In Beirut, where homosexuality is forbidden, a small apartment serves as a sanctuary for four LGBT Lebanese of different faiths and cultural backgrounds to speak freely about their lives in a land divided by war, family, religion, and other countries’ conflicts.  More...

Ghosts of the past distract Nat as he counsels a newly diagnosed HIV-positive client.  More...

A flamboyant man seeks escape from harsh reality.  More...

When 18-year-old Don Bachardy was introduced to 49-year-old Christopher Isherwood in 1950s Malibu, neither man knew it would be the start of a love story that would last for 30 years. Chris & Don chronicles their years together, with the vibrant and engaging Don at this extraordinary documentary’s epicenter. Don, a UCLA student with artistic talents, became the ideal companion for Isherwood, the celebrated British writer best known for his Berlin Stories. Despite their age difference, a relationship blossomed, and Don soon moved in with Chris. Growing up in the LA suburbs enamored with Hollywood, Don had crashed premieres to take photos with celebrities. With Chris, he suddenly found himself hobnobbing with all manner of luminaries from the arts and literary scene, such as WH Auden, Igor Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Encouraged by Chris, Don developed his artistic ambitions in art school and eventually found his own fame as a painter, with Chris as his regular model. Open about their relationship at a time when homosexuality wasn’t discussed in polite conversation, Chris and Don weathered the various storms resulting from their different ages, classes, and backgrounds, and remained together until Chris’ death in 1986. Combining interviews with Don, Chris’ personal journal entries, rare home movies, and archival footage, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara have crafted a very personal story, best demonstrated through the charming animated sequences depicting the horse and cat alter-egos the couple doodled on their personal letters over the years. Chris & Don is a touching, illuminating portrait of the enduring power of love.  More...

Against the backdrop of Giuliani’s Disneyfication of Times Square and the general “cleaning up” of everything that gave NYC its unique character, the drag punk club SqueezeBox was an act of defiance. The weekly rock and roll party, which ran for seven years at Don Hill’s, celebrated true diversity – everyone was welcome, just check your attitude at the door. Gays, straights, trans, men, women, young, and old all commingled together to listen to a wide variety of performers live on stage – from Deborah Harry to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, from The Toilet Boys, to Jayne County. SqueezeBox! celebrates a distinctly New York cultural phenomenon, paying tribute to a different era gone but not forgotten.  More...

In this beautiful 1950s South African set drama, an unexpected love develops between two Indian women against the backdrop of the beginnings of apartheid. Rebellious café owner Amina (Sheetal Sheth), in her trousers and male shirts, makes her own rules. Her café harbors those who are most affected by the new racial laws. When she meets the more traditional Miriam (Lisa Ray), a pretty young wife and mother, she is immediately smitten. Strait-laced Miriam, stuck in a loveless marriage, is fascinated by Miriam’s unconventional ways, but can they take the risk of acting on their feelings?  More...

We all love cupcakes.  More...

Jay and his boyfriend discover that the population of LA has mysteriously vanished.  More...

Daydreamer Farouzi is a young Dutch-Arabic girl whose only true friend is her donkey, until a new girl arrives.  More...

Steam tells the stories of three very different women, at three different stages of life, who are linked only by the steam room of their local gym, where they go to escape their everyday lives. Single mom Laurie (a commanding Ally Sheedy) is still being manipulated by her slimy ex-husband. Doris (the mesmerizing Ruby Dee, Oscar-nominated for American Gangster), a recent widow, can no longer find much to live for, and is becoming increasingly isolated. Elizabeth (impressive newcomer Kate Siegel), a college freshman, is caught in her emotionless parents’ controlling grip. Initially, each woman seems impossibly stuck. But, suddenly, they reach a turning point, and a new relationship opens up unanticipated opportunities for change. Laurie, encouraged by her acerbic best friend, Jacky (Chelsea Handler, from TV’s Chelsea Lately), returns the attention of her son’s attractive, and much younger, football coach, Roy. Doris finds a companion in August, a charmer who wears down the walls she’s built up and reminds her that she’s still alive, even if her husband is not. Elizabeth experiences an awakening as she comes to terms with her sexuality when she meets the beautiful and politically active Niala. But when obstacles arise, can all three women discover the hidden strength within themselves to move forward, or will they instead retreat to the familiarity and safety of their old habits? In Steam, Kyle Schickner, whose Strange Fruit won Best Narrative Feature in NewFest 2005, has crafted an exceptional film featuring three exceptional actresses who illuminate the screen with their strength and talent.  More...

