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This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual or transgender -related filmsreleased in 2011. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
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365 Without 377 | Adele Tulli | India Italy | Documentary | Beena, Pallav and Abheena | Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalizes any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatizing them as 'against the order of nature'. On 2 July 2009 the Delhi High Court passed a landmark judgment scrapped this clause, thus the Indian LGBTQ community in Bombay celebrate. [1] It won the Turin LGBT Film Fest award in 2011. [2] |
Abrupt Decision | Paul Bright | United States | Drama | Steve Callahan, David LaDuca, Cynthia Schiebel, Jacquelyn Lies, Paul Bright, Peggy Mae Binn, Matthew Burnett | [3] |
The Advocate for Fagdom | Angélique Bosio | France | Documentary | Interviews with; Glenn Belverio, Bruce Benderson, Rick Castro, Jey Crisfar, Vaginal Davis, Richard Kern, Harmony Korine, Daniel Nicoletta, Javier Peres, Kembra Pfahler | About the work of queercore filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, [4] with a title credited to Kurt Cobain [5] |
Albert Nobbs | Rodrigo García | United Kingdom Ireland | Drama | Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (credited as Aaron Johnson), Janet McTeer, Pauline Collins, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Mark Williams | Based on the play The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by Simone Benmussa, which itself is based on a novella by George Moore; coincidentally, Close starred in the title role when the play premiered Off-Broadway in 1982 |
American Translation | Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr | France | Drama | Pierre Perrier, Lizzie Brocheré, Jean-Marc Barr, Gray Orsatelli, Marc Rioufol, Manon Klein, Arthur Harel, Thomas Rouer, Astrid Vermeulin, Pierre-Yves Kiebbe, Arnaud Koller, Zoe Schellenberg, Benjamin Bollen, Laurent Delbecque, Ionita Radu Georgescu, Djedje Apali, Ombeline of Lavenère | |
Angel | Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva | France | Documentary | Angel is a former boxer from Ecuador, now a transsexual prostitute in France, also known as Mujeron (the big woman in Spanish) | Produced in 2009 [6] |
(A)Sexual | Angela Tucker | United States | Documentary | Interviews with;David Jay (founder of asexuality.org), Professor Lori Brotto, Cynthia Graham (Clinical Psychologist, Kinsey Institute), Aliza, Antonia, Barb, Brian, Cole Brown, Cale Cesar, Elizabeth and Swank Ivy. With archive footage of Joy Behar, Tucker Carlson, Janeane Garofalo and Elisabeth Hasselbeck | [7] |
August | Eldar Rapaport | United States | Drama, romance | Murray Bartlett, Edward Conna, Adrian Gonzalez, Daniel Dugan, Kevin McShane, Hank Ignacio, Bernhard Forcher, Maria Chung, Brad Standley | Rapaport's first full-length effort |
Absent (Ausente) | Marco Berger | Argentina | Drama | Carlos Echevarría, Javier De Pietro, Antonella Costa, Rocío Pavón, Alejandro Barbero | Winner of the 2011 Teddy Award for Best Feature Film |
Bad Romance | François Chang | China | Romance, drama | Nranus Chen, Jason Lau, Hayden Leung, Will Bay, Chan Chan, François Chang, Macha Hsiao | |
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye | Marie Losier | United States Germany United Kingdom Netherlands Belgium France | Documentary | Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (his wife), Big Boy Breyer P'Orridge, Edley ODowd, David Max, Alice Genese, Markus Persson and Bryin Dall | [8] [9] Winner of the 2011 Teddy Award for Best Documentary [10] |
