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<p>This intimate, uplifting documentary celebrates Miss Peppermint, a radiant NYC nightlife icon and rising trans activist. With unwavering determination and the support of her chosen family, she brightens her own path to success.</p>
<p>A stone-broke gay actor and a privileged bonehead with a failing business cross paths on a winter night and join forces in a quest around London to find a meaning to their turbulent lives. A chance encounter leads to an emotionally candid exploration of finding oneself with the help of a stranger. Evoking the endearing, chatty charm of BEFORE SUNRISE and WEEKEND (NewFest23), A NIGHT LIKE THIS probes the ways opposites attract, and how human connection can provide much needed warmth on a chilly December night.</p>
<p>One night after a performance, aging stage actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis) meets an adoring young fan, Eve (Anne Baxter), who slowly insinuates herself into her life. But Margo quickly learns Eve is far from naïve–her ruthless ambition threatens to topple Margo’s career and closest relationships.</p>
<p>This genre-bending otherworldly drama follows two brothers’ journey to avenge the spirits that haunt them from their childhood.</p>
<p>In BEARCAVE, two close friends, Anneta and Argyro, stand at the edge of adulthood, compelled to follow imposed futures. Argyro must take over her family’s declining farm; Anneta is forced to be with a man who is celebrated as a hero police officer in their small town. Their friendship is shaken and transformed as they realize their affection for each other begins to grow into something deeper. Set in the green mountains of Greece, BEARCAVE is a raw, unconventional tale of two young women who dare to defy what’s expected. Echoing the spirit of Greek mythology, the protagonists challenge their fates in a place still clinging to tradition. BEARCAVE makes its North American premiere at NewFest, after world premiering at Venice and it is the feature directorial debut of Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna Papadakis.</p>
<p>Jaded fetish camboy Aaron agrees to spend a night with an anonymous client. As the two men’s defenses come down, Aaron realizes the two share a darker, more complicated past than he ever imagined.</p>
<p>A portrait of one crucial night in the melancholy life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, in a tour de force), Blue Moon is a surprising yet entirely fitting addition to the Richard Linklater canon.</p>
<p>In this uniquely American spin on Pygmalion, Judy Holliday plays Billie, the unsophisticated mistress of junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford). Embarrassed by Billie’s lack of refinement, Harry hires a local journalist (William Holden) to educate her, only to spark Billie’s awakening to the world and her own power.</p>
<p>Tells the story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the 90s.</p>
<p>Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.</p>
<p>Donna Deitch’s classic of lesbian cinema is one of the greatest love stories of all time. The year is 1959 and Professor Vivian Bell has arrived in Reno, Nevada for a divorce. There she meets Cay Rivers, a backwards-driving, jean short-wearing sculptor/casino employee who is brazenly herself. These two opposing forces circle around each other, falling in lust and love, Cay daring Vivian to take a risk for something more.</p>
<p>Two migrants fall in love in a UK detention center as they await the court’s decision on their requests for asylum. Farah helps newcomer Isio navigate the harsh bureaucracy, and together they find comfort in a fragile but growing romance. Their tender connection becomes an oasis in a desert of fear and uncertainty, and they discover solidarity among fellow residents who share the same dream of freedom. Writer/director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor makes a striking feature debut, condemning the inhumane systems faced by those fleeing for their lives while framing it through the tender, sensual lens of a queer love story that refuses to be silenced.</p>
<p>As youth and options dry up, two aging sugar babies plunge into the bizarre “desire economy” via a provocative app called Daddies Boi forcing them to question what they’re selling, what it costs, and what they’re willing to risk.</p>
<p>At a family-run restaurant in Ilocos, a privileged rich kid and a street-smart newcomer are forced to work together — uncovering a decades-old love story that upends everything they thought they knew about love, loyalty, and legacy.</p>
<p>During the Lavender Scare government files were created to track individuals deemed to have “weak morals.” Lists were made. Suspected gays were on those lists. Black and Native Americans were on those lists. Intellectuals. Feminists. This family was on those lists.</p>
<p>The lives of two campy pirate radio DJs, — former Miss Gay USA Pepper Buckthorne and her sassy sidekick Jelly Beene — who threaten the locals in upstate New York with their WRU-GAY in the morning radio show and befriend Sharon their free spirited neighbor in the process.</p>
