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When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Allie is a newly out teen who is keeping her girlfriend a secret from her Chinese American family. During her family’s celebration of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Allie meets the ghost of a long lost relative named Maxine, who was queer when she was alive several decades ago. Though they come from different times, they find that they share many feelings about struggling to belong, especially within their own family’s legacy.
Reeling from a failed marriage and in need of comfort and a new perspective, a middle aged man returns home to take care of his aging mother within the deceptively tranquil landscape of rural Montana.
A 12-year-old boy in the Midwest befriends an AI farmworker, creating tension with his brother while their father battles illness.
Lotte that Silhouette Girl is a short animated documentary about the fantastic and creative life of film pioneer Lotte Reiniger, who was a rockstar of an animator. She invented the multiplane camera and created the first feature length animation. Lotte that Silhouette Girl is an homage to her, told in Lotte’s style, with stop motion shadow animation and through a lens of folktale storytelling. For many unjust reasons, Lotte is just a footnote in the history of film, but she revolutionized animation and made it what it is today. In this short film, Lotte’s puppets have come back to life to set the story straight.
Two queer women recall their awkward, closeted high school days of kissing boys and straight-girl crushes.
The film shows a man's passage through purgatory towards redemption. Dan Allenford (Kent) is a carefree sinner, murdered by his own faults. As Dan wanders through the bewildering landscape of purgatory, adrift as a ghostly voyeur into the lives of others, he soon begins to piece together clues about the person he once was when he meets Beatrice (Sloyan), a mysterious woman to whose heart he remains forever connected, even in death.
A dark comedy about death anxiety that follows Mara as she grapples with the belief that she has killed everybody she's gotten close to.
Jessica Bair, a longtime LGBTQIA+ rights advocate with Human Rights Campaign, shares her struggle to remain in her Mormon faith despite coming out as transgender.
In 1950's Texas, Mexican American children were forced to abandon their Spanish language and culture. Thirty years later, one mother realizes the impact Americanization has on her child who is struggling to connect with her Latin heritage.
Mother isn’t allowed back into church until she has stopped bleeding post-birth and undergone a purification blessing. After her failed attempts, she takes matters into her own hands.
