Inside Out

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  Sublime

  Review preview for Sublime

  What really lights up the film is the chemistry between the boys and their wider circle of friends.

  A teenager in a rock band falls for his best friend, who is also one of his bandmates, while acting as his confidante and listening to his plans to impress girls.
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  Framing Agnes

  Review preview for Framing Agnes

  For such a studiously artificial work...it is profoundly moving.

  After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
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  Beyond Ed Buck

  Review preview for Beyond Ed Buck

  Beyond Ed Buck will make many viewers uncomfortable, as it should, and will make for distressing viewing for others, but it’s an important watch.

  A documentary which follows the tragic murders that took place at the hands of a well-known Democratic political donor.
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  Pat Rocco Dared

  Review preview for Pat Rocco Dared

  Filmed during the last months of Pat’s life, when he was gradually losing his sight, this film features extensive interviews with the man himself.

  In this colourful trip back in time, filmmaker and activist Pat Rocco shares his incredible life story as one of Hollywood's original boundary pushing gay pioneers.
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  Compulsus

  Review preview for Compulsus

  There’s a self-consciousness about the film which sometimes allows style to overwhelm substance.

  Women who have experienced misogynistic violence decide to take justice into their own hands.
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  Tramps!

  Review preview for Tramps!

  What could have been just another exercise in nostalgia instead emerges as a valuable picture of a grassroots creative movement.

  Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London.
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  Girls Girls Girls

  Review preview for Girls Girls Girls

  The performances are all first class, with any one of the three leads capable of carrying a film on her own.

  Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
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  Sirens

  Review preview for Sirens

  A fascinating watch.

  On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
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  Jeannette

  Review preview for Jeannette

  By focusing on just one person and her day to day struggles, Curran throws the US gun crisis into sharp relief.

  A survivor of the Pulse Nightclub massacre recalls and reflects on the experience.
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  Mars One

  Review preview for Mars One

  Essentially an old fashioned tale in which the pursuit of dreams needs to be balanced by learning to appreciate what one has.

  In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family of four tries to keep their spirits up and their dreams going in the months that follow the election of a right-wing president, a man who represents everything they are not.

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Features

• Inseparable
  Mariano Biasin on intense friendships, music and Sublime
• Everything under the stars
  Gabriel Martins on life in a changing Brazil, and Mars One
• Acknowledging her anger
  Tara Thorne and Lesley Smith on telling missing stories in Compulsus
• Finding trust
  Phillip Lewitski and Joshua Odjick on working relationships, wasps and Wildhood
• The substance of style
  Kevin Hegge on Tramps! and the artistic legacy of the New Romantics
• The outside story
  Juan Felipe Zuleta, Matthew Jeffers and Sarah Hay on Unidentified Objects
• Bowled over
  Lyle Kash on creating new narratives and making Death And Bowling