PAST EDITION AWARDS

2007

Allegra loves Samantha. But she won’t say so. Grace loves Philip but he won’t marry her. Samantha leaves Allegra. Allegra meets Philip... Grace falls for Allegra. Allegra falls for Grace. Allegra sees Philip and Grace simultaneously and has no idea they are exes. A story about chance encounters, psychoanalytic excuses -with a Woody Allen’s lesbian humour- and one woman’s struggle to make a commitment. A sophisticated screwball sex comedy. Maria Maggenti is the filmmaker of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995).
 

A groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. In 1983, Mark and Alexander Farley were born minutes apart in Big Sky country. The twins’ early lives were quintessential by-products of their all-American family: picture perfect holidays, a second home by the lake, supportive parents who cheered them on every step of the way. By the time they were 14, their parents had divorced, the twins had come-out, and a joint suicide attempt under the influence of cocaine precipitated a forced separation of Mark and Alex for two and half years. Today, Mark is attending art school in San Francisco, and Alex is living as a woman named Clair in New York.

Adam, man in his fifties suspects that his son Mateus is gay. His relationship with his wife is ambiguous and entangled. His son does not have respect for him suspecting what his father’s secret is. Finally it comes to an open confrontation between father and son which makes Adam face the fact that he himself is gay too and has been concealing his true identity from himself all his life.
 

SPINNIN’ is a film about fatherhood in a gay couple, Alejandro and Olav. Spinning, the main characters are Gárate (Alejandro Tous) and his young fellows, fans of Atlétic Football Team. Gárate has no problem in sharing sperm with his partner when they decide to be come parents. The claiming of fatherhood in a same sex couple is rather unusual in Spanish movies. It is an “opera prima” which will mark tendency. It is an amusing and smart film where people spin the world and not the other way round.
 

Her father was once called Brian but now he’s had a sex change operation and become Sarah. Now he’s mum. Brian’s partner, truck driver Lee, has also had a sex change and he’s now Louise’s other “mum” Kate. Louise’s mother, Hayley, has remarried and is no longer part of her life. Confused? Louise isn’t. Since the news of this unusual family broke, Louise, Sarah and Kate have been dubbed by the tabloids as “Britain’s Weirdest Family”. Now Louise is being teased at school. But instead of hiding away, she’s determined to put the record straight and prove that her family may not be ordinary but it works.

Two rural gay teenagers campaign for anti-bullying and diversity training in schools. Based on a true story.