New from writer and director Jake Graf comes Listen, which explores what it’s like to be a young trans person. When they’re emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton decide the best way to regain their confidence is to sleep with women – no prizes for guessing that things don’t go exactly to plan. Queer filmmaker Jordan Firstman examines what it means to be a man in his latest short, which screened at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. While Hollywood slowly catches up to the diversity we see in everyday society, the short film medium has been giving creatives the chance to showcase untold LGBTQ stories in a way that big screen outings have rarely done.įrom exploring the emotions of young trans people in a world that doesn’t understand them, to a period drama about forbidden gay love in the 1800s, we’ve rounded up five of the best that you can watch right now for free.
These are the LGBTQ short films you need to watch.
