Description: Boys Life 5 is the fifth installment of the Boys Life series, which collects LGBT-related short films. Distributed by Strand Releasing. This gay anthology of short films about unrequited love should strike a universal chord with audiences of all…
Description: Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man’s face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title. Director: Andy Warhol Actors: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas Runtime: 35 min Language: English…
Description: Much as the title suggests, Beyond Vanilla explores the kinkier aspects of sex on the other side of vanilla. With interviews, demonstrations and a good dose of how-to instructions, this documentary covers the gamut of fetishes and SM practices.…
Description: Jason’s idea of romance is planning anonymous gay hookups through a chat room, while his roommate Chad wants to find Mr. Right. When a friend shows Chad how to access the chat room, he meets someone named “Hook-Up Boy”…
Description: Four sexy groundbreaking gay short films of lust, love, libidos, and liberation. Includes L.T.R. (2002); O Beautiful (2002); Bumping Heads (2002); and This Car Up (2003). Director: Phillip J. Bartell, Alan Brown, Brian Sloan, Eric Mueller Writer: Phillip J.…
Description: A cinema verite documentary about a man living in New York City determined to have raw sex with as many men as possible in a year and meticulously keeping count of the number of ‘loads’ he takes. Director: Todd…
Description: Three men from Western origins are embroiled in gang wars, homosexuality and love after arriving in Mumbai with their own motives. Director: Kaizad Gustad Writer: Kaizad Gustad (writer) Actors: Naveen Andrews, Rahul Bose, Luke Kenny, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah…
Description: A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate Director: Christopher Landon Writer: Christopher Landon (writer) Actors: Zoe Saldaña, Jamie…
Description: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders…
Description: Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during…
Description: Joe (Tim Swain), a freshman art school student, befriends Jennifer (Julia Frey) and explores his darker side by pursuing a local hustler (Gil Bar-Sela). Director: Todd Verow Writer: Todd Verow (writer), Jim Dwyer (writer) Actors: Tim Swain, Robert Axel,…
Description: Michael’s (Michael Vega) lover, Chad, dies of cancer and then he reappears at Michael’s side as an angel to guide him through the next stages of life — which is a good thing, since Michael’s life soon becomes exceedingly…
Description: Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery. Director: Aitch Alberto Writer: Aitch Alberto (screenplay), Benjamin Alire Sáenz (novel) Actors: Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eugenio Derbez, Veronica Falcón,…
Description: The first date between Marcello and Herman turns into a game in which every action is dictated by rolling a mystical dice. A powerful feeling begins to arise between the two, but how long can a relationship entirely based…
Description: Jamie re-encounters his old school friend, Kevin, who has been suffering from depression, and must make a choice between following his heart or society. Director: Simon Chung Writer: Simon Chung (writer), Hiroshi Fukazawa (writer) Actors: Bryant Mak, Candy Cheung…
Description: Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. Director: Ümit Ünal, Selim Demirdelen, Kudret Sabancı, Ömür Atay, Yücel Yolcu Writer: Ümit Ünal (writer) Actors:…
Description: New York City’s Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film,…
Description: JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London’s exciting outlaw urban music scene. He’s got the skills, he’s got the rhymes, and he’s got the drive. But there’s a problem – not only is JJ a white boy from…
Description: Uber MMA fighter manager Ivy Reed (B-movie action star of the ’80s and ’90s Cynthia Rothrock) is unique as a woman in a male-dominated field, using a special formula to find her champion fighters. Though her trainer Jimmy doesn’t…
Description: Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is a struggling artist with a passion for life who once survived by…
Description: More interested in romance than sex, “Formula 17” swoons with youthful innocence. Naive country-boy Tien-Tsai travels to Taipei, where his quest to lose his virginity is impeded by his insistence on finding true love first. The film’s Chinese title…
Description: Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew…
Description: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the…
Description: Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference…
Description: An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence…
Description: Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin Smoke follows the crooked path of this fringe-dweller, speed-freak, occasional drag-queen and all-around renegade living in the hidden…
Description: A gay man is about to be married. He thinks back to when he was a kissing virgin, waiting for the right person with whom to have that first kiss. Director: Steven Vasquez, Dave Padilla Writer: Jeremy Huntington (writer)…
Description: It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is…
Description: “The Dead Girl’s Feast” narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide…
Description: ‘Apart’ follows several entangled lives in Los Angeles: Mario, a young man who feels rejected by an older man named Saleheddine; John, a jaded hustler and drug dealer who keeps happiness at bay, and who works closely with Christine,…