NARRATIVE FEATURES

EGGHEAD & TWINKIE

DIR. SARAH KAMBE HOLLAND | USA | 87 MIN.

FRIDAY | JULY 21 | 5:00PM | DGA 2

With weeks to go before their first semesters at separate colleges, aspiring animator Twinkie enlists her best friend Egghead to steal her parents’ car and drive cross-country to finally meet her online crush IRL.

Preceded by They Call Me Suki (dir. M.G. Evangelista) 5 Min.

THE FABULOUS ONES (LE FAVOLOSE)

DIR. ROBERTA TORRE | ITALY | 75 MIN.

SUNDAY | JULY 16 | 9:45PM | DGA 2

In this intoxicating hybrid of documentary and fantasy, a group of middle-aged trans women discover a letter from their friend who’s been dead twenty years and buried under her dead name, and return to the house they once shared to hold a séance and fulfill her last wish.

The Mattachine Family

DIR. ANDY VALLENTINE | USA | 99 MIN.

SATURDAY | JULY 22 | 1:30PM | DGA 1

Thomas and Oscar are a couple very much in love, but after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find they have different ideas about what it means to make a family.

Mutt

DIR. VUK LUNGULOV-KLOTZ | USA | 87 MIN.

FRIDAY | JULY 14 | 7:00PM | DGA 1

Over the course of one hectic day in New York City, a young trans guy named Feña navigates relationships of past, present, and future. This extraordinary feature debut marks a talent to watch in both director Lungulov-Klotz and star Lio Mehiel, who won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance for their performance.

OPPONENT (MOTSTÅNDAREN)

DIR. MILAD ALAMI | SWEDEN | 118 MIN.

SATURDAY | JULY 22 | 9:45PM | DGA 2

After fleeing their Tehran home due to a mysterious violent incident, a closeted professional wrestler seeks asylum in northern Sweden with his wife and children but struggles to outrun the ghosts of his past.

Peafowl

DIR. BYUN SUNG-BIN | KOREA | 115 MIN.

SATURDAY | JULY 22 | 11:00AM | DGA 2

A Korean trans woman working as a dancer in Seoul returns to her family home, where she must grapple with her father’s death and the pressure to participate in a traditional, gendered memorial dance.

Pornomelancol A

DIR. MANUEL ABRAMOVICH

ARGENTINA, FRANCE, BRAZIL, MEXICO | 98 MIN.

SUNDAY | JULY 16 | 9:30PM | DGA 1

Beyond the scintillating shots and carefully staged scenes, Lalo, a porn actor on the rise, balances online fame with his constant sense of melancholy.

Rotting In The Sun

DIR. SEBASTIÁN SILVA | MEXICO | 109 MIN.

FRIDAY | JULY 14 | 9:30PM | DGA 1

In this self-reflexive dark comedy, director Sebastián Silva and influencer Jordan Firstman play fictionalized versions of themselves whose stories collide in a mystery marked by missing persons, graphic gay sex, and potent existentialism.