Film-Forward

GLBT

Private Desert

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

Fogo-Fátuo (Will-o’-the-Whisp) | Cannes Film Festival 2022

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

Firebird

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

Great Freedom

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.

Ma Belle, My Beauty

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

I Carry You with Me

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.

My Tender Matador

Set during the tense, suffocating Pinochet era in 1980s Chile, this character study explores the unlikely alliance between an aging drag queen and a dashing revolutionary.

Sublet

Eytan Fox’s new film brings us yet another cinematic odd couple, one comprising two contrasting personalities from two different cultures.

Sequin in a Blue Room

A teenager’s life stops and starts relative to his sexual encounters in this intense film driven by the insatiability of his libido.