LGBTQ
Psycho Baby
When Andra, a diagnosed psychopath, receives a love letter from Sadie, an undiagnosed love addict, her natural state is shaken as she confronts the dull prospect of romance.
Skin To Skin
In bedrooms and on couches. Late at night and in the early hours of the morning. Strangers, acquaintances and casual flings open up to each other - revealing their most private, occasionally uplifting, sometimes shameful parts of themselves in the fleeting intimacy after a sexual encounter.
Enfant Terrible (mature nsfw)
Alex, a bored teenager who goes across high school by skipping class and smoking weed gets bothered by Rafa, ending both on a fight on the middle of the running track of the school, in a mix of hate and attraction.
The night It Rained (mature nsfw)
Running from the past, a queer college student is now faced to make a life-altering decision after losing his scholarship.
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Beyond This Place (mature nsfw)
Beyond This Place explores the ideas of solitude, sexuality, and discovery. In a time where sexual orientation isn't as simple as being born a certain way, but rather a regulated choice. The inability to make a choice consequently exiles young individuals to fend for themselves.
Thirst
Directed by Guy Sahaf
2015, Short, Drama; On an intense desert hike, two friends get in a deadlock when one of them seems to willfully lose their water and their way, intent on pushing their friendship to a new level. WINNER Best LGBT Film at NYC Shorts; WINNER Best Short at TLVFest 10. Screened at dozens of film festivals around the world.
landline
Landline is a short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. Through a series of recorded telephone conversations and reconstructive visuals, the film uses the helpline as a lens through which to view the experiences of LGBTQ people in the British farming community.
staff pick
A strange satirical look into a male filmmaker's creation. And the repercussions of his narcissistic behaviors that span across four realities.
girl talk (mature nsfw)
Girl Talk follows 20-something Mia, as she explores the disparity between emotional and physical intimacy, coming to a head when she meets an intriguing couple.
miller and son
A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family’s auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night, until an unforeseen event threatens balance of her compartmentalized life.
arlo
"Some boys wear dresses"
It is a relaxing Sunday morning. Drew and Liesel relax with books while their son, Arlo, happily runs around the backyard in his favorite fairy dress. Then there is a knock at the door, a surprise visit from Liesel's conservative parents...
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'Adolescence can be such a drag'
Paul Bigsby is just trying to get through his teenage years in Blackpool, 1997. But he harbors ambitions to become a drag queen, which may set him on a collision course with his family and the school bully.
my brother is a mermaid
A social realist fairytale about a transfemme teenager, as seen through the eyes of their 7 year old brother.
how to say I love you at night
When Paul (Chris Petrovski) shows up unannounced and refuses to leave, Benny's (Mat Vairo) hedonistic night of sex and indulgence takes a dangerous turn in this sixteen minute single take film.
Set in one New York City apartment and captured in a single take, two young men, Benny and Paul navigate the expectations of a first date, with one revealing something very significant. Dealing with notions of male on male intimacy, violence and socioeconomic differences, this film suggests that the differences among us are often first embedded first as fears.
The Sermon
A young woman’s secret rocks an isolated church community in this folk horror tale.
Backed by Creative England and the BFI.
let us end with it too
LET US END WITH IT TOO is a thoughtful exploration of a dying relationship told in four vignettes. When Sarah realizes that she may be falling out of love with her partner, she subsequently withdraws into herself in order to face her emotions and interpret them before acting on a potentially detonative thought. Handled with patience and care, director Caisha Lea finds a hyper-realistic truth in each of her characters and "the division between intending and departing."
god
As a university student questions his sexuality, his fraternity becomes obsessed with a young woman whose poem challenges them all.