575 Castro St.

by Jenni Olson | with Harvey Milk | USA 2008
TEDDY 40 | Documentary form | Short film
The film focuses on the light and shadow playing on the walls of the Castro Camera Store, a location in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The soundtrack features Harvey Milk himself, shortly after his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros)

by Kanakan Balintagos | with Nathan Lopez | Philippines 2005
TEDDY 40 | Debut film
Twelve-year-old Maxi lives in the slums of Manila where he is the calm centre of his petty criminal family. They accept his homosexuality – but when Maxi befriends a young police officer, conflict at home is inevitable.

Entropia

by Flóra Anna Buda | Hungary 2018
TEDDY 40 | Animation | Short film
Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle.

Kokomo City

by D. Smith | with Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, Dominique Silver | USA 2023
TEDDY 40 | Documentary form
A series of moving interviews and encounters with four Black trans sex workers from New York and Georgia in which they talk frankly about their experiences. Questions of belonging and identity within the Black community are candidly addressed.

Liebe, Eifersucht und Rache (Love, Jealousy and Revenge)

by Michael Brynntrup | with BeV StroganoV, Jürgen Baldiga, Michael Brynntrup | Germany 1991
TEDDY 40 | Short film
This provocative, ironic and playful film from the early 1990s focuses on subtitles and other marginal phenomena, making an entertaining attempt to intertwine the various layers of film, visual language, speech and mood.

Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky; Love, Your Being Love Will Never End | Tausend Wolken des Friedens belagern den Himmel. Liebe, du wirst nie aufhören Liebe zu sein)

by Julián Hernández | with Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos Torres, Salvador Álvarez, Perla de la Rosa, Clarisa Rendón | Mexico 2003
TEDDY 40
Seventeen-year-old Gerardo hopelessly wanders the streets after a breakup. He is tormented by images: every male body reminds him of his lover. Gerardo desperately seeks to cling to the dying embers of their love …

Mondial 2010

by Roy Dib | with Abed Kobeissy, Ziad Chakaroun | Lebanon 2014
TEDDY 40 | Short film
A travel film along a trajectory that does not actually allow travel. A gay couple in a place where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Mondial 2010 confronts institutional boundaries in today’s Middle East.

Playback. Ensayo de una despedida (Playback)

by Agustina Comedi | with Marcos García, La Delpi, Martín Shanly | Argentina 2019
TEDDY 40 | Documentary form | Short film
“La Delpi”, the sole survivor of a group of transgender women and drag queens, remembers how lipstick, playback performances and improvised stage outfits galvanised the community and helped them in their struggle against AIDS and police violence.

The Watermelon Woman

by Cheryl Dunye | with Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valerie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Cheryl Clarke | USA 1996
TEDDY 40
In this riotous highlight of Black lesbian cinema, a young filmmaker researches the life of a forgotten Black bit player in old Hollywood movies. The film won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the 1996 Berlinale.

Tomboy

by Céline Sciamma | with Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy | France 2011
TEDDY 40
Laure is new in town. She just moved in with her family in the heart of summer. When she meets Lisa and a group of kids they assume she is a boy. She decides to become Michael.

To Write From Memory

by Emory Chao Johnson | USA 2023
TEDDY 40 | Documentary form | Short film
A young person’s transition is steadily progressing, despite their mother’s vocal objections. To Write From Memory is an essay on moving forward, and the inevitability of confronting one’s own past in the process.

Tunten lügen nicht (Queens Don't Cry)

by Rosa von Praunheim | with Ichgola Androgyn, BeV StroganoV, Tima die Göttliche, Ovo Maltine | Germany 2002
TEDDY 40 | Documentary form
In the mid-1980s, Ichgola Androgyn, BeV StroganoV, Tima the Divine and Ovo Maltine come together in West Berlin to develop shows, political actions and media appearances. They collaborate, argue and love each other – because they see themselves as a family.

Una mujer fantástica (A Fantastic Woman | Eine fantastische Frau)

by Sebastián Lelio | with Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Saavedra | Chile / USA / Germany / Spain 2017
TEDDY 40
Marina is a transgender woman. When her partner dies, she finds herself faced with his family’s anger and prejudice. She fights for her right to grieve – with the same unbroken energy she displayed when she fought to live as a woman.

Verführung: Die grausame Frau (Seduction: The Cruel Woman)

by Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut | with Mechthild Grossmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin, Carola Regnier, Georgette Dee | Federal Republic of Germany 1985
TEDDY 40
A Forum film that today remains what the heart desired in 1985: queer and sensual, drama and S & M, cool and hot, avant-garde and subversion, dreamers and toilet slaves, camp and critique, “Venus in Fur” and pure Eighties. Treut and Mikesch – and Udo forever!