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The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years....

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape....

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption....

A young couple in Brooklyn contemplate opening their relationship over a game of chess but as communication gets lost the game thickens until a surprising end....

The misadventures of the gay experience come to life in these 7 award-winning shorts—from awkward threesomes to dubious dating etiquette to the trials and tribulations of shopping excursions. Includes: Alaska Is a Drag (2012); Bald Guy [Skallamann] (2011); Housebroken (2013); P.D.A. (2013); Sabbatical (2012); Spooners (2013); Unanimated [Desanimado] (2011)....

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman....

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview....

A lesbian hires a male escort to break the heart of the bisexual woman who has just dumped her....

'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods....

Eugenie was born and raised in Senegal. But since her love was not accepted, she escaped to Germany in order to get asylum there....

At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away....

While roller-skating, Sam, a sensitive teenage girl, hears about her small town's local legend: the Boogeywoman....

"Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945....

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry....

A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival....

A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America....

A dynamic young man falls in love with his own boss, a married businessman, with two children....

Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes....

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese Characters (1986) examines the ambiguous relationship of gay Asian men with white gay porn....

In this musical short film set in 1961, 17-year-old Kathryn begins a fashion internship to help design a line for the Seattle World's Fair. Kathryn struggles to defend her passion for a creative lifestyle against disapproving family and friends....