List of LGBT-related films of 2022 explained

Films

Title	Director	Country	Genre	Cast	Notes	Ref
Alis	Clare Weiskopf	Colombia, Chile, Romania	Documentary			^[1]
All Man: The International Male Story	Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed	United States	Documentary			^[2]
All Was Good (Sab changa si)	Teresa A. Braggs	India	Documentary
Am I Ok?		United States	Drama			^[3]
Attachment		Denmark	Comedy, thriller
Badhaai Do (Felicitations Due)		India				^[4]
Beautiful Beings (Berdreymi)	Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson	Iceland	Drama
The Bed	Thalia Kent-Egan	United Kingdom	Short drama			^[5]
Before I Change My Mind		Canada	Drama	Vaughn Murrae, Dominic Lippa, Lacey Oake		^[6]
Blond Night (Nuit blonde)		Canada	Short drama	Patrick Dorneval, Dany Boudreault		^[7]
Blue Jean		United Kingdom	Drama
Bones and All		United States, Italy				^[8]
Boylesque	Bogna Kowalczyk	Poland, Czech Republic	Documentary	Andrzej "Lulla La Polaca" Szwan		^[9]
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power	Nina Menkes	United States	Documentary
Breaking the Ice	Clara Stern	Austria	Sports, romantic drama
Breathe	Harm van der Sanden	Netherlands	Short drama
Bros		United States	Romantic comedy
Burning Days (Kurak Günler)		Turkey, France	Drama			^[10]
Casa Susanna		France, United States	Documentary			^[11]
Close		Belgium, Netherlands, France	Drama			^[12]
Compulsus		Canada	Thriller			^[13]
Concerned Citizen	Idan Haguel	Israel	Drama
Continental Drift (South) (La dérive des continents au sud)		Switzerland, France	Comedy-drama			^[14]
Crush	Sammi Cohen	United States	Coming of age	Rowan Blanchard, Auliʻi Cravalho, Isabella Ferreira
Dino at the Beach	Josh Cox	United States	Short romantic LGBT drama	Mateo Correa, Devon McDowell		^[15]
Dipped in Black (Marungka tjalatjunu)		Australia	Short documentary	Derik Lynch		^[16]
Do Revenge		United States	Teen, black comedy
Dogfriend (Hundefreund)	Maissa Lihedheb	Germany	Short drama
		United Kingdom	Drama			^[17]
Dreaming Walls	Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier	Belgium, France, United States, Netherlands, Sweden	Documentary
The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone	Maya Newell	Australia	Short documentary
Everything Everywhere All at Once		United States	Sci-fi absurdist comedy-drama
Fire Island		United States	Romantic comedy
Fogaréu	Flávia Neves	Brazil	Drama
Framing Agnes		Canada	Documentary
	Laura O'Grady	Canada	Documentary	Francis Yutrago		^[18]
Fraud	Zen Pace	United States	Short drama
F^¢k 'Em R!ght B@¢k	Harris Doran	United States	Short comedy
Girl Picture (Tytöt tytöt tytöt)		Finland	Coming of age	Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino		^[19]
God Save the Queens	Jordan Danger	United States	Comedy
Golden Delicious	Jason Karman	Canada	Drama	Cardi Wong, Chris Carson		^[20]
Hold Me Close Please	Max Roberts	United Kingdom	Short drama
The Holiday Sitter		Canada United States	Romantic comedy			^[21]
The House of LaBeija	Fredgy Noël	United States	Short documentary
Inner Wound Real		United States	Short documentary
The Inspection		United States	Drama			^[22]
Into My Name (Nel mio nome)	Niccolo Bassetti	Italy	Documentary			^[23]
Jet Lag	Xinyuan Zheng Lu	Switzerland, Austria	Documentary
Joyland	Saim Sadiq	Pakistan	Drama
Junior's Giant		Canada	Short drama			^[24]
Ladies Only	Rebana Liz John	Germany, India	Documentary
Lay Me by the Shore	David Findlay	Canada	Short drama			^[25]
Lightyear		United States	Animated
Lines of Escape (Lignes de fuite)		Canada	Comedy-drama		Centres on the growing apart of three childhood friends in adulthood, one of whom is in a relationship with another woman	^[26]
Lonesome		Australia	Drama			^[27]
A Love Song	Max Walker-Silverman	United States	Drama
Lucky	Loren Denis, Anthony Vibert	France	Documentary
Mars One (Marte um)	Gabriel Martins	Brazil	Drama
Master		United States	Thriller			^[28]
Manvee	Tanmay Nag	India	Drama	Peehu Biswas Sagar Kumar Jayanta Mondal
My Dear Boy	Leaf Lieber	United States	Short drama
My Policeman		United Kingdom	Drama
Nelly & Nadine	Magnus Gertten	Sweden, Belgium, Norway	Documentary
Nobody's Hero (Viens je t'emmène)		France	Drama			^[29]
Of an Age		Australia	Drama			^[30]
Out in the Ring	Ry Levey	Canada	Documentary			^[31]
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles)		Spain, France, Portugal, Germany	Drama			^[32]
The People's Joker		United States	Science fiction, fantasy
Peter von Kant		France	Drama		Gender-flipped reinterpretation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's influential 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	^[33]
