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Javier Haba Navarro
  Pablo, Did You Put on the Washing Machine?
[Short] (Spain, 2004, 3 min)

A beautiful portrait of a couple in their daily life.  More»
David Noy
  Family Matters
[Mid-Length] (Israel, 2004, 61 min)

Two gay men, one straight woman, and a baby constitute the focus of this engrossing documentary. When Dafna agrees to co-parent a child with gay couple Itamar and Kai, no one anticipates the trouble that lies ahead when jealously and unresolved issues th  More»
Adaora Nwandu
  Rag Tag
[Feature] (UK, Nigeria, 2006, 98 min)

Despite their radically different backgrounds, young Black British boys Rag and Tag share a close bond - perhaps too close… Separated through circumstance, they reunite years later as young men to discover that their once-innocent desires have defin  More»
Dave O'Brien
  Straight Boys
[Short] (USA, 2006, 15 min)

Will honesty about his feelings for his straight roommate be Ben's best chance for happiness?  More»
Katie O'Neill
  Luna and the Moon
[Short] (Australia, 2005, 7 min)

A quiet, ostracized transgendered woman faces potential violence when she meets a stranger.  More»
Angus Oblong
  Deliriously Jen
[Short] (USA, 2005, 13 min)

Exuberant and oblivious Jen declares herself a hag-fag.  More»
Apollo Oliva
  Colorblind
[Short] (USA, 2006, 20 min)

A straight guy finds himself attracted to his new gay neighbor.  More»
JC Oliva
  Sissy Frenchfry
[Short] (USA, 2005, 28 min)

Sissy, an unlikely most popular kid at school, must fight conservative Bodey McDodey for the student body presidency.  More»
Madeleine Olnek
  Make Room for Phyllis
[Short] (USA, 2006, 12 min)

One woman's journey through polyamory.  More»
Mia Olsson
  Being A Boy
[Short] (Sweden, 2004, 10 min)

Hanna is 15 and uncomfortable with her female body.  More»
Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
  Stray Cats
[Feature] (The Philippines, 2005, 116 min)

In this wonderful hybrid of comedy, romance, and revenge drama, a gay man and his straight female friend wage a battle of the sexes against their less-than-perfect lovers. Boyet, a gay writer of romance novels for women, bases his stories on his neighbor  More»
Nicole Opper
  His Name is Cosmo
[Short] (USA, 2006, 18 min)

A screwball comedy about 2 lesbians and the unlikely character that comes in between them.  More»
Shan Ottey
  Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Custody Movement
[Mid-Length] (USA, 2006, 58 min)

This inspirational documentary revisits the revolutionary spirit of the 1970s to chronicle the experiences of lesbian mothers who struggled to overturn institutionalized homophobia in the legal system which denied them custody of their children. At the f  More»
Craig Parish
  Meanix
[Short] (USA, 2005, 7 min)

Iconic image artist David Meanix demonstrates his characteristic photo-sculpture technique.  More»
Manuel Gomez Pereira
  Queens (Centerpiece)
[Feature] (Spain, 2005, 107 min)

In this spirited screwball comedy romp, five mothers find themselves at their wits’ ends dealing with their gay sons’ impending nuptials – part of a mass gay wedding ceremony scheduled to take place in a glamorous hotel in Madrid. As the v  More»
Jean-Gabriel Periot
  Gay?
[Short] (France, 2000, 2 min)

I'm gay...and I really love sex.  More»
Lou Peterson
  In the Blood
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 82 min)

In the Blood is a college-set supernatural thriller with a gay twist. Cassidy is in his senior year and is starting to finally, if secretly, explore his attraction to men. When the attractive young man makes a date with Victor, a Latino hustler,  More»
Zuza Piussi
  The Crying of Angels
[Mid-Length] (Slovak Republic, 2005, 54 min)

This insightful documentary follows several Slovakian gay men for over a year as they struggle to live and love as they please in a largely Catholic society in which openess about homosexuality is a relatively new phenomenon.  More»
Peter Pizzi
  Love Is Blind
[Short] (USA, 2005, 9 min)

When Betty meets Lucy the sparks fly and so do the bullets.  More»
Barry Poltermann
  The Life of Reilly
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 90 min)

Decades before Queer as Folk, Will and Grace, Logo, or here!, there was Charles Nelson Reilly. A fixture for decades in comedies, talk-shows, and most notably, game shows like The Match Game, Reilly was one of the few visible g  More»
Carlos Portugal
  East Side Story
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 88 min)

Diego, a young, closeted Latino, helps his grandmother run the family restaurant while carrying on a clandestine relationship with equally closeted Pablo. Diego has long felt trapped by the conservative culture of East LA and plans to move away and open  More»
Timo Kalevi Puukko
  High Hopes
[Short] (Bulgaria, 2004, 13 min)

A family begins to dissolve in High Hopes.  More»
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