A Coup

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.

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.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.

Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen, Sean, struggling with his sexuality and the hardships of high school. After his father finds some questionable magazines in his room, this devout Christian will go to any lengths to get his son to find the light and "perform" the way a man should. Sean is introduced to Katie, a prostitute that understands the stigmas of modern society and helps him see the true light that is within him.

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star."

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

A brother and sister decide to sell their family farm but things go awry when a bag of money shows up on the front doorstep.

“If you jerk off a 100 times, you die.” This threat rings through the ears of our main character. One day he has to choose between imminent hell and the impetuousness of adolescence.

Following a rare punishment. Tomás, 10 years old, discovers himself as a human being. This punishment becomes the most precious gift of his life. His Freedom.

At the age of 14, Megalie, daughter of an immigrant family from Senegal but born and brought up in Italy, is faced with the difficult task of finding a place for herself in the world she is living in. When she is denied the opportunity of taking part in a school trip abroad, a perfect occasion for the girl to reveal her feelings to her classmate, that place in the world will seem unattainable to her. But will it really be so?

A kid who is the son of pabaruak (owner of coconut picking monkey) is trying to get rid of a monkey, which is to blame for the bullying he has faced

December 1976, a three-day revolt erupts in the small town of Majunga, Madagascar. Ali, a widower, is caught in an abrupt and violent turmoil between communities. His first and only preoccupation is how to protect his young daughters.

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

Melanie is obsessed with the life of her possible donor father. Is she looking for a future or a past with him?

A married woman falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, and she has to make a choice between her family and the one who might be the love of her life.

Eva is a little girl who lives with her uncaring aunts and mean cousin Berit. Eva's mother is in the hospital and might not make it, and her aunts aren't making it easy for her. A story about how a little girl fights injustice in her own special way.

In this silent style short, filmed in black and white with intertitles instead of spoken dialog, a precocious little girl surrounded by Tv violence and bloody church images of Catholicism, yearns to stay alive forever, as a vampire.

A middle aged man who seemingly has everything he wants, escapes from his home to a hotel room where through his imaginary lover is trying to find emotional peace.

Two dancers are forced to confront their feelings for each other on the eve of a ballet competition.

A young photographer doesn't know it, but he is about to take one of the worlds beloved photos. During the course of the evening, two people find love encapsulated in a moment. But love like this was never meant to be, unless it is captured forever in time.

When Sally, a lost soul stuck in the past, meets up with her part time lover Winnie at college, she must decide what's more important, her past with Kristian or present with Winnie.

When Death knocks on old carpenter’s door, he tries to convince her to let him live a little longer.

Emmy works the night shift in the drugstore that night. She is a young girl, enormously fat and old-fashioned. While she, like every other night, kindly serves the customers in the late hours, does not even remotely sense danger...

Sarcastic inversion of the ‘beautiful couple in love’ archetype. The ’40. Two people isolated from the rest for their physical appearance, meet in a cinema. A dark solidarity born between them leads to a relationship based on the denial of their ugliness.

Set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay 1940s is one of the few non-fiction stories from Manto's life in a Bombay chawl that revolves around Brij Mohan - Manto's roommate and Peerun - a Parsi girl. Brij comes up with a strange theory that he loses his job every time he meets Peerun and blames her for his unsuccessful career. Then why does he want to be with her despite facing extreme poverty? Why does Peerun want to be with him despite being in a relationship with someone else? Manto tries to find this out revealing his own direct and indirect relationships with the characters.

When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car, an Olds Cutlass Supreme.