| Title |
Year |
Synopsis |
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| The Kids Are All Right | 2009 |
Nic and Jules have been together for a long time and are well acquainted with all the highs and lows of a long-term relationship. Her stressful job at her practice has made her somew... | more |
| The Dream of Norma | 2009 |
Telémacos Alexiou’s video installation THE DREAM OF NORMA translates principal cinematographic parameters like stillness/movement, depth/flatness, black/white into a red... | more |
| The Island | 2009 |
THE ISLAND tries to cross the mechanism of homophobia with a big smile. The homosexual filmmaker has received ”fan mail“: Why don´t all the homosexual people leave ... | more |
| The Legend of the Suram Fortress | 1984/85 |
Sergej Paradjanov recounts an old Georgian legend with his imaginative fantasy. The legend is about a fortress on the border whose walls are penetrated again and again. A fortune tel... | more |
| The Owls | 2009 |
Ten years ago ‘The Screech’ was the hottest lesbian band around. Iris and Lily were the lead vocalists, MJ the producer, and Carol always went on tour with them. But the ... | more |
| The Dying Gaul | 2005 |
Jeffrey Tishop is one of Hollywood’s most influential studio managers. He lives in a sedate residence high up in the Malibu Hills. His wife, Elaine, once wrote screenplays. She... | more |
| The Intervention | 2004 |
All Steve’s friends know about his big problem and provide him with emotional support when it comes to learning the truth about Bill Parcels, the New York Giant’s coach..... | more |
| Transamerica | 2004 |
Bree is a conservative transsexual living in one of the poorer districts of Los Angeles. She holds down two jobs and saves every penny she has in order to pay for one last operation ... | more |
| That Man: Peter Berlin | 2004 |
Known as “the Greta Garbo of gay porn cinema”, legendary Californian photographer, filmmaker and self-made man Peter Berlin is regarded by his fans as a male sex icon. He... | more |
| Transient | 2004 |
Daniel and John meet on a trip to southeast Asia. They fall in love and spend a wonderful time together. They go back to their normal lives in Australia - and try to preserve their h... | more |
| Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women | 1988 |
A portrait of the legendary female Jazz trumpet player Tiny Davis and her partner for over 40 years, the female drummer Ruby Lucas (real name Renee Phelan). In the 1940s, Tiny Davis ... | more |
| The Story of Piera | 1982/83 |
STORIA DI PIERA tells the story of a family, bound by archaic and unbreakable ties that supersede the laws of nature and age. The film portrays the relationship between a mother (Han... | more |
| The Living End: Remixed and Remastered | 1992/2008 |
Shown in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 1992, Gregg Araki’s gay road movie THE LIVING END has become a classic example of queer new wave cinema that is also an enduri... | more |
| Traces | 2007 |
A father bids his son farewell at the airport. That same night the father is called to the local hospital where he makes a terrible discovery. Following the traces that lie before hi... | more |
| The Other Side of Istanbul | 2008 |
For those in the know Istanbul is something of a European gay mecca. How is this possible in present day Turkey? During the making of this film we were able to observe that, beyond t... | more |
| Taking Pictures | 2007 |
“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, I can only picture the disappearing world when you touch me.”
... | more |
| Tommy | 2007 |
Havana, Cuba. The film’s director returns to the island to meet the film’s protagonist, Tommy, a onetime dancer at the Cuban national opera house who is HIV positive. In ... | more |
| The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela | 2008 |
Raquela, who is transsexual, dreams of being with a heterosexual man from a western country. Raquela lives in the Philippines and works as a prostitute. She spends her spare time sur... | more |
| Tá | 2007 |
Two boys in a toilet. They snort cocaine, talk about sex and then get down to business. But a situation that that could easily have developed into a cliché-ridden story takes ... | more |
| The Yacoubian Building | 2005 |
The Yacoubian Building in Cairo is still an eye-catching construction. Built in 1934 and named after the leader of the Armenian community, it was long regarded as the last word in co... | more |
| The Ovo (Ovo - the Video) | 2005 |
Christoph Josten was Ovo Maltine. She died on 8 February, 2005 at Berlin’s Auguste Viktoria hospital, eleven weeks after suddenly being diagnosed with lymphatic cance... | more |
| The Fish Child | 2009 |
Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the enigmatic and attractive Guayi, a 20-year-old Paraguayan maid employed in her parents&... | more |
| The Glow Of White Women | 2007 |
Sex and politics are the themes of this humorous and entertaining film that looks at white women in the Dark Continent and focuses on the forbidden sexual desires of both black and w... | more |
| The Railroad All-Stars | 2005 |
Valeria, Vilma and Mercy are prostitutes living in Guatemala. The price for their services is two dollars. All three belong to a group of women who work in the vicinity of “La ... | more |
| The Day I Died | 2005 |
A girl, her brother and their best friend on a long, hot summer’s day in Chas comús in Argentinia. A love-triangle takes its course.
