New LGBTQ+ Releases From Passion River
Ballerina Boys
Ballerina Boys celebrates Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo--for 45 years home to some of the world’s most beautiful dancers, male ballerinas who have taken great risks to practice their dazzling version of ballet parody.
Little Miss Westie
Chronicles a year in the life of two trans siblings as they navigate puberty, school, and transitioning in the Trump era.
Between The Shades
50+ conversations exploring the many different shades of being “gay”
in America. This conversation focuses on the degrees and varying
perceptions about how people define themselves, their lives, struggles
and triumphs.
Thelma
A powerful supernatural thriller about a young student, who upon falling in love for the first time with her female classmate, discovers that she has terrifying and inexplicable powers.
I Am Michael
The incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a high profile queer youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor.
Desert Migration
Long-term AIDS and HIV survivors form a community in Palm Springs, California as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
The Abominable Crime
The Abominable Crime explores the religious-based culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans forced to choose between their homeland and their lives.
Fatherhood Dreams
Many if not most people are apprehensive or
fearful-about gay men raising children, especially without women in the
picture. “Fatherhood Dreams” gives the issue a human face, involving us
in the personal lives of four gay men who have always wanted to be dads.
Straight Acting
Spencer Windes' debut documentary film about his evolution from a conservative Mormon missionary into a comfortably gay man, by playing violent contact sports.
Ruthie & Connie
A coming out story about love, friendship, passion, politics — and a cry for justice that resulted in a landmark LGBT civil lawsuit for domestic partnership benefits.
Becoming Leslie
A documentary that reveals the inner and bizarre world of Albert Leslie Cochran, a rebellious, cross-dressing homeless man who became the most unlikely civic symbol of Austin, Texas.
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Every Act Of Life
With six groundbreaking decades in the theatre (Master Class, Ragtime and more), Every Act of Life follows four-time Tony-winning playwright and LGBT rights pioneer Terrence McNally.
Leitis In Waiting
A portrait of Joey Mataele, the leader of an intrepid group of leitis (or indigenous transgender women) that is fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific.
Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
A pioneer of contour techniques, makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin’s meteoric rise to fame in the 80’s and 90’s was legendary. Iconic clients, friends, and family retrace his life, career, and mysterious death at the height of his fame in 2002.
Real Boy
An intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates early sobriety, late adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son.
An Honest Liar
World-renowned magician and escape artist James "the Amazing" Randi dedicates his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claim paranormal powers.
Game Face
The award-winning documentary Game Face tells the parallel story of Fallon Fox, MMAs first transgender pro fighter, and Terrence Clemmens, a young, ambitious and talented college basketball player in Oklahoma, who happens to be gay.
Kumu Hina
Kumu Hina tells the inspiring story of
Hina Wong-Kalu, a transgender native Hawaiian teacher, or kumu, who
brings to life Hawai‘i's traditional embrace of mahu - those who embody
both male and female spirit.
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
This feature length documentary follows the Vancouver Pride Society’s Parade Director Ken Coolen and his VPS colleagues as they travel to places where Pride is still steeped in protest to personally experience the rampant homophobia that still exists.
El Angel
Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. When he meets the handsome Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and instigates a fight. A relationship soon develops with the two embarking on a crime spree fueled by jealousy and unspoken desires.
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfill an age-old desire: to start his own family.
Made in Boise
Four women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in the conservative heartland of Boise, Idaho - the unregulated and unofficial “surrogacy capital” of the United States - and encounter unexpected complexities along the way.
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Hurley
American racing legend Hurley Haywood speaks for the first time about being gay in the macho world of motor sports and sets the record straight about his relationship with co-driver Peter Gregg.
We The Animals
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
BPM
(Beats Per Minute) In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold invasive actions.
The Guys Next Door
The Guys Next Door, a feature length documentary, offers an alternative to the traditional ideas of what constitute the nuclear American family. Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay couple with two daughters birthed by their friend Rachel with donor eggs.
Back On Board:
Greg Louganis This flm follows Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic diving champion, over three years as he struggles with financial security and reunites with the sport he once dominated but not welcomed in.
The State Of Marriage
The epic story of how legal legend Mary Bonauto partnered with small-town Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray in a 2-decade struggle that built the foundation for the entire marriage equality movement.
My Own Man
A funny and original look into the timeless tug of war between fathers and sons, and a moving story about the transformative power of forgiveness.
Codebreaker: The Story of Alan Turning
Codebreaker tells the remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th century's most important people. Alan Turing's success breaking the German naval Enigma code helped win World War II. And as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, he laid the foundation for our modern world.
Halston
From Iowa to Studio 54 to Wall Street, Halston lived an American dream. Prodigiously talented, he reigned over fashion in the 1970s, becoming a household name. But everything changes in the Wall Street era. With his empire under threat, Halston takes the biggest gamble of his life.
The Right Girls
Three young transgender women from El Salvador and Honduras - Valentyna, Joanne and Chantal - travel from Southern Mexico within the high-profile “Migrant Caravan.” They develop a deep friendship as they walk and hitch rides northwards, coping with physical exhaustion, limited funds, and regular harassment.
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