Beauty (Skoonheid) | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa France Germany | Drama | Deon Lotz, Roeline Daneel, Sue Diepeveen, Charlie Keegan, Albert Maritz, Michelle Scott | |
Becoming Chaz | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | United States | Documentary | Chaz Bono, Cher, Jennifer Elia (Chaz's girlfriend), Jimm Giannini (actress) and (transgender rights activist) Masen Davis | Premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival [11] |
Blinders | Jacob Brown | United States | Short, drama | Nathaniel Brown, Byrdie Bell and Luke Worrall | Filmed over the Memorial Day weekend. [12] |
Break My Fall | Kanchi Wichmann | United Kingdom | Drama | Kat Redstone, Sophie Anderson, Kai Brandon Ly, Collin Clay Chace, Morgan Rhys, Yariv Perelmuter, Anthony Walker, Rob Schwarz, Timberlina, Chéo Rhodes | [13] [14] |
Boys Village | Till Kleinert | United Kingdom Germany | Short, drama, fantasy, horror | Benjamin Thorne, Andrew McQueen, Hannah-Rose Jones, Jack Jones, Owain Collins | 22 minutes long, [15] [16] it was also released on DVD as part of the Peccadillo Pictures release Boys On Film X. [17] |
Bye Bye Blondie | Virginie Despentes | France | Comedy, drama | Emmanuelle Béart, Béatrice Dalle, Soko, Clara Ponsot, Pascal Greggory, Stomy Bugsy, Sasha Andres | |
Buffering | Darren Flaxstone, Christian Martin | United Kingdom | Comedy | Alex Anthony, Conner Mckenzy, Jessica Matthews, Oliver Park, Bernie Hodges, Tony Banham and Ryan Spong | [18] [19] |
Christopher and His Kind | Geoffrey Sax | United Kingdom | Drama | Matt Smith, Douglas Booth, Imogen Poots, Pip Carter, Toby Jones, Alexander Dreymon, Tom Wlaschiha, Issy van Randwyck | TV movie; based on Christopher Isherwood's memoir of the same name |
Cibrâil – Eine Liebe in Berlin | Tor Iben | Germany | Drama | Sinan Hancili, Engin Sert, Martina Hesse, Peter Beck, Volker Figge, Oliver Weidner | aka The Visitor [20] |
Cinema Verite | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | United States | Drama | Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, Kathleen Quinlan, Thomas Dekker, Patrick Fugit, Shanna Collins, Willam Belli, Lolita Davidovich, Kyle Riabko, Kaitlyn Dever, Nick Eversman, Johnny Simmons, Caitlin Custer, Jake Richardson | Fictionalized account of the production of An American Family |
Circumstance | Maryam Keshavarz | United States France Iran | Drama | Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Keon Mohajeri | |
Cloudburst | Thom Fitzgerald | United States Canada | Adventure, comedy, drama | Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette, Kristin Booth, Michael McPhee, Jeremy Akerman, John Dunsworth, Gertrude Thoma, Lindsay Duncan, Perry Millward, Iddo Goldberg, Will Kemp, Stuart Graham | Adapted from Fitzgerald's play of the same name |
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same | Madeleine Olnek | United States | Comedy, romance, science fiction | Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan, Cynthia Kaplan, Dennis Davis, Alex Karpovsky, Rae C. Wright and Clay Drinko | |
Çürük - The Pink Report | Ulrike Böhnisch | Germany | Documentary | Four young gay men recount their experiences in the Turkish military and with the exemption process, which includes psychological tests, anal examinations and the photographical proof of gay sex | [21] [22] |
Deep End | Bretten Hannam | Canada | Short, drama | Bailey Maughan, Gharrett Patrick Paon, Denis Theriault, Max Humphreys, Matt Tolton | 8 minutes long [23] [24] |
Desire Street | Roberto F. Canuto Xu Xiaoxi | Spain China United States | Comedy, drama | Alexandra Smothers, Alejandra Walker, Ellen Clifford, Javier Lopez, Kjord Davis, Jesus Guevara | |
Dicke Mädchen | Axel Ranisch | Germany | Drama, comedy | Ruth Bickelhaupt, Heiko Pinkowski, Peter Trabner, Paul Pinkowski | aka Heavy Girls [25] [26] |
