| Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: Diaba (Milton Gonçalves), a femme queen with a taste for power and violence. When the police come after her boy toy, Diaba attempts to find a scapegoat to take the blame and a plot to dethrone Her Majesty arises! Always clad in gloriously colourful outfits and accessories inspired by Afro-Brazilian culture, Diaba runs a mob of eccentric misfits made up of drag queens, pimps, prostitutes, and queer folks of all stripes. The movie’s bold and audacious color palette and camp aesthetic evokes the early films of Pedro Almodóvar, while its stylised and over-the-top violence is giving Quentin Tarantino queer fever dream.
| When Hein returns after 14 years to his tiny village on a remote North Sea island, he is met with suspicion and outright hostility, even by his own family, prompting a community trial to determine if he is an impostor. Told with the power and simplicity of a timeless parable, Trial of Hein is suffused with the longing to belong and the pain of ostracism, a worthy winner of Frameline’s Out in the Silence Award.
| When a struggling actor feigns being gay to land the role of a lifetime in an Oscar-bait Cowboy Western, he decides to transform himself for the role, blurring the lines between reality and performance.
| Written by and starring The Comeback and Hacks’ Dan Bucatinsky and featuring a rich ensemble cast that includes Richard Ruccolo, Sasha Alexander, Adam Goldberg, Christina Ricci, Andrea Martin, Doris Roberts, and Lisa Kudrow, All Over the Guy is a hilarious rom-com about a mismatched pair of gay men set up on a blind date by their mutual straight friends.