Movies: Sexual identity

This documentary film deals with constructions of fe/maleness in western society and explores the lives of 6 people who cross the boundaries between these 2 genders. This film wants to create awareness for diverse transgender identities beyond a bina...

It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years la...

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online....

Richard has an unusual fantasy: he gets sexually aroused by the idea of being devoured by an animal. In a contact add he gets to know Max and with that encounter the chance of making his fantasy real. But does he dare?...

Over the course of one night, a newly out-of -the-closet young man struggles to hold back his feelings for his straight best friend while dealing with the problems and complications of being different in a hetero-normative world....

It is the middle of August in an apartment in the Roman suburbs. Tommaso is a teenager and is subjected to the teasing of his older brother Leonardo, who calls him "Pelorosso" because of his coppery hair. If he wants his brother to stop teasing him, ...

Three Swedish teenagers express their thoughts about bi- and homosexuality while navigating questions of identity, self-acceptance, and societal expectations. Through personal stories and reflections, the film explores their struggles, hopes, and the...

Having left England for a romantic escapade in the South of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between...

Steve knows he's straight but under the water at his local swimming pool, he feels gay. Will he tell his ex-girlfriend the entire truth and what does he dream of?...

Marcy is forced to change her sexual orientation because of town rumors....

Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young Canadians. Clint, taking on the role of Clint Star, seeks out his far-flung buddies, young Natives like himsel...

A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919)....

A teenage girl is ready to experiment, but an older man’s demands burden her sexual awakening with complex realizations about her place in the world....

When a young girl comes out to her biased psychiatrist in 1983, he calls her parents for an intervention to cure her....

A highly accurate autobiographic film that depicts the aftermath of Bülent Ersoy's gender change and how she, her friends and community reacts to it....

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Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about lies in our sexual lives suddenly turns out to be a sharp discourse about gender theory and the cont...

A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem, he makes believe for several years to ......

Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in a society which persecutes people like him and meets those who are leading the hate campaign....

Camilo, an adolescent rower on a Xochimilco jetty, has his first sexual encounter with another man. One day he thinks he is being discovered by Beto, a colleague from work. When confronted, Camilo accidentally ends up revealing his homosexuality. Not...