Movie Submissions Update - Out & Loud - PIQFF 2022
The 6th Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival is proud to announce its official edition and selection of films for 2022. This year we bring you 149 films from across the world to watch in our hybrid festival. We also take this opportunity to thank our movie review panel who worked tirelessly to carefully watch and review each submission and the filmmakers for sharing their masterpieces with us!
This year, we received 222 overall submissions from 46 different countries. Top three contributing countries of 2022 submissions were, India (33), Unites States (31), and United Kingdom (13). After watching each and every submissions carefully, we have reached a place where we were able to select a good 149 great movies to screen at the 6th edition of Out & Loud - PIQFF which will happen physically from 11 Aug 2022 to 14 Aug 2022 in Pune, India and online from 11 Aug 2022 to 21 Aug 2022. This 149 movies includes 26 Indian movies, 16 French movies, 7 German movies and a huge list of diverse languages.
Thank you everyone who contributed directly and indirectly to make this happen. Special mention to Alliance Française de Pune for their support on the movies. Schedule of the film festival with details of the screening date and time, panel discussion topics and other information will be updated soon.
Out & Loud 2022 - Official Selections

Project Title | Director Details |
Dustin * | Naïla Guiget |
Les Démons de Dorothy * | Alexis Langlois |
Petite fille * | Sébastien Lifshitz |
Karina's suit | Frank Benitez Peña |
Found Family | Esmée Lavalette |
Pussy Cruising | Masa Zia Lenardic, Anja Wutej |
HORTELÃ | THIAGO JOSÉ DE CARVALHO FURTADO |
Anywhere is a Dancefloor | Mathew Beckett |
A Little Contract | Hristo Todorov |
Love School | Giuseppe Capudi |
The Florist | Priyam Chanda |
Talcahuano | Ramiro Velasco |
Mukhosh ( the mask) | Paayel Chouudhury |
Forever Was Now | Yuval David |
Write to me by mistake | Giuseppe de Candia |
Close To You | Cássio Kelm |
Stick of Joy | Brenda Akele Jorde |
Va-Bene | Brenda Jorde |
Bar Stories from Queer Maine | Betsy Carson, Wendy Chapkis |
Bigger Is Better | Larry Tung |
Four pills at night | Leart Rama |
Hear My Voice | Daniele Guerra |
PATH OF A GHOST | Namo Safideen |
Q Club | Jace Pickard |
A Dying Dream | GAYRAUD Johan |
Leave | Sioly Amundarain |
I can only do so much | Lillion Lost |
In Nature | Marcel Barelli |
WHAT'S BEYOND THE ABYSS | WASHINGTON CALEGARI |
Heterotopia | João Eduardo Peçanha de Freitas, Fernando Santana |
Black Sesame Soup with Tofu Pudding | Kwan Hiu Freeman Lau |
BLUE LEMON | AKHIL SACHI |
Marie | yudi zhang |
She's The Protagonist | Sarah Carlot Jaber |
As Simple As That | Luciana Bitencourt |
Jangle | Andrew Creak |
When the dawn comes | Zhang Hong-Jie |
Pride | Arun Siddarth |
Yellow Polka Dot | Tin Nguyen |
The Resolution | Charlie Kay |
FUDLIAKS! Tear the sexes apart! | Jasmin Hagendorfer |
INSIDE | JINESH VS |
Paper Wings | Kshitij Kumar Pandey |
PAROLES, PAROLES (Words, words) | Franck VILLETTE |
Impasse | Tuhin Basu |
Two-Headed Calves | Benjamin Kramme |
Punch Line | Becky Cheatle |
RUNNER | Ryan Harman |
Third Body | Zohar Melinek Ezra, Roey Victoria Heifetz |
Letters To The Man I Love | Brandon Clarke |
The Clown | Giuseppe Di Gangi |
Keep Off The Grass | Francis Rudd |
Spiritus Dei | África Muñoz López |
Truthless | Badou Zhao |
Boxers or Briefs | Céline Ribard |
"3" | Giuseppe Capudi |
