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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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.
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Love, Paper, Scissors (English Subtitles)
Laura is a shy girl who refuses to see other people and never leaves her home where she makes origami all day long. All of a sudden, she crashes on Elena - an adventurer and a traveler that never stays in one place for too long. Will the two have the courage to escape from their comfort zone and ...
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Scented Tea (English Subtitles)
Classmates A-hua and A-cha climbed over the school wall to skip classes in order to find A-hua's missing boyfriend. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a love trap set by A-Cha.
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Pass the Salt
When two women of different faiths fall in love, they must find a way for their traditional families to break bread.
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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...
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Italian 101
Jen, a shy university student, falls for her cool and confident classmate, Riley. When partnered up for a class project, Jen must decide whether or not she can gather up the courage to ask Riley out on a date.
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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...
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In the Hall of Memories (English Subtitles)
Past and present get mixed up in the mind of poetess Martha, when she bumps into memories she didn’t remember she had forgotten, regarding her time alongside the young student Elouise.
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Orange Blossoms
Emily suffers in a toxic relationship but things begin to change when a mysterious woman suddenly appears in her life.
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Yellow Polka Dot
During the summer of 1962, Barbara and Sandra are spending a very warm day at the beach with their partners. They discuss the evening before when they all went out to a nightclub, the men drank and talked, at the other side of the table the women were getting closer.
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Love on the Cards
On the way to a job interview, heavy snowfall forces Tess (Tippy Elgar)to seek cover. She heads to the nearest place available, Tarot and Tea shop, for shelter. Totally unaware that what is revealed in the cards for her future is just the beginning. When Tess first encounters the mysterious Louis...
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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
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Coffee and Lavender
Kennedy and Bianca meet at a party when Kennedy gets injured during a game of beer pong. They bond quickly and instantly begin a summer romance. Even though they know it won't last, they don't waste a second with each other and their relationship leaves a lasting imprint on both of them.