<p>After nearly causing an international incident, Aphrodite (the Kardashianesque love goddess) is stripped of her powers. Will she regain her omnipotence by helping a super-single Brooklynite find true love, or be banished from the Pantheon forever?</p>
<p>Edward is a queer, up-and-coming novelist forced to balance press commitments with caring for his aging mother. Pressure to go on a US book tour is mounting. But when his three closest friends, desperate to feel young and carefree again, go off on an impromptu Pride holiday, they leave their ageing mothers in Edward’s care. Thornton’s film is a funny and heartwarming comedy drama.</p>
<p>Annapurna Sriram writes, directs, and stars in this campy, vividly pastel-colored romp about a woman who embarks upon a sex worker odyssey through Trashtown with her nonbinary friend to break a terrible curse that has befallen her. SXSW Special Jury Prize winner.</p>
<p>Based on Mason Deaver's novel, the film follows Ben DeBacker, a non-binary teen who is thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas. Struggling with anxiety, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their art teacher, Ms. Lyons, while trying to keep a low profile at their new school. Ben's attempts to survive junior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. With the help of Nathan, and his friends Sophie and Mel, Ben discovers themselves and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.</p>
<p>Anna, 12, lives with her deaf mother in a loving bond, yet under humble conditions, that are a source of social shame when she begins high school. Staying close to its heroines, this refreshing debut blends solidarity, feminism and tons of melodies.</p>
<p>Two women meet at a crossroads in their lives and find something unexpected in each other. One woman is wasting away, bartending in a small Maine town while stuck in a relationship that’s lost its spark. The other, a painter, yearns to reconnect with her artistic practice. When the painter asks the bartender to model, a magnetic pull grows between them.</p>
<p>A radical revisitation. This updated version of Stephen Winter’s 2015 film unearths the ghosts of Jason and Shirley, restaging the volatile 12-hour shoot of the 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason—held at the Chelsea Hotel—which blurred the line between subject and storyteller. Jason Holliday (Jack Waters), a sharp-witted Black gay man, whose identity splits between personas–performer, hustler, muse, provocateur–is once again in the room with Shirley Clarke (queer pioneer Sarah Schulman), the Oscar-winning filmmaker who insisted on framing his life.</p>
<p>A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and onto a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.</p>
<p>Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.</p>
<p>Get ready to sing, dance, and have the time of your life in our first-ever audience-chosen musical screening! In this modern classic of (not so) guilty-pleasure cinema, a young bride invites the three men that could potentially be her father to her wedding in a Greek island, all through the toe-tapping tunes of worldwide Europop sensation ABBA.</p>
<p>Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid) and Val (Rosario Dawson) are three small-town musicians with big dreams but little future. Then fate gives the Pussycats the chance of a lifetime when band manager Wyatt (Alan Cumming) of MegaRecords signs them overnight to an awesome recording contract. Suddenly, Josie and the Pussycats are living life in the fast lane with sold-out concerts, a number one single and global stardom. But it’s not all limousines and private jets. The Pussycats soon discover they’re being played like pawns in an evil plot by the record label’s maniacal CEO Fiona (Parker Posey) to control the youth of America.</p>
<p>Set in the Pakistani community of London, MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE follows the fortunes of handsome young Omar (Gordon Warnecke), who takes over a run-down laundrette given to him by his rich uncle. Together with his street-punk friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), they transform it into a popular, neon-lit palace as their emotions bubble alongside the spin cycles.</p>
<p>BOOTS is a one-hour comedic drama that delivers an irreverent, off-beat take on the coming-of-age story. Set in the tough, unpredictable world of the 1990s US Marine Corps—when being gay in the military was still illegal—the series follows directionless, closeted Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer) and his best friend Ray McAffey (Liam Oh), the son of a decorated Marine, as they join a diverse group of recruits. Together, this ensemble navigates the literal and metaphorical landmines of boot camp, forging unlikely bonds and discovering their true selves in an environment designed to push them to their limits. With sharp wit and plenty of heart, BOOTS is about friendship, resilience, and finding your place in the world—even when that world seems determined to keep you in line or leave you behind. The eight-episode series hails from creator and co-showrunner Andy Parker (Tales of the City, Imposters), showrunner Jennifer Cecil (Umbrella Academy, One Tree Hill), and executive producer Norman Lear. Inspired by the book “The Pink Marine” by Greg Cope White.</p>
