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Director: Natale, Richard
Year: 1996
Synopsis: The ups and downs of a ten year relationship.
Description: Richard Natale’s debut feature chronicles the ups and downs of a gay relationship from its flirtatious beginning in 1978 to its painful demise ten years later. Philip wakes one morning following the death of his lover Guy and begins to try and make sense of the 10-year relationship. Flashing back and forth in time, Green Plaid Shirt follows the lovers from their awkward meeting at a garage sale through a romantic courtship and into their years of struggle and strife to keep the relationship afloat. Compelling and sincere, Green Plaid Shirt delivers an honest dose of reality: the understated performances and witty dialogue ring true about the forces which tear people apart and ultimately keep them together.

Director: Durr, Karisa
Year: 1996
Synopsis: Karisa Durr examines the female buttocks in all its grandeur in the film Grade AA Butt.

Director: Barry, Diane
Year: 1996
Description: Home of the largest lesbian and gay community center in Europe, Glasgow is the setting and subject of this new four-part Channel Four television 'docu-soap'. The film features a cast of real-life characters whose stories are interwoven into a rich tapestry. From the Mr. Gay UK finals to a lesbian custody battle, the series follows six Glasgow citizens through the dramas and rituals of their daily lives. Jim, a former shipyard worker, is a reluctant recruit for country western dancing classes, while Erin is fighting to complete a line up of women drummers to perform at a imminent gig. June fights for custody of her 4-year-old son, while student Julie gets a job with photographer Della Grace, but meets with disapproval at college. Building to a vibrant and colorful finale, Glasgow Kiss is more soap-like than most actual soaps, just as riveting, and most importantly, true.

Director: Khanna, Natthalie
Year: 1996
Synopsis: Gay Bombay looks at the emergence of gay networks in Bombay and questions what it means to be gay in India.
Description: Nathalie Khanna's Gay Bombay looks at this emergence of gay networks in Bombay and questions what it means to be gay in India.

Director: Morel, Gael
Year: 1996
Synopsis: A complex, fast-paced but deliberately fragmented story of young lust, unrequited love and racial prejudice set in rural France, Full Speed zeroes in on four central characters, all in their early twenties, who seem doomed from the start. Samir, a beautiful Beur (Parisian slang for a young Arab) from Algeria, has a growing post-teenage crush on Quentin, a successful novelist who observes the people around him as the basis for his fiction but wants desperately to escape small town life. Quentin has a relationship with Julie, a free-spirited girl (she likes fast cars and drinking shots) who can’t resist Jimmy, a gorgeous young tough who’s always in trouble. As their lives intersect, the characters’ exploration of their bisexuality is interrupted by racism, as French anti-Arab hatreds lead to tragedy. Discovered in André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds (an obvious inspiration for his work here) the young actor-turned-director Gaël Morel makes his feature directing debut with Full Speed, which co-stars Reed’s Stéphane Rideau.