We Were Here

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

สารคดีทรงพลังแห่งปีเจ้าของรางวัล “สิงโตทองคำ ภาพยนตร์ยอดเยี่ยม” จากเทศกาลหนังเวนิซ 2022 ผลงานล่าสุดของ ลอร่า พอยทราส (ผู้กำกับเจ้าของรางวัลออสการ์จาก CITIZENFOUR) ซึ่งถ่ายทอดชีวิตอันโลดโผนสุดขั้วของ แนน โกลดิน ช่างภาพหญิงผู้โด่งดังจากผลงานแหกขนบที่ถ่ายทอดบาดแผลในชีวิตของเธอกับเพื่อนพ้องใต้ดิน ในยุคสมัยที่สังคมอเมริกันยังถูกครอบงำด้วยความคิดอนุรักษ์นิยม จวบจนถึงวันที่เธอตัดสินใจลุกขึ้นเป็นผู้นำขบวนการต่อต้าน “ตระกูลแซ็กเลอร์” มหาเศรษฐีผู้สร้างความมั่งคั่งจากการผลิตยาแก้ปวดโอปิออยด์ที่กลายเป็นต้นตอการระบาดของการใช้ยาเสพติดทั่วทั้งสหรัฐอเมริกา

In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world. But leaders struggled with a secret: their own “same-sex attractions” never went away. After years as Christian superstars in the religious right, many of these men and women have come out as LGBTQ, disavowing the very movement they helped start. Focusing on the dramatic journeys of former conversion therapy leaders, current members, and a survivor, PRAY AWAY chronicles the “ex gay" movement’s rise to power, persistent influence, and the profound harm it causes.

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars.

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.