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10 movies and shows

Running Scared

Running Scared

Thu, 05 Dec 2019

No matter what sport his parents stuck him into, Zachary, knew it was not for him. He played the sport because it was what was expected of him. Boys play sports. Zachary did not know what he wanted to do or become. This year it was flag football. It's game day. Little did Zachary know his life would forever be changed.

Arranged Marriage

Arranged Marriage

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

A westernized desi girl is ambushed by her parents with an arranged marriage.

Love Is All You Need?

Love Is All You Need?

Thu, 24 Mar 2011

Ashley was raised in a picture perfect all-American family with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem, she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her.

Love Is All You Need?

Love Is All You Need?

Sat, 05 Mar 2016

Set in a world where homosexuality is the norm, a small Indiana town is rocked to its core when Jude, the star quarterback of the local university football team, strikes up a love affair with Ryan, a sports journalism major. When the straight couple is outed, the community’s powerful religious leader begins a vitriolic crusade against all heterosexuals.

Colette, l'insoumise

Colette, l'insoumise

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

The incredible life of novelist, screenwriter, actress and nude dancer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), who led her life to the beat, constantly reinventing herself through words, scandals and metamorphoses; a peasant woman who became an icon of the European Belle Époque; an artist who defied religion and social prejudices to live a hedonist existence worthy of her desires; a real woman who turned herself into a fictional character…

A Male

A Male

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his sensitivity, his fragility and moves towards other forms of masculinity. At his 16 years of age, Carlos explores his sexual identity, discovers his fears, his desires, and all the things that real men never show.

Thine Own Self

Thine Own Self

Tue, 07 Jun 2022

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

In the Company of Strangers

In the Company of Strangers

Invalid Date

A woman trapped in a loveless marriage finds passion with a younger man from a different social background. Their secret relationship unfolds against Pakistan’s volatile social landscape, where violence and danger complicate their affair.

Fier.e.s, la voix du Pacifique

Fier.e.s, la voix du Pacifique

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

In French Polynesia, transgender people evolve with apparent fluidity in all components of society. Their presence, observed as early as the 18th century by Western travelers and missionaries, has never ceased to intrigue and fascinate, producing over time numerous myths that the transgender women and men of Polynesia are today attempting to deconstruct. Through a series of luminous and intimate portraits, this documentary gives them a voice and proposes a rereading of gender issues in the light of Oceanian thought: an obvious enrichment.