An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Two girls are afraid of what will happen if one of the student’s parents might discover their mutual “crushes,” as they monitor all messages on her phone. Instead, they share written notes in class. After learning this, their teacher Ms. Amado is forced to confront conservative prejudices within the school system by coming out to her entire class.
Kevin returns home with a birthday surprise for his mother, Lisa, only to discover her lost in the mundane act of cooking. But something is terribly wrong—Lisa’s irritability, her forgetfulness, her unrecognizable gaze. What starts as a simple celebration spirals into a chilling revelation of a son witnessing his mother’s mental decline. Flake is an emotional exploration of the fragile nature of memory and the profound bond between mother and son.
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Bruno, a misunderstood teenager, has developed an obsession with burning objects, recording them, and uploading videos to the internet to deal with his father’s death. When his lonely mother starts dating another man, Bruno escapes from home. He goes to another town to live with Daniela, a young pyromaniac he met online and with whom he has an epistolary relationship. During the painful separation from his mother and his best friend Ian, he begins to question his sexuality and capacity to overcome his father’s loss.
Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.
After troubled ex-chef Connie finds much sought-after peace in a casual hookup with free-spirit Gayle, she is confronted by Gayle’s anxious partner, Petra.
Sarah, a middle-aged woman who hustles as the sole breadwinner of her family of two, scrambles to teach online courses and meet her food orders to provide for her delinquent son Emman. One day, Sarah brings home Oliver, one of her students, to give him refuge from his violent father. Oliver's presence will have an unimagined impact on Emman.
Therapist Olga runs an exclusive therapeutic community for people deeply marked by trauma in a remote countryside farmhouse. By her side is her son Lorenzo, fragile and troubled, bound to her by a deeply complex and intimate relationship, The arrival of enigmatic Tommaso, who seems to know long-buried and unspeakable secrets, disrupts the group’s fragile balance and profoundly undermines the bond between mother and son. As manipulation and guilt intensify, the line between healing and madness becomes increasingly blurred, leading to an inevitable reckoning.
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.
Anchan and Deokwoo are inseparable friends, one helping the other approach girls and write love letters. Yet their feelings are drifting in different directions.
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While living in America, a Cambodian teenager finds home inside the water of his high school pool.
A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene.
An elderly woman's quiet morning turns into the toughest day of her life with an unexpected visit from her son. He informs her that he is the unknown murderer the police has been searching for.
American teen Neelu feels like a fish out of water amidst preparations for her sister's wedding in Delhi until she forges a brief and unexpected connection with Zeyb, a quiet sari store clerk who moonlights as an internet drag queen.
In a small Spanish town, teenager Mio's parents mysteriously disappear, forcing him to undertake an odyssey between childhood and adolescence that demands everything of him in his quest to find himself.
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Kate is a dancer, but with her current partner getting injured, she is forced to grow a connection with a female stand in, eventually turning her world upside down