Please Baby Please	Amanda Kramer	United States	Drama	Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Karl Glusman, Demi Moore
Petit Mal	Ruth Caudeli	Colombia	Drama
Queens of the Qing Dynasty		Canada	Drama	Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng		^[34]
Queer Parivaar	Shiva Raichandani	United Kingdom	Short drama
Rodeo (Rodéo)		Drama	Julie Ledru			^[35]
Rosie		Canada	Comedy-drama			^[36]
Scaring Women at Night	Karimah Zakia Issa	Canada	Short drama	Izaiah Dockery, Kavita Musty, Dashawn Lloyd Blackwood		^[37]
Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day? (Bastaalak sa'at)	Mohammad Shawky Hassan	Egypt, Germany, Lebanon	Musical
Sick		United States	Horror, thriller
Skin Deep (Aus meiner Haut)		Germany	Drama			^[38]
Soft		Canada	Drama
Something You Said Last Night		Canada	Drama
Sublime	Mariano Biasin	Argentina	Drama
Summer with Hope (Tabestan Ba Omid)		Canada, Iran	Drama	Mehdi Ghorbani, Leili Rashidi, Benyamin Peyrovani		^[39]
Swing Ride (Calcinculo)	Chiara Bellosi	Italy	Drama
Tahara	Olivia Peace	United States	Drama
Tarneit	John Sheedy	Australia	Short drama
They/Them		United States	Horror
This Place		Canada	Drama
		United Kingdom	Fantasy			^[40]
Three Headed Beast	Fernando Andrés, Tyler Rugh	United States	Drama
Three Months	Jared Frieder	United States	Comedy drama
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Três tigres tristes)	Gustavo Vinagre	Brazil	Drama			^[41]
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!	Aude Harrison	United States	Animated comedy
Tommies	Karl Eccleston, Brian Fairbairn	United Kingdom	Short drama
Tramps!		Canada	Documentary		Profiles the New Romantic scene of the 1980s	^[42]
Valentine	Beck Kitsis, Chris McNabb	United States	Short drama
Want/Need	Niamh Buckland	United Kingdom	Short drama
We Will Never Belong		Mexico
When Time Got Louder	Connie Cocchia	Canada	Drama			^[43]
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fátuo)		Portugal, France
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen)		France	Drama			^[44]
Work	April Maxey	United States	Short drama
You Can Live Forever	Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky	Canada	Drama			^[45]
The Whale		United States of America	Drama			^[46]

Notes and References

1. https://teddyaward.tv/downloads/files/TEDDY2022/TEDDY_PRESS_KIT_2022_EN_DE(1).pdf 2022 Program
2. https://www.glaad.org/blog/here-are-all-lgbtq-films-2022-tribeca-festival "Here are all of the LGBTQ+ films at the 2022 Tribeca Festival!"
3. [Peter Knegt]
4. News: Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar are in lavender marriage in quirky Badhaai Do trailer. Bollywood Hungama. 25 January 2022. 26 May 2022.
5. Alastair James, "Tarneit wins £30,000 Iris Prize Award at LGBTQ Film Festival". Attitude, 16 October 2022.
6. Martin Kudlac, "Locarno 2022 Review: BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND Embraces Tired Tropes, Then Reenergizes Them". Screen Anarchy, August 17, 2022.
7. Gary M. Kramer, "Big selection of LGBTQ shorts at Tribeca Film Festival". Gay City News, June 12, 2023.
8. News: The queer guts of 'Bones and All'. Currie. Jordan. xtra magazine. 16 December 2022. 10 April 2024.
9. [Peter Knegt]
10. Jessica Kiang, "‘Burning Days’ Review: A Sweltering, Stylish Small-Town Allegory for Corruption in Strongman Societies". Variety, June 29, 2022.
11. Jennie Punter, "Toronto Doc 'Casa Susanna' Opens Doors on Early Postwar Trans and Cross-Dressing Community". Variety, September 12, 2022.
12. Web site: David Cronenberg, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt Set for Cannes Competition. Scott Roxborough . The Hollywood Reporter . 14 April 2022 . 14 April 2022.
13. Justine Smith, "With Compulsus, director Tara Thorne makes a #MeToo-era revenge film". Cult MTL, August 7, 2022.
14. Web site: Heeney . Alex . Continental Drift (South) is a biting satire and family drama . Seventh Row . 3 June 2022 . 22 January 2023.
15. Web site: Scheetz . Cameron . WATCH: Go cruising on the beach in this sunny, sensual gay short film . 2023-04-06 . Queerty.
16. https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/partnership-culture/bold-pairing-to-kick-off-adelaide-film-festival/ "Bold pairing to kick off Adelaide Film Festival"
17. Web site: Shoard. Catherine. April 19, 2021. Downton Abbey film sequel set for Christmas 2021 release. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210420122454/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/19/downton-abbey-film-sequel-set-for-christmas-2021-release. April 20, 2021. April 20, 2021. The Guardian.
