Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves is a Swedish mini series in three parts based on three novels by Jonas Gardell (individually subtitled "Love", "Sickness" and "Death"). Set in Stockholm in the 1980s the series depicts the gay culture of Sweden, the spread of HIV and AIDS and above all the fear and the prejudice...
With the support of Embassy of Suomen suurlähetystö Riika - Embassy of Finland in Riga, we invite you to the movie "Tom of Finland!" Touko Laaksonen returns home to Finland after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame,...
We invite you to 10 times awarded Jennies Livingstons iconic 1990. documentary "Paris is burning", that will introduce you to 80's party life in New York city. This movie and Madonnas song "Vogue" are considered a turning point that introduced society to a new dance style called "vouging" that is still on its uprise in...
My Wonderful West Berlin reveals the LGBTQ community that developed and flourished in post war West Berlin despite homophobic laws and public prejudice. While having a reputation as one of the most liberal and inclusive European cities, West Berlin only gradually grew into its image as being overwhelmingly tolerant towards the LGBTQ youth who left...
Klaus, a 17-year-old, has begun to lead a life that increasingly worries his parents. Although he is an outstanding student, Klaus spends most of his free time with Manfred, a low academic achiever raised by a relatively poor single mother. The two boys share an interest in the arts. Klaus has to protect Manfred from...
"Call Me by Your Name" is a 2017 coming-of-age drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory. It is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman, and is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic "Desire" trilogy, after I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015). Set...
Sven lives with his mother Edeltraut who suffers from dementia. They share their lives, their flat and even the bed. During the day Sven works at a bank while Daniel looks after his mother. One day, Edeltraut locks Sven on the balcony and goes for a walk into town on her own. Both men desperately...
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Ukraine. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes, but there is no way of knowing...
There was little chance, in the year 1971, that Carole, a Paris Spanish teacher and feminist militant, would ever meet Delphine, the daughter of a couple of Limousin farmers. But they did meet and not only did they come across each other but they fell passionately in love as well. Unfortunately, Delphine's father fell victim...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a musical science-fiction horror-comedy. The production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1970s. The story centres on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone...
With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Latvia, we invite you to the movie "Divine Order’’ (Switzerland) Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives in 1971 with her husband and two sons in a quiet Swiss village. Here little is known about the social upheavals of the 1968 movement. The village...
An East German film, directed by Heiner Carow and written by Wolfram Witt, "Coming out" is one of the last films made by DEFA, the East German state film studio, and the only one it made that dealt with issues around homosexuality. Film's lead character - Philip, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue...
