Coming Out Stories

These films explore the emotional journey of realizing, accepting, or sharing one’s identity. From quiet self-discovery to bold declarations of love, coming out stories capture moments of courage, vulnerability, and personal transformation.

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  • Bumblefck USA

    Movie

    Distraught by the suicide of her gay friend Matt, Alexa travels from Amsterdam to her dead friend’s small American town, hoping to uncover the reasons that led Matt to take his own life. She arrives with a backpack, her video camera and intentions to make a film about what it must be like to be g...

  • Between the Shades

    Movie

    Fifty conversations exploring the many different shades of being gay in America. This conversation focuses on the degrees and varying perceptions about how people define themselves, their lives, struggles and triumphs. (dir. Jill Salvino, US, 2017)

  • Almost Adults

    Movie

    A platonic love story between two best friends, Cassie and Mackenzie, in their final year of college as they transition into adulthood. Mackenzie, recently out, embraces her sexuality and tries to catch up on everything she has missed during her teenage years, while Cassie ends a long term relati...

  • A Sweetest Kiss

    Movie

    In the mid-20th century, a lesbian estranged from her family struggles to get them back by falsely adopting the faith of a Christian household where she takes shelter, but finds herself infatuated with their daughter. (dir. Nguyen Nguyen, 2018, US)

  • 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...

  • Come Around

    A Filipino family deals with the aftermath of her daughter Bela coming out as gay. Bela’s parents must learn to accept her sexuality before their relationship is permanently strained. Through their interactions in the kitchen, they gradually grow apart but eventually find their way to each other.

  • O Resgate Da Rosa (English Subtitles)

    Mariana dreams of finishing Art School, but her husband is a traditionalist who doesn't intend to let her pursue her dream. On the other hand, her best friend Paola always encourages her. The two women start to fall in love with each other, causing Mariana to be torn between pursuing her dreams o...

  • Collage (English Subtitles)

    Sarah, a teenage schoolgirl, faces challenges with her sexual identity. She can not express her feelings to her mother, and decides to leave home forever.

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • Akagire

    Teenager Satsuki feels desolate. Loving her girlfriend Jun is so natural to Satsuki, but even her mother thinks that her daughter’s love for her girlfriend is “not normal.” Dating a woman but also having relationship with a man, Satsuki’s sexuality is swaying. As a bisexual, she does not know whe...

  • The Pick Up

    A sullen teen, resentful of her divorcing parents, doesn't like their controlling ways. So when her mom picks her up late from swim practice and gets a flat tire along the way, she sulks. That is, until a mysterious and intriguing stranger comes to help.

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • Open Water Swimmer (English Subtitles)

    Jana and Kristin have just completed their acting studies. They don't like each other but they have to travel together to an audition at a theatre in Munich.

    During the short journey, things don't go exactly as planned. Thrown into the real world, they both realize they're in the same boat and r...

  • Adeline

    Adeline, a stubborn woman, is spending her final days in an end-of-life care home where visitors and few and far between. Before passing, Adeline opens up to her caretaker and shares a story she has never told before. She recounts a tale of youth, forbidden love, and a lost girl. Moved by Adeline...

  • Violet and June

    You know that feeling when you realize that everyone you know is going to die so nothing you do will ever be of consequence in comparison to the movements of the universe and then you accidentally fall in love with your best friend? ...Yeah, me neither.

    Rescued from the depths of an existentia...

  • Sottovoce (English Subtitles)

    Anna is fed up with the flatness of the city and decides to take a journey back in time. She convinces two of her colleagues to go with her to the place where she used to spend every summer when she was a child: Sibari Lakes. On this occasion, she’ll meet a girl who seems to be hiding something a...

  • Welcome Back (English Subtitles)

    After years away, Marcela decides to return to her mother's house to tell her something new: she is going to marry her girlfriend, Bianca. Arriving there, she is surprised by other family members and memories she had been ignoring for years. The day is intense, permeated by Bianca's discoveries a...

  • Happy Ever After

    Happy Ever After is a story of forbidden love in Japan when sparks flew betweenPaniz and Miyuki at a house party. Turns out, Paniz is a visiting English teacher at the same school where Miyuki is a transfer student. The film unfolds an emotional journey for the two women as trials and tribulation...

  • Love and Let Love

    A middle aged widow, who has dutifully been a single parent most of her life, finally decides to let go of her past and go on a date for Valentine's Day. Her daughter, a young painter and closeted lesbian, also goes on a date that very at at the same safe. In sheer coincidence, both mother and da...

  • Orange Blossoms

    Emily suffers in a toxic relationship but things begin to change when a mysterious woman suddenly appears in her life.

  • The Love Letter

    When an unopened love letter from 1945 ends up in the hands of young couple Phoebe and Faith. They not only make it their mission to deliver it to its originally intended recipient, Belle but also end up reuniting her with Hannah, the woman she loved.

  • Fauk My Life

    Fauk My Life is about that space in time where you graduate high school and before you begin college. As the summer for two best friends come to an end, they each
    learn that life is never easy.

  • Never Too Late

    A year after high school graduation in the early 50s, Rita and Beth have a chance to reconnect. In the solitude of the back room at Rita’s job, she
    and Beth are able to let their true feelings for each other finally show themselves. They make a plan to run away together but fate intervenes and ke...

  • Out in Love

    A couple must redefine their marriage of five years after they both realize they’re gay. Karina and Sergio catapult into the unknown in a hilarious and heartfelt journey that explores how they got here while asking “what now?”
    Faced with the reality of two very different gay scenes, they must fig...