Inspired in part by filmmaker Sarah Watts’ own upbringing in a Jehovah’s Witness community, the Canadian drama film You Can Live Forever stars Anwen O’Driscoll as a teenager sent to live with her aunt in a devoutly religious Jehovah’s Witness, and develops a relationship with another young woman in the community.
Magnolia Pictures revealed the official trailer for Blue Jean, the award-winning British drama starring Rosy McEwen as Jean, a closeted gay teacher in London in 1988. Also starring in the film are Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun, Amy Booth-Steele, Aoife Kennan, Scott Turnbull, Farrah Cave, Lainey Shaw, Izzy Neish and Becky Lindsay.
Dark Sky Pictures revealed the official trailer for El Houb – The Love, a drama starring Fahd Larhzaoui as a man who come to terms with his own feelings and finally comes out to his family.
Transgender actress Trace Lysette stars in Monica as a woman who returns home to the Midwest to care for her dying mother whom she hasn’t seen in years.
What do you do when your chosen family no longer chooses you?
Writer-director Shariff Nasr’s intimate exploration of a man who comes out to his family, El Houb will follow up its festival run with a national release this Spring. El Houb will open in theaters on March 31 and be available on DVD and Digital on April 4 from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
Oscilloscope Laboratories shared the official trailer for Joyland, the award-winning queer drama selected as Official Pakistani Entry for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. Starring in the film are Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Sohail Sameer, Salmaan Peerzada, and Sania Saeed
Dark Star Pictures debuted the official trailer for Punch, the sports drama film starring Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, and Conan Hayes.
Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s Sundance award-winning documentary The Stroll will open and its Hannes Hirsch’s debut feature Drifter will close the 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 15th – 26th, 2023. In addition, Tünde Skovrán’s intimate documentary Who I Am Not will have its UK Premiere as the Centrepiece Presentation Screening.
GLAAD announced the nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, with films Bodies Bodies Bodies, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Spoiler Alert and Tár among the nominees for Outstanding Film.
Dark Sky Pictures revealed the official trailer for The First Fallen, the LGBTQ drama about the start of the AIDS epidemic in 80s Brazil, starring Johnny Massaro, Renata Carvalho and Clara Choveaux.
Dark Star Pictures unveiled the official trailer for Spanish director Ruth Caudeli’s Petit Mal which opens in theaters on January 27, 2023.