In her classic indie polemic on racism, sexism and socialism, director Lizzie Borden definitely has her own ax to wield — and grind. On the tenth anniversary of the United States’ Social Democratic War of Liber...

When yuppie New Yorker David volunteers to be a “buddy” to an AIDS patient, the community center assigns him to a gay activist from California, in Arthur J. Bressan’s 1985 indie masterpiece, the first feature-length drama about AIDS. This is the world premiere of a new digital restoration.

A highly controversial film upon its release in Spain as the first feature narrative with homosexuality openly discussed, Hidden Pleasures follows Eduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed warm, yet ignores requests from a friend to join the social gay movements.

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime...

The fragility of the 16mm film medium, the pollution of light, and the demise of the filmmaker are explored in Optic Nerve.

A modern gay classic, We Were One Man takes place in France in 1943 and is the story of Guy, a French farmer about to be married, and Rolf, a German soldier. One day Guy finds a wounded Rolf, takes him home, nurses him to health, and tries to prevent his return to the army.

A love story between two Berliners from opposite sides of the wall offering never-before seen insights into the eastern part of the city, where filming was done illegally with a hidden camera.

Ron Peck tests the thin line between pornography and art with his amusing rumination on the difficulties of showing the naked male form.