<p>A middle-aged Pakistani housewife, in search of herself, hires a young, self-assured sex worker to keep her company for the night.</p>
<p>As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.</p>
<p>On the anniversary of her mother’s death, a quiet teen being raised by her two grandmothers awakens to her first period and is relentlessly bullied at school. When her bully later turns his torments on her crush, her pent-up rage erupts and she discovers an ancestral power that is both terrifying and freeing.</p>
<p>Bowen, a nonbinary Asian-American from Queens, tries to connect with their estranged father and help him deal with a poisonous fish bite.</p>
<p>In 1981, James Reyos, a young gay Apache man from Odessa, Texas, was pressured into confessing to the murder of a Catholic priest and sentenced to 38 years in prison. Nearly four decades later, armed with new evidence, justice-driven lawyers from The Innocence Project of Texas fight to clear his name.</p>
<p>Matias, a Brazilian theatre actor hungry for mainstream success, begins an erotic power game with a discreet man who shares his taste for risky public sex. When Matias discovers his new fling is a rising politician on the verge of a major campaign, their affair quickly becomes a dangerous liability.</p>
<p>At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla's body and mind are undergoing a revolution. While Karla navigates her transition, Kani shapes eight years of footage into a joyful film, as they handle the vagaries of a rural trans adolescence together.</p>
<p>Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures and is divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and is taking care of his small farm, isolated, until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident while passing through. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds and the two fall in love. Their romance transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them in this beautifully bold journey from writer/director Daniel Nolasco (DRY WIND, NewFest32).</p>
<p>Married couple Olivia and Seb are enjoying a secluded vacation in a country estate when they receive an unexpected visit from Olivia’s former dance partner — who also happens to be Seb’s old lover. They haven’t seen each other since a painful rupture in their friendship, and as the weekend unfolds and more guests arrive, old grudges and sexual tensions rise to the surface.</p>
<p>Drag queens and club kids battle zombies craving brains during a zombie outbreak at their drag show in Brooklyn, putting personal conflicts aside to utilize their distinct abilities against the undead threat.</p>
<p>Being LGBT is criminalised in Muslim-majority Malaysia. Trans man Faris and his punk band still travel the country playing gigs and protesting on the streets. A documentary portrait of courageous people, humorous friendship and the spirit of punk.</p>
<p>A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.</p>
<p>Rock Out explores what space exists for Queer, in a variety of crucial ways, in the uncompromising and deeply masculine worlds of heavy metal, punk, and rock & roll. Excavating the often-veiled queer lives of some of the greatest culture-defining disruptors and masterminds of music in the 1960s and 70s, Rock Out demands to know what unique value ‘gay’ brought to creating and revolutionising rock, punk, and metal – from the perspective of managers, producers, artists and fans – and why those contributions have been left buried for so long.</p>
<p>A powerful, emotionally charged ensemble drama, SAME, AGAIN follows a theater group as buried tensions begin to surface during their rehearsal process. What appears to be a standard production slowly unravels, exposing layers of invisible abuse, homophobia, and long silenced pain. As the women in the cast begin to speak openly, they discover how much they’ve endured, and how rarely they’ve been heard. With a sharp point of view, a fearless cast, and a script improvised with remarkable precision, this new work from prolific NewFest alum Ruth Caudeli pulses with authenticity. Intimate, raw, and quietly radical, SAME, AGAIN is a striking narrative that shows the power of shared truth.</p>
