Tobe and Alex are two Nigerian men who must navigate their secret relationship in a society that criminalizes same-sex love. The 40-minute film 'Pieces of Love' highlights their emotional struggles, balancing moments of happiness with the constant fear of being exposed. Through intimate storytell...

Kostas and Dima (Bruce Ross and Jamie Day) fell in love while serving together in the Soviet Army. When Kostas publishes a book about their forbidden romance, Dima travels to New York City to reconnect and clear up some key facts about their shared past. A tender and bittersweet romantic drama, '...

A profoundly emotional short film from writer-director Mario Galarreta, 'Wayne' follows an elderly farmer who is suffering from dementia. His thoughts take him back to a specific time in his youth, when he fell into forbidden love with a ranch hand named Ron. In the middle of the night, desperate...

Young lovers Giorgio and Marco come from different worlds. The powerful force that attracts them to one another will also fuel them in their fight to stay together. Sexy, thought-provoking and deeply emotional, this romantic drama from Italy examines two lovers at a crossroads and the overwhelmin...

A teenage boy experiences an unexpected sexual awakening when he starts falling for his cousin’s new boyfriend during a family camping trip. A relentlessly charming coming-of-age comedy from writer-director Corey Sherman, ‘Big Boys’ is a hilarious and heartwarming crowd-pleaser, which took home t...

Ahmed and Salma are masquerading as a married, heterosexual couple. With secret lovers representing their true identities, they navigate emotional challenges, questioning the sacrifices they have made to preserve their secret. This award-winning short film from Tunisian director Houcem Slouli exp...

A married pianist takes a job at the legendary Continental Baths in New York City and soon finds himself developing feelings for a confident and sexually free gay co-worker. Newly restored, this groundbreaking 1975 film from director David Buckley takes viewers on a sublime excursion through bise...

Actors Grant and Jimmy fell for one another while working on a dreadful community theater play. Now that Grant has dumped Jimmy before the play’s run has ended, they have to find a way to make it through a performance without killing one another. ‘Thank You, Places’ is a love letter to theater, q...

Martin, a disillusioned New Yorker travels back to his childhood home in Cape Cod after learning of his father’s passing. Once there, he starts to form an unlikely bond with Ted, his father’s late-in-life, live-in boyfriend. Jamie Effros, Norbert Leo Butz and ‘SNL’ alum Cheri Oteri star in this h...

Brothers David and Marek share a secret borne of their mutual self-discovery. When their experimentation crosses the limits of brotherly love, it creates a distressing rift in their relationship. Shot in black and white, this mesmerizing coming-of-age short from Czech writer-director Dominik Györ...

Mariano and Juan, two men in their mid-thirties, have been dating for more than six years. They share a dog and a quiet, seemingly happy life together. When an unexpected visit from a friend brings some surprising news, it threatens to upend the peaceful life they’ve built together – forcing them...

A gay man confronts his belly fat in a shop changing room, triggering him to relive an abusive past relationship. But who can save him from his own body?

A profoundly emotional, award-winning 29-minute drama from Brazilian writer-director Daniel Guarda, ‘That Dark Day’ follows Fábio, a young trans caregiver who is mourning the end of a recent love affair. When he starts working for Louise, an elderly, terminally ill patient, their relationship mat...

Living in Cuba in the 1970s, closeted immigration officer Antonio earns money on the side by selling illegal visas at exorbitant prices. When his secret boyfriend arrives seeking a visa of his own, it becomes clear that Antonio is not the only one keeping secrets. An exceptionally well-made short...

A Jordanian man must find a way to tell his childhood friend and first love the truth about what happened twenty years ago – when a single moment changed both of their lives. Rooted in love and framed within a queer, Arab lens, this award-winning 16-minute short from director Caitlin French McLeo...

A right-wing Brazilian politician, his secret boyfriend and an ambitious young journalist become entangled in an increasingly dangerous battle of wills when the truth about their relationships threatens to become exposed. From director Mauro Carvalho (‘About Us’, ‘Cousins’), ‘The Senator’ is a sl...

A gay, working-class musician living in Toronto has an unwanted encounter a stranger. Without health insurance, the steps he needs to take to avoid HIV infection are not easily accessible… and time is running out. From director M.H. Murray, this tense and powerful film shines a light on the dispa...

Set in the Free State province of South Africa, this coming-of-age drama follows a young farm hand who finds his world turned upside-down when his religious mother brings home a new son. ‘The Harvesters’ is tense and pitiless drama about the intersection of familial and cultural dynamics, explori...

A New York Times travel columnist (John Benjamin Hickey) goes to Tel Aviv to write an article and starts falling for an attractive, much younger film student (Niv Nissim). The newest feature from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox, the writer-director behind ‘Walk on Water’ and ‘Yossi and Jagg...

Young bodies fuse and ooze in this delirious audiovisual freak-out. Like a mix of John Waters and David Lynch, this experimental – and experiential – short film follows three scantly-clad queer performance artists as they descend into a trippy rabbit hole of madness – a dark, wet place where the ...

During a scorching Argentine holiday, a group of male friends get together at a luxury villa. They drink, party hard, make videos together... and begin to test one another's boundaries. Prolific director Marco Berger amplifies the homoerotic undercurrents of male friendships while offering up an ...

In the days before his father’s funeral, a promising young actor is forced to confront the past he thought he had left behind... and that’s before he starts to suspect that he’s not alone in his hotel room. The feature-length debut of short film director Timothy Despina Marshall, ‘In the Room Whe...

An 18-minute tearjerker from writer-director Christian Walsh, ‘After’ follows a gay couple whose once perfect relationship is turned upside-down as they deal with the loss of their daughter in opposite and conflicting ways. Both men understand that they will have to find some way to move forward,...

Five adolescent boys are forced to board a boat with a lecherous sea captain who is hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. They soon arrive on a lush island where dangers and pleasures abound. Gorgeously shot on 16mm, this debut feature from prolific short film director Bertrand Mandico i...