Twenty-something Ricky is feeling abandoned. He’s learned that the couple he has maintained a threesome with over the past year is planning on dumping him when they return home from Christmas holidays. In the meantime, he’s expected to housesit for them during the most depressing time of the year to be alone. To pass the time, and to attempt to feel human connection, he engages in anonymous hook-ups, but is left feeling empty. Has he reached the end of his rope, or could salvation await in the form of a friendly neighbor?  More...

Miriam and Karina prepare for Karina’s wedding.  More...

See the Indigo Girls as you have never seen them before in this hilarious subversive rock n' roll video.  More...

Legendary porn superstar Jack Wrangler’s life has taken so many twists and turns, one would swear it was fictional. Jeffrey Schwarz’s expertly constructed documentary explores the life of the most celebrated and successful gay porn star of the 1970s, who carefully cultivated his image, turning himself into a brand name, and influenced a generation of gay men with his masculine and rugged good looks. Remarkably, he went on to successfully crossover and become one of the biggest straight porn stars in the 1980s. But the biggest twist came when he met singer Margaret Whiting, 22 years his senior, and inexplicably fell in love. Wrangler is a remarkable film about an extraordinary figure.  More...

A friendship forms between a heartbroken fiancee and a lost teenage girl.  More...

Two dimly lit men indulge in a purposeless pleasure, as if someone had ordered them to get in the mood and masturbate.  More...

It all comes down to eleven minutes – the length of time for a runway show during Fashion Week in Bryant Park. Jay McCarroll’s been working toward those critical eleven minutes for a year, and Michael Selditch and Rob Tate have been granted an all-access pass to follow the designer as he prepares for the introduction of his first line of clothing. After winning the first season of the über-popular Project Runway, and being declared “the next great American designer,” Jay has a lot riding on this show, and on selling his line afterwards. Eleven Minutes is an always gripping, often quite humorous exploration of the world of fashion, where art must co-exist with business, and where you’re only as good as your last design.  More...

Eva is 16 years-old and falls in love with her father's new girlfriend.  More...

Against the backdrop of Giuliani’s Disneyfication of Times Square and the general “cleaning up” of everything that gave NYC its unique character, the drag punk club SqueezeBox was an act of defiance. The weekly rock and roll party, which ran for seven years at Don Hill’s, celebrated true diversity – everyone was welcome, just check your attitude at the door. Gays, straights, trans, men, women, young, and old all commingled together to listen to a wide variety of performers live on stage – from Deborah Harry to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, from The Toilet Boys, to Jayne County. SqueezeBox! celebrates a distinctly New York cultural phenomenon, paying tribute to a different era gone but not forgotten.  More...

Imri, an attractive nineteen-year-old, moves to Tel Aviv but dreams ultimately of moving to Japan. For the time being, however, he settles into an apartment, complete with an oddball roommate, and toils away at a random job. In his off hours, he cruises for boys, investigates the scene, and surfs porn, which invades the film, creating an exotic, sexually graphic cyberspace landscape in parallel existence with Lior’s more mundane everyday existence. Semi-improvised but immediately and viscerally accessible, Japan Japan signals Lior Shamriz and lead actor Imri Kahn as ones to watch.  More...

A homoerotic romp in which three men linger over a fuse box.  More...

Melrose Place meets The L Word in the smart ensemble drama Don’t Go, a series pilot featuring Nisha Ganatra (Chutney Popcorn), Guinevere Turner, and a host of sexy, multicultural characters who all live in the same apartment complex in Los Angeles. The best elements of unexpected soap-style intrigue, romance, and humor play out with people of color directly in the spotlight.  More...

In Clapham Junction, a number of separate stories weave together over the course of one long night - the celebration of a gay wedding, a young man devoted to his grandmother’s care, a schoolboy lusting after a much older man, a couple hosting a stylish dinner party, aided by a maid whose son walks home alone. Intersecting in surprising ways, these strands form a devastating and provocative portrait of modern day gay life in London, culminating in a shockingly violent climax in the titular area, the site of a real-life hate crime that claimed the life of a young gay man in 2005.  More...

Two teenagers, alone in a public bathroom.  More...

Two teenagers, alone in a public bathroom.  More...

The relationship between a 91 year-old man and his lesbian granddaughter.  More...

We all love cupcakes.  More...