The Summer With Carmen

While spending a steamy day together at a nude beach in Athens, best friends Demos and Nikitas start brainstorming ideas for a screenplay based on the colorful events of a previous summer. With a fresh, metatextual perspective on storytelling, this ‘film within a film’ shifts timelines while delivering a funny and poignant look at gay […]
The World According to Allee Willis

The World According to Allee Willis dives into the vibrant, untold story of Allee Willis, the creative force behind iconic hits like the “Friends” theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit “September” and “The Color Purple” musical. From her early days filming life in 1950s Detroit to her fearless journey of self-expression, Allee defied […]
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING – A House Is Not a Disco

A House Is Not a Disco documents a year-in-the-life in the world’s most iconic “homo-normative” community: Fire Island Pines. Situated fifty miles from New York City, this storied queer beach town finds itself in the midst of a renaissance as a new generation of Millennial homeowners reimagine The Pines for a new, more inclusive era. […]
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING – Chasing Chasing Amy

12-year-old Sav Rodgers watched the film Chasing Amy, and his life was forever changed. Developing a kinship — and maybe a slight obsession — with it as he grew into his queerness, he decides to fund and direct a documentary that examines its role in LGBTQ+ film culture. Featuring a post-film Q&A moderated by this […]
Desire Lines

Desire Lines is a hybrid feature documentary that blends personal interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality. Testimonials from transgender men both past and present dissect how cultural expectations, political agendas, and gatekeeping practices shape the locus of desire.
A Long Way From Heaven

A Long Way From Heaven outlines the history of queer treatment at Brigham Young University – the good where it exists, the bad, and the very, very ugly. The story focuses mainly on the group of students who lit the school’s iconic “Y Mountain” in rainbow colors in a show of solidarity with the school’s […]
The ABCs of Book Banning

The ABCs of Book Banning reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right—LGBTQ+ issues, Black History, and women’s empowerment—thusly impeding the power of […]
Camila Comes Out Tonight

When forced to move to Buenos Aires and her liberal public school behind, Camila’s fierce but immature temperament is put to the test and a feminist revolution is born. Preceded by the short film Hello Stranger by Amélie Hardy Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the tumultuous story of her gender […]
Girls Will Be Girls

Parodying classic Hollywood films about Hollywood, Richard Day’s drag-drama showcase follows three actresses at various places on the Hollywood food chain navigating the minefield of love, aging, and ambition.
The Ritz

Evading a mob contract on his life, a straight man winds up hiding out at a gay bathhouse.