Merida proscrita is a dramatic, sepia-toned love story set in Mexico, with a distinctive scratchy, operatic style. It is a moving account of two lovers and their relationship difficulties caused by machismo and fixed roles.

Lesson 9 is a short film about the loss of a lover to insanity. Part horror story, noir-like mystery and disaster film, Lesson 9 weaves together shards of a narrative that has been shattered like excerpts from the journal of a lover gone mad.

Cheerful shabbiness in what the maker himself calls a cannibal comedy. The exuberant story is set in a hotel in Hollywood. When one day a stranger (Jeff Stryker) moves in from the Midwest, all hell breaks loose.

Director Isaac Julien delivers an impressionistic antidote to the passionless, guilt-ridden AIDS awareness campaign conducted in Great Britain in 1987. This is Not an AIDS Advertisement blends an imaginative video style with strong political messages.