Kathekagala Kanive - The Valley of Stories | Vikas Badiger |
SHIKHANDI | SAHIL.D. GADA |
IMPASSE | TUHIN BASU |
Man & wife | Rahul Roye |
Naughty Spot | Jean COSTA |
Close Dance | Jan Palmblad |
Safe Distance | Artur Wyrzykowski |
Negro Sol | Genaro Peñalosa |
AAMRAS | Mayank Pushpam Singh |
Window (Khidki) | Shoneel Yallattikar, Smriti Ramakrishnan |
Thine Own Self | Evan Bode |
Tracing Skin | Max Kutschenreuter |
THE BOY AT THE WINDOW (2022) | Lee Campbell |
Tarek | Anatael Pérez |
Color Poetry | Tahura Khan |
Re-Existences | Márcia Bellotti |
Last Gasp - Brokeback Fields - Chapter 1 | Robert Pagan |
5 km and 8 pm | Le Luo |
The Station In-Between | Sven Schnyder |
My Mother's Girlfriend | Arun Fulara |
Do This for Me | Marnie Baxter |
Mum Singh | Karan Singh |
Become the Wounded | Amir Zargara |
Territory of Fences | Ricardo Fraga |
The Black Veil | Ling Lee |
AGAINST THE WIND (বিপরীত যাত্রা) | RUHUL ROBIN KHAN |
2020 | Cora Lledo |
Cleaner | Edwin Mullane |
The Straight Agenda | Emily Robertson |
Diagnosis | David Anderson |
BREATHE | Harm van der Sanden |
MAKHLOOQ | Amrit |
Till The Very End | Juan Paolo Aquino |
The Last Nice Sunday in the East Village | Danny Roberts |
BURNED AREPAS | LUIS ENRIQUE PACHECO ARIAS |
Fuggiro Tanto Amore | Raúl Lorite |
Sisterhood | Tobias Kralmark |
Pivot | Ana Gusson |
I Love You | Itamar ben ziv |
Pablo's Letter | Alberto Suárez |
Girls & the party | Paloma Lopez |
Second Souffle | Nina Parent |
The time of a night | Alice Fargier |
Her Canvas | SAGAR DEVRAM MINDE |
my body is a place, just like any other | Petra Totten |
It's Better Outside | Leo Becker |
Why So Straight ? | Malini Jeevarathnam |
Punkodhai | Suvanya Srithar |
Ospreys | Louis Rebetez |
I Just Want to Come Home | Nasrin Pakkho |
Bear | Jimi Vall Peterson |
#StillGotIt?! | Adam Xavier Fox, Nikita Khripach |
Lavender: A Lesbian Love Story | Jordana Valerie Allen-Shim |
Pink Lemonade | Jayden Van Win |
Identibye | Sajjad Shahhatami |
Nidhal نِضال | Bassem Ben Brahim |
The ones we choose | Elora Bertrand |
Snack Time | Cristal Alba |
BOYCAM | Rodrigo Sena, Arlindo Bezerra e Ernani Silveira |
Oh Romeo, Romeo | Luciano Perochena |
BIZARRE (BIZARROÏDE) | Dnarud Kram |
Shall We Talk? | Katya Mikheeva |
Mumu Shelley | Batul Mukhtiar |
23rd September | Sombit Naskar |
KingDom | Joanna Vymeris |
Life's A Drag | Crosby Allen-Jennings |
1959 | Daniel Gómez |
Veils | Erika Nakayama |
Let Down | Andrea Guajardo |
Heads Above Water | Afra Nuarey |
WHO ARE WE | Jirka Černý |
Kiss Me | David Barba |
Embrace | Latesha Merkel |
Beyond the Panes | Amogh Mukesh Kanaskar |
Two Big Elephants | Leonel Costa |
Pulong Bato (Mountain of Stone) | Aeon Abad |
POOFTA | Andrew Derham Blogg |
Naked Men in the Woods | Paul Ploberger |
Very Slightly Included | Patricia Kelly |
Diva | Nicolas Cilins |
Out of Place | Drica Czech, Laís Catalano Aranha |
Angelos At Christmas | FOTIS ZAMPETAKIS |
no makeup | Monika Konarzewska |
You Will Live | Mehdi SAHED |
Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte | Vikhyat Srivastava |
Flow | Robert Rabanal Ramírez |
NEHA | PRAVEEN CHANDRAN |
The Clothing | Xiangyu Li |
This Night Has Opened my Eyes | Tomás Mateus, Bernardo Naia |
My Beloved | Ashutosh Mane |
SADHONSONGI - UNREQUITED LOVE | SANDIPAN DAS |
Lada, Ivan's Sister | Olesya Shchukina |
The Harryian Theory | Chongyan Liu |
* Not included for award nomination. Supporting movies by Alliance Française de Pune.
** Movies are listed on the basis of the submission ID.