... | more |
| The Notorious Bettie Page | 2005 |
They called her “the dark pin-up goddess”. Her name was Bettie Page. In the 1950s, her lascivious yet cheerfully innocent poses were to make her a legendary photographic ... | more |
| The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros | 2005 |
This film pits the purity of first love against the poverty and corruption that dominate the slums of Manila. The Philippine capital is home to twelve-year-old Maxi, who comes from a... | more |
| Tea And Sympathy | 1956 |
Surprising as it may seem, in the light of the screen’s Production Code, which generally compels evasion of the more delicate sexual in American films, Robert Anderson’s ... | more |
| The End Of The Pig Is The Beginning Of The Sausage | 2008 |
A portrait of the writer Napoleon Seyfarth, whose books, “Schweine müssen nackt sein” (Pigs Should Be Naked) and “Schwein oder Nicht-Schwein” (To Pig or ... | more |
| The Bubble | 2006 |
Sheikin Street is one of Tel Aviv's hippest and chicest areas. Sheikin Street's fashionable shops and galleries give it the appearance of being on another planet to the rest ... | more |
| Tuli | 2006 |
In remote barrios of the Philippines, traditional circumcision rites are still carried out on young boys. Daisy‘s father, specialized in these procedures, often takes out his u... | more |
| The Casuarina Cove | 2008 |
TANJONG RHU is a fictional account of a true story. Night falls in Singapore. Men walk cautiously through the forest, they are horny and out prowling for sex. Two young men meet at t... | more |
| The Bone Man | 2008 |
Short synopsis:
Every week thousands of chickens are gnawed down to the bone in a restaurant. A bone-grinding machine reduces the remains of the chickens to make feed for the next ... | more |
| The Countess | 2008 |
Europe at the beginning of the 17th century. Countess Erzebet Bathory is considered to be the most powerful woman in the land – beautiful, intelligent, and unwilling to accept ... | more |
| The Good American | 2009 |
Jochen Hick’s new film portrays Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall – an event originally created in order to encourage the acceptance of male prostitutes, but... | more |
| Teeth | 2006 |
A teenage comedy laced with sex and gore that tells of the horror of becoming an adult. The story revolves around a young high school student. When the innocent Dawn begins to feel h... | more |
| This Filthy World | 2006 |
The 'pope of trash' was how William S. Burroughs once dubbed filmmaker John Waters. In this film portrait the high priest of bad taste grants us something of a private audien... | more |
| The Witnesses | 2006 |
Manu is 20 years old when he arrives in Paris to look for a job. Initially, he moves in with his sister, Julie, who rents a room in a sleazy hotel. Julie's life revolves around m... | more |
| The Walker | 2007 |
Carter Page III has an unsual job. He accompanies Washington DC's wellheeled ladies to the opera. These ladies' husbands have no desire to bother themselves with such high cu... | more |
| The Naked Civil Servant | 1975 |
"The Naked Civil Servant" is the title of the autobiography by the British eccentric, author, and entertainer Quentin Crisp, that was adapted as a British television movie ... | more |
| The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 |
Epstein’s film traces the political climate and homophobia that led to the murder of gay rights activist Harvey Milk in San Francisco in 1978: “In the largely gay communi... | more |
| Tales Of Hoffmann | 1950/51 |
Hoffmann, intoxicated with wine and his passionate love for Stella, the dancer, tells the stories of his three great loves:
Olympia
The tempter, assuming the identity of Copp&e... | more |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1978/79 |
Maria and Hermann Braun get married during the Second World War. After half a day and just one night together, Hermann has to return to the front. After the war, he is reported missi... | more |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 |
Ferrara, Italy at the end of the thirties: The Finzi Continis are a respected intellectual, jewish family with a stately property. When restrictions against the jews under Mussolini&... | more |
| The Mouth of the Wolf | 2009 |
Enzo returns to Genoa after 14 years of imprisonment. He goes about the city, which has changed after many years. In a little house in the old town ghetto, his companion Mary waits f... | more |
| The Feast Of Stephen | 2009 |
Stephen watches a group of boys playing basketball. The look in his eyes betrays his sexual interests. When the boys realize, he becomes a victim of their homophobia. Or does it only... | more |
| The Legends of Rita | 2000 |
The film tells the story of Rita Vogt who, as a young woman, was seduced by love and a sense of justice to become a terrorist. Recognising that the RAF is doomed to failure, she seek... | more |
| The Famous And The Dead | 2009 |
Mr Tambourine Man is the name adopted by a sixteen-year-old boy living in a Brazilian village who is a great Bob Dylan fan. His taste in music, his style and his habits make him an o... | more |
| The Man Who Sold The World | 2009 |
Casablanca in the near future. The country is at war.
