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Potato Dreams Of America and Firstness
All Boys Aren't Blue
(Year: 2021; Director: Nathan Hale Williams; Writer: George M Johnson; Stars: Bernard David Jones, Dyllon Burnside, Thomas Hobson, Jenifer Lewis)
A memoir exploring Black masculinity, queerness and gender identity.
Firstness
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Brielle Brilliant; Writer: Brielle Brilliant; Stars: Tim Kinsella, Spencer Jording, Caleb Cabrera)
A maladjusted dad is trying to heal in an experimental therapy group called Infinite Beginnings. Meanwhile, his non-binary kid is getting close with an older man. Their relationship feels both dreamy and concerning-depending on who is watching.
Homebody
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Joseph Sackett; Writer: Joseph Sackett; Stars: Maria Dizzia, Colby Minifie, Tre Ryder)
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
Language Lessons
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Natalie Morales; Writer: Mark Duplass, Natalie Morales; Stars: Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, Desean Terry, Christine Quesada)
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
Ma Belle, My Beauty
(Country: US, France; Year: 2021; Director: Marion Hill; Writer: Marion Hill; Stars: Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper-Cunningham, Lucien Guignard, Sivan Noam Shimon, Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper-Cunningham, Lucien Guignard, Sivan Noam Shimon)
A surprise reunion in southern France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers.
Homebody and The Novice
The Novice
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Lauren Hadaway; Writer: Lauren Hadaway; Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone Kate Drummond, Jonathan Cherry, Charlotte Ubben)
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Potato Dreams Of America
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Wes Hurley; Writer: Wes Hurley; Stars: Marya Sea Kaminski, Dan Lauria, Tyler Bocock, Lea DeLaria, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, James Grixoni)
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.
See You Then
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Mari Walker; Writer: Kristen Uno, Mari Walker; Stars: Pooya Mohseni, Lynn Chen, Nican Robinson, Danny Jacobs, Nikohl Boosheri)
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition.
The Sixth Reel
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Carl Andress, Charles Busch; Writer: Carl Andress, Charles Busch; Stars: Charles Busch, Julie Halston, Doug Plaut, Tim Daly, Margaret Cho)
A down-on-his-luck movie collector discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever
We Need To Do Something
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Sean King O'Grady; Writer: Max Booth III; Stars: Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw, Pat Healy, Lisette Alexis, John James Cronin)
Trapped inside their bathroom for days after a tornado ravages their home, a family of four struggles to keep their composure. That’s nothing, however, compared to what’s coming for them beyond the bathroom’s walls.
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