This emotionally powerful Bollywood film is the first Hindi movie to deal both with homosexuality and HIV. It is a testament to the power of relationships and one man’s quest to regain dignity and love. Nikhil Kapoor (Sanjay Suri) was the all-around state swimming champion of Goa. Handsome, jovial, and charming, he is the idol of his peers; his friends love him and his family adores him. All this changes on August 8, 1989, when Nikhil is arrested and imprisoned in solitary confinement, because his health exam reveals he is HIV-positive. Overnight, he is abandoned by nearly everyone in his life, until all he has left are his boyfriend Nigel and his sister Anu, who defies her family and stands by her brother unconditionally to fight for his civil rights.

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This riveting documentary explores one woman’s journey through fifteen years of friendship and love. Filmmaker Karen Everett turns the camera on her own love life and a remarkable community of culturally significant sex radicals in San Francisco. Through home videos, candid interviews, and video diaries, Everett poses universal questions about the nature of relationships from monogamy to polyamory. Featuring Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour, leading directors of lesbian pornography, and Phyllis Christopher, one of North America’s leading photographers of lesbian erotica.

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A heartrending drama about the status of lesbians living under religious oppression and one woman’s valiant efforts to free herself. Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a woman, flees to Germany. Trying to enter the country with forged documents, she is immediately arrested, but her prospects improve when she takes on the identity of a male detainee, Siamak, and assumes his temporary permit of sojourn. She takes an illegal job in a factory, where she meets Anne, who is very concerned about “Siamak’s” wellbeing. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close, and Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity.

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