An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

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VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto García), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel (Jorge Perugorría) abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family. VIVA was a hit at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, and is Ireland’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award this year.

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Join us for a selection of some of the best LGBT series on the web, with filmmakers in attendance! K&A: Gay Camp – SEASON 2 PREMIERE Best friends Karly and Alex are day-drunk, disorderly, and sabotaging their own best efforts to find independence in the city of Boston. BROTHERS: Max The series follows their daily lives, the ups and down, in and outs, of what it means to live as a transgender individual in today’s urban society. What does it mean to struggle and succeed as a trans person in the complicated fabric of today’s society? UNSURE/POSITIVE: Some Weird Rock Hudson Type of Shit UNSURE/POSITIVE follows the life of Kieran McCullay; young, smart–and troubled. He’s just been diagnosed with HIV, and he doesn’t know who to turn to for support. He has great friends, a decent job, a budding love interest… and his great big secret. HER STORY: Episode 5 Her Story is a new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity. TOUGH LOVE A full grown woman-child and her grumpy gay best friend learn to live with each other’s quirks. MODERN DAY BLACK GAY MDBG is an introspective web-series that explores what it means to be Black and Gay in modern society. EASY ABBY Lesbian Romantic Comedy series “Easy Abby”, is about a young woman who has never fallen in love and doesn’t want to! A chronic seducer and truth teller, Abby is great in bed but mostly wants to be left alone.

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