Zhenya Tsoi impersonates Russian showbiz stars, from Philipp Kirkorov to Lolita. He’s 33 and he lives with his long-time partner Maxim, who is a bus driver and a real support for Zhenya. This tragi-comic story looks at two people trying to create their own family home in the face of the harsh realities of modern Russia. In 21st century Moscow, is it possible to be gay and live happily in your small family? This full-length observation zooms right in on its characters, contrasting the somewhat comical private life of a couple with the decidedly unfunny conditions at a far from comic time in the history of a grim country. These two vivid characters are like a convex mirror reflecting any and all long-term relationships.

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The lives of the LGBT youth in “A Road to Home” typify the experience of the 300,000 homeless youth on American streets every night, 40% of them LGBT. In the course of their journeys, four of the kids get aid from the Ali Forney Center, a program devoted solely to homeless LGBT youth. The struggle of its founder Carl Siciliano to keep its programs alive mirrors the journeys of the kids themselves. What the film reveals is not only the dangers, the fears, the lonely anxiety of being homeless, but also the resulting wounds to the heart that must be healed. The 6 characters in this film are determined that their current traumas will not define them for the rest of their lives.

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