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1985
1985

2018: SXSW (World Premiere)

1985

Inspired by the award-winning short film by the same name, Yen Tan’s 1985 follows Adrian (Cory Michael Smith), a young man who returns to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Adrian reconnects with his brother (Aidan Langford) and estranged childhood friend (Jamie Chung), as he struggles to divulge his dire circumstances to his religious parents (Virginia Madsen and Michael Chiklis).

DIRECTOR Yen Tan

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bigeden
Big Eden

2000: Los Angeles Independent (World Premiere)

Big Eden

Big Eden is a town tucked away in northwestern Montana. Henry Hart returns to Big Eden to care for his ailing grandfather, and confronts his feelings about being gay in a small town. But Big Eden residents defy the stereotype of “small town, small minds" and quietly conspire to help Henry along. Henry realizes new possibilities for both friendship and romance.

DIRECTOR Thomas Bezucha

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Boy Meets Girl

2014: Boston LGBT Film Festival

Boy Meets Girl

A romantic dramedy for the 21st century about a trans teen who dreams of being a fashion designer and finds herself falling for her best friend since childhood.…

DIRECTOR Eric Schaeffer

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Cloudburst

2011: Atlantic Film Festival (World Premiere)

Cloudburst

This hilarious foul-mouthed, lesbian road movie co-stars Oscar®-winning actresses Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis as Dot and Stella, a crackerjack lesbian couple on the run from a nursing home. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty’s prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Award-winner Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal.

DIRECTOR Thom Fitzgerald

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A Date For Mad Mary

2016: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (World Premiere)

A Date For Mad Mary

A DATE FOR MAD MARY tells the story of ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returning to Drogheda after a short spell in prison—for something she’d rather forget. Back home, everything and everyone has changed. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is maid of honor. When Charlene refuses Mary a ‘plus one’ on the grounds that she probably couldn’t find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong. But her attempts at dating are a disaster and she winds up feeling more alone… until she meets Jess and everything changes. It is a tough and tender story about friendship, first love, and letting go of the glory days.

DIRECTOR Darren Thornton

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Elena Undone

2010: Frameline34 (World Premiere)

Elena Undone

Peyton, an out lesbian writer, and Elena, a straight woman, fall into a torrid extramarital affair. Elena can barely begin to rationalize the nature and magnitude of her desires, which are complicated by her son and marriage. As their relationship evolves, Elena confronts the choice fracturing the family or ending it with Peyton.

DIRECTOR Nicole Conn

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gayby
Gayby

2012: SXSW (World Premiere), Los Angeles International, Seattle International, Frameline

Gayby

Jenn and Matt, best friends since college, decide to have a child together, by trying to have sex—even though Matt is gay and Jenn is straight.

DIRECTOR Jonathan Lisecki

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gettinggo
Getting Go
The Go Doc Project

2013: Miami International Film Festival (World Premiere)

Getting Go
The Go Doc Project

From the team that created Were The World Mine, this wonderfully innovative, poignant and exceptionally sexy drama has an infectious energy and a completely unique aesthetic as it tells a classic story of lust becoming love—and then some. Tanner Cohen (Were The World Mine) returns to the big screen as a college boy named Doc who drunkenly cruises a gay go-go boy named Go (Matthew Camp) with the pretense of making a documentary about him.

DIRECTOR Cory Krueckeberg

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Girls Lost

2015: Toronto International (World Premiere)

Girls Lost

BFFs Kim, Momo and Bella are bullied by boys at school while their teachers do nothing. On top of that, Kim secretly confesses to Bella she thinks she was born in the wrong body. So when the trio finds a magical plant whose nectar temporarily turns them into boys (with working genitalia), it offers them the thrilling chance to experience freedoms they’ve never known. But when Kim becomes addicted to the plant and pursues a dangerous relationship with a local boy she thinks might be gay, it puts everyone at risk.

DIRECTOR Alexandra-Therese Keining

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iamdivine
I Am Divine

2013: SXSW (World Premiere)

I Am Divine

How Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, became John Waters' cinematic muse and an international drag icon.

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Schwarz

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Paris 05:59
Théo & Hugo

2016: Berlinale (World Premiere)

Paris 05:59
Théo & Hugo

After meeting in a sex club, two men drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris and find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and lends each step towards an existential helplessness.

DIRECTORS Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel

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A Perfect Ending

2012: Frameline36 (World Premiere), Oufest

A Perfect Ending

Drop dead gorgeous Jessica Clark and Barbara Niven co-star in this glossy, sexy and fun romantic drama from writer-director Nicole Conn. When straight and married Rebecca seeks out the sexual services of high-priced call girl Paris she isn’t expecting to fall in love. A PERFECT ENDING is filled to the brink with aching desire, and the sexual chemistry between Niven and Clark is off the charts.

DIRECTOR Nicole Conn

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theroyalroad
The Royal Road

2015: Sundance (World Premiere)

The Royal Road

Jenni Olson’s 16mm cinematic essay offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, the quest for unattainable women, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

DIRECTOR Jenni Olson

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Sordid Lives

2000: Palm Beach International (World Premiere)

Sordid Lives

In this cult classic comedy, a gay West Hollywood actor returns home to his small Texas town for his grandmother’s funeral. As we meet the three generations of his dysfunctional family, the hilariously trashy truth of their “sordid lives” is revealed.

DIRECTOR Del Shores

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Sue Bird
In The Clutch

2024: Sundance (World Premiere)

Sue Bird
In The Clutch

In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals and become the most successful point guard to ever play the game. Alongside her fiancée, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Sue confronts her next challenge: retiring from the only life she’s ever known. A trailblazer in every sense of the word, Sue Bird achieved a powerful impact on the game of basketball. Navigating through adversity in the form of sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice, and racism toward many of her peers, she managed to forge a path for young women that previously didn’t exist.

DIRECTOR Sarah Dowland

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whitefrog
White Frog

2012: San Francisco International Asian American (World Premiere)

White Frog

WHITE FROG is a universal story of the power of family, friendship and love. This deeply moving family drama tells the tale of Nick (Twilight’s Booboo Stewart), a young teen with Asperger’s syndrome. When his big brother Chaz (Glee’s Harry Shum Jr.) passes away in a tragic accident, Chaz’s friends comfort young Nick as he gradually discovers the truth — Chaz was gay, but afraid to come out to their very traditional Chinese American parents (BD Wong and Joan Chen).The film’s terrific all star cast also includes Gregg Sulkin (TV’s “Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Melissa & Joey”), Kelly Hu (X2, TV’s “The Vampire Diaries”) and Tyler Posey (TV’s “Teen Wolf”).

DIRECTOR Quentin Lee

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