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In\u00a0<i>Aliens in Beirut<\/i>, longing and loss blur in the wake of the 2020 Beirut Port Explosion, where a return home becomes a reckoning with identity, love, and disaster.\u00a0<i>Degenere<\/i>\u00a0follows Misael, a 60-year-old gay man, as he fulfills his late friend\u2019s dream of dancing on stage, defying traditions that seek to erase queerness.\u00a0<i>Whoever Deserves It, Will Be Immortal<\/i>\u00a0carries the memories of generations of Cuban gay men, from persecution to liberation, reclaiming a past that refuses to be forgotten.\u00a0<i>Prayer for Tending Death<\/i>\u00a0infiltrates the hyper-masculine world of cockfighting, using ritual and performance to heal collective wounds.\u00a0<i>Hold Me Close<\/i>\u00a0captures the quiet intensity of Black queer love, an intimate archive of tenderness and endurance. Each of these films is a prayer\u2014whether whispered in mourning, danced in defiance, or held in the arms of a lover. 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