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Young actress Marci, who stars as a cheerleader in the hit television series Beverly Heights is seen by everyone as head cheerleader dating the football team captain, but behind closed doors she’s in love with a mysterious girl named Emily.

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

When her digital Citizen Pass fails, a mother is branded a threat by an authoritarian system and must travel to Warsaw to reclaim her rights, triggering an investigation that could destroy her family.

When darkness falls, temperatures rise in these six stories about late night confessions, intimacy for sale, high speed hookups and full moon frissons. But when the sun comes up and reality reveals itself, will it have all been worth it? The short films are: Thirst (2018); According to Mateo [Según Mateo] (2017); Hardcore (2016); Beast [Séptimo] (2011); Petit Ami (2017); Skai Blue (2017).

In Paris, a seductive lesbian couple lures a naive British exchange student into their world of art, lust, and manipulation. What begins as a passionate threesome soon spirals into a deadly game of emotional control and criminal escalation. As love turns to obsession, the trio descends into a web of betrayal, seduction, and murder.

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.

Throughout the 1960's, gay bars served as havens for a marginalized queer community across the country. Frequent police raids and laws dictating women to wear three pieces of 'gender appropriate clothing' resulted in countless cases of police harassment, assault, and brutality. Sanctuary follows Meg and Abigail as they navigate their interaction and coping process after one such raid.

Magdalena, or Lena for short, has a new class project to take care of a fake baby with her boyfriend, Paul. However, during the project, Lena starts to struggle with the relationships around her —like her boyfriend and her mom— because of this new person that comes into her life and makes her question her identity.

A group of close friends take a trip to a snowy cabin for the winter. Drinks are spilled, lessons are learned, and memories are cultivated as the three day party comes unraveled.

The social project of a teacher faces failure as the pupils' priorities are love affairs and work. Their days are devoted to desire and Brazilian funk, seeking an utopic independence, while reality creeps up on them.

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene

When a skeptical woman retreats to a secluded cabin believed to be magical, she falls for its enigmatic witch owner, until dark spells, buried secrets, and a restless ghost threaten their chance at love.

Two boys from a soccer team disguise their love relationship as sheer friendship so as not to be discovered. One night of passion inside a car wash could trigger a different path in their lives.

A super low-budget, drag king, pirate movie shot on miniDV. Pirates capture a naïve Butch and promise him that if he can find the Queen’s stolen treasure, they will be give him his heart’s desire—the seductive femme Claudia. Soon Butch is sailing on treacherous seas, swept away by dangerous desires where tops are bottomed, pirate captains are seduced by tranny sailors and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop. With the help of the mysterious Easy and the infamous pirate Captain Candy, can Butch find the treasure in time to restore the natural attraction between butch and femme? Decidedly tongue-in-cheek, this clever tale uses a pastiche of pillaged imagery to lead us into the uncharted oceans of dyke desire. A sweetly perverse fable for drag kings, gender-benders and those who adore them. Music by Amon Tobin

A starving vampire seeks a new path forward after swearing off human blood. They are approached by another of their kind who hands them a map, pointing them in the direction of a witch in the woods who resides over a vampire brood. It is in her body, they are told, that they can find the succor they need, both to stay alive and, possibly, to become free.

The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace.

What do you get when you cross a retired dragon deity and a sailor? A disaster, a wrecked ship, and a hungry crew stranded on the shores of Singapura.