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  • Farewell My Concubine

    Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China’s history.

  • Philadelphia

    Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

  • Paris, France

    A writer has torrid fantasy affairs with young men.

  • Tokyo Cowboy

    When a young Japanese man with an affinity towards American western films is fired from his job, he sets out to become a real live cowboy.

  • The Disco Years

    Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom’s mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her disco-dancing lessons. His friendship with Matt becomes his first love, and then Matt turns on Tom with homophobic venom. Later, Matt and Matt’s new girlfriend trash the classroom of an effeminate teacher with more vicious homophobia. At first, Tom joins in heaping scorn on the teacher, then he has to decide if it isn’t time to open the closet door. A crisis of sorts ensues with his mom, and disco proves to be a balm.

  • I Shall Never Return

    It is about Amafuji Ken, who longs to tell his best friend Youshinari Ritsurou how he really feels. In the way of that admission is Ritsurou’s girlfriend, Moeko. After dropping out of high school, Ken gets Ritsurou to live with him. The angst begins when Ken sleeps with Moeko to get to Ritsurou.

  • Creation of Adam

    On the same day, Andrei’s wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she’s attracted to him, he’s assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.

  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.

  • Anacondas

    Inspired by the chronicle “Anacondas in the Park” by Pedro Lemebel. A experiment with time, image and montage to formulate an observational narrative in a park in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the night falls it comes back to life and the bodies meet like snakes. A dialogue with a common past of criminalization and homosexual repression in Latin America.

  • Faking It

    A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other — in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.