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- DirectorJustin KellyStarsJames FrancoZachary QuintoEmma RobertsBased on the fascinating true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes a Christian pastor after identifying as a heterosexual.
- DirectorAndy BichlbaumMike BonannoLaura NixStarsMike BonannoAndy BichlbaumBenadette Chandia KodiliComedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsElmer BäckLuis AlbertiMaya ZapataThe venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
- DirectorEthan ReidStarsRobert AlvarezKristen BjornCarlos CaballeroPioneer erotic film maker Peter de Rome talks about his life and work, which is celebrated at London's BFI Southbank.
- DirectorMichael StabileStarsJeff StrykerSteven ScarboroughJohn TravisSeed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall, and later became a major contributor to gay advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, only to find later in life that while his money was welcome in philanthropic circles, he sometimes wasn't.
- DirectorMarc JagoStarsSven DolinskyWilson GonzalezTanja PetrovskyA cinematic menage-a-trois between a photographer, a rentboy and a transsexual call girl.
- DirectorJoseph GrahamStarsBrian SheppardZack RyanColman DomingoFour diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
- DirectorJosh KimStarsIngkarat DamrongsakkulToni RakkaenThira ChutikulOn the eve of the draught lottery in Thailand, Oat remembers trying to convince his older brother to change his fate.
- DirectorStu MadduxStarsTom AmmianoAnita BryantDianne FeinsteinNever before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.
- DirectorGregory JacobsStarsChanning TatumJoe ManganielloMatt BomerThree years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsElizabeth BishopKathleen ChalfantBarbara HammerWelcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian disclosure. Hammer filmed in Bishop's best loved homes in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, believing that buildings and landscapes bear cultural memories. Interviews with poets, friends,and scholars provide missing documents of numerous female lovers. Bishop's intimate poems and the creative music composition by Joan La Barbara bring the poet into our lives with new facts and unexpected details.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsRainer Werner FassbinderIrm HermannHarry BaerThomsen presents previously unseen interview footage recorded with Fassbinder throughout their fifteen-year friendship, which spans exactly the length of his career - their first encounter was at the Berlinale in 1969 where Fassbinder's debut was famously booed (you can hear the cries of "Awful!" and "Shame!" on the archive footage), and their last was just three weeks before his untimely death.
- DirectorJean CarlomustoStarsEllen BarkinAlan BatesAnthony FauciThe passion and anger of a modern warrior during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
- DirectorMalcolm IngramStarsJohn AmaechiBilly BeanJason CollinsA documentary that serves as an overview and examination of the lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian athletes from all over the world.
- DirectorMichelle BoyanerStarsJane AndersonTess AyersJames R. BakkerPACKED IN A TRUNK is the story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Edith's great-niece, Emmy Award winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Edith's paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Edith's work. The film follows Jane in her decades-long journey to find the answers to the mystery of Edith's buried life, return the work to Provincetown and have Edith's contributions recognized by the larger art world.
- DirectorPoppy StockellStarsBrennan BastyovanszkySydney ConvictsPearse EganThe lives of a self assured Canadian jock, a rookie Irish backpacker and a stoic Japanese outsider change when they vie for a position in the gay rugby world cup.
- DirectorJeffrey SchwarzStarsTab HunterClint EastwoodPaul NewmanThe story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s.
- DirectorShonali BoseNilesh ManiyarStarsKalki KoechlinRevathiSayani GuptaA rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorStephen ConeStarsCole DomanJoe KeeryElizabeth LaidlawPreacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17 today. Bring your swimsuit.
- DirectorJack WalshStarsYvonne RainerB. Ruby RichFeelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer chronicles the defiant, uncompromising, and highly influential ideas of postmodern choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Over the course of her career, she revolutionized modern dance, generated what later became known as performance art, and changed the basic tenets of experimental filmmaking - all during a time when women were largely ignored in the art world. Today she continues to push forward, creating vibrant, courageous, unpredictable work, inspiring a new generation of artists to question, overthrow, and generate possibilities of their own. Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer is the story of this remarkable artist and the equally remarkable times that shaped her creative practice.
- DirectorJoey KuhnStarsJonathan GordonJason RalphHaaz SleimanOn Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.
- DirectorDavid ThorpeStarsDavid ThorpeGeorge TakeiTim GunnA documentary about the stereotype of the gay voice.
- DirectorRuth Gumnit'Visible Silence' explores the lives of Thai lesbians striving for recognition, authenticity, and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. It is an intimate story of self and family, love and sexuality, and self-determination where conformity is prized.
- DirectorJames HoskingStarsOlivia HartCollette LegrandeDonna PersonnaA documentary following three older drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie's Lounge in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The film explores the rituals of these performers' transformations, along with themes of aging, labor, and self acceptance. Featuring Collette LeGrande, Donna Personna, and Olivia Hart.
- DirectorJamie BabbitStarsJudy GreerNatasha LyonneMalcolm BarrettFollows the lives two co-dependent sisters who work as hotel maids in Fresno.