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In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

An Asian grad student’s love for her girlfriend surges beyond experimental mishaps.

Religion, politics and gay pride clash in a small Tennessee town when out, proud and living in New York Jason Potts returns home to make life better for the LGBT teenagers.

Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan.

From an unhappy childhood experience, Law Ka Sing decisively hides his homosexual identity. Sing's partner of 8 years, young boyfriend Sunny is just the opposite, he has never minded publicly revealing his identity.

Although they don’t all know each other, a group of young people find their lives unexpectedly intertwined during a party. Luísa, 23, begins to question her boyfriend Rui’s sexuality after discovering a condom wrapper and noticing his odd behavior. Kyle, 25, returns to Portugal and reconnects with Pedro, who comes out as non-binary. Júlia, 23, gains the courage to tell her girlfriend Rosa, 21, that she has begun her gender transition. Margarida, 19, meets Inês at the party and starts to question her relationship with her boyfriend Afonso, 21, ultimately coming out as bisexual. Vicente, 20, is diagnosed with HIV and, with Inês’s support, goes through the five stages of grief over the course of the night. Through intimate moments and quiet revelations, each character confronts identity, love, and acceptance.

This epistolary short film invites us into the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love for same-sex desire. Berlin International Film Festival 2016: Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film and Teddy Best Short Film.

A mixture of documentary, diary and personal fiction, Queer Diaries is a sensitive and philosophical journey. For the starting point of an unfinished film, a filmmaker lives, travels and records his memories in the shape of audiovisual poems and short stories. The result is a political manifesto in favor of queerness. What are the models of family and happiness that we follow? What movies shall we make for the new world?

How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.

Benoît built his paradise hidden from view, emancipated in his own way, resolved to face the constraints of a space which, in imaginations, conflicts with his identity. The countryside. One day, he and other queers from the area decide to organize the first Pride of the Périgord vert, because it is time to come out, to take up space to celebrate, heal, and finally open a path.

A documentary following three young nascent drag artists as they navigate a rising queer scene in Norwich City - a place wherein they express their queerness and identities freely through performance, visual artistry, and community.

A story about love, friendship and loneliness that throws a glance at the gay universe in today's Spain. Julian, trying to forget an ex boyfriend, takes refuge in sporadic encounters and occasional dates with random men. Based on Julián Almazán and Alfonso Casas' comic book.

A brief portrait of seven homeless GLBT youth in a shelter in New York City.

How can bodies and lives of LGBTQIA+ people be shown so that everyone in the city will see?

The Hoot, an underground theater located in the basement of a former nun’s residence, is the locale for this brand new one-hour comedy special created by Page Hurwitz and Tatiana von Fürstenberg. In a highly emotional moment, a close-knit group of eight LGBTQIA+ comedians take to the stage for the very first time after lock down. Led by headliner Margaret Cho, we see each of these gifted performers expertly work the crowd and get huge laughs with distinctly queer material, while behind-the-scenes they have open-hearted conversations with each other about the unique space they’ve created in an industry that can be inhospitable to queerness. It’s a tender portrait of community that strikes a balance between lifting one another up, while gently competing for the light.

Ryan Burton interviews members of the LGBTQ Community to discuss Career, Life and everything in Between.

A bisexual woman struggles to accept her own identity when she looks to a local LGBTQIA+ book club for a sense of belonging.

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.

An insight into 5 queer film festivals accompanied with the discussion about the importance of queer film festivals, queer film and people's experience with both.

Trapped in a nightmare world full of homophobic bullies, people who want to cure him, and a teacher who seems determined to make his life miserable, our closeted queer youth is forced to come face-to-face with his 'deviant' sexual ways.

It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.

Coley, 17, from rural Oregon, navigates intimacy after her mother's passing. Meeting Sonya sparks new feelings, but self-doubt hinders their connection. Sonya, unfamiliar with dating girls, is uncertain. They learn to embrace emotions.

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.

A birdwatcher invades a nude queer campground on a remote lake in the New Hampshire wilds. He wears whatever he needs to ensnare the locals in his dark fetish in this nightmarish erotic thriller. Consent has never been more deadly.

In one night, Lucas, Luiza and Bia remember the pains and delights of being who they are.

Eden, a young man, makes his first steps on stage as a drag queen. During a crucial day, he learns to let go of his insecurities.

A promiscuous girl falls in love with a woman after a series of random hook-ups.

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

Fourteen years after Third Impact, Shinji Ikari awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, NERV has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji continues the fight against the angels and realizes the fighting is far from over, even when it could be against his former allies. The characters' struggles continue amidst the battles against the angels and each other, spiraling down to what could inevitably be the end of the world.

