicles Valli’s trials and tribulations as she watches her trans daughter Srija, fall in love, marry, and fight for state recognition of her marriage in a traditional small town in South India. When societal pressures push Srija’s marriage to the edge, Valli clings to the hope of a miracle.
Sister Wives
Louisa Connolly-Burnham | 2024 | 28 min. United Kingdom
Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.
Boxing Against the Binary
Esmée van Loon | 2024 | 18 min. | Netherlands
In the short documentary Boxing Against the Binary, filmmaker Esmée van Loon takes us to a unique gym in Rotterdam. Queer Gym is a space designed for non-normative bodies to exercise, build community, and stay active both mentally and physically.
Breaking Through
Siham Bel | 2023 | 29 min. | France
Every summer, Safia returns to Corsica to visit her dad. Ever since she left the island years before, she has kept her distance. On the surface, she seems close to her family, but a secret is stopping them from connecting.
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