Top Queerability films at MGFF23

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14 Feb Top Queerability films at MGFF23

Featuring uplifting romances, captivating docos, short films and even an alien-involved fantasy sci-fi, here are the Queerability films screening at this year’s Festival; stories featuring queer characters living with disability.

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So Damn Easy Going

Fri, Feb 17, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
and
Tue, Feb 28, 8:30pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

This darkly comedic film impressively balances the highs and lows of a burgeoning high school sapphic romance amidst the mounting anxieties of an adolescence magnified by neurodiversity.

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Unidentified Objects

Sydney Premiere

Sun, Feb 19, 7:00pm
Dendy Cinemas Newtown
+ On Demand

Unidentified Objects is a buddy movie like you’ve never seen before. Peter, an uptight gay man with dwarfism, and his free-spirited neighbour Winona take a cross-country roadtrip in search of her alien family.

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Prosopagnosia

Sydney Premiere

Sat, Feb 18, 1:45pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

A story of identity, communication and memory using expressive animation to investigate personal memories in intimate and experimental ways.

Screening with: QueerDoc Shorts

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Sparkles

Mon, Feb 27, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
Selling Fast! 🔥

A 30-something year-old woman with Down syndrome flees her small country town for the big city, befriending a drag queen along the way.

Screening at: My Queer Career

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Single

Mon, Feb 27, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
Selling Fast! 🔥

Housemates Tilly, Luke and Bridie bamboozle their way through a kaleidoscope of psychedelic romantic encounters in Sydney’s inner-west.

Screening at: My Queer Career

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Victor’s Body

Sydney Premiere

Sat, Feb 18, 1:45pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

A baby is born but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach people with disability.

Screening with: QueerDoc Shorts

Sleep with Me

Sydney Premiere

Tue, Feb 28, 6:20pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick 

Harry is a charming radio DJ whose program ‘Sleep with Me’ offers a sympathetic ear to hopeless romantics awake at midnight. When avid listener Luna bumps into her (literally), sparks instantly fly.

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