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Director: Smith, Chuck
Year: 1997
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Cohen, Barri
Year: 1997
Synopsis: A brilliant 31-year-old woman suffers from inexplicable symptoms, from impaired speech to near total paralysis.
Description: 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.

Director: Chen, Mickey
Year: 1997
Synopsis: Yosheng and Gray are the first gay couple who came out to the mainstream society and had the first public gay wedding in Taiwan.
Description: 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.

Director: Porter, Andrew
Year: 1997
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Balass, Joe
Year: 1997
Synopsis: A series of intimate conversations between a young filmmaker, his 93 year-old Iraqi Jewish grandmother & a 73 year-old gay writer.
Description: Nana, George And Me is a series of intimate conversations between the young filmmaker, his 93-year-old grandmother, and a 73-year-old gay writer, about identity and sexuality among Iraqi Jews displaced in the mid-1960s by the rise to power of Saddam Hussein.