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Coming of age and coming out is the name of the game in Dramarama, a 1990s set dramedy about a group of friends last hurrah before college Gene, (Nick Pugliese) Oscar, (Nico Greetham) Rose, (Anna Grace Barlow) Claire, (Megan Suri) and Ally (Danielle Kay) are five theatre loving friends who …
A ”feature length mumblecore” in which two young men spend a single day getting to know and love each other in the hazy Berlin Summer, Boy Meets Boy is a chilled out conversation piece in the vein of Richard Linklater Harry is a young Brit visiting Berlin for 48 hours …
Identity and reconciliation are explored in Rurangi, a moving New Zealand drama about a trans man returning to his hometown for the first time Elz Carrad stars as Caz, an out trans man living in Auckland who’s an outspoken member of his community. We see him organising a poster campaign …
Two men of different generations and cultures form a bond in Sublet, a gentle holiday dramedy set over five days in Israel Tony award winning actor John Benjamin Hickey stars as Michael, a journalist for the New York Times who writes a travel column about spending five days in a …
Incredibly moving documentary packed full of vibrant characters and outrageous stories, P.S Burn This Letter Please brings the 1950s drag scene to life In 2014 a box of personal letters from the 1950s were discovered, written by New York City ‘female illusionists’ and drag performers, they give a rare insight …
A delightful Gen Z coming of age story, Sweetheart is a fantastic comedy packed full of awkward laughs and first love nostalgia AJ is a seventeen year old lesbian who feels utterly out of place in her decidedly ‘unwoke’ family and is struggling with her place and future in the …
A closeted gay police officer struggles with the prospect of being outed in tense Romanian drama Poppy Field Poppy Field opens with Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer) welcoming his long distance French boyfriend Hadi (Radouan Leflahi) to his Bucharest flat for a weekend visit. Whilst he is clearly concerned about the prying …
Families collide in Kiss Me Before It Blows up, an adventurous but slightly uneven rom com about an Israeli woman bringing home her German girlfriend Kiss Me Before It Blows Up is the debut feature from writer/director Shirel Peleg. Israeli Shira is certain she has met ‘the one’ after a …
A forbidden romance flourishes on a Soviet air base in lush Cold War drama Firebird 1977 on an Estonian Soviet air force base and conscripted private Sergey is counting down the days to the end of his service and his return home. When handsome pilot Roman arrives on the base, …
Two killer nurses stalk the patients of an ICU ward in Argentine thriller The Dose – but are they really dispensing mercy? Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is a dedicated ICU nurse of twenty years working in a rundown regional hospital. His life looks utterly depressing, drudging between his dilapidated apartment and …