Downing | Ben Peters | United Kingdom | Short, drama | Jamie Brotherston, Ross William Wild, Krystina Coates, Rehanna MacDonald, Jack Hinks and Ling Law | 16 minutes long [27] |
Eating Out: Drama Camp | Q. Allan Brocka | United States | Comedy | Chris Salvatore, Daniel Skelton, Aaron Milo, Lilach Mendelovich, Harmony Santana, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Drew Droege | |
Eating Out: The Open Weekend | Q. Allan Brocka | United States | Comedy | Chris Salvatore, Daniel Skelton, Lilach Mendelovich, Harmony Santana, Michael Vara | |
Facing Mirrors (Aynehaye Rooberoo) | Negar Azarbeyjani | Iran | Drama | Homayoun Ershadi, Shayesteh Irani, Nima Shahrokh Shahi, Qazal Shakeri | |
Family Affair (Assunto de Família) | Caru Alves de Souza | Brazil | Short, drama | Kauê Telloli, Cláudia Assunção, Thiago Pinheiro, Ney Piacentini, Thiago Franco Balieiro and Johnnas Oliva | 12 minutes long [28] [29] |
Famine | Ryan Nicholson | Canada | Horror | Beth Cantor, Christine Wallace, Christopher Patrick Donoghue, Nathan Durec, Dustin Elkins, Karyn Halpin, Glenn Hoffmann | a.k.a. Stupid Teens Must Die! and Detention Night |
Father's Day | Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Conor Sweeney | Canada | Horror | Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Mackenzie Murdock, Meredith Sweeney, Brent Neale, Garrett Hnatiuk, Kevin Anderson | |
Finding Mr. Wright | Nancy Criss | United States | Comedy, Romance | Matthew Montgomery, Rebekah Kochan, David Shae, Jason Stuart, Scotch Ellis Loring, Edward Gusts | [30] [31] |
The First Time (Bedingungslose Liebe) | Timmy Ehegötz | Germany | Drama | Florian Ahlborn, Timmy Ehegötz, Denise Ilktac, Bianca Prohl and Björn Suchla | [32] [33] |
Fjellet (The Mountain) | Ole Giæver | Norway | Drama | Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Marte Magnusdotter Solem | [34] [35] |
Funkytown | Daniel Roby | Canada | Drama | Patrick Huard, Justin Chatwin, Paul Doucet, Raymond Bouchard, Geneviève Brouillette, Sarah Mutch, François Letourneau, Sophie Cadieux, Romina D'Ugo | |
Going Down in LA-LA Land | Casper Andreas | United States | Comedy, drama | Matthew Ludwinski, Allison Lane, Michael Medico | Based on Andy Zeffer's novel of the same name |
The Green | Steven Williford | United States | Drama | Jason Butler Harner, Cheyenne Jackson, Illeana Douglas, Julia Ormond | |
Gun Hill Road | Rashaad Ernesto Green | United States | Drama | Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Harmony Santana, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Míriam Colón, Felix Solis, Franky G, Vincent Laresca, Robert Prescott, Robin de Jesús | |
Heart Breaks Open | William Maria Rain | United States | Drama | Maximillian Davis, Brian Peters, Samonte Cruz | [36] [37] |
Hit So Hard | P. David Ebersole | United States | Documentary | Interviews; Patty Schemel, Courtney Love (of Hole), Eric Erlandson (of Hole), Melissa Auf der Maur (of Hole), Nina Gordon (of Veruca Salt), Kate Schellenbach (of Luscious Jackson), Gina Schock (of The Go-Go's), Alice de Buhr (of Fanny), Debbi Peterson (of The Bangles), Izzy (of Care Bears on Fire), Phranc, Roddy Bottum (of Faith No More), Dallas Taylor, Sarah Vowell, Chris Whitemyer, Larry Schemel (of Midnight Movies), Terry Schemel, Joe Mama-Nitzberg and Kristen Pfaff. Also archival footage of; Kurt Cobain, Evan Dando, Dexter Holland, Leslie Mah, Sheri Ozeki, Fred Schneider, Jenny Shimizu, Pat Smear, and Metallica | |
House of Tolerance | Bertrand Bonello | France | Drama | Céline Sallette, Hafsia Herzi, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel | a.k.a. L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close |
