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This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related filmsreleased in 2015. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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| 3 Generations | Gaby Dellal | United States | Drama | Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, Susan Sarandon, Tate Donovan, Linda Emond, Jordan Carlos, Sam Trammell, Maria Dizzia, Tessa Albertson | [1] | |
| 4th Man Out | Andrew Nackman | United States | Comedy | Evan Todd, Parker Young, Chord Overstreet, Jon Gabrus, Jennifer Damiano, Jordan Lane Price, Kate Flannery | [2] | |
| Absence | Chico Teixeira | Brazil | Drama | Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Gilda Nomacce, Thiago de Matos | [3] | |
| All About Them (À trois on y va) | Jérôme Bonnell | France | Romantic comedy | Anaïs Demoustier, Félix Moati, Sophie Verbeeck | ||
| The Amina Profile | Sophie Deraspe | Canada | Documentary | Sandra Bagaria | Documentary about the Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari hoax. | [4] |
| Angry Indian Goddesses | Pan Nalin | India | Drama | Sandhya Mridul, Tannistha Chatterjee, Sarah-Jane Dias | ||
| Arianna | Carlo Lavagna | Italy | Drama | Ondina Quadri, Massimo Popolizio | ||
| Bare | Natalia Leite | United States | Drama | Dianna Agron, Paz de la Huerta, Chris Zylka | ||
| Bizarre | Étienne Faure | France | Drama | Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Charlie Himmelstein | [3] | |
| The Blue Hour | Anucha Boonyawatana | Thailand | Drama | Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Atthaphan Poonsawas, Duangjai Hirunsri, Panutchai Kittsatima, Nithiroj Simkamtom | [3] | |
| Blush | Michal Vinik | Israel | Drama | Sivan Noam Shimon, Jade Sakori, Dvir Benedek | ||
| Butterfly | Marco Berger | Argentina | Drama | Javier De Pietro, Ailín Salas, Malena Villa, Jorge Díez, María Laura Cali, Justo Calabria, Julian Infantino | [3] | |
| Carol | Todd Haynes | United Kingdom United States | Drama | Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Carrie Brownstein | Based on the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith | |
| Chance | Jake Graf | United Kingdom | Short, drama, romance | Clifford Hume, Abs, Amale Mohamed, Jake Graf | Later added to Boys on Film 16: Possession (compilation) | [5] [6] [7] |
| Chemsex | William Fairman and Max Gogarty | United Kingdom | Documentary | About the consumption of drugs (including poppers) to facilitate or enhance sexual activity | [8] [9] | |
| Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | Canada | Drama | Connor Jessup, Isabella Rossellini, Joanne Kelly, Aaron Abrams | ||
| Clouds of Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas | United States | Drama | Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Johnny Flynn, Lars Eidinger, Hanns Zischler, Brady Corbet | ||
| Daddy | Gerald McCullouch | United States | Drama | Gerald McCullouch, Dan Via, Jaime Cepero, Mackenzie Astin, Leslie Easterbrook | Screenplay by Dan Via, based on his play of the same name | |
| The Danish Girl | Tom Hooper | United States | Drama | Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Pip Torrens, Nicholas Woodeson, Emerald Fennell, Adrian Schiller | Based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff, loosely inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener | |
| Downriver | Grant Scicluna | Australia | Drama | Robert Taylor, Kerry Fox, Helen Morse | ||
| Driving Not Knowing | Benjamin R. Davis, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Dane Mainella, Jay Jadick | United States | Musical, drama | Dane Mainella, Jay Jadick, Emily Rea | ||
| Eisenstein in Guanajuato | Peter Greenaway | Netherlands Mexico | Drama | Elmer Bäck, Stelio Savante | [3] | |
| Fire Song | Adam Garnet Jones | Canada | Drama | Andrew Martin, Derek Miller, Jennifer Podemski | ||
| F(l)ag Football | Seth Greenleaf | United States | Documentary | Wade Davis, Jared Garduno, Brenton Metzler, Cyd Zeigler | Documentary about National Gay Flag Football League | [10] |
| Floating Melon | Roberto F. Canuto, Xu Xiaoxi | China Spain | Short Drama | Vincent Chen Xi, Celia Yu Yinmeng, Wen Sirui | ||
| For Which We Stand | Sean Robinson | United States | Documentary | Michael Musto, Dolly Parton, Melissa Etheridge, Frenchie Davis, Diana King, Chely Wright | ||
| Freeheld | Peter Sollett | United States | Drama | Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, Luke Grimes, Josh Charles, Mary Birdsong, Kelly Deadmon, Gabriel Luna, Anthony DeSando | Based on the 2007 documentary film directed by Cynthia Wade | |
| From Afar | Lorenzo Vigas | Venezuela | Drama | Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva | Won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival | [11] [12] |
