Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel. find out more...

Ignacio is a young gay film director in 1980's Madrid struggling for a new story line when his old school friend, Enrique, wanders back into his life looking for work as an actor. Ignacio is well aware that all is not as he is being led to believe, but intrigued he investigates their mutual past at a boys' Catholic school and in particular the lecherous behaviour of one of the priests, while at the same time inviting Enrique to share his home. Bad Education is a highly stylised drama come myster find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Eric is seventeen and along with his best mate, Maggie, is working the summer hols at an amusement park. When Rod enters the scene, charming, handsome and quite obviously gay, Eric finds himself giving into desires that he has been hitherto so successfully repressing. A fast approaching classic of contemporary gay American cinema, both funny and thoughtful. find out more...

Howie is a 15-year-old kid teetering on the edge of delinquency, his mother has recently died and his father, a dodgy builder, is hard pushed to keep a grip on his own life, let alone his son's. Lost and alone Howie hangs out more and more with his mates, skipping school and committing small time theft, it is while in the middle of one of these robberies that the boys meet Big John, a mysterious and ominous character. When the few emotional bonds that Howie has left desert him only Big John is l find out more...

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Eighteen year old Brian Lackey is missing something, five hours to be precise, five hours from his childhood that he cannot account for and that he has become convinced is the work of aliens. Moving to New York Brian meets a young hustler, depressingly wise beyond his years and though seemingly at complete odds with each other the two form a bond. Together the young lads recognise the need to acknowledge what has happened to them and in each other see the opportunity to lay their demons to rest. find out more...

If you thought Hedwig and the Angry Inch was a film unlike any other you'd seen before, get ready for Shortbus: a frank and fun film about the sex lives of humans, ostensibly set in New York, but relevant to every one of us. The plot plays a supporting role in what is, in many ways, a beautifully disguised self-help documentary. Sex therapist Sofia (played by Canadian radio star, Sook-Yin Lee) has frequent, athletic (yet frustratingly unfulfilling) intercourse with her boyfriend. Her seeming ina find out more...