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Close and The Love
Before I Change My Mind
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Trevor Anderson; Writer: Trevor Anderson, Fish Griwkowsky; Stars: Vaughan Murrae, Dominic Lippa, Lacey Oake, Matthew Rankin, Shannon Blanchet, Rohan Khare)
1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.
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.
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.
Close
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2022; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens, Igor van Dessel, Marc Weiss, Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele)
Two best friends find their bond upset by schoolmates.
The First Fallen
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2021; Director: Rodrigo de Oliveira; Writer: Rodrigo de Oliveira; Stars: Johnny Massaro, Renata Carvalho, Vitor Camilo)
New Year’s Eve, 1983. Suzano has returned from his studies in Paris to spend time with his sister and nephew. Rose, a trans performer, prepares for her latest show at a party. And Humberto, recently arrived in the city, documents it all on shaky camcorder. The future looks bright for them all. But eight months later, all three friends find themselves early victims of the AIDS epidemic.
Mars One and Chrissy Judy
Follow The Protocol
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Fábio Leal; Writer: Fábio Leal; Stars: Marcus CurveloBruce de AraújoLucas Drummond, Paulo Céwsar Freire, Fábio Leal)
After 10 months of a self imposed lockdown, Francisco wants to have sex.
I'll Show You Mine
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Megan Griffiths; Writer: Tiffany Louquet, Elizabeth Searle, David Shields; Stars: Casey Thomas Brown, Poorna Jagannathan)
An author who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a model. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.
The Inspection
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Elegance Bratton; Writer: Elegance Bratton; Stars: Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine, Raúl Castillo, McCaul Lombardi, Nicholas Logan, Eman Esfandi, Aaron Dominguez, Aubrey Joseph, Andrew Kai, Tyler Merritt, Steve Mokate, Brad Napp, Daniel Williamson, Wynn Reichert)
Drama based on the filmmaker's own experiences as a gay man in Marine Corps basic training following a decade of living on the streets.
Lonesome
(Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Craig Boreham; Writer: Craig Boreham; Stars: Josh Lavery, Daniel Gabriel, Anni Finsterer, Ian Roberts, Ally Morgan)
A country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney, where he falls in with a similarly lonely stranger.
The Love (El Houb)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Shariff Nasr; Writer: Shariff Nasr, Philip Delmaar, Fahd Larhzaoui; Stars: Fahd Larhzaoui, Lubna Azabal, Slimane Dazi, Sabri Saddik)
Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his parents about being attracted to men.
The Inspection and Unidentified Objects
Mars One (Marte Um)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Gabriel Martins; Writer: Gabriel Martins; Stars: Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Souza, Cícero Lucas)
In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family of four tries to keep their spirits up and their dreams going in the months that follow the election of a right-wing president, a man who represents everything they are not.
My Emptiness And I (Mi Vacio Y Yo)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Adrián Silvestre)
When an office worker is diagnosed with gender dysphoria, her life is transformed as she goes on a journey of self-discovery and discovers the things she really wants in life for the first time.
Nana's Boys
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ashton Pina; Writer: Ashton Pina; Stars: David J Cork, Jared Wayne Gladly, Malika Nzinga, Ashron Pina)
With subtle, vulnerable performances, Nana's Boys focuses on the intimate life of a couple who are confronted with the fact that their relationship is not as solid as they thought.
Please Baby Please
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Amanda Kramer; Writer: Amanda Kramer, Noel David Taylor; Stars: Demi Moore, Andrea Riseborough, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Karl Glusman, Harry Melling, Ryan Simpkins)
Newlyweds Suse and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Rule 34 (Regra 34)
(Country: Brazil, France; Year: 2022; Director: Júlia Murat; Writer: Gabriel Bortolini, Gabriela Capello, Rafael Lessa; Stars: Lucas Andrade, Julia Bernat, Lorena Comparato, Marcos Damigo)
A young woman studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
I'll Show You Mine and Rule 34
Shall I Compare You To A Summer's Day
(Country: Egypt, Lebanon, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Mohammad Shawky Hassan; Writer: Mohammad Shawky Hassan; Stars: Ahmed Awadalla, Nadim Bahsoun, Hassan Dib, Ahmed El Gendy, Richard Gabriel Gersch)
A queer contemporary musical told in the form of a tale from One Thousand And One Nights.
Swallowed
(Year: 2022; Director: Carter Smith; Stars: Jena Malone, Mark Patton)
A creepy-crawly-fable of survival and heartwarming friendship.
Swoon
(Country: USA; Year: 1992; Director: Tom Kalin; Writer: Tom Kalin, Hilton Als; Stars: Daniel Schlachtet, Craig Chester jr., Crowe Ron Vawter)
Tom Kalin’s feature film debut tells the well-known story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy Jewish college students who kidnapped and brutally murdered a 14-year-old neighbourhood boy in Chicago in 1924.
Three Tidy Tigers Tied A Tie Tighter
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Gustavo Vinagre; Writer: Gustavo Vinagre; Stars: Jonata Vieira, Pedro Ribeiro, Gilda Nomacce, Carlos Esher, Julia Katharine, David Lobo, Everaldo Pontes, Ivana Wonder, Inês Brasil, Majeca Angelucci, Gabriel Stippe, Cida Moreira, Nilcéia Vicente, Lizette Negreiros, Filipe Rossato)
Three friends in the working-class suburbs of São Paulo attempt to make their way in a world that’s been harshly affected by rampant capitalism and a pandemic.
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.
Please Baby Please and Before I Change My Mind
Vulveeta
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Maria Breaux; Writer: J Aguilar, Dakota Billops-Breaux, Maria Breaux)
A new-ager and former frontwoman of the Nineties band Vulveeta is getting the band back together in time for her 50th birthday and hires a film crew to document the whole thing, but a lot has changed in the 20 years since she walked out on her bandmates.
Wendell & Wild
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Henry Selick; Writer: Clay McLeod Chapman, Jordan Peele, Henry Selick; Stars: Lyric Ross, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett, James Hong)
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raul.
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