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Alternative Lifestyles
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ART FILMS

Nilufer Nuthalli THE DRESSING OF AN OCTOPUS (United Kingdom, 2 minutes, digital)
Niaz Parvaresh EXIST (United States, 4 minutes, digital)
Feliciano Gallego THE PARK (Spain, 5 minutes, digital)
Connor Keep 2TWINS (United States, 7 minutes, digital)
Ana Padilla THE MIRROR (Spain, 8 minutes, digital)
Zoe Nolan A RAT YEARNS (Ireland, 9 minutes, digital)
Marta Torres DIVIDE & PLUNDER (Brazil, 12 minutes, digital)
Alexandre Alagoa GRID (Portugal, 14 minutes, digital)
B Taller, A Burka & C Kohlhoss WHO RAISED YOU? (United States, 14 minutes, digital)
Dmitri Frolov MOONLIGHT PEOPLE (Russian Federation, 15 minutes, 16mm)
Maaike Anne Stevens SCYLOS (Netherlands, 23 minutes, digital)

ALTFEST SHORT FILMS

Pegah Serajeh PROOFS OF TENDERNESS (United States, 5 minutes, digital)
Ghasideh Golmakani SHORT FILM (Iran, 8 minutes, digital)
Keith Tang THIS IS GOODBYE (United States, 8 minutes, digital)
Ana Braunstein THIS CASE & MY LIFE (United States, 12 minutes, digital)
Millie Heckler PINK BOOTH CONFESSIONS (United States, 29 minutes, digital)
Ryan Dobrin THE HOMIESEXUALS: A SOCIAL MEDIA TRAGEDY (United States, 31 minutes, digital)
Shai Vanderloeg UNFORGETTABLE (United States, 32 minutes, digital)
Andre Goldberg LE CANTIQUE DES CANTIQUES (Belgium, 33 minutes, digital)

ALTFEST FEATURE FILMS

David Sherman NATURE HATER (United States, 86 minutes, digital)
A wayward woman leaves the city and attempts to live an ascetic lifestyle in the woods.

Susan Thomson GHOST EMPIRE & BELIZE (Ireland, 98 minutes, digital)
Ghost Empire § Belize examines the constitutional challenge taken by Caleb Orozco against Section 53, a 19th century British colonial law which criminalizes acts “against the order of nature”. Opposition to the case by evangelical Christian groups, funded by The Religious Right in the U.S., has included symbolic hangings of an effigy of LGBTQ group UNIBAM, and Orozco has been subjected to numerous death threats and assaults.