<p>Johan thrives as a gay man in Copenhagen, enjoying endless bars, parties, and casual flings. Everything changes when he meets William, a transgender man, and falls into a deep love that defies societal norms around gender, identity, and relationships.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We meet Dr. Roughgarden at home on Kauai and learn about her experiences teaching Biology at Stanford for thirty years before coming out as trans. She went to her first Pride in San Francisco in 1998 and realized, "If being queer is maladaptive, there couldn’t be so many of us surviving. It must not be the people who are defective - it must be the science." She decided to research species who defy biological norms, originally thinking she’d just make a pamphlet to pass out at Stanford, but she found over 1500 cases! Eventually she wrote the groundbreaking Evolution’s Rainbow, taking on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—even Darwin himself. After Joan shares her personal journey, she takes us on a biological journey. </p> <p dir="ltr">Roughgarden meets with Primatologist Dr. Amy Parish who first proved bonobos (our closest relatives) are matriarchal and have same-sex sex everyday. We see them observing the bonobos, witness bonobo behavior, and see for ourselves that these women disproved two foundational and extremely harmful myths about what’s natural - that females are inferior and that same-sex sex is unnatural. </p> <p dir="ltr">We then meet several other esteemed scientists, including Dr. Patricia Brennan of Mount Holyoke and Dr. Joseph Graves, the first African-American scientist to receive a PhD in Evolutionary Biology. This chorus of female, BIPOC, and immigrant scientists teach us how dolphins, albatross, penguins, chimps, elephants, and many more species also engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting. Drs. Roughgarden and Graves describe fish like blue wrasse and clownfish - and over 50% of fish living in coral reefs - who change sex. Then we follow Dr Roughgarden to meet with world renowned primatologist Dr Frans de Waal to learn about Donna, a gender nonconforming chimp who proves that gender diversity isn’t only common in species like fish and reptiles - but also in primates, like us. Dr de Waal has witnessed same sex sex and gender non conforming behavior in all primate groups he’s studied over 30 years and says “I never found a group in which same sex behavior or gender nonconforming behavior was not accepted - except when it comes to humans.”</p> <p dir="ltr">After this odyssey, we follow Dr. Roughgarden back home. She reflects upon the backlash she suffered, sharing some of the most hurtful reviews she received. She and our other scientists open up about their experiences of discrimination and how demoralizing it is to release groundbreaking work only to be personally vilified. Dr. Brennan was vilified on Fox News for being an immigrant receiving government grants. Dr Amy Parish was ridiculed by males in her field who accused her of having a “feminine bias.” Dr. Roughgarden says she had originally hoped someone would have written a book pushing this science even further. Instead, textbooks are now being censored to remove mentions of LGBTQ identity and racism, and Roughgarden's book might be banned next. </p> <p dir="ltr">Just when we feel hope is lost, we travel to San Francisco, CA to follow a trans high school biology teacher named River Suh who is teaching their students from Dr Roughgarden’s book, Evolution’s Rainbow. We see how engaged River’s students are, how much they enjoy learning about diversity in the natural world, and then River tells us how studies prove that inclusive education reduces not only absenteeism but also self-harm and suicide attempts. At a moment of unprecedented attacks against LGBTQ youth, River demonstrates how teaching children that they belong on Earth just like anybody else can save their lives. We end with all our scientists illuminating the importance of acknowledging the true diversity in nature so that our world can grow more inclusive and more just.</p> <p dir="ltr">The structure of our film is supported by an immersive, visually captivating style. We follow scientists in the lab and in the field, see animals up close in trees and underwater. We include scientists' personal and news archival from the 1970’s-2000’s, media commentary, and illuminating animation. The overall tone is energetic, motivating and hopeful- allowing our characters to connect with viewers through humor and entertaining insight. It's not preachy or tragic. This is a happy documentary – this time the truth is better than the lie. Not only is there nothing unnatural about being queer, but nature is beautifully diverse, and we all belong!</p>
<p>First-time director Siobhan McCarthy put together a cast and crew of almost entirely trans, nonbinary, and queer people to make this Bottoms-esque teen satire about two seniors who pretend to be trans during their last week of high school, only for one of them to find it suits them just fine.</p>
<p>Navigating the aftermath of top surgery, Mad grapples with emotional upheaval at home, supported by their partner and mother.</p>
<p>During a heatwave, transgender man Owen returns to the flat of his on-off-again lover, Seán, after taking a pregnancy test.</p>
<p>Tony and Adam are best friends and roommates in Brooklyn, NY. Winter is quickly approaching and Tony can't stand to go another summer without top surgery. When Tony's employment falls through, the two friends put their heads together to find another source of income.</p>
<p>Experience this rotating and hypnotic sensory-world, where gyrating nymphs express love beyond your wildest fantasies. Dedicated to parents everywhere who did their very best, this short film is a love letter to the grown children — especially trans, queer, sex working, and otherwise marginalized and criminalized folks — who surpassed their parents, in daring to be bold in pursuit of their best lives.</p>
