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Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus AKA I Love You, I Don’t (1976)
Quote:Serge Gainsbourg’s Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus, the iconic singer-songwriter’s 1976 directorial debut, is on the surface the story of a love triangle. But nothing about this film is conventional....
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Dome Karukoski – Tom of Finland (2017)
Quote:Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing....
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Atif Yilmaz – Gece, Melek ve Bizim Çocuklar aka The Night, Angel and Our...
A story set in the back alleys and nightclubs of Beyoğlu among drag queens and prostitutes, pimps and hopeless lovers… It shows all the dark corners of Beyoglu, Istanbul. Prostitutes, transexuals and...
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Ulrike Ottinger – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse AKA The Image of...
Quote:From the panoramic, historical revue of the many faces of social prejudice and ostracism, Ottinger turns her attention to the mechanism of exclusion invested with the necessary power to make or...
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Derek Jarman – Glitterbug (1994)
Quote:Maverick British gay director Derek Jarman’s last film is a wordless compilation of his home movies from 1970 — six years before his debut feature “Sebastiane” — to 1986, set to a Brian Eno...
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Kenneth Anger – Eaux d’artifice (1953)
Quote:A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi’s “Winter” movement of “The Four Seasons” plays. Heavy red filters give...
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Jennie Livingston – Paris Is Burning (1990)
Quote:This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their “house” culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned...
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Mohamed Soueid – Cinema Fouad (1993)
Quote: Khaled, a Syrian transgender migrant who was born male, dreams of undergoing gender transition surgery. While trying to make a living from various menial jobs, she falls in love with a...
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Ira Cohen – The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda [+Extras] (1968)
Quote:A classic underground film made in 1968, it is divided into three parts, the Opium Dream, Shaman, & Heavenly Blue Mylar Pavilions. A unique film by the originator of mylar photography. J....
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Noam Gonick – Hey, Happy! (2001)
Quote:DJ Sabu’s overactive libido leads him into teenaged pregnancy. His mythic quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid UFO-ologist to whom aliens promise to appear (as his love...
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Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey – Chelsea Girls (1966)
Synopsis:Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in...
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Emre Yalgin – Teslimiyet aka Other Angels (2009)
PlotSanem is a working girl sharing a flat with three transvestites in Istanbul. Every day she dreams of a savior who will take her away. One day a young man named Gökhan moves into the neighborhood,...
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Patricia Rozema – When Night Is Falling (1995)
An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local...
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Colin Campbell – Dangling by Their Mouths (1981)
Quote: In Dangling by Their Mouths, Campbell casts himself as the female lead named Anna. At first, the obvious image of the cross-dressing Campbell playing the part of Anna is quite displacing....
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Paul Morrissey – Blood for Dracula (1974)
Synopsis:Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director’s interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure...
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D.M.W. Greer – Burning Blue (2013)
Quote:Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent...
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Xavier Dolan – Matthias et Maxime (2019)
Quote:Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the...
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Hsiao-tse Cheng – Miao Miao (2008)
Quote:High school student Miao Miao (Ke Jia-Yan) is Chinese and has transferred to Taipei for one special school year. Her quiet demeanor and awkward prettiness make her immediately attractive to...
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Pedro Aguilera – Naufragio aka Wreckage (2010)
Quote: Illegal immigration is one of the most challenging problems facing Spain over theselast few years. From among the thousands of immigrants entering the country byvarious means, there are...
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Larry Clark – Kids (1995)
Kids is a 1995 American independent teen drama film written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark.[2] It stars Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Rosario Dawson, and Jon Abrahams,...
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