May 29
The WorldPride 2025 Film Festival invited filmmakers worldwide to submit LGBTQ+ films of all genres and lengths to be screened in the nation’s capital as we celebrate 50 years of Pride in DC. We are proud to showcase these thought-provoking and inspiring stories from a diversity of filmmakers, sharing authentic experiences that enrich lives and, through shared revelation, bring us closer together. Please join us for this cinematic spin around the globe.
Ages: 18+ (Adults only)
Content Warnings: mild references to grief, infertility or infant loss, mild usage of swearing or ‘coarse’ language, flashing or strobing lights, mild depictions of sexual content
FILM LINEUP:
2:00 PM – Shorts Showcase: People of Metro DC
DC GAY PRIDE 1978
Director: Gary Davis • 6 Min • Documentary • USA • 1978
At age 19, Gary Davis took his 16mm Bolex camera, and a friend with a cassette recorder, to the unchartered territory of a gay pride event in the heart of Washington, DC. With the good fortune of finding editing equipment at the Corcoran Museum and a fantastically relevant song from Casse Culver, and with barely a frame to spare from 200′ of Ektachrome, he produced the 5-minute film you can see today
REPORT FROM THE INTERIOR
Directors: Lucas Crawford, Morgan Sea • 4 Min • Animation • CANADA • 2025
An animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.
FINDING PEACE IN MY BODY
Director: Todd Ford • 19 Min • Documentary • USA • 2025
This film follows the life of Achim Howard and his struggles in becoming the man he is today.
FIERCENESS SERVED! THE ENIKALLEY COFFEEHOUSE
Director: Michelle Denise Parkerson • 35 Min • Documentary • USA • 2021
Fierceness Served! The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse focuses on the Washington DC history of The Coffeehouse, which served as a performance venue, rehearsal space, and meeting place for Black LGBTQ artists and political organizations in the 1980s. This documentary highlights the work of the Coffeehouse creatives by using archival footage, audio clips, publicity materials, academic articles, and reviews. Interviews with surviving members of the community, as well as people who attended and supported this thriving arts community, are also included. Fierceness Served! The ENKIAlley Coffeehouse preserves and represents this extraordinary movement by educating viewers to its relevance in contemporary times.
HOME SWEET HOME
Director: TyrONE Hanley • 11 Min • Documentary • USA • 2023
An LGBTQ perspective on unaffordable housing in Washington, DC.
IN DRAG WE TRUST
Director: Roberto Ferrara • 12 Min • Documentary • USA • 2024
Drag Queen Charlemagne Chateau talks about her experiences performing in the city, Drag bans, Queer rights, and the violent protest by an extremist group during Story Hour while reading to children in a local bookstore.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PUSSY NOIR
Director: Amy Oden • 24 Min • Documentary • USA • 2023
Follow Pussy Noir’s historic fellowship at the Kennedy Center where she has sought to elevate drag onto one of the biggest stages in the region. As Pussy Noir blends history, queerness, and couture into a queer fashion show, can she make her ideas sing on the catwalk?
MISS HONEY: THE CATSUIT
Director: Brandon R. Nicholas • 6 Min • Documentary • USA • 2024
Miss Honey: The Catsuit is the story of how Fashion Designer and Ballroom Icon Douglas Says created his legendary cut-out catsuit and the origins of Caribbean Artist Moi Renee wearing the catsuit for a televised performance of his hit song, “Miss Honey.”
4:30 PM
HOLLOW (Short)
Director: Ross Berkeley Simpson • 13 Min • Drama/Sci-fi • UK • 2024
A lesbian couple visit a futuristic counselling service, with only one of them knowing the true, devastating reasons for being there.
THE REBRAND
Director: Kaye Adelaide • 79 Min • Comedy/Horror • Canada • 2024
Nicole, an eight months-pregnant bisexual videographer is hired by a lesbian lifestyle influencer couple to film a redemption documentary after they’ve been publicly cancelled, but Nicole quickly discovers that the couple have nefarious ulterior motives.
7:00 PM (21+)
Tickets purchased for this screening include the WorldPride 2025 Film Festival Closing Night Party in the gorgeously restored 1930’s art deco lobby of the Atlas, at 9:00 PM.
WE ARE ABUNDANT: A QUEER VISION OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE (Short)
Director: James Hall • 11 Min • Documentary • USA • 2024
A film by the National Center for Lesbian Rights that highlights the history and vision of LGBTQ people engaged in the struggle for economic justice for all.
QUEERPANORAMA
Director: Jun Li • 87 Min • Documentary • Hong Kong/USA • 2025
A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next casual encounters. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.