Inspired by a story written by Russian author Juri Polyakov, the film tells the story of five young men who do not survive their military service in the Red Army. Exposed to a merciless round of daily violence, they desperately try to resist constant humiliation as a result of assaults on their human dignity.

A collage of Super 8mm 70s porn that is bigger than life in 35mm. A sexy and fun smorgasbord — all you can eat in five minutes.

Derek Jarman directs a music video triptych of songs off Marianne Faithfull's iconic album Broken English — featuring "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan," "Witches' Song," and the title track.

Built for Endurance is an experimental short film based on a true story about a violent gay hustler and his so-called girlfriend who attack a man who has been stalking them.

This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love.

A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old male relative.

Something for everyone! Desperate Remedies is an insanely campy bodice-ripper about a turn-of-the-century lipstick lesbian and the ridiculously handsome men who seek to defame her.

A landmark of nineties queer cinema, Rose Troche’s smart, loose-limbed lesbian romance deftly balances sassy wit with insight into the nuances of love and friendship among women.

An early film by lauded director Ira Sachs, Lady embraces the finest in gender confusion.

The Last of England is a non-narrative collage on Britain today. It has twice the energy and bite of My Beautiful Laundrette, and none of the story. Jarman divides his movie into three strands, starting with seductive black-and-white shots of himself at home in London, trying to sum up his feelings about being gay and being an outsider in Britain today.

From Britain, Magic Cottage is a hilarious, wildly provocative spoof of Night of the Living Dead (to the tune of Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," Magic Cottage's end credit crawl also includes a useful list of London's best tearooms — bring a notepad). Shot by renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay.

Hisayasu Satô's Muscle starts with a fleshy muscle-men montage, and a torrid sex scene which ends with one lover cutting off the oth­er's arm — that's just in the first three min­utes! In Tokyo, a journalist for a physique magazine falls into a demented, operatic S/M affair with a dangerous bodybuilder.

Alex and Vicki are two young Greek Australian girls in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Vicki is bored with school and she is abused by her father at home. Alex misses her estranged mother and is trying to deal with her growing sexual attraction to a female teacher. Only together — committing arson, hanging out — do they find moments of peace in their lives.

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and starring Derek Jarman, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

A surprise screening at Frameline18 in conjunction with the Frameline Award reception for Christine Vachon, Postcards from America is inspired by the work and writings of outspoken gay artist David Wojnarowicz, dramatizing three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road.

Intelligent and avant garde, Prince of Peace is the Koyaanisqatsi of toilet shorts.

A free two-hour program of exceptional music videos and films from Britain, all directed (or co-directed) by Derek Jarman, and produced by James Mackay, featuring videos for Marianne Faithfull, The Smiths, Suede, Patti Smith, and Pet Shop Boys.

Three song clips by The Smiths ("The Queen Is Dead," "There Is a Light that Never Goes Out," and "Panic"), all directed with an artistic and conceptual vision by the late Derek Jarman.

Beginning with a gay bashing in the backstreets of Sydney, this award-winning film uses gesture, dance and interior monologue to explore the repercussions of this act of violence.

Pamela Adlon stars in this whimsical 1980s teen comedy as a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight. When their parents insist they must now choose between being male or female, they sagely quip, "Can’t I be both?"

A down-on-his-luck adult film star/director sees a chance to make a comeback when he is rediscovered by a lesbian documentary filmmaker, but she is merely exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project, a musical based on Kate Millett’s The Basement.

Exploring body image, self-perception, eating disorders, and plastic surgery, Tom’s Flesh is informed by the intersection of a late-20th-century gay male body aesthetic, gender, and childhood trauma.

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

Mark, an HIV-positive artist, is obsessed with building a cathedral in honor of his recently deceased father. His boyfriend Joey is a garbage collector who brings home favorite bits of junk to comfort himself as he searches for his biological parents.