| Gayby Baby | Maya Newell | Australia | Documentary | Follows four children raised by same-sex parents, originated from a short documentary, Growing Up Gayby, filmed by Newell for ABC2 in 2013 | [13] | |
| The Girl King | Mika Kaurismäki | Finland Canada Sweden Germany France | Biography, drama | Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist | Biopic of Christina, Queen of Sweden | |
| He Hated Pigeons | Ingrid Veninger | Canada Chile | Drama | Pedro Fontaine, Cristobal Tapia Montt | [14] | |
| Henry Gamble's Birthday Party | Stephen Cone | United States | Drama | Cole Doman, Pat Healy | ||
| Holding the Man | Neil Armfield | Australia | Drama | Ryan Corr, Craig Stott | Based on the memoir of the same name by Timothy Conigrave | |
| How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) | Josh Kim | Thailand Indonesia | Drama | Toni Rakkaen, Ingkarat Damrongsakkul, Thira Chutikul, Jinna Navarat (credited as Arthur Navarat), Natarat Lakha, Bell Nuntita (credited as Nuntita Khampiranon), Michael Shaowanasai, Anawat Patanawanichkul, Vatanya Thamdee | [3] [2] | |
| I Am Michael | Justin Kelly | United States | Drama | James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts, Charlie Carver, Avan Jogia, Devon Graye, Leven Rambin, Daryl Hannah, Lesley Ann Warren, Blake Lee, Kevin Cahoon | Dramatization of a New York Times Magazine article about ex-gay activist Michael Glatze | [4] |
| I Kissed a Girl | Noémie Saglio, Maxime Govare | France | Comedy | Pio Marmaï, Franck Gastambide, Adrianna Gradziel | ||
| In the Grayscale (En la Gama de los Grises) | Claudio Marcone | Chile | Drama | Francisco Celhay, Emilio Edwards, Sergio Hernández, Daniela Ramirez | ||
| Inner Jellyfishes (Les Méduses) | Marc-Antoine Lemire | Canada | Short drama | Rudi Duperré, Samuel Brassard, Jade Hassouné | ||
| Jenny's Wedding | Mary Agnes Donoghue | United States | Comedy, drama | Katherine Heigl, Alexis Bledel, Tom Wilkinson, Linda Emond, Grace Gummer, Matthew Metzger | ||
| The Last Summer of the Rich | Peter Kern | Austria | Drama | Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder, Helmut Berger | [3] | |
| The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson | Canada | Short Documentary | Luke Oswald, Shannon Blanchet, Rob Chaulk, Fish Griwkowsky, Jenny McKillop, Trevor Schmidt | 9 mins long, recreating a cowboy photo from 1880s | [15] |
| The Lives We Lead | Davo Hardy | Australia | Drama | Sally Williams, Georgina Neville, Josh Wiseman | ||
| Loev | Sudhanshu Saria | India | Romantic drama | Dhruv Ganesh, Shiv Panditt, Siddharth Menon, Rishabh J. Chaddha | ||
| Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List | Kristin Hanggi | United States | Comedy, drama | Victoria Justice, Pierson Fodé, Matthew Daddario | Based on the book of the same name by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan | |
| Nasty Baby | Sebastián Silva | United States | Drama | Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Kristen Wiig, Denis O'Hare | [4] | |
| Naz & Maalik | Jay Dockendorf | United States | Drama | Curtiss Cook Jr., Kerwin Johnson Jr. | ||
| North Mountain | Bretten Hannam | Canada | Action/thriller | Justin Rain, Glen Gould, Meredith MacNeill | ||
| Out to Win | Malcolm Ingram | United States | Documentary | John Amaechi, Billy Bean, Jason Collins, Wade Davis, Brittney Griner, Billie Jean King, David Kopay, Martina Navratilova | Documentary on history of LGBT people in professional sports | [16] |
| Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson | Michelle Boyaner | United States | Documentary | Documentary about deceased lesbian artist Edith Lake Wilkinson | ||
| The Pedophile (Le Pédophile) | Ara Ball | Canada | Short drama | Kennedy Brodeur, Valérie Fortin, Patrick Renaud, Lesley Marie Reade, Monia Chokri | A lesbian who was sexually abused in childhood exacts revenge on her abuser | [17] |
| Portrait of a Serial Monogamist | John Mitchell Christina Zeidler | Canada | Romance, comedy | Diane Flacks, Carolyn Taylor | ||
| Reel in the Closet | Stu Maddux | United States | Documentary | Home movies and other archival footage from the 1930s to '80s | ||
| The Royal Road | Jenni Olson | United States | Documentary | voiceover cameo appearance by Tony Kushner | Experimental documentary about butch lesbian desire, nostalgia and California history | |
| The Saint of Dry Creek | Julie Zammarchi | United States | Short, animation | Patrick Haggerty | Adaptation of an oral recording made for StoryCorps | [18] |
| The Sea Is Behind | Hicham Lasri | Morocco | Drama | Malek Akhmiss, Hassan Badida, Yassine Sekkal | [3] | |
| A Sinner in Mecca | Parvez Sharma | United States India Saudi Arabia | Documentary | Documentary about Parvez Sharma's pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia as an openly gay Muslim. | ||
