Garingan, Cahl

1997

A gay college student explores the sexuality of love the first time by resisting conformity and falling for a handsome bisexual.

Dupre, Jeff

1997

Griffith, C. A.

1997

The story of a gay couple in Mexico City.

Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro (Gustavo Cravioto) is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto (Mario Callitzin), that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, split up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally. This first feature from director C. A. Griffith is a look at the grim reality faced by many HIV+ men and women in developing countries. It explores homophobia, economic disparities, and the love of family and friends in times of pressure. The Other Side is the film debut of both Cravioto and Callitzin, and contains as a supporting cast the accomplished, award-winning duo of Eduardo Lopez Rojas (Mi Familia) and Patricia Reyes Spindola (La Riena de la Noche).

Smith, Chuck

1997

An artistic short story of gay love as told through one man's reminiscing on a sleepless night. Photographer and filmmaker Chuck Smith uses well-crafted images to wonderful effect in Once Again, his touching recreation of a middle-aged gay man's sleepless night during which he fondly recalls his youth and the love of his life.

Carter, Marcelo

1997

Ó Files puts a queer Brazilian twist on the X-Files.

Cohen, Barri

1997

A brilliant 31-year-old woman suffers from inexplicable symptoms, from impaired speech to near total paralysis.

She’s paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair. She requires oxygen at night to help her breathe. Her medical chart is hundreds of pages long. She’s been treated by dozens of specialists and has undergone innumerable tests. But the results are always inconclusive. Doctors claim there’s no organic cause for her condition. NYD: Not Yet Diagnosed is a powerful documentary that chronicles a medical mystery. Chloe is a 31 year-old woman whose very real symptoms are baffling physicians. Is the root of the problem in her body? Or does it emanate from her mind? And is this distinction even relevant anymore? NYD poses tough questions about the patient/doctor relationship, about how women are treated by the medical establishment, about how doctors confront mysterious illnesses, and about the troubling, fascinating and complex interrelationship between our bodies and our minds.

Chen, Mickey

1997

Yosheng and Gray are the first gay couple who came out to the mainstream society and had the first public gay wedding in Taiwan.

Highly publicized in their own country, Yosheng and Ray are the first gay couple in Taiwan to come out publicly and to have a gay wedding. Joined by their friends and family, they held their wedding ceremony in the conventional Taiwanese fashion: by having a wedding banquet. Not Simply a Wedding Banquet documents this historic wedding banquet and ceremony, while at the same time giving us insights into the lives of gays and lesbians in Taiwan.

Porter, Andrew

1997

Tom is on the threshold of sexual maturity but he has still to learn that the rules of childhood no longer apply. A charming film about a young man learns the ins and outs of bringing a pal home for the evening.

Wentzy, James

1997

Wentzy, James

1997

How we can get away from the panic and still have great sex?