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Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

1986 · ★ 4

Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.

Romeo & Julius

2009 · ★ 7

A young group of actors are preparing an updated version of Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET. Two boys perform the central roles - both of them struggling with their own questions of love alongside their roles on stage. And as rehearsals begin, reality soon starts to interfere with the play.

The Mentors: Kings of Sleaze Rockumentary

2017 · ★ 6.8

Documentary on the shock rock group "The Mentors".

Storm Heaven: Trampolene

From Swansea to Hornsey, this is the story of Trampolene. Forming ten years ago on the football pitches in Wales, this documentary demonstrates the profound bond between the band members, united in a shared devotion to each other and their artistry as they make famous fans and Jack battles Crohn’s disease. An authentic portrait of life on the road, with exhilarating performances, this is an inspiring anthem for Welsh talent.

Wigstock: The Movie

1987 · ★ 5.7

The original documentary on the Wigstock festival, back in the day when it was a much smaller affair in Thompkins Square Park. A full day of peace, love, and wigs…

Degrees of Blindness

1988 · ★ 7

Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced

1971 · ★ 3

Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she rambles on about her childhood, her transvestite brother, her breasts and Bob Dylan?

What Drives Us

2021 · ★ 6.8

The stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the idiocy and chaos, of their time on the road. While the world has changed, the custom has not changed. There is no other way to know whether you can make it in this business. You have to get in the van.

T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

2013

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze

2005 · ★ 8

“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My camera recorded his first public account of his five-year incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was in his fifties when he met Ali in his hometown of Leipzig; the two men became partners and remained close until his demise. And yet, Walter told me, he felt he had lived in vain because he had not had the good fortune of today's gays, who are able to grow up in freedom. Walter Schwarze died of cancer on May 10, 1998.” Rosa von Praunheim

La marche gaie

1980 · ★ 4.8

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

Kiss 25 Goodbye

1991

Outrage kiss-in at Bow Street police station in London, with a demonstration against homophobic government bills clause 25/28.