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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  • Riot Girls

    Movie

    Set in a time where a mysterious illness has killed all the adults. The town of Potter's Bluff has been divided into two rival factions, the 'East Side', made up of scrappy scavengers living amongst the ruins, and the 'West Side', which hoards its wealth in the former high school and is ruled by ...

  • Mixed Messages

    Movie

    The movie follows thirty-something Ren as she navigates her way through a year on the queer scene in Berlin and struggles to find connection in the post-trendy world of polyamory, BDSM and militant veganism. (dir. Kanchi Wichmann, Germany, 2017)

  • Idle Thoughts

    Movie

    When a demanding lover inspires her to write, an idle woman must fake the relationship in order to complete her new book. (dir. Andrew Willig, Canada, 2018)
    Best suited for viewers who enjoy scrappy, character-driven lesbian indies, rather than polished, feel-good romances.

  • I Hate New Year's

    Movie + 1 extra

    I Hate New Year’s is a charming holiday lesbian romcom that follows rising pop star Layne Price, who heads back to Nashville to find inspiration after a creative block stalls her music career. Determined to escape the glitz of L.A. and avoid the holiday altogether, Layne reconnects with her best ...

  • Goldfish Memory

    Movie

    Set in contemporary Dublin, Goldfish Memory follows an interconnected group of young adults as they navigate a tangled web of relationships—falling in love, breaking up, and starting over again and again.
    As straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual connections overlap and collide, the film explores t...

  • For Izzy

    Movie

    FOR IZZY is a narrative feature drama filmed in a documentary format infused with elements of magical realism. It tracks the story of what happens after a retired divorcee, Anna, and her lesbian daughter, Dede, struggling with addiction move next door to a lonely widowed father, Peter, and his au...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Bathroom Break

    Mari secretly prefers to spend their night out in the club bathroom, where they connect with many strangers and eventually themself.

  • 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 ...

  • Zef

    ZEF follows a 21-year-old, genderqueer, skimpy bar worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

    Genderqueer / Trans / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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,...

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Open

    Told in a series of intersecting timelines, this classic short film chronicles the lives of three women and their attempt at an open relationship, set against a backdrop of New York underground gay life amidst a whirlwind of betrayal, bingo, and sex toys.