18. https://www.canadianfilipino.net/culture/arts/film-about-filipino-care-worker-premieres-at-calgary-international-film-festival "Film about Filipino care worker premieres at Calgary International Film Festival"
19. LevelK Boards Sundance & Berlin-Selected Coming Of Age Drama 'Girl Picture'. Deadline. Tom. Grater. 10 January 2022. 29 January 2022.
20. Emma Jeffrey, "VIFF 2022 film reviews: Moving moments from the basketball court to the back country and beyond". Stir, September 29, 2022.
21. Gerrad Hall, "Jonathan Bennett wanted to create a gay Uncle Buck for The Holiday Sitter". Entertainment Weekly, December 9, 2022.
22. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Elegance Bratton's 'The Inspection', Trans Films 'Joyland' 'Something You Said Last Night' and 'The People's Joker,' Among Many Queer Films Join Billy Eichner's 'Bros' At Toronto International Film Festival". GLAAD, August 5, 2022.
23. Lovia Gyarkye, "'Into My Name' ('Nel Mio Nome'): Film Review | Berlin 2022". The Hollywood Reporter, February 18, 2022.
24. https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/muskoka-queer-film-festival-unveils-exciting-ambitious-lineup-6931989 "Muskoka Queer Film Festival unveils 'exciting, ambitious' lineup"
25. James Maitre, "David Findlay's Queer Drama 'Lay Me by the Shore' Follows a Week in the Life of a Grieving Trans Boy". Directors Notes, November 23, 2022.
26. Maxime Demers, "Lignes de fuite: une adaptation bien réussie". Le Journal de Montréal, July 5, 2022.
27. Leo Barraclough, "Berlinale Teddy Award Nominee Craig Boreham's 'Lonesome' to Be Launched at Berlin by M-Appeal". Variety, 26 January 2022.
28. Web site: January 22, 2022. New 'Master' Images Show Regina Hall-Led Social Thriller Ahead of Prime Video Release Date. January 22, 2022. Rahul Malhotra. Collider.
29. Jacques Mandelbaum, "« Viens je t'emmène » : Alain Guiraudie ou la folle sarabande du vivre-ensemble". Le Monde, March 2, 2022.
30. Katherine Tulich, "Goran Stolevski's 'Of An Age' Claims Australia's Richest Film Prize at CinefestOZ". Variety, August 30, 2022.
31. Patrick Hipes, "Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Winners Include 'We Will Never Belong', 'Homebody', More". Deadline Hollywood, June 6, 2022.
32. David Katz, "Review: Pacifiction". Cineuropa, May 27, 2022.
33. Manori Ravindran, "Francois Ozon's 'Peter Von Kant' to Open Berlin Film Festival". Variety, January 12, 2022.
34. Jared Mobarak, "Berlin Review: Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a Character-Focused Look at Nonconformity". The Film Stage, February 24, 2022.
35. https://www.cnc.fr/cinema/actualites/cannes-2022--les-films-en-lice-pour-la-queer-palm_1683925 "Cannes 2022 : les films en lice pour la Queer Palm"
36. Daniel Nolan, "Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Gail Maurice shoots movie in Hamilton". Hamilton Spectator, September 10, 2021.
37. Céline Roustan, "Scaring Women at Night". Short of the Week, September 1, 2023.
38. Jared Mobarak, "Venice Review: Skin Deep Tears Down Walls of Gender, Sexuality, Psychology, and Identity". The Film Stage, September 5, 2022.
39. Neil Young, "'Summer With Hope': Karlovy Vary Review". Screen Daily, July 11, 2022.
40. Web site: Galuppo . Mia . July 20, 2019 . 'Thor' Star Tessa Thompson Teases Valkyrie as Marvel's First LGBTQ Superhero . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190721041245/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/thor-star-tessa-thompson-will-play-marvels-first-lgbtq-superhero-1225891 . July 21, 2019 . July 22, 2019 . The Hollywood Reporter.
41. Matthew Joseph Jenner, "Berlinale 2022 review: Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Gustavo Vinagre)". International Cinephile Society, 24 February 2022.
42. Rachel Ho, "'TRAMPS!' Celebrates and Mourns London's New Romantic Movement". Exclaim!, May 31, 2022.
43. Ryan O'Rourke, "'When Time Got Louder' Trailer Explores a Coming-of-Age Tale About Autism". Collider, June 13, 2022.
44. Anju Devadas, "WINTER BOY (2022) 'TIFF' REVIEW: AN AFFECTING AND PERSONAL MEDITATION ON LOSS & GRIEF". High on Films, September 11, 2022.
45. Patrick Hipes, "'You Can Live Forever' Trailer: First Look At Canadian LGBTQIA+ Drama In Tribeca's Viewpoints Lineup". Deadline Hollywood, June 7, 2022.
46. Web site: The Whale . . 25 February 2023.