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Toll and Close To You
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(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Julia Jackman; Writer: Mike Gilbert, Josh O'Connor; Stars: Jack Davenport, Josh O'Connor, Alison Sudol, Ellie Kendrick, Josh Cowdery, Ray Panthaki)
A 16-year-old believes he is a future star musician, even when no-one else in his small town does. The arrival of the son of a famous musical duo, who helps him rehearse for a talent show, leads both boys to learn from each other and grow closer.
Chuck Chuck Baby
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Janis Pugh; Writer: Janis Pugh; Stars: Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Celyn Jones, Sorcha Cusack)
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
Close To You
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Dominic Savage; Writer: Elliot Page, Dominic Savage; Stars: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, Wendy Crewson, Peter Outerbridge, Alex Paxton-Beesley, David Reale)
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Cora Bora
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Hannah Pearl Utt; Writer: Rhianon Jones; Stars: Megan Stalter, Jojo T Gibbs, Manny Jacinto, Ayden Mayeri, Thomas Mann, Chrissie Fit, Andre Hyland, Chelsea Peretti, Margaret Cho, Darrell Hammond)
Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Desire Lines
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jules Rosskam; Writer: Nate Gualtieri; Stars: Theo Germaine, Aden Hakimi, Grant Carriker, Larry Dane, Chevon Dortch, Mike Geraghty, Emilie Modaff, Brandon Rivera, Emj Saab, Steve Silver, Diego Torrado)
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Chuck Chuck Baby and Extremely Unique Dynamic
Extremely Unique Dynamic
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Katherine Dudas, Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu; Writer: Harrison Xu, Ivan Leung, Katherine Dudas; Stars: Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu, Hudson Yang, Nathan Doan, Lucan Liu, Kelly Lynch, Jason Sun, Valerie Yu)
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
A House Is Not A Disco
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brian J Smith; Stars: Doug Harris, Scott Bromley, Marc Christensen, Crayton Robey)
What if you really did put all the gays on an island? In this vibrant portrait of queer paradise Fire Island Pines, past and present blur as the iconic beach town bands together to celebrate its legacy and redefine itself for a new, inclusive era.
Léon
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Papu Curotto, Andi Nachon; Writer: Andi Nachon; Stars: Carla Crespo, Lorenzo Crespo, Esteban Masturini, Susana Pampín)
For Julia, facing life after the loss of her partner seems like an impossible task - but León, their son, drives her forwards.
Rookie
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Samantha Lee; Writer: Natts Jadaone, Samantha Lee; Stars: Pat Tingjuy, Aya Fernandez, Agot Isidro, Mikoy Morales, Alyssa Valdez)
Everything changes when an awkward teenager joins the volleyball team and falls for the volleyball team captain.
Sebastian
(Country: UK, Finland, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Mikko Makela; Writer: Mikko Makela; Stars: Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best, Dylan Brady, Charlotte Harwood, Fleur Keith, Akbar Kurtha, Marcus Macleod, Laurent Maria, Pedro Minas, Matthias Moret, David Nellist)
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
A House Is Not A Disco and Sebastian
Toll (Pedágio)
(Country: Brazil, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Carolina Markowicz; Writer: Carolina Markowicz; Stars: Maeve Jinkings, Thomas Aquino, Isac Graça, Caio Macedo, Aline Marta Maia, Kauan Alvarenga)
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
Where The Bears Are: The Documentary
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Eduardo Aquino)
The story of three older bears working in Hollywood, who, tired of having their gay-themed ideas rejected by the mainstream, decide to self-produce their own web series.
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