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Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100

June 1999 •English

The oldest known "out" African-American lesbian remembers ten colorful decades in this hour-long documentary, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1999. Born July 23, 1899, in Springfield, IL, Ruth Ellis spent most of her life in Detroit. A pioneering independent black businesswoman, she operated her own print shop until the age of 65. In the home she shared with Cecilene "Babe" Franklin, her partner of more than 30 years, she played host to innumerable gatherings of the city's African-American gays and lesbians in an age when segregation excluded them from white homosexual society. A participant in the civil rights movement and a witness of the riots that tore Detroit apart in the 1960s, Ellis later became an icon for, and active participant in, the city's multicultural lesbian and feminist community.

Every Body

June 2023 •English

Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.

MOTHER

April 2024 •English

In San Francisco, a city known for its queer community and bustling gay nightlife, there hasn't been a lesbian bar for almost a decade. Driven by nostalgia for a time when queer women had spaces, self-identified dyke Malia Spanyol sets out to build one for the next generation of women and femmes.

94-Year-Old Gay

April 2024 •Japanese

A documentary about Tadashi Hase, a gay poet born in 1929, who spent much of his life closeted due to homosexuality being classified as a "mental illness." Despite these challenges, he became an award-winning poet and continues to work at 94. Only later in life, as societal attitudes shifted, did he come out. Through Hase’s journey, the film explores the history of homosexuality in Japan.

Mel

March 2022 •Armenian

Armenia's most beloved weightlifter becomes the country's biggest shame when he comes out as transgender. It cost Mel his fame, his fortune, his family, and even his homeland. Today, under asylum in the Netherlands, his dream of gender transition is finally within reach - but how much must he sacrifice for it?

Quando A Noite É Vermelha

July 2025 •Portuguese

May 2, 2024. Amidst big names from São Paulo's drag scene, a young filmmaker dives into the experience of becoming a drag queen for one night.

La Reina de los tacones Imposibles

Invalid date •Spanish

When I Become Silent

November 2007 •Japanese

Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.

Thine Own Self

May 2021 •English

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

On Swift Horses

April 2025 •English

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

More Beautiful Perversions

April 2025 •English

A disillusioned teenager in the city follows a stranger to The Woods, and ends up learning about plants, their queerness, and a more beautiful purpose.

2008

April 2025 •English

2008 is a 10-minute comedy-drama starring Nickelodeon actress Michaela Jill Murphy and Anja Kao Nielsen, following a young girl navigating her dysfunctional queer household as California voted to repeal gay marriage during the 2008 election.

Dreams Such As Ours

February 2025 •Hindi

Kartik & Aman’s relationship is tested when one of them has a fling which leads to a domestic spat. Kartik’s parents’ relationship breaks apart when Damodar and Vasudha have a tiff. Will these two couples ever be able to resolve their differences? Will their relationships stand the test of time? Kuch Sapney Apne is a sensitive heartwarming film about relationships, queer or not, and what happens when uncomfortable truths challenge relationships.

Junket

January 2025 •English

Chaos ensues as a gay actor and his female costar fake being a couple as they try to save the press junket for their new television show.


Family Values

April 2025 •English

In this short comedy drama, a trans South Asian person visits their family for Rakhi, a Hindu religious ceremony that symbolizes the bond between brothers and sisters. Celebrating a ceremony that is so centered around gender, this non-binary character must reconcile their gender identity with their deeply rooted family values.

The Jowa Collector

May 2025 •Tagalog

Ligaw

May 2025 •Tagalog

A sultry woman who charms the hearts of men in a remote province. Dolores, a devoted wife to her paraplegic husband, falls for a young mountaineer. What begins as a reckless escape turns into an affair drenched in passion and secrecy.

Kalakal

June 2025 •Tagalog

Kiss/Kiss

May 2025 •Tagalog

Hosted by Micaella Raz and Zsara Laxamana. Your favorite VMX crushes kiss, lick, and tease each other in the sexiest girl-on-girl scenes ever caught on camera. Every touch is electric. Every moan, real.

One Summer

January 2025 •German

„Ein Sommer“ tells the story of a young girl who is afraid to live the life she wishes for. As she gets to know the new girl in town, she reflects on all the things she would have loved to have done and is forced to face her fears.