Zimmerman draws from their substantial personal archive to reflect on a precarious early life in Munich, a challenging adolescence, and ultimately their current life in London. From decaying videos to hazy projections and emotive photographs, they’ve created a powerful document that challenges normative ideas of family, including estrangement.

A childhood birthday VHS becomes a locus for Huss Al-Chokhdar to contemplate his relationship to a distant Cairo and his relatives there. What once was an idealistic utopia is now out of reach. By incorporating sequences of performance for camera, the filmmaker underscores that, against all odds, the ache to return persists.

Donned in airy gender-fluid garb, an array of queer and trans dancers perform the pericón, a traditional group folk dance that is considered to be Argentina’s national dance. Interspersed with the dancers’ personal monologues, the film challenges perceptions of Argentine nationhood that are often presented as white, binary, and civilized.

An energetic, sensory meditation on the connections between a variety of Black diasporic dance scenes and music genres. Archival images of dancehall and voguing play off the sounds of house, footwerk, and spoken word to comprise an homage to the voices left unheard and unacknowledged.

Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado was an Ecuadorian-born transfemme dominatrix who became a trailblazer for trans visibility in 1990s media and New York City nightlife. Her niece, María José Maldonado, has tenderly assembled the moments surrounding her aunt’s funeral in 1996. The resulting film offers a rare view into a family’s grief following the tragic loss of their loved one to AIDS-related illness.