<p>Rope is an experimental film about pearl diving, bondage, and losing yourself in the embrace of another. Flowing with magical realism and queer love, this experimental film is, at its core, a story of diaspora and generational trauma - a theme this generation has much to relate to and understand.</p>
<p>The film follows artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki‑Olivo) as she inhabits a recreation of her bedroom inside the New Museum during her exhibition Nothing New (2023–2024). By living in this intimately staged space within the museum, the documentary explores the interplay between the deeply personal and radically public, and the meaning of sanctuary for a trans artist whose private life becomes communal performance.</p>
<p>Moonbeams tells the story of Frankie and June. Two lovers on either side of a prison wall, writing letters back and forth until Frankie is throw in solitary confinement, and the two must find a way for him to escape the violent Texas prison.</p>
<p>Join Eden and Dula on an awe-inspiringly animated journey toward belonging and self-acceptance, based on the powerful poem by Dean Atta.</p>
<p>Reality and dreams blur together in an unsettling Freudian cycle between teen Lolo and her mother.</p>
<p>A man experiencing relationship tensions seeks release in a super-luxe Manhattan spa.</p>
<p>During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.</p>
<p>After finding a phone accidentally left behind by an astronaut, a lonely alien develops an all-consuming crush that tests his hold on reality.</p>
<p>Chucho is taken care of by his mother Alma for a few days, during which they will grow closer.</p>
<p>One day, when he is older, this kid will look back at his life wondering how he came to be the gay man he is today and ultimately what's next.</p>
<p>A woman retreats to the recesses of her mind when her new co-worker asks her an intrusive question.</p>
<p>A hopeless romantic and their friends contrive a meet-cute at NYC’s queer beach, but chaos, dysphoria, and unexpected connections reshape their quest for love.</p>
<p>After realizing she may want to date women, Anna goes to her roommate’s cousin’s lesbian engagement party in the hopes of figuring out her sexuality, but discovers something much more terrifying instead.</p>
<p>A young lesbian couple debates keeping a painting up in their new apartment.</p>
<p>Low-key, anxiety-managing millennial Monroe Malone is trying to outrun last year’s job loss when she collides with a weave-snatching cartel led by Big Baby. After overhearing his plan to kidnap hair tech genius Camille J. Walker and steal her Infinite Track invention, Monroe jumps into action. The encounter is bound to leave him not untouched by blood.</p>
<p>A newly out middle-aged lesbian panics before a third date and impulsively hires a sex worker to help her prepare.</p>
<p>A former barrel racing champion, haunted by a tragic fall, must find the courage to ride again after forming an unexpected bond with a young woman who harbors a secret of her own.</p>
<p>The perfect housewife has a secret: She’s obsessed with expensive meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter with the butcher comes true, the cracks in her home life are exposed.</p>
<p>Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.</p>
<p>home follows T, a homeless queer teen, on the night he makes a life-changing decision in hopes of finding shelter.</p>
<p>A recently released, formerly incarcerated father tries to reconnect with his daughter & take her to Coney Island, fumbling to connect along the way—only to find Luna Park is closed.</p>
<p>Director Daniel Sterlin-Altman’s stop-motion animated film weaves together middle-aged sexual reawakening and the anxiety of queer adolescence; a funny, fantastical, thought-provoking tale told through puppetry.</p>
<p>In a Post-Roe America where theocracy reigns, a renowned butcher meets the political predator responsible for the killing of her daughter and exacts bloody revenge, setting the stage for a revolution.</p>
<p>A repressed Italian-American father is thrust into his worst nightmare when his secret online crush shows up to his family’s Sunday dinner.</p>
<p>It's been four days since Sophie came out as trans to her partner Jess. Miss finds these two driving to a gas station in the middle of nowhere, so Sophie can take her first steps into society as a woman.</p>
<p>YAN, a junior private investigator hungry for a promotion was hired to find a missing girl named Valeria, last seen at the Dolls location. YAN goes undercover to attend the workshop but, unlike in other investigations, this job requires her to explore personal experiences in order to blend in with the attendees. YAN soon feels conflicted: she’s seeing a darker force is at play, but she’s quickly developing a bond with the Dolls and uncovering feelings she had never investigated within herself.</p>
<p>A vigilante trio summons an otherworldly being to help protect the queer community.</p>
