P(l)ain Truth

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

อาจารย์มัธยมคนหนึ่งที่ไม่รู้ว่าตัวเองเป็นเกย์ แต่เพิ่งมารู้จากการที่เด็กนักเรียนคนหนึ่งที่เขาสอนเป็นดาราได้รับรางวัลและไปประกาศว่าเขาเป็นเกย์กลางเวทีที่ถ่ายทอดไปทั่วอเมริกา พระเอกเลยต้องพิสูจน์ว่าตัวเองเป็นชายปกติด้วยการเตรียมแต่งงานกับคู่หมั้นซึ่งหมั้นกันมานานมากแล้ว และต้องค้นหาตัวเองว่าจริง ๆ แล้วตัวเองเป็นเกย์หรือไม่

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.

วัยรุ่นจากบรู๊คลินต้องเผชิญกับความขัดแย้งในตัวตน และเสี่ยงต่อมิตรภาพ ความอกหัก และครอบครัวในการค้นหาการแสดงออกทางเพศอย่างสิ้นหวัง

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelled by some as pornography masquerading as art. But less talked about are the more serene, yet striking portraits of flowers, sculptures, and perfectly framed human forms that are equally pioneering and powerful.

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.

High schooler Jane struggles with the self-discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl. However, this is only the start of Jane's troubles when her unaccepting mother Janice also contends with the surprising revelation brought forth by her only daughter.