1. Wërapara (Wërapara, chicas trans)
Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way into the international fashion scene, empowered through artistic collaboration and creation while preserving their spiritual heritage and ancestral connection to their territory.
2. Wattstax
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
3. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
It has an average vote of 6.759 on TMDB.
4. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee chairman, Lee Atwater, who reinvigorated the Republican Party’s Southern Strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a key role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
5. Julia (Julia)
Julia is a young transgender woman who left her home country of Lithuania. Now living in Germany, she walks the streets of Berlin, working as a prostitute to survive. This documentary revisits Julia over a ten-year period of her life.
6. Beyond the Straight and Narrow
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.
7. I Have To Say I Love You (Preciso Dizer que te Amo)
A documentary about resilience and the fight against suicide among trans people, the film portrays the characters’ relationships with their bodies, life and all that is sacred. It dives into the hearts of Aretha, Yago, Deniell and Ariel in an attempt to promote inner healing.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. The Other Side of the Atlantic (Do Outro Lado do Atlântico)
The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exchanges, the imaginary created through the mirroring, the prejudice and dreams built in both sides of the atlantic through the life stories of the students of african countries in transit through Brazil.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Steel 'n' Skin
Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the group during a ten day workshop in Liverpool.
10. Playout (Playout)
A short documentary which, starting from the experience of its five protagonists, takes us inside the team which presents itself not only as a tool for access to sport, but also as a political means for the entire transgender community to claim its identity and all rights denied.
11. Arjona Metamorfosis en Vivo (Arjona Metamorfosis en Vivo)
After traveling more than 20 countries over 15 months and having an attendance of more than 2 million people, "Arjona Metamorfosis en Vivo" is a unique opportunity to relive the best moments of his tour on DVD.
12. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business)
A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti-frutti hat. From her arrival in the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" to her Broadway career and Hollywood stardom in the 1940s.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
13. Gertrudis Blues (Gertrudis Blues)
(Gertrudis Blues)
14. Mete gol, gana (Mete gol, gana)
Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador. Their fate can be one of two: to become world-class footballers like Ulises de la Cruz, Chucho Benitez and Antonio Valencia, or farmers like Darwin. This documentary reveals the lack of opportunities, discrimination, and economic and social segregation that black communities face in Ecuador.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Ijó Dudu: Memórias da Dança Negra na Bahia (Ijó Dudu: Memórias da Dança Negra na Bahia)
(Ijó Dudu: Memórias da Dança Negra na Bahia)
16. Tie and Red Nail (De Gravata e Unha Vermelha)
Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
17. La couleur du temps (La couleur du temps)
(La couleur du temps)
18. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
"PUSHOUT" is a feature length film confronting the criminalization and miseducation of African American girls that has led to their alarming high school dropout rate and increase into the juvenile justice system.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
19. Dolores guapa! (¡Dolores guapa!)
Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. Historically, the city's mariquitas have also assimilated them in their childhood and, through them, have been creating their own encounter spaces and their own codes. Nowadays, new dissident identities continue to respond to them: they participate or distance themselves, they continue what exists or transform it. This film looks at these traditions from a perspective always relegated to the margins.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
20. Victoria (Victoria)
In a small and conservative city in Jalisco, Alex builds his identity and defends his dreams: fatherhood, music, being a man.