Sometimes perseverance comes in the form of small victories; sometimes those victories are epic. This screening block highlights films with victories both small and large.
Brazzy Jazzy follows Jasmina (Jazzy) who comes to New York to follow her dreams to become a successful fashion designer. However, her playboy Brazilian boyfriend decides to return to his comfortable life in Rio after only 3 weeks because the New York Winter is too cold for him. Refusing to quit on her dream, she is forced to survive with the help her family of fellow outsiders!
Take this image: The red carpet. Your name in bright lights. A-list talent praising your work behind the camera.
Now take this image: Taking 34 coffee orders. Laminating parking signs. Putting the bins out.
Mia and Judd pursued a career in Film/TV for the first image.
The reality of their choice is that they must all start at the second image.
What if your life was perfect - just not for you?
Sara has it all: a well-paid job, wonderful friends and a stylish apartment that she shares with her long-term girlfriend. Somehow she still feels there is something missing and not even the plans to start a family keep her mind from wandering to secret poetry writing and a not-so-secret affair.
It’s hard to hide in a small community. When she manages to wreck her whole existence in a single day, Sara feels she has to escape from the rumors and from her own failure. With a suitcase full of emotional baggage she moves to a new country, hoping that the magic of Berlin will help her figure out what she wants.
What will she do?
Fritzi wants to catch her husband's drug dealer. She needs money for a private rehab: for the in-patient detoxification of her addicted husband. The drug dealer wants to get out of drug trafficking himself. Together they hatch a plan to screw the “big boss”. For Fritzi, the most exciting 24 hours of her life begin.
In KUNTERGRAU coming out is part of the past, love and sex are mundane and HIV no taboo. Jan, Noah, Marcel, Leopold and Lukas manage their daily lives in the big city until a homophobic attack strikes them to the core. Suddenly all that’s left is their friendship, which is the only thing left keeping their world from falling apart entirely.
José Luis (Mirna) is a cross-dresser and heads La Banda del Golden Cross, with Héctor (Luna), this a group of men who meet monthly in order to explore their feminine sides in secrecy. After an accident, in which his A-side and B-side collide, José Luis is forced to make a crucial decision.
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