I Am | Sonali Gulati | United States India | Documentary | ||
I Want to Get Married | William Clift | United States | Comedy, romance | Matthew Montgomery, Ashleigh Sumner, Emrhys Cooper, Jane Wiedlin, Peter Stickles, Jessica Gardner, Lisa Franks | [38] [39] |
J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | United States | Drama | Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, Dermot Mulroney, Damon Herriman, Jeffrey Donovan, Ed Westwick, Zach Grenier, Ken Howard, Stephen Root, Denis O'Hare, Adam Driver, Geoff Pierson, Lea Thompson, Christopher Shyer, Miles Fisher, Jessica Hecht, Michael O'Neill, Christian Clemenson, Geoff Stults, Emily Alyn Lind, Amanda Schull | |
Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together | Wendy Jo Carlton | United States | Comedy, musical, romance | Jax Jackson (billed as Jacqui Jackson), Jessica London-Shields, Fawzia Mirza, Marika Engelhardt, Laura Chernicky, Christopher Meister | Critic Roger Ebert noted the low-budget indie film was "charmingly written and acted". [40] Danielle Riendeau stated it was the "funniest, most original lesbian films of the year". [41] |
Joe + Belle | Veronica Kedar | Israel | Comedy, crime, drama | Veronica Kedar, Sivan Levy, Romi Aboulafia, Yotam Ishay, Ra'anan Hefetz, Noa Provisor, Florence Bloch, Shalev Gelber, Nitai Gvirtz | |
Judas Kiss | J.T. Tepnapa | Germany | Drama, science fiction | Charlie David, Richard Harmon, Sean Paul Lockhart, Timo Descamps | |
Karuvarai Pookkal | IPS Xavier | India | Drama | Living Smile Vidya, Julia Robert, Pallavi | |
Leave It on the Floor | Sheldon Larry | Canada United States | Comedy, drama, musical | Ephraim Sykes, Andre Myers, Phillip Evelyn, Barbie-Q, Cameron Koa, James Alsop, Metra Dee, De'Markes Dogan | Features choreography by Frank Gatson Jr. [42] |
The Ledge | Michael Chapman | United States | Drama, thriller | Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Liv Tyler | |
Let My People Go! | Mikael Buch | France | Comedy | Nicolas Maury, Carmen Maura, Jean-François Stévenin, Amira Casar, Clément Sibony, Jarkko Niemi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Didier Flamand, Kari Väänänen, Olavi Uusivirta, Aurore Clément, Michaël Abiteboul, Charlie Dupont | |
Looking for Simon (Auf der Suche) | Jan Krüger | Germany France | Drama | Corinna Harfouch, Nico Rogner, Mehdi Dehbi, Valérie Leroy, Trystan Pütter, Mireille Perrier, Géraldine Loup | [43] [44] |
Lost in Paradise | Vũ Ngọc Đãng | Vietnam | Drama | Lương Mạnh Hải, Hồ Vĩnh Khoa, Linh Sơn, Phương Thanh, Hiếu Hiền, La Quoc Hung and Don Nguyen | |
Love Actually... Sucks! | Scud | Hong Kong | Drama | Osman Hung | |
Love Is All You Need? | Kim Rocco Shields | United States | Drama, short | Lexi DiBenedetto, Carrie Lazar, Sheri Levy, Dante Thorn | Later adapted into a full-length feature |
Memories in March | Sanjoy Nag | India | Tragedy | Deepti Naval, Raima Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Rajat Ganguly, Suchita Roy Chaudhury, Ekavali Khanna | Deepti Naval was Winner of Best Actress Award at the 2012 ImagineIndia Film Festival (in Spain), [45] |
Naked As We Came | Richard LeMay | United States | Drama | Benjamin Weaver, Karmine Alers, Lue McWilliams, Ryan Vigilant, Sturgis Adams and John Challice | [46] [47] |
Narthagi | G. Vijayapadma | India | Drama | Kalki Subramaniam, Leema Babu, Girish Karnad, Suzane George, and Punnagai Poo Gheetha | |
The Night Watch | Richard Laxton | United Kingdom | Drama, romance, war | Anna Maxwell Martin, Claire Foy, Jodie Whittaker, Harry Treadaway, Anna Wilson-Jones, JJ Feild, Liam Garrigan, Claudie Blakley, Kenneth Cranham | based novel by Sarah Waters, a 90-minute television adaptation, was shown on BBC2. [48] |
