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AHEAD OF THE CURVE draws a portrait of the history and future of the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published, Curve magazine.
Browse the ProgramA New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
Browse the ProgramA young man finds love while sentenced to 120 hours of community service at a refugee detention center.
Browse the ProgramIn 1980s Brooklyn, A Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather’s senior housing complex.
Browse the ProgramGene attempts to come out to his high school drama friends as they close out their last summer together with a final murder mystery party.
Browse the ProgramAfter a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family from acclaimed director Pablo Larraín (JACKIE, NERUDA).
Browse the ProgramLong-lost friends Eric and Drew test the boundaries of love and friendship when they see each other for the first time in years.
Browse the ProgramSINGLE STREET is a funny feel-good comedy about an unexpected friendship between a heart surgeon and gay artist.
Browse the ProgramIconic gay writer Truman Capote, hot off the heels of massive literary success, falls into a downward spiral of all-consuming elite aspirations, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse, leaving behind the fragmented saga of his unpublished supposed-masterpiece: "Answered Prayers."
Browse the ProgramFilmmaker Diako Yazdani, an Iranian Kurd and refugee living in Paris, travels to Iraq with his 23-year-old gay best friend Kojin to confront a Kurdish society resolute in their negation of and violent prejudice against homosexuality.
Browse the ProgramA young man returns home for the first time since coming out of the closet and is given the chance to reconnect with his family amidst grappling with an existential crisis.
Browse the ProgramAn on-again off-again relationship gets the final nail in the coffin one morning when one man finally works up the courage to reveal his love has fizzled out for good. Despite the breakup, fate keeps finding ways to bring the men back together.
Browse the ProgramDuring the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, heartbroken doctor Mo finds himself breaking fast every night with Kal, a non-Muslim man that may lead Mo to happiness in America.
Browse the ProgramCICADA follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own.
Browse the ProgramA shy fourteen-year-old girl jumps head-first into a life-changing first love in the sweltering Berlin summertime.
Browse the ProgramTwo siblings journey to a small town in coastal Argentina after their mother's mysterious death, only to be stranded and forced to deal with their shared grief.
Browse the ProgramWhat brought popular Dutch drag queen Lady Galore her fame is also what is keeping the man behind Galore, Sander den Baas, from living a healthy life. Gastric bypass surgery will help him regain a healthy weight. But what will remain of Lady Galore?
Browse the ProgramA father of six and a former drag performer struggles to make peace with the loss of his career after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Browse the ProgramObsessed with sci-fi and technology and living in near isolation, Glenn Copeland wrote and self-released the ahead-of-its-time record Keyboard Fantasies in 1986, in Huntsville, Ontario.
Browse the ProgramBlack, queer, and homeless, an ensemble cast of LGBTQ youth search for a home to call their own on New York City's historic Christopher Street Pier.
Browse the ProgramSTONE | FRUIT follows two sexually confident and complex gay men struggling to end a marriage while salvaging a friendship. But with wine. And nature hikes. And a threesome.
Browse the ProgramA visiting home health aide and recovering alcoholic, strives to rebuild her broken life, only to have it fall apart once again when she falls in love with her young, paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.
Browse the ProgramAn innocent kissing exercise between best friends Carrie and Hannah turns Carrie’s world inside out while the best friends find themselves distracted by the teenage complications of lust, social status, and wavering faith.
Browse the ProgramThrough an intimate look at the lives of three sets of partners from Taiwan, TAIWAN EQUALS LOVE charts the culturally specific yet universally understood complexities of equal rights to marriage/adoption or child-rearing for LGBTQ+ peoples.
Browse the ProgramIn the hostile landscape of Southern Chile, two young men from differing backgrounds share a passionate and forbidden romance.
Browse the ProgramTHE WHISTLE tells the story of how lesbian youth in 1970s and '80s Albuquerque used a whistle to find community and acceptance.
Browse the ProgramTHESE THEMS is a web series about four queer friends in New York City trying to find love and messing up along the way.
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