| 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.
| When a young drifter hitches a ride with a lonesome trucker, an unexpected, carnal bond emerges along the dusty, desolate highways of northern Mexico. But the deeper they get into the dangerous, drug-fueled, hyper-masculine world of long-haul truckers, the greater the threat of their troubled pasts catching up with them becomes.
| Before the reading challenge on Drag Race, before Madonna’s “Vogue,” there was ballroom. Paris Is Burning shines a light on the late 80s ballroom culture of New York City, emerging from Black, Latino, and Trans communities. Winner of the Audience Award at Frameline14 and still as vital, entertaining, and moving 35 years later, Jennie Livingston’s essential documentary is a profound record of the experiences, ambitions, and talent of an underrepresented culture.
| Meet Mickey Squires, legendary porn star and notorious alter ego to Richard Bernstein. Diving into the colorful history of gay adult cinema, this intimate documentary portrait from the team behind Raw! Uncut! Video! traces Richard’s evolution from a lanky high school nerd to fantasy dream daddy Mickey, charting the joys and tribulations along the way.
| During a scorching summer in the mountains of southern Italy, young, shy Luca develops an attraction for Valerio, an older boy with a passion for motorcycles.