Directed by Whammy Alcazaren • 2018 • Philippines
Starring Ricky Davao, Meryll Soriano, Jasmine Curtis-Smith

Shot entirely on a vertically oriented iPhone, this daring, provocative feature from boundary-pushing auteur Whammy Alcazaren is an intimate immersion into the secret inner worlds of an a...

Directed by Whammy Alcazaren • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ricky Davao, Gio Gahol, luckymaybe1923

Trapped at home with his talking cat, a man seeks refuge in the strong arms of strange men as together they venture deep down into the nether regions of the Internet in search of true happiness. Cau...

Directed by Marvin Lemus • 2015 • United States
Starring Vico Ortiz, Jessica Camacho, Natalia Cordova-Buckley

Vico Ortiz (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH) and Jessica Camacho (ALL RISE, THE FLASH, WATCHMEN) costar in this beautiful story about what it looks like to show up as an ally for our gender-nonconf...

Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1989 • United States

Marlon Riggs’s landmark documentary uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others) to describe the homophobia and racism faced by Black gay men. The stories are often devastating: the man refused en...

Directed by Cary Cronenwett • 2009 • United States
Starring Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout Festa

This experimental historical narrative set in a mythologized version of revolutionary Russia reimagines the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors and features the largest cas...

Directed by Susan Muska • 1992 • United States

Stafford recounts a memorable encounter at a sex club.

Directed by Gregg Araki • 1995 • United States, France
Starring James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech

Newly restored to its audacious, uncut glory, the blistering second installment in Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy is a wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the fring...

Directed by Érica Sarmet • 2021 • Brazil
Starring Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Lorre Motta

This formally innovative, euphorically sexy short travels through the queer Brazil of past, present, and future as it traces an encounter between an older butch biker and a band of young polyamorous lesb...

Directed by Sophie E. Constantinou • 1994 • United States
Starring Henry S. Rubin

In this playful direct address, trans man Henry gives nuanced voice to his experience and extols the singular joy of wearing a suit.

Directed by Milton Miron • 1971 • United States
Starring Goldie Glitters, Richard Koldewyn, Sylvester

Revel in the psychedelic debauchery as underground “acid drag” theater troupe the Cockettes orchestrate a decidedly queer, hysterically funny send-up of the televised wedding of First Daughter T...

Directed by Jude Dry • 2022 • United States

When Jude ends up unexpectedly living at home in their thirties, they must deal with a lovingly opinionated Jewish mother who doesn’t quite get the whole “trans thing.” Shot in the dog days of quarantine during a picturesque Vermont summer, MONSIEUR LE...

Directed by Bret “Brook” Parker • 2022 • United States

This animated short tells a true story about gender identity, Little League Baseball, the people who inspire change by being themselves, and the superheroes who allow that change to happen.

Directed by Monika Treut • 1992 • Germany
Starring Max Wolf Valerio

Pioneering trans writer Max Wolf Valerio talks about his life and experience of transition in this groundbreaking short, one of the first portraits of a trans man on film.

Directed by Sérgio Toledo • 1986 • Brazil
Starring Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Raul Cortez, Aida Leiner

Based on the tragically short life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult upbringing in an orphanage before find...

Directed by Stanley Kwan • 2001 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Huatong Li

Filmed in secret in Beijing, this tender gay romance by Stanley Kwan combines the timeless conventions of classic melodrama with a radically frank depiction of queer intimacy as it traces, over the course of y...

Directed by Lucy Winer • 1981 • United States
Starring Rob Epstein, Jan Oxenberg, Terry Lawler

On October 14, 1979, LGBTQ+ history was made when tens of thousands of people converged on America’s capital for the first ever National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. This empowering ...

Directed by H. Lenn Keller • 1993 • United States

This stylized short, both sex-positive and slick, follows a day in the life of a Black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the cit...

Directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams • 1995 • United Kingdom
Starring Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki

This remarkable documentary offers rich insight into gender and sexuality in Japan via a candid portrait of Kazuki, Tatsu, and Gaish, three trans masc hosts working at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo...

Directed by Marin Håskjold • 2017 • Norway
Starring Jonas Strand Gravli, Sverre Kvamme

The dynamics between friends are challenged when Martin arrives at a Christmas party wearing a dress. As hidden desires come forth, the evening becomes an exploration of gender roles.

Directed by Eva Vitija • 2022 • Germany, Switzerland
Starring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth, Marijane Meaker

The life and work of celebrated American writer Patricia Highsmith are revealed through her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends, and family...

Directed by Olive Nwosu • United Kingdom, Nigeria • 2021
Starring Teniola Aladese, Sheila Chukwulozie, Loveth Onyemaobi

Salewa (Sheila Chukwulozie), a young queer woman living with her wife in London, returns to her hometown in Nigeria for her mother’s funeral. There, she confronts her complex f...

Directed by Juliet Bashore • 1986 • United States
Starring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive Tigr and the magne...

Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1991 • United States
Starring River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant about two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and ...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1985 • Japan, United States

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between s...