LGBTQ+ Stories

Browse these captivating programs exploring life and love in the LGBTQ+ communities of today and generations past.

Arava

Arava

Two runaway teenage girls hitchhike through small-town Israel to a Northern Jewish sanctum in pursuit of spiritual redemption. Along the way, they’re confronted with the complexities of their relationship.

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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Documentarian Nancy Buirski explores the tumultuous personal history of director John Schlesinger and the larger cultural and political groundswell that converged to create Midnight Cowboy, one of the defining turning points of American cinema.

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Diving In

Diving In

Rachel and Yael share their first night together. But a problematic discovery could make it their last.

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I Missed You at Synagogue

I Missed You at Synagogue

When Carmel, a religious boy, finds his best friend Ido at his house, heartbroken from a recent breakup, Carmel feels things he doesn’t dare to admit.

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Nelly & Nadine

Nelly & Nadine

Sylvie Bianchi mines a treasure trove of photographs, 8mm film footage and detailed diaries to piece together her beloved grandmother’s decades-long lesbian love affair that began in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück.

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Queen of the Deuce

Queen of the Deuce

An offbeat and extraordinary portrait of Chelly Wilson, the undisputed skin flick matriarch of the “Deuce”, the seedy underbelly of Manhattan that operated on 42nd Street in the 1970s and 80s.

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