Gay Griffin, Ada

1995

Eltringham, Billie

1995

In Bille Eltringham’s beautiful film Linger, Donna-Marie looks back on her teenage affair with her best friend Tammy.

Hashiguchi, Ryosuke

1995

With his second feature, director Ryosuke Hashiguchi has created a brilliantly understated tale of aching romance, sophisticated humor and young adulthood. Soft-spoken, rather demure Ito is a high school senior ready to blossom into a passionate, driven young man. He falls deeply into states of confusion and withdrawal (often known as the beginnings of love) with his best friend at school, the very approachable and popular big-man-on-campus Yoshida. As their friendship develops, a sense of frustration and urgency begins to loom over Ito's days as he needs to tell his best friend about his feelings. Meanwhile, in walks the smart and oddly mature Aihara, a mysterious, cool and aloof new girl in town unknowingly poised to create a complicated world of love and discovery for all involved. Yoshida develops a torrential crush on Aihara and thus ensue a triangle of relations between the three young cohorts. Throughout Like Grains of Sand, a rare, thoughtful honesty coupled with buoyant, smart dialogue creates a mood rarely seen from Japan. Youthful sexuality and coming of age are treated with such respect, care, and thorough detail that this film is surely not one to be missed.

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Barrios, Eliza O.

1995

Lick brings to life the revenge fantasies of a jilted lover.

Howe, Cymene

1995

A narrative reflection on the fifty-five-year history of the filmmaker's grandmother and her female partner.

Knight, Leone

1995

Paul Capsis plays a suicidal diva in this lush, musical melodrama that looks at the queerness in opera and the operatic in queer lives. Our diva is crushed when her true love sees her in all her nakedness and rejects her.

Cuthand, Thirza

1995

A sweet portrait of an out high school dyke who takes us on a ride through her everyday life in rural Canada and her ongoing search for her contemporaries.

Weakland, Sean

1995

Four men tell of their personal experiences in the Mormon Church and the attempts made by the Church to change their sexual orientation through aversion therapy.

Haberman, Hardy

1995

A serious look at gay men is taken in Leather, a simple, poetic view of the leatherman’s world and spirituality.

Dyer, Julia

1995

Late Bloomers is a romantic comedy about what happens when two middle-aged women accidentally fall in love...with each other. At Eleanor B. Roosevelt High School, nothing is out of the ordinary – the teachers are nerdy, the students are horny, and the principal has a proverb for every occasion. But this average suburban community is about to be set on its collective ear, because Dinah Groshardt, the lonely, laughable geometry teacher, and Carly Lumpkin, frumpy school secretary and housewife, fall in love. The uproar reverberates from classroom to cafeteria, from bedroom to locker room, from principal’s office to the PTA, as parents, teachers and students of Roosevelt High confront their prejudices, and Carly and Dinah discover a midlife passion that puts the adolescents to shame. Writer Gretchen and director Julia Dyer have created a touching love story that has charmed audiences worldwide.