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Jean-Pierre Melville – Les enfants terribles (1950)
The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games. BFI wrote:In this compelling tale of...
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Pierre Chabal & Philippe Genet – La banque du sperme (1976)
Quote:Les Gazolines est un groupe issu du Front homosexuel d’action révolutionnaire (FHAR) formé à Paris en 1972 et dissous en 1974. Leur nom proviendrait de la chanson Gasoline Alley de Rod Stewart....
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Masha Godovannaya – Only Two Words (2018)
The film is based on two poems – “Holes” and “Bone” – by American poet Eileen Myles, the iconic lesbian voice and permanent figure of the poetic New York scene. In the May of 2017, she came to St....
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Jean-Claude Schlim – House of Boys (2009)
Quote:House of Boys is a 2009 Luxembourgian-German drama film directed and written by Jean-Claude Schlim, starring Layke Anderson, Benn Northover and Udo Kier. The film follows the story of Frank, a...
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Paul Vecchiali – Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006)
Quote:Un cinéphile rencontre sur une plage de Ramatuelle son cinéaste préféré. Il lui propose de mettre en film la douloureuse aventure qu’il vient de vivre. Les deux hommes vont tricoter les scènes,...
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Fred Halsted – LA Plays Itself [+Commentary] (1972)
Quote:Fred Halsted plays himself in his notorious autobiographical portrait of Los Angeles. Two men have a fleetingly idyllic meeting outside of town while Halsted shows a young pick-up the ropes...
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Tae-Yong Kim – Yeogo goedam 2 aka Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori (1999)
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is soon fascinated to learn that two people she thought to be very close friends have in fact begun a forbidden romance at her school. She finds herself unable to...
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Ron Rice – The Flower Thief (1960)
A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco’s deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging. Quote:In Ron Rice’s baggy-pantsed beatnik artifact The Flower Thief...
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Mladen Djordjevic – Zivot i smrt porno bande AKA The Life and Death of a...
Quote:Young director Marko, after several unsuccessful attempts to shoot his first feature film, makes an acquaintance with a porn director Cane and starts making films with him, showing his anger...
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Marcel Carné – La Merveilleuse Visite AKA The Marvelous Visit (1974)
SynopsisJean stars as an angel who has fallen from heaven and landed in a picturesque French village.Nursed back to health by the local priest and his helper, he returns the favor in a surprising...
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Bertrand Bonello – Tiresia (2003)
Quote:According to ancient mythology, Tiresia was both a man and a woman. Blinded by the rage of the goddess, the gods granted him higher vision. This version of the myth takes place in the suburbs of...
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Leyla Yilmaz – Bilmemek AKA Not Knowing (2019)
Quote:Umut is a young water polo player – a gentle and quiet high school senior just trying to live his life in a complicated world. When a fellow player spreads a rumor that he is gay, Umut displays...
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Larry Clark & Edward Lachman – Ken Park (2002)
Quote:We all know that the white-bread cookie-cutter suburban lifestyle has its own dirty secrets, but when his camera explores the limits of this seemingly serene and ubiquitous American lifestyle,...
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Patrice Chéreau – Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train AKA Those Who Love Me...
Quote:In the twilight of his life, Jean-Baptiste, a painter who has always lived in Paris, says he wants to be buried in Limoges: “Those who love me can take the train”. So begins a sad, wild and...
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William E. Jones – The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998)
Quote:Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay adult videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young...
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Barbara Hammer – Sisters! (1974)
Synopsis wrote:Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National Lesbian Conference at UCLA, Sisters! is a...
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Barbara Hammer – Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Synopsis wrote:In her first feature, after decades as a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four contemporary gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed,...
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Barbara Hammer – Psychosynthesis (1975)
Synopsis wrote:“The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of...
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Petri Kotwica – Musta jää AKA Black Ice (2007)
Musta jää (Black Ice) has won the Jussi for Best Film of 2007. The film directed and written by Petri Kotwica managed to collect six of the 15 ‘Finnish Oscars’. The prestigious awards were presented...
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Koji Kawano – Love My Life (2006)
Quote:Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese Uni students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best...
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