Directed by Celeste Lapida • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Celeste Lapida

“ . . . people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth [. . .] want to strike out toward some new location, some space not yet clearly defined or concretely occupied; [. . .] the movement across a socially ...

Directed by EJ Gagui • 2022 • Philippines

Three men describe their long-buried childhood traumas as mysterious, ghostly images shot around a wadi flicker before our eyes.

Directed by Gabriela Serrano • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Mariana Serrano, Mika Zarcal, Jarrett Cross Pinto

A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When the new couple in town moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one.

Directed by JT Trinidad • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Emerald Romero, Hesus Deligero, Ron Go

Along a river undergoing major development, Baby, a middle-aged trans woman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to ...

Directed by Maria Estela Paiso • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Alyana Cabral

As the apocalypse looms, a young Filipino woman is forced to return to her childhood home in the province of Zambales. There, as frogs rain down from the sky, she confronts traumatic memories that condense into a surreal ...

Directed by Shievar Olegario • 2019 • Philippines
Starring Shievar Olegario

An elusive graphic designer, who steals and retouches photos for his website, finds himself in another dimension after updating his site’s content.

Directed by Stephen Lopez • 2023 • Philippines
Starring Kyrie Allison Samodio, Jun Jun Quintana, Bor Ocampo

Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, fourteen-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talkin...

Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao

Three lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...

Directed by Trishtan Perez • 2021 • Philippines
Starring JC Santiago, Karl Louie Caminade, Russ Ligtas

In the small town of Pagadian in the Philippines, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.

Directed by Vahn Leinard Pascual • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Rolando Inocencio, AJ Benoza, Alleison Dimatulac

Drawing on silent-film aesthetics from a bygone era, this mesmerizing monochrome short tells a story of forbidden love. A young boy struggles with feeling trapped in his inherited role...

Directed by Whammy Alcazaren • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ricky Davao, Gio Gahol, luckymaybe1923

Trapped at home with his talking cat, a man seeks refuge in the strong arms of strange men as together they venture deep down into the nether regions of the Internet in search of true happiness. Cau...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • 2023 • Turkey
Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2013 • France
Starring Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah

With a cast featuring Edith Scob and Esther Garrel, this delirious espionage farce resembles what might have happened if ZERO DARK THIRTY had been written by Georges Bataille.

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2016 • Portugal
Starring Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda Nomacce

Taking Wittgenstein’s assertion that the most profound problems can only be discussed in the form of jokes as a starting point, OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAIS (“The Artificial Humors”) combines old-Hol...

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson

The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychol...

Directed by Leah Shore • 2012 • United States

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2014 • United States
Starring Leah Shore, Jarret Kerr

Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2021 • United States
Starring Sarah Ellen Stephens, Karl Jacob, Brian W. Smith

How does one get laid in the midst of a global pandemic? A woman seeks release for her locked-down libido, with surreal results.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2018 • United States
Starring Jarret Kerr, Jennifer Prediger

On the day of her lover’s funeral, a pregnant woman works through her grief in an unexpectedly kinky way.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2015 • United States
Starring Margaret Singer, Sarah Ellen Stephens

In a secret sex club in Brooklyn, a queer couple unleash upon each other a drug-induced existential barrage of delusions and broken dreams.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2021 • United States

An animated outer-space odyssey puts Einstein’s theory of relativity to the test.

Directed by Stanley Kwan • 2001 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Huatong Li

Filmed in secret in Beijing, this tender gay romance by Stanley Kwan combines the timeless conventions of classic melodrama with a radically frank depiction of queer intimacy as it traces, over the course of y...

Directed by Marvin Lemus • 2015 • United States
Starring Vico Ortiz, Jessica Camacho, Natalia Cordova-Buckley

Vico Ortiz (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH) and Jessica Camacho (ALL RISE, THE FLASH, WATCHMEN) costar in this beautiful story about what it looks like to show up as an ally for our gender-nonconf...

Directed by Érica Sarmet • 2021 • Brazil
Starring Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Lorre Motta

This formally innovative, euphorically sexy short travels through the queer Brazil of past, present, and future as it traces an encounter between an older butch biker and a band of young polyamorous lesb...