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LGBTQ+ Shorts

The Red Tree

21m

Directed by Paul Rowley • 2018 • Italy
Starring Leo Gullotta

This haunting, lyrical documentary recounts the long untold story of gay men who were imprisoned on a remote island by Mussolini’s Fascist regime in the 1930s.

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