Description: A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with. Director: Eliza Hittman Writer: Eliza Hittman Actors: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge Runtime: 98 min Language: English Genres: Drama IMDB…
Description: A cemetery worker hides his disfigurement under the cloak of a sinister hood. But it doesn’t hide his twisted attempt to recapture the one he loves. Even if he has to kill him first. Director: Steven Vasquez Writer: Steven…
Description: Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here – longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits…
Description: A narcoleptic transvestite who yearns to become a transsexual dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she’s the star. Director: Ramón Salazar Writer: Ramón Salazar Actors: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Miguel O’Dogherty Runtime: 112 min Country: Spain, France Language:…
Description: A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All…
Description: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries…
Description: A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for two gay couples; Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War II, and to Adam and Steve in the present day. Actors: David Gyasi,…
Description: “Ranchlands” is an LGBTQ drama about an urbane, yet lost gay man who returns to his estranged Christian family to care for his ailing brother – and finds romance with a queer ranch hand. But a family secret complicates…
Description: A film director struggles to balance his personal life with his salacious career in cinema. Director: Julián Hernández Writer: Julián Hernández, Ulises Pérez Mancilla Actors: Hugo Catalán, Gabino Rodríguez, Andrea Portal Runtime: 122 min Country: Mexico Language: Spanish Genres:…
Description: Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realizes…
Description: Spring. Yorkshire. Isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe, employed for the lambing season, ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny…
Description: It’s the summer of ’75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future – but right after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship system,…
Description: It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.…
Description: Several short films about troubled gay youngsters who attempt to resolve their psychological issues through bizarre fetish play or sinister self expression. Director: Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley Writer: Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley Actors: Nicolas Hau, Gabriel Norman, E.D. Yang…
Description: Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free. Director: Philippe Lesage Writer:…
Description: In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor. Director: Sebastian Meise Writer:…
Description: A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself. Director: Tom Gustafson Writer:…
Description: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla.…
Description: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the…
Description: Stories of men facing the precipice of deep change in their lives, and the male figures who took them there. A series of stimulating French shorts. Director: Emma Benestan, Satya Dusaugey, Guillaume Foirest Writer: Emma Benestan, Marion Desseigne-Ravel, Satya…
Description: American CIA Field Operative, Johnnie Allen, is assigned to Denmark for his first mission. An American spy highly placed in the Kremlin is to be spirited out of Russia, and it is Johnnie’s job to get him safely to…
Description: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to…
Description: A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the ’60s hits “Have I the Right,” “Just Like Eddie,” “Johnny, Remember Me” and “Telstar.” Director: Nick Moran Writer: Nick Moran, James Hicks Actors: Con O’Neill,…
Description: Joshua Tree, 1951 is the provocative and mesmerizing experimental portrait of an icon. Framed in a series of dreamlike, sometimes hallucinatory vignettes, the film draws on striking textures (velvety black-and-white 35mm, grainy bursts of color), highly stylized form, and…
Description: London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay. Director: Massimo Dallamano Writer: Oscar Wilde, Marcello Coscia, Massimo Dallamano Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard…
Description: Anna and Keith have been happily married for several years. But things turn sour as Anna, investigating her suspicions that Keith has been having an affair, learns that he is bisexual. Anna is reluctantly forced into a world of…
Description: Lisa, a transgender teen at St Valentine’s High, develops feelings for rugby captain Mose while dealing with school prejudices and fighting for acceptance. Director: Damon Fepulea’i, Ramon Te Wake Writer: Leki Jackson-Bourke (writer), Amanaki Prescott-Faletau (writer) Actors: Leila Ardern,…
Description: Marshall is an over-worked ad exec who is suffering from a serious case of the seven year itch with his loving boyfriend. As Marshall’s 30th birthday nears he sets hell-bent on changing his life and comes across a mysterious…
Description: A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the…
Description: In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild. Director: Todd Haynes Writer: James Lyons, Todd Haynes…