Old friends Emma and Sjors haven’t seen each other in twelve years. In that decade, they’ve shacked up with Ilse and Bert, respectively, and have made cozy lives for themselves: Emma and Ilse are raising Dylan,...

Eight women share a meal. It’s a simple act, but in this case, they also share deep soul sustenance as Black Muslim lesbians previously suffering from terrible isolation. They are thrilled to discover they are...

America’s “Gaysian Sweetheart,” comedian Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives), sparkles onstage with incisive and flirtatiously filthy stand-up. In this bigger-than-life performance film featuring his sold-out, high-paced, award-winning show, Mapa takes on every topic in his amazingly queer life...

Outspoken twentysomething Shirin is a bit of a mess — she can’t come out to her family, she’s in the process of breaking up with her girlfriend, and her long-term career prospects are nonexistent, unless you count teaching film to a bunch of five-year-olds who only want to talk about zombies and farts.

Four-time Olympic champion Greg Louganis sky-rocketed to international glory after sweeping the diving events in consecutive Olympiads at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Games. This touching documentary catches up with the diving legend in 2011...

Nine-year-old Junior obsesses about transforming his truculent curly mop into a luxuriant head of silky, straight hair. He fills his lazy vacation days wandering the crowded streets of Caracas in search of tonsorial treatments—a temporary respite from the tiny apartment and pinched existence he shares with his unsympathetic mother and infant brother.

Why isn’t sex ever truly simple? Or relationships for that matter? Is it because we can never truly understand what goes on in someone else’s body or mind?

Black — once Blue — is now a trans man who works as a security guard in an apartment complex in Oakland. One night, Black notices an ex- girlfriend partying with some other women in one of the buildings. As none of the other security guards want to watch 'the lezzie party', Black volunteers to...

Adapted from Larry Duplechan’s beloved novel of the same name, Blackbird reunites the creative team behind Frameline24’s Closing Night hit Punks, who join forces with established veterans of independent American cinema and a talented ensemble of newcomers.

Soar, slam, and crash—that’s what happens when you cross the Judson Dance Theater tradition of postmodern dance with American daredevil Evel Knievel. If you pictured New York choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her Extreme Action Company, that’s not a coincidence.

Funny and provocative, Boy Meets Girl vividly captures the giddy excitement, sexual heat, and inherent heartache of “non-traditional” love in a small town. Ricky (Michelle Hendley) is a 21-year-old trans girl...

In this sweet and tender Dutch drama, sparks fly when two teenage boys are romantically drawn to each other while training for a national track relay championship. The solitude of running as a backdrop for the...

Fifteen years after its release, Kimberly Peirce’s moving and brilliantly acted adaptation of the Brandon Teena story retains its stirring emotional power. As many know, Teena was a young transgender man who was brutally murdered shortly after his 21st birthday.

“Two fish in a tank, one turns to the other: ‘Do you know how to drive this?’” So begins this quirky dark rom-com, in which semi-orphaned botany nerd Jenni leaves her crumbling life behind with the help of fast-talking hustling hottie Sam. Together, they set out on the adventure of a lifetime.

Zachary Harrington came out at fourteen, accepted and embraced by close friends and family. So what made him take his own life just five years later? In their terrible shock and grief, his loved ones desperately try to understand. In 2010, the mayor of Norman, Oklahoma, proposed October as LGBT History Month.

Late night in a burger bar: Gay and straight, male and female, couples, singles and friends are observed by filmmaker Magnus Mork in this short drama filmed on location in a Cardiff burger bar.

Campaign of Hate is a lucid and necessary documentary primer on the hot-button issue of LGBT discrimination in Russia. Directed by outspoken provocateur and social activist Michael Lucas, a Moscow native, the film provides impressive, candid access to everyday Russian LGBT citizens and activists coping with...

It has all the drama of fiction: former opponents who join forces to fight for a just cause, a witness recanting on the stand, late nights combing through thousands of pages of documents, and even a cameo from the President. But it’s no Hollywood melodrama — it’s a riveting account of the epic five-year legal battle that overturned Proposition 8.

Part love story, part thriller, and all astonishingly true, The Circle weaves a gorgeous 1950s period drama around a documentary to reveal the story of Zürich’s groundbreaking gay magazine Der Kreis — and its...

This fascinating documentary explores the life (private and public) of our country’s most prominent out gay politician to date: the inimitable Barney Frank, a staunch defender of civil rights and “small-d” democratic principles for 32 years in the U.S. House of Representatives...

The full moon rises, a comet streaks across the sky, and dark shadows stir in this wicked program of short films.

The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.

Cupcakes — a campy, comic confection from Israel’s gleeful gay fantasist Eytan Fox — is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth! In suburban Tel Aviv, six neighbors gather to watch the t...

The phallometric tests were used in the Czech Republic until recently in order to verify the homosexuality of asylum seekers, who reported homosexuality-based persecution in their home country as grounds for asylum. This short tells the story of a young guy whose sexuality will be tested through this method in a satirically way.