A closeted PE teacher living in Thatcher’s Britain strives to keep her work and private lives separate, but when a new pupil sees her on a night out, she must reckon with how she chooses to live her life as a queer woman.
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LGBTQIA+
![Casa Susanna](/assets/resized/sm/upload/q5/w5/q1/yb/Casa-Susanna_00030_HERO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=7050f9c3d9)
Casa Susanna
French documentarian Sébastien Lifshitz's poignant story about trans lives across time. Casa Susanna was a bungalow refuge for cross-dressing men in the 1960s, where they were free to be themselves.
![The Giants](/assets/resized/sm/upload/o3/wu/5h/ev/HERO_THE%20GIANTS%20-%20BobBrown_001-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=72b81e7517)
The Giants
Interweaving the inspirational activism of Australian Greens co-founder Bob Brown with the stories of the ancient trees he is fighting to save, this environmental documentary is a rousing call to action.
![The Inspection](/assets/resized/sm/upload/py/ke/td/q4/The%20Inspection_HERO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=c4b29a710e)
The Inspection
Based on a true story, The Inspection follows a young US Marine from his life on the streets to his rise within the armed forces, all the while searching for his mother’s love and acceptance.
![Kokomo City](/assets/resized/sm/upload/wa/uo/9z/ni/HERO_KOKOMO%20CITY%20Dominique%20Silver%20rev-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=b5d45736ef)
Kokomo City
Winner of Audience awards in both Sundance and Berlin, this vibrant, taboo-busting, music-filled documentary invites us into the lives of four black trans sex workers in New York and Atlanta.
![Little Richard: I Am Everything](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lw/10/vs/0b/HERO_S0021_ALM_M_BXXBCB-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=391f8b7353)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Revealing the black, queer origins of rock n’ roll and the complex genius of its conflicted originator, Little Richard, Lisa Cortés’ stirring documentary takes aim at the white-washed canon of popular music.
![L’immensità](/assets/resized/sm/upload/pp/69/81/cx/hero-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=2d30ae93a2)
L’immensità
Penélope Cruz delivers retro-glamour in this gorgeous 70-set Italian melodrama, starring as a wife in a failing marriage and the mother of three children, the eldest of which is questioning their sexual identity.
![Mutt](/assets/resized/sm/upload/mf/0n/7z/3e/HERO_MUTT_Lio%20Mehiel.%20Photo%20by%20Mikaela%20Lungulov-Klotz-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=9412f092fb)
Mutt
A young trans man must summon all his resilience to endure a whirlwind 24 hours in New York City as his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend and his 13-year-old sister are all thrust back into his life.
![Of an Age](/assets/resized/sm/upload/cw/tn/1g/rl/OF%20AN%20AGE_Hattie%20Hook_Thom%20Green_Elias%20Anton_000401_Photo%20Credit-Ben%20King_HEROweb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=007d5d9587)
Of an Age
Goran Stolevski’s tender sophomore film is equal parts coming-of-age and coming-out story, as much a commentary on the pressures of masculinity and heteronormativity as it is a witty, sentimental romance set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Melbourne.
![Orlando, My Political Biography](/assets/resized/sm/upload/za/a2/jf/92/Orlando%20hero%20web-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=7cb6c7fa45)
Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando, ma biographie politique
Documentary, film essay, biography and performance piece meld together in Paul B. Preciado’s avant-garde, ruffed reclamation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. This award-winning exploration of trans lives re-imagines the past and asks who are in the present.
![Passages](/assets/resized/sm/upload/zm/h6/2o/6z/HERO_PASSAGESweb%20Still%201%20Adele%20Exarchopoulos%20and%20Franz%20Rogowski%20-%20Photo%20by%20Guy%20Ferrandis-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=35e83425bb)
Passages
A gay couple’s marriage spirals into chaos when one of them begins an affair with a younger woman in Ira Sach’s seductive and bitterly amusing Paris-set drama. Starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
![Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed](/assets/resized/sm/upload/zb/3h/bh/3t/HERO_full_ROCK_HUDSON-02-Clean-16x9-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=66f7525562)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
A trove of archival footage accompanies this whirlwind overview of the life of Rock Hudson, one of the Hollywood studio system’s brightest stars and closeted member of the LGBTQ+ community.