Q SHORTS!

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WE’LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY tells the

story of TRUK United, a grassroots,

proudly trans football club. Filmed over

two years, it captures the team’s highs

and lows on and off the pitch as they

create a safe haven for their community

in the face of rising transphobia.

NW COAST PREMIERE

UK | 2025 | 25 MINS | ENGLISH

Directors - Cameron Richards & Charlie Tidmas

Through storytelling and photography, Esther Godoy intimately documents, celebrates and uplifts Butch voices and Butch identity.

OREGON PREMIERE

USA | 2025 | 12 MINS | ENGLISH

Director - Emily Hamilton 

A hybrid short documentary exploring the fracture between a queer daughter and her mother, featuring the filmmaker’s own personal archive. Through directing an actor to play her mother and fill in the widening gaps over time, O’Connor now attempts to sculpt her mother.  

WEST COAST PREMIERE

USA | 2024 | 14 MINS | ENGLISH

Director -  Brydie O'Connor

In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco — one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces. Narrated by Kathleen Turner, Shelly's Leg is the latest work from Wes Hurley (Potato Dreams of America,  QDoc Special Screening 2022).

OREGON PREMIERE

USA | 2025 | 16 MINS | ENGLISH

Director - Wes Hurley

In the 1970’s, lesbians across the United States moved out to wild, untamed landscapes to build a world without men. Some of them never left. 50 years on, Beyond Eden follows some of the ageing original Land Dykes.

NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE

USA | 2025 | 25 MINS | ENGLISH

Director/Producer/Camera - Al Johnstone