Film-Forward

GLBT

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.

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

The documentary’s backbone is hundreds of handwritten letters written by drag queens, who paint a vibrant picture of 1950s New York.

Two of Us | The World to Come

What’s with the recent spate of dark dramas built around forbidden lesbian love?