Tel Aviv Gay Film Festival 2018
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1. Diane Has the Right Shape (2017)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these less than perfect circumstances that she suddenly becomes infatuated with her electrician, Fabrizio.
Director: Fabien Gorgeart | Stars: Clotilde Hesme, Fabrizio Rongione, Thomas Suire, Grégory Montel
Votes: 389
2. Mr Gay Syria (2017)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay ... See full summary »
Director: Ayse Toprak
Votes: 265
3. 120 BPM (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 16,743 | Gross: $0.13M
4. Love, Simon (2018)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
Director: Greg Berlanti | Stars: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Langford
Votes: 125,915 | Gross: $40.83M
5. Kiss Me! (2017)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her mother who knows the tumultuous sentimental life of her daughter. While they are in couple, ... See full summary »
Directors: Océan, Cyprien Vial | Stars: Océan, Alice Pol, Michèle Laroque, Grégory Montel
Votes: 286
6. Air (2017)
92 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.
Director: Anatol Schuster | Stars: Anna Brodskaja-Bomke, Peter Cieslinski, Jakob D'Aprile, Lara Feith
Votes: 268
7. Obscuro Barroco (2018)
59 min | Documentary
In her essayistic film Obscuro Barroco Greek director Evangelia Kranioti explores the poetic words of her transgender narrator Luana Muniz, who is herself an icon of Brazil's queer ... See full summary »
Director: Evangelia Kranioti | Star: Luana Muniz
Votes: 261
8. Soldiers: Story from Ferentari (2017)
119 min | Drama
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a ... See full summary »
Director: Ivana Mladenovic | Stars: Dan Bursuc, Sorin Cocis, Cezar Grumazescu, Kana Hashimoto
Votes: 862
9. Reinventing Marvin (2017)
115 min | Drama
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée
Votes: 1,585
10. HOMOE: Looking for Shelter (2017)
57 min | Documentary
In West Germany, gay refugee Javid from Azerbaijan starts a campaign to call for more attention to LGBTI rights after he made a suicide attempt in refugee camp. Meanwhile in the South, ... See full summary »
Director: Bin Chen
11. Saturday Church (2017)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
Director: Damon Cardasis | Stars: Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez, Indya Moore, Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor
Votes: 1,192
12. The Heiresses (2018)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama
Marcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
Director: Marcelo Martinessi | Stars: Norma Codas, Margarita Irun, Ana Brun, Yvera
Votes: 3,282 | Gross: $0.08M
13. My Days of Mercy (2017)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer | Stars: Elliot Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz, Charlie Shotwell
Votes: 5,867
14. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton
Votes: 28,652 | Gross: $1.59M
15. Malila: The Farewell Flower (2017)
94 min | Drama
Former lovers Shane and Pich reunite and try to heal the wounds of their past. Shane is haunted by the tragic death of his daughter, while Pich suffers a grave illness. As death approaches,... See full summary »
Director: Anucha Boonyawatana | Stars: Sukollawat Kanarot, Anuchit Sapanpong, Sumret Muengput, Akekarad Khalong
Votes: 546
16. Bixa Travesty (2018)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
Directors: Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla | Stars: Linn da Quebrada, Jup do Bairro, Liniker, As Bahias e a Cozinha Mineira
Votes: 588
17. 1985 (2018)
85 min | Drama
A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Director: Yen Tan | Stars: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung
Votes: 2,519
18. Hard Paint (2018)
Unrated | 117 min | Drama
Set in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, the film focuses on a socially repressed young man who only comes out of his shell during chatroom performances, when he strips and smears neon paints on his lithe body.
Directors: Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon | Stars: Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto, Sandra Dani
Votes: 1,169
19. Marilyn (2018)
79 min | Drama
Marcos, a seventeen-year-old farm worker, discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment.
Director: Martín Rodríguez Redondo | Stars: Walter Rodríguez, Catalina Saavedra, Germán De Silva, Ignacio Giménez
Votes: 472
20. White Rabbit (I) (2018)
TV-MA | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
A dramatic comedy following a Korean-American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in modern Los Angeles.
Director: Daryl Wein | Stars: Vivian Bang, Nana Ghana, Nico Evers-Swindell, Tracy Hazas
Votes: 392
21. The Cakemaker (2017)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer | Stars: Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roi Miller, Zohar Strauss
Votes: 5,143 | Gross: $0.88M
22. My Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy
Antonio's finally found the love of his life, Paolo, with whom he lives happily in Berlin. Even if still not sure about their families' reactions, they decide to get married in Italy, in the small village from where Antonio's parents live.
Director: Alessandro Genovesi | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Monica Guerritore, Salvatore Esposito, Cristiano Caccamo
Votes: 1,262
23. Mario (I) (2018)
124 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Max Hubacher, Aaron Altaras, Jessy Moravec, Jürg Plüss
Votes: 5,262
24. Quiet Heroes (2018)
TV-14 | 68 min | Documentary
A doctor in Utah fights to save the lives of people in a maligned population, a population that nobody cares to save.
Directors: Jenny Mackenzie, Jared Ruga, Amanda Stoddard | Stars: Kristen Ries, Maggie Snyder, Beverly Stoddard, Kim Smith
Votes: 93
25. Miss Rosewood (2017)
67 min | Documentary, Drama
Skin diving with Miss Rosewood. Take a plunge into the dark side of uber-sophisticated New York with performance artist, Jon Cory, performing as Miss Rosewood. She strips to full she-male ... See full summary »
Director: Helle Jensen | Stars: Rose Cory, Sharon Cory, Michele Delsol, Joe E. Jeffreys
Votes: 26
26. Snapshots (2018)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
Director: Melanie Mayron | Stars: Piper Laurie, Brooke Adams, Emily Baldoni, Christopher McVay
Votes: 2,451
27. River's Edge (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama
High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Ryô Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shûhei Uesugi
Votes: 1,097
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