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.

As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance.

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...

Mikel (Imanol Arias) dies in strange circumstances and groups of villagers demonstrate against his politically-motivated killers. Gradually, the facts behind his death come to light.

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

Derek Jarman’s first feature, directed with Paul Humfress, presents the controversial, sensual, sexualized story of the 4th century Praetorian Guard whose human goodness leads to humiliation and martyrdom.

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.