X and Ney are young men of around thirty years of age. They live together and share a close relationship. Although they think ... | more |
| The Advocate For Fagdom | 2011 |
Visitors to the Berlinale are well acquainted with the work of Canadian underground director Bruce LaBruce. Co-directed with Rick Castro, his feature film debut, HUSTLER WHITE, which... | more |
| The Drifter | 2010 |
Greta: 40, an architect, mother of a 12-year-old son, separated from her husband, recently unemployed. She starts working in a call center but is soon dismissed once again. She does ... | more |
| The Law of Desire | 1986 |
Pablo and Tina are brothers. Their parents separated while the two boys were still young. Tina's real name is Tino, but when he moved in with his father, he started to have a sex... | more |
| The Mountain | 2011 |
Two years ago, Nora and Solveig’s five-year-old son, Vetle, died on a mountain hike. Their grief over his death has weighed heavily on their relationship ever since. For Nora, ... | more |
| The Shower | 2010 |
A couple spends their last morning together in the bathroom. One of them is about to leave the country. The other has decided to stay. But who will take care of the cat?
Intervie... | more |
| The Terrorists | 2011 |
The movie is divided into seventeen unrelated segments and is a mixture of both documentary and experimental film genres. By inhabiting the lives of laymen from different parts of Th... | more |
| The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye | 2011 |
In an intimate way Genesis P-Orridge tells the story of his relationship with Jacqueline Breyer alias Lady Jaye. En passant one gets an insight into their personal gender-concept of ... | more |
| The Queen Has No Crown | 2011 |
A moving story about the family; about loss and the mental maps of the personal experience of homelessness. Tomer Heymann’s film takes a look at the story of five brothers and ... | more |
| Tomboy | 2011 |
There is definitely something boyish about ten-year-old Laure. She has recently moved to a new area with her parents and her little sister, Jeanne. It’s summertime and all the ... | more |
| Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright | 2010 |
An intense conversation between two people one evening leads to a pictorial love story about loss and longing. An homage to Eric Rohmer and the attention he paid to the tiny details ... | more |
| Teddy Shorts 2011 | 2010/2011 |
The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2011 for best short film. This year these are: LA DUCHA, TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT, BLOKES... | more |
| Together | 2010 |
A book about discrimination against Aids sufferers in China provided the inspiration for Chinese director Changwei Gu – who won a Silver Bear for KONG QUE - THE WOMAN at the 20... | more |
| The Nomi Song | 2003 |
It’s hard to say which made a greater impression - his voice or the way he looked with his luminously painted white face? Klaus Nomi’s countertenor re... | more |
| Talk Straight - The World Of Rural Queers | 2003 |
In big cities, discrimination against homosexuality and a gay way of life is not a big issue anymore. Gay mayors and football club association presidents are no longer colourful exce... | more |
| The Event | 2002 |
A series of suicides followed by the swift cremation of the deceased arouses the suspicions of a young public prosecutor named Nick Di Vivo. She begins investigations following the d... | more |
| The Meadow of Things | 1987 | ... | more |
| The Last of England | 1987 |
It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s. It is named after a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite arti... | more |
| Trembling Before G-d | 2000 |
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal sto... | more |
| The Iron Ladies | 2000 |
Mon is a fantastic volley ball player but, because he is homosexual, he can’t seem to find a team willing to take him on. His best friend, Jung, has gone through the same sort ... | more |
| Trojans | 1989 |
An interpretation of the life and work of Konstantin Kavafy, a poet who lived in Alexandria in the 19th century. His work imaginatively combines motifs from Greek history with erotic... | more |
| Tongues Untied | 1989 |
An attempt to break through silence. Personal confessions and poetical texts are passionately and provocingly fused to form a study of black homosexual identity in the USA. (Berlinal... | more |
| The Man Who Drove With Mandela | 1998 |
In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre Director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This is his story. Th... | more |
| Trick | 1998 |
Gabe and Mark aren't asking for much - just a simple one night stand. All they need is a place to seal the deal. Sound easy? Not when your neurotic best friend is trying to reviv... | more |
| The Brandon Teena Story | 1997 |
A young man arrives in Falls City, a small town in rural Nebraska, at the beginning of December 1993. 20-year-old Brandon Teen ais a stranger to this town but his friendly manner and... | more |
| The Man in her life | 1997 |
Selya, schoolteacher in a small Philippine town, has an affair with the reluctant Bobby, who leaves town one day. To follow him, Selya quits her job but fails to find him. Relocating... | more |
| The Watermelon Woman | 1995 |
Cheryl Dunye's debut feature THE WATERMELON WOMAN is as controversial as it is sexy and funny. Cheryl is a twenty-something black lesbian working as a clerk in a video store whil... | more |
| The Celluloid Closet | 1995 |
THE CELLULOID CLOSET is both a history of lesbian and gay images, a study of how Hollywood has shaped our views of masculinity and femininity and a feast for cinéphiles everyw... | more |
| The Making of "Monsters" | 1990 |
During his residency at the Canadian Film Centre in 1991, John Greyson, the enfant terrible of gay cinema in Canada, directed THE MAKING OF "MONSTERS" a short film dealing ... | more |
| Together Alone | 1991 |
Bryan meets a man called Bill in a bar. They go back to Bryan's home and have unprotected sex. Later, they wake up and talk. Bryan discovers that Bill's real name is Brian, a... | more |
| They Are Lost To Vision Altogether | 1989 |
A poetic portrait of sex in the age of AIDS.
