Seventeen

Maybe that's what they like, a little bit of melodrama.

A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.

Queer, Chechen, Kurdish, four of them with Down Syndrome: a dance collective of disabled and non-disabled performers is about to premiere at a theater festival. Then, of all things, a soloist sprains her foot, putting both the premiere and the collective’s future in jeopardy. Everyone in the ensemble knows what is at stake: the cultural sector is merciless, the clock is ticking, and in no time at all, you’re out of the picture. The dancers must come up with a creative solution rather than sinking into the abyss of personal sensitivities.

It took a hundred queer years for Lola Perla to be finally recognized by a government that never really took notice of the likes of her. But that’s okay, because along with the president’s anti-climactic, and in many ways, almost insincere recognition is a fat envelope containing Php100,000 (USD$2,000). For Perla, this is more than enough money to transcend her idea of a lifetime legacy. Today is the day Lola Perla confronts her long-standing personal covenant: to bail an ex-lover’s son out of jail. Meeting fifty-someting Nanding transforms into a reunion, then, a communion of her present self, with an old love.

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

After a chance meeting in a quiet New York City park, two young women embark on a life changing weekend of romance and regret in this subversive love story

A short stream of consciousness of a man who is drinking Absinthe to blur the lines between dominant and submissive identity.

The insecure genderqueer Jae wants to make their mother proud by including her in their life. When their mother attempts to keep contact to a minimum, Jae confronts her in vain.

As the prospect of marriage, children, and the threat of domesticity are thrust upon a young Irish woman in an arranged marriage, she begins to crack, and is forced to reckon with her true identity.

A group of transvestite friends sneaks into the municipal swimming pool like every night. The darkness protects them from the gaze of the world. But tonight is different.

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.

Eden is a few years graduated from high school and decides to write a series of letters addressed to her younger self as a form of catharsis, reflecting on her experiences of being a publicly out queer teenager, as well as what she wishes she knew when she was growing up... and what she wishes she didn’t. From the trials, tribulations, and trauma of being ‘different’ to her peers, to the unconditional allyship shown by those close to her, this is an emotional story about self-discovery, acceptance, courage, and first love.

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

Desperate to escape his past, a troubled telegraph operator must face his memories of a helpless sailor as they come knocking back to haunt him.

A daughter struggles to speak with her father about her grandmother, revealing the quiet distances — and shared inheritances — that shape three generations of family.

Sophia struggles with overthinking her life as a poor, nihilistic drifter. Exiled to a life of solitude, she has the chance to change it all upon meeting Liza one night... Did she let her in or was she destined to burn it all? The aftermath of their breakup is explored through three different angles.

During a summer in a french southern village, two girls meet : Laure sells antique linen while Ophélie runs an art gallery. Although they have nothing in common, they grow closer as they talk to each other and their opposing characters become interwined.

Lennie is starting her first novel, finally striking out and taking her first step to her ambitions while keeping her relationship and social life afloat. Rosie and Lennie have been dating a while and now their relationship is becoming strained and imbalanced. The more Lennie writes the more she learns about herself and her relationship.