Friends to Lovers
These stories follow close friendships that deepen into romantic love. Full of longing glances, emotional tension, and slow-burn connection, friends-to-lovers films capture the magic of realizing the person you’ve been searching for may have been beside you all along.
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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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Bliss
Movie
In a Berlin brothel, Sascha and Maria form an unexpected and deeply intimate connection. As their bond grows, they begin to imagine a life beyond the confines of their work. But escaping their circumstances proves complicated, forcing them to confront power, vulnerability, and what they’re willin...
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Good By Sun (English Subtitles)
Two young women meet each other on the way to Loas and spend an unforgettable day together.
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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Joey's Heart
Joey, an unlucky-in-love lesbian, rediscovers her sexuality in the most unexpected of ways. Tired of being single, she meets Alice at the local community laughter club where she experiences true connection. Could this be the true love Joey's has her heart set on?
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The Morning After
Two women, in the middle of their own life-crises, try to find physical reprieve in each other, only to have an emotional one night stand.
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Steady State
The short film Steady State (2022) by Alexandra Swarens is a 13-minute LGBTQ+ short starring Swarens and Elizabeth Manning. It follows two women meeting and spending time together while exploring the emotional dynamics of attraction and relationship tension. “The little things people love about y...
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What Does It Feel Like to Fall In Love
We are so used to expecting the bad, that we don’t fully enjoy it. This short film shows that this is not always the case, that not everything goes wrong. It’s natural to be a little afraid, but if we never go for it openly and with hope, we will never have that chance for something good.