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- DirectorMichael MayerStarsColin FarrellDallas RobertsRobin WrightA boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend.
- DirectorCarter SmithStarsCooper KochJena MaloneMark PattonFollows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy.
- DirectorJavier Fuentes-LeónStarsCristian MercadoTatiana AstengoManolo CardonaAn unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
- DirectorMichael ShowalterStarsJim ParsonsBen AldridgeJosh PaisThe story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship, which takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsAnne BancroftMatthew BroderickHarvey FiersteinArnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
- DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalSaleh BakriAyoub MissiouiA middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
- DirectorMiguel FerrariStarsGuillermo GarciaIgnacio MontesHilda AbrahamzFashion photographer, Diego suddenly needs to care for the teenage son he's not seen in years just as his boyfriend is put in a coma from a brutal assault. Father and son must grow to understand each others' worlds to face other problems.
- DirectorNeil ArmfieldStarsRyan CorrSarah SnookFrancesco FerdinandiTim and John fell in love at their all-boys high school. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses.
- DirectorRay YeungStarsTai-BoBen YuenPatra AuSUK SUK is a quiet portrayal of a gay relationship between two men in their twilight years. PAK, 70, a married taxi driver who refuses to retire meets HOI 65, a retired single father. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and hardship over the years. HOI is a member of the Mature Tongzhi Society, a social group, which caters for gay men who are over 60. The group is planning to attend a public forum to request the government to create senior citizen homes dedicated exclusively for gay people. However, due to the fact that most men in the group are in the closet, there is no one who is willing to voice their opinions in the public forum. HOI supports the notion of a gay senior citizen home and considers speaking in the public forum. However when HOI begins to wonder whether his son WAN suspect he is gay, his attitude shifts. As PAK and HOI fall in love they contemplate a possible future together. SUK SUK studies the subtle day-to-day moments of the two men as they struggle between conventional morals and their personal desires.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowErnst HannawaldWerner SchwuchowThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsNicholas JacobMichael AloniJameel KhouryA drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
- DirectorGerardo VeraStarsJavier BardemJordi MollàAriadna GilA doctor and a married man's extended affair affects the lives of not only the men involved but the wife as well.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsFélix LefebvreBenjamin VoisinPhilippine VelgeWhen 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams, who opens his eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art and sexual bliss.
- DirectorÁdám CsásziStarsAndrás SütöÁdám VargaSebastian UrzendowskySzabolcs quits football against his father's will and returns to his country in Hungary to take charge of an inheritance from his grandfather. There, he meets Aron and they both explore their identities.
- DirectorMarcel GislerStarsFrédéric AndrauVincent BranchetUrs Peter HalterFifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction.
- DirectorChristophe CharrierStarsFélix MaritaudNicolas BauwensTommy-Lee BaïkTwo moments of Jonas's life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1995, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsTwo shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.
- DirectorsAlessandro GuidaMatteo PilatiStarsGiancarlo CommareEduardo ValdarniniGianmarco SaurinoAntonio, a dependent househusband, faces upheaval when his spouse leaves. Needing shelter and income, he rents from Denis and works at Luca's bakery while studying pastry-making, regaining independence along the way.
- DirectorSantiago OtheguyStarsJorge RománDaniel ValenzuelaJosé MuñozThis visually stunning directorial debut is set in a place lost in time in northern Argentina. Alvaro is a gay man who is an outsider. He works for the violent El Turo, a captain of the water bus which links isolated communities. But El Turo is threatened by Alvaro's sexuality and starts harassing him.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsEduardo NoriegaLeonardo SbaragliaPablo EcharriNene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.
- DirectorStian KristiansenStarsRolf Kristian LarsenArthur BerningIda Elise BrochA teenage boy has a great new girlfriend and is starting a rock band with his buddies. However, when a new boy joins his class, he is more fascinated than he wants to be, and the world as he knows it starts to crumble.
- DirectorJulio Jorquera ArriagadaStarsRoberto FaríasHéctor MoralesManuela MartelliHugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.
- DirectorLucas Santa AnaStarsRenato QuattordioThomas LeperaMalena NarvayAfter the suicide of his best friend and the fire of a local dance called Cromañón, including recitals, illegal parties in an abandoned warehouse and high school, a year passes by in the life of Zabo who writes everything he feels and lives in his blog, "Memories of a teenager".
- DirectorTomasz WasilewskiStarsMateusz BanasiukMarta NieradkiewiczBartosz GelnerThe story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsAlessandro GassmannFrancesca d'AlojaCarlo CecchiFrancesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.