Chosen Family

Chosen family stories celebrate the powerful bonds formed between friends and community members. These films highlight how LGBTQ+ people build support systems, homes, and love beyond traditional family structures.

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  • The Centre

    1 season

    The Centre is a safe haven where a lesbian couple provides a space for young women to speak freely about the issues that affect them.

  • As We Are
    1 season

    As We Are

    1 season

    As We Are is a heartfelt, character-driven drama that follows a group of LGBTQ+ friends navigating love, identity, and life on their own terms.
    Set against the backdrop of everyday moments and emotional turning points, the series explores what it means to grow into yourself — not who the world ex...

  • Youtopia

    Movie

    After a devastating break up, an elder millennial inadvertently forms a hipster cult. When members start to disappear, the leader is confronted with the knowledge that her journey of self-discovery may trigger the end of civilization as we know it, forcing her to face her most challenging enemy y...

  • Wild Fire

    Movie

    Seven acquaintances get radically honest about their lives one night around a fire after a party. Unknowingly, they all come to the gathering at a crossroads - one they each have been avoiding, for perhaps their entire life. After an unyielding game of Truth or Dare, the exemplary couple opens up...

  • We All Lie My Darling

    Movie

    Five young queer adults in Sydney collide and connect as they navigate friendship, desire, identity, and the messy realities of growing up. As relationships shift and secrets surface, each must confront who they are, what they want, and how to belong — to themselves and to each other. We All Lie ...

  • Was am ende Zahlt (Nothing Else Matters)

    Movie

    Running away from home, Carla wants to go to Lyon in order to study fashion. But at the train station all her luggage is stolen and she has to stick with Rico who offers her a job on his construction site so she can earn money to finance her journey. Nearby Carla meets Lucie who lives on a bar-tr...

  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    Movie

    When Cameron Post is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, she is promptly shipped off to God's Promise, a religious boarding school, to undergo conversion therapy.

    Alongside other youths "struggling with same-sex attraction," Cameron is subjected to outlandish disci...

  • Tell Me I Love You

    Movie

    A romantic comedy set in beachfront Malibu, and the vibrant Hollywood music scene...

    Tell Me I Love You tells the story of three talented young musicians (Ben, Ally, Melanie) roommates, bandmates and ex-lovers who pull off a hilarious scam to pay for their first album. However their past romanti...

  • Tell It To the Bees

    Movie

    Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the ...

  • Sweethurt

    Movie

    In an attempt to get one last shot with an ex-girlfriend, Jacob takes his friends on a trip under the pretense of dealing with his deceased grandfather's belongings. Elsewhere, heartbroken Skye and best friend Carly go on a trip through the night.

  • Sometimes in Life

    Movie

    Jill, a young fashion designer, finds herself feeling insecure about her relationship with her flirtatious girlfriend and her budding fashion career. Rob, a thirty-something who is a jobless do-nothing, just lost his father and is doing some soul searching on his slacker lifestyle. When these two...

  • S and M Sally

    Movie

    When Jamie (Michelle Ehlen) finds out her girlfriend Jill (Jen McPherson) has spent time exploring BDSM, her insecurities about falling behind in the bedroom push her to propose that they start going to underground clubs. Identifying as the butch one in a traditional butch/femme couple, Jamie ass...

  • Freelancers Anonymous

    Movie

    Billie #hatesherjob and quits mere months before getting married. She meets a ragtag group of women also looking for employment, and finds herself juggling her upcoming wedding with launching a new tech start-up.

  • For Izzy

    Movie

    FOR IZZY is a narrative feature drama filmed in a documentary format infused with elements of magical realism. It tracks the story of what happens after a retired divorcee, Anna, and her lesbian daughter, Dede, struggling with addiction move next door to a lonely widowed father, Peter, and his au...

  • Chuck Chuck Baby

    Movie

    

Set against the hum of a chicken factory, this tender musical romance follows Helen, a woman stuck in routine who reconnects with a long-lost love. As old feelings resurface, she’s forced to confront the life she’s built versus the one she truly wants. Blending raw emotion with unexpected music...

  • Along Came Wanda

    Movie

    A memory jogged by a teapot from an old lover quickly turns into an adventure of discovery for Mary Beth Higgins and her new found friend Wanda as they hit the road in Wanda's RV/Soup Truck. (dir. Jan Miller Corran, US, 2021)

  • A Night at Switch n' Play

    Movie

    Set over one unforgettable night at the Branded Saloon, a gay country-western bar in Brooklyn, this concert-style documentary introduces the members of a queer performance collective, Switch n’ Play, through their electrifying show. More than entertainers, they emerge as a chosen family who welco...

  • Awake (English Subtitles)

    Anna, who’s chronically ill, is visited by Doreen, a door to door proselytizer who makes herself at home and stays the day, slowly defrosting her non-welcome. Together, they walk in the park, bake a cake and watch an Ingmar Bergman film. Blind actresses Alex Bulmer and Margo Cargill star in this ...

  • Zef

    ZEF follows a 21-year-old, genderqueer, skimpy bar worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

    Genderqueer / Trans / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • The Ones We Choose (English Subtitles)

    Elora Bertrand: "a documentary about my chosen family. The ones I decided to walk through life alongside with. First taking the form of a family video ; this documentary takes us from the intimate to the collective, from the intimate to the political."

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • Hedgehog (English Subtitles)

    Brig Huang, a headstrong trans teenager, is propelled into their hangover when a reckless decision to have sex without a condom triggers an urgent determination for the 'morning after' pill.

  • Silent Screams

    Four Friends; Inemo (Intersex), Eucharia (Non-binary), Joan (Transwoman), and Dera (Lesbian) get together despite their personal life challenges to support their Inemo who has a life changing interview released. In the course of celebrating, their night takes an unexpected shift. Will their bond,...

  • Life and the Art of Lying

    A free spirited compulsive liar struggles to connect honestly with the love of her life when devastating news drives her to pursue a renegade solution.

  • Afeminadas: movie (English Subtitles)

    A documentary following Safira O'hara, Khryz Amusa, Chandelly Kidman, Hellena Borgyz, and Jefferson Lemons. From different regions of Brazil, they managed to strengthen the female being as an art form.
    Afeminadas showcases their daily struggles and search for space, conquests, acceptance, and, a...