coming out
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Blackbird
Growing up gay in a small conservative town in the Deep South is tough enough, but as well as worrying about his religious parents reactions, 17 year-old choirboy Ricky is also concerned about upsetting Jesus too. Everybody in his close circle of school friends is more comfortable with his sexuality than he is, and even…
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Boy Meets Girl
Eric Schaeffer’s refreshing and enchanting drama about three 20 year-olds looking for love in a small backwater town in Kentucky gently challenges us to suspend our preconceived views on gender labels and be as open to what happens as these lovelorn kids are. Ricky is a confident and determined transgendered young woman who is marking…
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I Feel Like Disco aka Ich fühl mich Disco
Young Florian is a fat kid but his size only seems to be an issue with Hanno his very fat dad who claims that even he wasn’t that big as a child. On the other hand Monika his mother adores him and indulges in dressing up with him in 70’s clothes and prancing around their…
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Bumblefuck USA
Newbie filmmaker Aaron Douglas Johnson’s debut feature is an unsettling docu-drama hybrid that arose from a very personal tragedy in his life. Johnson was born in a small town in Iowa and as an only child he grew up very close to his cousin Matt. By all accounts Matthew, a devout Catholic and a passionate…
