First Love Stories
These films capture the excitement, confusion, and intensity of falling in love for the first time. Whether tender, awkward, or transformative, first love stories explore the powerful emotions that come with discovering romance and identity.
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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...
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Brushfires
Movie
When a shy girl, secretly in love with her rocker-grrl housemate, meets an unbalanced heiress on the run, anything could (and does) happen in BRUSHFIRES. As the three women negotiate the dangerous relationships among them, the seven women directors weave a sensual tale of suspense. Drawing inspir...
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Silver Haze
Movie
Franky, a queer nurse still carrying the scars of a traumatic fire, struggles to find stability in her life. When she meets Florence, a tender but complicated connection begins to form. As their relationship deepens, Franky is forced to confront her past, her anger, and what healing might really ...
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Alfi (English Subtitles)
16 year old Noga is trying to write a speech for the Animal-Liberation demonstration with the help of Lea, an older activist. Noga imagines a world without oppression while struggling with her newfound desire.
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I Love Her (English Subtitles)
This movie is about two girls who both feel lonely living in the big city. One of them is a street musician who comes to play every day in the same place. And there, on the street, among the thousands of passer-bys,
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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...
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Lucky Fish
Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.
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The Birthday (English Subtitles)
Two Taiwanese girls, Ron and May, are living in Berlin. As Ron’s birthday approaches, the different love that they feel for each other places them in front of a meaningful change.
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I Love You Where the Sunny Days Are (English Subtitles)
Mati leaves the country to meet Julia, her girlfriend, who currently lives in a distant and cold place. There, they face the lack of identity and the impossibility of returning home
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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...
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Italian 102
They flirted in Italian 101, now it’s time for Jen and Riley to go out on their first date. But when they run into unwanted leers and hostility from strangers, Jen struggles to find the courage to be herself around Riley.
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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...
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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
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Entre Deux (English Subtitles)
On their high school basketball team, Gaby is the indisputable holder and Juliette her eternal substitute, until the day when their rivalry takes them to a new playground.
Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film
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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...
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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...
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The Faint Goodbye
An experience between two people meeting at a coffee shop after years apart. As they reconnect, past thoughts and feelings come back in flashes of both love and pain. What on the surface is just a small casual meeting between past lovers internally feels bigger for the both of them.