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LGBTQ+ Shorts

Blood Below the Skin

32m

Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2015 • Canada
Starring Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan S. Reesh, Marissa Castillo

Countdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change for three girls. While two of them fall in love with each other against all expectations, the third is forced to mother her own mother in the wake of her father’s disappearance.

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