<p>As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young Black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands. Rainbow Girls was executive produced by Cheryl Dunye and Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer).</p>
<p>Jane’s smart, she’s trans, she’s legally dead, and she’s mad as hell. Armed with a kill-list, she’s ready to even the score with elaborate murders. But when she discovers her enemies belong to an alt-right hate group, she’ll have to decide between self-satisfying revenge, or justice for a greater good.</p>
<p>A transgender woman performs a Satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly invites a demonic presence into her home which demands a terrible sacrifice.</p>
<p>A philosophical thriller about a mystic woman who oscillates between performance and projection until she meets her shadow at a local coffee shop (or it's about a girl being haunted by a pronoun, depending on who you ask). Through poetry, presence, and subtle exposition, the film forgoes conventional narrative structure in favor of circling around its thesis: What can you know about a person? They shift in the light.</p>
<p>Told through the fragmented memories of a newborn child, Birth of the Hive Queen follows Amina, a trans sex worker who undergoes an unexpected conception and birth. The film envisions what a uterus transplant might look like outside traditional medical frameworks, centering autonomy and trans ancestry.</p>
<p>On the eve of an eclipse, an extraterrestrial being explores the love lives of Black gay men, seeking to understand human intimacy before his mission ends</p>
<p>Ricky prepares backstage for another sold out performance. He appears composed until he's handed a mysterious envelope. Inside is a handwritten letter from his first love, someone he hasn't seen or heard from in years, and a phone number.</p>
<p>A salty, millennial gay wars with a spunky, Gen Z female he considers a threat to Fire Island Pines’ already crumbling shore while attempting to seduce the optimistic influencer who brought her.</p>
<p>Two youth pastors secretly meet for an afternoon of forbidden love, but must confront how long they can keep their relationship hidden.</p>
<p>A broke queer man agrees to an intimate meeting with an older man for cash, only to be confronted with an unexpected and harrowing request that forces him to grapple with life, death, and his own morality.</p>
<p>Through lyrical poetry and oneiric imagery, the film mythologizes the homosexual practice of “cruising”: clandestine sexual encounters in public spaces. It analogizes this queer custom to ancestral Pan-European accounts of fairie ceremonies and equates the faerie ring–a mythical portal to the underworld–to the real world liminal spaces where cruising historically occurred.</p>
<p>Alex, a jaded cleaner at a gay sex club, tries to satiate his repressed desires through extreme sex.</p>
<p>While rehearsing a sexual assault scene, a pair of actors form a connection they'll be forced to reconfigure once filming begins.</p>
<p>Party clown Bobo endures the birthday gig from hell, involving a snarky coworker and nightmare clients.</p>
<p>A fabulous, queer Muslim beauty entrepreneur must figure out how to compete in a Shark Tank-like product pitch contest after suffering an untimely allergic reaction.</p>
<p>Tap-dancing sensation Suzie Toot stars in La Dichotomie, a minor motion picture co-written, directed, and produced by Dan Ingram, Oscar Ruso, and Suzie Toot. The teaser suggests an exploration of dualities (perhaps identity, performance vs reality) using dance, performance, and visual contrast. Full plot details have not yet been announced.</p>
<p>At a Brooklyn costume party, an uninvited “Princess Diana” seeks revenge on “Judy Garland” for past trauma involving ornithological wallpaper.</p>
<p>Blue's loving gift plans for Violet take a sinister turn when reality interrupts.</p>
<p>Dee spends her idyllic high school days selling sketch artwork with her best friends, Mike and Trey. When their teacher Mrs. Lambert confiscates their money and drawings, she chastises them with a racial slur. Determined to avenge herself and friends, Dee orchestrates a plan to steal Mrs. Lambert’s beloved classroom rabbit, Reeses. She quickly discovers some of her friends have more drastic ideas in mind for revenge, all while confronting an unbeknownst school crush.</p>
<p>A reluctant mother-to-be, struggling to accept the pregnancy she has to endure, has a deeply shocking labour experience. But when faced with her husband’s disgust at what she has birthed, she’s forced to take drastic measures to reconcile with who she has become.</p>
<p>ATTAGIRL! is a high-heeled rampage through Chinatown and Brooklyn—where a bookie with bloodlust hunts down a deadbeat scumbag in a city run by bad bitches just like her.</p>
<p>When a struggling writer discovers he's dating the son of his favorite actress, he'll do anything to make (and keep) a meaningful connection.</p>
<p>Two Asian nonbinary actors and best friends must make some sacrifices when they go up for the same breakout role.</p>
<p>After lighting up and getting the munchies, a group of vulgar teenage girls with a complicated history stumble into a botched robbery at their local convenience store. They must squash their giggles to make it out alive</p>