Mason is a 20-something college graduate grief stricken by his failed attempts at romantic love. He attends a Valentine’s Day party with his best friend Cheryl in hopes of reuniting with his long-time crush, Harvey. Missing his presence and questioning the existence of love, he gets intoxicated unbeknownst to the consequences that are soon to follow.

Africa, a trans woman dedicated to musical representation and comic entertainment on Facebook exhibits her daily life through live broadcasts, having success and a large influx of viewers. This while she is getting ready for her special program in honor of her best friend Vicenta de Loris, since a year has passed since her life was taken from her.

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.

Every morning, Pedro carefully prepares coffee for Tiago, but even with all his extraordinary efforts, he is unable to prevent the drink from getting cold.

16-year-old Lucia joins the Catholic school choir where she befriends senior Ana-Maria. During a choir retreat Lucia's attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.

Picumã is an action film that follows the journey of three travestis. One of them, Cleo, mysteriously disappears. Lua and Shaiene set out on a search to uncover their friend’s whereabouts. Time is running out, and their success will determine whether Cleo lives or dies.

Short documentary on the life and music of scumpunk icon GG Allin, featuring insights from fans, friends and family.

The Queers: Alive in Hollyweird captures a­ lightning-hot ’07 performance by legendary punk-pop pioneers, The Queers. Taped live in Los Angeles, the show features a rock-solid lineup of Joe Queer on lead vocals and guitar, Dangerous Dave on bass and Matt Drastic on drums. The show also features a six-song guest appearance by Danny Vapid (Screeching Weasel, Riverdales, The Methadones). This is the first Queers concert taped in its entirety for DVD and features a high quality 4-camera shoot and a pristine 24-channel sound mix. This is the live Queers DVD that fans have been waiting for!

The legendary Queers kicked it off live in the winter of 2006 at one of Philadelphia's faves, The North Star. Joe and company ripped through a blazing set as the drunken rowdy crowd screamed for more!

Alone in Madness celebrates intergenerational queer community with a collaboration between Montréal's Lesbians on Ecstasy & next gen Lucy's Delirium, in this playful video. An ode to Le Cagibi, a longstanding queer cafe, co-op and performance space recently shuttered, Alone in Madness follows a robot getting their nerve up to play an open mic night to a dubious crowd.

In this documentary, the Pacha Queer movement, a dissident, rebel, counter-cultural, and “self-festive” community based in Quito, Ecuador, uses performance art to campaign for social, political, and sexual liberation.

Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.

Drag icon Nina Queer sends the aging disco diva Anastasia Palmovsky on a bloody escape from the youth welfare office, grandma Brunhilde - and her own demons. Also starring: Magda von Pfeffer, Tatjana Berlin, Jürgen Vogel, Ingo Raabe, Rolf Scheider and many more.

Connection | Isolation presents eight intimate portraits of trans and post-gender individuals navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, these participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, and trans community. Created by an all trans and queer crew, this hybrid documentary film interlaces portraits with reenactments, integrating archival material documenting what so many experienced and many still do.

Filmed at Newington Green beside A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft—dubbed “the most polarising artwork of 2020”—Mother of… refuses binaries by multiplying viewpoints. Blending sound art, performance documentation, and graphic text, it layers readings of Wollstonecraft and Jeanette Winterson into an intentionally overwhelming audiovisual barrage that forces arbitrary “sides” and exposes the frustration of polarisation.

During the discussions surrounding the law to open marriage to same-sex couples, an activist speaks during a radio debate.

These three stages are modeled after the life cycles of holometabolous insects.

Throughout the narrative, viewers are presented with the political struggles of the queer and immigrant population from an intersectional perspective, showing how they relate to each other in the public sphere by confronting, challenging and transforming the state mechanisms that control borders and bodies in the United States, from a more inclusive perspective. Interwoven with this narrative is A Timeline of Queer Migrations (fanzine published on the occasion of the event, tracing a history of queer migration from the "discovery" of America to the present day), which offers a perspective on key events in the history of queer migration, with a focus on legal and cultural aspects in the United States.

Following a break up, a young woman decides to take the plunge and move to a new planet, Sileo.

A documentary interview with Khookha McQueer a queer visual and performing artist, non-binary transgender activist. Active in raising awareness of the rights of people living with HIV. Discussing her personal experience, sexual health and people living with HIV’s condition in Tunisia.

We invite you to discover the artistic Queer Tunisian scene through generations.

Kiart, Scoops, Yeepa, and the Queerbaiter take a trip to a different dimension (Huesca)

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Documentary on photographer Victor Malafronte. He's one of those paparazzi--people who go out of their way to get photos of stars and sell them for big money. It follows him while he plies his trade--giving out secrets on how to get the best pics and showing him confronting the stars to get their pics. There are some truly funny moments with Christie Brinkley and Sigourney Weaver. This mostly focuses on him trying to get pics of Michael J. Fox, his wife and their babies.

When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.