Acsexybility
A documentary which aims to break open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community.
All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
All The Fires
Conflicted by his mother's new relationship and his best friend's crush on him, Bruno, a pyromaniac teenager, escapes from the city. He sets off on a journey in search of a girl he met online who will push him to confront his father's death and the doubts about his sexuality, but not before leaving all his fires behind.
Almamula
12-year-old Nino is assaulted for being homosexual. In an effort to protect the boy, his parents move the family to a small rural village.
Anhell69
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city.
Chuck Chuck Baby
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
Clashing Differences
Trying to satisfy a diversity checklist, a group of women of colour and queer women discover the real intention behind their workshop retreat.

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Daddy Issues
A young professional dominant gets a surprise just when he's trying to impress the boss in a new job.
Eileen
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Fancy Dance
Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.
Golden Delicious
An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door. What will his family think? And how will he tell his girlfriend?
Housekeeping For Beginners
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.

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Lie With Me
When a novelist has an unexpected encounter in his professional life, he recalls falling in love with the young man's father.

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The Mattachine Family
Thomas and Oscar have spent a year as foster parents to a wonderful child, a calling that's shown them new dimensions of what 'family' can mean. However, when the young boy is reunited with his birth mother, the couple's differing views on what the experience meant come into focus.
May December
20 years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Monster
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
Mother Saigon
A love letter to the mosaic of queer lives in Saigon, a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Nyad
The remarkable true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who, at the age of 60, set out to become the first person to complete the 'Everest of swims', a 53-hour, 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida through dangerous open ocean without a shark cage.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.

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Rustin
The story of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organised the 1963 March on Washington.
Something You Said Last Night
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her Canadian-Italian family on vacation.
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