Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

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Sundance Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh · LGBTQ

A teenage girl's coming of age told as her mother begins his gender transition.

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and…

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism

Lesbian · LGBTQ · Documentary

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism immerses the viewer in the San Francisco leather dyke scene, shattering assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, while broadening the discussion about personal expressions of eroticism and their political implications.

Chris & Don. A Love Story

LGBTQ · Documentary · Biography

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. Fro…

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

LGBTQ · Documentary · Biography

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds o…

Diary of a Lost Girl

LGBTQ · World Cinema

Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most compelling collaborations: G. W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent perso…

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Lesbian

Dirty Diaries is a collection of twelve short pornographic films created by a group of feminist filmmakers in Sweden. The series of shorts is intended as a feminist response to traditional pornography -- porn films made by women to explore and celebrate, rather than exploit, female sexuality.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · LGBTQ

Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus

Romance · World Cinema · Cult

Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. New 4K restoration.

Jimpa

LGBTQ · Drama

In this moving and authentic portrait of a multigenerational queer family, filmmaker Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa” (John Lithgow). When Frances decides to stay with…

Kamikaze Hearts

Documentary · Lesbian · Cult

Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell — caught in a …

Michael

LGBTQ · Silent · Drama

Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

LGBTQ · Documentary · Art Documentaries

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

Mädchen in Uniform

LGBTQ · Lesbian · World Cinema

As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed land…

Pioneers of Queer Cinema

Comedy · LGBTQ · Romance

These classics of early queer cinema, all way ahead of their time, come to Kino Marquee for Pride Month in gorgeous new restorations.

Private Desert

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Drama

When his internet girlfriend Sara goes missing, suspended police academy instructor Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to look for her. What follows is a journey of the heart and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity.

Proud

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Drama

In 1981, it was still illegal to be gay in France. Today, same-sex marriage is recognized and has paved the way for legalizing the adoption of children by LGBTQ families. Proud tells the story of Charles, Victor and Diego, three generations of the same family who represent the seismic social changes…

The Queen

Cannes Film Festival · LGBTQ · Documentary

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag, as well as LGBTQ icons Flawless Sabrina and Crystal LaBeija.

Sebastian

LGBTQ · Drama

Max is a 25-year-old writer living in London who moonlights as a sex worker under the pseudonym Sebastian as research for his debut novel. This Sundance Film Festival selection explores the transgressive power of queer sexuality and the transformative impact of embracing a new identity.

Sebastiane

Religion · Historic Drama · World Cinema

Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores.

The Tempest (Jarman)

Cult · LGBTQ · World Cinema

Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood high camp and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of the classics while its lush se…

Tom of Finland

Biography · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

This stirring biopic follows the life of the artist whose proudly erotic drawings of leather-clad studs served as an emblem of gay liberation and influenced art, fashion and culture for decades to come.

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

LGBTQ · Documentary

The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary featuring vibrant voiceover work from Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto.

Victor and Victoria

Lesbian · LGBTQ · Romance

In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman, unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes the toast of the international stage.

War Requiem

War · Music & Dance · Historic Drama

British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.

Wojnarowicz

LGBTQ · Photography · Art Documentaries

This fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz reveals his fiercely political, unapologetically queer approach to art that criticized mainstream indifference to AIDS, the epidemic that would take his life at age 37.

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

Lesbian · LGBTQ · Documentary

Led by Peter Adair, the Mariposa Film Group made the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers. Their 1977 film is a collage of interviews, funny and heartbreaking.