In celebration of their friend Susan's birthday, a group of women with scandalous, intertwining pasts take off for a weekend retreat in the hills, unaware of the chaos and danger ahead. The friends' sweet celebration quickly sours with the arrival of a jealous boyfriend, a deranged hunter and a mysterious detective, and things take an even darker turn when the partygoers start disappearing one by one. Moynan King and Hollace Starr co-star.
This slice-of-life comedy follows the dilemmas of two families living in the same apartment complex in Vancouver, B.C. After Canada sanctions same-sex marriage, lesbian couple Cara (Shirley Ng) and Janet (Natalie Sky) consider tying the knot, which won't sit well with Cara's old-school parents. Meanwhile, downstairs neighbor Jesse (Trenton Millar), a homosexual teen, is elated when his long-absent gay father returns ... but Jesse's stepdad isn't.
In this Civil War drama, Grace Kieler (played by Whitney Hamilton, who also wrote and directed the film) disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the Confederate army in an effort to protect him from the horrors of the war. When she meets young war widow Virginia Klaising (Dana Bennison), the two form a bond that may get complicated once Grace reveals her true identity. My Brother's War is based on Hamilton's novel Firefly.
Longtime couple Venla (Minna Haapkyla) and Antero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) come to a serious impasse over whether to have children in this wry Finnish drama. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor -- a decision that breeds new possibilities.
When two women move to Tel Aviv to build better lives for their children, they end up finding each other -- and a surprisingly intimate friendship. While Nurit (Anat Waxman) is working to keep her children away from her deadbeat husband, Mushidi (Nthati Moshesh) has left her son behind in Africa so she can easily look for work. Nurit's subsequent decision to hire Mushidi as her children's nanny helps them both in their quest for change.
This brisk comedy follows two friends -- lesbian Kira (Kathleen Fontaine) and straight Sydney (Tara Howley) -- who cope differently with their unrealized personal and professional dreams. Suffering from stage fright that prevents her career from thriving, aspiring comic Kira engages in empty sexual encounters to drown her sorrows. Meanwhile, Sydney, a would-be restaurant critic with a decided lack of interest in sex, turns to food for comfort.
In order to drive more traffic to her erotic Web site, Jade (Rainie Yang) decides to get a sexy new tattoo. At the nearby tattoo parlor, she runs into Takeko (Isabella Leong), a young woman she's had a crush on since childhood. Quiet and reserved, Takeko claims that she doesn't know Jade, but Jade is persistent and sets out to seduce the object of her desire.
As their biological clocks tick down, a lesbian couple embarks on a quest for the ideal sperm donor in this well-crafted indie tale from Britain. Looking to conceive a child the old-fashioned way, cartoonist Sasha (Lisa Gornick) and her lawyer partner, Maya (Raquel Cassidy), prowl the London streets and cafés to find a man who's up for the job. The able ensemble cast includes Joanna Bending, Jake Canuso and Sarah Patterson.
After the Iranian authorities threaten to prosecute her for loving a woman, Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai) assumes a dead man's identity in order to survive. Denied asylum in Germany, Fariba is locked in a detainment center, where her male cellmate commits suicide -- and she spies a window of opportunity. Assuming his identity, she takes a job in a small country village, where she struggles to keep her secret from a well-meaning female friend.
A professor at a Christian college, Camille (Pascale Bussieres) enjoys a conventional life with her minister fiancé, Martin (Henry Czerny). But when reserved Camille meets free-spirited circus acrobat Petra (Rachael Crawford), her conservative life takes a sensuous left turn. With Petra, Camille begins an erotic adventure of self-discovery and finds herself emotionally teetering between the forbidden and the familiar.
This Film is a female-driven examination of the depth that lies between love and friendship. Gillery Poiencot returns home for her 20th high school reunion. While there, she is confronted by a young girl seeking answers that she believes only Gillery can resolve. However, her journey to answer these questions forces her to confront a past love, uncovering a hidden secret only now forced into the light after eighteen years. Written by T.M. Scorzafava
After ten years, a NYC lawyer reluctantly visits her home town with her fiance. But when memories of an affair she had with another woman during high school start to haunt her, the present begins to unravel.
The product of a gay dad (Samuel Labarthe) and a lesbian mom (Elisabeth Bourgine), Olympe (Louise Monot) had an unconventional upbringing. But it didn't pose a problem until one of her classmates started spreading gossip about her family, turning her high school years into sheer hell. Leaving her mother behind, Olympe flees to Paris to be with her father. In the process, she starts seeing her small-minded town in a whole new light.
To help with her upcoming nuptials, bride-to-be and conservative teacher Juliet (Andrea Del Rosario) hires cosmopolitan wedding planner Rome (Mylene Dizon) and, as they spend time together, a deep bond develops which soon turns into love. But when Juliet's politician fiancé (Rafael Rosell) gets wind of the lesbian relationship, he cancels the wedding, leading to scandal and a vortex of searing emotions in this engrossing Filipino import.
Elin (Alexandra Dahlstrom) and Agnes (Rebecka Liljeberg) are social opposites. While Elin is gorgeous, lively and wildly popular at school, Agnes is sullen, lonely and rejected as a nerdy lesbian. But when Agnes develops a crush on Elin, the exploration of love between them alleviates Elin's perpetual boredom. This Swedish award-winner reflects the joy and pain of relationships, the insecurity of youth and the courage it takes to be different.
As a child, pianist Melanie's (Déborah François) dream of studying at a prestigious musical conservatory is shattered when the chairwoman of the jury (Catherine Frot) distracts her during an audition. Years later, a coincidence leads to Melanie's employment in the woman's household, and she finds herself in the perfect position for revenge. Directed by Denis Dercourt, this stylish psychological drama co-stars Pascal Greggory.
In one fateful day, Mel Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is fired from her job, abandoned by her boyfriend and diagnosed with a terminal disease. With nothing left to lose, Mel's determined to make the most of her final days by living the life she always dreamed of. Directed by Amy Redford, this touching story celebrates the emotional and spiritual liberation of a woman who thumbs her nose at death and refuses to go gently into that good night.
After transforming her look into a femme and still not getting the part, struggling lesbian actress Jamie (Michelle Ehlen) pumps ups her butch factor and lands a male role. Problem is, everyone on set thinks Jamie's a man, including a very seductive young starlet. In order to keep her part in the film, Jamie must continue to fool cast and crew into believing she's all man in this twist on Dustin Hoffman's classic role as Tootsie.
A older woman visits the boarding school of her youth after a 20 year absense. While strolling about the deserted grounds and classrooms she remembers her highly emotional experiences there, and well-executed flashbacks occur to her youth. At 17 she is abandoned by her loving mother because of remarriage and left at a European boarding school, disenchanted and lonely. Immediately she meets Isabell, an older, confident, rebellious girl. The two develop a friendship quickly without much conversation or bonding, but have the always temporary chemistry necessary for their friendship to progress into a sexual relationship. The sex scenes are slow and sensual -as they should be for two young girls experiencing lesbianism for the first time. Despite their undying love confessions to each other, Theresa wakes up one morning to find Isabell has left the school, her room and desk replaced with another student. She never see's Isabell again.
Hlynur, an Icelandic slacker who would rather watch porn and get drunk than work, still lives at home with his sympathetic mother. He has a brief fling with the beautiful Hofy, but is too disinterested to actively pursue the relationship. The arrival of his mother's flamenco-dancing friend Lola (Victoria Abril), however, changes all of that. Can you say tryst?
