If Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson got into hip-hop when they were teenagers and went head-to-head “spitting” poems in front of a raucous live audience, the result might have been something like a youth poetry...

This delicious period piece, based on Sarah Waters’ 1999 novel of the same name, is a women-in-prison movie with a gothic Victorian twist. Upper-class Margaret (Anna Madeley), mourning her father’s recent death...

Epic in length but intimate in scope — and certainly the most daring and sexually explicit portrait of homosexual life in Egypt yet put on screen — Maher Sabry’s film evocatively details the tribulations of 26-...

An experimental film that, although it is short, comprises at least three genres. It's a poetic homage to the great American poet of Howl. And a political pamphlet against the repressive censorship of Singapore. And it's also an artistic piece of pornography. 

Alondra wants just one thing from life: to finally be herself. This fascinating, intense and deeply moving documentary traces the physical and emotional transformation of Alberto to Alondra, as we get an intima...

A recently widowed professor, Dr. Alonso, finds new hope in an unlikely connection with a young school janitor.

A Filipina “lady-boy” blessed with extraordinary beauty and grace, Raquela Rios makes her living by walking the streets and serving a clientele with exotic tastes. Alas, this self-proclaimed queen dreams of far...

Another Gay Movie was a huge hit at Frameline30, and no wonder: It featured an appealing young cast in a breezy and risqué story of four young gay guys out to get laid for the very first time. Now, *Another G...

Like last year’s The Bubble, Antarctica follows the lives of a group of young people living in Tel Aviv but takes a very different and more upbeat approach. Instead of a politically astute tragedy, director...

John thinks he’s got it all figured out. He’s young, good looking and has always had a way with the ladies. After a break-up with his girlfriend, he moves west to Los Angeles for a fresh start. He is officially...

Under Iran’s current fundamentalist rule, a homosexual may be harassed, arrested and punished with the most extreme measures possible. Yet changing your gender is not only legal, it’s perfectly acceptable under...

Jacques Nolot’s frank and blackly humorous film opens in a cemetery, where two men list good reasons to be buried there: “We’ll be in peace. You’ll stop making scenes. The pigeons won’t shit on us.” One of them...

This is the year of gorgeously tragic bi love stories—at least on film. While Frameline31’s program featured happy-go-lucky bisexuals flirting in supermarkets and frolicking in campgrounds, this year bisexual d...

Half of all queer people identify as bi, making bisexuals the largest group in the LGBT population. It’s about time they had a documentary of their own.

Big Eden follows a thirty-something who returns to his childhood Montana home to confront his unrequited passion for his high school best friend.

Frameline’s 1996 screening of Bound, with gorgeous Gina Gershon and co-star Joey “Pants” Pantoliano in attendance, has gone down in Festival history as one of the steamiest and most surprising ever. The surpr...

The beautiful and erotic Bramadero finds Hassen and Jonás on the outskirts of Mexico City. Away from it all, they've found a spot where they can seduce one another and merge into one; where sex becomes desire, desire becomes love, and only death will separate them.

Frameline32 saves one of the best for last with this only-in-Canada mix of homos, hockey and family values.

Rejection and prejudice are ubiquitous in the life of any actor. For Jamie Klein (Michelle Ehlen, who also directs), a butch lesbian thespian determined to make it in Hollywood, getting cast in a role turns int...

Father of three, successful TV actor and artist and proud member of the First Nations two-spirited gay community, Byron Chief-Moon is a fascinating mesh of dynamic personae. But when he dances alone in the fore...

When Troy Perry, a young married minister, finally accepts his homosexuality, he thinks that his relationship with God is over. But just when he thinks he’s lost everything, he finds his calling and founds a ne...

Writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy met in 1952 and, despite a 30-year age difference, fell in love. Framed by Bachardy’s intimate and revelatory recollections, this beautifully reflective trib...

Hidden within every ending is the seed of a new beginning. When Mark dies suddenly, his best friend Jeff is left to tie up the loose ends and is surprised to discover that Mark was cultivating an intimate onlin...

Citizen Nawi offers a brave and hopeful look at Ezra Nawi, a Sephardic Jew and relentless activist living in Israel. Nawi engages the Israeli Defense Force over the rights of Arab villagers in South Hebron an...