Six months after small-town transmasc baker Sam starts using testosterone gel, they begin to notice that everyone they know is a little bit beefier, a little bit harrier, and a little bit hornier than they had been previously...
Social & External
The people behind it
Jules Tucher
Sam
Ben Hersey
Bryce
Noh Bailey
Val
K Adler
Jules
Olive Salamanca
Stella
Mean for a Unheard Life is a powerful social drama about a child's silent suffering in fear, abuse, and neglect. As the child endures pain, society ignores the truth. Through hidden courage, the film becomes a strong voice for the unheard.
Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumors. It's all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out, and coming-of-age.
AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.
Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer in order to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from.
George's reflection has turned its back on him and he'll go to great depths to get it back.
When Mac, a young butch Latina, dies, her girlfriend, Hope, must overcome both personal grief and homophobic hostilities from Mac’s family in order to respectfully send Mac off into the afterlife as she would’ve wanted.
A homosexual movie about two strangers in quarantine.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
A man and his boyfriend return home for the holidays.
Summer vacation of the last year of high school, Yu-na and He-yoon go to Incheon, deceiving their parents to go to a rock festival. However, the concert which they want to see is postponed until the following day. They have no choice but to book tickets for tomorrow and decide to spend one more day in Incheon. The next day, the tickets that Yu-na definitely held in her hand the previous day disappear. He-yoon contacts her cousin to borrow money…
In a dystopian America dominated by a tyrannical police state, a stirring revolution clashes with a forbidden romance.
A camera tries to create a love story using lost videos on his memory card, but fate transforms these files into those of his ancestors who gave him life through a ritual. Magic, Surrealism and Queer Sexuality in the eyes of cinema now alive.
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
When a young Korean woman desperate to get to an important networking opportunity finds a senior with the beginnings of dementia abandoned in her car, she must grapple with an unsupportive system and her own priorities.
In a world where felt and ambition collide, a quirky puppet named Phoebe navigates humiliating auditions to chase her big break on a children's TV show, only to have an unexpected connection force her to confront what it truly means to feel and be felt.
Weenie follows the story of a young woman experiencing homelessness by depicting the moments before she her homes in a series of snapshot scenes.
Song Fei's time in the Yan household. Just like flowers, our life is timed. We grow in order to wilt.
Five years after losing his wife, John Williams still honors her memory by celebrating Christmas at her favorite place, Keestone Resort. Now he must choose between another chance at love or keeping his heart safely locked away.
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for sure: he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his loving mom and his amazing friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.