<p>Two queers desperate to sublet their Bushwick apartment try to charm potential tenants while hiding a bed bug infestation.</p>
<p>A group of queers head upstate for the weekend to learn how to shoot a gun</p>
<p>On the anniversary of their mother’s death, three estranged sisters get stuck in their family fire station, where their decades-long resentments come spilling out.</p>
<p>A teen copes with romantic rejection by blasting music in her room. When her dad suggests going out, she agrees. Their evening takes an unexpected turn as a message forces her to choose between authenticity and keeping up appearances.</p>
<p>A lonely widow's quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.</p>
<p>Desperate to hang onto his Ivy League scholarship, trans hotshot Nico Ramirez moves an hour away from home to play lacrosse at an affluent new high school. Coach says Nico could win them the championship, but will he lose his friends, his full-ride, and his entire sense of self in the process?</p>
<p>In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen MARGARET gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who’s tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.</p>
<p>On May 21, 1990, over 1,000 activists and members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) congregated in Washington DC to "STORM THE NIH" and demand inclusion in their clinical research programs. Over the course of this pivotal day in history, the head of the NIH, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is forced to reckon with his power and privilege.</p>
<p>This film dissects the different perspectives of how the unconscious mind finds healing through nostalgia and connection to the inner child. The inspiration of this stemmed from the medicalization of gender dysphoria by the ADA. This bred me to interact with the question of the intimate why's behind this incongruence between sex and gender, whether gender dysphoria was inherent to transness, and analyze history and how America medicalizes black people. I wondered about our black indigenous understandings of gender pre colonization and western ideals. This experimental documentary-film ultimately examines the technology of black liberation and healing of trauma through vintage fashion, vintage aesthetics, and the romanization of nostalgia to create afro-futuristic utopias</p>
<p>A vibrant exploration of community and Black Trans euphoria, Hustleween chronicles an annual celebration created by EspicyNipples that transforms memory into queer resistance and joy.</p>
<p>Award-winning journalist Imara Jones travels across the United States to share the stories of three Black trans leaders on the frontlines of change: housing advocate Kayla Gore; economic empowerment champion Breonna McCree; and Oluchi Omeoga, who fights for migrant rights. In the face of a surge in anti-trans legislation in 2023, these individuals are developing solutions for economic justice, housing access, human dignity, and community support.</p>
<p>Betty St. Clair is in over her head. In the backstage green room of an all-AAPI drag show, Betty struggles to keep her messy troupe of queens on task with the help of bestie and drag sister, Candace Dikfit. When Betty takes the stage to begin hosting, we realize the event is being held at an Asian American community center for a small crowd of baffled seniors. And to her shock and horror, Betty’s own Yeh Yeh (paternal grandfather) is in attendance!</p>
<p>The film follows Drea, a down-on-her-luck poet navigating her grandmother’s passing among a distant family unwilling to bridge her world as a Deaf, queer artist. When her father, temporarily released from prison to say goodbye to his late mother, arrives at the gathering, Drea is forced to confront buried tensions and find connection.</p>
<p>Amidst the chaos of her daughter's 10th birthday party, Asha must face her estranged mom who shows up unannounced bearing the ultimate gift.</p>
<p>During an elegant engagement party, the unexpected arrival of a guest from the past threatens the event’s apparent perfection.</p>
<p>Zhang, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant, visits the grieving family of his former lover, Ming. Over one afternoon in Queens, he connects with twenty-something Andy, Ming’s genderqueer child.</p>
<p>A high school girl, still reeling over the death of her father, develops the last of his film, only to uncover an intimate secret he kept from her in Divine Sung’s heartfelt and gorgeously shot coming-of-age feature debut about first loves.</p>
<p>A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.</p>
<p>A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.</p>
<p>In this adaptation of an author's memoir, the author focuses on her bisexuality and her addiction issues.</p>
<p>After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen's tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.</p>
<p>A security guard from South India meets a local man at a Kashmir checkpoint. Their forbidden romance faces dual challenges: one can't be open due to religious taboos, the other due to his profession.</p>