THEY ARE LOST TO VISION ALTOGETHER presents a disappearing act, a steady sleight-of-hand which erases the not-so-distant past. (Telev... | more |
| Trevor | 1994 |
Thirteen-year-old Trevor finds himself in a terrible crisis when he realises what nobody wants to believe, namely that he is an homosexual teenager. The result is a moving and amusin... | more |
| The Last Supper | 1994 |
The subject of this film may be highly disturbing to some viewers. This dark, Canadian film, based on the award winning Toronto play, graphically chronicles the last days and doctor-... | more |
| The End of Puberty | 2011 |
Schoolgirl Tsubara is oddly obsessed with her biology teacher Madoka. While the rest of the class responds to their instructor’s lack of authority with clamour and inattention,... | more |
| The Crown Jewels | 2011 |
Fragancia has apparently shot and killed Richard, an industrialist’s son. But what really happened? Ever since they were born on the same day in a small Swedish town, their liv... | more |
| The Blessed | 2012 |
Father and daughter are getting ready for a grand procession through the village, but things are strained between them. Dad has arranged for his thirteen-year-old daughter, Maria to ... | more |
| The Parade | 2011 |
Turning transgression into a comedic principle, this turbulent farce that toys with clichés and stereotypes turned out to be an unexpected hit in Serbia and other ex-Yugoslavi... | more |
| The Man that Got Away | 2012 |
Director's statement:
A musical. A life. My family almost forgot to tell me about my great-uncle Jimmy. True story, or so I'm told. Jimmy grew up on a farm, on the Canadian... | more |
| The Tiny Ventriloquist | 2011 |
THE TINY VENTRILOQUIST is a suite of shorter works. Perhaps the titles to some of the components best communicate the breadth and flavour of the work: GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE, BEAVER S... | more |
| The Wilding | 2011 |
Life at a juvenile detention centre is tough for cell mates Malcolm and Tye. Everyone knows that the two are a couple. Quiet Tye often seems to provoke attacks from his fellow inmate... | more |
| Teddy Shorts 2012 | 2011/2012 |
The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2012 for best short film. This year these are: ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG, A LAZY SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH ... | more |
| The White Roses | 2013 |
A group of people dance at a sports ground to the music of Supertramp. The siblings take flowers to a grave in the deep snow, wearing floral wreaths in their hair. The father directs... | more |
| The Nun | |
Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is
sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required
for a m... | more |
| Two Girls Against the Rain | |
A captivatingly courageous and touching film about a lesbian couple in Cambodia.The two women have known and loved each other since the time of the Khmer Rouge. The deep bond existin... | more |
| The 727 Days Without Karamo | |
An Austrian woman has been forced to live alone with her children ever since her husband Karamo was deported to Africa. A man tries to instil hope in his Chinese wife that she will s... | more |
| The Town of Whales | |
Machi, Tomohiko and Hotaru attend the same high school. Machi misses her older brother, who disappeared six years earlier. The trio takes up his trail, which leads them first to Toky... | more |
| The Runaway Troupe of the Cartesian Theatre | |
A person of undefined gender and ethnicity is sent by a German cultural institution to a city in China, where s/he experiences a cruel conspiracy against her/his loved one.
