Director Amanda Kramer creates a world and commits to it. In other words, she swings hard.

Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival’s Closing Night selection.

Based on the 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts, the plot centers on an entangled trio: a young primary school teacher; her boyfriend, a young cop; and an erudite museum curator.

A slow burn of a film that does not spoon-feed its audience as it challenges the notion of traditional masculinity.

The most audacious, funniest, and unpredictable work seen at this year’s festival.

A gay love story set on an air force base in 1970s Estonia.

Watching the ways the prison-bound relationships vary in their complications, compromises, and resolutions is one of the more moving aspects of director Sebastian Meise’s film.

For a film about a revived passion, Ma Belle, My Beauty runs oddly low on energy and fire.

Based on a true story, director Heidi Ewing follows the lives of two gay Mexican men across the span of several decades as they find love, endure discrimination, and traverse a dangerous border crossing to start a new life.