José lives with his mother in Guatemala. It’s a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. When he meets Luis, he’s thrust into new-found passion and pain.
Director: Li Cheng
A raw and emotional drama set in Havana, where a young hairdresser discovers his voice on the drag stage while confronting a father who never knew how to love.
An eccentric writer becomes obsessed with a young American actor in Richard Kwietniowski’s witty and tragic Love and Death on Long Island (1997).
A tender yet heartbreaking story of two boys falling in love in 1980s Sicily, against a backdrop of football, fireworks, and family judgment.
Director: Giuseppe Fiorello
Yoav’s demons start haunting him after his best friend becomes pregnant without telling him, and after his boyfriend of 15 years starts talking about children too. His life unravels, and self-destruction seems inevitable.
A Youtuber posts an irreverent video trolling a megachurch pastor, in defence of his gay twin brother. He is vilified by society, tried in court, and pitted against a culture that threatens to destroy his family.
This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Director: Thomas Bezucha
A 2000s “Romeo and Juliet” type romance between two teenage boys, set in a small Ontario town
Director: Emma Catalfamo
Joaquín, a young man from an upper-class Peruvian family, struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality while navigating the rigid expectations of his conservative parents and elite society. As he experiments with love, sex, and rebellion, his secret life begins to unravel — threatening everything he’s been taught to hide.
How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism.
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
The confidences, hopes and disappointments of a group of friends.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
Director: Tom Kalin
Umut trains hard for a scholarship, dreams of leaving for college in the U.S., and keeps his head down. But when his teammates start whispering that he might be gay, the silence around him becomes suffocating — at school, at home, and within himself.
A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
A low-key, sweet gay rom-com about self-discovery and unexpected romance.
Director: Jay Arnold
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother’s summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
A drama that tracks the relationship between two young apprentices working on an agricultural complex south of Berlin.
Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller, Steven Baade
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne’s edge.
Director: Gabriel Carrubba
A bittersweet indie about friendship, queer longing, and one very uncomfortable dinner.
Director:
Hernando Cortes Watson