... | more |
| The Package | |
At a new school Leandro meets the lively Jefferson. They form an instant attachment and soon realise that theirs is no ordinary friendship. But Jefferson has to tell Leandro somethin... | more |
| Two Mothers | |
Katja and Isabella decide to have a child. However, like many lesbian couples they soon discover that this is much more difficult than they first imagined. Most of the sperm banks an... | more |
| The Way he Looks | 2013 |
Giovana is Leo’s best friend. They spend their afternoons at the pool, awarding points for the level of their boredom and just hanging out. But there are limits to their intima... | more |
| Test | 2013 |
It’s 1985. The location is San Francisco, America’s ‘gay mecca’. Introverted Frankie is an understudy in a prestigious modern dance company. Todd, an establis... | more |
| The Dog | 2013 |
Over ten years in the making, Allison Berg’s and Frank Keraudren’s powerful documentary The Dog follows the life of Jon Wojtowicz, who tried spectacularly to secure the m... | more |
| Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | 2014 |
In his impressive and artistically versatile documentary, Thomas Allen Harris chronicles the history of photography from an Afro-American perspective. With the aid of countless archi... | more |
| Tits | 2013 |
Sam, 13, hopes to conceal his breasts with a tightly worn leather belt. This slender teenager is going through a particularly tough time at his authoritarian boys’ school on ac... | more |
| The Goat | 2013 |
Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just underg... | more |
| The Blue Car | 2014 |
After his grandmother’s death Hansel returns to Cuba from San Francisco to look after his disabled brother, Marcos. The brothers have drifted apart. Marcos misses his grandmoth... | more |
| The Circle | 2014 |
Founded in the early 1940s, the network around the magazine 'Der Kreis' ('The Circle') was the only gay organisation to survive the Nazi regime. It blossomed during t... | more |
| The Samurai | 2013 |
People in the Brandenburg countryside are scared of wolves. Their howling frightens the populace and silences the lambs. But once this night is over people will wish it had just been... | more |
| The Night | 2014 |
A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit ... | more |
| The Sea is Behind | 2014 |
Tarik is unable to shed a tear about the loss of his children, or that his life is in ruins. Instead he
shrouds his moustache under a veil and sways his hips to the music as the ... | more |
| The Last Summer of the Rich | 2015 |
Young and attractive company executive Hanna von Stezewitz (Amira Casar) has everything, and
just takes whatever she doesn’t. She’s an arrogant and unscrupulous manip... | more |
| The Yes Men Are Revolting | 2014 |
After almost two decades of humorous guerrilla activism against economic greed and political
corruption as The Yes Men, everyday life and a crisis of identity seem to have caught... | more |
| The Island is Enchanted with You | 2014 |
In 1511, indigenous people in Puerto Rico seduced and murdered a representative of colonial power.
Some 300 years later, a further chapter of colonial history: In 1803, by order ... | more |
| The Mad Half Hour | 2015 |
Once a day, domestic cats go completely mad. A total burst of energy. It’s all over within half an hour.
No one knows why. That’s just how it is.Juan is rather simila... | more |
| The new man | 2015 |
At the tender age of twelve, Roberto supported the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and fought
for education and social reforms. He was to continue his political struggle fight... | more |
| Tough Love | 2015 |
When karate champ Andreas Marquardt thinks about himself he feels nothing but bitterness: ‘I refused to feel anything. I was cold, like a block of ice, I couldn’t give a ... | more |
| The Blue Hour | 2015 |
Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection
and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy hom... | more |
| The Summer of Sangailé | 2015 |
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is mesmerised by the dance-like loop-de-loop and pirouettes of
acrobatic pilots. She herself suffers from vertigo and could never imagine sitting in a... | more |
| Thanatos, Drunk | 2014 |
The camera follows closely on the heels of two brothers – one gay, the other straight. Both are
looking for a job in order to survive. But both are also looking for themsel... | more |
| The Garden of Allah | 1936 |
Domini Enfilden, who was raised in a convent, withdraws to North Africa after the death of her
father to try to find herself. There, at the edge of the Sahara, she takes up with ... | more |
| The Thief of Bagdad. An Arabian Fantasy in Technicolor | 1940 |
In Bagdad, the Grand Vizier Jaffar has King Ahmad cast into a dungeon and takes power for himself.
But Ahmad manages to escape with the help of a young thief, Abu. In Basra, the ... | more |
| The Three Musketeers | 1948 |
In 1625 France, country bumpkin D’Artagnan hopes to join the king’s elite musketeers in Paris. After
proving himself with brilliant swordsmanship in duels against thr... | more |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
Young Dorothy, full of yearning for “some place where there isn’t any trouble,” is literally whisked
from rural Kansas to the magical Land of Oz. When she opens... | more |