| Stonewall | Roland Emmerich | United States | Drama | Jeremy Irvine, Ron Perlman, Jonathan Rhys Meyers | ||
| Summertime | Catherine Corsini | France Belgium | Drama | Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, Kévin Azaïs, Lætitia Dosch, Sarah Suco | ||
| Sworn Virgin | Laura Bispuri | Italy | Drama | Alba Rohrwacher, Flonja Kodheli, Lars Eidinger | [3] | |
| The Summer of Sangailė | Alantė Kavaitė | France Lithuania | Drama | Julija Steponaitytė, Aistė Diržiūtė | [4] | |
| Tangerine | Sean Baker | United States | Drama | Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor | Shot with three iPhone5S smartphones | [4] |
| Take Me to the River | Matt Sobel | United States | Drama | Logan Miller, Richard Schiff, Robin Weigert | [4] | |
| Thanatos, Drunk | Chang Tso-chi | Taiwan | Drama | Lee Hong-chi, Cheng Jen-shuo, Huang Shang-ho, Lu Hsueh-feng, Ching-Ting Wang, Chang Ning, Lin Chin-yu, Andrew Chen, Chin Tzu-yen | [3] | |
| Tchindas | Pablo García Pérez de Lara Marc Serena | Spain Cape Verde | Documentary | Tchinda Andrade, Elvis Tolentino, Edinha Pitanga | An award-winning feature documentary with Tchinda Andrade, the most respected trans woman from Cape Verde (West Africa) as main character. | [3] |
| Those People | Joey Kuhn | United States | Drama | Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman | ||
| Tig | Kristina Goolsby Ashley York | United States | Documentary | Tig Notaro | Documentary about comedian Tig Notaro's battle with cancer | |
| Tough Love | Rosa von Praunheim | Germany | Drama | Hanno Koffler, Katy Karrenbauer, Oliver Sechting, Luise Heyer, Sascia Haj, Udo Lutz, Stefan Kuschner, Luise Schnittert | [3] | |
| ToY | Patrick Chapman | United States | Drama | Brianna Evigan, Kerry Norton, Daniel Hugh Kelly | A young LA artist changes mediums to accommodate her illness, eventually filming interviews of prostitutes, one of whom she falls for. | |
| Utopians | Scud | Hong Kong Taiwan China | Drama | Adonis He Fei, Jackie Chow, Fiona Wang | Sexually-explicit story about a young male student, Hins Gao, who falls in love with his professor, Antonio Ming. Features frequent full-frontal male nudity | [19] |
| Vanity (La Vanité) | Lionel Baier | France Switzerland | Drama | Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev | [20] | |
| Ville-Marie | Guy Édoin | Canada | Drama | Monica Bellucci, Aliocha Schneider, Pascale Bussières | ||
| Viva | Paddy Breathnach | Ireland | Drama | Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría | ||
| What He Did (Det han gjorde) | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark | Documentary | Documentary about the murder of writer Christian Kampmann by his partner Jens Michael Schau | [21] | |
| Wonderful World End | Daigo Matsui | Japan | Drama | Ai Hashimoto | [3] |
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Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming platform, and runs educational services for filmmakers in Los Angeles. Outfest is one of the key partners, alongside the Frameline Film Festival, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in launching the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film.
The Queer Lion is the trophy awarded yearly since 2007 to the “Best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture” among those presented during the Venice International Film Festival.
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From Afar is a 2015 Venezuelan-Mexican drama film directed by Lorenzo Vigas and written by Vigas and Guillermo Arriaga. It won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
Mala Mala is a 2014 Puerto Rican documentary film directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, starring Jason "April" Carrión, Samantha Close and Ivana Fred. The film shows several stories of the transgender community in Puerto Rico, including April Carrion, a well-known drag queen who participated in the reality show RuPaul's Drag Race. Mala Mala also includes the historic victory of the LGBT community with the approval and signature of Law 238-2014, which prevents discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Mala Mala has been presented in festivals around the world, including London, Ukraine, Los Angeles, Austin, Costa Rica and Mexico, in addition to schools such as The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Harvard University.
Boys on Film is a Peccadillo Pictures DVD series of compilations of independent LGBT-themed shorts.
Queer Japan is a 2019 documentary film directed, edited, and co-written by Graham Kolbeins. The documentary profiles a range of individuals in Japan who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). Queer Japan is produced by Hiromi Iida with Anne Ishii, written by Ishii and Kolbeins, and features an original score composed by Geotic.
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