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Lie With Me and Unidentified Objects
American Parent
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Emily Railsback; Writer: Doreen Bartoni, Emily Railsback)
The everyday chaos of raising a toddler is intensified for a lesbian couple, as they manoeuvre through the pandemic and professional uncertainty.
The Blue Caftan
(Country: France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Maryam Touzani; Writer: Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch; Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui)
Halim and Mina own a small family tailor shop that specializes in sewing ceremonial caftans. Since traditional hand-crafted work is time-consuming, Halim decides to hire an assistant, Youssef. The presence of the attractive young man arouses long-suppressed feelings in Halim, something that does not go unnoticed by his wife Mina.
The Chambermaid (Sluzka)
(Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Mariana Čengel Solčanská; Writer: Mariana Čengel Solčanská; Stars: Dana Droppová, Radka Cadlová, Vica Kerekes, Zuzana Mauréry, Anna Geislerová)
Melodrama about 15-year-olds Anka and wealthy-born Res who, though from opposite ends of the social ladder, fall in love but tragedy strikes.
Chrissy Judy
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Todd Flaherty; Writer: Todd Flaherty; Stars: Todd Flaherty, Wyatt Fenner, Joey Taranto, Kiyon Spencer, James Tison, João Santos, Nicole Spiezio)
When a man leaves the city to be with his boyfriend, his unstable best friend, with whom he used to perform drag, struggles to cope alone.
Clara
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2021; Director: Aseneth Suárez Ruiz; Writer: Aseneth Suárez Ruiz, Andrés Porras, Patrick Alexander; Stars: Clara Inés Ruiz, Lilia Panche, Melany Ruiz)
A filmmaker returns home to Colombia to find out about her mother’s past love and encounters unexpected twists along the way.
Golden Delicious and Egghead & Twinkie
The Dream Songs
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Cho Hyun-chul; Writer: Cho Hyun-chul, Jung Mi-young; Stars: Park Hye-su, Kim Si-eun)
The intense relationship between two schoolfriends in Seoul is complicated by their feelings for the same girl.
Egghead & Twinkie
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Sarah Kambe Holland; Writer: Sarah Kambe Holland; Stars: Sabrina Jie-A-Fa, Louis Tomeo, Asahi Hirano)
A young Asian American girl and her hapless best friend hit the road to go and meet her online crush.
The Fabulous Ones (Le Favolose)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Roberta Torre)
A group of older trans women reunite following the discovery of a lost letter containing the last wishes of a dearly departed friend.
Golden Delicious
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jason Karman; Writer: Gorrman Lee; Stars: Cardi Wong, Chris Carson, Parmiss Sehat)
An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door. What will his family think? And how will he tell his girlfriend?
Horseplay (Los Agitadores)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Marco Berger; Writer: Marco Berger; Stars: Bruno Giganti, Agustín Machta, Franco de la Puente, Iván Masliah, Facundo Mas, Ivan Benitez, Carlos Carneglia, Denis Corat, Jordán Romero, Fernando De Simone, Melissa Falter, Gastón Frías, Antonella Yamila Fittipaldi, Victoria Machta, Malena Feijóo)
It's the Christmas holidays, and Andy leaves the city in order to spend some time at a luxury villa with his best friends. As they goof around, their initial consensual horseplay reveals that they each have different personal boundaries.
The Blue Caftan and Chrissy Judy
Jess Plus None
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mandy Fabian; Writer: Mandy Fabian; Stars: Abby Miller, Rory O’Malley, Matt Walsh)
Jess is stuck in the woods for an off-the-grid wedding and must find a way to deal with her ex, her friends and herself.
Lie With Me (Arrête Avec Tes Mensonges)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Olivier Peyon; Writer: Olivier Peyon, Vincent Poymiro, Arthur Cahn, Cécilia Rouaud; Stars: Guillaume de Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Guilaine Londez, Jérémy Gillet)
When a novelist has an unexpected encounter in his professional life, he recalls falling in love with the young man's father.
Life Unrehearsed
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Jieun Banpark; Writer: Jieun Banpark; Stars: In-sun Kim, Soohyun Lee)
A documentary about two elderly Korean nurses who fell in love despite social approbation and are now living their best lives in Berlin.
Maybe Someday
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Michelle Ehlen; Writer: Michelle Ehlen; Stars: Michelle Ehlen, Charlie Steers, Shaela Cook, Jeneen Robinson, Eliza Blair, Cameron Norman)
When her wife devastatingly asks for a separation in order to explore other options, Jay decides to pick up her life and move across the country to start anew. Halfway through the trip, she makes a pit stop to visit her high school best friend, a single mother raising a young daughter, but it's a gay man who might just have what it takes to help her reset her life.
A Place Of Our Own (Ek Jagah Apni)
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Ektara Collective; Writer: Rinchin, Maheen Mirza, Manisha Soni, Muskan)
Two trans women fight to find a place to live in Bhopal after the sudden eviction from their home by a prejudiced landlord.
Polarized
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Shamim Sarif; Writer: Shamim Sarif; Stars: Holly Deveaux, Maxine Denis, Hesham Hammoud)
As an unavoidable attraction develops between two women, they must navigate the barriers of race, religion and class which conspire to keep them apart.
Silent Love
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Marek Kozakiewicz)
A documentary following a woman who moves back home to Poland to care for her brother whilst hiding her same sex relationship from the authorities.
Three Nights A Week (Trois Nuits Par Semaine)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Florent Gouëlou; Writer: Raphaëlle Desplechin, Florent Gouëlou; Stars: Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot, Mathias Houngnikpo, Holy Fatma, Calypso Baquey, Jean-Marie Gouëlou)
A man falls for a drag queen.
Unidentified Objects
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Felipe Zuleta; Writer: Leland Frankel, Juan Felipe Zuleta; Stars: Sarah Hay, Roberta Colindrez, Matthew Jeffers, Hamish Allan-Headly)
A lonely dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbour are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
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