North Sea Texas | Bavo Defurne | Belgium | Drama | Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels, Eva Van Der Gucht | Based on the novel Nooit gaat dit over by Andre Sollie |
Notre Paradis | Gaël Morel | France | Drama | Stéphane Rideau, Dimitri Durdaine, Béatrice Dalle, Didier Flamand, Mathis Morisset, Malik Issolah | |
On ne choisit pas sa famille | Christian Clavier | France | Adventure, comedy | Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Héléna Noguerra, Michel Vuillermoz, Maily Florentin Dao | aka You Don't Choose Your Family [49] [50] |
The One | Caytha Jentis | United States | Comedy, romance | Jon Prescott, Ian Novick, Margaret Anne Florence, David Albiero, Collin Biddle, Michael Billy | [51] [52] |
Open | Jake Yuzna | United States | Drama | Gaea Gaddy | |
The Parade | Srđan Dragojević | Serbia | Comedy, drama | Nikola Kojo, Miloš Samolov, Hristina Popović, Goran Jevtić, Goran Navojec, Dejan Aćimović, Toni Mihajlovski | |
Pariah | Dee Rees | United States | Drama | Adepero Oduye, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans | |
The Perfect Family | Anne Renton | United States | Comedy, drama | Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Michael McGrady, Shannon Cochran, Sharon Lawrence, Angelique Cabral, Richard Chamberlain, Elizabeth Peña | |
Private Romeo | Alan Brown | United States | Drama | Seth Numrich, Matt Doyle, Hale Appleman, Charlie Barnett | |
Question One | Joseph Fox, James Nubile | United States | Documentary | Campaigners of both sides of the argument | On 6 May 2009, Maine, USA became the first state in USA to legislatively grant same-sex couples the right to marry. Seven months later, on 3 November 2009, Maine reversed, becoming the thirty-first state in USA to say 'no' to gay and lesbian marriage. [53] |
Role/Play | Rob Williams | United States | Drama | Steve Callahan, Matthew Montgomery, David Pevsner, Brian Nolan, Matthew Stephen Herrick, Jim J. Bullock | It was part funded on Kickstarter, [54] [55] |
Romeos | Sabine Bernardi | Germany | Drama | Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort, Liv Lisa Fries, Felix Brocke | |
Sal | James Franco | United States | Drama | Val Lauren, Jim Parrack, James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Trevor Neuhoff, Stacey Miller, Brian Goodman | |
Señorita | Isabel Sandoval [lower-alpha 1] | Philippines | Drama | Isabel Sandoval, [lower-alpha 1] Publio Briones III, Dominic Milano Palomo, Richard Manabat, Stella Palomo Monteño, Aya Ng and Eric Alvin Po | [56] [57] |
Sexing the Transman | Buck Angel | United States | Documentary | Margaret Cho, Ian Harvie, Selene Luna and Lucas Silveira | [58] [59] |
The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Thriller, drama | Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo, Blanca Suárez, Susi Sánchez, Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Concha Buika | Based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet |
Soulbound | Caio Sóh | Brazil | Drama | Emilio Dantas, Remo Rocha, Paloma Duarte, Roberto Bomtempo, Jayme Matarazzo, Graziella Schimitt, Claudio Lins, Juliana Lohmann | |
Spring | Hong Khaou | United Kingdom | Short, drama | Jonathan Keane and Chris O'Donnell | 14mins long, [60] was premiered at Sundance [61] |
Stadt Land Fluss | Benjamin Cantu | Germany | Drama | Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller | Aka Harvest [62] |
The Strange Ones | Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein | United States France | Short, drama, mystery | Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson, Emily Althaus, Gene Jones | |
Suicide Room | Jan Komasa | Poland | Drama | Jakub Gierszał, Roma Gąsiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Filip Bobek | |
