Lisa Donato

Gossamer Folds is a story about finding family and acceptance where you least expect it. Set in 1986, ten-year-old Tate is uprooted and unwillingly moved to the suburbs of Kansas City. As his parents’ marriage unravels, Tate finds solace in the unlikely friendships of his next-door neighbors: a retired college professor and his transgender daughter, Gossamer.

A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling.

A lesbian couple is unexpectedly faced with their relationship issues when they take ballroom dance lessons in a heteronormative class.

The last ordinary moments between two guys in love.

As their 13-year relationship ends, Grayson and Alice spend a final weekend together to mourn, celebrate, and dismantle their domestic life before Grayson embarks on a journey of gender expansion.

A trans woman must dress like a boy to say goodbye to her dying grandmother.

A man contemplates fatherhood when his older sister and her free-spirited wife ask him to be the sperm donor and uncle of their baby.

A neurotic journalist searches through digital clues trying to decipher a mysterious message left by her fiancée right before she disappears for the next 48 sleepless hours.