Diverse Encounters. LGTBIQ+ short films

The Instituto Cervantes dedicates a program every year to gender diversity and this year, as part of the celebration of the Gay Pride, we offer a series of short films that address different approaches to the LGTBIQ+ reality. In this edition, Madrid's Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo has selected seven works that recover the militant and awareness-raising spirit of this Spanish activist, whose political career helped to enact the same-sex marriage law. In addition, the program has the support of Exterior Es Diverso, the platform created by LGBTIQ+ personnel from the Spanish Foreign Service with their partners and families.

The series «Diverse Encounters. LGTBIQ+ short films» recovers life stories that serve to approach people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries due to their sexual condition. The documentary genre predominates in the series, but several fiction titles are also presented; two of them directed by the filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo, who has recently passed away, whose career was prolific and committed to the theme of this series. Thus, this presentation wants to serve as a tribute to him and his work.