This Is What Love In Action Looks Like | Morgan Jon Fox | United States | Documentary | Zach Stark, gay protestors, former Love In Action clients, as well as the organization's Executive director, John Smid | About a Memphis teenager who was sent to a controversial Christian program after telling his parents that he was gay |
Three Veils | Rolla Selbak | United States | Drama | Sheetal Sheth, Angela Zahra, Mercedes Mason (credited as Mercedes Masöhn), Madline Tabar, Erick Avari, Garen Boyajian, Christopher Maleki, Sammy Sheik | |
Tomboy | Céline Sciamma | France | Drama | Zoé Héran, Malonn Levana, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Jeanne Disson | Winner of the 2011 Teddy Award Jury Prize |
Unhappy Birthday | Mark Harriott, Mike Matthews | United Kingdom | Drama, horror, mystery | David Paisley, Christina De Vallee, Jill Riddiford, Jonathan Keane | [63] [64] |
Vito | Jeffrey Schwarz | United States | Documentary | Phyllis Antonellis (Vito's cousin), Richard Barrios (Author), Richard Berkowitz (Author), Lenny Bloom (Friend & Lawyer), Jay Blotcher(Journalist and activist), Reverend Malcolm Boyd, Joseph Brewer, with archive footage of Lee Brewster (activist), Edmund Bergler M.D. (Psychoanalyst, writer), Tom Brokaw (Journalist), Marcus A. Conant (Doctor and dermatologist), Stephen Boyd, Billie Burke, George Bancroft, Jane Darwell | About Vito Russo, gay activist, film scholar, and author of The Celluloid Closet [65] premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival, [66] |
Waited for | Nerina Penzhorn | South Africa | Documentary | three South African lesbian couples who adopt across racial lines | [67] [68] |
Walk a Mile in My Pradas | Joey Sylvester | United States | Comedy | Nathaniel Marston, Tom Archdeacon, Tom Arnold, Mike Starr, Dee Wallace | [69] |
We 3 (Os 3) | Nando Olival | Brazil | Drama | Gabriel Godoy, Victor Mendes, Juliana Schalch, Sophia Reis | [70] [71] |
We Once Were Tide | Jason Bradbury | United Kingdom | Short, drama | Alexander Scott, Tristan Bernays and Mandy Aldridge | 18 mins long [72] [73] |
A Wedding Most Strange | Trevor Garlick | United Kingdom | Drama, comedy | Chris Finch, Louise Houghton, Adz Hunter, Valary Sanders, Stephen Mcleod, Rupert Charmak, Catherine Mobley, Sukie Ghajminger, Chris Barritt, Stephen Walker | [74] |
Weekend | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom | Drama, romance | Tom Cullen, Chris New | |
Wetlands (Marécages) | Guy Édoin | Canada | Drama | Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard, François Papineau | |
What You Looking At? | Faryal | United Kingdom | Short, comedy | Michael Twaits, Hussina Raja and Rez Kabir | Nominated for an Iris Prize in 2012 [75] |
Wish Me Away | Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf | United States | Documentary | Brad Paisley, Stan Wright, Jennifer Wright, Russell Carter, Rodney Crowell, Victoria Wilson, Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, Don Cusic, Howard Bragman, Richard Sterban, Charlene Daniels, Chuck D. Walter, Rosie O'Donnell, Meredith Vieira, Natalie Morales | About country music singer and gay rights activist Chely Wright [76] |
With Every Heartbeat | Alexandra-Therese Keining | Sweden | Drama | Ruth Vega Fernandez, Liv Mjönes, Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre, Joakim Nätterqvist, Tom Ljungman, Josefin Tengblad | a.k.a. Kyss mig and Kiss Me |
You and I | Roland Joffé | United States Russia | Drama, romance, thriller | Mischa Barton, Anton Yelchin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Helena Mattsson | |
You Should Meet My Son! | Keith Hartman | United States | Comedy | Joanne McGee, Carol Goans, Stewart Carrico, Ginger Pullman |
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