Queer Friend Groups
These films focus on the friendships that shape queer life. Through laughter, drama, and deep loyalty, queer friend group stories highlight the bonds, humor, and support that make community such an important part of LGBTQ+ culture.
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Braids of Life
Movie
“Braid of Lives” is a film that explores the intertwined lives of three characters plagued by dilemmas and difficult choices. Lisa is addicted to gambling and finds herself trapped in a debt spiral, at risk of losing everything. Meanwhile, Val attempts to recover from a tumultuous relationship wh...
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Beyond Love
Movie
Anna and Marina are in love and they have been living together for over 10 years. Stefano and Tony, a gay couple, are their best friends. Since her childhood Marina has been really closed to Stefano. They are true friends: one soul in two bodies. Anna tells Marina that she would like to have a ba...
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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...
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Afeminadas
Movie
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...
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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...
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Persephone Mara (English Subtitles)
Memory, love, and mental health are explored in this hybrid-fiction-cinema-play about two adolescents named Persephone and Mara, who decide to escape from the world around them by none other than locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinematheque.
Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short...
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Lori And Kathy Get Married
A warm, funny, joyous look at gay marriage in San Francisco. Going inside San Francisco City Hall during the historic days of February, 2004, the video follows a lesbian couple through the marriage process and on their wedding reception with friends and family in Napa, California.
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Bathroom Break
Mari secretly prefers to spend their night out in the club bathroom, where they connect with many strangers and eventually themself.
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Life in Love pt II with Robyn and Cinthia
'Life in Love' explores love, sex, and relationships from the perspective of a young couple. Through second dates and mind-expanding sex, frank conversations, and clubbing, each episode seeks to understand what Gen Z wants and needs from love with each of the three couples revealing intimate and ...
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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
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Beş (English Subtitles)
Asli, a young, Turkish, lesbian woman, returns to the village where she was born to attend the henna-party of her childhood friend. She fears not being accepted, but when she sees her old friends again, she comes to realize that she herself has the biggest prejudice.
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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,...
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Post-Apocalyptic Potluck
Wendy hosts a potluck for friends just as the world comes to an end. Together, they work through the stages of grief
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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.
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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... -
Butch Pal for the Straight Gal: Mocumentary
In a world where societal pressures often force women to act, dress and conform to unrealistic feminine stereotypes, five queer women, each with their own specialty, help straight women re-discover their true identity. With areas of expertise including Fashion, Grooming, Cooking, Design, and Cult...
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BRB
Emily and Eileen, coworkers and best friends, are spending Christmas together this year, but first they must survive their boss's holiday party. When all the holiday hubbub brings out Emily's mommy issues, and Eileen's incessant need for attention, the duo begin to create chaos instead of holiday...